15 JULY 1978, page 18

Beating Truancy

Sir: Thank you to Cohn Brewer (8 July) for his revealing and forthright article 'The pride and prejudice of the social worker'. Magistrates have for so long been castigated as......

Dunkirk

Sir: I am completing a book about Dunkirk and would like very much to get in touch with anyone who participated in those stirring days. If any of your readers can help, I would......

Wounding Words

Sir: As a newspaper editor and book publisher for over fifty years and therefore by definition a practitioner in the arts of linguistical language and philology, I feel the time......

The Dubbin Factor

Sir: Mr Waugh's article 'The dubbin factor' (8 July) seems to suggest that Mrs Thatcher has not enough experience of criticism/m sults/physical assault to be an effective......

Elizabeth Russell

Sir: I am writing a critical biography of Countess von Arnim, Lady Russell, better knovi as 'Elizabeth' of Elizabeth and her German Garden. I would be extremely grateful for any......