16 OCTOBER 1959, page 20

Sut,—i Hope The Spectator (and Ultimately Everybody Else)...

the policy of 'Fleming for Premier after last week's promulgation of his admirable pro' gramme.—Yours faithfully, 83 Newington Road, Edinburgh 9 0. oi......

Fleming For Premier

SIR.—Mr. Ian Fleming imagines himself as Premier and proceeds to talk about his Ministers. Would you please explain to him that a Premier does not own Ministers but that the......

Solomon Bandaranaike

SIR,---I was interested in the remarks of your con- tributor, C. H., on Mr. Solomon Bandaranaike, as, in 1955, shortly before be became Prime Minister, I had a long talk with......

A Milker In The Mail

SIR,—For the record! 1 remember Patrick Campbell posting the cow, about which he wrote so amusingly last week under the title 'A Milker in the Mail. because I was then Chief......

Sr ,—according To Mr. Goldsmith In His Article 'space...

Mr. Shawcross is worrying about invasion by inhabitants of other planets. Mr. Goldsmith him- self is worrying about the effects of travelling at the speed of light. I am......

Probation Officers

SIR,—A young friend of mine has recently taken a good honours degree in Sociology at London Univer- sity. She did this with a view to becoming a probation officer. She is over......

`the Control Of The Purse'

Einzig's letter of September 18, which escaped me at the time, challenged me to produce some authoritative pronouncement in support of my view that the strict scrutiny by the......

Sir,—the Seven Material Fallacies Referred To By Your...

Matthew Lindsay are based on an Aristotelian classification and are as follow - (1) Fallacy of Accident, (2) Converse Fallacy of Acci - dent, (3) Irrelevant Conclusion or......

Sir,-1 Would Like To Applaud Barbara Wootton's Excellent...

on the Roads.' She asks, 'What can be done to stop the slaughter?' and concludes from the point of view of the magis- trate that with drunken drivers 'both the fact and degree......

Sir,---it Is Naughty Of Mr. Ulick O'connor, Comment- Ing In

your columns upon an anecdote of Richard Irvine Best's regarding George Moore, to say that 'Moore, being an Irish Catholic, had not over- burdened himself with the study of Holy......