19 OCTOBER 1951, page 16

Standards Of Persecution

am sorry Miss Major thinks me so ill-read as not to have noticed that the Eastern barbarians are, as has always been their habit, engaged in persecutions ; " the secular Press "......

The Liberal ' Vote

SIR,—Surely in this Election Liberals in constituencies with Liberal candidates have a duty to vote Liberal and not just for a candidate of another party to keep out the......

Sfr.—how Heartily 1 Aaree With Mrs. Mckaill's Letter On The

inspection of foster-homes. I should. however, like her plea for the part-time paid employment of married' trai4ed social-workers to be extended beyond their use in Children's......

Sir,—mr. Harold Nicolson Quotes With Scant Respect The...

"the caryatids of the Erechtheum shrieked so shrilly when Lord Elgin sought to transport them to London that the Athenian workmen fled in panic." There is better authority for......

Letters To The Editor

Believe it or Not SIR, —That suave essayist, Mr Harold Nicolson, who, like Mr. Ripley of Ripley's Believe it or Not, has " so amicable a manner that we are not for one moment......

• Disappearing Clergy

SIR.—Might I suggest that one of the trends in this disappearance is the sinister liberalism that has for some time now been creeping into the minds of people with regard to the......