24 SEPTEMBER 1965, page 14

Sir,—will Mrs. Knapp Perhaps Tell Us In What The...

atrocity' of Waterloo consisted? MICHAEL F. CTJLL1S 24 Quai du 4 Septembre, Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris......

Mods, Modes, And Models

sympathise with Mary Holland in her ful- some description of what I termed the mindless new aristocracy of models and photographers. One must remember that apart from rebuking......

Mental Health

SIR.—May I answer Alan Brien's speculation on the statement that 'one in five families has to cope with mental illness'? This statistic is based on the calculation by the......

The War In The Commonwealth

SIR,—I1 is rather depressing that someone as eminent as A. L. Rowse should take so naive a view of the India-Pakistan situation. Surely he does not really believe in the......

The Sex War

S1R,—When I first saw the advertisement for Nova that dreW such an inept parallel between the war in Vietnam and the sex-war in London, 1, like Ran- dolph Churchill, disliked......

Sir,—how That Grand Exponent And Lover Of The English...

Sir Winston Churchill, would have flinched at the use of the word 'frivial.' Surely, Mr. Randolph Churchill should have, at least, limited its acceptance by placing it in......

The Vso

SIR,—I was delighted to read Mr. Edinger's Idler. and not a little reassured. The VSO boys paddle their own canoes! The bulldog breed is with us yet! Excellent. So, of course,......

Letters To The Editor

From : Quint in Hogg, QC, MP, Mrs. M. Biswas, Claire Rayner, Lilian Knapp, David A. Wilson, Michael F. Cullis, Bennie Gray, Charles Chenevix Trench, Joyce Emerson, Donald Reid,......

Sir,—reading The Suggestion ('male-contrived,' Sep-...

take over a large measure of control prompted me to look up an appropriate bit of verse from The Young British Soldier': When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And......