T HE TENSION o ff the Chinese coast further relaxed, with rumours of impending disengage - ment between the State Department and the Chinese Communist Government — much to...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1958

O N a Sunday morning in November, 1920, fourteen Britons were dragged from their beds in Dublin and shot. That afternoon, British troops retaliated by firing on a crowd at a...

E uGENio PAcEut was born in Rome in 1876, the child of a family which had for many generations been in the service of the Vatican. His diplomatic career began when in 1917 he...

ONSERVATIVE gatherings are nowadays in- k., complete without an excited debate on crime and punishment and an enthusiastic advocacy by almost everybody of the need to meet...

FrFIE Government's policy for sterling was I playfully described some years ago as con- vertibility by stealth. In his speech to the joint meeting of the International Monetary...

By DARSIE GILLIE Paris WHEN General de Gaulle first went to Algiers immediately after his accession to the pre- miership, his speech from the balcony of the Government- General...

Tories on Top T HERE must be easier ways of earning a living. Harken to Mr. Mencken : . . . meals bolted suicidally or missed alto- gether, nights spent in pursuing elusive and...

see from Miles Howard's article this week) is larger than the total government expenditure here on mental health. If this is so, it is a staggering indictment not only of the...

the best-known and respected of . all Anglican bishops. Churchmen in Europe— especially in Germany and in Scandinavia, where he had many friends—will mourn him, as well as...

into mental illness can be seen from some of Mr. Robinson's statistics. Close on half the total number of hospital beds in the country are occupied by mental patients : there...

NOBODY CAN FEEL satisfied at the way in which Treasury control of expen- diture is exercised; but I do not think that what Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick ad- mitted was his 'aggressive'...

Attlee-Grimond correspondence on patron- age was that there is something seriously wrong with the postal services between Great Missenden and the North of , Scotland. However...

By DESMON D STEWART Faom 1941, for seventeen doleful years, the name of Rashid All was only whisp- ered in Baghdad. His house was shuttered, his books and property confiscated,...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS THE British public seems to demand that about one in three of its Prime Ministers should spend his time in saying how much he hates politics. It is its...

By OLIVER ST.EWART A I RCRAFT size is a measure of aircraft noise. An aircraft of one hundred tons will be twice as noisy as one of fifty tons. Arrange the new jet liners in an...

Revolving GODDESS Brigitte Bardot has now got a shrine she can call her own -a life-size statue of herself in the foyer of the Cameo Royal, the leg-art cinema by London's...

Funny Peculiar By ALAN BRIEN Valmouth. (Lyric, Hammer- smith.) — Live Like Pigs. (Royal Court.) As far as I am concerned— and that is as far as I am con- cerned with...

The Leaven in the Lump By ISABEL QUIGLY The Man Upstairs. (New Vic- toria.)—Love is My Profes- sion. (Cameo-Royal.) — She Didn't Say No. (Empire.)— Rock-a-bye Baby....

Philistines Rampant By DAVI''' . CAIRNS ANNA RUSSELL, a beefy come- dienne with a receding wit, had a huge audience in stitches at the Festival Hall on Tuesday. Miss Russell,...

Pro Bono Publicists By PETER FORSTER FOR the past fortnight ITV has been smugly congratulating it- self on its three first glorious years—alas, in some far from glorious...

East is East By J. C. F. QUINN `AUF WIEDERSEHEN' said the gay banner strung rather ominously across the road at the small German frontier town. Filled with more misgiving than...

Heating the Home By LESLIE ADRIAN A NUMBER of correspondents have asked me to amplify comments I made recently on oil-fired heating in the home -- including one who complains...

The Hurt Mind By MILES HOWARD A THOUGH some advances have been made in L recent years, the treatment of mental illness can still be unprofitable and disheartening, especially...

By STRIX H EY'D all have to be very big men,' said Dick. 'And they'd all have to have bushy eyebrows,' Colin pointed out. 'The eyebrows could be stuck on,' I snapped. When...

OCTOBER 12, 1833 NUMEROUS reports have been circulated in London and Paris, during the last few days, of risings in different provinces of Spain in favour of Don CARLOS• At...

SIR,—More and more passengers arc turning up at London Airport or West London Air Terminal with seats confirmed and tickets endorsed only to be told the flight is full and...

SIR,—Pharos has himself given the neatest explana- tion of why access to the Exhibition Suite in the Royal Festival Hall is restricted to concert patrons. Geographically, it...

