20 JULY 1956, page 17

'in Praise Of Fascists' Sir.—my Lateness In Replying To Mr.

O'Hara's letter of personal attack is due to my having been in a remote Druze village where no one reads the Spectator. I hope you will allow me to correct some of his......

Stage Designing

Sul,—Cecil Beaton, in his letter (Spectator, June 22), agrees with your theatre critic that American stage design is superior to ours, and gives a few facts. Surely an important......

The Poet And Radio Sir, —mr. Kingsley Amis In His Review

of The Craft of Letters in England in the Spectator of July 13 makes an extraordinary statement in connection with the poet and radio. He com- ments that `to write with the......

Contemporary Arts

Good and Bad BEFORE I acquired a set of my own I was not attracted by television; indeed, I was repelled by it. I remember spending a wet Saturday night in an Essex cottage with......

A Poet Of The Counter- Reformation

Sir—Mr. Evelyn Waugh's attempted contrast between the Roman Catholic Church which has preserved its faith unchanged since the six- teenth century and the Church of England whose......