No. 6921 Established FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1828 1961

W HATEVER is the outcome of the Conference on Northern Rhodesia's future constitution, one thing had become clear before it had properly begun : the handling of the affair by...

M R. BRYAN MAGEE was the (unsuccessful) Labour candidate for Mid-Bedfordshire in the by-election which followed . Mr. Lennox- Boyd's elevation to the peerage. During the cam-...

was launched from a Soviet earth satellite, and was expected to arrive in the second half of May, which ought to be a nice time of the year on Venus. The Katanga authorities...

F OR years,. newspaper managers in London,. have been bitterly complaining of restrictive' , practices , by the printing tuxions, Hardly a week'. passes in Fleet Street without...

A the time of the American presidential election it was widely, and probably cor- rectly, assumed that had England been a state of the Union, her vote would have gone mas-...

By BERNARD LEVIN Mr. Heath said that one of the prisoners— Abdul Rahman al Bakar—had written to the Governor of St. Helena on January 31, saying that he had previously sent a...

From MICHAEL ADAMS T HIS weekend the Syrians and Egyptians cele- brate the third anniversary of the merger of their two countries in the United Arab Republic. Many Syrians will...

By BAMBER GASCOIGNE O N the evening of February 1 two men mingled with the crowd going into the Gar- rick Theatre to see Fings Ain't Wot They Used 7"Be. One imagines them...

• By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS W HATEVER uncertainties there may be about a more distant future, no one of any re- sponsibility today imagines that there is any like- lihood of an...

By ROBERT BROWNE I T was a Sunday morning in Pietermaritzburg, the capital city of Natal. A July Sunday morn- ing, last year; winter; cool in shade, warm in the sunlight. I...

hasfallen the privilege of publishing this remarkable inside story. Alexander demolishes the critics of Alamein . . . makes a candid assessment of Montgomery . . . tells new...

an unforgettable love. Despair in the land- scape, in the weather, in objects, in people who aren't like the only person wanted, in the ordinary routine of living; and Antonioni...

than that which we testify to (perhaps) in a politi- cian. Lawrence himself, in postulating it as the essential aim in both life and art, insisted on the most exacting...

conscious intentness on his purpose in writing the book, speaks of his integrity.' Well; no one would suggest that Law- rence was deceiving himself in his conviction that his...

Yet I remain convinced that my distaste is something that the normal Lawrence, the creative Lawrence, would have shared and justi- fied; that (whether in his abnormal state he...

the fact and the interpretation are logically , indissoluble (it is not as if facts were solid nuggets of reality mirrored by our descrip- tions, which those descriptions...

aro make sure, in commenting briefly on the 1 court proceedings over Lady Chatterley's Lover, that the note one hits on won't lead to one's being misunderstood isn't altogether...

remember that times. have changed. , . • Courage is one of the greatest of human qualities. Field-Marshal give us a sentence like, 'I suggest that the final test of a leader is...

THE MANSION . . ` I cannot believe that a' finer

so many things that matter so clearly, im- partially and intelligently in so short a compass. Those who have read Mr. Gellner's Words and Things, about which there was all that...

Set This HotAe On Fire. By William Styron. (HamiSif Hamilton, 21s.) The Undesired. By Kathleen Sully. (Peter Davies. 13s. 6d.) This Sweet Sickness. By Patricia Highsmit...

reject of Groton and Princeton, who has set up riotous court in a gaudy villa over- looking the Tyrrhenian near Amalfi. He is an absurd, even pathetic figure, with his private-...