18 MARCH 1960, page 14

Sir,—katharine Whitehorn In Her Excellent Article Has Not...

dismal plight of the teaching profession. The shortage of teachers is indeed causing immense difficulty and frustration. However, my im- pression is that since the new salary......

A Raspberry For The Teacher

SIR,—Can somebody explain to Miss Katharine Whitehorn that one cannot do evil that good may come? Teachers must stand by their principles. They are seeking an honest response......

Girl On The Highway

SIR,—I'm deeply grateful to Alan Brien for bringing out bluntly at long last this was a political play and not a dramatised striptease show. But was it really 'a hack......

Unnatural Childbirth

SIR,—Mrs. Furlong is, of course, talking through her hat. For some reason she appears to have con- fused the 'mechanics' of bearing a child with birth itself, which, I suggest,......

Sir, —mrs. Furlong Is, Of Course, Right—this `pompous...

is anything but natural. It is certainly not an attitude which the Natural Childbirth Trust wishes to promote. Unfortunately, there are women in whom a natural tendency to......

The Questionnaire

The Spectator is grateful to the several thousand readers who have already returned the questionnaire which was included in some copies of the paper three weeks ago. The answers......

The Damnation Of Faust Sta.—if Journalistic...

anything at all, the wild flights of fancy of Mr. David , Cairns cannot go answered. He starts with 'mutilation': being only a natural- ised British subject may 1, humbly, quote......