6 DECEMBER 1957, page 18

Sir,—your Commentator, Pharos, Comments Rudely On My Part...

controversy about marriage after divorce. Inter alia, he states baldly that my claim that 'the marriage of divorced persons, at the parochial incumbent's discretion, has been......

Behind The Times

SIR,—My thanks to Mr. Levin—Swift redivivus. What a cosy feeling it is to read something and say : 'That's just what I've always thought.'—Yours faithfully,......

Divorce And After

SIR,—If the innocent party is free to marry, then the divorce is real. Why, then, cannot the guilty party marry? The barrier to marriage (apart from the prohibited degrees or......

An Anatomy Of Hysteria

SIR,—Mr. Mursell has missed my point. If is precisely because Socialists are not more high-minded than Conservatives that the question I raised in your columns is a question.......

Britons

SIR,—II is shocking and saddening to find the pages of the current Spectator sullied by a slang American term to describe the natives of this island. Do you—or your......

Pots And Kettles?

SIR,—I notice with interest that Pharos has joined the many writers in high-class journils who complain that in ITV's 'advertising magazines' advertisements are 'masquerading as......

Safety Helmets

SIR,—Pharos is quite correct (November 22). There is a very good case for the compulsory wearing of helmets by motor-cyclists, and many of us have been advocating this for......

Standards For Consumers

SIR,—May I answer the questions about this Associa- tion raised by Miss Elaine Burton in your issue of November 22? It is quite true to say that Which? is not available on the......

Sewage Disposal

SIR,—One of the pleasures of my week is Taper's `Westminster Commentary,' but I was disappointed that in last Friday's instalment he referred to Mr. Norman Dodds's request for a......

The First Lord Leverhulme

SIR,—When I was helping Mr. Charles Wilson with his History of Unilever I read several hundred letters of the first Lord Leverhulme, besides diaries and a great deal of other......