3 JUNE 1966, page 12

Stn,-mr Williams-thompson Seems To Disclose (may 27) That...

necessary to adopt unusual measures to make 'presentation of the report abso- lutely straightforward.' Is it any wonder that there is such widespread distrust of 'public......

Britain's Shipping

Sta,-Mr Wilfred Beckerman asks: 'Can Britain's shipping survive?' Perhaps the right question to ask might be 'Can Britain survive without her shipping?' It is not, I think,......

Huneker Letters

SIR. -1 am the biographer of the American critic, James Gibbons Huneker (1857-1921), whose letters 1 am now collecting for an edition. He corresponded, I believe. with a number......

Utterly Absurd

Sia.My controversy with Mr Szamuely is about Ghana today, not about what I wrote about the USSR in the 1930s. However, by all means let readers look up library copies of Soviet......

The Franks Commission Sir,—your Correspondent, Mr...

found the 'ballyhoo' and 'gimmickry' in the presentation of the Franks Report (Letters, May 27). He must remember that, whatever the public interest, this was an internal......

Lucullan

Sta,-A small point, but since it happened with Stuart Hood the other week, and with Leslie Adrian last week and with myself a few weeks ago in Another Place (printer's error,......

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