12 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 20

Identifying The Prisoner

SIR,--Identification parades are not sanctioned or even contemplated by the law and are the outcome of a private police practice. In any event an identi- fication parade is......

Sir,—i Regret To Note That Mr. Edinger Is As Slipshod

and inaccurate in writing of Malaya as he was in writing of Hong Kong. One gets the impression that the article in the Spectator of August 30 was wcitten in Singapore and that......

The Liberal Creed Sir, — Christopher Hollis's Advice To...

appointingly unhelpful. His attempted analogy with the early Fabian position surely fails. Their support of the Labour movement (at a time when it was new and malleable)......

Ronald Knox

SIR, — As an example of Ronald Knox's ready wit, to which you referred a fortnight ago, may I recall the following? A friend was staying at Mells some years ago when the......

Reponse De Cftevecceur Su,—to Read Mr. Ray's Very Gallic...

one might presume that to plead guilty of attempted poisoning would be the least I could or should do . . . what utter lack of British sang-froid! If asking readers of the......

Tv Apple Cart Sir,-my Attention Has Been Drawn To A

letter in your issue of September 6 purporting to be from me, and referring to a Mr. Findlater and a Mr. Hawkins. I shall be grateful if you will allow me to state that I am not......

Sea Power Sir, — At First Sight There Might Appear To Be

no very close connection between the White Paper on Defence and the recent Russian statement on guided missiles. Yet the very fact that there is so apparently little connection......

The 'daily Express' And Security

Sia,—I read in 'A Spectator's Notebook' this week : The other day the Daily Express published an unauthorised picture of the first of the series of British H-bomb tests. Was......