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THE SEVENTEEN - POWER DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE opened in Geneva, after informal talks between Lord Home (the British Foreign Secretary), Mr. Dean Rusk and Mr. Gromyko. The Soviet...

A s the Evian talks on the cease-fire in Algeria ..draw to a close,.and the uncertainty narroWs to a question of just how much bloodshed the OAS can bring about before peace is...

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T ia Geneva disarmament conference has opened to the accompaniment of Mr. Gromyko's letter to U Thant and of more Russian activity in the Berlin air corridors. The proposals...

C OVIET agriculture is not faced with any new A./crisis. So far Mr. Khrushchev is right. It is simply in the same critical state that has afflicted it since 1930. There have...

Till: fuss about the Royal Academy's decision 1 to sell its Leonardo is, as these fusses usual]: am largely composed of cant. Particularly en joyable is the spectacle of the...

S ow: letters we have received from supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (couched for a welcome change in quiet and reasonable terms) ask us to say why we believe,...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS r i" HE seven-year Algerian war may be over when this is in print; a war without any battle above the level of a skirmish, a war that the French have...

T HE battle which has been carried on over Dr. Kroll, West German ambassador in Moscow, seems to have ended in a draw. On the one hand, Dr. Kroll is to be withdrawn from his...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK T tlIS city remains the national centre for trade fairs. The annual appearances of United States Senator Barry Goldwater as em- bodiment of the...

By RICHARD BAILEY I F the discussions on the possible entry of Britain into the Common Market have done nothing else they have made us much more aware of what goes on across the...

CULTURES The reaction to our publication last week of ihe full text of Dr. Leavis's Richmond lecture was quick and copious. We publish below a small sample. It will be...

interest, but some surprise, Dr. F. R. Leavis's non-stop and male- volent attack on Sir Charles Snow in your last issue. I read to the end of this attack solely because I could...

Beetle quoted after being flogged by Mr. King. C. P. Snow might quote with him: Dr. Leavis's stereotyped lunges of anti-Americanism, hi3 little bits of gossip, half-catty and...

that he made T. S. Eliot a key figure, and D. H. Lawrence a great writer. In the Twenties some of us foolishly imagined that they did it for themselves. It would be interesting...

F. R. Leavis's lecture on C. P. Snow ought not to pass unnoticed. No doubt Leavis would apply a simi- lar sort of criticism to a student's essay. 1. Leavis values criticism as...

result which I don't think he can have intended. Without it I would certainly have thought C. P. Snow's picture of the pettiness, abuse and violence which could be found within...

C. P. Snow with coke is in itself merely undig- nified, and perhaps one should' ignore it. True: there is much in Dr. Leavis's Richmond Lecture to which even a third party can...

surely evoke almost as many counter-attacks upon himself as would gratify him. I will there- fore confine myself to one small point. Dr. Leavis says: 'That he has really been a...

attend Dr. Leavis's essay in self-expression, the point whereat my morale would have broken down was when he accused Sir Charles of 'repetitious- ness.' Thereafter, given a...

Dr. Leavis was my English Super- visor, and I had rooms directly below Dr. Snow in Christ's College. Contrary to what one might expect, I found Dr. Snow (whom I knew socially...

out. Dr. Leavis's lecture on C. P. Snow is one of thz greatest rhetorical performances I have ever read, for mounting splendour of scornful irony and of rage benignly laughing...

is not the only one to reach us from Cambridge of late. There is also the myth of Leavis, the great critic. If one is the product of Sunday papers, the other is the creation of...

year. The splenetic doctor's attempt at professional assassination is so ludicrou , l!, overdone as to be laughable. The original leak of provocative snippets was full of...

cliché—more damagingly, for Snow's pretensions, cliché than the kind of thing I instanced first, for it dismisses the issue, tacitly eliminates the problem, discussion of which...

in your last issue, is a demonstration of ill-mannered, self-centred and destructive adolescent behaviour that will surely be of interest to the psychologist. The whole lecture...

Sir Charles Snow; but my reaction to DI. Leavis's lecture must have been shared by many. How can a man able to write: `The judgment I have to come out with is that not only is...

slip- shod in his mode of expression, as C. P. Snow often is, and yet be able to state an important truth, while another may display vast learning and great powers of analysis,...

Leavis Lady Chatterley's Lover The Warden of All Souls Nuclear Testing Peter Brown Love ol Liberty? L. M. Hopkins 'The Historical Novel' Martin Eve A Coldstream Painting Philip...

information about England. I do not read it to be informed about Sweden. Quite a number of people wrote letters to tell Mr. Fennell that he was wrong and rude. Stir., I invite...

am told that my Richmond Lecture which you printed last week, may continue for a while to get some critical attention, so I shall be grateful if you will allow me to correct...

