19 APRIL 1957, page 16

The Angry Young Man

SIR, — While I appreciate the liveliness of many of your articles, I feel I must protest against the de- plorable interview with Mr. John Osborne that you published the week......

Sir, — I Read Brian Inglis's Article With Great Interest....

time when roughly half our hospital beds are occupied by sufferers from mental, emotional and nervous disorders, such a calm and reasonable ex- position of present trends in......

Sir, — Mr. Robert Hancock Is To Be Congratulated On His...

'Anger.' From the reaction it has provoked it would seem that he has hit one or two nails very shrewdly on the head. Every generation has had its Angry Young Men and they have......

Inflation

Labour Chancellor" and I a United Kingdom instead SIR, — Were Mr. Desmond Donnelly, MP, the next of Overseas Civil Servant, 1 would waste no time before joining the queue......

Sir, — It Would Be Interesting To Know How Mr. Osborne...

that one deficiency of taste can be remedied by another. Really, it is a little unreason- able to allow into one's house an observer and then to rail at him for observing,......

Botch

SIR, — In my verse review in April 5's Spectator the title of Mr. Vernon Scannell's good book is misprinted • as A Mortal Patch. It should be A Mortal Pitch.— Yours faithfully,......

Police Evidence

Sut,—it is disturbing to learn that two members of the police giving evidence in a case are allowed to do this . from the same notes. In a country where no witness is allowed in......

Sir, — This Extract From A Letter Recently Received From...

Aden-born Arab makes it easy to understand why Anglo-Arab enmity gets steadily worse : It may interest you to know that the Govern- ment of Aden have stopped the import of qat......

Sir.—i Was Grateful To Mr. Betjeman For His Note (`city

and Suburban' this week) about the proposed demolition of houses on The Barbican in Plymouth. The arguments used by the Council in favour of the demolition of these houses are......

Keir Hardie

read with interest that Mr. Blake considers that those Conservatives who idolise Disraeli are liable to find themselves the slaves of antique shibboleths and an outworn creed.'......

Messrs. Macmillan Inform Us That Contrary To What Mr. Graham

Greene wrote in a letter last week no case has ever been brought against Miss Rebecca West and them by Mr. Evelyn Waugh. Indeed in the edition of the book published by Macmillan......