21 JULY 1967, page 24

Gun And Pen

Sir: Mr Burgess would perform a more valuable service for your readers if he made sure, at least, of his facts. To make my point I am forced to quote one of the more unenviable......

Trade With Rhodesia •

r: Jock Bruce-Gardync is right (14 July) in , .a■ Mg that UK exports to Rhodesia were already very greatly reduced in the first few months of :966. compared with the......

Afterthought

Sir: John Wells makes me spit. You see, the story about the younger-son-of-a-well-known-politician has reached Southampton on its admittedly circuitous route to the Orkneys: but......

Continent Isolated

Sir: The role of the advocatus diaboli is unenviable as he is predestined to lose every lawsuit and eventually to witness the canonisation of the target of his prosecution.......

A Whiff Of Sour Grapeshot

Sir: In his article on Oxford examinations (14 July) Mr Bevis Hillier misquoted and misattributed a certain 'epigram.' The correct text is 'The night- ingale got no prize at the......

Bottle Honours

Sir: The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology has the following entry: booze, boose (sl. or colloq.) drink, 13th century. Middle English boas sb., boose vb. If we are to......

The Press Council

The following statement was issued by the Press Council this week: After the SPECTATOR published articles by a prison inmate, Dr F. Ray Bettley, 19 Harley Street, London Wl,......