11 OCTOBER 1969, page 33

Mahatma's Magic

Sir: Geoffrey Ashe, reviewing Francis Watson's Trial of Mr Gandhi (4 October), says that Mr Watson refutes the story that Gandhi dismissed the Cripps offer as 'a post- dated......

Dream Queen

Sir: Christopher Booker mentioned (20 September) that the last sentence in Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria with its 168 words Possibly constituted the longest sentence in......

The Wit Of The Catholics

Sir: I have been commissioned by Leslie Frewin Publishers Limited, to prepare an anthology of the best Catholic humour. I would be most grateful if your readers would send me......

Smuggled Goods

Sir,—Whether or not I am indeed (as David Burg so flatteringly writes—Lette October) a 'man of experience in affairs', he really should try to under that many readers of his......

Afterthought

Horrible idle men JOHN WELLS Sir Gerald Nabarro, as he himself tells us in his fifty-shilling bundle of scrap NAB 1, Por- trait of a Politician, published by surprise surprise......