Mi Chiamamo Canadese

Sir: Though one can well imagine the feel- ing of euphoria inspired by an exquisite per- formance of La Boheme, Taki seems to be allowing himself to be carried away by a......

Mr Greene's Restoration

Sir: Alexander Chancellor is mistaken in saying in the Notebook (30 January) that Graham Greene has never written a work of non-fiction other than travel books. Ten years ago I......

Sir: As A Founder-member Of The Great Britain-ussr...

have much sympathy with the views of Mr Simon Richards in his letter of 30 January. For a number of years, as a member of the Council, I have watched with sorrow, but little......

The Russian Connection

Sir: The demand to break all cultural and social links with the USSR is wrong on many counts. It confuses the regime with the people. One has only to read S. - Richards's own......

Letters

Questionable motives Sir: Mr Ferdinand Mount's sensible remarks on the subject of rape in your issue of 30 January move me to write to you about a phenomenon which, it seems to......

Sir: In Connection With Our Cultural Rela- Tions With The

USSR, Mr Simon Richards writes (Letters, 30 January): 'All such links should be broken until the Kremlin learns to live with freedom'. I picture the Kremlin on its knees,......

Index Provided

Sir: In his interesting article about Coll- ingwood's autobiography in the Spectator (16 January), Jo Grimond states that the book lacks an index. This was indeed true of its......