7 FEBRUARY 1969, page 30

Britain And Biafra

Sir: Mr Okole (Letters,-17 January) claims that Opobo is an Ibo town. In fact, the majority of the Opobo know themselves to be of Ijo origin. Mr Okole's four points may be......

Caro And The Passionate Object

Sir: Mr Bryan Robertson's dithyrambic disser- tation on Caro's sculpture (24 January) is a. flawless essay on idolatry but what it has to do. With the aims and objects of......

Cracks In The Ice Cap

Sir: Geoffrey Barraclough's review of Politics and Experience (31 January) seems to reveal a regrettable misunderstanding of the aim and importance of Michael Oakeshott's......

Sir: Cochin Is In South India. The Sentence In Joseph

Chapman's (Commonwealth) 'Con- ference diary' (17 January): 'How different, for example, the recent history of Vietnam might have been had Mr Lee [Kean Yew] been Cochinese' is......

Past Masters

Sir : Dr Azikiwe (Letters, 31 January) may well be justified in taking exception to the satirical tone of some of my comments; thirty year old journalism provides a rather......

Conference Diary

Sir: Rarely have I ever been so angry after hav- ing read an article which I found disturbing. What really bothers me about the article in question is not just its most obvious......

Sex And Science

Sir: Had Mr Desmond (Letters, 10 January) chosen to do so, he could have quoted figures showing the decrease in the number of cases of diphtheria since mass inoculation began,......

Great Tate Debate

Sir: Stephen Gardiner in his article on the great Tate debate (31 January) touches on the ques- tion of the Moore Bequest and the exhibition of other sculpture. He makes the......