3 JUNE 1960, page 13

Public Relations

SIR,--Katharine Whitehorn ('Feeding the Press,' Spectator, May 27) wants to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Of course there are PROs whose only aim is to secure free......

Stn,—the Causes Of Tension Between Black And White In South

and East Africa lie embedded in the annals 0 1 the last 300 years. When the Dutch farmers in the seventeenth century moved northwards through the Cape Colony they annexed the......

Eisteddfroth

SIR.—One's first impulse after reading your cor- respondent James Tucker in the current Spectator (May 27) is to wipe one's feet and move on. However, some protest must be......

Sir,—mr. Garry Allighan Knows 'that At Least Eight Out Of

ten Bantu workers are instinctively dishonest and congenital liars.' SIR,—Mr. Garry Allighan knows 'that at least eight out of ten Bantu workers are instinctively dishonest and......

Sir,—to Judge Books For Children Surely One Needs...

different from those one applies to discriminating between cleaners or car-hire firms? I have been reading Helen Bannerman's books to my children over the last five years, and......

Designs Of The Year

SIR,—While I fully agree with Mrs. Scurfield's point that it is more important that articles for domestic use should fulfil their function well than that they should look......

'the Trojans'

SIR.--Mr. Pages's letter prompts two questions. First, was he at the first night of The Trojans, the only night of Mr. Sisson's cabal? Had he been, he might have felt that the......

Little Black Quibba

SIR,—I must write in defence of The Story of Little Black Quibba, so maligned by Leslie Adrian last week. I wonder if he/she is a parent and if he/she knows that the author,......

Riddle Of The Sands Sir,—last Week's Issue Was As Brilliant

as usual. But I missed an article by Mr. Erskine Childers explain- ing why President Nasser's nationalisation of the Egyptian press is in the interest of Arab freedom. Surely,......