30 JANUARY 1982, page 16

Unhealthy

Sir: It would never occur to anyone vi . itti charity that Richard Ingrains was be llig d anything other than ironic when he sliPP e ., into the gruesome parlance of the prim......

Insulting The Readers

Sir: I have no doubt that among many people the recent prison sentence upon the editor of Bulldog (Notebook, 16 January) will produce a feeling that ... it is only the National......

Letters

The Roosevelt myth Sir: I read with interest Nicholas von Hoff- man's article about 'That damned Roosevelt' (23 January). As a person who was born after Franklin Roosevelt's......

Ugly Acronym

Sir: I notice that in spite of a mildly deprecatory reader's letter of some weeks ago the expression SODPAL still appears regularly in your 'Portrait of the Week'. It is neither......

The Russian Connection

Sir: Auberon Waugh is taken to task by J. C. Q. Roberts, Director of the Great Britain-USSR Association (Letters, 16 January), over his comments on Mr Frank Giles's involvement......