31 OCTOBER 1970, page 19

Democratic Swindle

Sir: In warning of a swindle over the Common Market the 'Spec- tator's Notebook' likens the British electorate to a body of share- holders faced by a conspiracy to defraud them.......

Too Much Government

Sir: How right David Williams is about risks. When people asked why I be- came incumbent of a Lake Dis- trict Parish twenty years ago, aged sixty, I answered that it was the......

Laura Norder

Sir: I find myself strangely per- turbed by Mr John Yates's letter ('Laura Norder'. SPECTATOR 17 October). While obviously sad- dened by the degeneration of our language, he......

Blackpool Snobs

Sir: As one of the working class so charmingly patronised by Mr Peregrine Worsthorne may I make two points: I. I dislike Blackpool intensely, but then I need go only for......

Hiss

Sir: Two points of correction re- garding Constantine Fitzgibbon's interesting piece on Whittaker Chambers (26 September). The Odyssey of a Friend was published by Putnam. not......

The Irish Mess

Sir: Congratulations on your Edi- torial. I agree that it is time we left the Irish alone to play their tribal games in peace. I thought the fol- lowing quotation might be of......

Stalin And Hitler

Sir: May I comment on the letter in which Mr Edgar P. Young criticises Ronald Hingley's review of Strik-Strikfeldt's Against Stalin and Hitler. Mr Young accuses Dr Hingley of......