The Public Schools lion. Hilary A. Marquand, MP John Bull's Schooldays D. A . J. Simpson, Lawrence Stone, Robert Nott Festival Hall Exhibitions T. E. Bean Air Bookings David...

and distaste. Of all the writers the only two who seem to have enjoyed their schooldays at all were educated at council or charit- able schools. Those who went to private and...

Raven's account of the sudden growth of delation in a well-known public school. The verb 'to show up' was certainly extant by the early Thirties, and it is my recollection that...

you on September 5 under the heading s, 'Recruitment,' is now serving a sentence of two weeks' detention for disobeying an order. The order M question states that he should not,...

years since I left, not merely the school, but the very House that Mr. Raven describes in his contribution to 'John Bull's Schooldays' in your issue of last Friday, yet never,...

SIR,—The following may perhaps be of interest : engaged on research recently, .I discovered that the well-known 'carpe diem' of Horace's Ninth Ode is in fact a misreading of...

be done in England today'? I have lately retired from my firm in India and I shall be home for good in the spring; still reasonably young and sound in wind and limb. I have no...

SIR,—Having completed a biography of the late Major-General Orde Wingate, I am looking for suit- able illustrations. If any of your readers have un- published photographs of...

again'? 'Who is to decide what is better for the public other than their own choice?' In case Pharos is in an answering mood, here is a second question : Did he see any of the...

for better houses, schools; and mental - deficiency hospitals. I can only claim to have real knowledge of one such hospital, but it may hearten Mr. Vaizey to know of the...

Slough; it is not fit for humans now. . . If you substitute 'canines' for 'humans,' the poet John Betjeman is bang up to date. A harsh edict in one town now forbids a dog to...

SIR,-1 am puzzling on how Taper managed to see Peterborough, Lincoln and York on his way to Scarborough. I may be wrong, but I should not imagine that any train takes such a...

betray the existence of such an illiberal and unsympathetic attitude to- wards those who, for one reason or another, have become addicted to alliophagy. The enlightened view,...

SIR,—What, may I ask Pharos, is particularly humiliating about losing a game on television? As one of the contestants on Dotto I did not feel particularly humiliated when I...

R. H. Tawney By CHRISTOPHER HILL A NY short list of the greatest living English historians would inevitably include the name of Professor Taivney. The study of sixteenth and...

East to West. A Journey Round the World. By Arnold J. Toynbee. (O.U.P., 21s.) FEW of us have enough money to go round the world purely for our own pleasure, and, if we did, we...

The Work of the Queen. By Dermot Morrah. (William Kimber, 21s.) MR. DERMOT MORRAH iS a Fellow of All Souls, a leader-writer for The Times, editor of the Round Table and—as a...

Culture and Society 1780-1950. By Raymond Williams. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) THE familiar and formidable problem of mass civilisation and minority culture has been taken up...

Shaking a box marked 'Please Support our organised mess,' The approachers are not given The opposite of yes, Except where in dark rooms The uncharitable live, Developing their...

(Cassell, 16s.) Idle on Parade. By William Camp. (MacGibbon and Kee, 15s.) Mountolive is the third in a series of four novels in which Lawrence Durrell is describing life and...

THIS Entertainment opens with the progress of a lame and blind Negro past two Europeans drink- ing in a Cuban café, which may remind you of another Secret Service entertainer...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT The thirteenth annual report of the Inter- national Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- ment (to give its full name) is encouraging reading. The...

ACROSS 1 Discuss what the beginner had for a meal? (6) 4 Pilfering—among the incunabula ? (8) 8 Controllers evidently no longer in their teens (8) 10 Long exposure produces...

By CUSTOS N Monday the Stock Exchange had its busiest kj day since May, 1957, and the boom in equity shares broke fresh ground for the year — just before the rise in...

K ELSALL & KEMP'S preliminary fi gures for 1957-58 indicate that their results are an exception to the general trend of woollen manu - facturers whose profits for some time past...

9 Hay- stack, 10 Infant, 12 Mired. 13 Look sharp. 14 Recur. 16 Implement. 17 Appertain. 19 Poser. 21 Drink hail. 22 Thief. 24 Too-too. 25 Swelters. 26 Sand-flea. 27 Aspens....

Treble Chance; breaking any athletic record. TN a competition for quotations, particularly with- out a choice of• subjects, there is bound to be a good deal of duplication,...

long ago there flourished (does it still?) a Flat Earth Society. For the usual prize of six guineas competitors are asked to promote a similar dissenting body.f or these...