27 FEBRUARY 1971, page 24

Post Office Economy

Sir: The protracted strike by the postal workers is largely the result of the present rationalisation stud- ies being made by the board of the Post Office Corporation. The loss......

The Right Of Reply

Sir: Interesting that the unamiable Mr Amis rushes to admit that he has published statements intended to be damaging in your pages and since it is me alone, that he is cry- ing......

Waugh Wounds

Sir: Whether as the result of a printers' imp, or through some Sporting attempt at improvement on your own part, eight mutilations of the text made my review of Nabokov's Mary......

Eec

Sir: Hugh Macpherson (20 Feb- ruary) tells us that the British must not vote in a referendum on EEC entry, because this might set a pre- cedent for rule by referendum, so......

Chomsky's 'proofs '

Sir : Shirley Letwin (13 February) believes Chomsky has proved no- thing 'because no scientific theory offers "proof" '. This is a misunder- standing of the nature of science.......

Quite A Packet

Sir : I am not a traditionalist, nor am I taking sides, but in view of our current blockade I felt you and your readers might care to know that, whilst recently sifting through......

Staunch Reader

Sir : My subscription to your jour- nal coincided precisely with your own arrival and I therefore have no basis upon which to judge the good or harm you may have caused the......

Sir: I Like To See The Spectator Set Out Its

views on the present Common Market application so forthrightly and unambiguously. I only hope your opposition does not become so much of an obsession as did Biafra during the......

Unclear Skinflint

Sir: In the absence of your usual weekly competition (suspended. I hope, because of the postal strike rather than killed off) I am pre- pared to offer a sporting guinea (£1.05)......

Letters To The Editor

Letters from Professor Charles Wilson, Geoffrey Sampson, Peter Paterson, Auberon Waugh, T. Francis Glasson, D. B. Taylor and others. Too many Town Halls Sir: You are right to......