28 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 16

Sir,—how Pleasant It Is To Come Across The Word `snurge'

in the review of new novels in the Spectator for September 14. It carries me back to the period from 1906 to 1909, when I was an undergraduate at Oxford. It meant `to do......

Made In Russia

Sia,—,Your comment upon the success of the Communist countries' export programme does not surprise me. Here in India, where formerly the only method of obtaining quality goods......

Deification And Clarification

. Divine, Redeemer, Thine the cause, Mother of God, the throne is yours, The Church, alas, is Evelyn Waugh's. —Yours faithfully, JOAN BROCKELSBY 10 Wolverton Gardens, Horley,......

Letters To The Editor

The Archbishop and Politics Rev. H. R. Wilson Made in Russia M. Stirling Driberg in Moscow Tom Driberg Sell-Out Christ Church Tory Blue Hares Ralph Chislert `Snurge' C. E. Stone......

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Sell-out

SIR,—`He becomes daily more like a lath of wood painted to look like iron,' says Mr. ' Donnelly of Sir Anthony Eden. Was he forewarned that a Magdalen col- league of this Prime......

Sir,—at Last, After Talk Of War, Appeasement, New...

associations and the your leading article shows what could alter the whole situation—'a closer association with Israel.' It's about time that common sense prevailed in the......

Blue Hares

SIR,—The statement by your contributor, Mr. Ian Niall, in your issue of August 10 that the blue hare 'is quite evidently a native of England as far south as Derbyshire' is......

Driberg In Moscow

SIR,—The comment by Pharos on my reported statement implying that Mr. Guy Burgess had secured the publication in Russia of Sir Harold Nicolson'i book, Diplomacy, is correct. Mr.......