6 AUGUST 1948, page 17

American Parties And Inflation

Sta,—Edward Montgomery's Twilight of Truman betrays a touch of naiveté in its assertion that " everybody is against inflation" in the United States. Of course, in theory,......

To Readers On Holiday.

LET US POST A COPY OF THE SPECTATOR TO YOUR HOLIDAY ADDRESS. Send instructions with a remittance—lid. for each issue—to THE SALES DEPARTMENT. THE SPECTATOR, 99 Gower Street,......

Jane Austen's Standards

Sta,—In your issue of July 23rd there is an interesting review—under the title Warring Critics—of four recent books. While I entirely agree with your reviewer that one should......

Banks And Recovery

SIR,—Mr. Mills guesses wrong and resorts to abuse. I was writing from experience at many branches, and have found conditions in the provinces even worse than in London. The......

The B.b.c. And Minorities .

SIR,-1 brought before the League's Council the article by Mr. Harold Nicolson in The Spectator of June 25th in which he maintained that the wireless, when it gives freedom of......

The Royal Opera House

StR,—Your paragraph on this subject in The Spectator of July 30th will be greatly appreciated by all who have the cause of opera at heart, but it contains one important......

Sia,—as A Bank Employee I Feel Compelled To Comment On

Mr. Frank Ward's allegation, in The Spectator of July 23rd, that the banks are imped- ing the nation's economic recovery. Many banks are short of staff. After a day of......

Communications In Greece

SIR,—I feel that Colonel Woodhouse, irc his excellent Americans in Greece, may have left the impression that we did little or nothing to restore that country's communications.......

• The Sound Of Whales Sir,—" Generally When He Had

concluded a period, in the course of a dispute, by which time he was a good deal exhausted by violence and vociferation, he used to blow out his breath like a whale This, I......