20 MAY 1960, page 15

Sir,—is Not David Cairns, Arch-kicker Over The Traces And...

upsetter of orthodox apple carts, in some danger of conforming. of finding himself in step with the rest of the platoon? It is no longer exactly original to beat the drum for......

One Of The 'voices Of Dissent' Defended By M R. David

Cairns in your issue of May 13, 1 cannot refrain from heartily echoing his criticism of the Primitive negligence' surrounding the present re- v ival of The Trojans at the Royal......

Zionisr Lobby Sl .nt — If You Were Not Always So Quick To

find fault with anything that Israel does (or, in this case, does not do), you would have realised that your post- scr ipt to Mr. D. R. Elston's letter in your issue of M ay 13......

Black And White

Sta;---A friend of mine recently applied fur a job with London Transport cleaning railway carriages at night- - -a post for which there can rarely be too many applicants. He is......

Kipling And Rider Haggard

SIR, --I have begn commissioned to write a book to be entitled Rudyard Kipling and Rider Haggard : The Story of a Friendship. I should appreciate hear- ing from persons who have......

Homosexual Prosecutions

Sut,—Largely owing to your efforts and those of other liberal-minded journals, • the persecution of homosexual people is entering upon a new and milder phase. It is none the......

Christian Scientist Attitudes

SIR,—In his review of Mr. Maurice Collis's book on Lady Astor (Spectator, May 6), Mr. Angus Wilson suggests that it was owing to their being Christian Scientists that the Astors......