Inaccurate

Sir: Christopher Booker's article (29 August) 'The Cossacks' betrayal' is inaccurate in at least one statement. He refers to Brigadier Toby Low (now Lord Aldington) as General......

Touched

Sir: Mary Kenny, in her view of Thomas Szasz's Sex: Facts, Frauds and Follies (22 August) accepted as fact his assertion that Orthodox Jewish men have been traditionally brought......

Discourteous

Sir: Were Auberon Waugh a lady would he curtsey to the President, namely the elected Sovereign of socialist France, Mr Mitterrand? His ignorance on the symbolism of a curtsey,......

The Right To Die

Sir: Ms Sanders compares the starvation of handicapped infants with 'the Nazi ethic' (22 August). In 1922 Binding and Noche, in Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten......

Commissioned

Sir: Mr Richard West kindly suggests (22 August) that in 1960 I was able to commission V. S. Naipaul to travel round the Caribbean and write his Middle Passage which I published......

Perverse

Sir: Really, Mr Milnes (29 August) makes remarkably heavy weather of my innocent query. As for the 'private spat' of which he threatens an explanation (surely he means `joke'),......

Nil Desperandum

Sir: I was intrigued by the story of Tony Benn's great-uncle and his eventual return to (apparent) sanity, (22 August). Would this suggest there may yet be hope for Mr Benn? D.......