T HE traditional Christian meditation for Good Friday is upon a broken-hearted god dying on a cross, but Christians might with profit vary the subject. The bodies in the streets...

13R. VERWOERD, who had been asking for it, got it — though not at the hands of the people he had been asking for it from. The Queen telegraphed that she was shocked and the...

No. 6877 Established 1828 FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1960

rr RE first reaction to the attempted assassina- tion of Dr. Verwoerd must be surprise that it did not happen a long time ago. No dictator- ship can behave in the brutal and...

of our Cape Town correspondent Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie (who is herself the Cape Town corre- spondent of the 'Daily Herald') has been arrested under the Emergency Regulations. Mr....

' W HAT is interesting.' Christopher Ho VV writes in his article in .this. issue. 'is I assumption, so commonly made today. ti population in the Underdeveloped countries...

T HE United Kingdom Committee has raised four million pounds for World Refugee Year —twice the amount originally aimed at—and no thanks to the British Government, which con-...

By NICHOLAS MOSLEY II ANNAli STANTON was arrested at 3.15 a.m. on Wednesday, March 30. She was taken by p1 Wednesday, policemen from her home in an is‘oglican Mission in...

From MICHAEL ADAMS NICOSIA s children we used to play a game called, I think, Grandmother's Steps, in which the object was to progress cautiously towards your goal without...

From Our Industrial Correspondent I s the TUC inquiry into strikes and shop stewards a piece of introspection or of extra- version? It was the General Council's awareness of the...

By BERNARD LEVIN P it isn't the Jews, it's the blacks (and vice versa). No sooner was the affair of the Cam- bridge University Appointments Board Secretaries and their...

Below the Gangway By CHARLES FLETCHER-COOK, MP L AST week I heard three great speeches. On Thursday, General de Gaulle in West- in ster Hall. On Wednesday, Mr. Peter Thorney-...

By LEOPOLD KOHR* O NE out of every three American prisoners in the Korean War was suspect of having eo lktborated with thi! enemy. To prevent a re- e A ur rence of this...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS 0 0 not know whether the new contraceptive Pills will prove medically satisfactory, nor, to f uo them justice, do their producers. As they re el/ 1 admit,...

' By SYDNEY IRVING F live of us had withstood the rigours of the course. One had dropped out to become a rope salesman. Another appeared to have learned enough in one year; he...

any of your readers may ho c , believed Mr, Erskine Childers's opening statemen t that he was writing 'not in rhetoric,' a later passq e „ in his letter requires explanation....

Robert Kee Bernard Levin in Moscow Ethel Mannin Unnatural Childbirth . District Midwife The BBC's Yugoslav Service Frederick Clifford-Vaughan Patron or Dictator? Charles...

SIR,—As a practising midwife of twelve Yea rs experience I should like to sympathise with Monica, Furlong's comments on her experiences in hospita l at the time of the birth of...

in 'historical research' (letter of Mr. Erskine B. Childers, printed on page 473 of your issue dated April 1), I wish to quote in full (and not in the 'condensed' version...

SIR,—May someone whose experience of MoscO, in the years 1934 and 1935 was precisely the 0 111 ' as Bernard Levin's in 1960 weigh in belatedly ° Il i this discussion? Fair's...

SIR,—The Arts Council ' s mishandling of its relations with the Carl Rosa Trust has compelled me to speak publicly and often on the subject - far oftener than I could have...

SIR. - May I take issue with Mr. Gavin Lyall, who criticises the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Bill on the ground that it does not provide for Treasury grants to be paid to...

the !ssue by stressing that the service is ' firmly in British But is British necessarily synonymous with e k nra Petent - this may be doubted in the case of tu.ro ad casts to a...

SHL—May I offer my sympathy to Miss Penelope Gilliatt for the disgust she experienced while visiting what she considered to be my country and my people? I can readily imagine...

appears to be concerned with the cultural health of the provinces. He finds them barren and their activities under - subsidised, and he pins the blame for this on the Arts...

Children of the God's By DAVID CAIRNS I had an invigorating taste of the Covent Garden gods the other day when I bought a ticket in the gallery slips, far above Lord...

may I assure Cyril Ray that a taste for vintage port is by no means confined to 'old codgers'?- Yours faithfully,

SIR,---May I draw your readers' attention to a way in which items lying idle in their homes can be made to help World Refugee Year? Here in Oxford we have run for ten years a...

DEREK HILL By The British Film Academy's present policies 4 re partly demonstrated by its latest awards. The alaior trophies went to Ben-Hur, as the best film from any source,...

Filthy Pictures By ISABEL QUIGLY Peeping Tom. (Plaza.)—The League of Gentlemen. (Odeon, Marble Arch, and general release April 18.) —Lunch on the Grass. (Cameo-Poly.) GIVEN...

Witness Box By PETER FORSTER ASSOCIATED - REDIFFUSION recently arranged, I gather, for its Ghana TV to undergo a marathon course of High- way Patrol. Last Thursday the same...

A Poor Show By CLIVE BARNES COVENT GARDEN en fete is always a stimulating sight, and the Gala given in honour of President de Gaulle showed the Opera House off to its grandest...

On, Churchill, On /. BY ROY JENKINS T HE seventeenth Earl of Derby belonged to an intermediate generation of politicians. Although he entered the House of Commons in 1886, he...

The A flair seems to me to be C. P. Snow's best novel since The Masters; indeed, in a number of ways it compares quite favourably with the earlier book. Its success is not due...

Harriet Martineau. By R. K. Webb. (Heine- mann, 35s.) CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH once wrote an essay about those Victorians who found in the invalid's life 'a climate in which they...

The Longest Day. By Cornelius Ryan. (Gol- lancz, 21s.) AFTER the great weight of put-downable books by Generals on how they won the war, here is an un-put-downable one about...

WHEN I was young and foolish I went to Blooms- bury to consult the oracle about some book trade article I was working on. With briskness and courtesy Sir Stanley Unwin put me...

limiters in a Narrow Street. By Jabra I. Jabra. (Heinemann, 15s.) Give Me Your Answer, Do. By Peter Marchant. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) WE envy you, said Mary McCarthy,...

By CUSTOS T HE post-Budget markets were featured by a recovery in gilt-edged and a sharp fall in equity shares. The fall was worse in steel shares in anticipation of the coming...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IF Mr. Heathcoat Amory really wanted to start a war of nerves in oie business world it seems to me that he has been brilliantly successful. The banks have...

ACROSS 1 It's cold in the retreating sea, he discovers; what a heel! (8) 5 Nothing exclusive about such millinery (6) 9 Soito voce comment on seeing crows' feet at the head of...

ACROSS.-1 Short commons. 9 Rag- picker. 10 Going. 11 Metope. 12 Abstract, 13 Salter. 15 Bush-baby, 18 Cornered. 19 Breech, 21 Breather. 23 Askari. 26 Aesop. 21 Temporise. 28...

Foot Loose and Whisky Free By KATHARINE WH1TEHORN THE outside of Harro - gate ' s largest hotel looked as massively uninviting as it must have looked since the nineteenth...

Dummy Run By MONICA FURLONG The middle - aged doctors, male and female, who write books on baby - care often pass over the. weeks. following . the „birth as a misty-eyed...

Schools for Scribblers B y LESLIE ADRIAN I HAVE been cheating—on behalf of a reader, let me say, who wants to know whether writing schools and schools of journalism do anything...

in a whisky base. Now, there is a new liceur of much the same sort on the market--BronW, made in Yorkshire of French cognac with Yorkshire honey and herbs, to what is said to be...