28 FEBRUARY 1976, page 18

Rhodesia

Sir: The letter from Mr Leonard W. Newman of St Albans, Herts, in your publication of January 31, 1976, is such a travesty of the facts that its content, in all fairness, can......

Defence Expenditure

Sir: The Russians would love Mrs Thatcher to be Prime Minister. They know that she would attempt to keep up with them in defence spending. That would make us bankrupt. Then our......

Premiers And Prestige

Sir: It was most interesting to hear Mr Wilson's praise of Mr Heath's efforts to undermine the leadership of his own party in an otherwise dreary interview on BBC Radio 4 last......

Eil

Sir: I refer to Nicholas Davenport's article on EIL (February 7). It sounds to my untutored eye like a way to fill the deflationary gap by reducing savings, rather than the......

Esperanto

Sir: Mr Albert Goodheir's letter about Esperanto was admirably logical and objective. The pupils who were taught Esperanto in the experimental scheme suggested by Mr Goodheir......

Pay Up Sir: May I Have The Courtesy Of Your

columns to throw half a brick at the Inland Revenue ? This department, prompt to pounce on others' debts, is capable of dawdling when it comes to its own. On December 11 last,......

Work Of Art

tries to make silk from a sow's ear. In any case the double layer of bricks, humorously described as art, is a copy- 1 happen to have the original, which I bought some years ago......