THE SPECTATOR IN JULY
Next Week SUMMER NUMBER
Articles, poems and reviews by KENNETH ALLSOP, KINGSLEY AMIS, F. W. BATESON, D. W. BROGAN, D. J. ENRIGHT, MONICA FURLONG, THOM GUNN, ROY JENKINS, FRANK KERMODE, MARGHANITA LASKI. NORMAN MACCAIG, HAROLD PINTER and RICHARD WOLLHEIM.
The way traffic is strangling our cities has been the subject of much controversy recently: so bad has the situation become that even the Daily Mail has had to admit that there is only one solution, summed up in one word (a dirty word, it admits, to .Conservatives): Planning.
But planning for what? and by whom? MALCOLM MACEWEN has been investigating the many 'plans' that have been put forward since the turn of the century, and subjecting them to critical analysis in order to show why none of them achieved results and (what is more to the point) why 'planning' along present lines cannot achieve results. Mr. MacEwen's article on the subject will appear in the Spectator of July 8. ,t'February. 1940, found me a proba- tionary temporary second-lieutenant in an asbestos chalet on the English Channel;
never again, I resolved.. . In 1942 I was in a Nissen but on a Scottish moor; never again. In those days the politicians had a lot to say about Freedom. . . . All I asked in that horrible camp was freedom to travel. That, I should like to claim, is what I fought for, but I did far too little actual fighting to make that boast effective.,
Recalling his twenty-year-old resolution, EVELYN WAUGH last year decided to escape the English February, by spending it in Africa. He travelled overland to Genoa, where he met again the legendary Mrs. Stitch; then by liner to Dar-es-Salaam, via Suez, Aden, Mombasa and Zanzibar. He stayed for a while in Tanganyika, visiting the interior, meeting the Chagga and the Masai, before flying on to Rhodesia. From Salisbury he made expeditions to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the Serima Mission, and the Matoppos, before going on south to Cape Town to board the Pendennis Castle. From his diaries of this visit he has compiled a book, to be published later this year by Chapman and Hall.
TOURIST IN AFRICA will be serialisd in the Spectator, beginning July 15.
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