1 MAY 1971, page 23

Ambassadors In The Front Line

Sir: Because I am the wife of a British Ambassador now serving in a country where kidnapping is a possibility I was interested in the article by N. Pelham Wright in your issue......

Historians At War

Sir: Whatever he says now about its limited scope, Dr Hazlehurst's book contains four general points (summarised on pp.14-16) about the general history of his period, all of......

Opera

Face values RODNEY MILNES ter from the dreadful Sarastro. But things, as in life, are seldom what they seem: Sarastro turns out to be the goody and the Queen the baddy. Michael......

Letters To The Editor

From Captain John Litchfield, RN, Patrick Cosgrave, Stella Fitz- Thomas Hagan and others. The last of the Tsars Sir: Mr Guy Richards, of New York (letters, 24 April) is a very......