25 FEBRUARY 1955, page 20

Sir,—is Not Lord Hailsham Mistaken In Writing Of The 'crazy

defiance' of the Athenians at Marathon? The battle was a bold, well-found, justifiable and eminently successful military operation. Thermopyke would surely have provided a......

Out Cold

S1R,—Poor little Xanny Boy seems to have been frolicking with the pixies in the Cornish moonlight, and become a little pixilated. Give him the choicest Cornish pasty money can......

Little Sister

SIR,—Time magazine quotes you (Time, January 31) on scientific humanists 'assuming there arc any,' etc. You speak of the 'barren- ness' of their beliefs. I thought Englishmen......

Judicial Barbarism

SIR,—As one who has for some time opposed capital punishment on religious as well as practical grounds, I was interested to read your articles, 'Judicial Barbarism' and......

Sir,—most Of Those Who Argue About This Question Seem To

be unacquainted with murderers, and even less acquainted with the actual experience of guilt and penitence. Even Attorneys-General presumably have been on the side of the Crown,......

Undergraduate Politics

SIR,—I hope you will allow me, as one who has a shrewd idea of how much Mr. Driver really knows of the working of Oxford political clubs, to interrupt the entertaining Christ......

Abstract Art

SIR,-1 really cannot allow Mr. Glynne-Mill• to portray me in an attitude I have never struck. It is true that on this occasion we have been talking about abstract art, but......

Anchors Away

SIR,—I feel that the Navy suffered unduly in the leading article on Defence in last week's Spectator. It was stated that the Navy, 'in its offensive capacity, will be little......