21 JUNE 1969, page 29

Spring Offensive

Sir : One cannot feel any sympathy for Mr David Oldman (Letters, 7 June), with his heartless contempt for British by-ways and gloomy prognostications about the Chelsea Flower......

Unfair To Skeff?

Sir: I do not know why you continue to give the boring Mr Skeffington-Lodge (Letters, 7 June) so much space in your correspondence columns, but I can assure you that if you......

Sir: Mr Angus Maude's Article (30 May) Was An Eloquent

expression of the fears which are felt by almost all Catholics of the confession of Canterbury at this time. We have witnessed with immense sorrow thy decay of ritual in the......

The Dragon's Tongue

Sir: As one who cannot speak Welsh but would like to be able to read it and to follow a conversation, I agree with Mr J. W. M. Thompson (7 June) that it is not too......

Student Stirs

Sir: May I be allowed the right of reply to such parts of Mr Kirkaldy's letter (30 May) as are comprehensible? I ask because it is as blatant a piece of question-begging as I......

Church, Change And Decay

LETTERS From John Bradley, Sir Richard Acland, Francis Bown and Stephen J. Kern, Sir Graham Sutton, Peter Croft, George Edin- ger, A. Walker, Jeremy Maule, June Gib- son, Dennis......

The Spirit Of Give And Take

Sir: Happenings in New Guinea look ex- ceedingly disturbing, though, at this distance in space I am the less inclined to accept Crabro's assessment (7 June) in face of his......

Sir: May I Ask, Through You, Whether Any Of Your

readers can help me to recover a quotation. It was spoken or written towards the end of the last century by one of the popularisers of the scientific outlook. But at some point......