14 FEBRUARY 1969, page 25

Common Sense About Colour " Sir : Mr Raven's Article

on the burning ques- tion of the emigration of coloured - people (3 January) was most interesting. On the face of it, nothing more sensible, nothing more humane, than Mr Raven's......

Sir: As An Admirer. Of Simon Raven's, I'itvas Sorry That

his article (3 January) did not in fact give us common sense about colour. It seemed to me muddled and evasive, when the facts are extremely simple. (1) The majority of people......

Table Talk

Sir: It was long after the event, in the late 'twenties as a young student of English at Uppsala, that I made the acquaintance of Mr Britling, in his own idiom. At about the......

Sir: Mr Donaldson's Letter (3 January) Sheds Some Light On

the mentality of ex-colonial officers of his type who have been largely re- sponsible for the Government's disastrous Biafra policy. One thing evident from the letter is that Mr......

Sir: The Remarks Made Recently By The Prime Minister And

others on the subject of Biafra cannot be allowed the pass unchallenged. In particular, I would like to draw attention to the two errors made by the Prime Minister in the recent......

Britain And Biafra

Sir: Those of us who are deeply involved emotionally about the situation in Nigeria are grateful to you• for the generous amount of space you have given to the opposing view-......

Sir: Dictionaries Of Quotations Are Fallible, As Sir...

says (Letters, 31 January), and they must sometimes take one another's attributions on trust. So he is less than cock- sure in refuting Mr Braby's suggestion that Montagu Butler......