T HE new Chancellor's first Budget may just 'do the trick; but it was far from a personal triumph for Mr. Macmillan. To all who expected that he would bring a sense of drama and...

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I T is becoming increasingly clear that Archbishop Makarios was not deported because of his connections with EOKA, strong though these were. He was deported in order to clear...

rrIns last week has been one of anticipation—anticipation 1 of the Russian visit; anticipation of the Budget; anticipa- tion of the wedding of Miss Grace Kelly with Prince...

W HIN the Spectator was considering last August, at the height of the Geneva good will, what gestures the Russians might make which would cost them little or nothing, we said,...

T is occasionally argued, in support of some of the more extraordinary decisions of the House of Lords acting in its judicial capacity, that the legislation passed by Parliament...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE M R. MACMILLAN'S was a puzzling speech, and even now it is difficult to be sure about its political impact. He started off on the wrong foot. The elegant and...

ENGLAND lucky to snatch a draw.—Sunday Dispatch. SCOTLAND'S lucky draw.—Sunday Pictorial. A DRAW was perhaps the fairest result.—Sunday Express. A SHOCKINGLY inept...

marketing scheme appear to me to be legitimate; for obviously and this is no reflection on the Commissioner—his verdict, if favourable to the scheme, will carry no public...

Italy of the Italian Liberal Party's ingenious expedient to restore its depleted membership. Its leader, Signor Malagodi, wrote recently to the Union of Italian Monarchists, a...

come to gaze than in the visitors themselves, I stood well to the rear of the crowd outside Victoria Station on Wednesday afternoon. There was nothing unusual; it might have...

AFTER TAKING another look at the report of the 1926 Com- mittee of Inquiry into the Lane Bequest, 1 am more than ever convinced that Dublin has been shabbily treated. This Com-...

the Royal Air Force College. From someone who has a boy there I have some interesting details of the 'hazing,' or toughening-up process, by which the seniors undertake to put...

the flights of fancy of English journalists, the allegn' tions of incompetence in the making of the arrangements, the tears, the recriminations, the inevitable Docker row, and...

A FEW months after the Eisenhower administration took office, Vice-President Nixon, addressing a large gathering in St. Louis, paid rather a generous com- pliment to Harry...

BY L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS W OULD the people of Kashmir, if left to themselves, choose to join India or Pakistan? Or would they prefer, if circumstances permitted, to become a...

BY D. W. BROGAN I T is a fact of some importance that the most popula American plays and novels of the late world war and it aftermath deal with its eastern section; South...

week I noticed a building on the main road inscribed with the words `Slumberland Research Laboratories.' I had long supposed that `Slumberland' was a kind of mattress. What have...

I N the Army, demonstrations of tactics or of drill are some- times preceded by a sort of curtain-raiser in which everything is ,done amiss, the idea being to engage' the...

BY BRIAN INGLIS `B LACKGUARD, bully, drunkard, liar,' Bernard Shaw wrote fifty-odd years ago, 'foulmouth, flatterer, beggar, backbiter, venal functionary, corrupt judge, envious...

TODAY The Political Scene Welcome, Stranger! u King Sweeney's Valediction Power from Peat An Open Economy The Writer's Mop Ended Isolation The Course of Commerce Where Motley...

By JACK WHITE Jack White is Features Editor of the Irish Times, and Dublin Correspondent of the Observer. His novel One for the Road is to be published later this month by...

(from the Irish) Suibhne, or Sweeney, King of Dal Araidhe in Ireland, treacherously kills one of St. Ronan's acolytes during the battle of Moira in An 637. As a result of St....

By C. S. ANDREWS The epithet 'politicians by accident' used to be applied to the men who had to switch from gun to party warfare after the Treaty of 1921. On that score C. S....

By PATRICK LYNCH Patrick Lynch abandoned a promising career in the Irish civil service so become Lecturer in Economics at University College, Dublin; then, while still.in his...

By BENEDICT KIEL Y Benedict Kiely is literary editor of the Irish Press; he is also the author of several novels, of which the most recent, There Was an Ancient House...

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS Erskine B. Childers is the grandson of the author of The Riddle of the Sands, who later become one of Mr. de Valera's staunchest supporters; and the son...

By GEORGE HETHERINGTON George Hetherington is Managing Director of a printing business and of the Irish Times : and a poet whose work has appeared in several anthologies of...

By SEAMUS KELLY Resident columnist and theatre critic of the Irish Times, Seamus Kelly will shortly assail far larger audiences: he was press-ganged a couple of years ago by...

By THOMAS HOGAN .1 civil servant, 'Thomas Hogan' contributes caustic articles to a wide range of Irish newspapers and periodicals under almost as wide a range of pseudonyms. T...

By J. P. DIGBY .1. P. Digby's book Emigration : The Answer did much to awaken Irish opinion to the extraordinary neglect of potentially one of its most profitable resources. T...

Wing in fourth Gospel is likely to -c .., 1 , 1 1 ing in putting the Last Supper in the e v '"" is before the Passover. Nevertheless, there hardly a Biblical scholar today who...

Capricorn Africa Jeannine Scott, Lord March The Labour Party's Soul Patrick Mabel Cyprus—The Other Side Zenon Rossides Some of the Evidence Peter Evans Judas's Service Rev. J....

SIR,—It is quite true that the parties in Britain are 'converging towards a common denomi- nator'; but it is surprising that Henry Fairklie, who discusses this so...

