llrrd REPORT CAME OUT, and Sir Roy iti 1 °10'0 a young man stabbed td death Inejiro rtsanuma, leader of the Japanese Socialist Party, under the eyes of the Prime Minister and...

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I. The Federation FTIHE Monckton Commission has reported: . I and it is already clear that its report is to have a better reception from Mr. Macmillan's Government than the...

that the British Government must begin rethinking its atti- tude. The result of the South African referendum (a report from Kenneth Mackenzie appears on another page) was never...

By MICHAEL ADAMS . BEIRUT OME countries produce a lot of oil, and use a it all themselves—like the United States. Others use a lot, but produce hardly any—like the...

By KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN S irriNG convivially late at night waiting for 1.3 the first results of the republic referendum to come through it was difficult to avoid feel-...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN HE seven-year-old fight over television in I Federal Germany has now been settled by a compromise which for disregard of logic and sheer opportunism...

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS reports on the Tory Conference; ANTHONY HARTLEY discusses the present state of the fight between the French Government and the French in- tellectuals. 'I am a...

The Tories Gather By BERNARD LEVIN At first sight, after all—at second, third and fourth sights for that matter—the Tories are sit- ting as pretty as can be, and likely to...

By D. W. BROGAN :r Rl . have studied. It recalls what I have been s has been an odd campaign. It is the dullest i ci , i , c1 of the campaign that elected Coolidge in 744 . But...

By BRIAN INGLIS A DOCTOR who elects to practise psychoso- matic medicine faces two problems—apart from the scepticism of his colleagues. Many of hi s Patients, he finds, think...

By DAVID HOLBROOK 130 not believe in sex education. I consider I that it does more harm than good to isolate and specialise sex, like another of the 'subjects,' and suppose that...

paper over the unpaperable. Fair enough. But why did Mr. Wedgwood Benn and other reason- able men run the risk of his ridicule? Presumably because they thought it would be less...

t hat ' ', V Y OU make the point (September 30. page 468) ti tielj ne e a country is known to have possessed Iq ths .l. weapons it will always possess such weapons I leck,'" il...

a letter commenting on your article 'Re- quiem for a Newspaper,' Mr. D. E. Provan chooses to identify himself with an unnamed officer who was involved in a curfew incident in...

George Watson, Joel Clompus, T. J. H. Bishop, Dame Janet Vaughan and others Th e Limitations of NATO ' Sir Stephen King-Hall tialein for a Newspaper Charles Foley ' be Monument...

the position taken by Mr. Gaitskell in the Labour Party con- ference debate on defence and his opposition to a policy of unilateral disarmament or neutralism for Britain. We...

this corre- spondence—even if your editorial indulgence is not now exhausted—for a reason which although little understood by the majority of the people is at the heart of...

Raven, though in winter, thin I took a trtitip of ordinary National Service men to see Belsen, and I suspect their reactions were more typical of the feelings of British...

Sin,—I wonder if Mr./Mrs./Miss Adrian would care to consider - one aspect of the bad service one en- counters in Britain which has perhaps escaped his/ her attention—and...

Snt,—I would respectfully advise my former LSE colleague D. Leach to look slightly more care1.111'Ye at the bdoks he has to review. The. first soni c '', of his review of...

SIR,—Monica Furlong, in her rather ill-considered and muddled piece headed 'Don't Shoot the Ob- stetrician,' has ehosety.,to take a potshot (or is it a broadside?) at the and...

in last weeks Spectator t j a ! I had accused Mr. Harold Macmillan at the br i b ed Nation s of making 'a wild defence of the qu estio n ; 'lb% colonial record and . . . an...

references to Oxford Opinion which made by Penelope Houston in the last issue i v Till and Sound. We feel that these considerably 1 "ePres _ ented our point of view. We do not...

Academic Ecstasy Ity CLIVE BARNES IF you paint a moustache on a masterpiece, does it matter how well you T,.aint it? One of the two new works just added to the repertory of...

