By ROY JENKINS, MP

American election for some years Senator Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic incumbent of the White House. In another electoral struggle, Mr, Harold Wilson put all personal...

No. 6907 Established 1828 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I I, 1960

ITH the Opposition monopolising the V V attention of political correspondents, the announcement of the Government's legislative intentions received less attention than it might...

A PART from its publicity value, the reasons for the promise of subterranean car parks near Marble Arch are hard to understand. The assumption appears to be that if the centre...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS p RESIDENT DE GAULLE'S last broadcast was pre- pared in the greatest secrecy and we are told that the action it seems to foreshadow will be prepared...

O NE of the misfortunes of not having a real Opposition is that some of the Government's more deplorable decisions slide past almost un- noticed, because attention is...

I s there anything wrong with the entertainment pro g rammes on commercial television— Sir Robert Fraser asked the assembled members of a press conference last week—when viewers...

EBBW VALE the Ministry of Health? There was an A merican bloke here with recording apparatus, sen ding the speech direct to America. Must have i e° st thousands. We did the...

From IAN S ENATOR KENNEDY'S electoral victory Was so generally predicted that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary achievement it was. On the four other occasions this...

The Spectator's enlarged Christmas Num- ber, with a full-colour art cover, will be published on November 25. Readers wish- ing to have a copy sent to friends should send their...

By ROY JENKINS, MP L AST week was almost too good to be true L./for the forces of plain speaking. On Wednes- day Penguin Books were acquitted (although after the judge's...

By T. R. M. CREIGHTON I T is worth looking closely at the Southern Rhodesian United Federal Party's Law and Order (Maintenance) Bill, which is not yet law, and at the Vagrancy...

By BRIAN INGLIS rrHE biggest single change that tourists in I Italy have noticed since the end of the war is the appearance on the landscape of a black, six-legged,...

By PENELOPE GILLIATT PROSECUTING COUNSEL: is your name Arnold Wesker? DEFENDANT: It iS. PROSECUTING COUNSEL: And are you the author of a play called The Kitchen? Is that an...

since its foundation twenty-seven years ago, I have come in contact with many people, some medically qualified and others not, who practise radiesthetic methods of diagnosis and...

give the impression that the work of the Churches is to be regarded as a supplementary form of therapy which can be called on as required. Needless to say, no parish priest or...

taining the feature 'Fringe Medicine' by Geoffrey Murray, may he obtained for I lid. each. postage paid. from THE SALES MANAGER, THE SPECTATOR, 99 GOWER STREET, LONDON, WCI.

tribute to Mr. Richard Hoggart and the members of the jury who have so signally vindicated D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and the valiant Penguin. But when in his last...

Colonel A. H. Bell, Dr. Cyril V. Pink Rev. G. C. Harding, Henry Gillet, A. D. Lewis Shock Treatment . John Mortimer Dylan Thomas Brian Way Fight the Bad Fight Margaret Knight...

the fringe,' may I congratulate you on the way you have opened up the whole subject in your issue of October 28. Geoffrey Murray's painstaking article appears to me to be both...

to indicate those medical practices which are not available to the patient in the NHS as a matter of course 1 hope that I am on the same wavelength in suggesting that added to...

and impartial report on the extra- medical groups in Britain. Naturally, we would have liked a greater mention of our science and pro- fession, but we quite understand that our...

the fiction of The Ginger Man's history. The Ginger Man was first published by The Olympia Press in June, 1955, in a pornographic series of books listed, numbered one to...

SIR,—As an 'agnostic champion,' it would ill become me to dispute Mrs. Furlong's 'description of us as 'puny, old-fashioned and wizened up by bigotry.' But I can at least assure...

SIR,--Will you permit me to make a few belated remarks on Mr. D. J. Enright's article in your issue of October 21? Mr. Enright mocks, and rightly so, at the creators and...

letter. Admittedly I have no first-hand evidence of Massine's view of his ballet La Commedia I matta, though the general impression in Nervi this summer was that he was the only...

SIR,—I was very grateful to Mr. Humber Gascoignc for his suggestion, in his notice of Mr. Jack Ronder's worth-while and beautifully acted play. that the central character of The...

in, last week's Spectator, of 'Democrat' for 'Democratic.' The use of 'Democrat party' was a Republican gimmick now abandoned even by Mr. Nixon. - Yours . faithfully, Reform...

S1R,—What Mr. Douglas Cooper says about Andre Malraux's philosophy of art needed saying, and as usual he has said it better than anyone else could have done. But is his...

Defensively Speaking B y CLIVE BARNES Last week, at the Royalty Theatre, in the inter- val of that interminable Evening with Zizi Jeanmaire, one of the cleverest women journal-...

