16 SEPTEMBER 1955, page 15

Sia,—as A Nation We Have Short Memories. I Wonder How

many of your readers realise that this week brings the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most decisive battles in our his- tory—a battle no less crucial than Trafalgar or......

Cyprus

Sm,—Mr. Harold Soref has performed a great public service in exposing the real motives be- hind the Greek Cypriot demands for enosis. It is obvious that Britain must stand firm......

Church Preservation Sir,—in Your Issue Of August 26, Mr....

Betjeman gives St. George's, Tiverton, as being among recent examples of 'the destruc- tion of churches brought about by modern archdeacons.' He then proceeds to make a certain......

Contemporary Arts

Theatre IT is not easy to criticise this play, the first of Ugo Betti's to be seen in London. The story even is rather complex. John, once the head of a revolutionary......

Sia,—mr. Rizo-rangabe's Well-informed And Thoughtful...

question, published in the Spectator of Sep- tember 2, seems to me to push the analogy between Cyprus today and Crete fifty years ago further than the facts warrant. It is true......

The Opettator

September 18, 1830 BOOK REVIEW—Captain Alexander's re- port of Russia and Russians is favourable— more so than any other report we have read, whether French or English : it may......