Ulster Loyalty
Sir: The Spectator (July 7) accuses Ulstermen of disloyalty because of their readiness to act outside the law in 1914 and again today. There has indeed been much heartsearching......
Army In Ulster
Sir: Once more, as readers with military interests have pointed out in your columns on . earlier occasions, our army has been placed in an impossible position in Northern......
Disillusion In Country
Sir: Hugh Macpherson (July 8) says that battles of confidence are lost and won in Parliament before (my italics) they ripple out to the country at a different level of argument.......
Defending The Fo
Sir: It is the privilege of journalists, particularly of editors of distinguished journals, to make con troversial statements which stimulate the readers and increase the......
Snide Journalism
Sir: Notebook (July 8) contains two particularly nasty examples of snide journalism. You quote from a "note which one local law society has sent to its members and which......
Beaverbrook Puzzle
Sir: I keep reading reviews of a recent biography of the late Lord Beaverback that puzzle me. Clearly, this fellow was so benign, so distinguished, so public-spirited, so......
Miners ' Pay
Sir: Miners are now saying the Wilberforce award has been eroded by inflation. Of course it has. What did they expect — prices to remain steady or even go down after their last......
Hayek S Penetration
Sir, It is good that Hayek's Road to Serfdom is at last penetrating the walls of the Commons after a generation, thanks to Lord Hailsham and Mr Richard Body. It is now high......
'easier Murder
Sir: The United States Senate have voted by a majority of one to abolish capital punishment except I suppose for the usual bar in every country at crimes like sedition and......
Saving Whales
Sir: Under the heading Saving the whale' you quoted a Friends of the Earth warning that Waitrose Meat/Liver cat food contains whalemeat. In fact this is no longer true. The 4......
Misconstruction
Sir: I saw a cricketer having sexual intercourse on the field of play the other day; but I didn't misconstrue his activity! Not I!. Phillip Hodson 83A Theberton Street, London......
Benny 9 S L I St ' Sir: Both Benny Green (july 1) And
ASCAP appear to be confusing ' songwriter ' and 'lyricist! — two complementary but quite different functions. Thus, Dorothy Fields , Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Johnny......
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