T HE Prime Minister's Commonwealth tour has been a triumph. He is not known to have put a foot wrong, to have hurt any feelings or to have dropped any bricks. He has...

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By ANTHONY HARTLEY T o talk about the foreign policy of a small Power would be a little ridiculous if inter- national affairs consisted purely of rocket sites and support costs;...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE T HE Russians who follow the American press must be confused by our responses to Premier Bulganin's entreaties. One day the papers say that the Secretary of...

By IAN GILMOUR I N last Friday's Daily Express, under the cap- tion 'Fresh out of Dartmoor the man in the Setty case throws fresh light on the century's haunting murder...

'WESTMINSTER' commentary, for- sooth Rochdale is 194 miles away as the red shoes twinkle, and Mr. Parkinson, as he gloomily tears up his application for a season ticket, may...

time. Probably only Huddersfield Town in the 1920s and Arsenal ten years later could match them in consistency. What is more, in the normal course of events they would not have...

copybook demonstration of how to deal with hecklers. Probably no other politician in either party would have been quick - witted enough to turn the presentation of a bathing...

public - opinion poll business, there is ' ample evidence' that the first TV election programme, which was seen by over a third of the electorate, had an effect on voters '...

of Samuel Beckett ' s Fin de Partie is childish. If he were running any other institu - tion, I would be tempted to assume he was de - liberately trying to discredit it by...

are Socialists now, ' the Labour leaders were in that document saying, ' We are all capitalists n °%v ' they had to make some concessions to the party ' s traditional beliefs....

gave to the case of the spurious cheese - where a retailer tried to fob off a customer who wanted Stilton with Gorgonzola. No Stilton con - noisseur I : my own raffish opinion...

Stewart of Stewarts and Lloyds for proposing a campaign against steel ren ationalisation, said, ' He [Mr. Stewart] does not think that the record of the steel industry under P...

services : KENILWORTH, 31 Ruby-st. — Special Sunday' Night Rally at 7.30 o'clock. The speaker will be W. F. Mullan, and the sick will be prayed for. Special testimony will be...

Mr. Mikado (Reading) said children were the problem. Why not try making the punishment fit the crime?

of the relatively greater safety o f b ickward - facing seats. The standard argument a gainst them is that passengers are antagonistic; that if, say, BEA adopted them, people...

By NIG.EL BIRCH, MP T HIS is an important book by Professor Ludwig Erhard, who has guided the economic destinies of Western Germany since 1948 and is now Vice-Chancellor and...

By VICTOR ANANT `Love you?' Danny smacked his forehead. `Take Romeo, Tristan, Marc Antony, and the first Boy who met Girl, mix them all up, pour their love into a suitable...

By CYRIL RAY ix thousand, nine hundred and sixteen dogs "'passed through the portals of Olympia on Friday and Saturday, showing off their points and their paces in Cruft's show....

By STRIX I N June, 1900, a force of 2,000 officers and men was landed near Tientsin from warships lying ofi Taku and left immediately in five trains for Peking; their purpose...

Except the General Public By LESLIE ADRIAN l HAVE been in correspondence with Schweppes over the problem of mineral water, conserva- tion of : their first argument being : It...

SIR,—In the notice of Kurds, Turks and Arabs pub- lished in the Spectator of January 17, your reviewer berates the British Government for not having given effect to the Treaty...

Hansard Society, was sufficiently interested in the point I raised about Hansard reports to make inquiries which have brought reassurances you may care to know about. Mr. Bear,...

SIR,—Mr. Thwaite, noting that Miss Gardner begins her anthology The Metaphysical Poets with Ralegh, suggests that `Drayton's "Since there's no help" would have shown another...

Th e Crisis of Trade Unionism keening Bishops T a Pe r No Future in the Air T he Kurds T he Metaphysical Poets S outhern Rhodesian Crisis Some Tops C rise de Conscience C...

debate on the 'Parker Tribunal Report were doubtless vulgar and unedifying, but your political commentator from his perch above the melee should not have come down for a roll in...

SIR,—Among the articles in your paper on January 17 is one by T. R. M. Creighton, 'Southern RhOdesian Crisis.' This article contains certain definite in- accuracies which should...

SIR,—Major Oliver Stewart paints a realistic picture of an aircraft industry perfectly reorganised and dead. He might have added that when the operator can no longer choose his...

managers and foremen wore bowler hats was to soften the effect of rivets, etc., accidentally dropped on pur- pose by disgruntled workers.—Yours faithfully, Laighpark, 4 Douglas...

unnecessarily worried about bottle tops. Ten years ago I was told by a friend that they Were super- fluous and that the remains of an opened bottle of a carbonated drink kept...

7) that 'the public with reason distrusts the tiresome fourpenny offers' on detergent packets. It had been pointed out earlier in the article that manufacturers had a...

SIR,—May I correct the several minor inaccuracie s in Brian Inglis's recent and refreshing piece on travel in the United States? (1) For travel over long distances, the...

D. W. Brogan in your issue of February 7 writes : 'We, at least, abdicated in the great manner, "comme des messieurs."' But which is the 'white man's coun- try' comparable to...

SIR,—Mr. Henschel may teach history, I examine it. As an historian he will, I presume, believe in evidence, and it is an incontrovertible fact that the majority of schoolmasters...

