29 OCTOBER 1954, page 14

Sir,—i Write In All Humility, As A Freshman Who, Having

made his maiden speech, realises how bad it was. But, humble or not, I feel that Mr. D. J. Hurst's letter in last week's Spectator must not be allowed to go un- answered. The......

Patronage At Euston Was On The 11.45 To Manchester On

October 20. Arriving late, I noticed that the remaining corner seats had labels on them, though the seats were not filled. Coming back the next evening, I and another person......

Str,—with Reference To The Paragraph Under This Head...

in your issue of October 22 full enquiry has been made into this matter. I am satisfied that there was no irregularity whatever in the allocation of scats on the 11.45 a.m. from......

Conquest By Man Sir,—in Reviewing My Translation Of Paul...

Conquest by Man in the Spectator of Octdber 22, your reviewer, Glyn Daniel, criticises the author's style and then adds in parenthesis, ' unless he is totally misrepresen• ted......

The Oxford Union Sm.—mr. Hurst May Be Surprised To Learn

that I am in general agreement with what he wrote in last week's Spectator. However flippant and cynical we may appear, we are— some of us—naive enough to believe that the Union......

Two Years Of Mau Mau Sir.—your Note Of October 22

under the above heading has touched an anxiety that many people feel. One wonders whether the present policy in Kenya deals with symptorn' only or does it get right down to the......

Thought Gaiety Had Vanished From The . Realm Of Political...

I am heartened; although I must confess that until I reached the word ' feudalism' in Henry Fairlie's article on ' True Conservatism' I was on the wrong track. Perhaps if one......