Guatemalan Murders

Sir: Your correspondent Patrick Marnham, in an article on Guatemala (13 August), states, 'At least under Rios Montt many fewer Indians were killed'. In fact, under the......

A Tibetan Journey

Sir: May I make a brief rejoinder to John Sweeney's China article (30 July)? The first foreigners to penetrate Tibet were not in fact Indian spies from the British Raj in the......

The Price Of Dr Johnson

Sir: Your reviewer's unexceptionable survey (30 July) of Dr Johnson as a lexicographer was marred in the ultimate paragraph by his evident ignorance of book production. The......

Arabic Noises

Sir: I sympathise with Simon Courtauld over the spelling of the Libyan leader (Notebook, 20 August). It is true that the initial consonants of the Libyan and Iranian leaders are......

Broadcasting For Jobs

Sir: Maureen Owen's assertion that the BBC fails `to produce anything of use on the subject of unemployment' and her condemnation of BBC Local Radio on that score (6 August) is......

Sir: It May Interest You To Know That The Phonetical

transliteration of the Spectator into Arabic would, transliterated back into English, be the Sbactator, Sir Peter Parker would become Sir Better Barker, Len Murray would become......

The Vichy Fleet

Sir: 1 feel that Richard West's reference in his article 'France's old friend' (13 August) to 'Churchill's catastrophic decision to shell and sink the Vichy fleet at......