30 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 26

Forgiveness

Sir: John Casey (Test we forgive', 9 September) wrote truly that there is con- fused thinking about crime, retribution and forgiveness. Yet neither he nor the corres- pondents......

Letters

Hollis's reputation Sir: It was unlikely that Mr Chapman Pincher, who is thanked in the preface and praised at intervals thereafter, would ex- amine critically W. J. West's book......