26 AUGUST 1960, page 11

Sut,—hamburg May Have To Give Pride Of Place To Soho

as a strip-tease centre, but it is still comfortably in the lead for sado-masochistic spectacles. The most popular displays are endless variations on women's boxing and......

Brave New Unoerworld Sir.—i Must Put Cyril Ray Right On

three points. I did not insinuate myself in the strip-clubs disguised as a member, but declared myself as a journalist col- lecting copy: the reception was cagy but finally......

Sir,—beware, Beware, Their Flashing Eyes, Their Float-...

mean the lascivious contortions in the strip-tease clubs. If, as you suggest, these establish- ments were to be subject to more stringent control by the licensing authorities,......

—y Ou Are Quite Wrong To State, As You Do In

your e ditorial on the Powers trial, that the English law of contempt is framed only to protect the accused from !hat might otherwise be an unfair trial. The law is u esigned to......

Sir,—dr. Donald Mel, Johnson Reverts To A Familiar...

he mentions, as a mark of our opulent society, the 'ugly rash of street prostitution' prior to the Street Offences Act. It is true that the police had stepped up the number of......

Sir,—mr. Erskine Childers Is Quite Right. Reviewers...

obliged `to create literary dynasties'; but they should have sufficient background know- ledge not to accuse an author of suppression when he published in 1956 a detailed......

Lady Chatterley Roy Jenkins, Mp, L. J. Blom-cooper Brave New

Underworld Kenneth Allsop, Ian Sainsbury, R. L. Archdale, R. P. Trevor Israel Jon Kimche. Gertrude Elias, T. Sandbank South Africa Randolph Vigne W edehouse and Chandler Charles......