Exhortation By Postmark
Sm,—Whilst agreeing with the views expressed by Janus on the futility of the " Distinguished Career—Nursing " stamping face, I should like to support the maintenance of its near......
Sir,—the Law Forbidding The Steel Gin To Be Set In
the open, as described by Jack A. Brantley in your issue of June 4th, has for years been dis- regarded in certain counties in England and Wales. The steel gin is used as a means......
Mr. Dalton's Return
SIR, —May I respectfully disagree with your opinion that it would have been clearly unjust that Mr. Dalton's ministerial career should be much longer interrupted ? I take leave......
The Washingtol4 Embassy
Sm,—I wonder why the name of Halifax was omitted from the last line of Mr. Nicolson's Marginal Comment in The Spectator of May 28th, and whether the omission was deliberate?......
Query : Reply
Stay—May I be allowed to query the statement by Janus that a reader of The Spectator in New Zealand gets it in seven days?—Yours, &c., rg Abinger Road, Portslade, Sussex. JACK......
Bulk Buying
Sm, — The controversy round bulk buying arrives at no conclusion. Is it not possible that these early, spasmodic attempts to develop a new business technique quite fail to......
" The Nineteenth Century"
Sm,—I am assembling material for a history of The Nineteenth Century during the first twenty-five years of its publication. I would be grateful if any of your readers who have......
Afrikanders
SIR, —Mr. P. V. Suckling suggests that I am wrong to use the word " Afrikanders " to indicate the Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. He states that it should be " Afrikaners."......
Arab And Jew
Snt,—May I be permitted to correct a glaring misstatement in your Leading article—Palestine Truce ? The Jews have never proposed to destroy the Arabs in order to establish their......
South African Elections
Snt,—The Spectator, in company with the rest of the British Press, regards the results of the recent South African election as depressing. Valuable newsprint has been devoted to......
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