28 JULY 1990, page 22

Prejudice

Sir: If Mr Brittan can produce a single scrap of evidence to support his view that Poles were responsible for 'wartime mas- sacres' (Three cheers for monetary union', 21 July),......

Hearst's Man In Havana

Sir: I am afraid that Noel Malcolm gets the country and the exchange wrong in the first paragraph of his article last week about Nicholas Ridley (Politics, 21 July). What......

Sir: Although It Has Not Been Mentioned In Your Columns,

it must be worrying to some of the more historically minded of the older generation that Prussia, which forms such a large part of the DDR, is now back in the German fold. These......

Sermon On Mount

Sir: Having on several occasions looked down on Mr Ferdinand Mount, rubicund and giving evidence of moderate rational- ity, I am taken aback to read in his review of my book......

Dinner-time

Sir: Geoffrey Wheatcroft is right (Diary. 14 July) in noticing that young profession- als in Lpndon are eating later in the evening, but he omits to point out that the reason......

Polish Joke

Sir: I learn that Gazeta Wyborcza (a Polish daily founded in May 1989) is unable to write in objective terms about Lech Walesa (When old friends fall out', 30 June). Supposedly......

Macmillan Fever

Sir: I am a total devotee of the admirable and engaging Lord Hailsham — and not least for his appreciation of Jack Russells. But he is deluding himself and history if he (rather......