Murray Kempton Bernard Bergonzi Richard Bailey Patrick Leigh Fermor Clifford Hanley Thomas Hinde by Angus Maude

interrupted him with cries of 'Ban the Bomb!' at the Labour Party's May Day rally in Glasgow to go and tell Mr. Khrushchcv. His message was not quite so unequivocal when he...

T HL Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament must be an even odder organisation than it has hitherto shown itself to be if it imagines that its behaviour at the May Day meetings which...

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overall rise in wage s from,the mere subsistence level, Spanish workers have at last. resorted to organised, strike action . By declaring a State of Emergency in threcain -...

: President Kennedy and his advisers had ,Iwished to give the maximum publicity to differ- ,pnces,between Germany and America, they could . pot.have done better than force the...

HERE is hardly any step which President 1 . ..Nkrumah could have taken more likely to raise his prestige , in, this country than his release of 160 political prisoners and his...

From DARSIE GILLIE • PARIS HE French National Assembly snubbed Presi- dent de Gaulle's new Prime Minister with a very narrow majority and showed its inclination to abandon the...

From SARAH GAINIIAM BONN T HE question of how much a Volkswagen should cost has become a political factor of the greatest interest and of considerable impor- ance with the...

From MURRAY KENIPTON NEW YORK raft_ departed with a dazzling display of our .n.national genius for incongruity. Miss Margaret Goldwater, daughter of the Senator, proposed for...

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS A s I drove out to his house in a Cairo suburb the other night, I was already fairly certain from talks with his colleagues that Gamal Abdel Nasser was...

Doris Lessing's Play with a Tiger, which has been running for two months at the Comedy,. is , coming off this week, and Siobhan McKenna, who plays the lead, has very properly...

Theatre. Since then, apart from occasional lettings to other managements, they have either put on their own Buchmanite plays there or kept it empty—dark, as the theatre world...

funny satirical squib that fizzes fortnightly out of Chelsea, is to have a rival soon. There is news of a new satirical magazine called Relax that is to make its first...

Robert Muller's television thriller Night Conspirators is an example. The main theme of Muller's play is the appearance of a paralytic Hitler in West Germany to be judged by a...

W HEN I suggested a fortnight ago that the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was ripe for a take-over bid by the Communists, I fully expected a number of letters of abuse and...

has now vanished. No elegies from me, for I had hated the thing ever since that day when I found myself in a cold sweat of vertigo half-way up the rickety iron staircase that...

We must give credit where credit is due, and there's no doubt that the Liberals worked up a very creditable schwerpunkt in many areas during the local elections. On Saturday...

By ANGUS MAUDE I CAN quite see that it must be great fun to be a Liberal at the present time, although it must also be extremely worrying to be a Liberal leader. This is the...

By RICHARD BAILEY p RIVATE conversations between heads of governments are notoriously open to mis- interpretation by those not present. Last week's exchanges between Mr. Kennedy...

By JAMES TUCKER 1 T should be known that I am the only Mont- gomeryshire man standing at this election and I put it to the electors that it is right that this county should have...

SIR,—One of Australia's misfortunes is to be sub- jected regularly by her countrymen to home thoughts from abroad. Usually they come back to us in the cables ('Aussies Feel...

(the Marxist cant word has, one takes it, come to stay) with striking Perception one may perhaps question his general fairness and his final- conclusion. If we are slow to...

Craig McGregor's article in the Spectator of April 27, which seems to me (with only one year's ex- perience of Australia) a very true picture of the country. Few would quarrel...

of Australia Evan Williams, Robert Barnard The Alternative Vote Enid Lakeman Pulymurphs for Passengers Oliver St44rt Anti-American Attitudes Nicolas Walter Arguments for...

StR,—I am glad to see Christopher Hollis advocat- ing some measure of electoral reform, even though it is an insufficient one. The alternative vote would indeed do away with all...

