22 SEPTEMBER 1979, page 18

Open Door Policy

Sir: I am surprised that Russia has not taken advantage of the strange moral position over Vietnam taken by the Western governments arid 'their odd interpretation of the......

The Counties

Sir: Warmest thanks to the Spectator and to Christopher Booker for the article on 'Restoration of the old counties'. In a world so full of menacing insecurity and unreasoned......

Prison Overcrowding

Sir: What a strange world we live in when Simon Courtauld can claim (Notebook, 11 August) that much of the blame for the overcrowding in our prisons lies with magistrates. It is......

Shows At The Ra

Sir: I am genuinely sorry that Mr McEwen found the 'documentary gruel' of our Ironbridge Exhibition not to his taste. He must however be sadly ignorant of exhibition finances if......

Another View Of Borges

Sir: Like Francis King (15 September) I was introduced to Jorge Luis Borges by a woman (I have always thought it does credit to a man to be liked by women). But Mr King's......