21 FEBRUARY 1976, page 19

Détente

Sir: Margaret Thatcher has retreated into frivolities of dress and verbal slapstick with Roy Mason. It is a welcome withdrawal. Right-wing defence views are not, at the moment,......

Rail Realities

Sir: I read Victor Evelyn's article about railways (January 17) with particular interest because of the implied false assumption that roads pay. If roads did not exist I cannot......

Modern Languages

Sir: Logie Bruce Lockhart (January 24) assumes, when he writes of the decline in modern languages, that this is a bad thing. Your correspondents have agreed with the diagnosis......

Morality Of Immigration

Sir: Immigration has long been a subject which requires its own morality. Indeed, it reverses the principle that morality respects truth, and preaches a substitute morality in......

F. E. Smith

Sir: I am writing, with the cooperation of his family, a new biography of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. May I beg an inch of your space to request any of your readers who......