21 DECEMBER 1974, page 5

Eternal Verifies

From Dr Margaret White, JP Sir: The Dean of St Paul's (December 7) accuses the general synod of the Church of England of not "facing up to the question" of the marriage in......

22 Upfield, Croydon Words Sir: The Light May Have Been

"particularly good," but not good enough, it Must seem, to disperse Mr Gale's t autological fog (December 7). It is Possible that your diarist may have c onsumed the type of......

,sir: In Writing (december 7) That He Has 'caught The

OED out" on the word e xclaustrate, George Gale is presuma,blY not rebuking it for its failure to t Oresee that the Times would one day Use it, but is implying that it was av......

British Leyland And The Arabs

Sir: Not long ago, British Leyland had a long-term contract with the Israeli Government to build an assembly plant in Israel from which was supplied the bus fleet on which the......

Defence Cuts

From Major D. C. Hawley Sir: While it may be an interesting exercise to compare our defence spending as a proportion of our national income with our European allies, what has to......

School Indiscipline

Sir: What a lot of fuss is being made about school indiscipline! If a boy kicks his teacher on the shin, a little arnica would soon put it right. Meanwhile the boy, who did not......

Rowse And Rackhant

Sir: In a review in your issue of December 7 Dr Rowse mentions in passing that "there appears to be no notice" of Arthur Rackham in the Dictionary of National Biography. Rackham......

Angela Brazil

Sir: 1 have been commissioned by Allen Lane to write a book on the life and works of the late Angela Brazil. If any of your readers have personal anecdotes, letters or......