7 OCTOBER 1966, page 18

Afterthought On Eton

SIR,—Mr John Wells is amusing about Early School and anyone who is amusing is forgiven. But Early School disposed of a period early in the day and allowed more freedom later in......

The Seaside Season Sig,—mr J. W. M. Thompson (`a Spectator's

Note- book,' September 16) may like to try out another idea the next time he finds himself in an hotel without a writing table but filled with enormous chests of drawers. Remove......

An Edinburgh Notebook

Sia,—I am grateful to Lord Dalkeith for putting me right about Scottish Unionists. As l understand it, they were as much against Irish Home Rule eighty years ago as they are......

Executive Check-up

SIR,—Mr J. R. Wilson ('Medicine Today,' Sep- tember 23) has written an excellent example of how to damn with faint praise and to sneer at what one cannot understand. He says,......

Rhodesia

SIR,—Mr Sills, in his temperate letter, asks if we have been fair to 'our kith and kin' in Rhodesia. 'Are we being fair to the Southern Rhodesians?' he writes. Considerations of......

Life With Uncle Tito

Sia,—The hardly veiled sneer element in Tibor Szamuely's 'Life with Uncle Tito' is sufficient for most informed readers to consign the article to the wastepaper basket where it......