21 OCTOBER 1966, page 16

Opposition Years

SIR,—A propos your leading article 'Opposition Years' (October 14): Gallup at last gave the Tories a lead, As night follows day this will surely increase, Gallup, alas, will......

Condition Of France

SIR,—Your review of Two Men Who Saved France gives it high praise in almost every respect, but it suggests that General Spears's account is coloured by a 'particular brand of......

Maddison's War

SIR.—Your reviewer (October 7) of my novel, A Solitary War, declares that 'it is a silly book at best, and at worst a bore.' For him, 'none of the people in this thinly veiled......

Down On The Collective Farm

SIR, —Mr Szamuely (September 30) makes so many misrepresentations of our letter that they cannot be left unanswered. His charge that we take 'considerable liberties with the......

Suppose There Is No Such Thing As A Purely

objective reviewer. Certainly I have never pretended to be. Political, social, personal prejudices are as difficult to banish from one's mind as they are from our present Prime......

This Blessed Plot

SIR,—The story of 'the plot that never was' first re- vealed ('Spectator's Notebook,' October 14) by the admirable Walter Terry in the Daily Mail? Come. Come. The first......