5 JULY 1957, page 28

Telephone Tapping Sm,—my Telephone Was, As Mr. Richards...

tapped in 1954. On May 23 this year, some weeks before the question was publicly raised, I learned from a private source that Scotland Yard's Special Branch was still keeping a......

Sir,-mr. Earley Shows A Commendable Zeal In His Defence Of

his Corporation's Russian Section. But I would suggest that the problem is too big to be treated as one of departmental prestige or bureau- cratic correctitude. The Government......

Evans And Christie

SIR,—I was exceedingly careful in my introduction to the Trials of Evans and Christie to sort out facts from suppositions. When a Home Office pathologist tells me that there was......

Local Government Secrecy Sir,—mr. Betjeman, Right Though...

in his strictures on local authorities for secrecy about their affairs, should not forget that the provincial press has been fighting this battle for many years. It is due......

The Liberal Party Sir,—not Only Is Taper Far From Impartial

where the Liberal Party is concerned, but he is also in- accurate. I thought a good journalist's first maxim was to check his facts. Had he done so, he would have found that the......

Mr. Greenwood's Union Sir,—taper Has So Often Been Unkind To

my col- leagues that my outspoken admiration for him has at times been in danger of being misunderstood. I am therefore glad that he has now been unkind to me too. One of his......

Sir,—i Am Reluctant To Challenge Taper On The Ques- Tion

of the Liberal vote when the poor chap's maths are clearly not what they were, but his last two comments on the subject really will not do. Since the beginning of 1954, Liberal......

Poetry And Side-issues

SIR,—One of the nicest things about Dame Edith Sitwell is that she is a hard-hitting controversialist who is perfectly at home in the thick of a fight, giving as good as, or......