5 JULY 1969, page 25

Church, Change And Decay

Sir: Is Sir Richard Acland (21 June) think- ing of W. B. Yeats's saying: 'Science is the religion of the suburbs'? T. A. M. lack Preston-next-Wingham, Canterbury, Kent......

The Dragon's Tongue

Sir: Re Sir Graham Sutton's letter (21 June): Welsh without mutations would be like Latin without case-endings--harder, not easier. Mutations are philologically and euphonically......

Spring Offensive

Sir: One must naturally feel honoured that such a distinguished personage as a King's scholar should find so much to criticise in a simple sentence of one's previous letter.......

Eighty Years On

Sir: May I congratulate you on publishing Simon Raven's splendid article 'Eighty years on'. It is appalling to discover how few people are aware of the impending doom of the......

No White Magic

Sir: John Rowan Wilson (SPECTATOR, 14 June) poses the difficult question of using dispensers in African states postponing the establishment of university medical schools of the......

Counterblast From The Clergy

Sir: The 'counterblast' from the clergy (21 June) about Mr Kennedy's two articles is fundamentally unanimous and a strong expression of the Christian point of view. As an......

Private Eye

Sir: In his interesting review of Thomas Jones's Whitehall Diary (SPECTATOR. 21 June) Robert Skidelsky complains about the naughty habit of governments who see to it that......