29 DECEMBER 1961, page 10

Publishers' Costs

SIR,—Considerable wage increases have recently works in the British Isles. This, in conjunction with been granted to employees at printing and binding other increases that have......

Sir,—bamber Gascoigne, In The Course Of Advocat- Log...

that MRA should get its facts right, makes the remarkable statement (p. 849), apropos the Middle Ages: 'it was a period when all art, with the exception of architecture, was at......

Sir,—mr. Charles Pannell, In His Article 'outside The...

your issue of December 15 (p. 891), writes that Mr. R. A. Butler, speaking in the House of Commons on June 15 this year, . . . acknowledged in the same speech that if "the facts......

Outside The Walls

S12,—Mr. Charles Pannell's admirable article in the Spectator advocating a new Bill, to be called 'The Burial of Offenders Act,' should be read by all. He refers specifically to......

Travellers' Cheques

SIR,—Cannot something be done about the racket which foreign banks, bureaux de change and hotels are apparently free to operate in the matter of exchange rates? During the past......

Sir,—a Deluge Of Outraged Mra Letters Was ,a Pre- Dictable

reaction to my article; and it was equally predictable that many of them would accuse me of living a life of vice. But it is disappointing that none of them challenge any of my......

`unworthy Allegations'

Sus, -I wish to endorse the views expressed in Francis Noel-Baker's recent article on the inade- quacy of the British motor industry's export efforts. Within the last year, I......

Sir,—may I Refer Your Correspondent Elaine Windrich To...

famous letter to the New Statesman of October 14, 1939, in which he said : The intelligentsia of the Left were the loudest in demanding that Nazi aggression should be resisted......

The Mind Of Mra

SER,—Among readers highly delighted by Mr. Bamber Gascoignc's incisive exposure of 'The Mind of MRA' (December 8) surely some must have been distressed, as I was, to see the......

Displaced Persons

tation of Displaced Persons, has already raised and spent approximately £500,000 in housing the tragic SIR,—'Lifeline,' the Association for the Rehabili - aftermath of the slave......

French Canada

SIR,—I have always admired Miriam Chapin's most perceptive writings on French Canada and I doubt that there are many contemporary observers who share her knowledge of these......