18 JANUARY 1946, page 14

Air Transport And The R.a.f.

SIR,— I have read with considerable interest the article and correspondence on this subject in your columns. My own experience and the fact that I have to fly again shortly .......

Village Schools Sir,—in Your Issue Of January 4th A...

from Gloucestershire calls attention to the dangers likely to follow from the closure of village schools. I am very glad to see her letter, as this kind of plan is being......

Politics Sir,—in The Spectator Of January 4th It Was...

asked in the Editorial Notes if the Conservative Party was "capable of making an equally vigorous and intelligent appeal" to the electorate to that of the Labour-Socialist......

"dead Toulon" Sir,—as One Of The "much Travelled And...

more tolerant soldiers" appealed to in his letter in The Spectator of January rith, may I say how strongly I resented F. C. Hainsworth's scurrilous attack upon "British......

Country Life

SOME years ago readers of The Spectator mos; generously provided a good part of the funds, desired for the bird obsertatory on Skokholm Island which has become famous among......

Damage From The Gales

It is inevitable in any considerable gale that a number of elm trees crash, the only exceptions I can remember were in the years following the notorious hurricane of 1916, Which......

Preservation Of England Kis To Be Hoped That The Preservers

of England—the local rath . ei than the central—will show some measure in their protests against the substi- tution of use for beauty. Now it seems to me (judging largely from......

In My Garden For The Third Consecutive Month We Are

still pulling faggots of delicious flowers from a few roots of Iris Stylosa, which is the one specie of the tribe that enables Iris fans to claim that you may pluck a blasom in......