21 JANUARY 1978, page 19

Sir David Hunt

Sir: You can imagine my feelings on seeing the insulting remarks made by Mr Waugh about my husband in your issue of 31 December. I do not think it right to descend to his level......

Guernica

Sir: As one who fought with the Nationalists, as a Carlist officer, on the northern front at the time of Guernica, may I make two points about its destruction (Letters, 7......

Deir Yassin (contd.)

Sir: So Miss Connell (Letters, 7 January) still insists that Begin in his book The Revolt wrote: 'The massacre was not only justified but there would not have been a State of......

Protection Of Plants

Sir: The Treasury refusal of a grant towards the £450,000 to keep the Gainsborough in Britain may be a tad decision', but those who wish to enjoy it can still travel to the US......

Educational Failures

Sir: It is not easy to make out from Sir Alec Clegg's disgruntled scamper through educational history just what kind of schooling he does favour. There are many of us these days......

Educational Failures

Sir: The truth about Sir Alec Clegg's 'educational pendulum' (31 December) is, (to develop his rather naive metaphor), that as the mechanism runs down and time runs out, the......