20 MAY 1966, page 14

Utterly Absurd

SIR,—Mr Pat Sloan's letter of May 6 takes one back to the days when anybody who criticised Stalin was automatically branded a Nazi sympathiser or, at best, a fascist. Today Mr......

Death In The Family

SIR,—Kenneth Allsop (Letters, May 13) takes me to task for not checking the facts in my reference to him. Since I mentioned him only to suggest that he has a warm and......

Sir,—mr E. D. O'brien Is Ignobly Embarrassed To Find Himself

mixed up with a press which, when they were not commercially rewarding, published' works by some important writers (as well as some porno- graphic rubbish). I must embarrass him......

Olympia In Swinging London

SIR,— Kenneth Allsop has certainly killed a number of birds with one tiny stone (SPECTATOR. April 29). Alas , m ost of his little victims were the inhabitants .4.6f his own......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 283 W. I. KENNARD (Boston Transcript, 19 5 7). WHITE to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 282 (Anderson): P— B 4 1, no threat. • .......