26 JANUARY 1962, page 11

Sir,-1 Was Fascinated By Cyril Ray's Revelation About...

Ruthrauff and Ryan Ltd 's offer of colour photographs of new potatoes for your June number. They have been bombarding me with information about potatoes as well as recipes and......

Slr. —'the Reader Will Be Enchanted By The Mention Of The

"Blonde Devil." a girl section-leader who terrorised the Arabs of upper Galilee.' What sort of people does Mr. Edgar O'Ballance imagine as readers of the Spectator? Nazis?......

Sta,—i Have Too Great A Respect For Mr. Darsie Gillie

lightly to contradict him; the questions he raises are too important to be answered with verbal sleight-of-hand. The court which will try the French- men (who are to have French......

Sir,—i Feel Appalled It I Set A Precedent At The

Oxford Union that forty years on has had the shocking con- sequences that Mr. Hollis describes. Till last week I believed my sole contribution to the history of that body was to......

Six,—as A Drinking Driver, It Has Occurred To Me That,

if there was no closing time, as on the Con- tinent, there would be fewer accidents caused by 'ono for the road.' Further along this line of thought, why should I stop feeling......

One For The Morgue

SLR, —Your footnote to the correspondence 'One for the Morgue' (Spectator, January 5) contains five ex- cellent examples of 'double-think' in seven lines. (1) Is it contended......

Sir,-1 Have To Thank Mr. Mark Mortimer For Making About

the classical education the point I refrained from making explicitly in my own letter: that it explains the persistent power (even in intellectual organs of the Left) of the......

Match Game

Snt.—I saw the much-discussed film L'A tat& derniere a Marienbad the other day (a whole lot of twaddle, if you ask me) and am now going slowly mad. May I appeal to your readers......