26 JANUARY 1940, page 19

Motorists And Pedestrians

Sta,—Your paragraph concerning the " Record Road Carnage " ends with a recommendation that the carnage should be miti- gated by compelling pedestrians to carry torches in the......

A Plea For Youth

Snt,—May I, as a young man who will become liable for military service in the course of the year, express my apprecia- tion of Mr. R. A. Lawrie's letter in your issue of January......

France's War Aims

Sgt,—I note with much interest an article by a French diplomat on France's war aims in the January tzth issue of The Spectator, for it contains news of an extraordinary......

A Register Of Linguists

Sgt,—May I ask the hospitality of your columns to make an appeal to British subjects who have a knowledge of certain of the lesser-known foreign languages, and who are willing......

Sir, Without Asking Mr. Curry For A " Detailed Plan

for the reconstitution of the world," I should have liked to see, in so vehement an advocate of Federal Union, the capacity to explain the commonplaces of international living.......

Federal Union

Sm,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, in his article of January rzth, certainly gave Federal Unionists very useful and searching questions. The great disappointment of the League of Nations......