`lord Jim'
SIR,— I was delighted to read Isabel Quigly's pro- test against the grant of a 'U' certificate to the film Lord Jim. My wife and 1. who are infrequent cinema-goers, attended a......
The Steel Rebellion
SIR,—May 1 point out to your readers the crucial part played by the Liberal Party in awakening the steel 'rebellion' within the Labour Party which Alan Watkins so interestingly......
Chambers As Witness
Sta.—One may sympathise with Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien's distaste for mystic interpretations of Whittaker Chambers's character. But the validity of Chambers's evidence does not......
Us Invariably Permits The Communists The First Punch.'...
strategic conception has evidently guided US tactical inertia in the protection of their static perimeter camps, such as Pleiku and Bien Hoa. Close-in routine patrolling 'along'......
The Two Cultures
SIR,—Quoodle rightly points out Lord Snow's in- consistency in publicly advocating comprehensive schools while privately supporting (or going to sup- port) the No. I public......
Life, Not Painting
SIR.—Mr. Nevile Wallis misquotes me in his un- favourable review of my exhibition (Spectator, February 19); the phrase about not being able to do anything clearly or purely,......
Reprisals And After
SIR,— I would be greatly interested to know in what way the American forces in South Vietnam are defending essential freedoms or putting the Asian people in the way of doing so.......
Immigration
SIR.—There are respectable and humane grounds to be urged in defence of immigration. The one ground that seems to me deplorable is that used by Quoodle, seeking to remind us how......
`the Representative'
is obvious that the Vatican, in its present efforts to prevent the stage performance in Italy of The Representative, has a most guilty conscience over the refusal of the late......
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