T HERE are two obvious reasons why the current NATO conference in Paris cannot be expected to achieve anything of importance. With Senator Kennedy still only President-elect, no...

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PRESIDENT DE GAULLE returned earlier than he had intended from Al g eria, where clashes between Muslims, colons, French metropolitan troops and the Forei g n Le g ion reached...

From DARSIE GILLIE is pAg p RESIDENT DE GAULLE dominated Algeria and France as rarely before on the first day of his Algerian tour, plunging into a tumultuous and in part...

T HERE is a lesson to be learned for the Congo from Dr. Banda : to repudiate him on the grounds that he is not to be relied upon would be to fall into the same error that has...

B Y his choice of Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, Mr. Kennedy has not only con- firmed what everybody already knew, that the President will from now on conduct his own foreign...

T HERE need be no disappointment at the departure of the African nationalist leaders from the Lancaster House conference; they were not expected to stay the course. It was an...

be published a day early next week, i.e., on Thursday, December 22.

From SARAH GAINHAM F OR some time now the Italian State Com- pany ENI, led by the dynamic Enrico Mattei, has been engaged in a war with the American and Arabian oil interests;...

Gunning for Gaitskell By BERNARD LEVIN ON Monday night I awoke with a cry of horror; I was dreaming that Mr. Gaitskell had resigned. Or so, at least, I had been told in the...

By DAVID CAIRNS U P in the jet-stream over Asia Minor. the Muzak fades. The pilot of our flight announces that Baghdad is just below us On the right, and, in the nice jargon of...

By T. R. M. CREIGHTON Mite. future of Central Africa will be decided I by the Northern Rhodesian constitutional talks. The African leaders' walk-out from the Federal Review...

SIR, — May I suggest to the psychiatrists, psycholo- gists, magistrates, committeemen and others who continually deplore the misdeeds of 'modern' child- ren and young men and...

What Shall We Do With Naughty Children? A. Ewing. Alastair Ross Graham Hough, J. M. Newton T. W. Meade, Victor Gollancz, Evelyn Waugh. Rev. G. C. Potts L Yniru am TV David...

a number of the Cam- bridge 'undergraduate magazine Delta' and he set forth certain 'truisms' which 'the student writers never considered.' The great majority of the Spectator's...

SIR, — May I protest against the delusions of grandeur in Donald Davie's Literature into Life article? I hope there arc not many students of literature who believe that their...

the treatment of the German-speaking hirnnority in the Alto Adige views the problem in its ' 1. 0 r perspective. Like any minority group the ut h Tyroleans are entitled to a...

Enuns, from the teacher's point of view, on the value of good parent-teacher relationships in the school. If these good relationships do not exist, it is not always the fault...

of redemption and forgive- I wonder whether his New Testament is the as mine? Is it possible that he possesses an Burgated edition?—Yours faithfully, l2 a Sir Harry's Road,...

Sut,—In March of this year Bryan Bailey, the Director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, was killed on the Ml. He was on his way to the Theatre Royal, Strat- ford, E, for his...

in its own right; but more than that the a ttention it receives is an index of what value society Puts on the life and problems of the individual. We are dangerously used now to...

SIR,—Mr. Anthony M. Perry's solution for the news- paper crisis—the abandonment of Saturday by the dailies to the Sundays—is admirable if it is agreed by daily newspaper...

Spectator have now ` e n marred with pieces by Peter Forster as vague ZI ld uninformed as they have been insulting to Wales. en crally speaking, we Welsh have a richer sense of...

the death penalty realised that my hand- I ri tio8 had betrayed your compositor into an "asurdity, h What I tried to write was: 'It would [not will] „ e r a great convenience ....

SIR,—Mr. Peter Turley writes in evident ignorance both of the Libraries (Public Lending Right) Bill and of the Copyright Act, 1956. The Bill deals with public—not, of course,...

by the National Campaign for the l i aolition of Capital Punishment, and can spare a tt tie time occasionally, please write to me at the 4ddress below? Donations, big and small,...

Sia,—What on earth has come over Miss Quigly? 'Doesn't anyone still feel,' she wrote last week, re- viewing the naval war film Under Ten Flags, 'that those who fought for Hitler...

Raw Materials By ALAN BRIEN WANT to break away from naturalism and slice - of - life plays,' writes Peter Hall in the Daily Telegraph, urging a broader, more epic, more...

One Man's Tricks By cLIVE BARNES THE Spanish dancer, An- tonio, now at the Royalty Theatre, gives a lot of pleasure toe a lot of people, and every time 1 see him dance I have...

Lump-of-Life By ISABEL QU1GLY IT'S hard when a legend turns up to be judged: hard to judge it, hard on the legend. Everything suffers, maybe judgment most of all. How can we...

Individual Images By PETER FORSTER 'AGAIN and again one was captivated by the sheer beauty and stark power of individual images—shattered build- ings, body-strewn battle-...

R obbe-Grillet By GEOFFREY GRIGSON W HERE am shall I say, if it is seven o'clock in the 'I'—to myself? I m enclosed— shall and I am awake—by the pink-striped walls, the green...

Shooting at Sharpeville. By Ambrose Reeves. (Gollancz, 18s.) ONCE, driving in Johannesburg on a Sunday afternoon, I was involved in an accident with an African cyclist who ran...

The Thirties. By Julian Symons. (Cresset Press, , 25s.) , 25s.) , I he Fearful Fifties. By Low. (Bodley Head, 20s.) A ND to be young was very . . . interesting, any- Way, , and...

The Best of Henry Miller. Edited by Lawrence Durrell. (Heinemann, 30s.) 'I AM a man telling the story of his life, a process which appears more and more inexhaustible as I go...

ON the last day of the holidays I was sitting alone in the cinema in Maidenhead. Queen Christina had marched into the room, thrown off her great feathered hat and was about to...

Divide and Lose. By Michael lonides. (Bles, 2 1 S' ) MICHAEL IONIDES was an irrigation engineer in Iraq and Transjordan before the war, he served in the region during the war,...

Pierrot. By Kay Dick. (Hutchinson, 30s.) ON an inside flap of the cover, a healthy-looking blonde gazes quizzically at you over the left ear of a miniature dachshund. This is...

IT is many years now since Henry James tried to tell the world exactly how novels ought to be Written. He would be saddened if he knew bow Little his directions have been...

Realism and Imagination. By Joseph Chiari. (Barrie and Rockliff, 30s.) This well-reasoned critical survey of art theories appears, I think, at an appropriate moment. It begins...

By CUSTOS T HE new account has started with some re- covery in prices. Perhaps the market will get through its Christmas account without further trouble, but some heavy falls...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ONE has to go back to 1955 to 111" find a trading year so bad for us on international account as 1960. In 1955 we had a deficit on visible trade of £356...

The Playing Fields of Roedean By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Tim editor of the . British Medical Journal has pub- lished, and the editor of the Spectator feels I should write about,...

Civic Sense By KENNETH J. ROBINSON THE year 1960 will be remembered as vividly by architects as by game- keepers, remembered as the year when the Civic Trust did as much for...

One-Eyed Monsters By LESLIE ADRIAN One of the reasons for this is that a major technical change is due in the next month or two : the seventeen-inch screen is to be replaced by...

the British newspaP er5 should have paid In° re attention to the EgYPtio° take-over of Shephc ar d5 this Hotel, in which country now has oillY sort of nostalgic intere st ' than...