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Kaesong

Sta,—Approximately a hundred years ago Lord Macartney, while nego- tiating with the Manchu Chinese the treaty of Nanking, equally beset with thorny disputation, expressed this......

44 Crisis In English Poetry" Sut,—mr. Richard Murphy, In His

interesting criticism of my book Crisis in English Poetry, published in the Spectator of July 27th, makes a mis- statement which should be corrected. He writes that, in this......

Conservatism And Liberty

his interesting letter, which you published in your issue of August 3rd, Mr. Hubert Williams_ raises the important question of the individual versus the State. When income tax......

Leiters To The Editor

The Berlin Festival Sul, —May I, as one of the non-Communist students who returned from Innsbrfick, comment on your remarks on the Berlin Festival in the Spectator of August......

The Cathedral School

Sut,—May I briefly emphasise one point in Mr. Newell's excellent article on this subject ? He says that a chorister must be " alert, resourceful and intelligent ": in my......

Tied Cottages

Slit,—Coming at a time when it is so important to keep up agricultural production at home, the Government's decision to bring to an end the agricultural cottage certificate......