15 MARCH 1968, page 34

A Case Of Blind Man's Bluff

Sir: Amid all the sanctimonious humbug and hairsplitting about legality and illegality, those who now vilify Mr Smith might pause to re- member that it is his practical duty to......

Out Of Court

Sir: Mr John Ashe (Letters, 8 March) is almost incoherent with rage at the 'obscurantist fer- vour' with which I persist in defending Gerald Brooke : a man who for the past......

The Last Olympics?

Sir: I have no doubt that the members of the International Olympic Committee believe that they had achieved a major concession when South Africa pledged its sport organisations......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator, 14 March 1868—The public in this country seems still unable to understand the impeachment of President Johnson. The event has startled it into a closer......

Sir: The Slings And Arrows Of Racial Discrimina- Tion Yet

to be endured by the Kenyan Asians and other foreign intruders already on these islands are as nothing compared to the sneers, stony silences and hard-voiced contempt which I,......