13 NOVEMBER 1964, page 15

Lik Am Letters

MR. WILSON'S SPEECH SIR,—Both your leading article and Alan Watkins's 'Political Commentary' condemn the Prime Minister in most indignant terms for breaking the rules of the......

Pray Silence For Concord

SIR,—Quoodle's swipe at Anne Scott-James and Katharine Whitehorn (hooray for them both, say It) contains some perilous sentiments. He seems to think that mare-and-more and......

Sir,--you Will Probably Close : This Correspondence...

one will be glad—because, as Mr. Lucie-Smith says, there are more practical things to do. But I hope you will give me this opportunity to correct Mr. John Tripp, who shows a......

Sia,—i Hope I Am No Carping Critic. At Least Let

me first say that I thought that 90 per cent of Your leading article last week was excellent, but there was a 10 per cent which in my opinion completely spoilt the effect.......

Sta,---i Was Impressed By Your Admirable 'political...

'leper' speech as a major parliamentary blunder. But we all blunder at times; • the real point surely is that at the first moment of power Mr. Wilson chose deliberately to throw......

Sir, -- You Criticise Mr. Wilson For The Way He Re- Ferred

to the Member for Smethwick; you call him vicious and describe his phrase as vulgar and venomous. I do not know what Mr. Griffiths had said, but his case apart, racialism is......

John Bull's First Job

A Shilling for a Suit By BRIAN BEHAN A SWINEY 'flu .. hit our Seamus and knocked him into bed. Lying there with his big nose streaming, he begged me, 'Boony, do my milk round......

The Movement And The Group

SIR,--t must repudiate most strongly the statement made in last week's. Spectator by Mr. John Tripp in which he asserts that there is an organised faction of poets linked......

Johnson's . America' • Sts,—as An American Studying In...

appre- ciated your covet age and . analysis of 'Johnson's America' (November 6). I especially enjoyed Mr. Kempton's article on 'The Ruins Left By Goldwater.' However, I must......