3 MAY 1975, page 3

Market Matters

Sir: It is being suggested that it is unthinkable we should abrogate the Treaty of Rome, 1957. The OEEC, formed in 1948 and extended later to include Western Germany, failed in......

Sir: Sir Christopher Soames Is Soon To Retire As Our

EEC Commissioner. Does he know something we don't know, or, disfranchised by residence abroad, is he casting a substitute vote: with his feet? A. B. Knight 48 Great North Road,.......

Floating Pound

Sir: Having been one of the first and foremost to applaud Mr (as he then was) Barber for floating the pound, you can hardly complain now (April 26) that, in the absence of......

Rowse And Shakespeare

Sir: It would be interesting to know what Dr Rowse's — or any other Shakespearian's — reply would be to these questions, arising from my article and his reply which appeared on......

Subsidising Arts

Sir: A fortnight ago you were good enough to publish a letter of mine in which I requested justification for public patronage of certain fields of the arts, coinpelled upon us......

Library Economies

Sir: Bucks County Libraries have had their estimate for the purchase of new books and binding cut from £303,050 to £76,645. As a result, the libraries will be buying no fiction,......

Peregrine

Sir: If your Peregrine is proposing to go on taking such senior journalists as Mr Mark Arnold-Forster to task for very infrequent and very slightly inelegant phrases ("I would......

From Mrs Sheila Burns Sir: Whoever 'peregrine' Is, Heaven...

but his new column has something vaguely offensive about it, rather like reading Jennifer's diary. His bicycle rings a bell! I did once see Lord Hailsham cycling down St James's......

Sunrise

Sir: If the Sun was being delivered to Daily Mirror readers during the Mirror strike (Bill Grundy, last week) it certainly wasn't because of the "extra inducement" offered to......