a cycle of decay,' but Britain's entry to the EEC remains un- settled. After spending the weekend in travail, the Six delegates adjourned discussions on Britain's entry till...

over the vital question of temperate foodstuffs, As for political opposition to this country's and the delay imposed by the French negotiators entry into Europe, this has proved...

!TIRE OECD has just published its report on I the Spanish economy with a view to Spain's possible entry into the Common Market. The conclusions it reaches were to be expected;...

9-11IERE should be no doubt about the desira- bility of sanctions against the continued seces- sion of Katanga. What is by no means certain, however, is whether the banning of...

T tit new Home Secretary has no sooner cleared his desk of one bulky file before another descends. Mr. Brooke has already pledged himself to devoting much of the Com- mons...

From Our Common Market Correspondent BRUSSELS W HY did the French do it? Anyone who has had anything to do with the Common Market negotiations must have asked himself that...

By OLIVER STEWART A IXIETIES about the cancellation of orders for the VC-10 air-liner, the BOAC-Cunard Atlantic merger, M. Georges Hereil's resigna- t:on and the Anglo-French...

'All God's children got a race to run. . A song of the Albany Movement. 'I find it inexplicable. . President Kennedy, wondering aloud why the City Commissioners of Albany,...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP M uni seems to be happening at Storey's Gate, this street in which is to be found the Ministry of Defence, a great, grim building built like a...

By HENRY FAIRLIE M R. MACMILLAN has commented more than once on the peculiar horrors of a modern statesman's life. Especially, there is the flight back after a protracted...

In a general way I am inclined to think that too much is made of the abuses of public re- lations, and have sometimes fancied that the journalist's eagerness to denounce PROs...

constitution—that myth—but it always pleases me to find one I had not heard of before. My latest discovery I owe to J. E. C. Bocl- ley, Dilke's secretary, who, in his classic...

Those impatient spirits who have broken up Sir Oswald Mosley's meetings should beware. The object of their wrath has already had his right to be heard defended by Victor...

I suppose that the death of Marilyn Monroe can be included under the heading of 'Holly- wood tragedies,' but it gave me and, I should imagine, many others a feeling of shock and...

T HE workings of diplomatic privilege are mys- terious and becoming more so as time goes on. Speaking as one who used to live in Bel- gravia well within earshot of the clashing...

By SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA A NUMBER of features single out the Spanish . ..dictatorship from other similar regimes. It is utterly devoid of any ideology whatsoever. E very time...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON E VERY day for the last few weeks tightly- packed audiences have sat in a darkened room just off a big London square, laughing hysterically at the...

of the 7th Bn. HLI who was for a time Wavell's Brigade Major and on whom fell the duty of arresting one disciplineless subaltern an- noyed me, then—innocently misled by Graves...

Us Par+sports Clancy Ailed Opera D istributing Profits What About the Envelopes? The True Emulsion Charles Peace Co mmonwealth and Common Market John Terraine, Alan W. Hyde...

Cairns summed up precisely the relationship that might exist between cinema techniques and opera. It is indeed possible to imagine The Ring, Aida, Car- men and Faust filmed to...

Brian Moore's review of Mary McCarthy, states that Communists may receive US passports. He goes on to imply that persons are not gaoled in America for their ideas, as distinct...

support of T. E. Lawrence from writings of FM Wavell and Sir Winston Churchill. I knew the former quite well and hold his opinions in great respect, but I fear, on this point....

about whether the US Government denies passports to Communists. He says the Supreme Court 'squashed the practice some years ago.' In applying for a new US passport a week ago,...

strongly disagree with your correspondent's views on the question of our possible entry into the EEC. You are of course entitled to print such nonsense —there is however an...

SIR,—As a reader who has recently returned to the Spectator, I was distressed to find that Nicholas Davenport's thinking has hardly progressed at all during my absence (see The...

