Hen And Pen Sir, — Is It In Order For Me To
ask what moved Mr. Kingsley Amis to say : 'There is little to choose between the poultry run and the PEN Club as restricting stamping-grounds for writers'? I am *will- ing to......
Points From Letters What Future Worthy Of Her Past Can
Britain hope for except maximum integration with the Common- wealth? At present, crowded at the rate of 540 to the square mile (habitable Canada has 10, habitable Australia 5),......
Sir, — Your Thoughtful And Thought-provoking Edi- Torial...
Testing Point' is both timely and welcome. By speaking plainly on British policy in the Middle East you have done a service to the cause of truth and justice. The recent......
Sir,—by A Single Bold And Imaginative Stroke Of...
could upset the Nasser apple-cart, confound the Soviet intriguers and refill the so- called 'vacuum.' If we have the courage and fore- sight to seize it an opportunity now......
The Versailles Affair Sir, — Though He Himself Makes No...
it, I assume that the occasion of Mr. Rowland Mait- land's letter (Spectator, February 8) was my review article 'No End of the Affair' on Mrs. Lucille Iremonger's The Ghosts of......
Alas, What Ails You, Graham Greene, And Why, And When
this prurient itch To see the infant class at Sheen Reciting Wilhelmina Stitch? The End of the Affair will be, For you, poor Greene, a fatal shock, That I'll prescribe for......
The American Language Sir,-1 Am Preparing For Alfred A....
an abridgement of H. L. Mencken's The American Language, to be based on the fourth edition (1936) and the two supplements (1945, 1948). I should be grateful for any information......