28 JANUARY 1949, page 18

Intermingle Jest With Earnest

SIR,—No one admires your contributor, Janus, more than I do, despite his habit, periodically, of disconcerting me by an irruption of what I can only describe as Plymouth......

Food Subsidies

SIR,—I was surprised to see you advocating (in The Spectator of January 14th) a halt to the continual rise in food subsidies—now running at £500,000,000 a year. Surely it is the......

Britons In Pakistan

SIR, —Having recently returned from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, which Mr. Close so admirably describes in The Spectator of January 7th, I should like to......

Foxhunting Facts

Snt,—Would it not be more just to all concerned if Mr. Greenwood was to ascertain the facts with regard to the conduct of foxhunting before he presumes to make categorical......

Juvenile Crime And Parents

SIR, —The exception which I took to the view that citizenship might appropriately be taught by a parental Government, using the Ministry of Education as its instrument, depended......

By The Banks Of The Avon

SIR, —Near the spot where, succeeding the legendary Guy of Warwick, the old Warwick historian, Rous, made his home five hundred years ago, and close to Blacklow Hill; on which......