21 MAY 1994, page 27

Delighted Read

Sir: Regarding boring book titles (Letters, 30 April), I don't think one should rush to judgment without at least opening the book. For example, take Modem Pigsticking by Major......

Sir: Ian Buruma Is Wrong To Suggest That The French

tend to ignore the second world war because they lost or collaborated. It is all the other way: Britain is the country where there is nothing to show that there ever was a war......

Rather Cost-effective

Sir: Bryan Appleyard is, of course, entitled to his opinions about The Late Show, but last week's tirade contained some funda- mental errors that I would like to correct. The......

Faith And Science

Sir: In his review of P. Sudolplatov ('McCarthy was right', Books, 14 May), Norman Stone gratuitously links his claim that many Soviet scientists were foolish about communism......

Ad Nauseum Sir: Simon Jenkins Refers To Me As Part

of an 'intervention lobby' over Bosnia (Centre point, 14 May), and implies that I wrote my history of Bosnia in order to persuade the West to intervene there. No such sugges-......

Sir: In Last Week's Spectator Simon Jenkins Laments The Lack

of foreign intervention in the forthcoming bloody and potentially destabilising civil war in Yemen. Clearly Simon Jenkins is not aware of the Foreign Office's lour-stage......

No Crown For A Saint

Sir: I am afraid that Jennifer Paterson's recipe for crown roast of lamb (Food, 23 April) was inappropriate for St George's Day as it is American and comparatively modern. It......

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