ESTABLISHED 1828 No.-667 , 5 FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956 PRICE 9d.

A ST week the Spectator commented on the rapidly worsen- ing situation brought about by British policy in Cyprus. Since then things have gone still further. Bomb and bullet...

I T Would probably have been better if Mr. Macmillan had not made his Newcastle speech, or exhortation, last week. There Was little point in making the journey and the fuss,...

HERE was nothing surprising about the suspension of the I provincial constitution by the President of Pakistan last week. Mr. A boul Hosain Sarkar's Ministry had been running...

By Our German Correspondent BON D R. ADENAUER earned a deal of respect last weekend when he publicly apologised to Professor Erhard for his words in describing the Economics...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE New York I T is appropriations time in Congress, and the armed services have been stepping up the psychological warfare they conduct against one another...

By Our Middle East Correspondent Mukalla, Eastern Aden Protectorate E AST WARD from Aden, for some 700 miles along the southern shore of Arabia, stretch the Aden Protectorates,...

T HE month has so pleasantly doused us in sunshine that it is difficult to realise, looking back over it, that the news from home and abroad has been growing more and more...

i MUST COMMISERATE with the Trades Union Congress, whose pamphlet What the TUC is Doing appears in the same week as Trade Unions, by Sydney Jacobson and William Connor— the...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE Prime Minister is soon to meet the heads of the nationalised industries, and there will not have been an occasion like it since the barons met King John on...

ALWAYS the Daily Sketch offers you something NEW. . . . What is it? We will tell you in the Daily Sketch next week. —Daily Sketch, May 25, 19 5. THE SURPRISE of your life !...

last week has inspired a number of topographical bards. The best effort comes from someone near Wolverhampton : A dashing young lady of Brewood With a quaint sense of fun was...

overheard somebody explaining why a certain film, so much publicised when .it was being made two years ago, has failed to appear. 'They have run into legal troubles,' he said,...

to be found' in books on journalism—often given a place to itself on a title , page—is Bernard Shaw's 'The highest literature is journalism , ' Shaw argued that Aristophanes,...

of Russia's huge Turki and Moslem minorities among Moscow's top fourteen in the Party Presidium, is a striking actuality to set against the torrent of fine words which has led...

BY CHARLES CURRAN H OW do people make up their minds at a Parliamentary election? Why is it that one man votes Socialist while his neighbour votes Tory? Is it a matter of class,...

How far are the basic conclusions from Greenwich in 1950 ! r ill valid? I suggest that events since 1950 have seriously i nvalidated them. Since 1950 the Tory Image created by...

The issue that the Socialists captured was full employment, coupled with fear of the dole. They took credit for full employment, which was by far the most attractive item in...

BY JENNY NICHOLSON F OR many years Miss Elizabeth Jungman had been a great friend of the Beerbohms, whom she had met through Gerhart Hauptman (whose secretary she was for twelve...

JUNE 4, 1831 CLIMAX ON PAGANINI.—Last night, a gentleman in the Opera pit, expatiating on the wonderful powers of the virtuoso, and after much superlative phrase, concluded...

BY DESMOND DONNELLY, MP M Ps' salaries are the strangest set of piece rates in the world—the more work a Member does for his constituents or the country, the more money it takes...

/ Ye ARE determined Yo take care to preserve the British character of the programmes.—The Assistant Postmaster-General, Mr. David ` i arnmans, December 14, 195 3 . CH ILDREN'S...

IlY JOHN ARLOTT' T HE news that Maurice Tate was dead seemed a personal tragedy to many who never, strictly speaking, knew him personally. Within his chosen field he was a great...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I N the evening sunlight on Monday, I went to that least visited part of London, the Isle of Dogs. It's more than a square mile of docks, houses: shattered...

A mti ES-LONG cloud of flying black beetles caused near panic at West - uast resorts yesterday • . . entomologists called them Staphylinids. — Daily Mail, May 29. • HEALTH...

pity, and quite contrary to the traditions and indeed the interests of our curious society, if nobody ever criticised the Royal Family. The Queen and Prince Philip happen to be...

Churehili and Charlemagne H. Brugmans Wards of the State Charles Curran Hannay or Bond? '008' 'A Plea for Man' Mario M. Rossi Cyprus Russell A. Clarke, Aubrey Buxton CHURCHILL...

was Socialist candidate for High, Wycombe (he was defeated by 7,240 votes). At that time he was described as a lecturer for the National Council of Labour Colleges—a rabid...

