6 DECEMBER 1975, page 4

Ross Mcwhirter

Sir: Did someone speak of freedom? Ross McWhirter spoke of freedom, and Ross McWhirter is dead: killed, brutally shot down by the IRA, or some splinter allied gang, for daring......

. . . And The Government

Sir: The dastardly murder of Mr Ross McWhirter is a further instance of terrorist escalation in England, much of the blame for which must rest on successive governments, whose......

Capital Punishment

Sir: Hard on your prediction (Notebook, November 22) Mrs Thatcher has announced her conversion to the cause of capital punishment. As the issue looks like becoming very much a......

Racism

Sir: Robert Lindley's racist argument (Letter s ' November 22) is courageous but confusing, becau se he fails to distinguish between genetic and environ" mental factors in the......

Violence In Schools

Sir: What an amazing letter from Mr Nicholas waiter (November 22)! Does he not realise that it is because teachers ha"ie stopped using 'violence' against pupils that PnP is f......