Festival Finance By DAVID CAIRNS A COUNTRY whose idea of the place of Art in its life is to write letters to the Times, subscribe to appeals signed .by the most sonorous...

e i ph , °rear and murderer, whose name, even after Years, is still well known in many areas in e_ North and among Cockney Londoners. I will be grateful if you will permit me,...

SM,—In Elizabeth David's article 'The True Emul- 44 2 ° n' (August 3), she states that mayonnaise is an 'F c luired taste. Whatever justifiable praise can be g i ven for the...

SIR,—If one may judge by subsequent correspond- ence and references elsewhere, my light-hearted notes in your July 20 issue on the sale of manuscripts to American universities...

Sobering Up By BAMBER GASCOIGNE A Penny for a Song. (Ald- wych.)—The Empire Buil- ders. (Arts.) IN its original version, as directed by Peter Brook in 1951, John Whiting's A...

South Bank Revels By CLIVE BARNES LONDON'S Festival Ballet needs an enlightened millionaire, and the enlightenment would be as useful as the millions. For a commercial ballet...

By ISABEL QUIGLY THE film on Helen Keller's childhood is one of those that raise hackles and arguments and inevitably bring out the old chestnut : 'Well now, really, d'you call...

Not Talking About Jerusalem BY KINGSLEY AMIS A moNG many tendencies hostile to good writ- Piing, two have recently become prominent : the academic and the journalistic. The...

The Passing of the Whigs, 1832-1886. By Donald Southgate. (Macmillan, 50s.) 'A WISE Tory and a wise Whig, I believe, will a gree,' wrote Dr. Johnson. 'Their principles are the...

Not knowing what the morning brooded on Below her cowl of gathering cloud, the splayed Fingers of breadfruit and wild plantain waiting, Beggarly, for the still drop, 'presaging...

The Super-Americans. By John Bainbridge. (Gollancz, 30s.) AFTER what many people call 'the American Civil War'—what I prefer to call by its legal title, 'the War of the...

Prehistoric Crete. By R. W. Hutchinson. (Pelican, 10s. 6d.) AT the outset of this eagerly anticipated and deeply satisfying survey, Mr. Hutchinson has a reminder for the...

T o judge by his new book, A Sense of Danger, Vernon Scannell seems almost too real to be true, the typical contemporary English poet, his 'whole terrain a wintry cabbage...

Inferno. By August Strindberg. Translated by Mary Sandbach. (Hutchinson, 25s.) STRINDBERG, whose fame in this country rests largely on his very rarely performed plays, was...

The Poems of William Barnes. Edited by Ber- nard Jones. (Centaur Press, two vols., 8 gns.) 'DEAR old Barnes,' Coventry Patmore wrote to Edmund Gosse in September, 1886. 'He has...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ONE needs the quiet of a holi- day to think calmly about gold. The Americans get mad when Europeans talk about devaluing the dollar or writ- ing up the...

T HE profit growth of Crept Uoiversal Stores remains unchecked, in spite of the genera/ setback in profits reported by retail trades and restrictions on hire purchase. This...

By CUSTOS T HE wonderful forecast by Professor Paish of rising company profits and dividends over the next five years — see the Banker and the current Westminster Bank...

NCHANGA CONSOLIDATED COPPER MINES LIMITED (Incorporated in Northern Rhod(sia) STEPS TO MAINTAIN STABLE WORLD COPPER PRICES MR. H. F. OPPENHEIMER'S REVIEW WLN1Y-111 , 111...

In Company Notes in our issue of July 27, it was stated that the Watford development of Stewart and Ardern Ltd. was going ahead. In fact the Watford development has been...

Don't Bank On It By KATHARINE WHITE HORN SOME people spend Bank Holidays writing letters, and write them on no other day. Some spend them complaining about the rain, or...

Cookery at Bordyke House By ELIZABETH DAVID original, anything lifted from Miss Acton is mistakable. With With rare exceptions, given a5 ble coming from sources she...

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