2 SEPTEMBER 1960, page 12

South Africa

SIR,—Mr. Randolph Vigne, in his letter of August 26, implies that multi-racialisn. as visualised •by the Progressive Party of South Africa would be used as 'a cover for......

Art And Eros

SIR, - I think many would agree that the touches of violence in such a film as Ben-Hur give the audience of that film sadistic responses which they had better be without. These......

Israel

SIR,—I can think of nothing to add to my previous reply to Jon Kimche's plaint about my allegedly improper review of his book. I think I have given the only answer, and if it......

Food Labels

SIR,—Leslie Adrian might take a look at some British exports, as relabelled to meet the require - ments of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act. I recall buying a package of......

Ralegh Or Essex?

SIR,—Christopher Hill contends that Sir Walter Ralegh 'is the most forward-looking of the Elizabethans' (June 24). But, as I have argued ('Essex and Liberalism,' in PQ 1945; and......

Sir,—it Was With A Wry Face That I Read In

the Spectator of August 19 the note by your contributor Custos on the prosperity of the banks. As a sep- tuagenarian pensioner I and others of my generation arc far from sharing......

Rider Haggard

SIR,—It seems to me that your contributor Neal Ascherson may have made a slight misstatement in his article 'He' when he asserts that Rider Haggard after his second novel The......

Brave New Underworld Sir,—the Last Soho Strip Club I Visited

announced very firmly that 'Ladies Are Not Admitted,' and I am glad to learn from Mr. Kenneth Allsop's letter that this reactionary and obscurantist sex-discrimi- nation is the......