21 MARCH 1969, page 34

Fighting Back

Sir: Stuart Maclure's article (14 March) does less than justice to the 'Black Paper' on edu- cation. The facts that many secondary school heads are anxious about the......

Sir: As Madeleine Simms Admits (letters, 7 March) There Is

no means of knowing statis- tically the increase in abortions for 1968 over previous years. We must merely accept that the Abortion Act precipitated the increase in legal......

Sir: Dr Rowan Wilson (14 March) Appears To Adopt A

highly questionable line of argument. Self-improvement can come only from self- criticism, and Dr Rowan Wilson is very wrong to interpret the objective self-assessment which It......

The Freedom To Die

Sir: I have only today seen the SPECTATOR of 7 February. I want to thank you for publishing so unbiased an article as Dr John Rowan Wil- son's on The freedom to die.' He deals......

Sick Of The Sick Society

Sir: John Rowan Wilson writes (14 March), begging the question: 'The fallacious argu- ment is constantly advanced that affluent nations have some kind of moral debt towards the......

Abortion Boom

Sir: I am sorry to have offended Dr John Rowan Wilson (Letters, 14 March) by my 'gross lapse of taste' in pointing out (Letters, 7 March) that no one who is sympathetic to......

Eyes Left

Sir: Following on from Nigel Lawson's astute observations on One Pair of Eyes ('Spectator's notebook,' 7 March) and Mr Bewlay's letter (14 March), I would like to add some......