S UDDENLY, Mr. Macmillan flew off to Greece and Turkey to talk about Cyprus. On the way back he stopped in Cyprus itself. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly was...

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1958

Certainly not to Britain. There was a case, and still is, for Britain possessing a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The arguments in favour of it varied and were occasionally...

From Our Correspondent Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia land last June after more than forty years of absence from his fatherland, was duly installed as President of the Nyasaland...

r o judge from some of the reactions here to r the Prime Minister's visit to , Greece and Turkey, he might have been travelling as a Western sage, dedicated, impartial, wise,...

A FURTRER reduction in Bank rate—from 5 p.c. to 41 p.c.—if not this week, then this month, is now generally expected in the' City. It will be most unusual to bring the rate ....

By ANTHONY HARTLEY ONE of the commonest British reactions to the breakdown of the Fourth French Republic has been to blame the short duration of French governments and the...

ASSUMING that the world does not come to an end before October 23 (and it is a large assumption), and assuming (which is a rather smaller one) that a General Election does not...

by Paul Robeson (his book is reviewed elsewhere in this issue). It was a depressing experience. For one thing, I had not been to the Albert Hall for a couple of years, and...

up the somnolent MCC into realisation that something is very wrong indeed with county cricket. The decline has been going on for a long time : the kiss of death, I thought, was...

By ROBERT BLAKE c rlk NE man (or woman), one vote, one value'— kj this is generally assumed to be the rule that governs the British electoral system today. Curiously enough,...

country are occupied by mentally ill or mentally deficient patients, and the• proportion is rising every year (I am told that in America the figure is believed to be over 50 per...

NOBODY who has read the comments on the Middle East crisis by former foreign officials and politicians can be surprised that our policy there has been such a dismal failure....

By ALEX RUBNER j FADING economists of the Labour Party have , just published a proposal that is expected to be declared official policy at the Annual Con- ference. The details...

W ELL,' said Mr. Hennessy, 'we've put a stop to it at last.' `We have, thank God,' said Mr. Dooley. `What?' 'In-di-reck aggresshun,' said Mr. Hennessy proudly. `That's not the...

By STR1 X P RESUMABLY because I was at one time a dramatic critic, some benevolent organisation has for years been sending me World Theatre : a quarterly review published by the...

AUGUST 17, 1833 THE NATIONAL GALLERY JOB THE pictures belonging to the nation arc, it seems, still to be treated little better than so much lumber; for we are as far off as ever...

Mis-Directors By PETER F 0 R'S T E R THE TV drama's laws the drama's directors give, but too many play Q l qr E directors are of sadly utidistin- guished quality. They are...

Leeks `So I knocked on the door and called : "Please hurry, madam. The press con- ference is about to start and I want both lavatories cleared." 'The point is, you see, that...

The Revelation of Tebaldi By COLIN MASON THE complete orchestral works of Bach, played by the Philomusica of London directed by Thurston Dart, are now being issued on...

Clockwork Toy By ISABEL QUIGLY HITCHCOCK'S direction, whatever he is directing, gives such smooth aesthetic pleasure that, for all its appeal to the mind, while one is...

Egging Them On By LESLIE ADRIAN Naturally the egg marketing authority, now that it has got a monopoly, tends to get the blame : in my opinion, rightly. The authority is never...

Bedside Manners By MILES HOWARD T HE position of the medical student during his years of training is a curious one. He is being prepared for one of the most responsible jobs...

SIR,—You ar•e courageous to raise the controversy over Our Lord's teaching on divorce. It may seem a quarrel over a phrase in you• columns between Bishop and Monk. No doubt the...

SIR,—Being temporarily—and delightedly—out of the arena, 1 have only just happened upon the current issue of the London Magazine in which M r. Alan Brien ('ex-Beaverbrook...

SIR,—In thanking you for publishing my letter on the Middle East, 1 must point out that it was 1942 (not 1952) when we forced the Russian Ambassador and Nahas Pasha on King...

SIR,—Your issue of August 1 contained a description of the boorish behaviour on the announcement of the decision to create Prince Charles Prince of - Wales. of some character,...

Forty-ninth Network Paul Tabori Journalists v. Critics Kenneth Allsop The Middle East Major J. A. Friend The Church of England and Divorce Sir Shane Leslie The Welsh Party...

when the Archbishopric of Canterbury is next vacant it may' be desirable to look beyond the ranks of the present diocesan bishops for a successor to Dr. Fisher. He cites as a...

one of the answers ,to your Holiday Questions? In 10 (b) you give the 1 :.37.7 of the Lickey incline as the steepest gradient on a British main line. There is, however, a short...

la Mare, and a selection from his letters, are now in hand. I should be very grateful if the owners of letters or any other material would be kind enough to inform me.—Yours...

