15 APRIL 1978, page 18

The Russian Prisoners

Sir: It really does not help British people to understand events which they are in any case historically ill-equipped to grasp, when publicists use, as Mr Ainsztein does......

Israel And Palestine

Sir: I refer to Bruce Chatwin's article in your issue of 8 April. The Biblical view of the restoration of Israel to Palestine is not confined to certain Jews. In the nineteenth......

The North

Sir: It is no good the Director of 'Campaign for the North' being cross with me (1 April)' Regional devolution will never be attain . able for the North unless there is a......

No Contact

Sir: Christine Verity in her article 'Blas phemy and the law' (25 March) states that `. . Mr Kavanagh was shocked' by the poem — James Kirkup's 'The Love that Dares to Speak its......

Housing Follies

Sir: In his article in your issue for 1 April 1 take it that when Mr Tony Craig states that 'There is indeed a strong case for freezing rents this year' he was, in the absence......

Not Out

Sir: Auberon Waugh (1 April) is wrong 10 thinking that the works of Tleomas Hardy went out of copyright in January of this year. For much the same practical reasons that motor......