r ERFIAPS the most significant change in edu- cation since the war has been in the method of entry to Oxford and Cambridge. Not only have the qualifications for entry been...

THE SILLIEST WEEK OF THE YEAR : the Easter holiday sent the world berserk. The Chaos for Nuclear Disarmament rambled into London, after a ludicrous procession through the...

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A FTER a three-week exploratory tour of Britain, the Chinese Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Lu Hsu-chang, has left for Geneva, declaring that China offers a good mar- ket for...

That spies and psychopaths should exist is natural enough. But there is more to it than that. Not merely the odd deviant, but a whole group of people, overtly setting themselves...

By STEPHEN FAY S TRANGER things have happened, but the attempts of the Communist Party to make friends left, right, and centre during their Easter congress was one of the...

From MICHAEL ADAMS PERUGIA N Sunday, April 28, thirty-two million Italians—or as many of them as feel it worth their while—will go to the polls in the fourth general election...

T KNOW that British immigration officials are a llot of thugs. I am convinced of the turpitude of the law. I admit that the Home Office is the most reactionary organisation of...

I trust that Canon Collins and the Rev. Donald Soper arc now both hot under the dog-collar at the dance they were led on this year's Alder- . maston pilgrimage. If ever CND had...

winter's interval finds a transformation scene in progress which bears witness to the Zoological Society's im- proved financial position and desire to continue a process of...

bookstall a couple of volumes of the Letters of Junius, and since then I have been browsing in them. Does anyone read them now? Probably not, yet they remain among our greatest...

forms, I have every sympathy with the Speaking as someone who dislikes tilling in with our request for information about them - selves. On the other hand, a desire to have ones...

I think it is perhaps fitting that the hundredth edition of Wisden, the cricketer's bible, should appear almost to the day of the anniversary of Dr. W. G.'s last match—though...

By DONALD HORNE p doesn't take long in a foreign country to 'find the traveller's tale that sums everything UP- In Taiwan I found mine near the provincial city of Taichung. We...

By STRIA A s aides to the police and as custodians of private property dogs fill a valuable role in our society; but when they figure in judicial proceedings it is seldom indeed...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY We 'good Europeans'—we too have hours when we allow ourselves a hearty 'patriotism,' a falling-back and reversion to old loves and limitations . . . hours of...

Castrate totalitarian- i sm—nor need one necessarily attribute it to malice, there being an alternative explanation. But Mr. Adler must try at least to make some show of...

SIR, —May I make two comments on your mag- nificent editorial `Kindling Interest' (Spectator, April 12). You say : 'There happen to be many fine Ang- lican priests who find the...

picture of the Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament than that given by Mr. Greer. Among many other questionable statements he dismisses Dr. S oper as a 'windy leftist' and goes on...

SIR, —It is quite unrealistic of Mr. Nevile Wallis to suppose that the London Group, the New English and the various other 'independent alliances' could compensate artists for...

of Intellect Robert Conquest Royal Academy Dilemma Humphrey Brooke `Oh What a Lovely War' Raymond Fletcher TV Deprivation James Brock Kindling Interest Rev. Timothy Beaumont...

Hanley that he was deprived of the new. Pinter play on ITV. I for one was surprised, not that Mr. Hanley was so deprived, but that we should have actually been allowed it here...

of mine in World's Press News, includes sell ing by telephone in his blanket condemnation of th. 'hard sell' In point of fact, telephone selling tech niqucs as practised by this...

is not, as `on a crude and inaccurate "class conflict" inter- Mr. Comerford alleges, propaganda. Nor is it based pretation of the First World War.' I should know. I helped with...

may be regarded as an excellent account of the history of CND, but it completely omits to men- tion the use to which the colossal expenditure on ar maments would be put in a...

SIR,—Mr. John Vaizey, in 'Teachin g : Profession or Trade' (Spectator, April 12), makes a useful con- tribution to the contemporary discussion of teachers' problems. Many...

