17 JUNE 1972, page 28

Rhetorical Trick

Sir: May I use the letter columns of The Spectator to denounce a fiendish rhetorical trick which I find unbelievably irritatin g and which, I hope, all reasonin g human being s......

Will And Paavo

Sir: Only today has your issue of May 6 reached Helsinki University Library's shelves, so that I must apologise for raising a point about an article a month old. Will Waspe, in......

Coming To Terms

From Mrs Joanna M. Lycett Sir: I was much heartened to read in The Spectator (May 27) several good letters about the utter impossibility of coming to terms with Eurocracy. I......

Sir: While George Gale Has Been The Recipient Of A

well deserved chastisement in your correspondence columns for coming to terms with Europe — and hardly a day passes that some item of news underlines the sheer lunacy of the......

Fleet St Women

Sir: As a New Statesman reader, I was rather glad that Anthony Howard had rejected Olga Franklin's overtures. This is not to say that her article (May 20) was not interesting.......

Arab Refugees

From Air Vice-Marshall R. I. Jones Sir: Mr Sarkiss (May 20) says that my statement that most Arab refugees fled from Palestine of their own accord is untrue. Undoubtedly......