No. 6629 FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1955 PRICE 7d.

I T is no longer a matter for surprise that Englishmen deplore bull-fighting but delight in hanging. Hanging has ' become the national sport:While a juicy murder trial is on, or...

T HE details of Britain's foreign trade in June deal a sharp blow to those who are still complacent about our economic progress. Exports were worth only £165 million, compared...

RIDAY, July 8, 1955, may come to be remembered as the r day on which coal ceased to be the national staple. It had really abdicated long ago; but the shock of last week's an-...

0 N the eve of the Geneva Conference the main need is as usual for scepticism. In recent weeks the impression has steadily gained ground that this conference repre- sents a...

W ITH the Western world heading for the last Geneva round-up, this has been a week of brooding carried on by leader-writers and politicians more after the manner of hens than of...

By a Correspondent l HE Italian political crisis has been temporarily resolved and it now seems clear that Signor Segni's government will command a small but assured majority in...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE W HEN Sir Winston Churchill resigned, the Spectator commented : 'The Conservative Party exists again— for the first time for 15 years.' During the past week it...

with the delightful incongruity of the whole project. The cosmo- politan committee has modelled it on a French fair, but no kermesse. however heroic, ever had such a crazy...

ONE OF THE MOST disgusting aspects of the Mrs. Ellis contro- versy has been the claptrap about sex equality. 'It is time,' writes Candidus, 'that feminists learned that sex...

By Randolph S. Churchill GLORIA GRAHAME has never eloped with an eastern prince, dallied with a maharajah, or brawled with a crooner. Unlike some of the celebrated ex-maidens of...

to open the Battersea Fun Fair on Sundays. Whether or not there should be amusements of any kind on a Sunday is arguable, but since cinemas in London and fun fairs in other...

booklet to celebrate the centenary of London's main drainage. Although I am happy about all those wonderful sewers, I do not think I shall rush off exulting to the exhibition at...

the rent for his council house was less than the rent he pays for the garage in which he kept his new Ford Prefect. PHAROS

BY ANTHONY LINCOLN T HE battle for the independence of the judiciary is almost a race memory in this country. As veterans we watch others campaigning on similar battlefields....

and, now that co-existence is the rage, that they can do lots of things really rather well. For example. there was that `roving woman reporter' who reported breathlessly on...

By THOMAS HODGKIN I N London and Paris, Birmingham and Bordeaux, Lisbon and Louvain, Prague and Berlin, New York and Chicago, African students go to lectures, read, have bread...

BY R. B. SERJEANT* i 4 NCIDENTS' in the Aden Protectorate have recently been reported with ever-increasing frequency—tribal clashes with Government troops, shootings, the...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN N O modest building in any main street of any old English town is safe today. The Red Lion Hotel, half- way up the High Street of Guildford, is threatened with...

Seven-League Bets HE fatigue which, two generations ago, our fathers and grandfathers unflinchingly sustained, and the en- durance they showed, would be fatal to the effeminate...

at the same time, express a reader's gratitude for the critical articles of his predecessor, Mr. M. H. Middleton? During the past decade Mr. Middleton has seemed to me one of...

have just read your issue of July 1, and I feel I must protest at what , you say in 'Portrait of the Week' about the incident of the press photographers at the Embassy Gar- den...

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Men at Waugh Lord Noel-Buxton, Anthony Carlisle Orange Squeeze W. Douglas Embassy Garden Party Cynthia L. Kittelsen Independent Critics Nancy Spain M. H. Middleton Nevile Wallis...

Pharos holds. Fancy suggesting that a 'reputation' could be 'compromised' by mak- ing use of a critic's praise or blame. However, it may interest your readers to know that my...

your Irish correspondent criticises the attitude of the Northern Ireland Government with regard to the Roman Catholic Mater Hospital and its participation in the Health...

8 the worst example of ill- manners to be granted space in your columns since the Sitwell correspondence. I cannot let this extravaganza from a writer of fiction go unanswered....

issue of July 1 is true; but it is not only apathy on the part of the Conservative Party which has resulted in this 'marriage' of the Labour Party and the Co-operative movement....

Telegraph files at least were able to refute Mr. Wigfield's pre- posterous suggestion as to what would be found in them; and I consider that, pending his finding the elusive...

comment on an article by Professor G. D. H. Cole in the New Statesman in which he attributes `to the magic of Keynesian economics' the economic progress made under the...

