30 DECEMBER 1978, page 27

Censorship

Sir: Patrick Marnham 's ill-researched article under the satirical title 'In defence of porn' (18 November) needs correction of substance and severe refutation. What, Pray, does......

Flemish Hamilton

Sir: Mr Alastair Forbes, in your issue of 9 December writes, 'How shameful that the estimable Founder and Chairman of Hamish Hamilton Ltd was not offered a knighthood long ago'......

Polish Storm

Sir: May I congratulate Marjorie Wallace (Countess Skarbek in private life) on her well-balanced — if slightly inaccurate — article 'Storm in a Polish tea-cup' (9 December). The......

Geoffrey Mcdermott, Cmg

The Spectator records with regret the death of Mr Geoffrey McDermott, who in recent years, since his retirement from the Foreign Service (he was latterly HM Minister in Berlin),......