O NE thing about next year's Presidential election now seems reasonably certain : President Eisenhower will -not be a candidate. Even when he was expected to run, and to win...

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0 UR political columnist kicked over a hornet's nest in the Spertai.a. of September 23 when he ventured his opinion that there was a connection between the long official silence...

I T may be pretty well taken for granted that while any article about the position of any body of professional workers will be a grumble, an article about the position of...

T , HE same week that has seen M. Faure get his majority in the French Natiopal Assembly's debate on his' Moroccan policy has also witnessed widespread rioting by Algerians...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HREE Labour MPs went to the Conservative Party Conference at Bournemouth—but not, apparently, to the same conference. One of them, Mr. Tom Driberg, writing in...

' SWEEPING Government changes are to be announced before P arliament meets again on October 25. Sir Anthony Eden has already chosen some members of the new administration. Other...

of the death of Lady Wrench. the wife of Sir Evelyn Wrench, Chairman of the Spectator. She had wide and varied interests, and was herself for many years a director of the...

public house for a sandwich the other evening, he got more than bread and cheese for his money. He found the pub full of large men jingling coppers in their hands and talking...

in a decline which has been obvious for some time. His omission from the delegation which settled things in Peking last year, and from the Belgrade outing, were omens. A...

our newspapers have paid so little attention to last week's Presidential elections in Brazil, in which the central figure Campaigned under the revealing nickname of Little...

MR. GAITSKELL said at Margate on Sunday that Mr. Butler has been guilty of 'the biggest act of political deceit since Stanley Baldwin sealed his lips in 1935.' Mr. Gaitskell is...

BY HUtH TREVOR-ROPER T HIS year we celebrate the quatercentenary of the Oxford Martyrs, those three Cambridge bishops who were publicly burnt under Queen Mary in the more...

BY BRIAN INGLIS T HE essential qualification of a good advertising man used to be innocence : the ability to approach his work without preconceived ideas of what the public...

BY J. VAUGHAN WILKES R. SIMON PHIPPS asked in a recent article in the Spectator, 'How shall they preach without a hearer?' and spoke of the 'urban masses as yet untouched by the...

BY DAVID WATT (Hertford College, Oxford) B Y the time I was in hospital there was no doubt what had happened, and it was already hard for me to move my hands; yet I lay for a...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN ORE damage has been done to Oxford within living memory than at any time in its long history. I have known Oxford since 1915 when I went as a boy to Lynam's. I...

Curate's Omelette I HAVE never understood why a man accused of trying to be funny should face so grave a charge. Nobody earns derision or disapproval for trying to be gloomy,...

allowed your critics. But, Sir, if you have no evidence to support the serious allegations made by Mr. Fairlie, suggesting that certain people and newspapers attempted to...

`The Establishment' Malcolm Muggeridge, Morley Richards, Hon. David Astor, Randolph S. Churchill, John Gordon, Arthur Mann, Frank Whitmarsh, Colm Brogan Some of my Best Friends...

Violet Bonham Carter in your issue of 'October 7, you imply that she had no right to claim me as one of her supporters in condemn- ing the methods adopted by certain journalists...

writes: `Mr. Churchill spends most of his time conducting assaults on the "Establishment." The reason why, in this specific case, he has rallied to the "Establishment's" side...

our interview with Mrs. Melinda Maclean was 'demonstrably false.' Mrs. Maclean spoke" freely to our reporter as she had done on a number of previous occasions. She was aware...

that with a word of praise and commendation? When Burgess and Maclean fled the country you were inclined to join that group of high- placed oddities who yapped at those alert...

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I had a mischievous hope that my earlier letter would provoke some violent reactions, but Mr. Doak has exceeded all my expectations. And he has proved me right on two points....

about the rights and wrongs of the difference of opinion between Mr. Fairlie and Lady Violet. It is, of course, important to the people concerned; but of much more importance...

Communism or even perhaps of China, I write to protest against a serious omission by Mr. Hawkes in his article. 'Chinese Culture' (September 30). The most important event in...

of Mrs. Melinda Maclean are now rather beside the point. It is surely clear that Mrs. Maclean was not incapable of deceit and if she had a grievance against cer- tain...