QUIGLY national Film Theatre, Westbourne Grove.)—: The TWo Faces of Dr. Jekyll. (London Pav- ilion.) — Foxhole in Caito. (Odeon, Leices- ter Sqbare.) FELLIT■h's film...

Packaged Heroes By PETER FORSTER rwo dons and two to go; and already the stream- lined slickness of the Kennedy-Nixon iOrials'makes the political . television at our Iasi elec-...

Going Contemporary By DAVID CAIRNS Just in the next few months we are to hear in London an unprecedented amount of Stravin- sky (Les Noces, Persephone, Edipus, The Nightingale,...

Flame in the pit, flame In the open height. The same Unseizable element runs Bounded and burning Through that circle of singers As the damned feel overflowed In liquid disorder....

The Only Pre-Raphaelite By EVELYN WAUGH NI BS. CUTHBERT—Diana Holman-H unt* — is much younger than 1 but genealogically we ar e of the same generation, having a...

A Study in Yellow. By Katherine Lyon Mix. (Constable, 42s.) A Study in Yellow. By Katherine Lyon Mix. (Constable, 42s.) WHEN Wilde was in custody, and every suitcase in London...

The Concise Encyclopaedia of Western Philo- sophy and Philosophers. Edited by J. 0. Urmson. (Hutchinson, 50s.) A TREMENDOUS amount of work has gone into this book, and yet it is...

Byron and the Spoiler's Art. By Paul West. (Chatto and Windus, 18s.) MR. WEST declares his intention to deal with texts rather than with anecdote, myth or cultural his- tory....

Founders of British Science. By J. G. Crowthe r ' (Cresset Press, 35s.) MR. CROWTHER is an excellent populariser, an d his is the most stimulating book to celebrate th e...

Coloured Immigrants in Britain. An Investiga- tion carried out by the Institute of Race Relations. (O.U.P., 25s.) Newcomers: The West Indians in London. By Ruth Glass, assisted...

Studies in Words. By CSLewis.(C.U.P., 21s.) l the days of Henry Sweet. the original of Bernard Shaw's Professor Higgins, the subject °f English Philology was put grimly on one...

The Cricketer's Companion. Edited by Alan Ross. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) SOME weeks ago I went to watch the South African touring side play against Kent at Canterbury....

Kiss Kiss. By Roald Dahl. (Michael Joseph, I5s.) THE big novel of our time, it appears, will be about Africa. Tom Stacey hasn't brought it off in The Brothers M, but his failed...

k etital Health and Social Policy 1845-1959. By Kathleen Jones. (Routledge, 28s.) T ats is the 1 00th volume to be published in T he inter national Library of Sociology and ....

The Hero. By Kenneth Davis. (Longman's, 30s.) CHARLES LINDBERGH'S battle with the press began on the eve of his New York-Paris flight, reached a peak at the time his son was...

By a Correspondent FoR the first time since the spring of 1958 Britain's hire- purchase debt fell in August. The intervening period—from April, 1958, to July, 1960—...

w ILLIAM DOXFORD, the shipbuilders and engineers at Sunderland, have done exceed- ingly well to increase the _pre-tax profits for the year to June 30, 1960. from £1.22 million...

Getting a Head By KATHARINE WHITEHORN NOBODY could say, after last week's political events, that the labour force of the country was not concerned with fis- The platform on...

My Goodness, My Kangaroo ! By KENNETH J. ROBINSON Do posters influence people? A research organisation decided to find the answer to that question, and they set about it by...

Too Full For Foam By LESLIE ADRIAN THE washing wives of Britain, left with only one illusion, would not like Sydney Smith care to waste it on the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. It...

NOT many Sundays ag was refused a glass ° I hock with the oysters, had ordered for lunch in the restaurant of a big London hotel. It was 11 1 minutes past two : ha d , been...