6 OCTOBER 1973, page 5

Breast Is Best

Sir: I too applaud John Linklater's article on The Decline and Fall of the Breast (September 8). I feel privileged to have been the eldest of eight children all of whom were......

Nicotine Baby

P rom Dr C. Gordon Wickes Sir: It staggers me that Cato sees fit to Make such utterly irresponsible s tatements about smoking in pregnancy (Notebook, September 22). Surely he is......

T I T Nni. Dr John A. H. Wylie

To Your discerning readers not the ast of The Spectator's jnany charms is that their intelligence is rarely af fronted by editorial material which C ontrives to combine crass......

Stoned

Sir: In one way, there is little cause to comment on Mr Duncan Fallowell's (September 22) piece about some popular musicians who call themselves the Rolling Stones; a very few......

De 'gaulle

Sir: Patrick Cosgrave's contribution to the decline of The Spectator continues, I notice. On one point at least, he does not misinterpret me in his. review of De Gaulle the......

Tom Paine

Sir: A distinguished historical biographer, in reviewing my book on Thomas Paine in another paper. has remarked on the extraordinary hatred aroused by Paine, matched only by......

Irish Mess

Sir: You have no business accusing Mr Heath of stupidity for proposing that Northern Ireland, under certain circumstances, should be "integrated" with the United Kingdom......

School Democracy

Sir: In my article 'can a School Be a Democratic Society' (September 15) I did not wish to suggest that democratic procedures should be excluded from schools. I thought that was......