From Ms L. Smith Sir: Mr Raby Wonders Why Americans
are so universally disliked. My husband, who teaches business ethics, has always offered an answer to the closely related question, 'Why do people dislike Americans immedi-......
From Dr Netta M Goldsmith Sir: During The Ten Years
that I lived in the United States, I came to like Americans for the following reasons: 1. They are direct. They have an instinct for the most straightforward and, therefore,......
Flawless Floor
From Mr Rolf Norfolk Sir: I was impressed by the photograph of Carl Andre's 'Glarus Copper Galaxy' in your Arts section (29 July). The ostensible subject is facile rubbish, of......
Surtee's Admirers From Mr Jeremy Lewis Sir: I Was Thrilled
to read Paul Johnson's wise words about R.S. Surtees (And anoth- er thing, 29 July). Quite right, too. Surtees's novels are notoriously hard to track down in the second-hand......
Why Leakers Leak
From Mr Frederick Forsyth Sir: In seeking to persuade us that the Labour leaker must have been a now- departed civil service bird of passage with vicious Tory tendencies, Sion......
Where's The Splendour?
From Mr John Crookshank Sir: Observing Conrad Black ('Westward look, the land is bright', 15 July), Kenneth Clarke (Letters, 29 July) and other contem- porary worthies......
A Club For Proles
From Mr Leo Cooper Sir: I have always been under the impres- sion that, in the circles in which I move, the Royal Automobile Club was, and is, known as the Chauffeur's Arms......
Vazillating
From Mr Robert W.G. Dyce Sir: How right is Tam Dalyell when he con- cludes that politicians who embark on mili- tary action have a duty to sustain their con- cern CA game of......
Pro- And Anti- Yank
From Mr Michael Hugill Sir: The American quoted in Mr Raby's let- ter (29 July) is clearly not typical. Neither were the two Americans sitting behind me on a bus from Rome to......
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