FRANKS in the election to the Chancellorship of Oxford Univer- sity—a defeat for the Establishment, according to the victor, who sees himself, apparently, as a...

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MIIE name of Claude Guillebaud first came I before the public in the late Thirties, when he' wrote a book praising Hiller's economic system He was not concerned with what the...

T HE pattern is becoming sadly familiar. A man with a hitherto unblemished character is arrested and charged with a serious crime. Friends believe him innocent : when, to their...

MHE BBC's Yugoslav service is—to judge by I information we have received about it from several sources—in a deplorable condition. Some of the evidence for this (there is much...

VV ELCOMING' the DSIR report on the fire hazards from oil stoves, the spokesman of the manufacturers' association said that he saw no need to withdraw existing heaters from the...

T RR Spectator has sometimes been accused of animus against the popular papers : Ralph McCarthy—the editor of the'Star, a paper burst- ing With good intentions, but apt to...

From Our Geneva Correspondent N EXT Tuesday is the Ides of March; the day ppon which—as Artemidorus wrote, but Caesar did not read—'Security gives way to con- spiracy.' It is...

sure he would like us to acknowledge messages from some readers who have wished him a pleasant stay there; and from others who have expressed the hope that it may be...

The Yugoslav service often simply ignorei many important or interesting events, • affecting directly either Britain or Yugo- slavia, or both. Following the removal of the bones...

A BROADCASTING service for Yugoslavia from 'this country could fulfil any of three very different functions. It could be avowedly anti- Communist and propagandist, taking the...

The service does not comment on Yugo- slav affairs, in case by doing so it should offend the regime. 'Although Yugoslav listeners have many times asked for specific comments on...

The treatment of the Djilas case by the Yugoslav service was shabby. In accordance with the general 'line' of the Communist press and radio, the whole affair, which had aroused...

In order to establish 'better relations' with the Yugoslav regime a system whereby staff is brought over from Yugoslavia for terms of up to five years was instituted in 1954....

By STEPHEN KING-HALL I N 1957 I visited the Union of South Africa and stayed in many parts of this lovely and fascinating country. My travels took me to the towns and also to...

popular with the Yugoslav 'New Class,' although it hal had not the slightest effect upon their policy. The quarterly summary of the regular Listener Research Service, entitled...

By R. A. CLINE ONIEMPT of court has recently become an ‘,../ editor's nightmare: In 1742 Lord Hardwicke the Lord Chancellor, asked to commit an editor for publishing a...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Fruit my recent article in the Spectator sug- Ili Besting that the present British defence policy did not make sense, a correspondent wrote to say that...

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS u are shortly to witness the negotiation of agreements not to contaminate the moon; We are already hearing discussion whether a Communist-made atomic...

From MARTIN LINDSAY, MP To : LIEUT.-COLONEL M ARTIN LINDSAY, DSO, MP. Solihull. December 1, 1945. Dear Colonel Lindsay, I have never before written to my Member of...

economists, as well as scientists, are crammed for 0 level. But in all public schools and first-class grammar schools the vast majority of A-stream non-scientists will have done...

Oxford University committee set up to con- sider entrance requirements is misleading in one important respect? You quote the committee's ob- servation in paragraph 6 of its...

Stebbing, A. E. Gunther. Sixten Ringbonr Algerian Refugees H. Shaw Left-over Left Silvan Jones Nola F. G. Hedger Wallace Underdog Confessions Philip Toynbee Craves of Academe...

SIR,—At last. An honest appraisal of the facts behind that terrible `ikame HOLA. Together with a recognition of just one man's effort since the tragedy of the Mau Mau blight...

SIR,—The answer to Sidney Harrison's troubles con- cerning the teaching of contemporary music to 'Grade 8, GCE, local authority grant' students is fairly straightforward. I...

deny the existence' of 'any reason to believe that cramming 0 level Latin . . . is of any benefit to , say, historians or economists. . . .' You conclude by saying that ‘. . ....

that to answer if names arc sub- stituted for numbers of successful alumni from the London conservatoires. From the Royal College of Music, which is the institution I know best,...

SIR,-1 am especially glad that it is Mr. Richard Clements of the Tribune who corrects me. Agreed, the Labour Party's Constitution has lots to say about issues besides common...

of a Chancellor or in the remission of Latin that the in of Oxford is somewhat behind, but equally In the admission of students. It is not uncommon for the head of a science...

of the music colleges is most disturbing. He first comments adversely on the quality of many of the students, and then makes the astonish- ing statement that the teaching of...

S 1 R.--Bernard Levin, in 'A Spectator's Notebook,' In your issue of February 26, referred to 'consider- able confusion' about help to Algerian refugees from this country. Since...

SIR,-1 have been asked by Messrs. Weidenfeld and Nicolson to edit a symposium of underdog con- fessions. The idea is that contributors, who may remain anonymous if they wish,...

