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ON ITHE SLID)E SlIR,-- was surprised by your comparing Kenneth kaunda, in a leading article last week, to a man Stuck at a turnstile with a crowd pressing from behind. I...

I'I)DINBuR1GH ART A SIlt, Your critic Bamber Gascoigne's recent reference to the Epstein Memorial Exhibition-l-lt Milst be brought to London'-might be laken as an indication...

MAYONNAISE SIR,--Not Cardinal Richelieu, Mks Whitehorn: he inVented Philippe de Champaigne. It was the Marshal Dukc of Richelieu; anJt not even he, but his chef, during the...

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WILFRIED) OWEN SIR,--i a;1 editing, for Chalto and WindLus, a 'I dillitivc eilitiill Of the poellms of Wilfred OWenl. I should be m1ost glraltefLul if ally of your readers who...

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SPAIN SIR,--I am1 surprised a t Frank MacDer-inot's attitude to my 'Partics in Spain' article. The significance of such tragedies as Malaga lies not in the numbers killed, but...

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