27 JANUARY 1950, page 18

Sir,—in Your Article Labour's Claims You Maintain That...

Government cannot receive credit for the fact that there is full employ- ment, since the needs of reconstruction and the receipt of Marshall Aid have made it inevitable. I know......

Labour's Record

SIR,—Strikin g a balance of Labour's achievements in your leading article of January 20th, you place on the credit side (and it is the only item on that side) this Government's......

"middle-class Argument" Of Your Two " Well-known " (but...

anonymous) writers seems to be not so much an argument ,as first a lamentation for past privileges (with no consideration of whether they were deserved or not), and second an......

Another Threatened Industry

SIR,-1 do not complain of the statement in last week's election notes that "the threatened industries—with-Atte single exception of Messrs. Tate and Lyle Ltd.—have covered up......

Middle-class Argument

SIR,—Bein g an elderly middle-class housewife myself, I read with interest George's and Jane's letters in the Spectator of January 20th. May make a few comments on Jane's ? To......

The Refining Of Sugar

SIR,—My concern throughout has been with sugar which is refined in this country, and I think it will be agreed that unrefined sugar imported for consumption in that form is......