No. 6933 Established 1828 FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1961

It is also typical of the CIA, or for that matter any intelligence agency the world over, at its stalest: for the story, in different versions, has been circulating almost as...

TIII UNITED STATES got an astronaut into space at last---Commander Alan Shepard, who soared 115 miles high. He did not go into orbit, as the Soviet astronaut had done, but he...

HE arrest of Mr. Tshombe and the announced I intention of the Leopoldville Government to place him on trial for offences ranging from treason to 'the massacre of the Baluba...

A PROMINEN1 Abolitionist said the other day .that the state of a country's civilisation can be judged by its attitude to capital punishment. By this criterion, the Soviet Union...

By PATRICIA McGOWAN PINHEIRO* T HOUGH there is evidence of spontaneous tribal revenge for cruelties inflicted by the Portuguese over four centuries, the Angolan nationalists...

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK T HE passage of time does not reduce the magnitude of the folly in Cuba. The more it is examined, the worse the whole affair looks. The...

But Westward, Look By BERNARD LEVIN FOR once the quick brown fox appears to have jumped over the lazy dogs. The remarkable turn- up for the book achieved by Mr. Gaitskell last...

for suf- ficient funds to be collected tb enable the Bahraini prisoners on St. Helena to proceed with their defence, the Appeal Committee (Woodrow Wyatt, MP, Jeremy Thorpe, MP,...

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS THE Palestine Arab refugees wait, and I multiply, and are debated at the United Nations. In thirteen years, their numbers have, increased from 650,000 to...

By SIR BASIL HENRIQI.JES rr HE debate on the Criminal Justice Bill in the I House of Lords on May 1 showed how greatly perturbed the nation is by the continued increase in...

Led Astray By JONATHAN MILLER rrHE Friar House was a progressive school set 1 in large grounds with a gnarled orchard in which a moth-eaten donkey grazed. The build- ing was a...

Life. Brian Inglis says: Among the critics he [Christiansen] had to bully into being 'amenable' [in the context the term has the sinister ring of a brainwashing ex- periment]...

Tom Driberg, MP, Leonard Mosley. Daniel George Hospitals and Patients 'Another Consultant Surgeon,' Susan Coiling Ipsos Custodes G. W. Kerr Caged Men Mark Bonham Carter Day of...

SIR,--1 read with interest Brian Inglis's review of Arthur Christiansen's Headlines All M y Life, in which he refers to the 'rancorous passage in which Mi. Christiansen attacks...

t i° have made myself clear. Obviously, as a layman, wouldn't have the faintest idea whether the drip should be continued for twelve hours at a time (as the consultant said he...

but suggest that he would have been nearer tne mark if in the sentence 'Among the critics he had to bully into being amenable' he had substituted tried for had.—Yours...

or satisfied with things as they arc. I would, however, li ke Mrs. Catling to know that diagnosis is not al- W,aYs easy and that the right treatment must wait on diagnosis; this...

SIR,--Mr. R. A. Cline illustrates the negative manner (by non-disclosure of vital information) in which local bureaucrats and government departments may together confound the...

SIR,—In your last week's issue Mr. Nicholas Daven- port states that 'President Kennedy and Mr. Mac- millan arc backing the plan to turn the IMF into a credit-creating...

SIR,—I must apologise for an inaccuracy in ' my review of Christopher Burney's Solitary Confine- ment. I stated that one of Christopher Burney's colleagues was his sister and...

Dr. Vellay's lecture on painless child - birth? The method he practises does work—I have tried it. It is the loss of control which makes child- birth so distressing an...

when offering a cheque above £10 for goods. Departmental stores do not seem to have made up their collective mind on this question, and it is time they did, now that we are...

SIR,—I feel that I owe an apology to readers of the Spectator, since it was I, many years ago, who recruited Mr. Robert Conquest into the Communist Party. The awful results of...

By DAVID CAIRNS TIIE London Syniphony Orchestra's concert at the Festival Hall last Friday, at which that brisky juvenal Pierre Monteux took over at short notice from Dr. Krips,...

The Plot's Forsook By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Progress to the Park. (Saville.) — Belle. (Strand.)—The Depar- tures. (Royal Court.) A DRIFTING week. For want of a plot they were...

Promise and Frustration By ISABEL QUIGLY Exodus. (Astoria.) 'Exodus ('A' certificate) starts off as a big, excit- ing, promising balloon, buoyed up by its exhilar- ating subject...

Italia 6i By PETER RAWSTORNE Tor extremes of poverty and wealth in Italy are Milan is one of the richest cities in Europe. and Turin is fast catching up. According to Dr....

Dr. Toynbee's Snark By CHRISTOPHER HILL D R. TOYNBEE'S A Study of History is an in- teresting sociological phenomenon. Criti- cised and pooh-poohed by professional historians,...

The Hollow Crown. By Harold F. Hutchinson. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 30s.) THIS is the second volume to appear in what is apparently a series of royal lives, and the writer has...

THIS is a book like a sprawling, variegated car- case of meat. There are fresh and delicious parts; there are chewy parts; there are layers of fat, and there are undeniably...

To a Young Actress. The Letters of Bernard Shaw to Molly Tompkins. (Constable, 63s.) UNTIL the appearance of How to Become a Musical Critic, in which Mr. Dan Lawrence has...

WHEN Ved Mehta returned to India after several years of Oxford and 'the indulgent West,' he found it unsatisfactory. Too many people, too many stone-wall problems; too many...

Ilrilain in World Affairs. By Lord Strang. (Faber and Deutsch, 30s.) HERE is a book whose chief interest lies in its author's long diplomatic experience. Scholars have not been...

There is No Refuge. By Gwen Kelly. (Heine- mann, 16s.) DAVID CAUTE'S At Fever Pitch, which came out in 1959. was one of the most remarkable first novels of the Fifties,...

The Young Mr. Wesley. By V. H. H. Green. (Edward Arnold, 35s.) THE senior tutor of Lincoln College has written this book upon the most distinguished Fellow in the history of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT copy of this report, which does not seem to have reached the English press, but which deserves the attention of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd. In the House of Commons...

By CUSTOS A N OTHER reason why this bull market is in need of a correction is that it is inducing more and more issues to come from the unit trusts, which make the prevailing...

0 NE test of the development of a country is the number of international organisations to which it belongs; another, its willingness to free its trade and open up its markets to...

MHERE has been a welcome upturn in the pre- I tax profits for 1960 of Babcock and Wilcox at £890,584 against £523,154, but'the group has a long way to go before it is out of the...

The Greatest of These By KATHARINE WHITEHORN I KNOW a man who thinks that indulging in any kind 'of private charity in a Welfare State is like lending your horse to London...

Life with Mother . FURLONG By MONICA IT begins to appear as if nothing less than a mother of six throwing herself under Sir David's motor-car will secure the nursery schools...

Britain Could Make It By KENNETH I. ROBINSON The South Bank was so much more than an exhibition. It was a wonderful place to be in : it had the stimulating qualities of a...

Talking Back By LESLIE ADRIAN National advertising expenditure, £450 million last year, is now lead'ng government spending on education by £100 million. The admen are swamp-...

Inside the doomed clubhouse, behind the tarpaulin and the scaffolding, there may well, for all 1 know, be major-generals who fought the Matabele, dozing uneasily in the...