1951 And All That
Sir: It is sad, though not surprising, that Lord Beaumont, on sitting down to write a reasoned delence of the Liberal party (Letters, 18 July), should find it necessary to rely......
Love Locked Out
Sir: Oh Christopher Hollis, why art thou raving? Thou wast not present at G. Dennis's speaking Nor heard him speak both high and low; He said not that a wife came second (Then......
South Africa
Sir: I am sure that many of your better- informed readers will have written to thank you for 'South Africa: A Survey' (18 July), but I feel that I, as a previously ill-informed......
Workers By Hand And Brain
Sir: May I offer a trifling correction to Sir Denis Brogan's 'Table talk' of 18 July? The Scottish judge he refers to was indeed the son (the eighth son) of an eighteenth......
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Sir: Your correspondent N. J. Ogbuehi asks (Letters, 25 July) 'how can Dr Bowers hope to get away with the conclusion that the anti-apartheid campaign is based entirely on......
The Afrikaans Language
Sir: Mr Jenner's letter about Afrikaans (25 July) is unjust both to South Africa House and, by implication, to my organisation. Here at Language Studies we have a full pro-......
Metrication Mania
Sir: The recent correspondence on metrica- tion mania seems to have overlooked its relationship with Great Britain's attempt to get into the Common Market. In the 1950s neither......
Thirsty Work
Sir: I'm afraid that Mr Hollis, in his witty parody of 'The Sash' (25 July), perpetuates yet another common English error about Ireland. We do not mispronounce 'fine' so as to......
The Valley Of Death
Sir: Denis Brogan writes ('Table talk,' 25 July) that the Crimean War was the 'silliest war in the nineteenth century'. One could conceivably reply that his article is the......
Looking To The Future
Sir: After reading Christopher Hollis's excellent article on cricket (25 July), I find there is one point he made which calls for comment. It is suggested that Yorkshire's......
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