16 JULY 1948, page 16

Banks And Recovery

STR —In his letter appearing in your issue of July 2nd, criticising a public service for dilatoriness, Mr. F. Ward concludes his remarks with the charge that the banks also are......

The Hammer And The Anvil

SIR, —Your recent article Belgrade and Berlin brings to mind a quotation from Goethe used by Mr. Dimitrov in his concluding speech from the dock at the Reichstag fire trial.......

Prison Earnings

Sta,—In your issue of June 18th it was stated that persons serving prison sentences are paid 6d. per day. This statement was, of course, fantasti- cally incorrect, and was only......

Steel Nationalisation

Sitt,—I have only just seen Mr. Shone's letter in your issue of July 2nd. I was wrong. The figure which I quoted as referring to 1927 was actu- ally .an average for the five......

Henry Vii And John Cabot -

Sm,—In his interesting remarks about Bristol and early Atlantic explora- tion, in last week's Spectator, Mr. Harold Nicolson refers to Henry VII's gift of ten pounds to John......

A Conscript's Complaint Sir,—i Have Served Six Months In...

Forces, and during that time I have come to realise that all is not well, that up to half a million young men are idling away some of the most impressionable months of their......