4 FEBRUARY 1978, page 19

Mr Heath

Sir: I was most surprised and distressed to read such a scathing editorial on Mr Heath, who still retains the respect of many in the Conservative Party. The level of the......

Sir: Your Editorial The Ghost At The Feast (28 January)

harshly reveals the situation confronting the Conservative Party with regard to Mr Edward Heath. As Mr Heath's lack of judgment becomes apparent so the mirror reflects the true......

Biafra (and Guernica)

Sir: Lady Hunt says (21 January) there was 'no genocide' in the Biafra conflict. Two million dead (she adds) is 'an absurd figure'; even propagandists 'have come down to one......

Wrong Foot

Sir: Mr Michael Foot, writing in the Spectator of 14 January, finds occasion to remark that the Constitution of the United States 'is suffused with Jeffersonian cum-Thomas......

Deir Yassin

Sir: So Patrick Marnham (28 January) chooses to ignore my evidence (21 January) that Begin never said about Deir Yassin that the massacre was justified. Mr Marn ham may ignore......

Contradictory

Sir: Mr Davenport's article of 14 January was as always most perceptive and gives a timely warning about the dangers inherent in the current euphoria. In particular, the figure......

Forbes Faulted

Sir: Alastair Forbes (28 January) states that High Diver reproduces only one of Michael Wishart's paintings: a closer study might have revealed to him the portrait of Nureyev......

Judge Mckinnon

Sir: A propos your leading article (14 January) about the McKinnon affair, may I comment? In all fairness to Judge McKinnon it should be remembered that a previous judge could......