Never So Humble Kenneth J. Robinson Trading with the Enemy Constantine FitzGibbon Polonaise Sarah Gainham Queen of the Wild Mullions Ronald Bryden

the United States Secretary of State resumed their talks about the Berlin situation—not before the American proposals and possible concessions had been let out and brooded over...

and Whitsun- suggest what muddlers, religiously speaking, most of us are. The number of people in this country who are openly and avowedly atheistic is, we may guess, fairly...

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p RESIDENT KENNEDY'S sensational victory over the United States steel industry has left a number of the issues gasping in the rear. First is the striking demonstration of the...

T HE accumulated deficit of the Scottish division of the National Coal Board since nationalisation is greater than the accumulated deficit for the rest of the country. The...

T is not too difficult to see why the State De- I partment should have been irritated at the dis- closure in Bonn of the 'package deal' which Mr. Dean Rusk was apparently to...

A NYONE who is interested to know something of the technical aid afforded by Britain to underdeveloped countries could do worse than read the progress report of the new...

HERE is news of daily clashes between the forces of the government of South Vietnam and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Front, and of a steady dribble of American...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN a NE of the most obvious and painful in- stances of the failure of the `old' foreign policy of the Federal Republic—the Dulles- Adenauer policy enirod...

By J. M. COHEN M EXICAN opinion about Fidel Castro and Punta del Este was not reflected by the three principal newspapers of the capital, none of ■shich is independent of...

By CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON TN wartime trading with the enemy is illegal. 'From 1914 to 1918, and from 1939 to 1945, it was accepted that Germany and her allies would trade with...

It is true enough that the Government has given the impression lately of weariness and dither, and it is paying for it in all those psepho- logical projections which show it...

the deputy chairman of Courtaulds, a mighty administrator who was not much in .the public eye until the battle broke. Casually meet- ing some junior scientist walking down...

T HE market research people who conducted a post-mortem on Orpington for the -Con- servative Party could find• no trace of the Euro- pean virus in the cadaver. That and other...

appalled contempt for ,the OAS and admira- tion for the Guardian's Clare Hollingworth. Before she left Algiers for a short rest in Paris she had been on the job for nearly ten...

I hear it suggested that the new Piccadilly should be called the Piazza del Forte. STARBUCK

Last week I hastened to pass on a story, un- checked, about a legendary luncheon in Trinity College, Oxford, at which a chain of curious happenings culminated in the Prime...

Much as 1 detest the crimes to which ex- General Jouhaud has lent himself, I was moved by the accounts of his trial. The picture of him which emerged was that of a man not...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON W HEN I emerged from the recent five-day conference on housing held in London by the Royal Institute of British Architects, I under- stood why the...

By B. A. YOUNG W HEN Ramsay MacDonald announced to a startled world that every duchess in England would want to kiss him, he revealed more than the curious condition of his...

By STEPHEN KING-HALL T HE 'do-it-yourself' movement has recently achieved great popularity, but it had never occurred to me that, as an author of some thirty books which have...

By MICHAEL MENZIES W tiEN my novel was returned to me by the publisher, 1 was furious. 1 threw my after- shave lotion through the mirror, 1 stamped my chukka boot and I yelled....

bookseller I suffer frequently from the deficiencies in the trade and my customers patiently with me. Yet my experience as retail importer of books from the US makes me wonder...

idealistic article on financing the universities that cannot be allowed to pass without comment. He suggests that the universities should dispense with all Treasury subsidies...

thot.ght- ful article on the Scottish economy, I was sorry to find that a matter which is bound to have a marked bearing on the development of the economy in sears to come has...

Geoffrey Palmer The Invasion of Laodicea Jeffrey Simmons, Genf Kvergic Financing the Universities I. W. L. Robinson. E. H. Carpenter Last of the Viceroys Philip Mason Machina ex...

SIR,—John Rossclli is so well informed about the general trends in British publishing--and writes about them so entertainingly—that it is a pity he is not too accurate when it...

SIR,—I would be very grateful if any of your readers knows the present whereabouts of The Houses of Parliament from Lambeth Bridge (254 in. by 21 in.), an oil painting by Lucien...

book appeared on February 23, General Tuker's com- ment on April 6; I hope, therefore, that you will allow me to remind your readers of what, in fact, I wrote. I said that Mr....

draught beer is 'served in the majority of public houses.' There are 70,000 pubs in England and Wales. Allowing half an hour for visiting each one, he could, at a pinch, have...

sufficient emphasis has been placed .upon the train- ing system which these unfortunate vocation-slaves are subject to. A near acquaintance of mine qualified as a SRN at one of...

