20 JANUARY 1967, page 14

The Path From Rome Sir, It Is Sad To See

an intelligent and responsible paper like the SPECTATOR following the current Roman lapidation craze to the extent of publishing pathetic little accusations from schoolboys. To......

Sot,—i Have Read Mr Waugh's Article (december 23), And,...

all, the answers to it, with great interest. Anglicans have written of the horror and surprise kith which they read a Roman Catholic's proyoca- tively exaggerated, but......

A Christmas Sermon Sir,—mr Hollis (letters, January 13)...

In- fallibility does not necessitate personal approval of such things as the Inquisition and the Massacre of St Bartholomew. He is right. What Infallibility does necessitate,......

Bombing In Vietnam

SIR,—As viewed from Vietnam several conclusions which Mr Lawson has drawn on the bombings of North Vietnam ('Spectator's Notebook,' December 30), appear in a different light. I......

Symposium On 1967 Sir,—as A Jew And A Citizen Of

Israel I would like to express my emphatic agreement with Simon Raven's dictum (January 6): 'While it is true that the Jewish race has been savagely persecuted through- out......

Snt,—as An Anglican, A Student Of Ecumenism, With Special...

to the Roman Catholic Church, an admirer of Evelyn Waugh and an avid reader of SPECTATOR, may I say that having perused Auberon Waugh's 'Christmas Sermon' I begin to wonder if......

The Tiny World Of John Osborne Sir,—in The Course Of

his attack on Mr Osborne's A Bond Honoured (January 6), Henry Tube quotes a passage from A Pledge Redeemed, Mr Burroughs's recently broadcast translation of La fianza......

The Future Of The Private Sector Sir,—my Great Respect For

Nicholas Davenport and his writing makes me all the more exasperated that he seems to have allowed himself to become obsessed with what he evidently believes to be my heretical......

No Short Answer Sir,—penelope Houston Gave A Brisk And...

survey of the short film battlefield in `No Short Answer' (December 23). To those of us scrabbling in the mud it had a sprightly detachment reminiscent of those captains' ladies......