24 JANUARY 1958, page 16

The First Lord Birkenhead Should Like To Protest Against The

references to my father in the article called 'Law Reform' in your issue of January 10. I feel that these comments could scarcely have been more unhappily or more ignorantly......

De-federating In Central Africa

SIR,—T. R. M. Creighton, in his article 'Southern Rhodesian Crisis,' shows how the concept of 'partner- ship' that was the basis that alone made Federation acceptable to Britain......

Gallup Poll

SIR,--Mrs. Prosser says some nice things about the Gallup Poll, for which we thank her. We maintain that polls can, and should, test out the public's attitude towards ideas and......

Haystacks And Needles Sir,—tut, Tut! How' Could Strix...

badly? He thinks he is merely letting his imagination run riot in supposing that bright young historians might be set to collect data about the British reaction to the BBC's......

Passchendaele

SIR,—In view of the long and interesting corre- spondence in your columns about Passchendaele, your readers may like to know that we have in pro- duction , a new book that,sets......

Sir,—we Have Been Running The Gallup Poll For Twenty-one...

and we are now used to journalists attacking us without troubling to ascertain the facts. We did not expect to find the Spectator in the list. In your 'Notebook' you attack us......

Berkshire's Water Supply

SIR,—Buckingham is not the only place where fan- tastic waste of public money is being planned. Against strong opposition, the Ministry is trying to impose a wholly artificial......

The Nineties And Sixties Barton Is Surely Mistaken In...

that the Naughty Nineties were 1891-1900? A decade can be any period of ten years and need not begin at any particular -date. Because the first year after some datum would......

Medical Men As Writers

SIR,—II is a privilege of reviewers to make disagree- able and unsupported generalisations, but I am sure Charles Causley cannot have thought, many times before . he said that a......