SIR,—Starbuck has missed the whole point of the complaints about the BBC programme on anti- American attitudes, which is simply that all the con- tributors were so obviously...

my typist* (or the mistake in the date given in my article for Sir Harry Legge-Bourke's first mention of the Swallow variable sweep aircraft in the House of Commons. My original...

SIR,—Last week you referred to 'the inefficiency and incivility of the taxi trade.' During the last eighteen months I have made some 400 journeys by taxi at busy times in...

plosions should be as destructive as possible, the variety of means of delivering bombs and warheads is now so great that all kinds of refinements of design may be thought...

that the works of EuropeSn-novelists such as Queiroz, Galdos, Baroja, Storm...and .Fon- tane are not available in English translation,' allow me to point out that some works by...

after the siege of Paris. The story will be found in G. G. Coulton's Fourscore Years (Cambridge, 1943), donkey was served at a dinner in Cambridge shortly Postgate may 'be...

SIR,--H. B. Levin writes in your issue of April 27 of Dartington School, describing a girl having her head banged against a wall because she decided to go to Holy Communion....

Moments of Truth By CLIVE BARNES THE right kind of ballet gala, and it is as rare as a four-leaf clover, has an atmosphere that is a cross between a cup-final and a...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Chips with Everything. (Royal Court.) I COULD fill a short book in describing why Arnold Wesker's Chips with Everything is a bad play....

Feelthy Pictures By ISABEL QUIGLY The Snobs. (Paris-Pullman.) laughs, which is nothing new to most of us: what the cinema has found, though, to express blackness in a...

Viewer's Wrist By CLIFFORD HANLEY 1 missed his opening, however, because Sun- day night was one of those outbreaks of viewer's wrist. I was badly frayed from twisting back and...

Pictorial Justice By HUGH GRAHAM THE Coldstream retrospective at the South London ■ Art Gallery is the most challenging and unsettling exhibition since the New American...

I WONDER how the people who wander into the 1 architectural room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition judge what they see there. Do they decide that they like a painting of a...

Tory Epic BERNARD BERGONZI AMONG the literary conversations of the past, few can have been more formidably intense than those that went on for days at a time in a Kentish...

Battle for Crete. By John Hall Spencer. (Heine- mann, 30s.) Tuts book includes a great deal more than its title suggests. Mr. Hall Spencer is an ex-regular marine officer, and,...

The Divine Propagandist. By Lord Beaverbrook. (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) SOME rime in 1917 the deputy chairman of Lip : ton's, lt Presbyterian accountant named Robeitz son Lawson,...

The Mottled Lizard. By Elspeth Huxley. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) No one can make us sympathise with the )14.enya settlers as Mrs. Huxley can, whether she is writing a...

The Admiral and the Nuns. By Frank Tuohy. (Macmillan, 18s.) THESE three excellent collections of short stories, one American, one British and one Yiddish, offer some interesting...

Huasipungo. By Jorge lcaza. Translated by Mervyn Savill. (Dobson, 15s.) MK. HERMANs's The Dark Room of Damocles is the fourth novel I have read in the Heine- mann Blue Passport...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN the course of the Com- mittee debates on the Finance Bill, Mr. Lloyd will no doubt be presented by his colleagues as the most successful Chan- cellor of...

By CUSTOS B Y issuing the new £300 million tranche. of the 5 per cent. Treasury, 1986-89, at 841, when the old stock was quoted at 84, the • authorities showed that they expect...

The preliminary . figures from r W. H. Smith (Holdings) , . for the year to January 30, 1962, cheered the market. Pre-tax profits were 20 per cent. higher, which suggests that...

By CYRIL RAY have my secret discovered: I had just been eye- ing the expensive automatic self-winders in the Bond Street windows. It was only a matter of time before I would...

In the Swim By LESLIE ADRIAN I THINK it's the excep- tional parent who doesn't allow a few lugubrious thoughts about his child's drowning to throw a slight pall over a holiday...