7 JANUARY 1955, page 29

Lambing Time

SIR,—Ewes in lamb can be terribly hurt by a merely playful dog. Widespread instruction of owners in the technique of training their dogs has done much to spotlight this danger......

Film Censorship

SIR,—Several issues of censorship were raised recently in the News Chronicle over the fate of Spare the Rod, the film which Ronald Neaine was to make from my novel of that name.......

74 Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.w .3. Unwillingly To School

SIR,—Owing to parochial duties in preparation for Christmastide I have only now read the letters addressed to you which you print in your issue for December 17. I must challenge......

Horse Sense

Sts,—With reference to the published Answer to Christmas Question No. 7 (a) may I ask since when the interrogative pronoun "Who" has been appropriate to a horse? I am willing to......

The Grave-diggers

SIR,—The recent behaviour of the French Assembly merits criticism, but not misrepre- sentation. You claim that 'the opposition to the agreements was almost consistently dis-......

Mr. Gilbert Harding

SIR,—Writing) in the Spectator of December 24 with sonic indignation, and in no very kindly terms, Mr. Haynes complains that your critic considers that there are 'size and......

Welfare Children

SIR,—I had hardly hoped that my remarks on emotional double-think in public, apropos 1984 and Miss Kendon's article, would have evoked so perfect a specimen of the genre itself......