21 FEBRUARY 1970, page 25

Mr Heath's Striptease

Sir: May I comment on Auberon Waugh's dissection of the Codex Croydoniensis (14 February)? Most interesting of all were his remarks on the belated decision to give pensions to......

The Duke's Tubes

Sir: I wonder what gave your correspond- ents, Mrs Brown and Messrs McCarthy and Grant (Letters, 24 January and 1 February), the idea that I was an advocate of BST? My letter......

Pride Of Place

Sir: I have seldom disagreed more with any article than I do with Mr Simon Raven's under the above title (7 February). Having given up work some six years ago and done nothing......

Scots Myths

Sir: What canting nonsense is this (Letters, 7 February)? By all means let the Scotch call themselves Scots or Scottish if they want to. But why should English people be nagged......

The Demo-mobsters

Sir: Pace Randolph Vigne (Letters, 14 February), I would say that George Gale's description of Peter Hain as a 'character- istic child of our time' (7 February) is a......

Negro Violence

Sir: Father Huddleston has asserted in a letter to the Times (20 January), that Negro violence is due 'to 'racial attitudes which for generations have been contemptuous of the......

Disturbed But Not Put Out

Sir: Mr P. J. Barnwell, in his letter in your issue of 14 February, says, 'Is not your re- viewer Carola Oman rather hard on Countess Bertrand when she dubs her "this silly......