18 FEBRUARY 1944, page 12

Is English Doomed?

Sut,—I should like, if I may, to express the pleasure and entire agreement with which I read Mr. C. S. Lewis's vindication of the place which in the last forty years or more the......

Sta,—it Is Becoming More And More Difficult For A Believer

in the repre- sentative system to see why, if the arguments in support of the electorzl truce are valid, by-elections should be held at all today. At the present moment all......

Stu,—if, As You Have Urged, A Real Reform Of The

machinery of repre- sentative government is to result from the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform, will not the Conference have to face the question whether the......

Letters To The Editor Sia,—if Mother Earth Is Misused Long

enough she hits back and wipes out her misusers. This has happened often in history, as witness many man-made deserts that once blossomed as the rose. It is an actual fact that......