5 DECEMBER 1958, page 25

Vacuum Flasks

SIR, - -As manufacturers of vacuum flasks marketed under our own brand, we cannot agree with Mr. Adrian's conclusions in the matter of colloquial use of .a brand name. In the......

Sir--ta Per Quotes With Approval The Epigram Of Mr....

'The vice anglais is not buggery but fiumbuggery: But in point of fact, the vice anglais in French slang is flagellation, the desire to hurt or humiliate other people. The......

Consumer Reports

SIR. — I was very glad when I saw Leslie Adrian's notice of the article in The Manager by Mr. Stanley Alderson which dealt with consumer reports as pub- lished in Shopper's......

The Church Of England And Divorce

SIR, — Itcgrettable to many though the present posi- tion is, it seems that only after Disestablishment can Mr. Weir's opponents establish their principles as valid law.......

'what About 'the Opium War?'

SIR,—Mr. Levin's admirable review of The Opium War through Chinese Eyes reminded me of an eye- opening experience of mine when I was a student at an American university. It was......

Sir,—mr. Bernard Levin May Not Have Learnt Of Our...

opium war against China at school. But I did. It was all told to us at that subversive, radical in- stitution, Wellington, in the year of doubts and ques- tionings, 1912, and......

Sit,—the Press, As Though Anxious To Demonstrate That Its...

towards the cause of homosexual freedom is not a symptom of moral laxity, has un - relentingly condemned prostitution—to such an extent that further attack at this stage is......