The Season's Greetings

SIR.-1 have read with glee the remarks by Janus on the curse of Christmas cards, and I. am sure that many of your readers will thoroughly agree with him. This last Christmas has......

America And The Festival

Snt,—Whelher the Festival of Britain is the result of homintan confttsio or Dei providemia, whether it is a good thing or bad, is not for the outsider to decide I think the idea......

Franco's Spain

SIR.—Mr. B. Peter Blake does not seem to have read my letter very carefully, or he would have noticed that I was comparing the price of food in Spain with the average wages, the......

Thoracoplasty

SIR, —Dr. M. E. Lampard, in the Spectator of January 5th, states that "the operation of thoracoplasty costs the State about £1,000, and sometimes cures T.B." If it sometimes......

Church Unity

SIR.-1 am sorry for any unintended lack of charity towards those whose way of worship I value. As one of many overworked parish priests, perhaps I may be pardoned for a strong......

France In Africa Sir.—i Found Miss Epion's Article On North

Africa very interesting, but. as a Frenchman who lived in North Africa from 1938 to 1944, I think certain points need more emphasis. In the first place there is no unified Arab......

The Kashmir Conflict

SIR. — If the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers can, through' formal and informal talks, secure a settlement of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, that......