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Budget Hopes Sir,—the Recent Sharp Increase In The Bank Rate

and renewed prohibition of the most tempting types of hire-purchase selling seem to suggest that a 'soft' Budget may be contem- plated, since these measures might be relied on......

George Orwell

SIR,—At the request of his eXcOUTors I am writing a biography of George Orwell. I should therefore be most grateful if any of your readers who were associated with Orwell and......

Sir,-1 Was Interested In Ian Niall's Paragraph In...

in your issue of March 4 headed 'Animals that swim.' His invitation to 'someone who has met a pig in midstream' prompts this letter. More than fifty years ago I was boating with......

Did They Get Written Instructions? Or Merely A Phone Call

from some mysterious source? Who are these 'common informers'? Have they any connection with the police? Did anyone tip them off that their informing would be wel- come to......

Guide To The Planets Sir,—sir Edmund Whittaker Will, I Am

sure,. forgive me for pointing out two very minor slips in his very friendly review of my book, Guide to the Planets (March 11). Sir Edmund criticises my statement that the......

Robert Mailer Radness, 325 Albert Drive, Glasgow, Si

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Sir,—tan Niall, Contributor Of 'country Life,' In His...

was wrong in casting doubt on the belief that pigs arc liable to cut their throats if they swim. The up-and-down action of their fore-trotters would inevitably inflict this......

Commercial Tv Commercial Tv Sir,—mr. Paul Jennings Seems...

shying at so many Aunt Sallies that he misses them all : BBC, English advertising men, Lord Nemsley, Maurice Winnick. et al.......

Sir,—whatever One's Political Views Might Be, The...

deplore the exag- gerated statement by your contributor, J. E. M. Arden, when he refers to 'the surrounding and deportation of most of the minority nations of the North Caucasus......