THE FOREIGN SECRETARY announced that the Soviet Union had carried out two nuclear tests since the opening of the Geneva talks. He found this 'regrettable,' though Mr. Dulles...

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1958

TNDUSTRY' in this country can be taken to be 'Conservative. A few industrialists like to call. themselves Socialists (presumably on the pattern of Mr. Brendan Behan's vision of...

R. BOYD-CARPENTER cannot complain that the Opposition have attacked him for water- ing down their precious pensions proposals; when in Tuesday's debate he claimed the virtues of...

A UDIENCES at the Covent Garden production A of Boris Godunov have been reading, in their programme note on Act IV, Scene III, how `a mob of hungry peasants drags on...

Christmas Number (Price Two Shillings) LORD ATTLEE John Bull's Schooldays HAROLD NICOLSON Marginal Comment PATRICK CAMPBELL The Gorgeous Indestructible Gael LESLIE ADRIAN...

THE decision to issue arms to British civilians in Cyprus can be justified as a necessary pre- caution, or condemned as window-dressing; but wise or foolish,, it signals the...

By DARSIE GILLIE AN election coming at the end of such a year as France has ex- perienced might well promise much greater alarums and ex- cursions than this one so far does....

WHAT TO Do v■i111 the leaders of the widen rclginie is always a nasty problem for revolu- even though one may sympathise with the difficul-. ties of General Kassim and his...

thinks would be needed to turn Soutb Africa into a republic made good reading. Accord - ing ing to The Times report, he has come to the cor elusion that the acceptable numerical...

End producers turn a Shakespeare charac ter upside-down for their amusement (i11,tking serious part comic being the commonest trick) but I was surprised to find the same thing...

agree that the Board 01 Trade Journal is mostly dull.' Thus, Sir Frank Lee, the permanent head of the Department, in this year's Stamp Memorial Lecture. I do not see the...

President Neuss' have convinced the German press that there is an undercurrent of antagonism to Germany in this country. Now they have dis- covered further evidence in the...

formidable one-hundred page affai r. Americans have become accustomed to such spreads, but 1 confess they still fill me with gloorn lightened this time by the friendly account...

By JO GRIMOND, MP T AM continually told that we must have a two- 'party system. I am not convinced—but at least two parties are better than one. And some- where in politics you...

Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy, 'in very good bad language.' 1 agree : but the nature of the bad language raises an interesting point. The Publishers have allowed Mr. Behan much...

sensible things to say about unnecessary intervention by MPs in matters which are not their concern. In the Fabian Journal for November he points out that the prac- tice of...

By BRIAN INGLIS T icv gave us pegs to fit into the appropriate- sized holes, words to be matched with synonyms or antonyms, and a code to unravel; and then they examined our...

By ROY JENKINS, MP ABDUL KARIM KASSIM is a wiry, intense soldier who looks as though he worked a little too hard for his health. When he emerged as Prime Minister of Iraq after...

By REX MALIK T HE recent proposals for a monorail service between Victoria and London Airport are intended to provide a rapid and economic link which should be able to cope with...

Roses IN THE ATV offices, high above Kings- I way, Miss Eartha Kitt scowled for the photographers and demanded tea. 'I am a very personal type of person,' she said, savouring...

Mummy Was A Vampire By ALAN BRIEN The Stepmother. (St. Martin's.) —No Concern of Mine. (Westminster.) THE time is 1947. The place Gunners—a typical old family residence in...

Guilt on the Gingerbread By KENNETH J. ROBINSON Nu r everyone can claim to have driven Frank Lloyd Wright through Shepherd's Bush. It happened a long time ago, but it is too...

Karajan the Conqueror By DAVID CAIRNS Through the tumult the heavy brass and per- cussion moved up and the conqueror, who smiled with his lips while his level gaze took us in...

No Spurs in Bed By ISABEL QUIGLY The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. (Carlton.) — What Lola Wants. (Warner.) — I Only Arsked. (Plaza.) EVERY . nation has its favourite national image...

To the Hairdressers By LESLIE ADRIAN Now, a bad shampoo and set is merely time- wasting, annoying and expensive, and a bad cut will grow out in a week or two; but heat and...

The Drug Habit By MILES HOWARD The word 'addiction' usually calls to mind the victim of morphine or heroin, but there are other kinds of addiction, less dramatic but much more...

COMRADE COLONEL-GENERAL, Habarovsk. 3111158. As instructed by your MVD/ANGLIT/475/T of 1/10/58 I have carried out an analysis of the latest novel by the British writer G....

The Wolfenden Debate A. E. Dyson, Peter Wildeblood Anger in a Small Town Robert Hodge, Ian Nairn The 'Daily Sketch' and the Anzio Crash 1. M. Hall Egg Basket W. S. Mitchell...

three available sets of statistics for the incidence of homosexuality. In America, according to Dr. Kinsey, 4 'per cent, of the adult male popu- lation are exclusively...

