1 JANUARY 1965, page 13

Native Language

SIR, — Why did not Domhnall Mac Amhlaigh write in English? demands Frank O'Connor (let's be sociable and call him Mickey Donovan from Cork, who spoils our Christmases on......

Nothing Personal

SIR,—Mr. Maclnnes's review of Nothing Personal contained two such important errors of fact that I feel they deserve correction. He seems to be saying that I used a collection of......

Books For Children

SIR, — Quoodle puts quite-a number of his four feet in it when he demands that publishers should 'in- dicate the approximate age of the reader for whom the books are intended.'......

* Sir,-1 Note With Extreme Interest That None Of The

correspondents who support immigration into the UK live in an area with a large immigrant popula- tion. This is very significant as it shows a certain amount of ignorance on the......

John Bull's Six Counties

SIR,_ Mr. Alexander Walker raises the old canard about religion being the source of discord in Northern Ireland—when any schoolboy there could tell him it is racial. The word......

Letters To The Editor

From: Mavis Singleton, Duncan Bryson, Dane Hallame, E. M. Gregory, R,011 Huzzard, Edgar L. Thomsen, John Pudney, Patrick Conleth. McGee, Richard A vedon. Rennie Bere, J. C.......

Labour's Left

Sts,—Mr. Alan Watkins' may well be right when he points out (December 18) that the main weakness of the left in the Labour Party has been our pre- occupation with questions of......

In Search Of A Policy

SIR, — If, as Mr. Alan Watkins states, the Conserva- tive Party 'is in process of becoming, or trying to become, the party of the consumer,' I trust that it will also be......

The Authority Of Failure

From MURRAY KEMPTON T HE triumphs of Franklin D. Roosevelt have been Mr. Johnson's compulsive model since his accession. Now he will be inaugurated after an electoral victory......

Sir,—i Would Have Thought That In Sir Cyril Osborne's Phrase

'a chocolate-coloured mixed Afro- Asian society' the emphasis was on 'mixed Afro- Asian' and not 'chocolate-coloured. What presum- ably he is concerned about is not so much the......