THERE WAS DEADLOCK at Evian (France and Algeria), at Edgbaston (England and Australia), and at Geneva (Laos and Laos, with fourteen others intervening). The Admiralty got a...

Victory on this side, defeat on that—complete for 'one moment was the antithesis. Then life returned to its complexities . . • M R. E. M. FoasTER's description of the end of...

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I T looks as if the fears expressed by T. R. M. Creighton in his recent Spectator articles on the Central African Federation were justified. The problem the Government here has...

D R. BEECIIING'S prescription for British Rail- ways, variously described in the headlines as a pill and a tonic, might easily have been made out by his predecessor; Sir Brian...

A T T fi rst glance the Romer report on the security 1.breaches at Portland looks almost reassur- ing. The dear old Admiralty were at fault, bless them; besides, of the three...

By BERNARD LEVIN `YOUR call from St. Helena on the line,' said the operator. But my call from St. Helena was not on the line, the connection having been lost just as 1 had...

WELL INGTON From CONRAD BOLLINGER N EW ZEALAND is about to move into the British headlines again. She doesn't do it often—after all, nothing particularly significant can be...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY XPERTS on American foreign policy have so Li enviable a prominence that they arc always in danger of becoming advisers to the administra- tion; in which case,...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP W HEN Mr. Harold Macmillan finished his now famous 'Ramsay MacDonald speech' to the Assembly of Western European Union on May 29, I turned to my...

It) LEO KOHN* rr HE Arab exodus from Palestine was the direct I outcome of the war waged by the Arabs of Palestine and the Arab League States against the Jews to prevent the...

T THINK l must explain why I comment without linhibition on the late Dr. Kohn's article. It was written, not on his own behalf, but Israel's; and not in personal testimony, but...

By BRIAN INGLIS T HE fate of the Sunday Dispatch is in a sense even more disturbing than other recent Fleet Street disappearances. The Mail and the Dispatch together ought to...

they did say ... was that they were not going to help a prostitute') is a trifle lame. It is surely obvious that the attitude of the courts—or of some judges and magistrates—is...

SIR,—Mr. L. S. Harris's comment on expense allowances permitted under Schedule E for teachers is completely justified. For many years the National Union of Teachers has been...

SIR, —In his letter of June 2, Mr. Kimche states that he has spent some years 'checkin g and rejecting not only the evidence but also the so-called sources of the evidence' on...

that Parliament makes the law, but he fails to say that it is statute law, and that, once made, it has to be applied by lawyers, and not the legislators whose ideals or policies...

Director of Education the salaries offered to graduate teachers are, at present, a little less than that received by Mr. Brand's Kenya friend. Educational development programmes...

J. A. G. Smith. lan Rodger, R. L. Archdale Look—This is You Fred Jarvis, John Hartley. D. F. Burnett, Nicholas Walter The Other Exodus Walid Klialidi Cuban Aftermath '...

SIR, —It was heartening to see the penetrating article by R. A. Cline in your issue of May 26 in which criticism is made of contradictions in the effect of the law in relation...

degree after three years at university, two years' national service and no teaching experience at all, earned £675, or about £10 10s. a week net. I think the 1959 increase would...

between Mr. Brand and his opponents with interest but, alas, a good deal of impatience. The important question at the moment is surely the raising of the salaries and thereby...

SIR,—A collectors' piece of journalistic dishonesty is provided by your music critic when he writes: 'Kempe's point has been incorporated in the Magee thesis—indeed Mr. Magee...

9 is flattering but any distance I may have to go in understanding resale price maintenance is really nothing compared with hers. That her thoughts on this subject can be...

'Postcript; in your issue of Rine 2, has given a somewhat misleading impression •of the Exhibition of British Journalism at Bethnal Green Museum, a branch of the Victoria and...

the point Mr. Perry seeks to make. It is beyond argument that web-fed offset for medium runs of print can lead to useful financial economics—I for one have been saying this in...

meant to sink the brief craft which I launched against him two or three weeks ago. To answer his charge in detail would need more space than either you or my patience • would...

about Cuba when he says. . the two Castros and Senator Guevara will make a mess of the Cuban economy, but why not let them?' Apart from the fact that a lot of people might...

how many have become Christians through their intellect, as how many have stayed Christians without it, The objection to Dr. Graham's method is that he demands a 'decision for...

Suitable for Jennifer By ISABEL QUIGLY The Absent-Minded Square Theatre.) - Gone With The Wind. (Coliseum.) — The Secret Ways, (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — Girl of the Night....

Not Good Enough By KENNETH J. ROBINSON This was splendid, even if it did sound like a bad workman blaming his tools. But the Minister went on to soften his criticism of plan-'...

The Weightiest Commentator of All By PETER FORSTER 'Behind him is his eldest son. His Royal High- ness Prince Edward—eight years old, and look- ing, I think you'll agree, very...

In the Round By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Andersonville Trial. (Mermaid.) IN all theatres the play is the thing, but in most it is too much the only thing. In the average West End...

The Brothers Cay. and Pag. By DAVID CAIRNS FOR last week's royal gala performance of Cay. and Pag. the famous Zef- firelli productions were burnished for the occa- sion by the...

The Fogey or the Commissar BY ALAN BRIEN C ormitrrmENT is simply another word for decision—it is the act of making a choice. All of us are packed with prejudices, illusions,...

A Severed Head. By Iris Murdoch. (Chatto and Windus, 18s.) IN its splendid way, Irish Murdoch's new novel is an elegiac occasion for her following. It con- firms a parting of...

HERE are some glimpses of history from the other side of the Pale. Of course, they include their share of specifically Irish topics (Urban Flanagan's account of papal...

By Christopher Hill. (Nelson, 25s.) The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714. THIS is a book we have all been waiting for—a history of the political and religious conflicts of the...

FROM my earliest childhood, I was fascinated by my mother's vivid stories of brigands at our home at Achmetaga on the Greek island of Euboea. My grandfather, Edward Noel, was a...

A Tudor Tragedy. By Lacey Baldwin Smith. (Cape, 21s.) A Tudor Tragedy. By Lacey Baldwin Smith. (Cape, 21s.) PARADOXICALLY, it is almost impossible to describe a faultless book...

Goddess of the Bullring. By 1.01a Verrill Cintron- (Muller, 21s.) Poor Me. By Adam Faith. (Four Square. 2s. Ii is (or ought to be) an accepted maxim for readers of...

A PERIOD after defeat or suppression, or both, seems to favour good novels. to judge by transla- tions since the war from Japan and Italy—novels in earnest, not just reflecting...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THIS question of company taxation is one which con- cerns us all, not merely the investor, and I fear that it has got into a dreadful mess. I hope the...

By RICHARD BAILEY T HE United States has always been regarded as the economic pacemaker and standard- setter for the industrial countries of Western Europe. But is this lead...

M a. HARRY F. OPPENHEINIER, chairman of . Anglo American Corporation, for the t hird year running reports excellent operating r esults; the gold and coal mining interests in...

is on holiday and will resume his articles shortly.

All My Own Work By KAIIIARIINE WHITIEHORN Things have changed, indeed, in the three years or so since I was on this kick last. There is much more assemble-it-yourself...

Safety Last Ry LESLIE ADRIAN IT would be the height of irony if the consumer These thoughts (which prompt me to cry out urgently once again for some sign of life from the...

By MONICA FURLONG To be a mother is to lend hostages to guilt. In an unguarded moment I have only to let my mind turn up a painful avenue to remember the time the two-year-old...

It was a couple of years before the end came for British cavalry. I have been reading Charge for Glory! (Heinemann, 21s.), James Lunt's dashing account of nine cavalry...