FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958

squeeze, the arrival of summer, the continuation of the long-drawn wage-talks between the busmen and the London Transport Executive, Mr. Macmillan's insistence that Gladstone,...

A LTHOUGH Mr. Hammarskjold seems, for the moment at least, to have prevented Anglo- American intervention in the Lebanon, no one can be satisfied with ,Western policy during the...

THE news that M. Jacques Soustelle is to become Minister of Information in General de Gaulle's govern- ment will come as an un- pleasant surprise to those who • had hoped that...

T HE Chancellor's decision virtually to end the credit squeeze took the City, and others, by surprise, but was none the less welcome for that. It is, however, important to keep...

I T NHE Labour Party's new pamphlet on agricul- tural policy, Prosper the Plough, contains one promise of importance : that 'the Labour Party favours a moderate increase in...

By MICHAEL ADAMS Beirut ' obse rvers over the first report of the UN 'observers published on 'July 4 still echoes through Government circles in Beirut and the loyalist press....

THE news of Harry Boardman's shockingly sudden death last week caught this column in the press, but the memories that men like Board- man leave behind them are not so fragile...

By RICHARD The case for their admission has been simply that the people of the territories seemed to want it, and history may find that a sufficient justification. The case...

'AN. UNPRECEDENTED EXERCISE in State patronage' was how the Spectator. last week described the handling of commercial television contracts; and now comes the news — that...

Scotland, an interim statement has just been issued on the conversations which have been ' going on between the Church of England and the Methodist Church about intercommunion....

Archbishop Makarios inevitablyproduced howls of rage from the most depraved sections of the press. Though 1 do not imagine Dr. Fisher has any' intention of resigning, the...

of the institution's warning system, has led to an ugly wave of hysteria in the Press, and will probably lead to renewed demands for tougher treatment of criminal lunatics. 'The...

By MARK BONHAM CARTER, MP rr HE closed shop is an ugly problem; and the story of the Aeronautical 'Engineers Associa- tion is a sad story and a bad story. Since the...

Bill last Friday, and much of their time was spent on tedious semantics: what constitutes `reasonable facilities'; what distinguishes 'facili- ties' from 'accommodation': and...

in the course of the debate; and as , usual the Government spokesman took refug e in equivOcation. If Mr. Emrys Hughes wants to know where 'the 'diaries'• are kept, the S...

By RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL TT has been an agreeable diversion from the I serious task of gardening to read last Sunday's criticisms in the Observer of the intrusion by the gutter...

By STRIX I N 1912 the Russians celebrated the centenary of the Battle of Borodino. The present Duke of Wellington, then serving in the British Embassy at St. Petersburg, was...

Building IN AN EALING Mr. Michael Redgrave, the President, all modesty and god-like good looks, his diffident actor's stammer stumbling on the heart of every woman in the...

By KENNETH GREGORY 0 Ti those who have feared for the safety of the Establishment had been at Lord's last Friday, a glance at the marquee shared by the Carl- ton and Cavalry...

Back to the Library By JOHN BRAINE LAST week I viewed my last. I don't suppose that I'll be able to resist the occasional rendezvous with Tonight or Panorama or This Week or...

Summer Season MASON By COLIN are very great indeed. She lacks experience still, and much of her musical phrasing, like her acting, was raw. In the first two acts she seemed a...

Venetian Scandal By BERNARD DENVIR ARTISTS were excluded from the vernissage •of the twenty-ninth Biennale at Venice because (it was said) their cajolery of the critics in 1956...

Travel by Night By LESLIE ADRIAN Last week, for an ITV divertissement, those high-pressure cooks, the Cradocks, devoured the 800-odd miles from London to Nice in sixteen hours...

By ISABEL QUIGLY THREE in the morning is the only time left here to write articles. The VIII Berlin Film Festival runs at a brisk pace. Just before mid- night we were toasting...

The Illness Spiral By MILES HOWARD The vicious-spiral effect in illness. I thought of this last week when a friend told me of his wife —she has an irregular heartbeat when...

The English language is still a noble currency in my part of the world, and it is odd to find an Englishman insisting on its devaluation. It was an Indonesian professor at Gadja...

SIR,—As . one of the speakers for the Popular Tele- vision Association (now renamed Popular Television Committee) during the campaign to introduce com- mercial television into...

SIR,—We may leave Hitler's name out of the question if Lord Altrincham prefers. The question is whether a national Church, such as he envisages, would have sufficient sense of...

Peace on Earth? Dr. R. L. Kuching English in South-East Asia Vernon Bartlett. Lee Siew Yee Anglican Spring Cleaning Dr. Alec Vidler Eats and Belles Irving Wardle Pay As You...

Sin,—In a letter in your issue of June 20, Mr. George Edinger. made some strange assertions about the alleged loss of influence in Asia of the English lan- guage and...