SIR,—There will be wry smiles in town halls and council chambers at the Government's exhortation to economise. We are expert in looking at both sides of every sixpence and...

Abstract and Expressionist THE Arts Council has opened the year with a pair of extremely valuable shows, important not only as surveys of two historically signi- ficant...

(Globe.) ON one point at least, Graham Greene evidently believes, Catho- lic and Freudian can agree. Where the mind suffers from some shock too agonising ' to be bearable, it...

FEBRUARY 16, 1833 THE King of Holland promulgated a decree at Flush- ing.on the 71h instant, iniposing a toll and scale. of duties on the- navigation of the Scheldt. The duties...

SINCE he wrote his opera The Mid- summer Marriage, Michael Tip- pett, already the great eccentric among English composers, has advanced perceptibly along that path until his...

The Unvanquished. (Academy.)— Sayonara. (Warner.)—A Tale of Two Cities. (Odeon, Leicester Square.) THERE are two films about distant parts this week, about places with unknown...

William Faulkner By W. W. ROBSON W ILLIAM FAULKNER'S early reputation, among the avant-garde in America, France and England, was based on his having applied ad- vanced...

Tim general theme of this book, somewhat over- simplified, is that the Foreign Office was a strong and wise formulator of policy until about 1937, after which the amateur...

Forgive—But Do Not Forget. By Sylvia Salvesen. (Hutchinson, 21s.) THE concentration camps of Nazi Germany, like the slave labour camps of Communism, were brought about by...

Vanished Supremacies: Essays on European History, 1812-1918. By Sir Lewis Namier. (Hamish Hamilton, 18s.) THIS collection of essays is described by Sir Lewis Namier as the...

The Vatican Revolution. By Geddes MacGregor. (Macmillan, 21s.) IT was on July 18, 1870, that the final vote-about the Pope's infallibility was taken at the Vatican Council. On...

Nansen: A Family Portrait. By Liv Nansen Hoyer. (Longmans, 30s.) A NEW book about Nansen might seem a mere move to exploit recent events at the Pole. The error would be...

Slow Burner. By William Haggard. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Commendable upper-middle-class sort of MI5 entertainment, with senior civil service careers at stake; sardonic and. allusive...

high-spirited social comedy as crime story, with a superior sort of Dietrich glamour-matron whose Billie Burkc manner is deceptive; some high-class Hollywood bitches and lushes,...

Chandlerian overtones— plot reminiscent both of The Big Sleep and The Little Sister, and the Marlowesque private eye is tough, rude and a tiger with the ladies. But setting is...

A heat-wave in the narrower alleys of New York, where a woman lies shot dead, whose husband has given himself up the day before for having stabbed her to death. Purely a puzzle...

My Face for the World to Sec. By Alfred Hayes. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) ALFRED HAYES'S new novel is sufficiently like its brilliant predecessor, In Love, not to disappoint his...

Words for the Wind. By Theodore Roethke. (Seeker and Warburg, 15s.) MR. ROETHKE is American but not obscure. Or rather he is obscure all right, but not in either of the two...

6d.) Lightly written frolic among the tombstones of a hick town in the Middle West: the meek little investigator is something of a card, and the gleeful gloom of the background...

Young wife is kidnapped, ransomed and returned, but it is still important to know whether it was estranged husband who had snatched her. A real and tightly tucked-up piece of...

Secret-service plot too bloodshot for verisimilitude, but background of off-colour clubs and knocking-shops just north of the Park too appealingly squalid not to be true. But...

10s. 6d.) Disregard the lamentable spine and dust jacket, and enjoy an extremely ingenious tale of a kidnapping in Toronto by a gang of jewel-thieves, very neatly put together,...

Now that Maurice Procter has taken to giving places their proper names (`The Angel' of the title is the Islington cross- roads; it used to be `Granchester' for Manchester, and...

Doctor and Patient As soon as we have left the haven of medical school and textbooks, we learn to our bewilder- ment that there is more in treatment than drugs, diets and...

By PHILIDOR No. 140. E. VISSERMAN (Hon. Men. Probleemvriend,' 1943 1 RI K (II men WHITE (13 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...

torn, Dad bad, Nurse worse; "De se"; Grief brief.'—`The Rake's Progress' t G. W. Broadribb. On this pattern,-and for the usual prize, compel tors are asked to describe (20...

ACROSS 27 1 Nobleman's dwelling in process of building in Norfolk (6, 6). 9 'Damn the age, I will write for —' (Lamb) (9). 10 Search for a little work in a back- ward unit (5)...

Six guineas in prizes was offered for any form of rondeau, rondel or roundel on the pancake. THEY say a classical education fits a man for any- thing; it certainly seems to fit...

10 Embathe, 11 Moonlit. 12 Dutch uncle. 13 Apes. 15 Wayland. 17 Impress. 19 Repress. 21 Sorting, 23 Shun. 24 Dutch treat. 27 Useless. 28 Fragile. 29 Tussauds. 30 Spider....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN a few days 'the three wise men' are to deliver an interim report on our economic climate. Those in con- trol of the monetary weather have, Of course,...

By CUSTOS • THE £300 million new issue of 5+ per cent. Funding stock, 1982/84, 411.5 • . / \ at 981 refurnishes the Government with a supply of `long' stock to sell in...