6 JULY 1962, page 15

Sta,—`serving Officer In Cyprus' Demands Proof That...

systematically while under interrogation during the Emergency; he wants to know where they were tortured and who tortured them. The guilty men are protected by the law of libel,......

Sir,—david Marquand's Simple Test To Decide Who Is And Who

is not a 'genuine progressive' is too simple even for him: in fact it is a typically mechanistic and equivocal exhibit in the museum of modern political sophistry. If Left-wing......

Playing It Dirty

S1R,—The set of rather hysterical letters that followed my review of Charles Foley's Island in Revolt bears witness to the potent hatred which the Cyprus Emergency aroused, and......

Pilkington 1. B. Hoare

Playing it Dirty Michael Leapnran, Charles Foley Sharp-Shooters E. J. Hobs baivm, Nicolas Walter A Strangled Cry Paul Rippon The Lost Leader Roderick MacDonald BR Blues P.1.......

Sharp-shooters Si ,—the First Rule Of Political Semantics...

hang the good labels round your neck and the bad ones round the other fellow's. An almost equally common psychological reaction is to accuse your opponent of the things you are......

A Strangled Cry S1r,—your Continued And Unreasonable...

who have spoken against the pro-European policy of the Government cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. The pro-Europeans may be so much in love with the European ideal as......