29 AUGUST 1925, page 12

Mr. Baldwin And The Miners

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In reply to your correspondent, Mr. Barnes-Austin, it may be asked how could the Prime Minister have " prepared for " the Mining Crisis ?......

Drink And Crime

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Recently you have published statements from American correspondents that there has been a great decrease in American crime as the result......

Germany And Argentina

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I agree with Mr. St. Loe Strachey that the inhabitants of the Argentine have " never been jealous of our settlers or of British......

Public Monuments

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Until I came to London last week I really imagined that the inhabitants of that metropolis had suddenly been endowed with an acute......