A Russian Satirist
Sm,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, referring in his Marginal Comment to the recent attack on the periodicals Zvesda and Leningrad, says that he knows nothing of either Zoshchenko, who has......
The Soviet System
SIR, —The Duchess of Atholl, in your last issue, wrote: "The Russian Army, from 1942 onwards armed mainly owing to American and British aid." My brain reels anew at this......
Sot,—a Petitioning Prayer Of Any Kind Is A Hope Put
into a form of words which takes God into account. Unless it is nonsense to say, " I hope the weather will improve for the sake of the harvest," or (should need arise), " I hope......
Ci - Iinese Puzzle
Sot,—Mr. Michael Lindsay's letter in your issue of August 3oth prompts me to ask how the Chinese Communists square their oft-repeated concern for the execution of urgent and......
Dispossessed Farmers
Sm,—The Ministry of Agriculture have set up Appeal Tribunals to deal with future cases of dispossession by War Agricultural Executive Com- mittees. Unfortunately, however, such......
Prayers And The Weather
SIR, —" Surely even professed "•scientists "must regard with dismay " the frequent falsification of the weather forecasts. If Miss Winckworth is at all concerned in the harvest,......
Sta,—it Seems Your Correspondent Wrote Somewhat...
Day of Prayer for relief from the rain. Whether or not our prayers reached heaven or the meteorologists, they have certainly been answered, or is this just another coincidence,......
A.o.s. 'possibilities
Sta,—I have read with surprise the description of the Appointments Office of the Ministry of Labour by Mr. Graham Watson in your issue of September 13th. My own experience was......
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