30 MARCH 1996, page 24

Letters Check Your Facts

Sir: Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, states in your paper (Letters, 16 March) that 'one of the things trainee reporters tend to learn in their first week in journalism......

Iron Curtain Melt-down

Sir: There is a much closer precedent for Churchill's use of the phrase 'the iron cur- tain' at Fulton in March 1946 than its appearance in a book by the Russian writer Vasilii......

Check Your Privilege

Sir: Once again, I fear Robert Maxwell's biographer has been a trifle economical with the actualite. Joe Haines asserts (Let- ters, 16 March) that the Allason v. Haines libel......