15 MARCH 1935, page 17

Letters To The Editor [correspondents Are Requested To...

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• The Functions Of The Banks

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The crushing refutation of Lord Tavistock's attacks on the banks given in the late Mr. Walter Leaf's book on banking (1926) ought to make......

General Smuts As Viceroy

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Some time ago I read in a Home paper the plea of a distinguished journalist that General Smuts should be made Viceroy of India. Now I see......

Socialist Taxation In London

[To the Editor of THE Sracra.ron .1 SIR,—As a former officer of the L.C.C. and the one responsible for getting the Council to initiate the policy of financing part of its......