ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6638 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1955 PRICE 7d.

N N employers' manifesto today might reasonably be ex- pected to develop into a diatribe, a wail of wrath against workers for strikes, excessive wage claims, union re- strictive...

F ROM his trainer's box in The Times correspondence columns. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart has issued another of his instruction manuals for the country's defence team. It is based...

T HE British Government has got into a pretty mess over Cyprus. The apparent underestimation in London of the violence of Turkish feeling about the island has made the...

I N a week which has seen the lights of Blackpool switched on by M. Malik and Mr. P. G. Wodehouse applying for American nationality, peaceful co-existence is more to the fore...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I REFRAIN from describing Mr. Percy Cudlipp as Balaam's ass, but there is something almost miraculous about the way in which he acts as the mouthpiece of Mr....

SHE 1US presence as few actresses have it today and it was enhanced by a beautifully cut black coat and skirt, two camellias, a pale blue silk cake of a hat, brown gloves to...

Fraser, the Director-General of the Independent Television Authority, says : 'I share the almost unanimous view that the prohibition of sponsorship will prove a source of...

33EFORE I WRITE again, the changes in Sir Anthony Eden's Government , may have been announced. I am surprised to find that none of the 'informed' political correspondents...

where it can be publicly performed after its successful run at the Arts. But how did it get past the Lord Chamberlain? When a pro- duction was first contemplated, many months...

the pilot. It is so much easier and safer than to blame 'an official or a Ministry. No more blatant case of this practice has come to my notice than the report of the court...

BY HARRY DOUGLASS* T HE Trades Union Congress really began this year on Sunday, not Monday. Under the chairmanship of Dr. Edith Summerskill, supported by a platform of members...

will surprise no one who has frequented the Turkish cafés in the island. I remember one near the college of dervishes in Nicosia, where the decorations on the walls consisted of...

France, reviewed in our columns recently, reminds me of a problem : Why is it that the British admire above all other heroes those who scale the highest peaks, whereas the...

been heavy- handed. When the freighter Argobeam had to be rescued recently in the Atlantic its captain distributed 1,000 cigarettes among the crew of the salvage tug, because...

agreement with the Daily Sketch these days, but its editor deserves to be congratulated on his campaign on behalf of the small boys convicted of taking apples from a derelict...

BY C. P. FITZGERALD I N attempting to assess the purposes and motives of China's foreign policy one sure guide is to consider with what nations China maintains friendly, merely...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS I HAVE always taken an amateur interest both in my own dreams and in the interpretation of dreams. From that doubtless the reader will infer the worst, but...

BY E. ARNOT ROBERTSON M Y trouble with the Scots started years ago, with a broadcast Brains Trust in which I took part with the then Provost of Edinburgh, William Darling. Know-...

Posh Lingo M ISS NANCY MITFORD'S article on the English Aristocracy in the current issue of Encounter, which drew Pharos's tire last week, has given rise to much pleasurable...

Sm,—Mr. Harold Soref has performed a great public service in exposing the real motives be- hind the Greek Cypriot demands for enosis. It is obvious that Britain must stand firm...

The Christian and Africans Canon L. J. Collins The Duke's Conference Leon Zeitlin Cyprus F. Carruthers Turner A. G. M. Dickson Church Preservation E. J. N. Wallis Battle of...

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THREE prizes of eight guineas each are offered for the three best original descriptive reports (between 500 words and 750 words) of any notable event occurring between July 1,...

SIR,—It is strange, indeed, that—as mentioned in your 'Notebook' (September 3)—the press, so far, has taken little notice of the Duke of Edinburgh's 'Study Conference on the...

many of your readers realise that this week brings the fifteenth anniversary of one of the most decisive battles in our his- tory—a battle no less crucial than Trafalgar or...

Betjeman gives St. George's, Tiverton, as being among recent examples of 'the destruc- tion of churches brought about by modern archdeacons.' He then proceeds to make a certain...

Theatre IT is not easy to criticise this play, the first of Ugo Betti's to be seen in London. The story even is rather complex. John, once the head of a revolutionary...

question, published in the Spectator of Sep- tember 2, seems to me to push the analogy between Cyprus today and Crete fifty years ago further than the facts warrant. It is true...

September 18, 1830 BOOK REVIEW—Captain Alexander's re- port of Russia and Russians is favourable— more so than any other report we have read, whether French or English : it may...

WHEN I first met The Grove Family about six months ago it performed for a quarter of an hour each Friday. In my televisionary inno- cence I thought it must have been slipped in...

