Fighting Back
Sir: One can well appreciate that as Stuart. Maclure (14 March) moves into the far from enviable editorial chair of the Times Educa- tional Supplement he is bound to have to......
James In The Terrible Tank
Sir: An erroneous note was added (I under- stand on information supplied by the publishers) to my review (21 February) of the republica- tion of Henry James's The _American......
Common Error
Sir : In view of the forthcoming investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle, it may be worth pointing out that Edward I did not present his infant son to the Welsh......
Raymond Postgate
Sir : In April Raymond Postgate is retiring from the editorship of the Good Food Guide, which he founded twenty years ago. More than any other man, he has been responsible for......
The English Question
Sir : England is a lovely word! (Letters, 21 March.) It is poetry, not geography. The fiery Scots and the lyrical Welsh ought to recognise this more clearly than the other......
G. P. Gooch
Sir : I am writing a biography of the late G. P. Gooch, ots, for which Mr Bernard Gooch is kindly putting his father's papers at my disposal. I should be very grateful for any......
A Land Fit For Technicians
Sir: In his article (21 March) Joseph Chapman refers to 'East Germany.' The territory he is discussing is the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. It is incorrect to call it 'East......
Spring Offensive
Sir: Living closer to the centre of the Wen, I should report that nature's counter-attack is further along than J. W. M. Thompson ('Spectator's notebook,' 14 March) may realise,......
Black Cream
Sir: I am delighted to learn (Letters, 14 March) that Mr Hughes is neither English, American, nor an academic. I had feared he was an Ameri- can academic, like me, because his......
Anatomy Of Student Revolt
Sir : Mr Waldron (Letters, 21 March) lays him- self open to the charge of smear in suggesting that the Radicals' idiocy is inherited rather than acquired : his tactics beg the......