Letters
The Crossman libel Sir: Can I add a footnote to the story of the Cr nssman-Bevan-phillips libel action against the Spectator? Five or six years afterwards I met the property......
The Battle For Genius
Sir: If Evelyn Waugh had died almost unknown, and some well-wishers had produced some views of his on politics and Mr Michael Wharton had written a review in the Spectator (7......
Mexican Invasion
Sir: Richard West is surely wrong when he says that the US Marines have never occupied Mexico City, 'only the outskirts of the country' (7 March). In 1847, an American army......
Pricking Bubbles
Sir: As a long-standing reader of the Spectator, the only occasions on which I can recall being moved to write to the Editor have arisen upon reading some attack or other on......
Another Cutler?
Alexander Chancellor's 'Notebook' (14 February) says that I have a tendency `to make ex cathedra pronouncements on questions of morals'. I have no such tendency or wish: who is......
Great Villains
Sir: Oh, poor Iago: 'the greatest villain in English literature'! The next time Mr Waugh is flinching under 'Who steals my purse, steals trash' and so on (21 February) — or......
The Hairy Ainu
Sir: In view of the failure of your correspi, dents to predict the outcomes of recent elections in countries so accessible to English-speakers as India and the United States of......
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