Pier and Harbour Order (Sheerness) Confirmation Bill.' I can scarcely believe that that is not one of the modern abuses so cantankerously attacked in Locksley Hall Sixty Years...

writes I have to accept in faith. It is a blow to that faith to find that on the one subject know a little about the information is full of errors. The transistor is a notable...

Rex Whistler for an illustrated book, and shall be grateful to any owners of letters, drawing or paintings who will get in touch with me, and for any personal recollections of...

BBC's Middle East round-up you may perhaps be interested to know that their commentator Mr. Nigel Bruce, in the overseas service last week, tried to convey the impression that...

Thursday, October 24 last year, can see some very sensible remarks by Mr. Henry Brooke, Minister of 'Housing. Speaking at a housing and town planning conference at Harrogate,...

Hard and Fast BY BERNARD LEVIN M R. ANTHONY HARTLEY wrote some time ago, in The Twentieth Century, an `open letter' to a supposed ex-Communist who had left the Party after the...

Formula for Death. By Fernand Gigon. (Wingate, 15s.) WE have supp'd full with horrors; yet the story of what happened on August 6 and 9, 1945, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is...

THAT great wits are to madness near allied has been a proverb since Dryden and a truth long before that. Still, it is a little disconcerting to dis- tinguish all the exterior...

Labour and Politics 1900-1906: A History of the Labour Representation Committee. By Frank plain of 'the prevailing antipathy to the serious study of twentieth-century British...

THERE are certain masterpieces of Italian Renais- sance art, invariably secular works with antique themes, that have always offered difficulties to the interpreter. Botticelli's...

Bid for Power. By George Bull and Anthony Vice. (Eleck Books, 25s.) ALTHOUGH the business of making money occupies most people for most of their time, little is ever written...

More Flannel People. By Philip Callow. (Heinemann, 15s.) THE publishing industry, for which August is like one long Wakes Week, has been good enough to send out a supply of...

Th6ophIle Gautier: His Life and Times. By Joanna Richardson. (Max Reinhardt, 30s.) MADAME MARIE SABATIER, who had been acclaimed by Baudelaire as 'the Muse and the Madonna,' but...

snatches his seven-year- old son from wife who wants to take him through Iron Curtain. Suspense and pursuit in London.

Sayers Stories. (Gollancz, 10s. 6d.); Best American Detective Stories of the Year. (Boardman, 12s. 6d.) and The Albatross. By Charlotte Armstrong. (Peter Davies, 15s.) Those...

6d.) Two men with murder in mind swop victims, so that their seemingly motiveless murders shall go undetected. The notion has been used before—this time the setting is English,...

The paths of a high-class American tart and a high-class Italian nobleman cross on the Neapolitan coast, and death marks the spot. The neat plot has a new twist, and the graphic...

6d.) Neat detective story, notable for its low-down on the Paris rag trade. Lively and rather de luxe read.

Five Roads to S'Agaro. By K. G. Ballard. (Boardman, 12s. 6d.) Distinguished puzzle-thriller, set on deserted, winter-bound Costa Brava; well written and with suspense well...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE persistent rise on Wall Street seems to be causing some alarm, if not despondency—alarm, that is, at the idea of sober investors being bitten by the...

By CUSTOS W HEN I began these investment notes in May I suggested tentatively that February might have seen the resumption of the 'bull' market in equities but until the...

K EPONG (MALAY) RUBBER ESTATES is one of the largest rubber producers in the peninsula and can claim to have had a successful year, having achieved a larger crop from a smaller...

1,005 Solution on August 29 ACROSS I No tip called for by this laden attendant (4-6) 6 Love of the old head (4) 10 Lamed in getting a decoration (5) 11 Mother's musician...

Am- bastes, 11 Scallop, 12 Langridges, 13 Tess, 15 Weather, 17 Minster, 19 Distaff, 21 Noising, 23 Foal, 24 Flamboyant, 27 Acon- ite, 28 Preview, 29 Respects, 30 Sneezy. DOWN. —...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 441: Report by J. M. Cohen The usual prize of six guineas was offered for a translation of '11 y avait des Carafes,' by Francis famines: li y avail...

a rhyming alphabet of the 'Establishment' or a rhyming alphabet for highbrows (the latter to begin with 'A is for Antis'). Competitors shoula bear in mind the existence of the...