By ISABEL QUIGLY ters, etc.) in ordinary writing; • transfer: shift from one posi- Lir 11: tion to another (from, to); transfigure: change the aspect of; transform: change the...

SIR,—The railway unions are indeed opposed, as John Cole says (Spectator, April 12), to 'the whole philosophy behind the job' Dr. Beechin g was given to do. But what philosophy...

SIR, —Many of your readers, both male and female, will hope that Mr. Pierre Frederick's letter will have some effect upon the makers of shirts who with the shirt offer sixteen,...

The Second Caesar By MALCOLM RUTHERFORD Julius Caesar. (Stratford - upon- Avon.)—Skyvers. (English Stage Society.)—An Evening with Maurice Chevalier. (Saville.)—Virtue in ....

Lohengrin Revisited By JEREMY NOBLE Too much of the action is—or usually seems to be—carried on in a pompous, creaking andante, whose four-square rhythms Wagner himself was...

Church as Patron By NEVILE WALLIS WHEN is religious art non-re- ligious? Is Leonardo's .myster - ious Virgin less committed de- votionally than Millets bowed labourers? No...

By NIGEL BUXTON ONG before the 800-feet-a-minute lifts were in and the carpet laid, a board erected by the British builders announced `London's Finest Hotel'. Asked if this...

Not For Ever By CLIFFORD HANLEY IN writing a play with a message, the main difficulty is getting the address right. At first glance, it was sound policy for ABC to mount...

Too Clever by Half BY MICHAEL AYRTON W YNDHAM LEWIS made a deep mark on his time and considerable pains have been taken to rub and polish it away. The housewives of the arts...

BY JULIAN SYMONS THE line of dissent is what you might expect. That Edwardian grandfather was not a very nice chap perhaps, he was downright dictatorial at times, but no doubt...

Honey for the Bears. By Anthony Burgess. (Heinemann, 18s.) A Summer Bird-Cage. By Margaret Drabble. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 18s.) PAUL HUSSEY, an English antique dealer,...

Time of Arrival and Other Essays. By Dan Jacobson. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) A Theory of My Time. By Richard Rees. (Seeker and Warburg, 30s.) MR. JACOBSON is a judicious...

Philip the Bold. By Richard Vaughan. (Con- stable, 30s.) BURGUNDY is the country that never happened. From the tripartite division of Europe under Charlemagne's sons, to...

ALLEN Dauay's second novel, the 'sequel' to Advise and Consent, is even longer than the earlier story of the Administration's ruthless attempt to force through the Senate the...

am no puritan, But when it comes to two's To much experiment I must account obscene Or mean --I mean In verse. Love poems must remain A little plain. OFOFTliF:Y CiRIGSON

Rousseau : a Study of his Thought. By J. H. Broome. (Edward Arnold, 25s.) MR. BROOME rightly speaks of Rousseau as an `outsider,' and at intervals describes his life and...

I can formulate two Excuses in mitigation : First, blasphemy surely admits Some firm, good name : Only the loved names can Incite to abuse and treasons: You cannot blaspheme...

BY ROBERT CONQUEST T HE relation between literature and public affairs in the Soviet Union is far more inti- mate than anything we can easily envisage in the very different...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHILE we are all congratu- lating ourselves that the fallacious economic policies of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd are now so discredited that they are 'a.R,K,Zz...

By CUSTOS T HE weekend press being favourable, the market in equity shares went ahead after the Easter holidays. The Financial Times pointed out what 1 have been saying...

By ANGELA MILNE l T is not surprising, as mass communications and mass thought and mass danger draw the world more and more into one network, that islands should be often in our...

B y LOTHBURY F OR. only the second year since 1949 the profits from Thomas Tilling, the highly suc- cessful industrial holding group, have dropped below those of the previous...

Flawless Floors By LESLIE ADRIAN SPRING, which has held off for so long, is now almost literally under our feet. Which reminds me. If spring-cleaning a friend of ours over has...

N ow that the Victorian concept of running . nationalised industry as a service has been abandoned it is high time to formulate plans for reshaping the GPO to the best advantage...