6 MAY 1978, page 17

The Russian Prisoners

Sir: It is a curious contemporary British Illusion that the views of epigoni such as Mr Booker and Miss Gainham deserve more notice by the public than those of people Who lived......

Kensington Kremlin

Sir: I write to you on the subject of Mr Mockler's article, `The Kremlin comes to London', published in your issue of 22 April. Might I ask Mr Mockler, through you, what he......

Social Work

Sir: Poor June Laid Her article (1 April) indicates her discovery that the subject she teaches is a `ragbag of ideas': Having fled into social policy from the practicalities of......

Eliot's Language

Sir: Eliot would have known 'A mis soledades voy...' as the epigraph of Pound's The condolence' (1915). If he indeed wrote `me bastan' in Mr Duncan's blurb, he was tuscanising......

The Ukrainians

Sir: As a Ukrainian who never served in any German formation during the war and who became an officer in the Canadian Army after it was over, and as an outspoken critic of the......