30 NOVEMBER 1962, page 12

Male Or Female Sir,—although The Bbc Commentator Referred...

to 'Leslie Adrian, whose sex has never been disclosed,' no doubt the majority of your readers have now confirmed their suspicion that Leslie Adrian is a woman and not a......

Sir,—i Am Very Far From Wishing To Bite Mr. Waugh's

head off simply because his article on the Vatican Council irritated me. For one thing. he said a lot of good sense; for another, he expressed him- self in such a sincere and......

Death Railway

SIR,—It is not generally known that in Northern Ireland today a number of survivors of tb, e o n notorious Japanese 'death railway,' whose h ea l was undermined by their......

Diplomatic Errors

SIR,—For all I know, M. Olivier Wormser, who is indeed 'one of the chief representatives in Brussels of Gaullist diplomacy,' may very well have been violently opposed to the......

Sus,—china's Attack On India, A Peaceful Democracy And A...

of the Commonwealth, a countr3, en- gaged in a determined struggle to make a better life for its millions of citizens through freedom and in- dependence, is a challenge to all......

Children's Books

Sia,—Reviewing children's books is—or should be —a rather specialised job. Even the selection of those to be reviewed calls for a wide knowledge of what is and has been written......

Sir,—i Was Once In China In A Bad Famine Year

and say on occasion what is perhaps the ultimate degrad - ation a man can 'come to. Henry Fairlie reminds Me of the experience as 1 read his prognostications Mad e in advance of......