SIR,—The Secret Service has had to suffer some hard knocks recently, but none, unkinder than Mr, Anthony Hartley's disparagement of the head of their 00 section, James Bond. I...

as you can stamp out the flame s of a fire with your feet. But you canoe , " except by wholesale liquidation, quench the spirit which inflames the violence. The Pr° 11 .: lem in...

present tragedy of daily out' rage, destruction and murder [in Cyprus] can be ended; at least Cyprus can be restored to a place in the Western comity if the Governmen t here is...

SIR, —The reviewer of my Plea for Man states: 'Even [Rossi's] specific criticism is wrong: the attempt to explain manifold appearances in terms of a single factor, such as...

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Not So Gay GI By Colette and Anita Loos. (New.)— • 'AI T Dr, JUAN and THE DEATH OF SATAN. By Ronald Duncan. (Royal Court.) TH E Paris of the demi-monde as presented in t he...

I'LL CRY TOMORROW. (Empire.)--STORM CENTRE. (Odeon:Leicester Square.)—THE SHAWL. (Curzon.) THE big guns of acting, the Hollywood heavies, are trained on us this week. First,...

SPAIN has supplied enough of the most eminent artists of this century—Picasso, Gris, Gonzalez and, among the secondary figures, Miro, Dali, Clave—to satisfy her national pride,...

trying forcibly to impress the English with the logic of Irish republicanism, Brendan Behan spent eight years in various prisons. He does not, in The Quare Fellow, observe his...

THE main object of the musical activities of Morley College is the pleasure and experience they give to those who take part in them. But for a good many years now the College...

THE extraordinary vitality of the extraordinary Cradocks is making the Bon Viveur pro- gramme (on Channel 9) one of the most stimi.lating half-hours around the place—and...

Dodos Less Darling BY KINGSLEY AMIS T HE spectacle of a writer of fiction deliberately taking steps to increase his range is one that must arouse sympathy and encouragement....

CU. MEW S ON GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY. 1918-1945. SERIES D. vat_ VI. The Last Months of ,Peace. March-August, 1949. tr . £2 10s.) l oth unlikely that the historian of the future...

IF Mr. Stock is indiscreet to keep likening Hale White to Grid ° (we see too much the difference in the likeness), and if he is plain wrong to assert that White has more...

BORSTAL AND BETTER. By Richard Maxwell. (Hollis and C s 16s.) vidl ENGLAND has, we know, much to be proud of. Her virtues Pr ° 0I the theme of songs and ballads; the bravery...

HE. 1000, By Ernst Heinkel. Edited by Itingen Thorwald. (Hutchinson, 30s.) IT is now recognised that the Germans were the first to build and to fly an aeroplane with a...

THE novels of Cesare Pavese, who died young in 1950. °f , beginning to reach us in English—atmospheric essays 1 oy A than novels proper, and conjuring, rather than individuals...

;Ito THIS is an anthology of the best of Ludwig Bemelmans's humoro lit stories of pantry life in hotels. Some of them have been s light changed, all have been illustrated by the...

the fire. 'I never lights it for my misses out looking up the chimley first. When gi c first married she used to laugh about it f . , ask me if 1 had money in an old sock up 0'...

Success in having a good display 0 ' 0) 0 year after year without buying 110 de Pends on the gardener lifting the bulbs after the y have bloomed. Scorching of the leaves is sign...

The pair of jackdaws that have nested in 111 ,; same big hole in the cliff face for several Yc a ' enjoy a coveted site, but adjoining it is smaller and shallower hole where,...

BY IAN NIALL PINK trout for supper—one cannot guarante e such things. One cannot even say wit', certainty that there will be trout of any s° 1 , on one's return, but we had...

BY PH1LIDOR No. 52. G. C. ALVEY BLACK (12 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week ' s problem by Smedley: Kt-Q 6, 20 4...

their sea shanties and soldiers their marching songs. A prize of six guineas is offered for the words of a song (or part of a song) designed to assist as well as cheer any of...

The well-known Lallans Maker, Mr. Sydney Goodsir Smith, uttered strong word; recently about the Burns Federation's 'mummification' of the national poet as an appendage to the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT fun? City, judging from the fall in Govern- !neat stocks, seems to have been as un- !alpressed by the Chancellor's wage- !aflation warning as the trade...

BY CUSTOS INfousratAt, equity shares on Wall Street have now fallen 10 per cent. from their peak this year and in the past three weeks have lost practically all the gains over...

ACROSS 6 T he tocsin of the soul to Byron (6-4). I() }lease for a united ft ant (4). It at of celebrated lion (5). Y ou t hs ve been warned' might be said 1 2 A hi in, with...

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