6 JANUARY 1950, page 20

A Pension Paradox

SIR,—As another of the humorously termed " self-employed " clergy, I have just been in the same circumstances as your correspondent, the Rev. R. M. French (though I confess that......

War Crimes And Criminals

SIR,—A point rather overlooked in Lord Hankey's book (and by many others) is that most of the crimes committed by German officers were breaches not only of international law but......

Frustrated Youth

SIR,—May I ask the authoress of the touching article printed in the Spectator of December 30th to consider the following words taken 'from a memoir of a friend of mine who died......

Cortisone Problems

SIR,—Dr. Stephen Taylor is quite right when he states in his article Cortisone Problems that: "None of the three agents so far discovered was the last link in the chain." They......

Preserving Cambridge

SIR,—The Spectator of December 30th declares the new Cambridge town plan to be " as a whole, a large, imaginative, and practical conception." I wonder whether you have given due......

Why Wenceslas?

SIR, Mr. Nicolson's Marginal Comment in the Spectator of December 23rd was full of the sealon's spirit and provided a welcome contribution to the week-end's reat4ipg. In his......

Teachers' Salaries

SIR,—There is a fallacy, which is, I believe, widely held, implicit in the letter of " Rector who has been a full-time teacher." Your correspondent confuses skill in teaching......