VISUALISE a table with nothing between you and it, nothing behind it but a bare wall. On the table top, raised above the line of sight, a few small bottles and at the right-hand...

A NEW opera is included each year at the Salzburg Festival, but since Richard Strauss's The Love of Dance was presented in 1952, the new works, The Trial by von Einam and...

BAYREU'TH RIENZI,. Wagner's first full-scale opera, is never given at Bayreuth since he considered it too powerful an indictment of monarchy as represented by his patron King...

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. (Empire.)--THE. KEN- TUCKIAN. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)— WAGONMASTER. (National Film Theatre.) THE young idealist embarking on a teaching career at a New...

'Pure daughters of the Greeks come here to pray . . POSIDIPPUS, Epigram on the temple of Arsinoe- Aphrodite-Zephyritis. This was a vital woman. A king's daughter She married a...

What shores, or whores, cerulean-eyed, White-sanded, white-limbed, peppered With pines and shady spots to nap Away the randy noon, have you visited? How many babes or dreams,...

Afternoon Tea An index dream or drinking bout, Her bitter monologue gathered speed In a sharp sleeper's voice. He watched The little wicket click unlatched And the starved...

The Frontiers of Civility BY JOHN WAIN T T more than one point in my reading of this book* I was conscious of a temptation to frame my criticism of it entirely in stylistic...

UTOPIAN FANTASY. By Richard Gerber. (Routledge, 16s.) 'WITH a few more cubic inches of brain for the average man and a score of years added to the span of life ... every present...

THE CONTEMPORARY FRENCH NOVEL. By Henri Peyre. (O.U.P., 30s.) PROFESSOR HENRI PEYRE'S new book is based on a series of lectures delivered at an American university in 1944 and...

Jr is not inappropriate that the lives of these two ladies should be published durin g the same summer, because the similarities which exist between their two different...

THE FLAME OF THE FOREST. By Sudhin H. Chose. (Michael Joseph, 18s.) SUDHIN GHOSE is an original. The Kingsley Amis of modern Indian writers, he is mockingly observant of the...

THE JAPANESE HOUSE AND GARDEN. By Tetsuro Yoshida. (The Architectural Press, 60s.) IN Japan the conquered have scored one certain victory: they have impressed themselves...

THE GUARDIANS. By J. I. M. Stewart. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) 12s. 6d.) VOICES UNDER THE WINDOW. By John Hearne. (Faber, 10s. 6d.) THAT strange, stylistic heartiness that insists on...

The herbaceous border is one of the sad- dest sights in many gardens in autumn, and a general tidying-up often helps to prevent the border sheltering a large number of pests,...

BY IAN NIALL A FRIEND said with some satisfaction the other day that she had been making jam untroubled by wasps as in years past, and thought that since we had had a bad winter...

BY PHILIDOR No. 15. A. R. GOODERSON BLACK, 8 men. WHITE, 7 men. WHITE to play and Mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution io last week's problem by Mansfield: K-Kt 4!,...

We were walking a path bordering a large iris-fringed drain, a drain that runs clear but has a silty bed, when my companion drew attention to the progress of a big eel slowly...

comical as the be- haviour of people when a dogfight starts. It happens to nearly all dog owners at one time or another. I witnessed a scene recently when an old man with a...

/ T. V. Kama Rao. (Orient Longmans, 84s.) Rather more than a glance is needed to appraise these 1,756 large pages, all of two columns where they are not of several. But it is...

The usual prize was offered for the most far-fetched 'chain-reaction' (on the lines of that which myxomatosis is said to be causing in the countryside), if all cats, TV sets,...

COOK, New Park Manor, Brockenhurst, Hants. , and Miss K. E. PROCTOR. 7 North Mill House. Leeds 6.

asked to imagine that Omar Khayyam were alive in present-day Persia, and, for a prize of ES, to furnish not more than three quatrains from his pen. Entries, addressed 'Spectator...

ACROSS 1 When one might expect to hear the bells of St. Clement's on the field (4-4). 5 Jack takes his raincoat at the airport (6). 9 Apt in age to number from the left (8)....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT BEFORE' leaving for Istanbul the Chancellor told journalists that he thought the balance of payments problem was being 'kept in hand.' The August trade...

By CUSTOS THE further recovery in the gilt-edged mar- ket this week—with War ,Loan two points above its recent 'low' — is said to have been caused by private investment, not...