12 MAY 2001, page 29

Slaves As Weapons

From Mr William Cash Sir: The hysterical Baroness Cox (Letters, 5 May) wheels out such well-known international newspapers as the Ottawa Citizen and the Baltimore Sun to provide......

Green-room Gossip

From Mr Alistair B. Cooke Sir: Why should one believe a word of the stale gossip served up by Sheridan Morley (Arts, 5 May) when he attributes to King George VI, who died in......

Myths About Pius Xii

From Mr Karol Jozef Gajewski Sir; Caroline Moorehead is so eager to dispel the 'myth' of Pope Pius XII's status as a courageous defender of Jews during the Holocaust (Books, 28......

Scruton Under Scrutiny

From Mr Peter Davies Sir: Roger Scruton rushed to the defence of the 'sport' of hunting with dogs (Letters, 14 April) by attacking the general work of the RSPCA. Clearly, there......

For And Against The Nhs

From Mr Tames Currie Sir: Christopher Silvester's article about the NHS ('Squalid, idle, desperate: welcome to the NHS'. 5 May) contains many justified complaints. Improving......

From Christine Hodgson Sir: I Was Surprised To Read In

your piece on the NHS that Bart's Hospital had closed. It was very much open three weeks ago when I was a surgical patient there, and I found the numerous medical and nursing......

'racist' Review

From Mr Osman Streater Sir: Would you have published anything as blatantly racist as Philip Glazebrook's review of Philippa Scott's book Turkish Delight (Books, 5 May) if it had......