23 APRIL 1942, page 12

Waste Or Warts ?

SIR,—In your issue of April 17th, page 384, your compositor makes say " . . the figure of Franklin Roosevelt= waste and all '—stan out . .." I wrote " warts and all" but perhaps......

George Moore's Si Yle

Stn,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's story of George Moore has moved me see how far George Moore avoided " that " and " which" in his o writings. In less than five minutes I found this......

Overcoats And Railways

Sta,—Is not the teply to Mr. Harold Nicolson's question the threefold one of (1) Draughts, (2) Rheumatism, and (3) Courtesy? Those who travel often on British passenger trains......

Snobbery And Titles

Siat,—I am wholly in favour of Sir Robert Greig's plea for the aboliti of titles. But there are two points in his letter which I think call comment. The first is that he does......

Sir,—i Can Testify To The Readiness Of Many Soldiers And

airmen, not to mention W.A.A.F.s, to attend and take part in discussions of an intelligent kind. I was asked by Mobile Entertainments Sussex Areas to organise a local Brains......

A War Of Faiths

SIR, —" Gunner, R A." writes: " Our present struggle is not—as Lord Vansittart would have it—one of peoples, nor, as Mr. Gollancz, of classes: it is a war of faiths." I must......

The Archbishop's Novel

SIR,—The title of the retiring Primate's novel, to which " Janus" alluded, is The Young Clanroy (not Glenroy): A RoMance of the '45 by the Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, late Fellow......

The Machinery Of Government

SIR,-" Jana " puts his finger on one of the weakest Waces in the machinery of government when he points out the influence of the head of the Civil Service on nominations for......