The Use Of The Classics
Sta,—A young woman whom I taught a year ago for the second part of the Classical Tripos has since obtained a post in the Ministry of Civil Aviation which, to judge from a......
The Royal Show
sm,—As I indicated in my previous letter, I believe Mr. Walston's suggestion to the effect that most of the machinery exhibits at the Royal Show could have been seen at smaller,......
Too Paternal Oil Company?
SnR,--One of the editors of the Petroleum Times has confessed in a recent issue that in his Review of Middle East Oil he did not succeed in making it clear that a certain oil......
Communism And Peace
SIR,—In your leading article of August 27th, entitled Communism and Peace, I was dismayed to find expression given to the idea that "Com- munism in Russia is Russia's own......
A Recantation
Snt,—In reviewing A Dictionary of English Church History in last week's Spectator, I said that exhaustive exploration had failed to bring to light any article on the Church......
Passive Resistance
SIR, —Is Janus, always rightly critical of slipshod English, to be per- mitted to say, "I have just been sent from Wellington a wrapper . . ." without remark? He had only to say......
The Children Of Greece
Hourmouzios, like Mrs. Lambrides, has failed to find in the U.N. Committee's Report a single case of a parent whose child has been forcibly sent abroad. Further, his quotations,......
Class Distinctions
SIR, —In your editorial article, The Fruits of Lambeth, you state the Lambeth Conference denounced Marxian Communism as encouraging class warfare. " Warfare " against the class......
" Britisher "
SIR,—" On what analogy, and with what excuse," asks Janus in your issue of August 27th, "can the termination 'er' be affixed to ' British ' ? And what would be the natural......
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