Mr. Geoffrey Reeves into blazing off at my article on the Youth Theatre in so fine a style, I must point out that he has not brought down more than a couple of clay pigeons. As...

SIR,-1 suspect Mr. Celadon August of being some- thing of a wag, so I must not take him too seriously. I would, however, like to make it clear that it was the gesture and not...

SIR,—Your 'Roundabout' correspondent, writing about canal boatmen, is singularly misinformed. None of my colleagues is particularly inbred, suspicious, tiny or flat-faced. The...

was correcting some of Mr. James MacGibbon's statements about the social and political attitudes of Oxford undergraduates, was so absurdly inadequate and so patently illiberal...

SIR,—It was encouraging to hear recently that the Government had struck a blow against monopoly and the 'tied house' principle by banning 'solus' petrol stations from the new...

SIR,—While agreeing with your correspondents 2nd Lieuts. Vivian Sutton and Simon Gillett that the efficiency of any army unquestionably depends upon the qualities of its...

Would not presume on your space to answer the charge made by Mr. McCarty that a part of my previous letter was ridiculous and hysterical. The verdict can be left to those who...

SIR,—Your medical correspondent, Miles Howard, asks what influences surgeons to operate for appendi- citis. The main reason is that any surgeon of ex- perience has seen a...

JULY 13, 1833 IT is evident that there is no sacrifice of political prin- ciple which the Duke of WELLINGTON is not prepared to make rather than suffer a permanent exclusion...

pointed out the important fact that, though the Christian Church substituted the weekly commemoration of the Resurrection as a day of worship for the Jewish Sabbath, it was not...

L'Art sans Poitrine BY PETER QUENNELL O N the last day of December, 1886, at the Church of St. Barnabas, Addison Road, London, Jules Laforgue, the rising young Symbolist poet,...

Poland, Hungary, CzeChoslovakia, Roumania, 'Yugoslavia. Edited by Oscar Halecki. Mid- European Studies Center of the Free Europe Comr ittee. (Atlantic Books, £3 10s. each.)...

Paston Letters. Selected and edited by Norman Davis. (O.U.P., 12s. 6d.) BEDEVILLED by the academic exigencieS of Hist. Hons. and Eng. Lit.. the Paston Letters are known to...

Peace in Piccadilly. By Sheila Birkenhead. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) LADY BIRKENHEAD deserves to be congratulated upon this admirable history of what the cog- noscenti, so I...

THIS book has told me, among other things, why Yeats thought it evidently desirable that he might `. . . dine at journey's end/With Landor and with Donne.' In the poem from...

The Prettiest Girl in England. The Love Story of Mrs. Fitzherbert's Niece from Journals Edited by Richard Buckle. (John Murray, THIS is the diary, written in 1832, of a charm-...

Disquieted American Wylie. (Muller, 21s.) MR. WYLIE went to newly born grandchild I and returned to the United States via Japan, Ind though he sees the through the USIS w...

Black Star Rising. By Russell Warren Howe. (Herbert Jenkins, 21s.) Ma. MORRIS has travelled through an increasingly isolated, anachronistic, telephone-tapping society and...

Raw Material D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: The Scholar- Naturalist 1860-1948. By His Daughter Ruth D'Arcy Thompson. (O.U.P., 25s.) Parachutes and Petticoats. By Brigitte Friang....

'THERE are people,' said Corno di Bassetto, 'who will read about music and nothing else. To them dead prima donnas are more interesting than saints. . . .' These people, for the...

Moravia Deserta Two Women. By Alberto Moravia. (Seeker and Warburg. 18s.) The Greengage Summer. By Ruiner Godden. (Macmillan, 13s. 6d.) Awake for Mourning. By Bernard Kops....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THAT the Chancellor should have done exactly what I told him to do in my last sentence last week implies no sinister leak from Great George to Gower...

By CUSTOS A FURTHER decline in the Treasury bill rate to £4 3s. 51d. per cent. has helped the gilt- edged market, and War Loan went over 671. It seems bound on this movement...

T HE HONGKONG (SELANGOR) RUBBER COMPANY is unusual in that its issued capital is now only £11,250 in Is. shares and yet its rubber estate stands in the balance sheet at a cost...

prize of six guineas is offered for a Train Spotters' Anthem. Limit: 16 lines. - Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 439,' 99 Gower Street, London, WC1, by July 22....

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 436: Report by Russell Edwards Competitors were invited to follow the tradition of investing monarchs with appropriate sobriquets by supplying three...

1 4 9 10 12, 13 Is 16 19 20 23 25 21 ACROSS The best divers don't make such a hit (6) Chief of the underworld at a low resort is put out (8) Go back to dress again? (6) i...

Light, 10 Riparian. 11 Twangs. 12 Meantime. 14 Rhoda. 15 Inviolate. 18 Lymphatic. 20 Tfith, 22 Long-term 24 Klncob. 26 Critiques. 27 Exact, 28 Menages. 29 Despair. DOWN. - 1...