6 DECEMBER 1963, page 15

South African Political Prisoners

SIR,—The World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners, an emergency committee set up under the auspices of the Anti- Apartheid Movement, is distributing a......

Sir,—no One Could Be R..are Grateful To You Than Myself

for publishing Richard Ingrams's highly illuminating 'apologia' for the 'satire movement.' My only complaint perhaps is that his preference for 'dirty words written on walls'......

Sir,—richard Ingrams Is Surely Wrong In His Esti- Mate Of

what is called the 'Satirical Movement.' The antics of these young people may be amusing, but their value in any constructive sense is abso- lutely nil. They certainly do not......

Below The Bread Line

SIR,—Mr. Houghton's letter is a classic example of the professional politician's talent for misrepre- sentation and concealment of truth. No sane person proposed, in 1948. as he......

Sir,—may I Correct One Thing Of More Than Personal...

advanced in your review of my Collected Poems? It was a kind review, but it was surprising that Julian Symons of all reviewers should have picked the word 'image: out of my......

National Extension College

SIR, — On October 4, in Where?, the Advisory Centre for Education announced that the National Extension College would be starting its courses in January next year. Since then,......

Squashed

SIR,—While I am grateful to your reviewer, Mr. David Watt, for his few kind words in your issue of October 18 about my little book on the early diamond fields in South Africa, I......