1 NOVEMBER 1968, page 27

Letter To A Bureaucrat

Sir: I am sorry to read, in your issue of 18 October, that so informed a person, and so delightful a writer, as Strix should support the use of the word 'writing-paper' to......

Slips Showing

Sir : I am sorry the wine merchants of Marsala were not satisfied by the flattering references to them in my book Modern Sicily, I am also sorry they think my facts wrong......

Lord Cranfield As He Wasn't

Sir : I apologise to Miss von Versen (Letters, 25 October) if I appeared rude. One point I must make; she seems to imply that Some People is fiction. She may be right but the......

The Case Against Import Controls

Sir: I remain unmoved by Mr Robert Skidel- sky's and Mr Vernon Bogdanor's attempts (Letters, 18 and 25 October) to get the argument about import controls back on to the......

Liberals For Wallace?

Sir: To any friend of America, as to any observer of American affairs, the present situa- tion in the United States is quite astonishing. Wallace almost as popular as Humphrey :......

Conference Complaints

Sir: Perhaps Mr Hennessy (Letters, 18 Octo- ber) has forgotten Mr Powell's suggestion at Birmingham of 'encouraging' immigrants to return to their native lands. Taken in context......