5 NOVEMBER 1954, page 14

Letters To The Editor

TRUE CONSERVATISM SIR,—At least my article seems to have- achieved its first object, which was to provoke. To be compared in one issue of the Spectator with Carlyle, Hitler and......

$m,—'vvhatever The Attributes Of Conservatism, Your...

is surely incorrect in specially omitting Nationalism from them. English Toryism, past and present, is Nationalist if anything. How else can one account for its loyalty to the......

Road Problems Sta,—your Contributor, Mr. John Arlott, Has...

up 'the collection of hardened arteries which the British call a road system,' and his suggestions for improve- ment obey the sound principle of not letting one road-user cross......

Gambling In The Churches Sir, —the Recent Policy Of The...

Com- missioners of investing in British Industrials raises grave moral issues which the clergy (though not the working public) have allowed to go by default. There is nothing......

Patronage At Euston

S1R,—The Public Relations Officer of British Railways (LMR) now discloses that it ig normal for four seats on main line trains to bear bogus reservation labels. But he avoids......

St*. — As A Side-issue In The Vexed Question Of Reserved...

in trains may I make a plea to British Railways that on special expresses such as boat-trains there may be provided at least one coach of unreserved seats and the fact stated on......