14 APRIL 1967, page 23

Sir: 'in Existing Prisons,' Lord Mountbatten Writes In...

report, 'there are no water closets in the cellk„ and chamber pots are provided. . . . I was not surprised to find these arrangements in the nineteenth century prisons, but I......

The Opiate Of Deterrence

Sr: It is no doubt hopeless, bearing in mind the narcotic effect which the language of defence exPcrts has on their sense of the human- and the just, to point out what Mr Ivor......

Freedom Or Else

Sir: Your contributor Keith Kyle in his article on Turkey, 'Freedom or else' (10 March)twrites as one might expect from transient' visitors to any country. He doesn't tell us......

Supermarket Style

Sir: Yes, John Rowan Wilson is right. I have much the same background and experience, and the prospect outlined is surely a probability. The key to it is his comment, 'the kind......

Sir: Mr Enoch Powell Has- Certainly Chosen Le Mot Just('

when he refers to the 'opiate of deterrence' in your issue of 31 March, but I. think he makes a mistake when he attempts to equate the prewar crises of Czechoslovakia is 1938......

London's Bastilies

LETTERS From John Papworth, Giles Play fair, Richard White, Vice-Adinikal R. Hi Schofield: Mitjar- General C. R. A. Swynnerton, Rev. R. H. Lewers, Mrs D. E. Estcourt, James S.......