23 DECEMBER 1949, page 17

The Post Master-generalship

Sia.—Now that we are on the threshold of a general election, would this not be a possible moment for the political parties in the national interest to agree, through the usual......

A Pension Paradox

Sta.—Today I have reached the age of 65. But there is no pension for me, because I have not been paying contributions for ten years. More- over, I find that because I have no......

The Future Of Jerusalem

SIR. —In commenting on the task assigned to the Trusteeship Council to make of Jerusalem an international enclave, you state that " in drafting a statute for the area it will......

Teachers' Salaries •

Sm.—It is a thousand pities that " A Rector Who Has Done Full - limo Teaching " should, hpwever unintentionally, obscure an important issue. Let us concede at once that the......

Poets And Theologians

SIR.—Canon Lloyd's stimulating and provocative article in the Spectator of December 2nd invites one or two comments. The trouble about so much writing on this subject is that......

The Purpose Of A University

SIR.—Do not the opening sentences of the article by Mr. W. R. Moss, No Jobs for the Boys, in the Spectator of December 2nd: "To gel a degree. To the undergraduate that is the......