30 APRIL 1983, page 18

Letters

French lessons Sir: Richard West's article 'Stalin's France' (16 April) mentions that millions in France welcomed the explosion of Russia's first atomic bomb in 1948. Apart from......

Henry V And Vi

Sir: Accusing the Oxford editor of Henry V of 'an elementary howler' in applying to Henry V the Prologue of Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, A. L. Rowse commits a slightly......

Sir: Mr West Should Learn About The Economic History Of

France before pon- tificating about it (23 April). It is standing the truth on its head to say, as Richard West does, that France's economic expan- sion came because de Gaulle......

Crooks And The Law

Sir: The abysmal Taki really should stick to gossip, or else be put out to grass. The only pleasing thing about his article on the Rothschild case in Corfu (23 April) is that......

Who He?

Sir: P.J. Kavanagh asks 'Who was H.J. Massingham?' (Postscript, 23 April). He was a prolific author of the first half of this century, and son of H.W. Massingham, the great......

Bottom Lines

Sir: Your editorial about my poem ( 16 April) magnanimously professes to feel 'sorry for Mrs Raine and Miss Raine, and all the Raine family'. I should have thought that anyone......

Correction

It was stated last week in Paul Johnson's column that Christopher Ward, former editor of the Daily Express, was going back to work for the Daily Mirror. We have since learnt......