Russia's Navy
LETTERS From: Patrick Wall, MP, Alan Smith, Professor R. Trevor-Roper, Commander Robin Bousfield, RN, P. G. Foster, J. G. Warry, T. W. Hutchison, - Ewart Milne, James Donaldson.......
Captain, My Captain
Sir: Mr Raven's recent onslaught on the character of Odysseus (27 September) was anticipated, in gentler• fashion, by Pindar. In his seventh Nemean Ode he remarked that Odysseus......
Lord Cranfield As He Wasn't
Sir: The quality which I found distasteful in Harold Nicolson's Diary was the pervasive assumption that he and his friends were a cul- tural elite, raised above the 'vulgar'......
Sir: The Continuing Correspondence In Your Columns About...
Nicolson was like' seems to me of minor importance compared with what he wrote—and I do not mean what he Avrote in his Diaries. There is a tendency nowadays to cash in on......
Sir: I Must Protest Against Simon Raven's Statement (27...
that 'for nearly 3,000 years the character of Odysseus has enjoyed the undiminished respect both of learned men and of the public at large.' The Attic dramatists were by no......
The Party's Over Now
Sir: In his article (20 September) Anthony King puts the proposition that the two main political parties are ceasing to be bodies that advocate alternative policies and are......
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