22 FEBRUARY 1975, page 4

Market Debate

Sir: 'Me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much!' Mr Ernest Wistrich of the European Movement pleads poverty (February 15) as his funds shrink to less than £200,000. Yet not......

Voluntary Euthanasia

Sir: Beverley Nichols (February 8) puts the case for voluntary euthanasia clearly and cogently. It is nothing short of scandalous that 18 per cent of suicides today are......

Sir: Mr Beverley Nichols's Article In Your February 8 Issue

compels the utmost sympathy from everybody; but the true remedy for the state of things that he describes is not euthanasia, with its hypocritical paraphernalia of formfilling......

Sir: Beverley Nichols's Account Of His Terrible Suffering...

was both moving and very frightening. And speaking as one who knew him both as reporter and colleague in his healthy, gardening days, I felt his suffering even more keenly.......

Sir; Mr Beverley Nichols's Article 'my Right To Die'...

February 8) is sincere and painful enough but that it "may help, in however small a measure, to bring comfort to many" is doubtful. Indeed it may frighten some people to death.......

Sir: Is Mr Beverley Nichols Telling Us (spectator,...

that he regrets being stiLl alive as a result of not having readily to hand a self-administrable euthanasia pack which he thinks should be as readily available as a first-aid......

Thugs And Unions

From Professor Antony Flew Sir: In the last fortnight there has been a lot of publicity about attacks by thugs on London busmen. Mr Jack Jones, in particular, has been reported......

Employment Agencies

Sir: It is perhaps a sign of the times that The Spectator, previously a lukewarm defender of the free-market, should launch an attack upon one of the few institutions now......

From Mrs S. Burns Sir Your Comment On Employment Agencies

and the replies drawn from Messrs Cropper and Marks cannot be dismissed as trivia when one considers the size of the situation and that it has made one or two of these......

Withdrawal From Ulster

Sir: Happening upon the address of an organisation which works to further the idea of military withdrawal from Northern Ireland, I have drawn their attention to the, to me,......