darker yet, and the wind rises higher. A state of emergency was declared in many districts in the Union, and like a declara- tion of war, this created the situation it...

. . . that all things hostile to peace or purity may be banished from this house, and that the people, inclining their ear to whatsoever things are beautiful and honest and of...

No. 6875 Es Labtisne4 FRIDAY, APRIL I, 1818 1960

Smugness, thick as the fat on a turtle, envelops the most irresponsible critics of the present South African Government . . . responsibility is called for, and with it, regard...

Fr HE criticism has often been made of civil I servants that, living as they do in Whitehal l, they lose contact 'with humanity. Of one minis10: , we hoped, this could not in...

mpiti Church in France seems to have beci 1 1 I foolish in its attitude to Mr. Khrushche 0 visit. One incident 'alone, typical of many. ha t irritated President.de.Gaulle and...

S oat last the London Clinic have triumphed, with costs, over Lady Hoare in the House of Lords. The primary facts of the case, however, have not been in dispute since the...

From KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN T HMOS are moving fast and violently in South Africa. It is a different country from the one w e lived in a fortnight ago. A massacre at Sharpe-...

From Russia with Alacrity First of all, let me bandy words. It would be a good idea, to begin with, if my critics could agree among themselves whether Moscow (a) has a...

By PENELOPE GILLIATT O N any cost-of-living index Caracas comes top. I once noticed this fact idly somewhere, a nd found I could not imagine a city more ex- pensive than New...

BY CHARLES WILSON* T is time the Government did some hard think- ling about State patronage of the Arts. This month the Chairman of the Arts Council retires. In February the...

column, and our comments in the right-hand column.) BBC On the first charge concerning programme policy the Spectator says : Yugoslav listeners have many times asked for...

MEMORANDUM BY THE BBC S INCE October of last year the BBC's Yugoslav Service has been per- sistently attacked in the Spectator. The BBC would like the following facts made...

We did not say in our memorandum that Desmond Clarke had been silenced after Yugoslav press criticism : we said that his talks had ceased after such criticism (Mr. Clarke was...

Dr. Jura) Krnjevic, Bozidar Bozo vie Bernard Levin in Moscow Alexander Kendrick, Anthony Sampson Torrid Zones Erskine B. Childers, H. Pinner National Theatres Roy Rich, Philip...

about the Yugoslav broadcasts of the BBC had you not, in your last article, drawn my name into this somewhat unsavoury business. I am not concerned with your opinions; I should...

traveller. As a news correspondent who has done penal servitude in Moscow, experienced the rigid censorship Mr. Levin has merely heard of, known people whb actually did...

credence once more to the hoary legend that there is no telephone directory in Moscow. As a matter of fact, I am writing this with a copY of the Moscow telephone directory in...

play National Theatres. They are sure to be needed in -deadly earnest for the committee which is soon to be appointed to settle what sort of television we're going to have after...

will reply to your editorial outburst against Israel and its Prime Minister. But even to the layman it must be obvious that the picture you pre- sent is biased in the extreme....

established States with a normal history' (I had said that Arabs do not regard Israel as one, and cannot be expected to). Mr. Gershlick's letter raises the same essential and...

Findlater's exposition on the National Theatre, I must cross swords with him on this paragraph : 'How can' a National Theatre Company be con- tractually tied to one commercial...

SIR,-1 am sorry that the Spectator should feel that the News Chronicle has done some disservice to the cause of penal reform by its main news story of March 21. We had rather...

The Making of Images By SIMON HODGSON IF even Catullus called Caesar great it was because the poet saw power personi- fied. And let us not concern ourselves with that othei-...

Home Movies By PETER FORSTER BBC TV has a way of encouraging odd little O s by amateur or semi-ploie s " sional film-makers. These would never dream of approaching ITV, but...

Queer Fish By ALAN BRIEN Look On Tempests. (Com- edy.) — Posterity Be Damned. (Metropolitan.) — Liberation. (Stables Theatre, Hastings.) JOAN HENRY'S Look On Tempests will...

Shorthand Symbols By ISABEL Q UIGLY School for Scoundrels. (Warner.)—Seven Thieves. books, it is always the idea that counts, not so much its practical applications. It is a...

Nature Study By DAVID CAIRNS By contrast the BBC's Beatrice was piously punctilious. The printed parts were made to tally with the autograph in the Conservatoire. The music...

Hunter and Shaman BY FRANK KERMODE D permanent avant-garde in Paris. On URING the Nineties the English kept a Tuesdays in the Rue de Rome you might meet not Only Mallarme,...

The Revolt of the Mind. By Tamas Aczel and Tibor Meray. (Thames and Hudson, 35s.) THIS account of the Hungarian Communis t writers' revolt, by two of their number, is in i ts...

Europe Will Not Wait. By Anthony Nutting. (Hollis and Carter, 12s. 6d.) SOME opportunities come suddenly and if they are not seized at once are gone for ever. Others can be...

The Four Loves. By C. S. Lewis. (Bles, 12s. 6d.) THE Four Loves are Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. In this brief book Professor Lewis discusses each, its...

The House Built on Sand. By Gerald Reitlinger. (Wcidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) MR. REITLINGER, widely known for his books on the SS and on Hitler's extermination of the Jews,...

THE jacket of Rudolf Nassauer's first novel sends the names Mann, Hesse and Dostoievsky boom- ing across the reader's bow, and closes in—lest he remain unstunned enough to...

'ONE invents one's childhood,' says Peter de Polnay; Jessica Mitford suffers from the dis- advantage of having had hers already invented for her by her elder sister Nancy. The...

.The Colossus of Maroussi. by Henry Miller. (Heinemann, 18s.) FIRST published here in 1942, this is an account ! I f the author's travels in Greece just before and into the last...

From Our Industrial Correspondent W HATEVER else it may be useful for, the TUC will just not serve—and really does not want to serve—as a judicial body. This in - terim...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THIS week came the White Papers on the state of the economy from which the shape of the Budget can be seen. The vigorous trade expansion and the current...

By CUSTOS T r - r HE markets are all marking time before the Budget—except the South African shares, which are falling sharply every day. The holder of gold shares should...

I N spite of higher spending in the popular retail stores, many of which will soon be reporting their past year's profits, mail-order houses con- tinue to prosper. One of the...

Minor Road Ahead By GAVIN LYALL THE Morris Minor — now coming up to the millionth car — cannot be with Os much longer. That being so, is there another small saloon I can buy...

Girl Guidance By KATHARINE WHITEHORN The evening I went was the dress rehearsal and the audience consisted of about five million assorted Brownies, Guides, Scouts and Rangers,...

CA for TV? By LESLIE ADRIAN CA,' in their •evidence to the Departmental Committee on Consumer Protection, which they presented last week, put forward once again their plea for...

I Friday at the House, and there's competition? (12) . not much to cat! (5, 7) 9 Chooser of students' fun (9) DOWN 1 0 Prelude to a knock-down (5) , 1 Keeps short of cloth in...

ACROSS. •-• I Capital. 5 Hog Siar. Regalia, 10 Winds Up, II Elementary. 12 Rome. 13 Ted. 14 Swingle-tree, 17 Mediumistic. 19 Cat. 20 Lucy. 22 Charac- ters. 26 Tannest. 27...

EPERNAY But Moet and Chandon mollified him, and by the time he had been driven in a little electric train round some of their seventeen miles of cellars, the most extensive in...