Consumer's Choice
Sir: Mr Thompson, on it being pointed out (Letters, 2 May) that he has made an invalid analogy, cannot avoid the fact by admitting, in effect, that he, not I, failed to compare......
Sir: Mr Ludovic Kennedy (9 May) Must Surely Have Been
unfortunate in never having heard the passage he quotes (Matthew ii. 1-8) read correctly. In the four parishes (Church of Eng- land and Church of Ireland) in which I have......
Good King Charles's Golden Days
Sir: Why must your Roman Catholic contribu- tors constantly snipe at those who have the temerity to be Protestant? Thus Denis Brogan (2 May) on de Gaulle's resignation—'Now......
Sir: In Reading Mr Ludovic Kennedy's 'a Lesson In...
(9 May) one sus- pects that his inward eye glistened as he pored over the first eight verses of St Matthew, chap- ter ii, which he was invited to read by his local minister last......
Pastor Resartus
Sir: I hesitate to take issue with so eminent a scholar as Sir Denis Brogan ('Table talk,' 9 May) but his assertion that the Cardinal's hat was never seen in public until after......
Towards A Nuclear Europe
Sir : Professor Laurence Martin, in his article entitled 'Towards a nuclear Europe' (25 April), wrote: `Mr McNamara has long asserted . . . that nuclear weapons can serve only......
The Expendability Of Harold
Sir: In view of your past attacks on the Prime Minister one is not surprised to find the hysterical mood in which today's often manu- factured and grossly exaggerated......
The Whole'hog
Sir: For archivists of the contemporary bour- geois mind, Mr G. E. Hubbard's letter (2 May), with its dithering liberal uncertainty about who is being 'quite serious,' and Mr......