26 FEBRUARY 1937, page 21

A Propos De L'exposition

[D'un correspondant parisien] IL suffit d'une phrase pour faire une renommee. Ainsi k baron Louis serait oublie aujourd'hui s'il n'avait dit : " Faites- moi de bonne politique......

" Gringoes " [to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sik,—mr.

P. A. La Rue's ciplariatiOn (in your issue of the 12th inst.) Of this term agrees with what 1 was told when a member of the British Military "MitsiOn to the U.S.A. in 1917-18,......

Moscow Trials [to-the Editor' Of The Spectator.]

SIR,—After the Kamenev-Zinoviev trial you referred to the shooting of " old Bolsheviks" in Moscow. In a letter which you printed, later confirmed in an excellent article by Sir.......

[to The Editor Of The' Spectator.] Sir, --mr. La Rue's...

of " Gringo " from " green grow " is presumably cruritractive. We do not know what the word comes from, but we -know what it does not come from. It may be from the Spanish "......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.]

Sia,—The view expressed by "Janus" appears to be strongly supported by Bishop GOre, from whose Jesus of Nazareth J extract what follows : " Probably our grandfathers if not our......

Angora

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,— Whatever one may think of Dr. Rendel Harris' views on the derivation of the name of Angora, certain it is that its second syllable is......

Literalism And Doctrine

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —" Janus' " depression because of the way in which ecclesiastics build up a doctrine, or an ethical system, on a text is shared by many......