Sir: Spectator (notebook'. 6 March) Berates The New Ip As
an irritating and useless little tiddler. There speaks the man! I trust that he will not seek to propagate this view in high places. Irritating the coin may be, but useless—no.......
No Twopenny- Halfpenny Matter
Sir: The arrogantly unhelpful at- titude of the banks and retail trad- ers in asserting that the sixpence will rapidly disappear as there is `no place for it in a decimal......
Sir: It Is One Thing To Pour Scorn On The
Gospels and be negative only in criticism, but how does Pro- fessor Trevor-Roper account for the Gospels as they are? Whom does he think Paul saw and heard on the Damascus road?......
Casey On Orwell
Sir: In his review of Orwell by Raymond Williams, John Casey seems to have failed to grasp the most fundamental points of Or- well's work. Ranking him as less than a second-rate......
Sir: May 1 Sum Up? It Appears That Professor Trevor-roper
has abolished Christ and all that pal- pable rubbish as 'rationally' and as effectively as the scientists of the French revolution abolished God and all that superstition. What......
The Gospels' And The Professor
Sir: Since the end of the postal strike I have been deluged by a spate of SPECTATORS—too many to cope with. The only article I have read so far is one to which you drew......
Dolores
Sir: In face of so much adverse criticism, now added to by Miss Storm Jameson (20 March), of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett's Dolores, I feel compelled to defend this very witty......
Conservative Pacifism
Sir: I have been greatly intrigued by the advertisement on the last Page of your issue of 23 January (just received). Sixteen years ago I gave much thought and study to such a......
Strikfeldt Smear
Sir: 1 have no time for Edgar Young's rather silly defence of the Russian invasion of Czecho- slovakia, and his viewpoint is way out of step with the attitude of the democratic......
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