22 AUGUST 1970, page 23

Tribal Lore

Sir: Mr Coleman (Letters, 15 August) in his attack on my aesthetic judgment perhaps has not noticed the care with which I chose my adverb and adjective: 'absolutely first class......

Lodge Protest Sir: Mrs Cross Writes On The Defensive...

15 August). This fits in well with the Tories' unjustified and widespread con- demnation of our last government (in which she joins) and their failure during the general......

Horse Feathers

Sir: The record must be set straight about Elliot Silverstein's Cat Ballou with which his latest film A Man Called Horse has been compared by nearly all the critics—including......

New Pressures On The Army

Sir: I read the article on Northern Ireland by Martin Wallace (15 August) with con- siderable interest. It is true, as he says, that many people welcomed the intervention of the......

Saying The Unsayable

Sir: The difference between American whites and negroes in respect of intelligence (Frank Hung. Letters. 8 August) clearly can- not be explained entirely by reference to......

Lord Poole's Leaky Theory

Sir: 'A general election is a far more ac- curate public opinion poll than any public opinion poll', says George Gale (8 August). That depends on what one is polling. As regards......

More Gas And Gaiters

Sir: In his article 'More gas and gaiters' (15 August) Mr Peter Paterson, explaining the filling of episcopal vacancies, writes of 'Filling vacancies for suffragan (assistant)......