2 FEBRUARY 1974, page 4

Overpaid Councils

From Alderman Paul Sainsbury Sir: By coincidence the salaries of newly appointed Cabinet and other Senior Ministers were published on the same day as the pay structure of the......

Union Reds

From the Reed R. C. Sinclair Sir: I have no wish to inflict on your readers a detailed reply to the tedious pretentiousness of Edward Pearce's article 'Reds on the Mantelpiece'......

Sir: I Have Read With Interest Mr Edward Pearce's Article...

In view of the contents of this article, am I to understarua that "Only a victory for Parliament . . and a defeat for the Marxists within the _Labour Party are acceptable......

Sir: In His Article In Your Issue Of January 19

Edward Pearce went a long way towards opening the eyes, of those who are willing to see, to the realities of the power of the extreme left in this country and in particular in......

Abortion

Sir: "It is upon the foetus's individual humanity," writes Robert Lindsay (January 19), "that the abortion issue pivots." He then introduces tortuous and biologically-naive......

Sir: Robert Lindsay (january 19) Correctly Quotes...

Simms and Hindell book as saying that "The number of abortion deaths from all causes fell from fifty in 1968 to thirty-five in 1969," taking this to have been a beneficial......

Nationalisation

Sir: Lord Robens's comments on Mr Kelf - Cohen's British Nationalisation (January 19) are excellent as far as they go — which is up to the present Tory administration and this......

Roused By Rowse

Sir: The difficulty with A. L. Rowse (January 12) is that as he leaps to the pinnacles of professional scholarshiP his trousers fall down. From an apparently imprecise casual......

Scientologists

Sir: Roy Wallis again reveals h is inability to bring a sociologist's oblec" tivity to his subject. 'Convert or sub vert' (December 29) was more 3 s re tr v aig w h . tfot ward......