Cars Across The Channel
SIR,—Mr. Leslie Adrian is surely a bit wide of the mark when he says that the British Railways Car Ferry Service is `cheap' (Spectator, January 23). For many years the charges......
Lcc Procedure
SIR,—The 'Spectator's Notebook' of February 13 re- ferred to the use of an 'ancient procedure' by a member of the London County Council and com- , mented: 'Incidentally, the......
Travel Grants To The Us Sir,—under The Ford...
Travel Grant Programme, applications are now being invited from young businessmen, prefer- ably aged between twenty-eight and thirty-eight, for awards in this category. These......
John Gordon Sir,-1 Fear That My Address Will Explain Why
I cannot accept Mr. Gordon's invitation to dinner. Perhaps he will accept my invitation to a quiet dinner at the Savoy or Horseshoe on my return, though I doubt whether Mr.......
Sour Grapes Sir,—if You Make No Mistakes You Make Nothing,
like the man said, but when Strix writes, `Up there on the summit, clustered like guillemots . . . I am aware of the top people looking down on me,' I question his authority to......
Lacuna In Laocoon
SIR, —1 wonder whether your reviewer Frank Ker- mode has the slightest idea of the practical problems involved in producing a uniform reprint series when he remarks, 'It is......
The Rumbotham Saga
Sia, — The bands I named seemed to me to represent all phases of British endeavour in the field of what might broadly be called Pre-War Jazz, ranging from Ncanderthaloid New......
The Middle East Sir,—the Trouble Is That Miss Slec Belongs
to that familiar group of English middle-class ladies who so romanticise the Arab that they will believe anything he says, however often he is proved to have lied, and believe......
Peter's Reforms
Sta,--Will Mr. Hill - give some evidence, preferably from the years 1629-39 when there should be most, to support his statement that Charles I would have liked to rule through a......
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