24 APRIL 1971, page 24

Historians At War

Sir: It is true, as Mr Cosgrave pointed out (3 April) that Mr Hazlehurst's Politicians at War Is, based on an inadequate range or primary material if offered as an account of......

Vasectomy

Sir: One of the arguments put for- ward against vasectomy as a method of birth control for younger husbands, is that, as it must be regarded as an irreversible oper- ation, it......

Suicide In Berlin

Sir: In his interesting article on Berlin, Mr Frank Whitford refers to 'the astonishingly high suicide rate' there now. This is nothing new. Writing of the extraordinary times......

Politics Of Abortion

Sir: There is more to democracy than H. K. Barrett (Letters, 17 April) may suppose. It is not enough to persuade a few hundred MPS that they know what the people want, if they......

Letters To The Editor

The last of the Tsars I Sir: We woolly-haired, simian- ; typed American journalists, who ; are so many light-years behind that ;super-precious wing of the British I literary......

War Crimes

Sir: Your comments and those of Mr Henry Fairlie lost a good deal of their impact by considering the case of Lt Calley in isolation from the remainder of the week's news. The......