T HE latest recruit to the campaign against the we've-never-had-it-so-gooder is welcome: the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Fisher's views do not automatically command respect,...

didn't snow, there was fog. THE GENEVA TALKS on the suspension of atomic tests were resumed. President Eisenhower, in his State of the Union message, revealed that the United...

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A r t organisation which needs to indulge in a .spell of intensive self-criticism is the British Medical Association. A few weeks ago the BMA Council was attacked by Tire Times...

By KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN T HE Old Year's Night party was an unusual one by South African standards in that people of all races were 'attending it; unusual by any...

By DARSIE GILLIE G ENERAL DE GAULLE does not often take holi- days away from home. He took one in the first fortnight of January, 1946, his first for five years. He came back...

Anti-Semitic MI' Jewish taxi-driver was very cross with me, and reminded me of some things I had said in a television programme on the day after the election. I had been taking...

Spectator to ask if books, which they have difficulty in obtaining, could be sent to them. The Spectator will gladly arrange for books published in Great Britain and reviewed...

dominate modern diplomacy `disengage- ment' has had a pretty good run for its money. Eugene Hinterhoff in his book on the subject (Disengagement; Stevens, 45s.) lists a...

By PATRICK LORT-PHILLIPS T RE visit of. President Makarios represents a last effort to reach some agreement about the British military bases which, under the terms of the London...

Reforming the Reformed By MONICA FURLONG E vEtt since Dr. Stockwood plunged into the bushes at Carshalton, Anglicans have been r eacting like the aunt in The Golden Age, when...

T , ,-Twasn,t too good f'r th' bar,' admitted Mr. WAs a turrible year,' said Mr. Hennessy. nleY, 'but th' new cocktail lounge covered invistment. Th' gratest achavement of n i...

Bernard Levin's grand - father, I would find life too short to continue the argument with him, but what fun it is to learn that Mr. Cotton and Mr. Blow are not the villains of...

SIR,—Bernard Levin is more than capable of looking after himself, but Colin Wilson has accused him of twisting the facts, and I think we should get the record straight. The...

58 and 59 of the Report of the Copyright Committee, 1952, suffers from certain in- accuracies, particularly with regard to the National Library of Wales. Paragraph 2 of the...

SIR,—In saying farewell to the Fifties, Cyril Ray closes with what he calls a fact : 'the fact that for the shabbiest of shopkeepers' reasons the free electors of Britain sent...

by Mr. C. H. Rolph suggests that the BBC has acted shabbily towards one of its broad- casters. In order that there shall be full understanding about this case, I would like to...

Mosley Nicolas Walter Farewell to the Fifties Michael Masson The Monster of Piccadilly Circus W. P. King C. H. Rolph and the BBC M. G. Farquharson The British Students'...

Vienna. and met with adverse c riticism, there might have been some point in Mr. avid Cairns's comments on the orchestral training (ha t is given in the London colleges of...

SIR,--May we appeal to your readers for help for hundreds of thousands of Algerians in Algeria whose distress is almost beyond description. 'In one camp,' says Pastor Beaumont,...

of your columns, to take issue with my good friend Clive Barnes about his article 'No, No, Ninette!'? Few thinking ballet lovers today would quarrel with his argument : but what...

some rather hard things to say about the Furniture Development Council. Mr. Robinson, however, confuses facts with opinion. The bulk (if the Furniture Development Council's...

between Northern Ireland and the Republic was unfairly drawn. Are you, however, entitled to assume that an equitable accommodation would end or even diminish terrorism and...

Lower Middle Depths By PETER FORSTER THE production in Armchair Theatre last Sunday of Clive Exton's third television play, Where I Live, reveals the con- tinuing growth of...

All the Conspirators By ALAN BRIEN THE conspiracy of history is a very tempting hypothesis. It would provide such a simple, even consoling, explanation for all our failures....

By DAVID CAIRNS .N1 IN the mythology of singers and their votaries the critic is the monster, the blaster of budding talents, the sucker of innocent blood, the blasphemer with...

Pagodas and Peepshows By CLIVE BARNES . only have the moral fibre to fall for a salamander, he will turn into a prince—or so the ballet says. Cranko's scenario has both too...

Our Italy By SIMON HODGSON IT has taken probably the most magnificent exhibition to be seen in London since the war to get Burlington House redecor- ated. Not piecemeal...

By ISABEL QUIGLY Hiroshima Mon Amour. (Inter- national Film Theatre, West- bourne Grove.) DECOMPOSITION and petrifica- tion : photographed in black and white they look much the...

Generation of Saints By DONAT O'DONNELL J OYCE, Proust and Mann being representative writers of `the first generation,' the representa- tive writers of 'the second generation'...

QUITE a parallel can be drawn between Pasternak and the eighteenth-century Russian writer Radish- chev, whom Mr. Lang calls 'the first Russian Radical.' It was in 1790, a...

HERE is a first-rate critical study of Bradley's Philosophy. Writing in firm, lucid and unstrident English; concentrating on what is strategically central; showing great respect...

Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. By Harris Gaylord Warren. (O.U.P., 50s.) .TODAY: Mr. Hbover is the elder statesman of the United States (his friend and admirer, Mr....

The Critical Quarterly. Volume 1, Nos. 3 and 4. (2s. 6d.) The Kenyon Review, Autumn 1959. ($1.) X. Edited by David Wright and Patrick Swift. (Barrie and Rockliff, Gs.) IN his...

Honour'd Shade. Selected and edited by Norman MacCaig. (Chambers, I 2s. 6d,) Tuts book of seventy-seven previously uncol- lected poems by twenty-seven living Scottish poets was...

(1 °Ivs and Images. By Meriol Trevor. (Mac- k, 15s.) ` a ckberry Wilderness. By Sylvia Berkman. (Gol- lanez, 16s.) . 111 the novels by Robert Penn Warren are re- s1hts At...

ACROSS 29 1 Gentle admonishment to a fav- ourite becomes mechanical (61 4 Outdo with discordant music hot stuff! (8) 9 'But Rose crossed the road in her latest new (Dobson)...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT `THE booming Sixties' were for- mally ushered in by President Eisenhower in a confident State of the Union message to Con- gress. This is to be the most...

ACROSS. - - -I Happy New Year. 9 Stillases. 10 Punic. 11 Lessor. 12 Smacking. 13 Remedy. 15 Skewbald. I8 Hand-grip. Is Intent. 21 Charlock. 23 Tandem. 26 Omens. 27 Novitiate....

By CUSTOS T HE equity share markets have not recovered their former elan and I doubt whether they can do so while the uncertainty remains of a rise in Bank rate. Sir Harold...

T HE principal banks have now issued their profits and dividend statements, all of which make excellent reading. Space does not permit a commentary on all of them; but extracts...

Food from the Fens By RAYMOND POSTDATE* EAST ANGLIA, where 1 was born, is a part of the country where there ought to be good food and good living. The destruc- tions of the...

Little Folks By KATHARINE WHITEHORN t r i 1, One of the few attractive things about them is t he harmlessly one-eyed view of the news world t hey give. The National Newsagent...

The China Run By LESLIE ADRIAN A FRIEND of mine whose life's passion has consisted of acquir- ing knowledge and possession of antique Chinese bronzes, ceramic and dynastic...

I AM not a fanatical devotee of port, though 1 think I understand, sometimes, what moves those who are. But I have been drinking port with some interest lately from a bottle...