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......
Sir: All Who Had Pleasure In, And Admiration For, Harold
Nicolson's 'Marginal Comments,' and his broadcasts during the 1930s decade must be greatly saddened by the revelation of the seamy, sordid and foolish side of Nicolson which we......
Sir: I Regret That, In My Review Of Harold Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters 1945-62 (6 Sep- tember), I made a factual error. I wrote that Nicolson typed out his diary 'in revised and publishable form.' It has now been pointed out to......
Sir: It Is Interesting To Know That Sir Denis Brogan
no longer practises the faith of his fathers (Letters, 6 September), but I doubt if he has heard the last word on this from his ancestral voices. That these are still with him......
Causa Finita Est?
Sir: It is an old journalistic trick to attribute to one's opponent things he did not say, and then to knock down the skittle that one has then set up. Sir Denis Brogan's......
A Moral Primer
Sir: I have read with interest Simon Raven's 'Moral primer for the young.' Apart from the quaint eighteenth century style of his writing. it seems on the whole to make good......
Lord Cranfield As He Wasn't
Sir: As one of the hundreds of authors whti were lucidly and kindly reviewed by Harold Nicolson, how could one not shrink mentally from the inelegant and biased criticisms of......
Incommunicado
Sir: If Strix (6 September) can't see that the purpose of our letter to The Times was to point out the absurdity of an PAP not receiving an official notification of an Emergency......
Land Of Humbug And Cant
Sir : The title 'Table Talk' is disarming, and does not invite too close scrutiny, especially where the author is usually so fair-minded. But when Sir Denis Brogan takes a wide......
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