30 OCTOBER 1959, page 27

The Scientists And The Bomb Sir—the Most Fitting Person To

reply to Rudolf Peierls's article in your issue of October 16 would ba Dr. Fumio Shigeto, Director of the Hiroshima A-Bombs Victim Hospital, with whom I had an inter view when......

Refused Rail

SIR,—I must draw your attention to an inaccuracy in your number dated October 16. This is on page 506 under the heading 'A Spectator's Notebook.' Pharos there refers to the case......

Telling The Patient

SIR,-11 Mr. Dickson Wright subscribes to 'an obscurantist medical attitude which is as old as the witch-doctor.' he is in good company. for he ex- presses the view of 90 per......

Crime On The Roads Sig,--in Her Valuable Article On 'crime

on the Roads' in your issue for October 9, 1959. Lady Wootton draws attention to the inadequate use of one of, the most effective deterrents, disqualification. A possible solu-......

Sig. –even For An Age Of Double-think. Mr. T. Crowe's

cold-blooded casuistry is excessively smooth. Inevitably, one thinks of Mr. Truman's letter to the city of Hiroshima about eightecu months ago, in which he said that his order......

Nuclear Disarmament At Oxford

SIR.—The Campaign in Oxford University for Nuclear Disarmament has just been fined £10 by the 'Proctors.' It is unable to appeal, since the 'Proctors' are the only judicial body......

Hypocrisy?

SIR,—A paragraph by John Gordon in the Sunday Express on the Consett boy who hanged himself on remand begins: 'Aren't we a rather hypocritical lot?' 1 wonder if others than......