13 MAY 1978, page 16

Independent Businesses

Sir: Your article (29 April) on the rise of small businesses, whilst interesting to the general reader, once more causes those of us who work in the independent, unquoted......

Sir: Having Read Mr Stewart Black's 'the Rise Of Small

businesses', I am astonished that the Liberal Party has been passed off as having 'had a respectable track record for some time now.' Mr Black fails to mention that the Labour......

By-election Record

Sir: To describe the by-election record of the Heath Government as disastrous (Dennis Kavanagh, 6 May) is rather misleading. Admittedly four seats were lost to the Liberals......

F.r. Leavis

Sir: One may admire Dr Leavis and deplore his treatment by Cambridge without giving him credits he would never have claimed. Dr Leavis did not invent the steam engine nor did he......

War Service

Sir: Mr Henry Adler's letter (29 April) much interested me, as I was one of many 'British Fascists' in the 'thirties. We did not 'support Hitler', but opposed the war because we......

Critics Of Conflict

Sir: Your reviewer Mr Benny Green, writing about my book Henry Irving and the Victorian Theatre (with a kind foreword by John Gielgud), castigates me as 'solemn and implies that......

Lord Balogh Rebuked

Sir: The world is complex and consequently most arguments about it are complicated. It is perfectly legitimate, when debating some issue, to simplify a protagonist's views In......

Moro's Convergences

Sir: With reference to 'Moro, the con ciliator', by Peter Nichols (22 April), I would like to point out that Moro was not famous for his 'converging parallels', as the author......