Search for a Wages Policy John Cole Plans for Cambridge Derek Barton The Hinge of Europe Robert Conquest Tibet, China and India George N. Patterson Drinking with Ghosts...

would be sunny and dry, but it turned out cloudy and wet. A Conservative MP said he would ask a question in the House, and a man on the Air Ministry roof said that the forecast...

A if determined to prove that his eve-of-poll spasm on the public opinion polls was no mere flash in the pan, Mr. Aidan Crawley con- tinued in the same fine, wild vein with his...

No. 6990 Lstablished I 8 2 8 FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1962

T HE present crisis in Spain, strikingly sym- bolised by the exile of Gil Robles, is the most serious challenge the Franco regime has had to meet since the inflationary crisis...

HE meeting of COMECON (Council for I Mutual Economic Assistance) and Mr. Khrushchev's proposal for a world trade organisation of an unspecified type are both signs that the...

VER three years ago, in February, 1959, k../ the Platt Report on the care of children in hospital recognised (what to any parent is obvious) that a small sick child needs his...

From a *Correspondent 'THOUGH the Atlantic is the biggest and I richest air route in the world, not much money has been made on it in the last year. The jets have been...

.XTow these our Princes are come borne IN again....' There must have been a number of diplomats murmuring that phrase to them- selves after the conclusion of the agreement to...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN W EEKS ago my local opened an hour late and the host said weakly, seeing profits shrink, 'Well, it isn't much good really to shut just for an hour....

From JOHN LAMBERT long-awaited move into Europe—both the economic Communities and the future Political Union—but the background to their welcome is a varied one. 'Benelux' is a...

By JOHN COLE T IIR three phases of the Government's in- comes policy have now become four. The 'pause' ended in April, and the intermediate phase has just been brought' to an...

T HE present fuss about courts-martial in the British Army of the Rhine seems to me to raise two issues which would be better discussed apart. The first, that of publicity, is...

Literary Supplement has been coming in for some whole- hearted attacks in the French press. With a truly English perfidy its number devoted to criticising French literature...

am only marginally one of those who are now yelling for the blood of the Meteorological Office and its inmates. And, strongly though I sym- pathise with holidaymakers who were...

take a more robust view of these incidents. I imagine that they would have seemed pretty mild stuff to the Duke of Wellington, and a slight reading of Kipling shows just how...

A. Ash (Town and Country Planning Association, 3s. 6d.), and taking in its terrifying calculations as to the likely spread of the London conurbation over the next twenty...

By DEREK BARTON NIVERSITY rows have an awe-inspiring intensity about them, as readers of this journal well know. Under the tame heading of 'Quinquennial Review of the County...

By GEORGE N. PATTERSON A N intriguing,' and very important, strategic ,,.possibility in the increasing tension between India and China on the Himalayan border is the part which...

Foreign countries are all individual, different. This simple proposition is so often forgotten that it needs constant repeating. And the peoples of the Balkans and the Near East...

Yugoslavia By ROBERT CONQUEST T RE role of the Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas as powder-keg, sick man and general world instability-producer has been largely transferred to...

Moreover, they have abandoned a good many dogmas about the economic and even the political organisation of socialism, and not replaced them by any new dogmatism. The great...

It is not only the Yugoslays' economic heresies, of course, which have made Titoist Communism so unacceptable to the Soviet and Chinese blocs. They are signs of a more general,...

Suit, John Redfern St. Robert Bellarmine A. S. B. Glover Sharp-Shooters Stuart Hall Hymns as Poetry Miss N. M. Nicholson Common Market Peter Baker Kids in Cars C. P. Turner...

Sts,—Before this correspondence closes I should like to put forward some lines of J. M. Neale's that I think are successful. (Your correspondent T.D. also tried to do this, and...

cathedral he so readily denigrates? SIR,-1 wonder whether James Hosking has seen for himself the cathedral he so readily denigrates? 'Artists inspired by their interpretation...

StR,—Mr.. James Hosking has the modesty to admit that he is quite unfitted to argue about modern art; he should carry his modesty a stage further and stop writing absurdities....

SIR, ; --Congratulations on getting David Marquand to do that little piece on the Monarchy. What with Anthony Hartley and Constantine Fitz- Gibbon and Robert Conquest and...

