22 MAY 1971, page 26

Out Of Cricket

Sir: At the end of his interesting Personal Column, 'Running out of Cricket' (8 May) Benny Green, in discussing the ills of cricket and county cricket, says 'As Bowen observes .......

Sir: I Wish I Could Take Issue With Benny Green's

findings in his Per- sonal Column (8 May), but cricket lovers will hardly-be able to avoid his sad conclusion that the writing really appears to be upon the wall. I think,......

Masturbation

Sir: Wi.th reference to your leader on this subject (24 April) I should like to add that the public-spirited makers of the famous sex educa- tion film are clearly addressing......

Lenin And Absolutes

Sir: Stella FitzThomas Hagan's letter on (Leninist) absolutism (1 May) was well worth reading. Against Leninism—very good: against absolutism—well, I wonder. There is one......

Letters To The Editor

Letters from Mrs Winifred M. Ewing, John Bright-Holmes, Pro- fessor Stanislav Andreski, Hugh Berrington, Gerald Sparrow and others. Nationalists Sir: Hugh MacPherson sees the......

Conservative Pacifism

Sir: 'If one reads the old news- papers and periodicals of that time. which did so much to keep mili- tarism alive, one finds very little about glory and adventure and a......