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forming, to the surprise of many observers, the familiar mush- room-shaped cloud instead of one looking like a Cross of Lorraine. The Ghana Government immediately froze all...

No. 6869 Established 1828 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1960

M ICHAEL FOOT has some right to crow with pleasure over the performance which his leader—though 'his leader' is hardly the appro- priate description—put up at Nottingham last...

T OWARDS the end of the Defence White Paper the claim is made that defence policy has now been stabilised, with a consequent reduction of wasted effort and expenditure. It all...

F on weeks past some of the popular papers have been campaigning against the drug Preludin—on the grounds, apparently, that it has caused a few members of the Chelsea set to...

IT is possible to share Peter Thorneycroft's resentment at the way the railway dispute was handled without accepting his optimistic belief that a return to private enterprise...

B persuading all the groups at the Kenya conference (except the right-wing United Party group, who were never expected to agree) to support his proposed constitution, Mr....

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS N °THING startled foreign listeners more in President de Gaulle's last broadcast than his assertion that for the last twenty years he has embodied the...

It always Dors on Sunday ONE does not wish to be censor- ious, but occasionally one feels compelled to. What has been going on, these last few weeks, in the News of the World...

L WE is close to the surface in Africa today. A great deal of what is visible to a visitor in the street is probably visible to a visiting Prime Minister from the cool, white...

By KENNETH GREGORY TOE DAVIS surveyed the interior of Burrou g hes J Hall and said 'Gee whiz!' It was 4.19 on a February afternoon in 1960; and Davis had Just cut an impossible...

younger people today is not, as Anthony Crosland believes, primarily be- cause of the prevailing 'smug, lethargic conservatism': self-satisfied, materialistic attitudes are not...

President-General of the African National Congress of South Africa, printed in your last issue, may be interested in knowing that the extracts published come from a much longer...

and others, Rosalynde Ainslie, Mavis Singleton British Transport Daphne Hereward Eden Memoirs Richard Feilden Left-over Left Michael Foot, A. E. G. Wright What Khrushchev Said...

SIR,—Reading Ian Gilmour's article on the Eden Memoirs I could not help thinking how difficult it is for the opponents of Suez to deploy their attack without appearing to...

. SIR,—It was you (or was it Mr. Bernard Levin?) who told us that the big significance of Mr. Hugh Gaitskell's speech at Blackpool—the reason why you felt called upon to applaud...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. K. F. A. Johnston advocates help to our railways; and Mr. John Allen May says that cars are economic and should be encouraged. More economic for ten...

support; it has mushroomed over- light into a major campaign. The undersigned, as ponsors of the • Boycott Movement, urge and request is many well-wishers, groups and...

the boycott should be postponed. I would go further and urge that we forget it altogether as an e f fective means to combat apartheid. Huddleston himself admitted, on Panorama,...

useless until successful. They were never postponed.—Yours faithfully, 7 Linton Court, Agar Grove, NW I MAVIS SINGLETON

SIR,—lt's kind of Mr. Levy to attribute the phrase 'sitting on a fortune' to me, but it is, as your other correspondent, Mr. Holmes, says, an immemorial chdstnut; it's the usual...

SIR,—Regarding the Scottish anthology, Honour'd Shade, your reviewer, Mr. David Craig, cannot get away with it as easily as all that. We'll leave the question of a 'personal...

got his quotation from Khrushchev's disarmament speech. rom the official English translation it is seen that Khrushchey said the following, not as quoted by Mr. Long : A weapon...

responsibility as ballet critic to the Spectator. He writes that he is not qualified to give an authoritative opinion on Spanish dancing—and then proceeds to slam the daylights...

tary and the Secretary of State for Scotland have decided to appoint an Advisory Council on the employment of prisoners has given rise to some con- fusion, as Mr. Butler's...

figures of fires caused by paraffin stoves : 'in 1947 it worked out at 2.2 fires to 1,000 gallons of paraffin burned, and in 1956 to 4.1.' Paraffin stoves may be dangerous, but...

wide gulf which exists in hairdressing between the service in London and in the provinces. She infers that the apprenticeship system is at fault. May I invite your attention to...

Ni cholas ,-- There is much contentious material in Mr. 'cholas Davenport's article entitled 'The Bankers and the Equity Boom' in the Spectator of February . I will confine...

Either, Or and the Holy Both By ALAN BRIEN IT is not surprising that Shaw's St. Joan should be far more moving to a muddled agnostic like me than to any pious Catholic. Just so...

