Where Was Hannay?

Sir: A puzzle that I have never seen or heard addressed is this: did the French or British really have no inkling of the Schlief- fen Plan? The Plan was devised when Alfred von......

Captain Tsikata

Sir: I have acted for Captain Kojo Tsikata for about four years in his litigation with the Independent. Since the publication in LETTERS the Mail on Sunday of 24 August of......

Remote Response

Sir: Peter Duffell's letter of 6 September quotes T.S. Eliot's 'Somebody said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did. . . . " I have......

Letters

Sir: Much has been said of the late Princess of Wales's modem approach to the monar- chy. In some respects, however, she appeared to put the clock back by her refusal to accept......

Viceroy Vindicated

Sir: Lord Wyatt's interesting article (Even his fasts were a fraud', 9 August) reminded me of conversations we had about Gandhi while Lord Wyatt and I were both fellow guests at......

Sir: Throughout The Whole Of Last Week I Experienced A

feeling of dejd vu. Finally another week of mourning came back to me: namely that which took place in the Soviet Union in March 1953 after the death of Joseph Stalin, when a......

Cheque Facts

Sir: Richard Ingrams (Letters, 6 Septem- ber) and I differ in that I grew up in that tradition of journalism where the writer is expected to check his facts, even to the extent......