20 AUGUST 1988, page 23

George The Second

Sir: Not only does The Spectator surface in Botswana, but the odd copy also arrives down here in West Wales, where great merriment was caused in the bar of Brown's Hotel by the......

Letters Gorbachev's Mask

Sir: As an historian, Norman Davies (`Sta- lin's history lesson', 6 August) grasps the essential truth which John Springs, as an artist, apprehends intuitively in his drawing......

Turkish Tales

Sir: Charles Glass's concern for the impris- oned and oppressed (30 July) is admirable and understandable, but it is very hard to believe that 1,619 Greek Cypriots could be held......

Can Your Mother Sew?

Sir: Yes, I suppose we should all feel grateful that the violence of Glasgow foot- ball supporters in the 1930s is now largely a thing of the past, as Richard West suggests......

The Real Hess

Sir: In 1941 I was private secretary to Sir Alexander Cadogan, the head of the Fo- reign Office. As such I was also in those days, I believe, the only direct link bet- ween the......