19 OCTOBER 1962, page 16

Cut Him Wife Rroat Out Sus,—i Am Grateful For Mr.

MacLeavy's linguistic corrections to my rendering of Jamaican conversa- tion, and shall certainly buy a copy of Professor Cassidy's book. 'Pickneys' is certainly right for......

Sm,—while It Would Be An Impertinence To Dispute With Such

a noted authority on Nagas as Dr. Hutton, I would like to produce the evidence which led me to make the distinction between 'subject Nagas' and 'free Nagas' to which he takes......

Sir, — Leslie Adrian Is Very Kind To Can . O Peners. My...

is that there is no such thing a s can-opener that will open any can. Nor should openers be necessary. I don't know what a s e A u ; opening' can is, but why can't all cans be......

Ireland, Your Ireland

SIR,—I agree with so much your correspond ent ! Stephen Fay, says about the Dublin Theatre Festiva' that I hesitate to ask you to let me take him 14 on any point. But I think he......

Don't Go West

SIR, —Mr. Spender seems oddly confused in his analysis of the current state of literary affairs in Britain. He foresees London becoming a kind of Yeatsian Dublin because a......

Castro's Cuba Sir,—such A Shabby Distortion Of Fact In...

Sherman's article on Castro! (September 7.) 'Castro's was the first Communist regime to take over an economy in working order [which] now shows the disastrous effects of the......

Sir,—bamber Gascoigne Could With Advantage Realise That...

of Sir Laurence Olivier's work at Chichester enjoys a certain isolation and (b) those of us who have been visiting the Old Vic a good deal longer than he repudiate the idea that......