18 APRIL 1970, page 24

Seeing Double

Sir: Myths about television accumulate in depressing quantities these days and Bill Grundy's article (4 April) about the World Cup seems likely to spawn a whole new crop. May I......

The Rape Of Dartmoor

Sir: With our respects to the Dartmoor Preservation Association (Letters. 28 March), may we now throw some light on the other side of the picture? The Curtisknowle and Woodcourt......

Radical Scholarship

Sir: I write in all seriousness to suggest that the SPECTATOR invite Mr John Sparrow to argue in an article the 'non-Chomsky' case against the war in Vietnam. Mr Sparrow feels......

Prophetic Work

Sir: The Rev T. Towers (Letters, 11 April) is right to qualify my remarks about the general failure of Christians to recognise the continuity of Islam with Christianity. That......

Ulster: Waiting For The Ira

Sir: The 'troubles' in Belfast disturb people all around the world. Perhaps it is none of my business but I feel that I have my roots in Ireland as my grandfather, Thomas Ryan,......

More Is Less

Sir: Your reviewer of The Quest for Rananim: D. H. Lawrence's letters to SS. Koteliansky (21 March) quite properly asks what interest there is for the general reader in......

The Welsh Condition

Sir: The issue of 28 March offers an inter- esting contrast between the consistently brilliant and perceptive summary of the well- springs of Welsh nationalism by Emyr Humphreys......