15 NOVEMBER 1980, page 15

Mote And Beam

Mote and beam Sir: It was good to see the other side of the Vestey case put by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in last week's issue. The storm of moral outrage in the press about the whole......

[sir: No, No, It Really Will Not Do.]

Letters Getting it wrong Sir: No, no, it really will not do. After mol0nths of coverage by your correspondents Ill the US. something approaching an apology would have been more......

Poor Qualities

Poor qualities Sir: In the second sentence of John McEwen's review of R.B. Kitaj (1 November) he says that Kitaj's draughtmanship has never been his strength. Not only is this......

[sir: Since You Allow Youself The Luxury Of...]

Sir Since you allow yourself the luxury of 'l"lPlOying two American correspondents, co'uld You not so arrange it that at least one of them had more or less conservative......

[sir: Several Weeks Ago You Published Letters...]

Sr; Several weeks ago you published letters th myself and others which suggested at Henry Fairlie's reporting of the US recteon campaign was biased and inaccucatl, He......

[sir: Both Nicholas Von Hoffman And Henry...]

Sir: Both Nicholas von Hoffman and Henry Fairlie seem to me very unAmerican Americans: if they are American at all! Von Hoffman says that they (the electorate) 'dished the......

[sir: 'the People Voted For Mr Reagan',...]

Sir: 'The people voted for Mr Reagan', writes Henry Fairlie. 'The electors overwhelmingly chose to trust one man and not another.' But nearly half the electors (48 per cent)......

Plain Singers

Plain singers Sir: Though I greatly enjoyed Taki's review of the new Callas biography (25 October), perhaps there is more to Miss Stassinopoulos's theory about childhood......