11 JANUARY 1957, page 17

Sir,—'even In Subtopia There Is A Tendency For Good Taste

to drive out bad' (Strix). I do hope he is right, but could he offer us some more convincing evidence for this encouraging claim than 'concrete gnomes are following the monkey-......

Sir,—having Spent The Whole Of The Second World War And

practically all the First in Cairo, I must put in a word for the British soldier, so maligned by Mr. Jesman. My sphere was not Shepheard's Long Bar, nor the Gezira and Maadi......

Sir,—ti Was To Be Expected That Mr. Jdsman's Letter Would

provoke a loud if confused response from our so-called patriots—a response which deserves all too well the characteristics of 'irrelevancy, ignorance, rudeness and suggestio......

Letters To The Editor

The Despised Czeslaw Jesman, Lilian A. Roff, Frederick Murphy, Mary Moorman Taste in Subtopia John Irwin Mr Pilots and Accidents Stanley Mayne Problem People J. F Littler Crisis......

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Air Pilots And Accidents Sir.—the Article In Your Issue Of

January 4 by Mr. Oliver Stewart seems to us to beg a considerable number of questions but the Institution welcomes the last paragraph of the article in which it requests......

Sir,—the Letters In The Spectator This Week Under The...

'The Despised' are, with one exception, surely horrifying. The question is not whether the Egyptians have 'contributed anything of value to the world,' but whether British......