17 APRIL 1982, page 17

Mr Alan Whicker

We have been informed that Michael Deakin's review of Within Whicker's World (20 March) has been construed as suggesting that Alan Whicker played less than a major role in the......

Erns

Letters Advice to travellers Sir: Further to Richard West's piece on the 1982 South American Handbook (3 April), I thought the following, taken from the same Handbook, would be......

Different Alliances

Sir: Simon Courtauld jokingly suggests that the Alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party might well borrow some ideas from Bakunin's Alliance of Social......

Myopic

Sir: Victor Buchanan's patronising, naive and factually incorrect account of life in modern Burma (3 April) places him on the first planeload of the myopic and 'Hun- like'......

Another Weekly

Sir: Richard West writes (27 March), ... for almost 70 years it has been the Spectator and the New Statesman that stood for weekly journalism'. Has he never heard of The......

Elgar's Orchestration

Sir: In his review of the Dvorak cello con- certo (3 April), Anthony Burgess makes the point that recording engineers may highlight instrumental passages, contrary to the......

Tito In Academe

Sir: Mr. Frank Pomeranz (Letters, 3 April) was of course right in stating that no one would object to Smuts, Mountbatten or Wavell Fellowships. Of course Djilas pere was also......