17 JULY 1964, page 13

Doctor In The House

Sus,—No doubt witch doctors are held in even higher esteem in their own societies than are medical men in,ours. Perhaps your correspondent, J. B. Ashe, would be sufficiently......

Vestments Measure

SIR,—Permit a former member of the Church Assembly to protest against the article by Mr. David Watt on the above matter. The facts arc clear. The Measure if passed will legalise......

A No-party System?

SIR, --The marked reluctance—to put it less strongly than one might—of all but a dwindling minority of older voters to share in the burden of keeping party- political......

Si,--black Rule In South Africa? Is That What Those Who

are opposed to apartheid want? Naturally most white South Africans, though they may object to much of the oppression practised by the Government of South Africa, are not......

% Ma Letters Steel Nationalisation C'harles De Peyer Much...

A lex corn! on Apartheid T. E. W. Waddington, J. S. M. Jack The Authentic Portrait Leslie Smith VeSinlents Measure Ronald H. Herrman Doctor in the House P. M. Sheppard A......

Mu(71-1 Ado

Sm.. -Mr. Raven finds sex 'an overrated sensation Which lasts a bare ten seconds'—and then wonders Why anyone - should- bother to translate the erotic textbooks of medheval......

Britten And Stravinsky •

SIR,--I do not trust Mr. Charles Reid's memory. of What I Said about Stravinsky (or anyway What I Meant). Anyone who looks at my operas must admit that I would never have......

The Authentic Portrait

SIR,—In his brief comments on my book, Harold Wilson: The Authentic Portrait, David Watt in- cludes an extract—out of context, of course, and with the clear aim of deriding the......

Sir,—it Was My Honour To Serve In Sarawak Several Years

ago under the auspices of Voluntary Service Overseas. However I, and many other ex-volunteers, have grown alarmed and somewhat perturbed at present developments in VSO. Perhaps......

Apa Rtheid

SIR. It is possible to make a moral defence of onartheid, as Mrs. Atherley does in your issue of July 3. The questions posed are surely as much practical as moral. There arc now......