SIR,—Surely some sort of a limit has been reached when your reviewer can speak of Dylan Thomas as a man who 'had the misfortune to be a womaniser'? Is all personal...

SIR,—Isabel Quigley's review of l3ufluel's film Viridiana deserves a prize for the brilliance of its style, the soundness of its esthetic and the quickness of its moral...

Christopher Hill, should have perpetrated such an elementary howler as to refer to Ralegh's hitherto unknown son as a daughter, Scores of your readers may be misled by this,...

'Graduate' which appeared in your issue of April 13. Your correspondent purported to show, amongst other things, that the cost per student at Readitig was far higher than...

SIR,—May I please comment on Katharine White- horn's most interesting and perceptive article on British mechanical appliances in the Spectator of April 6? In her review of this...

SIR,—I am engaged in research into mysticism, and I should be grateful if any of your readers who have ever known any kind of mystical ex- perience would, in the interests of...

A Tristan for Sceptics By DAVID CAIRNS THERE is no Wagner opera except The Mastersingers which in the anticipation I approach without a groan. The thought that one is once...

Shaxberdian By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Measure for Measure. (Strat- ford - upon - Avon.) — The School for Scandal. (Hay- market.)—Two Stars for Comfort. (Garrick.) ON the face of it...

Cosy Fanat c By CLIFFORD HANLEY IN my formative years, I reacted so violently to Victori- anism that a wing collar could bring me out in a heat rash at a distance of •sixty...

From A to B By ISABEL QUIGLY 0 Les Liaisons Dangereuses. 0 5 0 (Columbia.)—A Kind of o Loving. (Warner.)—Summer g and Smoke. (Plaza.)—The g Waltz of the Toreadors. French got...

Bruhn By CLIVE BARNES IN ballet it is not the birds that have taken over, it is the men. Only the other day the box-office queues were snaking healthily around Covent Gar;...

Queen of the Wild Mullions By RONALD BRYDEN L ATE in 1956, when the capitals of Western Europe were flooding with dark-faced, leather-jacketed youths who had fought through...

Your attention please: because this remarkable chap, • Whose conjuring tricks have sold us all such a laugh, And can make it snow florins at every snap Of his pianist's fingers,...

IN the Twenties England was covered with ex- perimental schools. Lively young men just down from Oxford, or back from the war, were trying to redeem the culture by running...

Tuts new study of life in the Forest of Dean, The Changing Forest, by Dennis Potter (Seeker and Warburg, I Is. 6d.), is a book in the 'Britain Alive' series which has already...

most depraved man in history. 'In almost every sort of wickedness he has had rivals. His sensuality was immoderate; this was a failing common to him with many great and amiable...

THERE is a lot to be said for scissors and paste. Much that we should like a glance at, or a smattering of, is beyond our own snipping and sticking, let alone our turning into a...

Raymond Chandler Speaking. Edited by Dorcithy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) He loved cats and a wife seventeen years older than himself; he...

The Golden Notebook. By Doris Lessing. (Michael Joseph, 30s.) Night Song. By John Williams. (Collins, 15s.) My Antonia and Lucy Gayheart. By Willa Cather. (Hamish Hamilton, 16s....

How Much is That in Dollars? By Art Buchwald. (Heinemann, 15s.) THIS scissors-and-paste job of Art Buchwald's columns in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune creates...

The Quest for Nonsuch. By John Dent. (Hut- chinSon, 40s.) This is an unusual and successful book. It is Unusual in that archaeology and history are seldom joined together to...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tan Chancellor's parting shot in the Budget debate was a vicious, if not foul, blow. It thoroughly disturbed the Stock Exchange. It infuriated me and it...

By CUSTOS e ECOND thoughts on the Budget have damped down enthusiasm on the Stock Exchange. It is probably true to say that most institutional investors are not yet willing to...

Is It Horrid? By KATHARINE WHITEHORN The book traces the passion of Pugin for pure Gothic, a `buy British' concept of Merrie England, as opposed to the ltalianate classic...

T HOMAS TILLING LTD., the industrial holding group, has once again had a success- ful year. Preliminary figures show a substantial increase in profits of £580,465, bringing...

Ronay Rushes In By LESLIE ADRIAN WHERE Michelin fears to tread, Mr. Egon Ronay has rushed in, awarding stars left and right. to his personal choice of eateries in • Egon Ronay...

AM partial to a glass of fizz before a meal and I only wish that i could afford if more often. Nor need the fizz be champagne. At a luncheon party last Sunday the aperitif was a...