16 APRIL 1965, page 11

Rights And Privileges

SIR, —You have said, qua ()noodle. that although you detest my ideas you will defend to the death my right to express them. I will take you at your word—not literally, but......

Appomattox, April 9, 1865

Slit,—Allen Tate's 'peroration' on Appomattox was a breath bf fresh mountain air after the many dull sociological studies which have been published on racial conditions in the......

`the Critics'

SIR.—In his rather jolly account of our telephone conversation. Mr. Alan Brien forgets to mention my telling him—quite clearly—that I did not wish Norman Mailer's An American......

Letters To The Editor

From : L. Sefton, D. G. Bridson, Frederick Rosen, Frank Hodgson, With Frischauer, 1. 0. Bailie, William Warbey, MP. After TSR-2 S',----The destiny of an invaluable British......

Britain And Germany

SIR,-111 is dangerous as well as stupid nonsense to say, as Miss Gainham does from her observation post in darkest Bonn, that 'nobody on the continent takes Britain seriously,'......

John Bull's Six Counties

SIR,-1 am astonished that such a responsible journal as the Spectator should publish without proper sub- stantiation such an allegation as that in your issue of April 2 last. A......

The New Samaritan

SIR,—We have now—recorded on the occasion of Labour's sit-up strike against Mr. Ncave's Bill to pay the old-age pension to men and women of an average age of eighty-four, who......