16 OCTOBER 1953, page 14

Ceiters To The Editor

FOR AN ANGLO-GERMAN ALLIANCE SIR,—It is now two years since plans were made for setting up the European Defence Community, and it appeared then that realisa- tion of the plan......

Mr. Noman's Sponsors Sir, — It Would Be Discourteous Were...

to answer the questions put to me by Mr. Ludovic Kennedy in his kind critique of The Man Who Never Was. Mr. Whitley Jones and the solicitor both existed: they each composed......

Shortening Days The Daisies Of Michaelmas, Which Are...

are almost the last source of supply for the late-foraging bees, although there is enough extravagant colour to please the eye in the fading flowers of autumn, the wilting......

The Vegetable Garden

Lift all root vegetables except those hardy varieties that are known to be able to stand winter, because a touch of frost on such things as carrots softens them up and makes '......

The Edinburgh Festival Sir,—the Seventh Edinburgh...

by an unusual amount of post- mortem scrutiny. Such concern as there may be has nothing whatever to do with standards of performance, which were as.high as ever. It is a......

Ferret For Sale D., Who Used To Be One Of

the most notori- ous rabbiters in the locality, stopped me to ask if I wanted to buy a ferret. 1 told him my ferreting days were over and he nodded. " It's a pity," he said. " I......

Harvest Festival

The road turns through the crowding walls of the village and then, after a sharp bend, goes downhill for more than a mile, and it is possible to look over the valley and see the......