No. 6882 Established FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1828 1960

E VER since Lenin, the Soviet Government has pretended to condemn secret diplomacy. Now Mr. Khrushchev's motto seems to be 'open disagreement, openly arrived at.' In last week's...

over the biggest split in the British Commonwealth since the defeat of General Burgoyne. Eventually the 1,500-word communiqué, after much scissors- and - paste work by the Prime...

From MICHAEL ADAMS 110 The net result of these anxieties was general hostility to the idea of a conference at the Sum- mit, and a mood of resentment, especially among the Arabs,...

T HE replies given in the House of Commons on Monday to further questions on the state of affairs in the BBC Yugoslav service revealed by the Spectator would have been totally...

By T. R. M. CREIGHTON I T is deplorable that a European woman and her children should have been attacked by Africans on the Copperbelt. No sympathy can be adequate for the fate...

From Our Bombay Correspondent ARLY this year Mr. Nehru inaugurated, for Lithe twelfth year in succession, the annual session of the Indian Science Congress. He then referred to...

G A,INHAM From SARAH N Ews in newspapers never seems to reflect what people are actually thinking and talk- ing about. Never what people are concerned with, always what 'the...

By DESMOND STEWART SUMMER starts with a holiday Shem el- Nesseem, which always coincides with the Coptic Easter, is the one great non-religious festi-. val of the Egyptian year....

A Marriage of Convenience . By MONICA FURLONG T in: rot, as Mr. Charles Williams has pointed out in more academic language, set in with Co nstantine. Before Constantine,...

Costly Thy Habit By R. A. CLINE W HERE costs are concerned, it is a hard world for the citizen who finds himself accused in our criminal courts. Assume that he clears himself...

Sin,--1 have always been happy on previous occa- sions to write to you under my own name and that I cannot on this occasion do so is because it involves admission that I am an...

V. D. A.' H omosexual Prosecutions R. D. Reid Zionist Lobby Meir Persoll 'The Trojans' Nigel Sisson, George Richards Christ;an Scientist Attitudes Gehl, A. Plimmer Black and...

interest, but I am astonished that kanald Vincent Smith (in his letter last week) should f eel that 'South Africa deserves better treatment than this especially at the hands of...

Sut,—Largely owing to your efforts and those of other liberal-minded journals, • the persecution of homosexual people is entering upon a new and milder phase. It is none the...

upsetter of orthodox apple carts, in some danger of conforming. of finding himself in step with the rest of the platoon? It is no longer exactly original to beat the drum for...

Cairns in your issue of May 13, 1 cannot refrain from heartily echoing his criticism of the Primitive negligence' surrounding the present re- v ival of The Trojans at the Royal...

find fault with anything that Israel does (or, in this case, does not do), you would have realised that your post- scr ipt to Mr. D. R. Elston's letter in your issue of M ay 13...

Sta;---A friend of mine recently applied fur a job with London Transport cleaning railway carriages at night- - -a post for which there can rarely be too many applicants. He is...

SIR, --I have begn commissioned to write a book to be entitled Rudyard Kipling and Rider Haggard : The Story of a Friendship. I should appreciate hear- ing from persons who have...

SIR,—In his review of Mr. Maurice Collis's book on Lady Astor (Spectator, May 6), Mr. Angus Wilson suggests that it was owing to their being Christian Scientists that the Astors...

Malaria Dream By ALAN BRIEN Ross. (Theatre Royal, Haymarket.) OUR first sight of T. E. Lawrence in Terence Rattigan's 'dramatic por- trait' is when he is marched into the adju-...

The Funny Men By PETER FORSTER But to read most of what is being written in praise of him, one would think he was a common denominator of the national persona, the Mitty- self...

Publishing Wrongs By DAVID CAIRNS I AM certain that 1 have written a great work. But to Berlioz's work was denied even Posthumously the hare right of existence: it was never...

Neither Here Nor There By ISABEL QUIGLY Suddenly, Last Summer. (Columbia . Theatre.) MR. SAM • SPIEGEL, pro- ducer of Suddenly, Last Stemmer (director: Joseph Mankiewicz; 'X'...

Black, White and Grey By CLIVE BARNES EVERYONE, well, nearly everyone, seems in some way prejudiced about Beryl Grey. This king- sized Swan Queen, with her round English face...

Gertrude Stein is a Nice Story COLEMAN BY JOHN ualtAtt for gloire 1 ' said Gertrude Stein, a - "man of peculiar ambition who finally icqiPosed an image of herself on the...

In Pursuit of the English. By Doris Lessing. (MacGibbon and Kee, 21s.) NOTHING delights the imperious and deeply theatrical English more than to be told by an alien, as we...

Collected Poems. By Lawrence Durrell. (Faber, 21s.) L AWRENCE DURRELL has been writing poetry, and publishing it regularly in conspicuous places, for over twenty years. One...

THESE autobiographical essays surely constitute one of the strangest Catholic case-histories ever to see print. After leaving Stonyhurst in his teens, Mr. Potts strayed far and...

fightin g services need a mythology to foster 2ralei and if the service is a new one, the myth '"List be created Among the handful of captains ca served in the baby USN during...

The Burled Day. By C. Day Lewis. (Chatto and Windus, 25s.) IT is typical of Mr. Day Lewis that he should have gained an exhibition at Wadham College on the strength of his...

The Life and Opinions of Thomas Ernest IMO By A. R. Jones. (Gollancz, 25s.) THE publication of this book and the fairly dignified attention it has received testify 10 lire...

EVERY creature has someone to love it. The snake's friend is Constantine John Philip lonides, a terrible old man in Tanganyika who catches snakes as a profession, and drives...

By L. P. Hartley. (Hamish I ts.) , l'e uchers. By G. W. Target. (Duckworth, 11 . 16 s.) s the last May of the old time, and in Fairfax ri tit Y. Virginia. a funeral is taking...

Life in the 'Crystal Palace.' By Alan Harrington. (Cape, 18s.) Two treasons of the clerks: one, to write what is dishonest; two, to be amused by it. Irwin Ross's brash,...

B y NICHOLAS DAVENPORT A PIECE of domestic news as depressing -as the foreign is the coming retirement of Mr. Amory as Chancellor, Although I have often criticised his...

By CUSTOS T HE technical rally which could have ended the bear market was rudely stopped by Mr . Khrushchev. But I fancy that it is only temporarY . Defence expenditures in the...

T HE annual accounts of Bowater's for 1959 are masterfully presented by the chairman, Sn* Eric Bowater, who, in his introduction, asks., his executives to forgive him for...

9 Stumping. 10 Grapes. 12 Indic. 13 Look alive. 14 Hard-favoured. 18 Shooting-star. 21 Many a slip. 23 Inigo. 24 Roofer. 25 Bouquets. 26 Coffer. 27 Attended. DOWN.-I Gossip. 2...

ACROSS 1 'The same that oft-times hath - magic casements' (Keats) (7) 5 Permission 'to go round the mountain for shepherds (7) 9 Sec a couch, divided (5) 10 No ycike-felldw'...

Upon My Sole By LESLIE ADRIAN I WONDER if anyone runs evening classes in shoe re- pairing? If so, I may en- rol. Not for any reasons connected with William Morris or...

Intents and Purposes By KATHARINE WHITEHORN • EIGHTEEN designs receive this week the official pat on the head bestowed by a Design Centre Award; and one the official laurel of...

AT a luncheon given the other day by the directors of 1301 11 Brothers in their immemor ial house in St. James's Street. I was offered, and I much en; joyed, a white Bordeaux...