6 JANUARY 1961, page 24

The Agency Game

SIR,—Mr. Leslie Adrian fairly says that not every good travel agent is a member of ABTA; he might well have added that ABTA only admits people %silo issue tickets, and that a......

Gunning For Gaitskell

.Sin.—I wish Bernard Levin would step tantalising us. Whom, exactly, did he have in mind when he referred, in his piece about the defence debate, to 'those members of the......

Clerical Blood Pressures

SIR.--Mrs. Furlong may say that my %ie%%; are 'jaundiced,' but it would be better if she met them with reasoned argument. I have belonged to the Lincoln diocese for more than......

Sir,-11 Miss Quigly Wants To Go On Fighting Battles Of

long ago, it is not for me to stop her. But it's really no use her pretending that when she said that those who fought for Hitler were responsibje for what he did and weren't......

Whitewash?

SIR,—While in Italy last week, I had a cutting of Miss Quigly's review of Under Ten Flags. I have since read Ludovic Kennedy's very sound letter on the same subject. When she......

Necessary Distinctions

SIR,—May I send an addendum to my piece. Nec et- sary Distinctions, Which you printed last week? 'Free gift' should certainly have . been included.—Yours faithfully, MARGHAN1TA......

Libraries And Authors' Royalties Sir,—mr. Barry,...

Associa- tion, continues to growl, like a worn-out record. his 'What about motor-cars? Why not washing • machines?' I have asked him personally, in vain, to abandon an argument......