Letters Not That Barmy
From Mr Colin Campbell Sir: Charles Wheeler's article (The barmy army', 8 July) makes a valid point regarding the drawbacks of peacetime National Ser- vice in that it tended to......
From Mr John Young Sir: Certainly Basic Training Was...
but it was short-lived, and the rest of Nation- al Service, except for those sent to fight in places like Korea and Malaya, was a bit of a doddle, with plenty of sport and......
Liberal, Not Lickspittle
From Mr John D.Battersby Sir: R.W. Johnson (`Stand up and be count- ed', 24 June) accuses me of being a 'guilty white liberal-turned-ANC supporter'. I have never belonged to the......
From Dr George Marshall Sir: As A Former National Serviceman
(1955-57) I found in Charles Wheeler's account a description of a world that I fail to recognise. We recruits were shouted at, it is true, and during the first few weeks we had......
Disembodied Doyle
From Mr John O'Byme Sir: Michael Vestey's puzzlement as to how the creator of such a super-rational detec- tive as Sherlock Holmes could have believed in fairies (Arts, 8 July)......
War And Pc
From Mr John Hughes-Wilson Sir: While I fully anticipated the well-co- ordinated wails of protest from some of the 'Pardons' brigade, furious that someone has LETTERS at last......
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