The Rev. R. E. Kendall Sir,—the "reasonable Chap" Whom Strix
heard discussing China with Mr. Basil Davidson was, I presume, the Reverend R. Elliott Kendall. Doubtless the fact that Strix was driving at the time led him to think the name......
Blue Arrican Lilies
SIR,—I am sorry to read from Sir Compton Mackenzie's animadversions on the " flaccid green straps " and " invalidism " of the agapanthus that he does not consider it a lily. .0n......
Letters To The Editor
Stalin and his Successors SIR,----Once I was Thi Times correspondent in Tsarist Russia, and I have also visited it in Stalin's day. He was a ruthless man of iron will, and was......
Boys In Coal-mines
SIR,—In the colliery where I work I know personally two lads who, while under the age of eighteen, since 1949 have worked on night- shift in rotation with morning and afternoon......
Militant Suffragettes
SIR,—As a participant in the militant suffrage campaign, I should like to express grateful appreciation of Honor Croome's review of Laugh a Defiance. Her horror at the "......
Art And The Abstract
Sts,—Most artists who use abstract idioms do not much care how massive the ignorance is over their methods, or whether the public has a text-book on the subject or not. The......
" The Sporting Films " Sts,—j. P. W. Mallalieu Argues In
.his entertaining article The Sporting Films that " an actor can act, but he cannot perform " and that, at least until the appearance of The Final Test, " the introduction of......
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