25 OCTOBER 1946, page 16

First-class Travel

SIR, —The publicity of your columns may help to discover, what the General Manager of the Southern Railway declines to tell me—namely, what the railways require their train and......

Privilege In The Army

should like to express my sincere agreement with Mr. Richard Rumbold when he explained in his letter the difficulty encountered by a private soldier in putting forward a......

Sir,—i Did Not Say That Working-class Members Were Given No

encourage- ment to speak at Blackpool ; what I said was that they were given no encouragement to stand for Parliament in the Tory interest. Hence . the Conseivative Party is......

Communism And Nazism •

SIR,—The second of Mr. Alan Bullock's articles on Communism contains barely half-a-dozen sentences that are not as aptly - descriptive of Nazism. If Mr. Bullock is an "......

The Poet At The Eoor

Sus,—If Mr. Patric Dickinson proclaims from your columns that Humbm Wolfe's poetry was an appetising and temporarily fashionable draught whose mere effervescence it only needed......

Sir, —from•where Does Mr. Dickinson Get His Quotation: "...

not ideas, poetry is made "? The saying is, of course, French, made b9 a poet to a painter-poet who 'complained that, though he was full of ideas, he could not write a line. I......

Naturalisation Of Aliens

SIR, -It is to be observed from Home Office announcements in the daily Press that large numbers of persons are likely to be naturalised in the near future, mostly emanating from......