5 NOVEMBER 1965, page 15

The Academic In Office Sir, —in His Warm And Friendly...

of Richard Crossman (Spectator, October 29) Mr. Alan Watkins failed to make it clear that in 1948 Mr. Crossman was prepared not only to jeopardise but also to jettison his......

Synthetic Young Gentlemen Sir, —by Transcribing The Word...

ancient Greek equivalent John Davenport shows impressive learning and gratifying delicacy. Enforced study of Alexandrian scholarship, however, has made Me Pedant enough to......

The Fall Of Babylon

Sta,—Your reviewer, D. W. Brogan, has been kind enough to write at considerable length on my book,' The Fall of Path. He has, however, misrepresented my views--I feet--on a......

Sir.—in Last Week's Spectator, By Some Oddity Of Proof...

I say the opposite of what I meant. I mildly criticised Mr. Alistair Home for describing French field artillery as 'brass': it was bronze, like the Austrian artillery in 1914.......

The Sex War Sir, - - -if S. R. Rahman Feels I Have

offered an insult to his religion during the course of the corre- spondence on the sex war, I must assure him I meant no such thing. 1 based my reference to Islam on a fact......

Question Of Copyright

must thank Professor. Maxwell for having taken up a point for Dr. Rowse. who has himself been rather savage of late, calling one reviewer 'a little bitch.' I think Dr. Rowse......

The Corot Exhibition Sir,—concernin G The Recent Letter...

Cecil Gould in response to Mr. Bryan Robertson's criticisms on the Corot exhibition may 1 point out how very unfortunate it was that Mr. Robertson did not exercise more......