19 MAY 1967, page 26

The Nutting Affair

LETTERS From Quintin Hogg, MP, Rev P. R. Smythe, Canon H. G. G. Herklots, Alan Collingridge, Derek Bloom, Madeleine Simms, Miss Katharine M. R. Kenyon, L. E. Weidberg, Mrs S. M.......

Europe And The Bomb

Sir: If your interpretation of 'holding our nuclear force in trust for Europe' (12 May) is correct, Mr Heath's proposal is verbally provocative without signifying very much. It......

Sir: It Is Interesting To Know That The Dean Need

not be a priest; just as the Lord Chancellor need not be a peer, and that any ordained priest is eligible to be Pope—he need not be a cardinal. A slightly more positive......

Who Gets The Deanery ?

Sir: Professor Trevor-Roper (12 May) may be allowed his little joke against the Church of Eng- land, but he has not got all his facts quite right. He understands the difference......

Sir: In His Entertaining Article 'who Gets The Deanery?' (12

May) Professor Trevor-Roper re- calls that 'Before the war . . . there was a great controversy about the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford, which . . . is annexed to a college.......

Abortion And The Law

Sir: My attention has been drawn to Louis Courtney's letter on 'Abortion and the law' (5 May). In it, he offers us detailed criticisms of a non- existent Bill. I have before me,......