ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6664 FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1956 PRICE 7d.

T HE Budget which Mr. Macmillan will introduce in just over three weeks' time has now become the main talking point amongst businessmen, trade unionists, and in the City. It is...

TN 1956 there is one way not to handle colonial problems. 'That is precisely the way in which Sir Anthony Eden has chosen to handle Cyprus. The deportation of Archbishop...

O IL production in the Middle East during 1955 amounted to some 21.2 per cent. of world output (roughly half the US production). Of a total output of 161.55 million metric tons...

THE conference of Privy Councillors on security delivered 1 judgement last Thursday, and so innocuous were its recommendations that the Government accepted them with alacrity—in...

By DARSIE GIME Paris A PART from the further delay of a few days to get the Bill IA through the Upper House, the French Government is now equipped with special powers both to...

the price of the Spectator. On April 6 it will go from 7d. to 9d., the - price at which its competitors have been selling for the past five years.

BY HENRY FAIRLIE S EVERAL days before Archbishop Makarios was 'ushered' — d eli ghtful euphemism—into the waiting RAF aeroplane, all the Commonwealth Governments had been...

SEVENTEEN THOUSAND farmers from all parts of Ireland converged on Dublin yesterday. Manchester Guardian, March 7. TWENTY THOUSAND farmers left their dairy herds yesterday and...

seventy- six, had a distinguished career in several fields, but perhaps his greatest success was as Governor-General of Canada in the early Thirties. He was a man of great charm...

are harmful, the efforts made by some of the practitioners to cover their tracks would convince me. A few days ago I saw a memorandum on restrictive practices sent out with the...

L. Thomas to the Westminster Upper Deck might reduce the flow of bromides about the Navy. But no : 'The principal striking power of the Navy today,' the Commons were informed...

THE HOME OFFICE cut a sorry figure in its attempt on the eve of the Commons debate on hanging to discredit Mr. Arthur Koestler for his Observer article on the instructions given...

BY SIR ALEC KIRKBRIDE* T WO of the most ancient civilisations of the world developed simultaneously, and on parallel lines, along the banks of the two great rivers, the...

BY J. J. ASTOR, MP A GOVERNMENT Bill to implement the main lines of the recommendations on off-the-course betting and on gaming made by the Royal Commission is being prepared...

BY KINGSLEY AMTS M R. ALDOUS HUXLEY'S new volume* continues, or perhaps concludes, the discussion of visionary experience he initiated in The Doors of Perception (1954). As...

MARCH 19, 1831 THE TURN OF THE MARKET. - A capitalist in the City, of European fame, who, like King Canute, sat on the shore commanding the fluctuations, not of the sea, but of...

BY ROBERT HANCOCK T O use its own clichds, the development of the British popular dance tune record business since the war. `growthwise, profitwise and saleswise, has been...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN T HE nearest complete country to London is Richmond l'ark. Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath used to have this honour until those enormous blocks of flats arose...

W HEN Duff Cooper wrote Operation Heartbreak, the Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty made a spirited attempt to get its publication stopped at the last minute on...

entitled 'Sleeveless Errand' reads : 'If, Cyprus is eventually to get a chance of opting for union with Greece then it is little use haggling over minor• points.' In the context...

SIR,—Mr. Curran has substantiated his state- ment about the Jarrow march, clearly and beyond question, and I tender to him my most sincere and humble apologies for my hasty and...

Graduated Action in Defence B. H. Liddell Har t Cyprus—The Other Side C. R. A. Swynnerton The New Estate William Allan Vause Book Sales Research R. H. Langbridge Cirencester...

SIR, Mr. Leonard Russell has gone to some trouble to discredit the findings of my survey of the methods used by readers in selecting their books, and I would appreciate the...

ACROSS THE STREET. (Cameo- Polytechnic.) EVERY critic, I suppose, has his Kin g Charles's head—the subject he g radually becomes a bore about. Mine is this business of...

SIR,—I was interested in R. S. Money-Kyrle's approach to the issues raised by the formation of the above Society. The assessin g of g roup motives, especially unconscious ones,...