Damp Rocket By ISABEL QUIGLY Man in the Moon. (Odeon, Leicester Square). — London Film Festival. (Na- tional Film Theatre.) BRITISH film comedy at present is one of the most...

Stranded Symbols By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Chin-Chin. (Wyndham's.) —The Importance of Being Oscar. (Apollo.) —This Way to the Tomb. (Arts.) THERE is an English tradition of turning...

in London on Election Night was reported as saying that she favoured Walt Disney as Presi- dent and Harpo Marx as Vice-President. The Spectator has views on American politics,...

By DAVID CAIRNS THE Sadler's Wells production of Edipus Rex has been joined by The Nightingale to make a very neat and, on paper, satisfying Stravinskyan double bill. But after...

Degas Ballet Dancers. Introduction by Lillian Browse (Folio Society). n R. JOHNSON, as always, had an observa- tion on the subject. 'Promise,' he said, 'large promise, is the...

Not For Children By PETER FORSTER en- nedy was being introduced by the usually ad- mirable Patrick O'Donovan when he suddenly remarked, d propos Quakerism, that 'no religion...

Lawrence's Evils By D. W. HARDING O NE of the tasks for criticism now, thirty-odd years after Lady Chatterley's Lovers was written, is to distinguish between the social symbol...

Men and Ideas. By Johan Huizinga. Translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marie. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) The Waning of the Middle Ages, by which Huizinga is best...

Poem s . By George Seferis. Translated by Rex Warner. (The Bodley Head, 15s.) Six Poets of Modern Greece. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. (Thames and Hudson,...

Lloyd George. By Richard Lloyd George. (Muller, 21s.) LLOYD GEORGE (assisted by Maundy Gregory) was said to have made Cardiff the city of dread- ful knights. If this is so he...

The Living Milton. Edited by Frank Kermode. (Routledge, 21s.) The Living Milton. Edited by Frank Kermode. (Routledge, 21s.) THIS proves to be yet another attempt to kidnap a...

Do you remember how the whole thing started seven years ago, with the three novels appearing together like the first logs of a breaking jam: Lucky Jim, Under the Net, and Hurry...

In Praise of Hunting. (Hollis and Carter, 25s.) DURING the war it was the joke in Newmarket that Charlie Smirke had been awarded the VC for 'stopping' a tank. It also used to be...

William XXXII By JOHN COLEMAN 1 1 ' 1 a village somewhere in the Home Counties, n t ile Brown family are sitting down to breakfast. ail is frowning at a bill for window- s and...

Th Co ne Hither. Edited by Walter de la Mare. (Constable, 30s.) ing effect on English poetry. It is one of the conditions of free literature that it should be permissible to...

As a child, I could never brin g myself to open the Biggles books which uncles pressed into my clammy little palm; they seemed to me to reek of empire-building boredom, and the...

literary, and the yearly flash flood of c hild books does ill service to writers and readers 0 1 With the best will in the world no reviewer ca, read more than an infinitesimal...

IN grown-up fiction nowadays sinfulness is what goes best. Not so with children's books. Here Good is always better than Bad, and wins . . . the virtues most liked being...

MORE competent drawing is done in England now than in Arthur Rackham's time; a little of it—far too little—evades the gross insensitivity of publishers and gets into books for...

HERE are the miscellanies. The Sapphire Treasury (Gollancz, 15s.) reveals a markedly personal taste. The bulk of the book is Made up of Collodi's 'Pinocchio' and The Stokesley...

I SUPPOSE the best football books to appear lately have been the recollections of peremptory Cull's and perennial Matthews. There were flavou rs , from the field of play and the...

Eloise in Moscow. By Kay Thompson. (Max Reinhardt, 15s.) HERE are three very different ways of presenting books for children. Eloise in Moscow, at first glance a book both for...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT The markets have reached an interesting point. The bull market in equity shares is in a state of suspension due entirely to the Treasury policy of dear...

By CUSTOS 'Tills is a tricky week for the equity investor. 1 The American election result will decide the next 'move in Wall Street and perhaps in gold shares in London....

By JOHN COLE H E new Minister of Labour, Mr. John Hare, IT seeing industrial relations plunging towards another hard winter, has given two tight tugs l '''' the reins. He...

Count Me Out By KATHARINE WHITEHORN The source books for this kind of game are the Royal .Commission on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration, which gives figures for the profes-...

M R. H. Scorr THOMPSON, chairman of Mount Charlotte Investments, has more than justified his hopes expresied at the last annual general meeting, in that most of the profits...

On Tick By LESLIE ADRIAN 1r you sign the bill in a restaurant or hotel the chances are that you will have had a larger and more expensive meal than you would have done if you...

I HAVE been reading S. N. Behrman's charmingly perceptive Conversation with Max, which con- firms me in my view that Max Beerbohm has been more fully appreciated as a serious...