17 SEPTEMBER 1948, page 20

Humaner Whaling

SIR, —For the information - of David Gimston (Humaner Whaling—The Spectator, July 9th) the following may be of interest. The New Zealand whalers, Perano Brothers, of Tory......

Cutting Both Ways

SIR,—I have been reading Janus's comments on the Health Service in The Spectator of September 3rd. May I fell you about it from another point of view ? I am the wife of a......

A German Appeal

SIR, —A friendly chance made us recently acquainted with your highly esteemed weekly, which was sent us for a long period for the purpose of our educational work. We must admit,......

Lord Kemsley's Papers

SIR, —Since, of course, j'assume Janus did not intend to mislead in his note on Lord Kemsley's evidence to the Press Commission in The Spectator of September 3rd I can only......

Passive Resistance Sir, —since The Truth About English...

revealed to Miss Agnes Fry by those two beneficent goddesses, Parsing and Translation, she is no doubt not interested in such a humdrum process as giving a coherent account of......

The Wood Age

Sta,—While revising the notes made during my sojourn among the primitive Natokoi of the Rio Pilcomayo nearly sixty years ago I am again reminded of the general failure of those......

The Man From Mexico

SIR, —Though our subscripticn to your maw.* was started only recently we met an acquaintance in the first issue—the "` Spanish Confidence Man." Perhaps you already have received......

Sir,—i Have Recently Received A Letter Sent By Air Mail

from Senor M., dated from Mexico City on August 28th, similar to those received by the three gentlemen whose names begin with the first letter of the alphabet. One wonders on......