6 NOVEMBER 1971, page 22

Sir: I Am Sorry That I Accidentally Demilitarised...

but I stand by my opinions and specifically reject ' direct rule' as politically impracticable. So long as Northern Ireland remains a semi-detached part of the UK, the IRA......

Gp's Problems

Sir Dr J. Rowan Wilson seems to have a chip on his shoulder about GPs. In fact the latter, by vetting patients for sick certificates and for the two-to-three months waiting list......

Bradford Charade

From Dr F. H. Hansford-Miller Sir: At a time when soldiers and civilians are being killed in Northern Ireland, and on the morrow of an historic decision by Parliament to join......

Black Death

From Dr J. L. Insley Sir: Carefully not being snide, Mr I.. Clarke's (October 16) " official " death rate is still more than my official notifications of kwashiorkor for 1969.......

Siding With India?

From Lieut-Col H. R. Petty (Retd.) Sir: Your leading article "Siding with India" is one-sided and mischievous. You seem to ignore the fact that India, by encouraging rebellion......

Funny Girl

Sir In, his review of An Accidental Man (October 23) Auberon Waugh writes that this work " marks Miss Murdoch's debut as a humorist." May I suggest that he reads Under the Net.......

Funny Man

Sir: I could have foretold that Auberon Waugh would belittle J. B. Priestley whenever he had occasion to mention him: he is that sort of person. However, as an admirer of both......

Clever Tactics?

Sir: Mr Anthony Lejeune in his article on EEC (October 30) with all the benefit of hindsight advises Mt Wilson that his best course of action would have been to call for a......

Dry Rot

Sir: We do, of course, applaud the opening paragraph of Skinflint's City Diary (October 9) but We must point out that when the drY rot work was originally carried out we did our......