SIR--1 think it would be a pity if your Critical Quar- terly correspondence ended on Mr. Gomme's note. It is admirable that Mr. Gomme should be so zealous for the high standard...

SIR,--.Like Julian Franklyn. whose Dictionary of Rhyming Slang Stephen Potter reviews and quotes, I used to think that 'to scarper,' meaning to beat it, or clear out, derived...

am editing the second volume of James Joyce's Letters for publication by Faber and Faber and the Viking Press; I should be most grateful if anyone having letters from Joyce, or...

Genuine Cannibals By ALAN BRIEN of the British theatre today that no one is even faintly surprised that the first three names in the Penguin vol- ume of New English Play-...

Stn. - -Isabel Quigly has missed the point of my article on childbirth. Of course the experience may be one of enormous happiness, but my argument is that this is diminished...

, By all accounts and most standards an exceptionally dull season in the New York theatre with a mortality rate high even for the Great White Grave of Broadway. The main...

Red Herrings By PETER FORSTER But the heart of the matter, surely, is that politicians and other appearing pundits have to fear what they say much less than what they seem in...

Child in the Woodshed By ISABEL QUIGLY Never Take Sweets from a Stranger. (London Pav- ilion.) WITH the highly respectable support of the NSPCC, the National Council of Women....

Petit Petit By CLIVE BARNES WHEN the professional thesis-writers of academic America finally get around to ballet and choreogra- phers, some enthusiastic character is going to...

The Shadow of an Epic BY JOHN WAIN H ERE is a new instalment of Ezra Pound's Cantos bringing the total up to 109.* The Cantos are sometimes declared to be unreadable, but I do...

THE trade of the regular reviewer in the weekly pres s is a hard one. In 1,500 words or so he is expected not only to indicate the contents of the book he is discussing but also...

Two Years to Do. By David Baxter. (Elek, 15s.) BOREDOM and bloody-mindedness seem to be the main emotions generated by military service in peace-time. One of the most revealing...

ONE of the first to take advantage of post-Till conditions in Russia was Marvin Kalb, who sr o f longer there than most and was able to see c ° siderably more. He is a young...

THE secret of London is the dramatic contrast that divides not only postal districts but streets, sides of streets or rows of houses from each other. A world, atmosphere and...

This Is My God. By Herman Wouk. (Cape, 18s.) HERMAN WOUK is an upper-middle-brow novelist of immense technical competence and a disturb- ing proclivity (usually manifested in...

BERNARD BERGONZI H obsbawm himself sketches the evolution from traditional wage scales to ca' canny wage-bargain- .41,g; Co-operat Sidney Pollard traces the development of _ Ch...

The Lothians. By Ian Finlay. (Collins, I8s.) curiously complementary volumes, for where as satisfactory book on any sector of Scotland th at has appeared for many years. The...

'I WILL be highly amused if anyone thinks this book is autobiographical, for if it was I would indeed be an Awful Mess.' Mr. Bratby's novel is about James Brady, an artist. John...

Moore, The Protestant Tradition by J. S. Whale, and What Happens in Hamlet by J. D. Wilson, all at 13s. 6d. Galaxy Books. (O.U.P.) Issues include : Eighteenth-Century English...

CHEAPER editions of books of interest to the general reader, or much used by students and teachers, are bound to be welcome, especially when they are as well produced as the new...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHAT is wrong with Wall Street that it should behave so bear- ishly? Since the beginning of the year industrial shares have fallen sharply—by 121 per...

By CUSTOS rri HE start of a new account—and of a new I financial year for some Stock Exchange firm! —brought no fresh buying to the equity shall markets. 'Waiting for...

rr HE merger last week between the Bank I Insurance Group and the fifteen-month-old Crosby Unit Trust, run by the merchant bankers Robert Fleming & Co., has produced the...

Roundabout A Raspberry for the Teacher By KATHARINE WHITEHORN EDUCATIONALISTS nowadays are hoarse from complain- ing about the three Ps:' the parents, the public and the...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON I 3 111 . pheated way of talking about town planning. 4 1 :ar the worst. The architects' Institute has a 4°4 of getting its discourse done by people who...

ALTHOUGH red wine cann' be made from white go white wine can, and often made from black go Nearly all champagne is from a mixture of a t) three lots of black to on e white—all...

Well Oiled By LESLIE ADRIAN Olive and groundnut oil are the two which most recommend themselves to those who believe, with Dr. Magnus Pyke, that the fat you eat affects your...

ACROSS 1 Shc provided a raven's perch (6) 4 Hospitality that may cure babe (8) 9 Commercially speaking, it's about an offspring (6) 10 Sounds as if ten-year-olds lack moral...

ACROSS.--11. Rolling stone. 9 Sovereign. 10 Malin. 11 Tirade. 12 Leonardo. 13 Orphan. 15 Leaguers. 18 Dolgelly. 19 Vanner. 21 Virtuous. 23 Diadem. 26 ,)rood. 27 Craftsman. 28...