15 AUGUST 1941, page 14

Berserks On Bicycles

SIR,—In The Spectator of August 1st " Janus " pointed out the difi• culty that magistrates had in dealing with motoring offences com• mined by soldiers I fancy that when a man......

Sir,—mr. Bates Makes Some Wild Statements. I Challenge...

say precisely and exactly which of my ideas originated " east of the Rhine." As far as I know the greater number of them were distilled from the sweat, blood and tears of many......

Political Improbability "

SIR,—Mr. Brogan is entitled to his own judgement in reaching constitutional and political conclusion which is the opposite of that reached by an ex-Lord Chancellor and the late......

- Talk Ab Dut The Land "

SIR,—I should not ask for editorial indulgence in replying to Mr. Bates's letter in your issue of August 8th if England and the Farmer were my book, as he persists, by speaking......

"bloomsbury Lighthouse "

Slit,—In your issue of August 1st you published a letter from " Holborn Warden " complaining of the ineffectiveness of the Eadc- out at the Ministry of Information. To this......

Looking Back "

SIR,—Your reviewer of Senor Arturo Barea's two recently publish books is correct in taking to task the publishers of the smaller v , on Spain for referring to The Forge (Faber)......

Religious Knowledge

SIR, —In your comment on the memorial on Christian education you ask the question: " What is religious knowledge? " Your answer to this, perhaps the ultimate question of all, is......

Switzerland's Languages

Sm,—May I supplement the facts about Switzerland in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of August 8th by stating that the number o( the national languages is now not three......