Mea Culpa
Sir: Roy Fuller said, 'I try my best in poetry to match/Everyday's marvellous and varied prose.' Though I checked the proof myself (Life and Letters, 2 November) I permitted him......
De Cuellar 's Boswell
Sir: John Simpson is not fair to Javier Perez de Cuellar (`The old order changeth', 12 October). He makes little or no mention of the extremes of Cold War rhetoric which......
Looking, Back
Sir: An Young Man was the title of a book written by Leslie Paul, which was pub- lished in 1951; it related specifically to Political disillusionment but the phrase was used......
Sir: As The Compiler Of A Collection Of G.k. Chesterton's
aphorisms, I was interested to see my friend A.N. Wilson quoting him to the effect that people who cease to believe in God believe in anything, not nothing (Books, 2 November).......
Under A Hat
Sir: The review of Robin Lane Fox's The Unauthorised Version (Books, 2 November), although purportedly from the pen of the distinguished novelist A.N. Wilson, is actu- ally the......
Head In The Cold
Sir: Mr Thornton asks (Letters, 9 Novem- ber), whether Anthony Blunt's face could really have gone lop-sided through sitting next to an open train window. Yes: the con- dition......
Trust In U.s?
Sir: John Simpson's even-handed report on the Madrid conference ('Macheath at the peace talks', 9 November) brings to mind the old Arab expectation that one day American......
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