SIR,—In your issue of October 31 under this heading Y join the adverse criticism of the BEMB's 'l e tt offices. You add 'there can be no possible justifieol', ° 0 for this...

SIR,—Mr. Wyndham Thomas's petulant exposition of the urban outlook on planning constitutes heckling rather than debate and could well be ignored but for the personal charges he...

SIR, —As a professional journalist working in Fle et Street, 1 would like to assure you that Pharos's eos sr , ment on the Daily Sketch editorial on the death 0 ` . its...

feel Mr. Wyndham Thomas must have polarised glass in his, in the sense that he may be seeing the problem of overspill large (too large), but he is seeing nothing else. New and...

SIR,—Leslie Adrian refers to an article of mint in The Manager as 'attacking the publishers of Which? and Shopper's Guide for the disservice done to manu- facturers" and...

insight and courage. What must worry us both in our common experience is the bias against conviction and sound learning in much of our Anglican leadership. We both know a...

Sio was interested to note Pharos's comments on the rather lackadaisical attitude to ceremonial seen at the Coronation of Pope John XXIII and the com- e,atison with the more...

Minded in his writings on the United States and France that his review on the Life of Lord Kitchener must s urprise many of his admirers. He states that by 1 914 Lord Kitchener...

NOVEMBER 16, 1833 THE accounts from Spain, received during the week, render it not improbable that a pretence will be afforded to the French Government for an armed...

Wittgenstein By A. J. AYER !THE Blue and Brown Books* are transcripts of notes which Wittgenstein dictated to his pupils at Cambridge during the academic years 1933-34 and...

The Rest We Can Do: An Account of the Trial of John Bodkin Adams, By Sybille Bedford. (Collins, I5s.) ART and Law have not usually been on good terms . with one another for all...

The Chequer'd Shade, By John Press. (0.U.P., 25s. THESE reflections on obscurity in poetry make an agreeable book which is nevertheless unequal to its great subject. Mr. Press,...

IT is autumn, 1956. Janos Lavin, a Hungarian Communist painter who has been living here for nearly twenty years without recognition, has dis- appeared immediately after his...

Verlaine: Prince of Poets. By Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) IT was in 1933 that Francois Porchd published his revealing study of Paul Verlaine, which...

Napoleon and Mademoiselle George. By Edith Saunders. (Longmans, 21s.) Love and the Princess. By Lucille Iremonger. (Faber, 25s.) IT would come high in any album of male fan-...

Points of View. By W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann, 21s.) IF writers kept a studio, or stud, as painters used to do, this book would seem very like 'School of Maugham.' The...

The Neon Halo. By Jean-Louis Curtis. (Seeker and Warburg, 15s.) THE nature of George Lamming's impressive third novel is better explained by describing the various elements he...

Bergler. MD. (Bernard Hanison. 25s.) Da. BERGLER proposes to substantiate the para- doxical thesis that the habitual gambler is a 'neurotic sucker gambler' who only wants to...

T he Bia City: or The New Mayhew. By Alex Atkinson and Ronald Searle. (Perpetua, 21s.) HENRY MAYFIEW, a founder and editor of Punch. Was a superb reporter and an innovator. He...

Flook. By Trog. (Faber, 6s. 6d.) FLOOK, for the benefit of Express readers, is a small, round, presumably brown, presumably furry (he's certainly covered in something) animal,...

lk Leaf from the Yellow Book: The Correspon- dence of George Egerton. Edited by Terence de Vere White. (Richards, 16s.) AN initial feeling of surprise that anybody could be...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IF there is still a cycle in business affairs,' Mr. Amory told the Insti- tute of Directors at their annual conference on October 30, 'it is very different...

P ETER BROTHERHOOD'S results for the year ended March 31, 1958, have certainly confirmed the confidence expressed last Novem- ber by the chairman, Mr. A. M. Neal. Group profits...

By CUSTOS T HE end of the Stock Exchange account on Tuesday marked a tremendous turnover in securities-the highest since the end of the pre- vious 'bull' market in June, 1955....

ACROSS.-1 School. 4 Blt by bit, 10 Belcher. 11 Integer. 12 Tear. 13 Sana- torium. 16 Fading, 17 Lothair. 20 Capitol. 21 Albert. 24 Left-handed. 25 Scan. 27 Orpbcan, i9 Corinna,...

Solution on November 28 ACROSS 29 1 The workbasket's contribution to Hamlet's armoury (6) 30 4 Prerequisite to a job at Scotland Yard ? (4, 4) 10 Schedule of dwellings at the...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No 454: Report by Allan 0. Waith On the first of September, one Sunday morn, I shot a hen pheasant in standing corn Without a licence. Contrive who can...

Times has missed the bus for years in not running a. strip cartoon. The usual prize of six guineas is, offered for extracts from the script (not illustrated ) of a 'strip'...