6 NOVEMBER 1942, page 14

Naval Chaplains

S1R,—Mr. Davidson, in The Spectator of October 9th, which has just reached me, asks whether the spiritual welfare of the.numerous Scotsmen strving in the Navy is adequately......

Country Life

IT is a notable fact that gifts of land to the National Trust have never been so big as during the second year of the war. The Trust (which, of course, ought to be national in......

A Diplomat's Dress

SIR,—The reminiscences of usually well-informed " Janus " in "A Spectator's Notebook" contain in the allusion to the Genoa Conference of September 30th a slight error which......

Britten's Michelangelo Songs

sm,—may I, wall all due respect to my friend Mr. Dyneley Hussey, protest against his treatment of Benjamin Britten in your issue of October 30th? After reading his article one......

Map Scales

STR,—You write in "Notes of the Week ": "A glance at a large-scale map will show . . ." Surely you mean a small-scale map? In other wars we have all demanded large-scale maps.......