23 MAY 1981, page 18

The Dangers Of Withdrawal

Sir: Terrorism lives by publicity and some terrorist movements are recorded as having died for want of attention from press and broadcast. Your editorial of 9 May can thus only......

Cats And Dogs

Sir: The usually admirable Alexander Chancellor's paragraph on Cats (16 May) barks up so many of the wrong trees simultaneously that we appear to be dealing with what Americans......

Original Belief

Sir: Richard Ingrams in his review of The Making of Mankind on BBC2 (9 May) pours scorn on the evolutionary explanation of Man's origins. What does he himself believe? Is he a......

Good Old Canada!

Sir: Taki, in his usual inconsequential fashion, chooses this week (9 May) to sneer at Canada, in a piece purporting to expose the character defects of J. K. Galbraith. The......

Detached

Sir: Absence in New York last week prevented me from dealing with Sir Roy Shaw's letter in a brief footnote. It is said he is becoming a little paranoid about criticism of the......

Claude Cheysson

Sir: Sam White's comments from Paris on potential recruits to the Mitterrand cabinet thoroughly scrambled the credentials of one contender (16 May). The 'former Common Market......