23 JUNE 1961, page 16

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Sta,—Mr. Bryan Magee complains that Mr. David Cairns is guilty of a collectors' piece of journalistic dishonesty. Mr. Cairns is not; but in his com- plaint Mr. Magee is guilty......

Sta,the Nut Is Demanding That All Graduates Should Have...

teacher, training; yet the graduate who applies to do a Dip. Ed. faces a series of obstructions. It is difficult, for example, to get a grant free of parental means test : one......

Blind Goddess Sta,—your Correspondent Mr. J. A. G. Smith...

dently believes that an act which is not criminal is necessarily 'perfectly lawful.' He is wrong. This falsifies two of his three propositions and destroys the paradox he......

Look—this Is You

STR,—Two years ago I was teaching in a well-known boys' public boarding school. After negotiations. the school's accountant reached an agreement with the local inspector of......

Sir,—the Really Frightening Thing About This Corre-...

so many teachers think their status depends upon their salary. Is the trouble that most of them come from working-class homes and cannot think profession- ally? What a bleak......

Sir,—it Is A Typical Tactic Of All Propaganda That Seeks

to misrepresent the facts, to quote selectively and out of context; also to give, by use of a juxta- position which I can only describe as lacking in scholarly integrity, the......

The Other Exodus - Sir,—life Is Too Short To Deal

with deliberate mis- apprehension. Mr. Childers will therefore have to forgive me if I do not take up his 'interpretations' of what I have said and written. It is, after all, on......

Sta.—the Implications Of Mr. Childers's Article Are...

people, I have always thought that the Jews, having been so badly treated by the rest of us, ought to be allowed a fair latitude in making themselves safe from us. But this goes......

American Usage

SIR,—In a recent review of my book, The Anatomy of Glory, adapted from the French of Henri Lachouque, your reviewer, Mr. Cyril Ray, writes: Mrs. Brown translates with more......

Opus Dei

SIR,—Mr. Suarez's statement that the recent dis- turbance in the Faculty of Economics of Madrid University was due to a dispute with the Opus Dei is false. It was an entirely......

Mysterious Sin

SIR,—Anatole France once suggested that the mysterious sin against the Holy Ghost might be bad taste. Mr. Donnelly's references to the Royal Family in his article in the......