26 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 32

Indian Lament

Sir: Theodore Dalrymple is correct in what he writes (`India goes native in Britain', 12 September). I am saddened, even more so when I recall that only some years ago almost......

Victoria's Values

Sir: In an otherwise impeccable review of John Pollock's new biography of Lord Kitchener (Books, 12 September), Allan Mallinson was wrong to state that Queen Victoria was......

Stone Unturned

Sir: Taki is entitled to his opinion of the American journalist I.F. Stone, whom he consigns to hell (High life, 12 September), but he makes a mistake when he says Stone 'turns......

Letters Haig's Achievement

Sir: I too am one of the 'dwindling genera- tion' whose fathers served in the Kaiser's war (mine was an NCO and WO in an infantry battalion), but I write to protest against the......

An Uninvited Guest

Sir: Your leading article (12 September) commenting on the granting of asylum to a Romanian homosexual appears to be bend- ing over backwards (forwards?) in an attempt to......