15 NOVEMBER 1946, page 15

Crisis In Germany

SIR,— Recent correspondence in your columns has been stressing the supreme importance of good-quality personnel for the control of Ger- many. May I express my whole-hearted......

Canals : A Wasting Asset

Sta,—I shall remain unrepentant of having, to quote Mr. Rolt, " invited a public controversy," if by so doing public interest in canals will become focused in its proper......

Germany's Intellectual Betrayal

Sta,—Please allow me to make a few remarks on the first paragraph of Mr. Harold Nicolson's Marginal Comment of November 8th. Even if we assume that the German professors to whom......

Sta,—the Announcement Of Our Extra Rations For Christmas...

the first news in the Press of the food crisis in the British zone of Germany. Further poignancy was added to this coincidence when we read the account of the debate in the......

Sir,—would You Permit Me To Correct A Mis-statement Which...

into my letter on Army education as a result of a typing slip? I wrote that the Central Advisory Council for adult education in H.M. Forces and the Regional Committees arranged......

Army Education

SIR,—The marrow of Mr. Maurice Bruce's article on Army Education in your issue of November 1st is in the sentence "The Secretary of State for War has expressed the hope that the......

" Journey Down A Blind Alley "

SIR,— Women, rightly or wrongly, have no great reputation for accuracy. Women novelists when they venture to write of historical events and military matters should beware. It is......