SIR. — In my Encounter article I put forward a certain interpretation of an episode in Lady Chatter ley's Lover. The main burden of Mr. Levin's criticism is that this...

SIR,—May I encroach on the hospitality of your columns to seek the whereabouts of a painting by William Coldstream called The Lion House painted in 1928. It was exhibited at the...

in No. 5 Beauford Square, the so- called 'Christmas card house,' which is threatened, with demolition to make way for a block of fiats. This Trust has endeavoured to speak for...

SIR,—Delegates to the Spanish trades union congress in Madrid heard General Franco deny dictatorship and affirm that 'we love liberty more than any other nation.' Will the...

SIR,—May I answer the question raised by your reviewer in the thoughtful and sympathetic notice of The Historical Novel? The reason why 'the first German edition of 1955 and our...

SIR,—May I point out an unfortunate misstatement made by Miss Olivia Manning in her review of three novels under the heading Seducer in a Soutane in your issue of March 2, Miss...

SIR,—Those like Mr. R. A. Walker who are looking fOr a credible argument for the resumption of nuclear tests and who do not see the New York Times will be interested in the one...

SIR,—In your issue of March 9 Hugh Graham writes: 'More than any of the older artists represented in this show (Gris, Leger, Picasso, Klee, Miro) his [Jaques Villon's] aims...

Sta,—Believing implicitly as 1 do that (a) purely architecturally, London is one of the ugliest cities in the world; (b) 'the Metropolis' and 'Home Counties' are about the most...

Outward Bound By JOHN HALE IN contrast to their superb King Lear, the Marlowe Society's latest recordings, Henry V and • Cymbeline (Argo, four records each) will only be of...

Lost Secret By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Secret of the World. (Theatre Royal, Stratford E.) THE first act of Ted Allan's The Secret of the World is about a man called Sam Alexander...

Poor Old George By MORDECAI RICHLER Struck off, listed as a 'dramatised documentary' in the Radio Times, was neither drama nor documentary. It was a melodrama. Written by John...

From the Chastity Belt By ISABEL QUICLY The Devil Never Sleeps. (Carl- ton.)—Walk on the Wild Side. (Columbia.) THIS was cliché-week in the cinema, making you wonder how...

Repair your struck senses Within the limit of memory. Return the strict laws And comparisons. Once let Shot nerve ends dictate A future and you've had it. Talk I not unwisely...

Hall of Fame By I H. PLUMB T HERE are still two nations, not so distinct now in clothes, accent and divergence of income as they were in Disraeli's day but still utterly...

A DECADE and a half can perhaps be re g arded n as the opportune time for one who was inti- mately concer ned with the epic of the sie g e of Jerusalem, in 1947-49, to sit down...

RECENT work on the history of technolo g y has made it once more respectable to explain vast social chan g es in terms of specific inventions. It is true that we no lon g er...

'ONE night through the partition I overheard a conversation between my parents. . . . "The boy's mental development is somewhat lagging behind his physical one." "What?" cried...

The Londoner. By Tudor Jenkins. (MacGibbon and Kee, 21 8.) IN the past five years there have been three Paul Tanfields, four Henry Fie'dings, four Penden- nises, four Atticuses,...

The French Revolution. By Georges Lefebvre. Translated by Elizabeth Moss Evanson. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 35s.) ONE of the last papers ever given by Georges Lefebvre was...

Ashes and Diamonds. By George Andrzeyevski. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 18s.) IN Poland the novel as we know it has never really been the dominant form. There are many reasons...

THIS is a reprint of a book first published in 1932, and anyone who has the faintest interest in the history of English literature and who missed it on its first appearance...

The Foot of Clive. By John Berger. (Methuen, I8s.) SIMPLICITY, they used to tell me at school, is the greatest of the literary virtues. Never use a long word where a short one...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT We all know how it started. In the middle of 1958 the then Chancellor (Mr. Amory) removed the restrictions upon bank lending and the joint stock banks...

By CUSTOS A LL those who disliked Mr. Chambers's ..aggressive take-over bidding will be de- lighted that ict only obtained 371 per cent. of COURTAULDS. In spite of the big...

Too Much Zeal By ELIZABETH DAVID SOME nine years ago, when I was contributing cookery articles to liar- per's Bazaar, I wrote a piece tlealing with the adaptation, to the cir-...

B RITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO produces a finely illustrated report for the year ended September 30, 1961, which has proved to be the best year in this great company's history. The...

At Last By LESLIE ADRIAN THERE may be, as Falstaff believed, a divinity in odd numbers, but there is nothing but hell or expense in odd feet. In an age when `no one can think...

.0Nu, long ago, during the war, was acting number two for a time to the then London editor of the Manchester • Guardian. An agency message brought the news that Alan Moorehead...