20 SEPTEMBER 1968, page 33

One Gesture Well Worth Making

Sir: In your leading article in the issue of 13 September you suggest that Russia might be banned from the Olympic Games, as a mark of disapproval of her aggression against......

The Last Days Of Biafra

Sir: In the past few days the British press, radio and television have made much of Dame Margery Perham's visit to Nigeria and her appeal to the Ibos to surrender. This has been......

Sir : I Have Read And Enjoyed All Three Of

the books containing letters and diary extracts of Sir Harold Nicolson, and feel that Professor Trevor-Roper in his criticism of the last volume (6 September) shows a lack of......

Faith With Occupied Europe

Sir: The comparison that you make between the Czechoslovak leaders and Marshal Pdtain is most unfair to the former. Pertain was no friend to the open society : his politics were......

Lord Cranfield As He Wasn't

LETTERS From: Nigel Nicolson G. C. Brander, Mrs Kenneth Lumley, L 4 Holford-Strevens, Miss A. C. Hannay, Onyenauzi W. Wadibia, Unzera Ezekpo, G. Reichardt David I. Peet, Sir......

Sir: Lady Kelly Said In Her Letter About Harold Nicolson

in your issue of 13 September: 'Thinking of him at Sissinghurst, in a memor- able garden he helped his wife Vita Sackville- West to design, should one not say about him with .......

Sir: Mr Fayemi Writes (letters, 6 September): 'had The...

government succumbed to your policy of hostility towards Nigeria, they would have deserved world condemnation as the Russians.' Is he now disassociating himself from his......

Incommunicado

Sir: Letters to public journals are doubtley, admirable vehicles for conducting public debates on topics of interest, but perhaps someone would explain what this has to do with......

Beatlebores

Sir: Bless you, Bill Grundy. People do pay attention to you (13 September), sensible people anyhow, including those unaffected by the pre- sent mania for upgrading garbage from......