25 JULY 1970, page 23

A Land Of Trouble

Sir: Much of George Gale's splendid rhetoric on Northern Ireland (11 July) could not, and was not intended to be taken liter- ally. No one, for example, would be sangu- ine......

1951 And All That

Sir: As Mr MacCallum Scott (f1 July) lives in an area where the Liberal vote went up from 5,000 to 7,000 one can sympathise with his weariness at being on the periphery of that......

Mergers Of Convenience

JOHN BULL It is July, and not April, that has been the cruellest month for British industry this year. At the beginning of the month, a survey was published in which a large......

Letters

From Francis A. Bown, George Edinger, David Woolf, David Tribe, Harold Rosen- thal, N. J. Ogbuehi, T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Keith Waterhouse, W. A. If ulaimi, Anthony Cowdy,......