27 JUNE 1970, page 23

Cricket, Lovely Cricket

Sir: Your correspondent who would appear to suggest that the high infant mortality rates among the black population of South Africa are the work of the government there, might......

After It's All Over

Sir: So much for Paterson and Gale! J. Fetzdall Mostyn House, Parkgate, Cheshire......

Lost Cause

Sir: Professor Beloff in his review of The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott 1911-1928 in your issue of 13 June, writes that: 'The period covered by these diaries was probably......

A Matter Of Interest

Sir: Mary McWhirter (Letters, 20 June) in her somewhat withering indictment of my article on mortgage interest (13 June), dismisses me magisterially for my imperfect......

Singapore Revisited

Sir: Mr Burgess's statement (6 June) that 'democracy is a big joke' in Singapore ap- pears to be unwarranted and unjustifiable. Although the People's Action party rules......

Italicop Hob I A

Sir: Strix's delightful italicophil notes on halicophobia ('Spectator's notebook', 20 June), remind me of my childhood when, while writing something about the discovery of......