25 APRIL 1987, page 22

Help Thou My Unbelief

Sir: Anyone who had been following the argument of my piece about the Church (18 April) would have been thrown off on reaching the statement, 'My belief is not uniform.' What I......

Sir: Though I Am Very Loath To Prolong What Is

now being widely dubbed the `Silly-Billy Season', I really must express my astonishment on reading in your Holy Week issue a letter from Lord Dudley stating, inter alia, quite......

Letters Dudley's Quotation

Sir: I was amazed by Lord Dudley's partial quotation (Letters, 18 April) from a letter Alastair Forbes wrote to the Literary Re- view on 24 January 1985. If Lord Dudley wishes......

Tohu Wa Bohu

Sir: I cannot comment on the Noam Chomsky debate, but I would ask if your correspondent from Arlington, Virginia, T. W. Bohu, is being frank about his name (Letters, 11 April).......

Ethnic?

Sir: As a third-generation Briton of Por- tuguese / Brazilian / Spanish / Welsh / Irish (not necessarily in that order) extraction, I ought to know from Bhaskar Mitra (Let-......

Tosca

Sir: Surely John Grigg (Diary, 11 April) has it the wrong way round. The trouble about Tosca as a parable of freedom against despotism is that we would never nowadays think of......