Theirs Not To Reason Why

Sir: In recent weeks Geoffrey McDermott has apparently twice condoned the policy of the terror raids on Germany and more particularly that on Dresden. He has also assured us......

Wall Included?

Sir: Geoffrey McDermott concludes his review of the Goebbels Diaries (6 May) with the words 'long may both the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic flourish'. Would he......

Who Are The Muggers?

Sir: So George Gale (6 May) believes 'mugging' to be 'where people of one colour attack and rob those of another'. Very per spicacious! But even here in Manchester our......

Motherhood

Sir: I do not know much about the fall in population, although I should have thought this overcrowded island could do with it; but as the mother of four children I can assure......

Garfield's Girl

Sir: If, as I suspect, the name Judith Acton is a rose by another name, Judith Todd, then one may immediately assume that her article of 6 May on Rhodesia would reflect her......

The Pigskin Library

Sir: Simon Courtauld's remarks about explorers and the books they read (Notebook, 13 May) reminds me of Theo dore Roosevelt's safari in the first years of the century. He took......