OCTOBER 16, 1830 THE PRESS IN GERMANY.—The Germanic Diet is deliberating on new measures for the restric- tion of the press. [It will require deliberation to find any new...

GERMAINE RICHTER, whose sculpture is on view at the Hanover Gallery, should find a follow- ing in England more readily perhaps than in any other European country, and I want...

Television fit.evisioN, though it hardly seems to realise it, is admirably equipped to teach. I use \ the word in a very simple, instructional sort of w ay, meaning just that...

I AM A CAMERA. (Empire.) —IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER. (London Pavilion.) CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S stories about Sally Bowles were kaleidoscoped into a play by John van Druten, and...

WHAT most English musicians know about American music would scarcely fill this column. Not even a Third Programme planner, hard up for ideas, has ever tried to explore it. But...

MODERN Italian music was the main theme this year. The inaugural concert, conducted by Sergiu Celibidache, was devoted to Casella, who might be accepted as the father of the...

The Clowning Privilege BY JOHN HOLLOWAY T O say that attention naturally kindles when we find Mr. Graves giving the 1954-55 Clark Lectures at Cambridge (they make the main part...

SPECIAL OPERATIONS. Edited by Patrick Howarth. (Routledge, 16s.) THE nineteen contributors to Special Operations were all engaged in cloak-and-dagger work during the last war,...

BOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR. Vol. II. Italy, Corsica and France. 1765-1766. (Heinemann, 25s.) JAMES BOSWELL'S status as a great diarist is firmly secured in this, the latest of...

THIS publishing of an autobiography in widely separated volumes has disadvantages. Hares are started in one volume and months or years have to elapse before the reader is...

JOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW. By J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes. (Heinemann, 18s.) MR. AND MRS. PRIESTLEY have visited the American South-West. At Kansas City they parted...

IN these decades of Perelman puns and Bemelmans whimsy, of the needle instead of the hammer, our grandfathers' humour is usually a source of embarrassment. Even Gilbert we...

JUSTIN BAYARD. By Jon Cleary. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE TIGRESS ON THE HEARTH. By Margery Sharp. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) 'Ten general impression was sandy. . . . Over the shaven...

The more hardy sort of cyclamens are wonderfully decorative things to plant round trees. The neapolitanutris should be put in in ' autumn and left alone thereafter apart from a...

BY IAN NIALL THE lawnmower has been put away and the hedge no longer needs trimming. In a little while we may find ourselves with material for a bonfire, but, if we wait, even...

E. was in a reminiscent mood, prompted by the ringing of the school bell. A small boy went past, dragged almost on tiptoe by his tight-lipped mother. 'When I, was a little lad,'...

'We have a somewhat untidy blackberry hedge on one side of our back garden, and blackbirds search the ground below for fallen, ripe berries,' writes Mr. S. Bone, of Wembley...

BY PHILIDOR No. 19. CONRAD ERLIN BLACK, 10 men. WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Libby: B-Kt 4, waiting. Peculiarly...

By CUSTOS IN these days the stock markets do nothing by halves and quite a boom has 'developed in Government bonds, which I have been urging investors to buy for some months...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT was unkind of the Stock Exchange to stage a slump in industrial equities on the eve of the Labour Party Conference. It must have caused many delegates...

A prize of LS was offered for an advertisement song for commercial TV on behalf of a firm of atomic fuel producers, space-tour agents, literary competition promoters fashion...

The Mount, • Ritlington, Mahon, Yorks, and Da. W. H. BATMAN. Great Eddy. Keswick , Cumberland,

the written exam - ination in the English language to the passing-out class of Soviet spies, destined to go to England, disguised as English, 1 0 , mix with the natives. The...

ACROSS 1 Was Kim one of these youngsters? (7) 5 Where the rabbit might expect to take a dip (4, 3). 9 Valentine one penny? It's true! (5) 10 They . decide the cost of ocean...