30 MARCH 1974, page 4

Election Lessons

From Viscountess Bangor Sir: I wrote last week to Mr Patrick Cosgrave to congratulate him on expressing (without 'moderation', thank Heavens!) what so many of us feel about the......

Sir: Not One Of Your Correspondents Makes Direct...

Not content with mismanaging the country to the tune of about £2,000 million, he costs us yet a further £2,000 million by introducing the three day week episode — quite......

Tory Policy

Sir; 1 marvel at the audacity of Mr Angus Maude (March 16) in soliciting support from young couples "who had been encouraged to undertake the responsibilities of home ownership......

Ancient Parallel

Sir: In his Histories, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt (Penguin Classics), Herodotus describes a contest for the thorne of Egypt between the incumbent King Apries, "who is......

Market Mania

Sir: I am sick and tired of reading in The Spectator that the majority of the British public do not wish to be members of the Common Market. You appear to be disciples of......

Incomes Policy

Sir: In your editorial of March 23 you say: . . . the election result constituted a decisive rejection of Phase Three, and the policy of standing up to wage claims." I beg to......

Sir: In Support Of Your Commendably' Consistent Stand...

"folly" of a statutory incomes policy, and against "the absurd sophistries and complica tions of Phase Three" in particular (March 23), the following passage — from the 1973......

Sir: A Statutory Incomes Policy Has Been Approved By....

million Conservatives and Liberals against ll million Labour voters. Yet Mr Cosgrave suggests that Mr Heath's "espousal of a statutory policy ha s been decisively rejected by......