30 MAY 1969, page 25

The Gene Drain

Sir: As against Lord Snow (Letters, 16 May), I must assert that I 'do read the current literature about biogenetics. However, I con- sider that at the present state of knowledge......

Sir: D. A. N. Jones (letters, 23 May) Says I

am unfair to the left because the last Labour party conference carried a resolution calling upon the Government to stop the sale of arms to Nigeria. He quotes John Chalmers,......

Student Stirs

Sir: It would be a pity to disturb Mr Croft's drinking, fornicating or his appalling puns (Let- ters, 23 May), but participation, whether he likes it or not, is here to stay.......

Biafra And The Left

Sir: It is irrelevant for Mr West (16 May) to deliberately drag _ Kenya into his Biafra Britain article. The remarks he makes in con- nection with loans and technical advisers......

Sweet Girl Graduates

Sir: Would that Mr Jackson's perception equalled the vigour of his rhetoric (Letters 16 May). Despite the entrancement of his shrill sarcasm, let us, if I may trespass once more......

A Lesson In Communication

Sir: Your correspondents (Letters, 16 and 23 May) have successfully, I hope, enlightened Mr Ludovic Kennedy on communication. But one of them, Canon Blair (16 May), in an other-......

Sir: Whilst Messrs Jackson And Wilde (letters, 16 And 2

May) retire to the dizzy heights of Cambridge to discuss the validity of the appli- cation of Book 6 of Plato's Republic to present-day life, may I take this opportunity to......