16 MAY 1992, page 24

Letters Brussels Expert

Sir: I read Noel Malcolm's article on the debate stimulated across the European Community by the process of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty on European Union ('We'd better find......

A Question Of Merit

Sir: I agree with Hugh Massingberd (Dull hearts and coronets,' 9 May) that the Hon- ours system needs 'a thorough overhaul'. I disagree with his view that we should revive......

Beachy Head Memories

Sir: I am sorry that my friends Michael Cockerell and Alan Watkins should have fallen into dispute as to what Jim Callaghan said, or I said, or I said that he said, about Moses,......

Sir: In His Article On The Honours System, Hugh Massingberd

cites his cousin, Dame Veronica Wedgwood, as being the only author to hold the Order of Merit. I think he should apologise to Sir Isaiah Berlin, who is the author of a whole......

Marlene In A Housecoat

Sir: Some 20 years ago — give or take a few years either way — I was asked, in Paris, to LETTERS have dinner with Marlene Dietrich in her flat. There were three other guests so......