ON NATIONAL THEATRE YEAR

plan was put forward; Mr. Macmillan's visit to Rome was put off: Mr. Khrushchev's visit to Paris was put back. Because Mr. Gaitskell was put out, Mr. Crossman was scot down. AT...

O NE of the hardest arguments to counter in international affairs runs along these lines: 'agreed that Verwoerd (Franco, Tito, Nkrumah, Salazar, Castro) is behaving badly, by...

No. 6873 Established I 8 2 8 FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1960

PHE Express has described as 'shocking' the 1. news that political opponents of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana may be flogged. This will come as some surprise to its readers, who have...

t HE news that Dick Crossman has been eased off the Opposition front bench should occa- sion little surprise; the wonder is that he has lasted so long. The resolute...

M R. CROSSMAN'S limitations as a political thinker have seldom been more clearly exposed than they are in the article on Clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution which he has...

Spring Books Number Articles, reviews and poems by PATRICK CAMPBELL, JOHN COLEMAN, MONICA FURLONG, PENELOPE GILLIATT, WILLIAM GOLDING, ROBERT GRAVES, ROY JENKINS, STEPHEN...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS T HE triumph of January 29 has been brief. For a moment we were back with the Charles de Gaulle of the Resistance with more suppprt from the Centre...

By BERNARD LEVIN ON second thoughts, I decided that the Copenhagen chamber- maid might think I had gone mad, and desisted. It would, after all, have been rather diffi- cult to...

From MICHAEL ADAMS BEIRUT rr His winter's prolonged drought all through I the Middle East has made a mockery of the term 'fertile crescent'—which is used to de- note the broad...

By RICHARD FINDLATER WHEN in the long, long campaign for 'a HEN I say that 1960 is likely to be a decisive National Theatre, I can be sure of a general re- sponse of loud,...

I HAT Tanganyika should now be in a position to expect responsible self-government within a year is a tribute both to the quiet, determined realism of Mr. Nyerere and to the...

Bacon and Eggs By JACK DONALDSON HE results of the annual discussions between I the Minister of Agriculture and the repre- sentatives of the farming industry were an- nounced...

H. Carleton Greene, Derick Mirfin What For? Lt.-Col. Patrick Lort-Phillips The D amnation of Faust Gabor Cossa IM m Un natural Childbirth Cecilia Chance, Greif(' Smith G irl on...

objective exposure of the state of affairs in the Yugoslav service of the BBC. For at least two years, fragments of disquieting evidence have been coming t° light of the...

SIR,- - Mr. Christopher Hollis, in his admirable article 'What For?' quotes my letter to the Times of February 13, in which I said that the Cyprus Bases contain no airfields. I...

anything at all, the wild flights of fancy of Mr. David , Cairns cannot go answered. He starts with 'mutilation': being only a natural- ised British subject may 1, humbly,...

dismal plight of the teaching profession. The shortage of teachers is indeed causing immense difficulty and frustration. However, my im- pression is that since the new salary...

SIR,—Can somebody explain to Miss Katharine Whitehorn that one cannot do evil that good may come? Teachers must stand by their principles. They are seeking an honest response...

SIR,—I'm deeply grateful to Alan Brien for bringing out bluntly at long last this was a political play and not a dramatised striptease show. But was it really 'a hack...

SIR,—Mrs. Furlong is, of course, talking through her hat. For some reason she appears to have con- fused the 'mechanics' of bearing a child with birth itself, which, I suggest,...

is anything but natural. It is certainly not an attitude which the Natural Childbirth Trust wishes to promote. Unfortunately, there are women in whom a natural tendency to...

The Spectator is grateful to the several thousand readers who have already returned the questionnaire which was included in some copies of the paper three weeks ago. The answers...

SIR,-1 am often asked if it is true that in the US attitudes to psychotherapy are really so much more e nlightened. Not having been there since 1948, 1 do not know, but having...

SIR,—1 am sure Cyril Ray is right about the deriva- tion of the word 'scarper.' In 1927, 1 came across a word having the same% meaning in use among buskers in London's West End....

Canary Fever By DAVID CAIRNS We are to have a new Macbeth at the end of March. But what about Simone Boccanegra and La Forza del Destino as well? What about Nabucco and...

All's Welles By PETER FORSTER It was also one of Huw Wheldon's best inter- views. Mr. Wheldon is most effective in close-up, which spares us the St. Vitus's convulsions of the...

