2 DECEMBER 1949, page 16

Plantations, Old And New

SIR.—As the peroration of his defence of the groundnuts scheme in the House of Commons the Minister of Food quoted Francis Bacon as saying in an essay on plantations: " It is......

Post Office And Public

SIR, —As a Post Office employee with some twenty-nine years' ser%iee , may I be permitted to point out that the critics of Post Office effideney whose letters have appeared in......

The Next Stage In Greece

SIR,— Whatever opinion one may hold about the acts of the Metaxas dictatorship. Mr. Athanassoglou's attempt to belktle Metaxas's role as the leader of the national resistance to......

Farming In North Wales

Si .—The last chapter of Snowdonia, the volume so eloquently reviewed in the Spectator of November 18th by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis, is beaded: Can Rural Wales Survive ? " It......