9 DECEMBER 1972, page 28

Capital Punishment

From Lord Savernahe Sir: It puzzles me that so many people, who have never witnessed a hanging, regard it as a barbaric f: method of carrying out a death sentence. Having seen......

Imperial Legacy

Sir: I was pleased to read in your issue of November 25 the admission that 'the present problem brought about by our obligations to the African Asians arises from carelessness......

Booker Brouhaha

Sir: Auberon Waugh describes Berger's book as 'ineffably fatuous.' Berger's ensuing interview in Line-up was even better. Through a haze ' of incoherent balbutience (more......

Frelimo Or No?

From Brigadier Michael Calvert Sir: The Frelimo guerrillas in Mozambique, after a series of defeats and desertions in the Cabo Delgado district on the Tanzanian border, have......

What Americans Say

Sir: I decided, years ago, that Sir Denis Brogan was beyond moral ,criticism when, as members of the party at the captain's table on the SS France, we were assailed by an......

Into Europe

Sir: Hard pressed to adduce specific advantages which Britain is likely to gain as the result of relinquishing a great deal of sovereignty and joining the EEC, pro-Marketeers......

Lonely Christmas

From the Rev. Arthur H. Bird Sir: There's a lonely old lady down the road. She does not have very much to live on and she spends ' most of the time -indoors. As the days • get......

Women Priests

Sir: Your article by Edward Norman (November 18) in which he describes the reluctance of some ChriStian churches to admit women to the priesthood is not, in itself , surprising.......