JULY 17, 1830 HINTS TO lEtEc - roas.—The last requisite of member of Parliament—and it is the safe- guard of all the rest—is the possession of means of independence. It is not...

SIR,—Once more I must appeal to Pharos's sense of fair play. After flooring Mr. John Gordon a few weeks ago, he sportingly decided to lay off him. Yet here he is again...

I AM trying please, to understand about Armand and Michaela Dennis. Wimbledon's Trader and Mme Horn have been glaring fondly at me out of that little square bit of glass for...

Theatre Tim first work chosen by John Clements for his Saville venture provides a good illustration of the contemporary playwright's dilemma. Mr. King has a good dramatic idea....

ULYSSES. ( Marble Arch Pavilion.)—DOCTOR AT SEA. (Odeon, Leicester Square.).---THR BED. (London Pavilion.)—THE SEA. CHASE. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE surge and thunder of the...

FESTIVALS, as they try hard never to remind us, are as much the creation, or at least as much the interest, of chambers of commerce as of impresarios, artistic directors and...

(RECORDING COMPANIES: B, Brunswick; C, Columbia; Cap, Capitol; D, Decca; H, HMV; London Internatiotal; M, Monarch; OL, Oiseau Lyre; P, Parlophone; T, Telefunken; V, Vox.)...

The Shakespearean Theme BY JOHN WAIN S HAKESPEARE'S tragedies are worked out- by means of the psychology of individual characters; nowadays one is not allowed to go in for...

THE GLORY OF EGYPT. By Samivel. With photographs by Michel Audrain. (Thames and Hudson, 42s.) EGYPT has filled the museums of the world with fragments of a civilisation that...

A FEW weeks ago the demolition squads moved in to tear down the bomb-scarred walls of the old Carlton Club in Pall Mall, and this citadel of Victorian toryism will soon be no...

EVERY Edwation Officer knows who is 'the sick man of Europe'; there are now as many guides to French politics as there are to French cathedral cities, and after Goguel,...

BAVARIAN FANTASY: THE STORY OF LUDWIG II. By Desmond Chapman-Huston. Edited by Osyth Leeston. (Murray, 25s.) To those with the romantic temperament Ludwig II will always be an...

SON OF A SMALLER HERO. By Mordecai Richter. (Deutsch, 12s. 6d.) MR. RICHLER has been busy confirming the potential he showed in 'The Acrobats. His second novel contains a deal...

LAURELS AND ROSEMARY. THE LIFE OF WILLIAM AND MARY Howirr. By Amice Lee. (O.U.P., 30s.) BORN into the Society of Friends in 1799, Mary Howitt died a Catholic at Rome in 1888;...

You might be unable to buy the Spectator when you go on holi- day as newsagents do not carry surplus stock. To make sure of receiving your Spectator send us your holiday address...

Layering is a simple and effective way of propagating carnations. Non-flowering shoots are used. A slit is made in the stem passing through a node. The tongue of the slit is...

'I would like to add my bif of information about diving dogs to your recent paragraph on the subject,' says Mrs. Barbara Collins, of Robertsbridge, in Sussex. 'While staying in...

Not long ago I heard of another house- holder in the same village who wanted to be rid of jackdaws in his chimney, and fastened paraffin-soaked waste to a cane, set light to the...

By IAN NIALL A MAN I know recently moved into a rural housing estate where all the houses are new. There were no old buildings on the site, and only one or two trees, but this...

By PHILIDOR No. 6, Specially contributed by B. J. du C. ANDRADE BLACK, 6 men WHITE to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT EVERYONE, of course, expected bad trade returns for June, but no one in the City dreamt that they would be really shocking. The adverse visible balance of...

By CUSTOS THE quieter time for industrial equities which my colleague forecast last week is apparent as I write and the Financial Times index has come back from 220.6 to 217.8....

ACROSS 1 'Or emptied some dull to the drains One minute past' (Keats) (6). 4 Each sins, says the old Prince, mumbl- ing (8). 10 The kind of record not indicated on the sundial...

An essay in self-criticism like Eliot's 'How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot . . would be a chastening theme for many poets. A prize of f5 is offered for not more than twelve lines...

Ili The winners of Crossword No. 841 are: Miss MARGARET H. Taytoa, 33 St. Leonard's Road, Bournemouth, and Mr. G. W. Bennet, Polwarth Manse, Greenlaw, Berwickshire.

The conditions prevailing in the arithmetical problems of our schooldays, with their aircraft 1 train speeds, their men digging trenches, and hens laying an egg and a half in a...