Infernal Intimacy B y ALAN BRIEN Marie Bell Com pagnie. (Savoy.) WHEN I turned to page 25 of the Sunday Times last weekend for my regular sab- batical chuckle over Mr. Harold...

Exile in Coventry By ISABEL QUIGLY The Angry Silence. (Plaza.) — Let's Get Married. (Carlton.) — Marie- °Linke. (Paris-Pullman.) PEOPLE'S nastiest qualities come out (as I...

Creating Things By ROY JENKINS T HERE have been sixteen Foreign Secretaries during this century, but only two of them imprinted their personalities on their officials with s...

New Light on Dr. Johnson. Essays on the Occa- sion of his 250th Birthday. Edited by Frederick W. Hilles. (O.U.P., 48s.) I HAVE just read an essay on Johnson's Journey to the...

Du Barry. By Stanley Loomis. (Cape, 28s.) APART from the discovery of fresh material there seems little serious reason for another biography of Rimbaud for a while, but Mrs....

THE Gravidae ("Sons of Graves"), a family guild of English bards based on Majorca, enlarged their ancestor's first short draft of the Iliad to known books, and became...

THE author of this book possesses two qua not often found in combination, which We'll fit him to be Secretary of the Howard League li t il a to write about prisons. He has the...

Spring Song, and Other Stories. By Joyce Cary. (Michael Joseph, 18s.) Spring Song, and Other Stories. By Joyce Cary. (Michael Joseph, 18s.) ON the surface, Kathleen Nott's novel...

story of attempt by five convicts to tunnel out of Paris prison. The characters of the men and the screws they are pitted against are strongly drawn, and the atmosphere strikes...

6d.) Woman don haunted in Oxford by a Watcher, who is eventually found dead in her house, but not before much suspense has been distilled out of the grey stone and greyer mists...

Heirs and Rebels. Letters and occasional writings on music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Hoist. (O.U.P., I6s.) dl! t s if rite in eft icra .00 ific re' THE quotation...

(Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 21s.) The life of Harry Oakes; an 'American who struck it rich enough in Canada to live it up in the Bahamas. was the dull success story of a selfish,...

The Vanishing Evangelist, By Lately Thomas. (Heinemann, 25s.) Aimee Semple McPherson, hotcha-gospeller of the Twenties, went for a swim. and disappeared for five weeks. Had she...

5s.) Mary Stewart gives each of her admirable novels an exotically handsome (if sometimes rather travel-folderish) setting. In this, by a long chalk the best of them, her pretty...

has a chapter on the Harry Oakes murder, one of a baker's dozen of solved and . unsolved crimes, into which one of Our most talented and stylish mystery-makers ferrets, with an...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT To prove that I have no bee in my bonnet about Canadian finance I will quote what Mr. Walter Gordon, chairman of the royal commis- sion on Canada's...

oils ( re i pid was not unexpected in this column. An in- fl uential brokers' circular may have had some i n fluence on institutional buyers. This expressed the sound view that...

Old Pianos Never Die By KATHARINE WHITEHORN As they lifted the piano into the van, Martin, whose piano it was to be, turned up with his helper, an enormous bearded Israeli...

HE immediate outlook for the paper-making I industry is healthier than it has been for some time. Profits of Inveresk Paper for the year to September 30, 1959, record a sharp...

Processed Maternity By MONICA FURLONG AM trying to think of some method just short of immola- tion to express my admira- tion for Professor Norman Morris of the Charing Cross...

tain. 11 Mentone. 12 Shamefaced. 13 Stud. 15 Acadian. 17 Corncob. 19 Swindle. 21 Riposte. 23 Halo, 24 Clever Dick. 27 Robbing, 28 Primula. 29 Madeline. 30 Ascent. DOWN.---1...

ACROSS Cigar 1 0 9 ,, 1 1,ar fit for a king (7) ?tops or starts? It's all the same ( 5 , 2) 12 Mere a ten? w simle! H 14 Gets m ore from H a o change p (4) (10) Eddie at work...

Laboured Delivery By LESLIE ADRIAN It took two weeks for Peter Jones to deliver and fit a carpet. The managing director, Mr. Wharrad, telephoned as soon as he read the article...

lir was a French Rothschild who reorganised the Pales- tinian vineyards at the turn of the century, and it is surprising that few people here have ever come across the wines...