6 DECEMBER 1968, page 26

Double Standard

Sir: For crying out loud, where does J. W. M Thompson (Spectators Notebook, 29 Novem- ber) live, in Tibet or the Fiji Islands? He does not know that ten days after Armistice Day......

How Master Fuller Won The Day St Saturnine's Da} Good

Sir: Alack! I am by now struck down & oerthrou'n & awaiting Tryall by the young murtherers.......

Sir: Denis Brogan's Visit To Bologna La Grassa (29 November)

seems to have made him neglect Bologna la dotta ('the learned,' the city's other invariable epithet). San Petronio isn't the cathedral of Bologna, though admittedly it looks as......

Official Rebel

LETTERS From R. R. Milner-Gilliam!, Tibor SzamitelY, Robin Chichester-Clark, MP, W. A. P. Wad- din a gion, John Lamer, 'Ranter' Cobb, Andrew Sinclair, John Ashe, Nicolas Walter,......

Table Talk

Sir: Denis Brogan had fun in your issue of 15 November with a misquotation from one of my speeches. I make no complaint of this, but write to reassure any friend(s) I may have......

Sir: I Always Enjoy Sir Denis Brogan's Articles But I

must correct two errors in this one (29 November): 1. King Enzo, who was imprisoned for many years at Bologna, was a son, not grandson, of the Emperor Frederick II; 2. Italian......

Sir: Mr Patrick Hutber, In His Intemperate And Abusive...

upon my article on Yevtu- shenko (Letters, 29 November), make no attempt even to question my facts. Instead, he rants about 'character assassination,' a small clique of cold......

Biafra

We continue to receive a large number of letters on this subject. A selection, held over from this week for reasons of space, will appear next week.......