12 SEPTEMBER 1968, page 25

Credo Of A Penal Reformer

Sir: Mr Giles Playfair is doing my work for me (Letters, 6 September). The huge increase in- crime and the tendency towards a reforma- tive and humanitarian penal policy run......

Metal Fatigue

PORTFOLIO JOHN BULL Last week I described Lonrho, the African trading group with a London quotation, as a speculation. The share price had shot up from around 21s to 37s on the......

Keeping Faith With Europe

Sir: In your front-page editorial (6 September) you make a plea that we should do all we can to bolster Czech resistance. The point is, what can the 'ordinary person' —the......

Sir: The British Public Have Been Told That The Nigerian

war is between a federal govern- ment and a 'breakaway' revolting province taking the name of Biafra. In strictly political terms this may be accurate, but it is entirely......

Dereliction Of Duty

LETTERS From: Ewan Milne, Gerald Sparrow, Barbara Cowell, John Braine, R. L. Travers, William Afton, Douglas Woodruff, Lady Kelly, Miss E. M. J. Pleister, Hugh Trevor-Roper,......

Custos

Market report Electricals have hogged the limelight again this week. English Electric has countered Plessey's bid by asking GEC to take it over. Thus the outstanding question is......