2 DECEMBER 1966, page 14

Theatre In Crisis— 1

France: Change and Decay By ROBERT ABIRACHED I N any attempt to assess the position of the theatre in France today, it is important first to avoid hasty simplification and to......

Poets At War Sir,—alan Ross Should Not Have Rushed Into

print so quickly (Letters, November 25) to claim that in the 1950s 'no one ever thought otherwise than that Keith Douglas was the best poet to come out of the war,' and that......

Inflammatory Definitions Sir,—`jesuit' Is Not Alone In...

Oxford Dictionary to a racially inflammatory de- finition ('Spectator's Notebook,' November 25). Under 'American' the Dictionary records: 'Native......

Jews In Russia Sir,—a Letter Requesting A Meeting With...

Soviet parliamentarians was sent by the Universities' Committee for Soviet Jewry to the Soviet Ambassa- dor. It was hoped that this meeting would provide an opportunity for a......

Brophy And Brigid

SIR,—Morals apart, lady novelists who advocate masturbation, gentlemen novelists who support them ('not only harmless but positively desirable) and readers who read them might......