28 APRIL 1967, page 31

Mr. Callaghan's Anti-budget

Sir: Man Watkins's passing reference (14 April) to the recent agriculture price review as 'ludi- crously lavish' would suggest that he has little knowledge of the vital role......

London's Bastilles

Sir: It's a deceptively simple and beguiling idea that there is nothing wrong with our prison system that criminals themselves can't cure through de- sisting from crime (Mr......

Varicose Veins

Sir: in your issue of 14 April (p. 421) John Rowan Wilson commented on the surgery appropriate to varicose veins, explaining that the cause was to be found in the giving of......

Out Of Fashion

Sir I am grateful to Elizabeth Jennings for trying to do as much justice as she can to Charles Morgan (SPECTATOR. 7 April) and not to fall into hurried. prejudiced judgments.......

Educating Hurricane Emma

Sir: Auberon Waugh. in his very lively article about education, seemed to me to miss the main point for private education—that its content as well as its form is independent of......

Sir: Randolph Churchill Never Disappoints. In Vir- Tually...

he writes there is always at least one sentence or paragraph of supreme irrespon- sibility or carelessness. He begins his review (21 April) of William Manchester's Kennedy book......

Shivs, Kazzana And Code 4

LETTERS From Kennedy Wells, Donald S. Connery, Asher Winegarten, Michael Ivens, Giles Play- fair, Hama ton Crag, Claude Pugh, F. E. Wilkins, Catherine Cowell, I. F. Freeman.......