14 JANUARY 1966, page 12

Lain Macleod On Rhodesia

SIR,—Please allow me a few lines in your journal to congratulate Mr. Angus Maude on his courageous letter (January 7) pointing out the fallacies of his Shadow Cabinet colleague......

South West Time Bomb S1r,—in Your Issue Of November 19,

1965. Mr. Arnold Beichman, in his article entitled 'The South West Time Bomb,' makes the amazing statement (or rather misstatement) that 'South West Africa has been curtained......

Up (some) Rebels

SIR.—May I comment on Mr. Alfred Sherman's riposte? I am against all double standards, whether from the left or the right. I am aware that I am not immune. However, I belong to......

A Trust Territory?

SIR, —Mr, Wilson's problem over Rhodesia is ex- ceedingly complex. Public discussion and Whitehall studies must turn to formulating a realistic way of dealing with this......

Eieiter21 Ctrli Edittor

From : David Hawley, George Edinger, J. W. Roche, Dr. B. Thalityasingam. N. E. Griggs, D. R. Forsdyke, R. Leather, Rev. Kenneth MacKenzie, Alan Spence, A. D. Mac Dou gall. Open......

Sir,—never. I Hazard, In The Story Of Journalistic...

two such dangers appeared in a single issue as my leader Mr. Grimond and my model Strix have dropped in last week's SPECTATOR (January 7, 1966). When Mr. Grimond advocates a......

Cut-price Journalism

SIR.—Charles Curran's article of December 31 on advertising and the press begins with four short staccato sentences. 'Britain enjoys a cut-price press. Its readers pay about......

The 70 M.p.h. Limit

Snt,—I have just seen your issue of December 3, 1965, in which 'Spectator's Notebook' criticises Mr. Fraser for attempting to impose a speed limit of 70 m.p.h. even on express......

The Lawson Affair

SIR,—The fact that one man buying one house makes major front-page news is the fault of your colleagues on the press. not of the building societies. During 1965 the societies......