27 MARCH 1982, page 15

Who Was Mr Carter?

Sir: Arthur Marshall's delightful review (13 February) of Home James: The Chauffeur in the Golden Age of Motoring gives us a reminder — evidently dear to his father of the......

Non-aligned

Sir:'You will please publish a retraction of and apology for Paul Johnson's baseless and damaging allegation (6 March) that I, who may be identified as the 'deputy' of Keith......

Letters

Sisterwrong Sir: It was refreshing to read Roy Kerridge's sensible and witty view of the dreary women's lib movement (13 March) but in describing the feminist bookshop `Sister-......

Digging For Jobs

Sir: Under the Smallholdings and Allot- ments Act of 1908, six registered ratepayers are entitled to demand the right to allot- ments from their councils. The costs of fen-......

A. Matter Of Judgment

Sir: If I understand him correctly, your cor- respondent (Revd) C. V. Porter (20 March) believes that God is putting the British peo- ple (at least those who are neither dark-......

Premature

Sir: Auberon Waugh's comments about `Doctor' David Owen (13 March) reminded me of a personal experience. When I was a general practitioner I sent my thesis for the degree of......

Idiosyncratically Irish

,Sir: In your Notebook of 13 March you are ( un derstandably) mistaken about Sinn Fein th e Workers Party and its support for Mr Haughey as Taoiseach. It is one of the idi......

Truth Dawns

Sir: 'Only the public remained undeniably faithful to the gradually sinking ship,' writes Michael Deakin with reference to Whicker's World (20 March). Until now I had naively......