28 FEBRUARY 1987, page 28

Illuminating Ray

Sir: My face went redder than any poppy as I read the very properly censorious correc- tion (Letters, 21 February) by Mr Cyril Ray (whose name was for some reason not one of the......

Letters Zulus And Non-zulus

Sir: I refer to the article by Richard West entitled `At war with the twentieth century' (17 January). It was a human-interest story about the nature of Afrikanerdom and perhaps......

Lectured In Moscow

Sir: Your Portrait of the Week (21 Febru - ary) is in one respect badly drawn. In Moscow the other day we were none of us lectured by Soviet 'cultural workers'. I had the boring......

Bryan Gould

Sir: Bryan Gould was not offered the presentership of Weekend World (Profile , 21 February). He was asked if he would like to be a candidate. He would obviously have been an......

Coward's Contribution

Sir: Frank Johnson (`Domingo — free for some', 24 January; Letters 14 and 21 February) reminded me, less reverently, of Noel Coward's contribution to opera crit- icism: We must......

Pilger Mill

Sir: Making steel tubes in a Pilger mill is, as David Clarke suggests (Letters, 7 Febru - ary), a noisy and violent business, but he is adrift in presuming that the mill is......

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