31 DECEMBER 1965, page 12

Arts & Amusements

Old Allegiance and New Bondage By ISABEL QUIGLY Lain - el and Hardy's Laughing Twenties, (Ritz, 'U' certificate.) — Thunderball. (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A' certificate.) A......

Boot's Route

SIR,—May I comment on some of Strix's points con- cerning Boot's route, lest wrong inferences be drawn from them? First, a path made and used by Boot alone would not be a public......

Bitter Sweet

SIR,—In your issue dated December 10, 1965, Leslie Adrian in his article headed 'Bitter Sweet' referred to the Wisconsin tests in which rats were fed on calcium cyclamate. This......

The Scrolls Controversy Sir, —you Are To Be Commended For...

the other point of view, from Mr. David Ellis, who by reason of his Hebrew scholarship is well fitted to reply to Mr. John Allegro. Mr. Ellis is not oge of those so despised by......

Self-abasement

SIR, —The Columbia University Press, or the Spectator proofreaders, are to be congratulated on a refreshing display of self-abasement. Advertisers are seldom so candid as to......

Up (some) Rebels

SIR,—I am disturbed at the strange complacency of Mr. Alfred Sherman's review of Writers and Politics by Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. Mr. Sherman's allegation of 'left-wing double......