14 JUNE 1963, page 18

What Do Children Like?

Si, — I never write letters to papers on general principle, but I cannot bear to let Quentin Blake's review of the reprint of At the Back of the North Wind pass. Mr. Blake, you......

German Farmers Sir,—whether To Call People 'backward'...

backward and peasants when they are peasants is a smear, or not, the heading Mr. Gardiner objects to had nothing to do with me. If he knew as much about the world as he thinks......

The Un Development Decade

SIR, — Before Mr. M. G. K. Pierson talks of 'stan- dards of intellectual integrity' will he please try to raise his own standard of financial education? Will he please tell us......

Licence To —?

SIR. — If the Tories had legalised prostitution, we might have been without all this furtive undignified unpleasantness which is rife. HER VAN THAL Reform Club, SWI......

Biography Travestied

SIR,-1 was abroad when Mr. Randolph Churchill's article on The Yankee Marlborough appeared, and have only just seen it. This book was sent to me for comment in the proof stage,......

Theatre

Skill in Surgery By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Masters. (Savoy.)—Wher e Angels Fear to Tread. (New Arts.) — On the scene had to be cut, compressed or even shift i ed from its original......

Sir,—the Recent Birthday Honours List Suggests Dri ,j E...

is difficult to recruit enough g 0° .' s teachers for our schools. Such recognition .as given to education (and this is small enough 01 a conscience) goes (rightly) to......