Head Of The Commonwealth
SIR,—Pharos describes as 'a dubious constitutional doctrine' my view that the Queen, as Head of the Commonwealth, is not dependent upon the advice of any national Prime......
Itv Commercials Sir,—last Week Mr. Mayhew Wrote That The Itn
bulletin on the night of the Gatwick air disaster 'was interrupted to show a Lux commercial.' Mr. Mayhew was wrong. Advertisements are never inserted in ITN bulletins. If he......
Sir,—rarely Have I Had Such A Shock As On Opening
the Spectator of March 6 and reading my friend Mr. Brian Inglis's article on the Casement Diaries. I presume we are talking about the same diaries. Apparently the only thing Mr.......
Frank Harris
Sat,—As the author of the book which set off this correspondence may I just say that Guy Chapman's picture of •Bernard Shaw intimidated by Harris into paying him fulsome......
D. H. Lawrence
SIR,—I take due note of Mr. Rowse's piece of cor- rective information. I wrote in my article: 'a corn- tribution the editor seems to have commissioned under a misapprehension,......
Sir,—in An Article In Last Week's Spectator, Mr. Brian...
makes unsubstantiated statements about the late Lord Birkenhead which would clearly be libellous if he were alive and cannot fail to cause immense pain to his widely loved Widow......
Sir.—as Far As I'm Concerned, Both Mr. Evelyn Waugh And
Mr. Guy Chapman can hold whatever opinions they choose about Frank Harris. What they are not entitled to do without protest is to mis- represent Bernard Shaw's opinion on the......
The Casement Diaries
S1R,—May I add a postscript to Mr. Brian Inglis's interesting article on the Casement Diaries? Sir John Harris, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, who had been in......
Yangtse Gunboats Siu.—strix Does Not Appear To Have Got His
facts right in his article on Yangtse gunboats; appearing in your issue of February 20. HMS Sandpiper was by no means the only gunboat that could navigate the Siang River to......
Sir,—i Once Asked Shaw Why Wilde Refused To Leave England
on the eve of his trial. In a letter written on August 20, 1950, G. B. S. replied : 'I don't know. My guess is that Wilde as an Irish gentleman would not run away. Possibly [he......