SIR,—Mr. Robert Lindley (March 30) 195 every right to find against my Law and order; he has no right to misrepresent me. I have not achieved the 'notable fear ( 3 ` 'comparing...

SIR,—A damaging division within the Western World, which has contributed to the Middle Eastern crisis, has been the Greco-Turkish rift, caused by a wrong British approach to...

4 Ir kenhead may be pardoned perhaps for °Lb ibiting ignorance of age-long democratic pra ctices, but to insinuate that a Prime Minister must never be criticised Or attacked....

Tilts last week I have been watching sport on TV. Let me say at the outset that I com- mend the whole BBC set-up in this sphere from the benign Peter Dirnmock down to the...

SIR,—The audacious theft of the Morisot from the Tate Gallery will have caused many people to wonder if the paintings on exhibition there are given adequate protection. Some...

clear by C hristopher Hollis in his excellent article, that w hen Jesus said in the garden 'I AM' he was had the Name of God (Jahvch) just as he nad on another occasion with...

Good Melodrama THE CRUCIBLE. By Arthur Miller. (Royal COUrt.)—THE CHALK GARDEN. By Enid Bagnold. (Haymarket.) SEEING The Crucible in Paris a year ago, I had realised that it...

the April 6 ti ssue of the Spectator the review by Mr. .ndovic Kennedy of one of our books, In 1 1-. heir Shallow Graves, by Benno Zeiser. We much regret that Mr. Kennedy...

APRIL 23, 1831 A CONSPIRACY was lately discovered at c ca . stantinople in favour of the exPatr 13 , t `, Janissaries. It was cut short in the usual:!-', the unhappy wretches...

Or the few South African composers played in this country, Priaulx Rainier, the senior and best known, long settled in England, is the only one in whose music any trace of...

THEY WON'T FORGET. (National Film Theatre.) —HELL ON FRISCO BAY. (Warner.)—ON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACE. (Rialto.) To compare the acting in They Won't Forget, now showing as...

The Bourgeois Strain BY LORD DAVID CECIL T first sight this seems a very odd book. * It purports to deal with Victorian novels; but nearly half of its 467 pages deal with...

BY DONAT O'DONNELL How came it that this prudent, economical man was also generous? That this chaste adolescent, this model fatW: grew to be in his last years an ageing faun?...

PREDILECTIONS. By Marianne Moore. (Faber, 180 THOSE who cannot make much of Miss Marianne Moore's ve rse . and feel they have perhaps not missed much either, will find the...

RISK AND GAMBLING. By John Cohen and Mark Hansel. (Long- mans, 14s,) THIS is not an easy book. Up to a point the metaphysics of probability are plain sailing, and so far...

THIS is no ordinary biography. Its author describes Palavicino as 'a very convenient peg upon which to hang illustrations to a . . . set of themes.' Palavicino's greatest virtue...

S YRIAN HARVEST. By Edwyn Hole. (Robert Hale, 18s.) C HRYSLER replaces camel, and the badu dance before the shaikhly s ociety of Kuwait in the secondhand coats of American hotel...

ROW much courteous consideration is due from readers to authors a nd vice versa? It was Robert Louis Stevenson, I think, who said l hat he was unable to enjoy Shakespeare's As...

but v " 1 11 Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (Cassell, 12s. 6d.), which I understand has been a best-seller in the States' it's very plain; Besides the obvious...

SOVIET ESPIONAGE. By David J. Dallin. (O.U.P., 45s.) IN this country remarkably little has been told us about the operations and contacts of Maclean and the other Soviet agents...

I PRESUME: Stanley's Triumph and Disaster. By Ian Anstruther. (Geoffrey Bles, 18s.) ADMITTING the woodenness that laid Stanley open to ridicule, Mr. Anstruther makes his...

Apart from the cry of the nesting plover and the sounds from a rookery, I think one of the delights of spring, or any other time of the year when one is lucky enough to hear it,...

By IAN NIALL ONE becomes very used to living in a. quiet, place. Until yesterday we could listen to the morning songsters, and at lunch, if we paused for a moment and shut our...

The excitement along the river at this time of year ebbs and flows as anglers take account of weather reports and water levels at known marks, for salmon, come upriver by fits...

Successional sowings are the secret of many a -well-stocked small garden. The rush to get things in tends to make the average little plot overcrowded with things better produced...

BY PH ILIDOR No. 46 M. LIPTON (1st Prize, MeWilliam`Under 21 Tourney ,I955) BLACK (8 men) WHITE (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution...

ACROSS 1 The kind of compensation that the dieter dreads (10). 6 An objection at the border (4). 10 Keats's December was so flighted (5). 11 Play within a play? (9) 12 Sam...

of six guineas is offered ' 01 foreign correspondent's despatch (inft''Z or uninformed) on a rumour that Staiil mof not dead, and may be expected to reaP 1 ,0 at any moment to...

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A prize of £5 was offered for an extract from the adventures of one who was a Viewer for the 1TA, a Taxpayer for the Treasury, a Non-U for Nancy Mit ford, a Bright. Y01111,1;...

By CUSTOS AT the end of last week the Stock Exchange was, as I have said, sold out. It was all prepared for an advance. Sentiment in the gilt-edged market had been improved by...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT MUST challenge the Chancellor on his statement that no one has yet found an easy way to restrict credit without high interest rates. I have shown in this...