SIR,—The answer to Professor Brogan's question is: in 1930. And in the following year he was declared a Doctor of the Church : thus being placed on a par with St. Augustine, St....

Market negotiations in last week's number I think you cover the facts both clearly and cogently but also do appear to underrate the very great uneasiness felt by the man in the...

A Cooled Cauldron By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Macbeth. (Stratford - upon- Avon.) — A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Regent's Park.)—Afore Night Come. (Arts.)--Double Take. (Cam- bridge...

SIR, — Mr. Peter Cadogan of the Committee of 100 asks me to honour `my engagement' to pay the fares of his friends to Moscow who are prepared to warm the stones of the Red...

issue of May 4, delivers herself of gem-like points and issues which bespeak the attitudes of the Quebec Conservative. Her passing mention of Ontario is far too brief and...

SIR, —The short answer to Leslie Adrian on page 773 of June 8 is 'Don't go.' Why parents want to drag their young offspring across the Continent is a mystery to me. C. P....

SIR,—Reading this Note in 'Spectator's Notebook' in your issue of May 4 I was instantly reminded of the Great Orange Toast which I last saw recorded in Sir Arthur Bryant's Age...

Shape of Things to Come By DAVID CAIRNS THE value and stature of Tippett's King Priam are in dispute. But even if (which I do not believe) the work were to be forgotten within...

Whitsun Recess By CLIFFORD HANLEY Ir you happened to be reading r War and Peace, you might well The BBC is more maternal than a book pub- lisher, and it's absolutely hipped on...

Ape and Essence By ISABEL QUIGLY SAY `Christian' to a filmgoer and see what his subconscious squirts up: lions, gladiators, scourgings, screaming mobs, blood-drenched arenas,...

The Brothers Slickey By MARTIN TURNELL ITE Goncourts began their Journal* on M December 2, 1851. They were distressed that Louis Napoldon should have chosen to launch his...

The Family Letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886. Edited by Arnold Silver. (Cape, 30s.) THE late nineteenth century was the age of the great antinomian moralists. Such dominating...

The Railway Age. By Michael Robbins. (Rout- ledge, Kegan Paul, 15s.) MR. ROBBINS says his 'longish essay,' which is about railways and society in Britain, mainly in the...

Witch-Doctor's Apprentice. By Nicole Maxwell. (Gollancz, 25s.) LUCKY Longmans to be the publishers of the Duke of Edinburgh's Birds from Britannia. It is the sort of book that...

Anger and After. By John Russell Taylor. (Methuen, 30s.) ON the simplest level each of these books is fascinating to anyone who is interested in con- temporary theatre in that...

The Incomparable Max. A selection introduced by S. C. Roberts. (Heinemann, 25s.) LIKE sOnie purple and premature encomium splashed across a yellow book-jacket, the title only...

Catch-22. By Joseph Heller. (Cape, 21s.) The Crucified City. By Peter van Greenaway. (New Authors, 18s.) is always a catch—Catch-22: 'Catch-22 says and, instead of ending, it...

the Eagle and the Bear which appeared in our issue of June 1, the publishers were wrongly stated to be Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. The book is published by Hollis and Carter...

Throgmorton Street By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Now the danger of a Stock Exchange slump is that it can induce or accelerate a trade re- cession. When both the savers and the capital-...

R. K. S. PEACOCK, chairman of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, implies from his report for 1961 , that as regards the steel side of its business, the company expects to be work- ing...

By CUSTOS T rTIO most people's surprise, the new £40 million LCC loan did not stay long at a discount. It closed its first day at a small premium and has moved this week to +...

La Grande Illusion By KATHARINE WH1TEHORN And 1 am not just talking of the holidays that go wrong: of mountaineering holidays obliter- ated by Scottish mist, or Mediterranean...

Flavour of Gunter's By ELIZABETH DAVID GUNTER'S, the Berkeley Square confectioners, were already famous over a century ago for the delicious ices which up until the '39 war...

ONLY one vineyard I know of -• has an appellation contrOlie all to itself: Chateau Grillet, south of Lyons, which grows a firm, full-flavoured dry white wine of the highest...