23 APRIL 1983, page 19

Letters

New English Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft, in yet another of those snide attacks on the use of modern English in Christian worship which keep ap- pearing in your journal, sums up......

Zuckerman's War

Sir: Lord Zuckerman's excellent article 'Nuclear storm warnings' (9 April) seems to me to contain one error. 'The Russians,' he writes, 'believe that NATO forces may one day......

Trotsky's War

Sir: I greatly enjoyed Mr Kendall's ad- mirable article on Trotsky and the Trot- skyists (16 April). I would however query one of his facts. He says that Trotsky served as a war......

Drumming Up Sales

Sir: Mr David Pryce-Jones's perceptive and limpid review (16 April) of Mr le Carre's latest thriller, The Little Drummer Girl, reads into this book too much undeserved......

Who's Odd

Sir: I can explain why I am not in Who's Who. Many years ago I did indeed follow Richard Ingrams' advice (2 April) or rather anticipated it, and embarked on Who Real- ly Is Who.......

Traveller's Tales

Sir: I wonder what point Alexander Chancellor's article on Hebron was intend- ed to make (26 March)? The Israel/Palestine problem is nearly a century old. What is needed now is......

Double-barrelled

Sir: In your issue of 26 March under the heading 'A vintage viscount' you printed a delightful piece by Alan Rusbridger about my noble neighbour here in Kent, Viscount......