23 MAY 1992, page 27

Sir: 'very Humiliating', Evelyn Waugh Once Wrote After He...

dropped a danger in a book review, 'particularly as the point of the review was mocking' the author's own howlers and solecisms. In the course of my review of Mr Stannard's life......

Carry On Klagenfurt

Sir: Nigel Nicolson (Long life, 9 May) pro- vides a lucid critique of Macmillan's role in the handover of Cossacks, non-Soviet émi- grés and Yugoslav citizens to be slaugh-......

Audit Of Review

Sir: I have just seen Terence Keeley's review of David Edgerton's book England and the Aeroplane (Books, 11 April), and its dismissive but ignorant comments about my own book......

Sir: The Foreign Office Minister Garet- Jones Criticises...

Malcolm's criti- cism of the Maastricht Treaty, as signed, because it has been replaced by a fresh text which the FO has helped to manufacture. If a solicitor did likewise to a......

Letters Diet Of Brussels

Sir: It was very perceptive of Tristan Garel- Jones (Letters, 16 May) to conclude that my article about the Maastricht accord referred to an out-of-date text of the treaty. The......

Offence And Defence

Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft, writing about Martin Stannard's book on Evelyn Waugh, (Books, 25 April) says, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, Stannard, put a sock in it!' I was sorry to see......