26 OCTOBER 1985, page 25

Letters Bourguiba And The Jews

Sir: Maybe it would be possible to add a few remarks to the excellent piece Rowlin- son Carter wrote from Tunis (`The survival of Arafat', 12 October): these relate to the......

Dizzy Precision

Sir: Your correspondent (Andrew Gim- son, 'Peter Walker starts running', 12 October) cites Mr Peter Walker referring to Disraeli as 'the son of a Jewish book- seller'! These......

Sod The Reader?

Sir: Kingsley Amis's splendid catalogue of manifestations of 'Sod the public' (19 October) is one to which we all could add. I cannot help wondering if even you, Sir, sometimes......

Disinterested

Sir: Is Christopher Booker saying that as an Observer correspondent in Moscow I served Soviet interests? In his Diary of 21 September he hid behind quotation marks. Perhaps he......

Sir: I Am Sorry To See Displayed On The Front

of the Spectator, and repeated ad nauseam inside, the three-letter word as offensive to decency as any four-letter word or as its six-letter synonym. David Cairns Applecroft,......

Selling Ulster

Sir: I hesitate to disillusion Richard In- grams (Diary, 12 October), but Churchill tried the very volte-face he suggests over Ulster in 1940. The price of handing the six......

Admirable Vodkas

Sir: I am shocked by Mr Waugh's reference to vodka — 'the dullest and most brutish way of imbibing alcohol which mankind has yet invented' (Another voice, 5 Octo- ber). As he......

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