Evacuees And Hosts
SIR,—I expect you will have many letters showing a different picture of the reception of London and Kent evacuees in the quieter parts of the Home Counties from that given by "......
Tennyson And Today
SIR,—Perhaps, in this hour of destiny, some of your readers may welcome a heartening voice from the past. What did Tennyson sae nearly ninety years ago? Here is a verse from "......
Does Culture Matter ?
Sne,—So urbane a writer as Mr. E. M. Forster cannot easily fall into the slough of pessimism, but one may conclude that under present stresses he is, like most of us, the victim......
Railway Shortcomings
Sin,—The splendid reply which the newspapers and periodicals hat e offered to the challenge of the bombing of London has, in one case. elicited congratulations from the Prime......
France's Food Position
Sta,—I should like to contest the remarks of your correspondent, Mr. Jones Davies, in The Spectator of October 4th, relative to France's food position in January last. Being a......
The Air Offensive
SIR,—Postal difficulties have delayed my reply to Mr. Alan Lambert. It is useless to try and ensure that the German nation will not again wish to make war—from fear. Certainly......
A Literary Coincidence
SIR,—In browsing among the books of some writers who at one time interested me, I have been reading again the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe and Oscar Wilde, as a war-time......