1 SEPTEMBER 1984, page 23

Brute Force?

Sir: In his review of Christopher Hill's The Experience of Defeat (Books, 18 August) Eric Christiansen says: 'Levellers, like early Quakers, believed in brute force.' This is so......

Letters

Moonie sadness Sir: Andrew Brown's article 'Moonies vs the Reds' (4 August) makes interesting reading, not least because he freely admits to be willing to accept Moonie......

Born Alive

Sir: Paul Johnson in his strangely ambi- guous review of press comment on the Warnock Report (The press, 28 July), repeats the widespread error that abortion is permitted in......

Greatest Living Englishman

Sir: Now that Sir John Betjeman has popped his clogs, the search is on for the Greatest Living Englishman. Geoffrey Wheatcroft nominates Lester Piggott (Diary, 4 August), but......

The End

Sir: 'If Lobbs were to become the hat centre' (Diary, 25 August), then indeed the end would have come. Perhaps Mr Worsthorne was still a little dazed by the use of a blow-drier?......

Belgrano Fuss

Sir: Colin Welch writes a good comment- ary upon Labour's new defence policy (Centrepiece, 25 August). The obvious question to ask of Mr Kinnock is: 'What are you going to do......

Correction

The full list of institutions electing Trustees to the Soane Museum, mentioned in Sir John Summerson's letter last week, should have read: The Corporation of the City of London,......