15 JULY 1972, page 27

Benny 9 S L I St ' Sir: Both Benny Green (july 1) And

ASCAP appear to be confusing ' songwriter ' and 'lyricist! — two complementary but quite different functions. Thus, Dorothy Fields , Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Johnny......

Naval Eloquence

Sir; He may have found it described as ' A True British Tap ' but surely the correct title of Mr Cook's drawing (Letters, July 1), is ' Naval eloquence' and it is Gillray's 1795......

Arabs And Jews

Sir. Again as an Israeli, I feel that the dispute over what caused the ' flight' of the Arab refugees in 1948 is misplaced. Nobody now inside Israel doubts that they were......

From Lieut -general Sir John Glubb Sir: My Attention Has

only just been drawn to the letter from Air Vice-Marshal R. I. Jones (June 17). It is a peculiarity of the Palestine problem that people still spend their time accusing one......

Sir: The Historical Facts Are: 1. In September 1947 The

Arab League declared its member states would resist the proposal made by a UN Commission to partition 'Palestine, if necessary by war. (2.) In November 1947 the UN Assembly......

Sir: I Was Somewhat Surprised To See That A Letter

from Mr Berkeley had been entitled " Humphry Bash" (June 24). My surprise was effectively disposed on reading it. Nothing could have more thoroughly impaired his reputation than......

Sir: As An Architect I Have Tried To Show The

public that most of the criticism and a lot of the control of architecture is in the hands of literary men, politicians and other than its practitioners. Your correspondent,......