28 OCTOBER 1989, page 26

Modest Understatement

Sir: As a devout admirer and follower of Giles Auty's views, may I venture to query his subscription to the hoary old cliché, `the modest and good-humoured under- statement......

Crete

Sir: It is odd, surely — or rum, as many of your contributors might perhaps admit — for a general to sit down to breakfast (Patrick Leigh Fermor's review concerning the Battle......

Field Days

Sir: As a supplement to the fine article by Alexandra Artley on the Foundling Hos- pital (21 October), it may be appropriate to recall the valiant and finally successful......

Letters Claud And I

Sir: In your issue of 14 October (Proven connection'), I learn that I am the sole witness, so far established, of that missing link, consistently denied by Sir Roger Hollis,......