Sir Robert Menzies

Sir: Ironical that I should have to write to a conservative journal like yours to defend a conservative politician like Sir Robert Menzies, but Phillip Knightley's obituary......

Sir: What A Waspish And Contradictory Article You...

20 May about the late Sir Robert Menzies by Phillip Knightley. Although Australians never took to him, we are told, he won 'election after election'. Gough Whitlam who was......

Philistine

Sir: A uberon Waugh thinks that the thalidomide disaster should be seen, not in 'terms of money to be poured into the pockets of undeserving parents', but rather as 'an......

Heart Of Darkness

Sir: In your editorial about Zaire (27 May) you rightly say that the word 'tribal' could be changed to 'national', but you cannot continue from that point and suggest a......

Advent For Israel

Sir: Mr Hyam Maccoby (Letters, 20 May) might well have added that all the biblical laws about crop rotation (land resting) and property tenure evidence permanent occupation and......

The National Front

Sir: In Ferdinand Mount's article 'The end of Vulgar Pessimism' (13 May), he says: 'The National Front sinks back into the effluent.' Although I very much wish they did, this is......

Evans English

Sir: So eager is Auberon Waugh to rap the knuckles of Harold Evans in his review (27 May) of thelatter's series of books that he ends up making an ass of himself. I'm not going......