7 MARCH 1969, page 26

Aubrey's Lights

Sir: . Mr Robert Hughes in reviewing Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley. (24 January) talks about Sigmund Freud 'who could not read Italian' as having erroneously......

Britain And Biafra

Sir: The statement by Lord Chalfont, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, at the Luxembourg meeting of the Western European Union last month—that Britain......

Abortion Boom

Sir: John Rowan Wilson (28 February) seems to have got himself a little confused by the abor- tion statistics, which may help to .account for the unbalanced tone of his article.......

The Freedom To Die

Sir : John Rowan Wilson's statement (7 February) that 'our attitude to abortion and population control is becoming increasingly more rational' is truly astonishing. Contracep-......

Table Talk Sir: I, Of Course, Accept Paul Johnson's Correc-

tion (Letters, 28 February) of my remarks about Kingsley Martin's views on the Rhineland crisis of 1936 (21 February). All I can say is that I think my memory is not at fault,......

Words And Music

Sir : Mr J. W. M. Thompson (Spectator's note- book', 28 February) does not 'feel over-optimis- tic about' the chances of authors winning the Public Lending Right campaign......