3 FEBRUARY 1950, page 18

The Refining Of Sugar

SIR—May I use your columns to answer Mr. Cole's letter on a subject of which I fear your readers may be tiring ? When discussing the extent to which one firm is a monopoly,......

The Case Of Taylor Woodrow

SIR,—The main reason why I did not see Mr. Frank Taylor, of Tayloi Woodrow Construction, Ltd., is that the primary responsibility for dealing with contractors is that of my......

Why Snob ?

Sitt—Mr. Harold Nicolson's essay on snobs raises a point that has troubled me for some time. Many years ago, at a pleasant London club dinner, I was seated next to an elderly......

Liberals' Prospects

SIR.—Your correspondent, Mr. Joseph Sharpe, says: "Any truly inde- pendent and non-party journal should primarily consider whether any particular party's programme and policy......

. English-teaching In Egypt

Sut,—Your correspondent Mr. Reed has done nothing to correct or complete the two main points of my article. No one with a practical knowledge of teaching in Egypt would claim......

American Taxi-drivers

SIR.—I like the one who said to me: "Would you like me to turn on the radio—or shall I just talk? "—Yours truly, GRAHAM WATSON. 38 Eaton Terrace. S.W.!.......

"mb(' *pettator, Jfebruarp 210. 1850

THE opening of Queen Victoria's third Parliament, on Thurs- day, if slackly attended in the day-time, because Royalty was absent,* was signalised by good musters in the evening.......