18 AUGUST 1939, page 23

Prison For Critics Sta,—having Just Read Your Comments On...

Prime Minister in "News of the Week" in last week's issue of The Spectator, I write to convey most heartfelt regret at the dissatisfaction expressed by a paper of its standing......

Mosquito Day Sir,—sunday, August 20th, Is A Date That Should

be remem- bered as the British Empire's most important anniversary. It is the date that the late Sir Ronald Ross named " Mosquito Day," because on August loth, 1897, he first......

War Guilt

SIR,—In The Spectator of August nth, in the article headed " Peace Front Terms," you demand that " the war-guilt clause in the Treaty of Versailles should be spontaneously and......

Receipt Stamps

SIR,—The letters which have appeared in The Spectator under this heading show such a strange difference of opinion that it might not be inappropriate to quote the relevant......

The School And Society

SIR,—When, some time ago, I discussed the Companies of Service plan with Mr. McArthur and a number of other London headmasters I realised he was unsympathetic ; I did not......