30 MAY 1958, page 29

Sia,—i Hold No Brief For Lord Chief Justices, But Mr.

Greene must have met some pretty odd ones if he thinks Jeffreys the best of them. He over- rode the law whenever his passions and prejudices were roused, bullied juries, raved......

A. E. Housman Sta, : —there Is A Reference To My Comments

on A. E. Housman (Post-Victorian Poetry, page 40) in recent Spectator issues. The fact is, as I•have written, that HOusman's metrical basis was syllabic and not in any way......

Sir,—mr. Randolph Churchill Has Written A Stirring...

lack of truth in popular journalism. It is a pity that last week in his report from Algiers to the Beaverbrook press he should have suggested that General Salan was held......

Division Bell

&Il i —You will certainly upset one of your readers • if yoU allow Taper to potter out of his warm office and on to a wider, (albeit thermostatically heated!) stage as suggested......

Sir,—mr. Eller, In His Recent Critical Article On The Late

President Dr. Belies, wrote that the controversies ranging round this figure had now passed into the realm of history, but one might 'have wished that he himself would have......

The Failure Of President Benes

SIR,—In your issue of May 16 Mr. Eller entitles his article 'The Failure of President Benes.' It is, surely, singularly unfair to place upon the shoulders of this distinguished......

Advertising' Tax

SIR,—We in the advertising business arc all very much aware of the revival by the Labour Party of the old-idea of the tax on advertising, which Pharos mentions in your issue of......

The Princess And The Archbishop

Randolph Churchill once more repeats, as the truth,' that when Princess Margaret saw the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace on October 27, 1955, Dr. Fisher 'had all his......