7 NOVEMBER 1998, page 30

Long Live The Capitalists

Sir: Richard Kelly ('When its ideas are in, a party's out', 31 October) says that 'during the last decade Tories have suffered an addiction to radical doctrine . . . a new......

Philanderer-in-chief

Sir: Nicholas Lunt's glowing testimony to the fitness regime at RMA Sandhurst (Let- ters, 24 October), while fitting, is surely born out of his own experiences. While time,......

Czech Your History

Sir: Chamberlain and other Conservatives always defended Munich, and the contro- versy has never died. The archives about Munich, which I analysed in my book Drive to War......

Sir: The Fine Assurance With Which Mr Mayer Gives General

Gallieni (sic) an acute accent makes him an unreliable witness. The general has in Paris a boulevard and a metro station, but no acute accent in either (see Michelin and RATP......

When In France . . .

Sir: Ian Ousby's reproof that I had failed to spell Gallieni with an acute accent in The First World War, which he recently reviewed (Books, 10 October), led me to object that......

Rude!

Sir: I am sorry that Sheila Gunn ('Tories who have women trouble', 24 October) thinks that I am 'ghastly'. I have never met her, although I recall reading much about her in the......