24 JANUARY 1969, page 25

New Light On Eden—and Munich

Sir: The very interesting article by the Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, in your issue of 3 January, on the subject of the 1938 Cabinet Papers, prompts me to comment, if I......

Sir: In Order To Clear Up Any Misunderstanding On The

part of Mr Peter Townsend (Letters, 17 January) or of others, I should like to restate my position in words (so to speak) of one syllable: There is at present some reason to......

Common Sense About Colour

Sir: I read with interest Mr James Mottram's letter of 10 January, particularly the paragraph referring to intermarriage between races, 'from which no certain benefit derives......

Sir : Simon Raven's Common Sense (3 January) Has Already

been advocated in a number of Hollywood 'B' movies. The more colourful version of the argument is presented by one tough to a lot of toughs, as follows: `See here. There's......

Sex And Science

Sir: Mr Desmond's letter of 10 January is very misleading. He challenges Dr Rowan Wilson's statement (13 December) that 'vaccination and the development ur anti-bacterial drugs......

The Novels Of Yesteryear

Sir: Professor Plumb (10 January) says that Russia produces no great novels. Mr Seymour- Smith replies (17 January) that Dr Zhivago probably excels any works of the 'thirties.......

Sir: I Do Not Quite Agree With The View Of

Professor Plumb (10 January), a common one today, that the novel isn't what it used to be. Certainly fiction has suffered since the figure of a hero may no longer interest us.......

The Stupid Party

Sir: Mr M. G. K. Pierson (Letters, 17 January) writes from the Hill House, Bodenham, but he ought to be reminded that this is not quite the same place as Mount Olympus and that......