22 DECEMBER 1967, page 26

Kafka In London

Sir: Some aspects of the practice of medicine in Russia today were so unexpected to this observer, that on returning from a recent short visit to Moscow and Kiev I wrote a brief......

Volte-face

Sir: The spectacle of the well-known Roman Catholic apologist, Mr St John-Stevas, championing individual rights in the House of Commons must have come as a somewhat startling......

George F. Mathew 8 Freshwater Court, Crawford Street....

Sir: Mr Cumming (Letters, 8 December) attacks Mr Burgess for trotting out the old stale arguments against banning pornography. There were surely two particularly relevant points......

France Becomes An Island

Sir: A quotation from Marc Ullmann's excellent article 'France becomes an island' (15 December): 'One British official said . . . that Britain fought in 1940 not because of the......