28 NOVEMBER 1970, page 19

Missed Worlds

Sir: A recent rry 'News at Ten' interview (9 November) of the (white) 'Miss South Africa' and the (coloured) 'Miss Africa South' —although there is no such country —not only......

The British At The Beginning

Sir: I read Tom Driberg's article on Vietnam in 1945 (14 Novem- ber) with great interest. This is certainly a corner of history which needs illuminating. I am not sure he has......

Peel Appeal

Sir: It was with interest that I read the correspondence from Simon P rescott-Hughes (Letters, 21 N ovember). for I myself have undertaken research into the tradi- tional......

Declining Readers

Sir: If your correspondent from Bishop's Stortford has not read an English or American novel for many years, the fault is his: and his attitude must contribute to any decline in......

Footlit Frost

Sir. The gulf between the accom- plishments of Rubin and Frost is wider than Tony Palmer thinks (14 November). At Cambridge Frost spent a great deal of time at the Footlights......

The Right To Strike

Sir: In the 14 November issue of the SPTCTATOR you assert what you appear to consider an absolute right to strike. I suggest that no man or group of men has or should have an......

Bfi Films

Sir: It is disappointing to me as a reader of the SPECTATOR that prob- lems at the Institute (21 November) are dealt with in such little depth. One would have expected David......