No. 6934 Established FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1828 1961

GENEVA RANG to the sound of yet more deadlocks over the Laos talks. South Korea heard more martial noises as a military junta, led by General Chang and General Chung. staged a...

rr HE Government is delaying its policy state- ' ment on coal imports, the Commons were told this week, 'because of the importance of the issues involved.' It would be pleasant...

A LTHOUGH the communiqué issued after last .. week's NATO meeting in Oslo may have been 'one of total platitude,' as a disillusioned leader-writer put it, yet some solid results...

'The Teacher's Lot' in our March 31 issue that we suggested he should postpone his reply until he had time to digest them. He will be answering his critics in the Spectator next...

From a Correspondents PARIS T HOUGH General de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer meet as regally as ever on Friday, Europeans are for the moment paying more attention to Mr. Macmillan....

Red Alert for Defence Policy ? By JULIAN CRITCHLEYt D EBATES on defence are strangely infrequent in the House of Commons; there have been only three since the election—two at...

From TELFORD TAYLOR JERUSALEM O N the docket of the District Court of Jerusa- lem, Criminal Case No. 40/61 is entitled 'The Attorney-General of the Government of Israel v....

By MICHAEL LEAPMAN NSIDE Iran, it is not difficult to discover the I state of the country. Talk to almost any educated Iranian and he will tell you about the poverty, the...

Outbreak UnCharitable By MONICA F URLONG T HE House of Lords, I learned from the Sunday Express the other week, is turning Roman Catholic at a rate of matrimonial knots as...

`Peaceful' Bombs By JOHN WILLIAMSON I N 1957 the first atomic explosion whose effects were totally confined underground was let off in Nevada The first by the Americans, that...

SIR,—How does Mr. Austin classify 'smaller circula- tion magazines,' which, he says, have a knack of 'going out of business'? He seems to misunderstand the present set-up in...

Courts are necessarily brief. It may well be therefore that some exceptional evidence to the detriment of the defence of Mr. W. F. Walker, who was sentenced on May 11 to twelve...

SIR,—Criticism of medical education in Britain. directed mainly at the status of psychological medicine within the curriculum, has been growing in recent months, and demands...

Clive Psychiatric Training Kenneth Robinson, MP The Quality of Mercy Donald W. T. Bruce Printing and the Press Anthony M. Perry Hospitals and Patients Michael Joyce, E....

letter to the Times] really favour the professed aims of the Castro Government • . . then they should support the rebels. For that is precisely their programme—the original...

issue is the way he maintains that Hungary and Cuba were only different in degree. There arc, of course, two basic distinctions be- tween them of the utmost importance. (a) In...

SIR, --Hospital patients and ex-patients get tired of reading letters written by doctors, matrons and nurses to explain how splendidly the hospitals are run. No doubt delay is...

versus Patients' is not so much over SIR,- My indignation at Mrs. Catling's article en- titled 'Hospitals versus Patients' is not so much over the criticism that she levelled at...

SIR,—As a Sinhalese I fully endorse the ideas expressed by Christopher Hollis on the Tamil ques- tion in Ceylon. How could Mrs. Bandaranaika con- demn South Africa when she and...

the publicity you have given to Mrs. Catling's disturbing article. It rings absolutely true, and though she arrives at some wrong assump- tions they are understandable, and do...

variety show which will take place at 11.45 p.m. at the Victoria Palace, on June 2, in aid of the Africa Bureau. Among those taking part will be Larry Adler, Dame Peggy...

robbery was freely available to him; other deadly weapons are now the subject of strict public control. How much of the culpability of this youth is shared by the State, now...

Falstaff Immenso By DAVID CAIRNS I HAVE never been able to understand people who do not , see that Falstaff is one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to music....

The Male Image By CLIVE BARNES 'STEVEDORES Love Bal- let.' Well, perhaps not quite; but the other day I was talking to a re- gular member of the ballet audience, who hap- pens...

The Razor Quartet By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Jonathan Miller is the zombie of the party and his gangle is his fortune Forget Evolution, think of Man as having been developed along...

Grateful Thanks to St. Jude By ISABEL QUIGLY MacLaine, the patroness of all hopeless cases. teal Every country has its anti-heroine, the charmer tior who gets away, through...

The Unbeloved Republic BY PETER DUVAL SMITH I N these days every smiling liberal has his Panacea for the ills of South Africa, but seldom are their remedies founded on any more...

The Big Push. By Brian Gardner. (Cassell, 21s.) iN this fine chronicle of terrible events Mr. Gardner quickly disposes of the myth that the battle of the Somme was fought to...

Bulgarian Background. By Bernard Newman. (Robert Hale, 21s.) IN a world divided and threatened by the challenge of Communism, books like these two, dealing with people and life...

The Crusade against Capital Punishment in Great Britain. By Elizabeth Orman Tuttle. (Stevens, 30s.) IN a typical article published in "1908; writes D r, Tuttle, 'the Spectator...

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell. Edited by Lester E. Denonn and Robert E. Egner. (Allen and Unwin, 42s.) WHILE Russell himself, with seemingly un- diminished vitality,...

The Strategy of Desire. By Ernest Dichter. (Boardman, 25s.) DR. Dictirea, the inventor of motivation!' research, says that : —we're all more emotional than rational and...

H e nry VIII and Luther. By Erwin Doernberg. (Barrie and Rockliff, 21s.) full ;haft' titute oned than d so mis- ey're set- tract ple's it in lings :Olaf here will bout...

12s. 6d. each.) The one is little more than a character sketch of aII ageing—indeed, a dying—French politician, de- termined that his obvious successor shall not, in fact,...

6d.) White woman is killed in small Southern town where, whenever there has been a murder before, a Negro has paid for it. New sheriff is determined to find out who, in fact,...

The Half Hunter. By John Sherwood. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) One would never know it from the wrapper or the flyleaf, but this is by an ex- perienced and versatile author, whose last...

Any Advance? By Geoffrey Johns. (Hutchinson, 16s.) To start by asking how much the Miltonism of Thyrsis or The Scholar-Gipsy detracts from either poem may seem remote; but...

The Accused. By Harold R. Daniels. (Dent 12s. 6d.) Grim courtroom story, with the eviden gradually revealing, and the accused's memori echoing in greater depth, the relationship...

readat character study of young woman thief, a-moral ta her employers' pay-rolls, but highly puritanic as to her favours. It may be that both the lig fingers and the sexual...

adventurer is found dead in a Land-Rover in a remote corner of Tanganyika, and the District Commissioner has to find out who did it, and why: African or European; because of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IF you investors have a little spare time this weekend turn to the back page of the Financial Times and consider the extra- ordinary variety of dividend...

E BEERS report that their diamond sales for 1960 were less by £1,435,000 than in 1959 and that a substantial quantity of diamonds mined in Russia were purchased by their sub-...

Are There Other Wines? By KATHARINE WHITEHORN AT this time of year, there is no vintage in the champagne country. The great mechanical presses lie dismembered and empty; the...

By CUSTOS W HAT brokers call 'consolidation' is at work in the share markets. Buying and selling is more evenly matched. The Trustee Bill is expected to pass before the summer...

Clubs for Climbers By LESLIE ADRIAN There are other practical advantages, too. Members have first call on the use of mountain huts, as well as on their bedrooms (which can mean...

• • • Well, it's a new thought, certainly. But what I remember respecting was the way the thing was worked so that when future generations look back through the files they will...