14 JULY 1967, page 23

Sir: While I Am Flattered By Mr Quentin De La

Bedoyere's reference (Letters, 30 June) to my re- freshing honesty, I was not, of course, writing about the contents of the Abortion Bill, but, as I made quite clear, about the......

Abortion And The Law

Sir: Believing that abortion on demand ought to be allowed, Mrs J. S. Mason (23 June) naturally sees nothing objectionable in the Medical Termina- tion of Pregnancy Bill. For......

Abortion And The Single Girl Sir: The Appearance Of...

and the single girl' (7 July) is completely out of place in a periodical regarded as a serious weekly. As I read the piece. 1 felt I had strayed into the Bond Game, and this......

Sentence Of Death

Sir: I was sorry that the SPECTATOR should publish a letter by a correspondent, who, not surprisingly, did not sign his name, abusing provincial hospitals for the apparent......

Two-act Play

Sir: Another two-act play (with apologies to D. C. Rose): Dramatis Personae: Mohammet Ali, Mr Smith, PC Bloggs, Moslem policeman. Acr 1. (Scene: Mohammet Ali's house, any Moslem......

Too Old For Pensions

Sir: Freedom from want being the first purpose of the Beveridge Plan, 6,500,000 pensioners, in- cluding 65,000 well-to-do persons such as Mr Mac- millan and Lord Montgomery, are......