5 OCTOBER 1996, page 38

Letters A Duty To Be True

Sir: Charles Powell's acid review (Books, 28 September) saddens me. On the very first page of my book I point to the deformation professionnelle inherent in the work of every......

Sir: Divergent Interpretations Of Fact Are Not To Be...

by dismissive asides and personal sneers. I refer to Sir Charles Pow- ell's review of Mr George Urban's account of the famous, or notorious, 'Chequers seminar' (Books, 28......

Further Selection

Sir: May anyone join in selecting the Com- posers' XI? I think room should be found for Britten, not only because he must be the only composer to have been captain of his prep......

Hiroshima And The Bbc

Sir: Professor Cameron Watt's letter (28 September) on the subject of the BBC pro- gramme on Hiroshima is so admirably definitive that I intervene only to assure your readers......

Keep The Option Open Sir: Bruce Anderson Always Writes Well,

but seems temporarily unable to read, other- wise he would not have attacked (Politics, 28 September) those of us who signed the letter on Europe to the Independent for......