SIR,— Having lon g suspected that Mr. Julian Amery would define tippin g a taxi-driver as 'appeasement,' after readin g his recent pro- nouncements on the Middle East I am now...

Gordon, which you so g enerously printed a fortni g ht a g o? In today's Sunday Express Mr. Gordon, alone of London columnists, points out that if the component parts of an...

Two Mozart Operas ON successive ni g hts this week we were able to hear performances of two of Mozart's un- familiar operas. One of them, La Finta L e MPlice, was his first...

of us to Mr. John Betjeman for his sturdy champion- shit) of our ancient buildin g s a g ainst their destroyers, may I correct a possible misappre- hension from his reference...

WHAT a thoroughly mischievous 'witch-word' (as Sir Alan Herbert once so vigorously, if vainly, castigated certain harmful public- platform clichés) is the word 'personality' as...

I SHOULD say at the outset that, within a week of the opening of Alan Reynolds's new exhibi- tion at the Redfern, all but one or two had been sold of the drawings, gouaches and...

Agonised Protest BY LORD HAILSHAM I WILL begin by a confession. I am naturally so antipathetic to almost everything that Mr. Gollancz appears to advocate that there is a grave...

ONti of the problems that continually confront the British com- mentator on American affairs is how to explain to the British reader that American parties do differ from each...

THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF PRIESTHOOD. By E. 0. James. (Thames and Hudson, 25s.) Tins learned survey is a comparative anthropological study of priesthood, in primitive...

COLD CALEB. By Cecil Price. (Andrew Melrose, 18s.) FORD GREY, first Earl of Tankerville, was that peculiarly English phenomenon, a radical peer: very rich, and notorious in 1...

WitLil modern science-fiction evolved in the Thirties it found itself more or less automatically forced into certain not very ri g id (and wholly unarbitrary) conventions....

FRIENDS AT Coma. By Henry Cecil. (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) MR. ROGER THURSBY, barrister-at-law, who was last seen at the beginning of his career in Brothers in Law, has risen...

PEOPLE who don't have to read novels speak sometimes with puzzled envy of those who do. 'How,' they ask, `is a condition of childish impressionability maintained? How can...

Hens often remind me of hard-faced old village gossips. They have the same ruthless- ness. A friend was telling me that when he kept hens he had seen them stalking mice that...

One of the most useful treatments that can be applied to fruit trees is a lime sulphur spray, but the ordinary gardener often neglects this follow-up when he has used tar oil to...

Economic Problems of Northern Ireland. Edited by Thomas Wilson. (O.U.P., 21s.) PARTITION is slowly ceasing to be an issue in any but an emotive sense (and all the more dangerous...

BY IAN NIALL LAMBING is in full swing again and with the season comes the annual outcry about sheep- worrying dogs. Shepherds become incensed when ewes are found torn and...

I was interested to hear something further on the native fauna of Australia from Mr. Max Henry, of Chatswood, who writes, 'The possum it a notorious fruit thief and, being...

BY PHILIDOR No. 41. A. MOSELY 1 . . K x 13; 2 R-R 5. 1 . R-Q Kt 7; 2 Q-R 3 . Other W R moves WHITE (o men) are defeated by I . • • R-R 7!; pinning W Q. Delightful miniature....

By CUSTOS ALL black things considered, the Stock Exchange might have behaved worse. It was no doubt helped by some bear covering on Tuesday, the last day of the Account, but...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT h is who took the last Chancellor at ais word and 'invested in success' on the S tock Exchange in July last year, when the 'Pal market in industrial...

W. FRASFR, BunchorY' Kincardineshire, and Miss A, CI. McInrrosn, 38 Carlton Place, Aberdew

1 One needs to be pretty sharp in this city (6). 4 Sub - title for The Order of Release? (4-4) 10 Arranged with a thousand to be slan- dered (7). 11 Ten sing while thus at...

are invited to imagine that as an anti-inflationary measure, advertisid agencies have been asked to reduce costs by using only blocks of well-known picture from galleries and...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 315 Report by Allan M. Laing A prize of £5 was offered for the last 150 words of the first instalment of a sensational serial thriller; it should...