31 DECEMBER 1943, page 13

Eugenics

SIR,—Will you forgive an admirer from expressing his feeling that your notes on Eugenics in The Spectator of December 17th have not quite the classical approach to knowledge......

Health And Soil Fertility

SIR,—The problems of physical and chemical changes in the soil are being solved with rapidity and certainty. Biological activities in the soil are another matter. The formation,......

A World Lesson

SIR,—In discussing the queition of the colour bar, a few comments on the status of the Maoris in New Zealand may be helpful in attempting to arrive at a reaonable solution to......

Sir,—are Not Sir Henry Slesser's Fears Unfounded Or, To Be

more precise, founded upon a loose interpretation of that sentence of the Atlantic Charter you quote ? "The right of all peoples to choose the form of .government under which......

" Equality And Hierarchy"

SIR,— I'm not sure if I was quite awake, Or whether I'll win your credence, But once in a' tangled forest brake Methought I heard the ends of a snake Debating about precedence.......

A Social Security Scheme

SIR, —With reference to your issue of December 24th and the paragraph headed " Social Security—another scheme," I think your summary of the scheme is slightly misleading. You......

A Free General Election

Sra,—Your plea for a free general election as soon as the occasion requires suggests the question, Why not free by-elections? Hitherto by-elections have, as a rule, been in all......