7 JANUARY 1949, page 20

Sla,—mr. Anthony Grant's Apologia Calls For Comment. The...

was indeed instigated by Moscow-trained Communists ; further- more, it was crushed—by the Republican Government. Dr. Hatta refused the Dutch offer of help because he quite......

Indonesia

Sirt,—I regret that in your just and reasoned leader on The Indonesian Tangle you did not censure Col. Hodgson's outrageous statement that the Dutch action in Indonesia was......

Painting As A Pastime

Sm,—The note of natural asperity which I detect in Mr. Alston's pertinent question warns me too late that it would have been safer to say " appear to have been painted on the......

Adoption And The Family

Sts,—I read with much interest the letter from Miss Horn on this subject. I tried twenty years ago to adopt a child, and applied to the National Adoption Society and the Church......

Letters To The Editor

SELLING IN AMERICA SIR,—May I add a few notes to Mr. Alec Spearman's excellent article. I, too, have just returned from a two months' trip in Canada and the States, where I was......

Arms For The Arabs

SIR, —Your note on the fighting between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine ends with the suggestion that, since the former have succeeded in arming themselves from various sources,......

University Awards

SIR,—I wish "A Cambridge Tutor " and Mr. Rust could be seized of the truth in this matter. I hoped to send my daughter to Oxford in two years, but owing to the £2,000 " ceiling"......