21 JULY 1950, page 18

Newsprint Shortage

SiR,—It would be a pity if Janus's strictures on the contents of some daily papers should in any way condone the Government's cut in news. print. For in the first place any......

Sir.—dr. Garrod Says That The Reader Who Does Not Know

what ambi- valence is will not be helped by Webster. He will if he consults the edition dated 1934. Can it be that Dr. Garrod uses an earlier......

Ambivalence

Sin,—In his review of Mr. Greig's book on Thackeray Dr. Garrod sniffs professorially at the words' ambivalent and ambivalence: observing that the reader " will not be helped by......

The Spectator

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The Impact Of Korea

SIR,—" Cantabrian " writes that M. Vishinsky " is said " to have cautioned against the invasion of South Korea. "Is said " by whom? Iron and other curtains apart, how can we......

Meals On Trains

Sta,—Among the diminishing number of simple pleasures I count, or counted, leaving my book in a stuffy third-class carriage and moving ta the dining-car where, although this......

Private Patients

SIR,— Attention has been called at the meeting of the B.M.A. to the penalising of private patienti by making them pay for their medicines. This is stupid as well as obviously......

Realities In Burma

SIR. —It was kind of you to publish the comments of " Onlooker" on my letter of June 6th. I am sorry that my letter failed to convey its simple theme to the correspondent: this......

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