28 MAY 1977, page 18

Too Many Diplomats?

Sir: Your editorial about our Foreign Service (Dignified or efficient?, 7 May) is stimulating, but I wonder whether you have got the priorities right? Many of our embassies are......

Doubly Wrong

Sir: Your correspondent Christopher Wordsworth (21 May) not only makes an unjustified attack on Richard Ingrams, but does so from the address of his club, which I have always......

Why The Discrimination?

Sir: Commenting on the moral hypocrisy of politicians, Mr Stanton (21 May) refers to President Carter's supposed 'impartiality' on universal 'human rights' as a modern......

Limited Period

Sir: I understand and appreciate the point Mary Renault is making (21 May), but not her complaint against me. As I made clear (Spectator, 23 April), I was reviewing 8 , book......

The Freudian Version

Sir: As becomes a traditional Rabbi, HYa la Maccoby (7 May) rejects the historica l reality that the Jews precipitated the crucifixion and, hence, the claim evangelium. His......