The Berlioz Question By DAVID CAIRNS 'VG FOUR performances of Beatrice and Benedict last week by Uni- versity College Music Society have revived the Berlioz ques- tion in a...

The Fancy By SIMON HODGSON THE pictures Mr. Sam Rabin is showing at the Leicester Gal- , leries are almost exclusively of boxers and boxing. At first sight they are too...

Master and Puppets By CLIVE BARNES BENOIS is dead. The man who, perhaps more than anyone else, invented the Ballets Russes which Diaghilev patented, died in Paris last week....

Middle-Brow Talents By ISABEL QUIGLY THREE middling, middlebrow talents that could hardly be better matched (Lewis Gilbert, director; C. S. Forester, story; Kenneth More, main...

Mr. Durrell's Dimensions By JOHN COLEMAN * THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET (JUSTINE. BALTHAZAR, Mounrrouvn, CLE.A). By Lawrence Durrell. (Faber, 16s. each.) W in{ Clea Mr. Durrell...

THE blurb-writer of Alexandre Benois' Memoirs should be investigated by some bibliophilic equivalent of Leslie Adrian for misrepresentation of goods, 'Friend of Diaghilev,...

Social Mobility in Industrial Society. By S. M. Lipset and R. Bendix. (Heinemann, 30s.) PERHAPS sociologists are not more sadistic than anyone else. But they obviously enjoy...

Common Sense about Russia. By Robert Con- quest. Common Sense about China. By Guy Wint. Common Sense about India. By K. M. Panikkar. Common Sense about Africa. By Anthony...

Truth and Opinion: Historical Essays. By C. V. Wedgwood. (Collins, 16s.) 1 ‘, 4 _ 18 S WEDGWOOD is our leading practitioner of t h e art of writing scholarly history that gives...

TEN thousand Americans, one reads, toured Soviet Russia last year. From a friend who had it 'straight from the Embassy people' I have just heard that in the last three months...

From Caesar to Arthur. By Geoffrey Ashe. (Collins, 21s.) GIBBON, after describing events in Britain in the fifth century, has a note in which he says—'I owe it to myself, and to...

Aimee-vous Brahms . . . By Francoise Sagan. (John M urray, 9s. 6d.) Rim* Magic Stories. Edited by John Keir Cross. (Faber, 16s.) „. 14 . still 'uncertain about Frangoise Sagan....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHILE feverish last-minute can- vassing and intrigue over the appointment of a new Chan- cellor stir the senior common- rooms of Oxford, one of the...

The Flower and Willow World. By A. C. Scott. (Heinemann, 30s.) To 'popularise' Zen is simple enough : all you need is Dr. Suzuki's energy and an audience ready to wash their...

By CUSTOS A ; the equity markets had not declined veil much when threatened by the railway strike . there was no reason why they should advanc e after the settlement of that...

From Our Industrial Correspondent T HE sound and fury of the railwaymen should not distract our attention entirely from the troubles of the motor industry. In recent weeks,...

C AND WIRELESS (HOLDIN G9 LTD. have produced excellent preliminal group figures for 1959; gross earnings of £84 7, , compare with £742,470, from 1958. A final dol: dend of lid....

Night Must Fall By KATHARINE WHITEHORN DESIGNING nightwear for women nowadays must be a lot of fun. With a public generally eased up to the idea of looking elegant at night...

Unnatural Childbirth . y MONICA FURLONG IT is funny how no one ever asks what one is having babies for. It would be perfectly rea- sonable if, when one announced to one's...

It is true, though, that she was very partial to the wines of Hochheim—so much so as to paint her name to be given, in 1857, to a particular vineyard there. The proud owner, who...

You can take it with you By LESLIE ADRIAN THERE are still parts of Et.rope which have avoided the brass grip of the tourist trade: where a village is a place where people live...

10 Astral. 12 Assay. 13 1socrates. 14 Shams. 16 Minute-sun. 17 Tit for tat. 19 Sum up. 21 Artemisia.' 22 Okapi. 24 Crawls. 25 Skipjack. 26 Sherwood. 27 Addled. DOWN.-1 Reheats....

ACROSS 1 Adjust completely if capriciously S Peppered? (6) „ A band but, oddly enough, not of musicians (8) . 1 0 The fruits of diction (6) 12 Queue ready at the laundry'?...