27 DECEMBER 1946, page 16

Country Life

THERE are some who regard Christmas (not in the Washington Irving vein —and how good, though sentimental, his. Bracebridge Hall remains) as a time of expensiye charity or a......

Military Courts

• SIR,—Now that conscription is, or will soon be, the law in Great Britain, is it not an opportune time to abolish the totalitarian court martial, and' in its place set up......

Franco Spain And Italy

SIR,—I was surprised at the lack of logic in your note at the foot of " Spanish Exile's" letter in your issue of December 13th. There is surely no comparison between Franco......

" Jews And The Modern World "

SIR, —In my review of Dr. Parkes' book in The Spectator of December zoth I said that the Jewish population of Eastern Europe had been reduced from about 5,000,000 to about......

Leprosy And Bad Fish .

Sur,—In connection with the review in a recent issue of the life of Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson by Sir, H. H. Basliford, I think some of your readers will be interested to knoW.of......