23 JANUARY 1971, page 25

No Philistine He

Sir: It seems to me an extraordin- ary assertion that you make in Notebook (16 January) that the Sec- retary of State for the Environment has an evident need to demonstrate to......

Boys' Mags

Sir: Mr A. A. Garner post-dates the florescence of The Boys' Maga- zine, which I was already reading hungrily in the early 1920s. The brightest stars in its pages were two......

Refreshing Note

Sir: It seems odd (even if, in some ways, a good thing) that a Conser- vative government should be destroying my nationalism. I first arrived in Africa—in Egypt—in 1927 when the......

Letters To The Editor

Letters from Olga Franklin, A. E. C. Vince, Tibor Szattruely, Paul Dehn and others. Khrushchev ' s memoirs Sir: I do agree with Mr Szamuely that the Times, Life etc, were con-......

Nice Letter?

Sir: The wife who is disappointed because her husband fails to notice her smart new hat may he dis- armed by his remarking that he would soon notice it if she were not smart.......

Siberian Trip

Sir: D. A. N. Jones's sustained efforts at slandering the helpless victims of Soviet police terror have done nothing except reveal his ideological obsession and his pro- found......

Prelatical Concern

Sir: In his diverting letter (16 January), Mr J. C. Goss appears to think that my subjects for Dr Ramsey's attention are purely poli- tical ones. To me, the saddest fact in the......

Gay Liberation

Sir: I like quite a lot of what the Gay Liberation Front says and does, but what has marching against the Industrial Relations Bill to do with the emancipation of homosexuals? I......

Drug On The Market

Sir: I watched Panorama earlier this month, and listened to Dr Charles Fletcher (whose sincerity and knowledge on the subject I admire) condemning the Govern- ment for their......