17 NOVEMBER 1973, page 4

First Out

Sir: In your issue of November 10 Victor Montagu reproaches Mr Heath because " they set standards of lick and spittle as would some regimental sergeant-major." I am reminded......

Montagu's Economics

Sir: Victor Montagu, contemplating Britain's " very bad" trade figures, is to be congratulated on his bid " to outsoar the shadows of our night" (November 10), though he was the......

Medicine And Morality

From Dr Michael A. Simpson ,sir: I feel it necessary to challenge Dr Linklater's very sad medical article (' How crazy can we get?' October 27). . lest anyone should mistakenly......

Vivisection

Sir: John Linklater's article ' Poor vivisected doggy,' (November 3) is one of the most biased articles I have seen for a very long time on a controversial moral issue. The......

Science Fiction

Sir: There have been several articles recently in The Spectator on aspects of fantasy and science fiction. It is a pity that Kingsley Amis has written only one of these and......

Britten's 'death'

Sir: 1 have just read Mr Milnes's review of Death in Venice in your issue of October 27. It seems to me, having now seen this opera four times, that it, like most of Mr......