13 DECEMBER 1975, page 3

Letters To The Editor

Stonehouse replies From John Stonehouse, MP Sir: To ask Terry Pitt to review my'hotik Death of an Idealist is rather like asking a High Priest to deliver a judgement on a......

Death Penalty

Sir: We have had the death penalty. So we know, by experience, that it does not deter murder. It would mean hostages taken and martyrs created. Those who were hanged thirty......

Cod ' S Roe

(After Sir Henry Newbolt) Cod, they're in the ocean, but a thousand miles away, (Skipper, are you fishing down below?) Swimming round a gunboat in some Icelandic bay, And......

Confusing

Sir: I find your medical correspondent's latest art icj i : confusing. He says that any change in m ale-for a- 1 5 relationships in our society leads to stress, whi e , h , s......

Parting Company

Sir: "Again, while the rest of us, if we are lucky' , 018Y pay 5 per cent of our income into a pension fun d Civil servants pay nothing ...", Russell Lewis te lls ti e He......