and appeared at a public meeting with Sir Roy Welensky. He was generally regarded as having explained .away for Sir Roy's benefit the reassurances he had given in his Lagos...

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This was no excuse, though, for the British decision to present their terms on sovereignty and on the size of the bases not as a matter for discussion but as an ultimatum....

T HE Turkish NI inister for Justice. Esat Budakoglu. has been trying to defend his Government from the charges recently levelled against it by the International Press Institute....

Adi Foo.r is .unlikely to have attended the 'Which Way For Labour?' meeting at St. Pancras Town Hall last weekend; it was spon- sored by the Doily Worker, an organisation for...

and confusing 1959, these first A weeks of the new year have seen a recog- nisable pattern emerging again in the Middle East. And the most striking single element is the...

The resounding judgment by the Court of Criminal Appeal—that 'it is a cardinal principle of our criminal law that in considering their verdict, concerning as it does the liberty...

In the Woodpile loNcE had lunch with an African Negro in a Victoria Street pub (which, just to make the whole Reche,rche more charming, was in those days one of the few places...

If Seven Maids, with Seven Mops From ROY JENKINS, MN PARIS IN January. 1957, upon his accession to the 1 Premiership, Mr. Macmillan announced that the central feature of his...

By MICHAEL FOOT T o make sure I had got it right, I read two sentences in your editorial last week six times. 'The point of the Piccadilly affair,' you wrote, 'is that the...

BY IAN GILMOUR MHE Spanish press..has been described by Mr. I H. L. Matthews, the former Spanish corre- spondent of the New York Tinto': as 'one of the greatest insults to the...

Hard Cases By R. A. CLINE A RECENT issue of that handy and under- rated compendium, the All England Law Reports, includes three judgments with the most diverse kind of facts,...

upset the fine and famous Trinity College, Dublin, at a time when they are making a new appeal for support : and I have sent a modest cheque to the fund. But I am very glad to...

wafer bread at Holy Communion. It doesn't resemble ordinary, everyday bread; but it is much more convenient to handle. It can, of course, be described as rather tasteless. But...

SIR,—Your editorial advice to the Labour Party to throw off the dead weight of nationalisation enlists my support, but .,you might have found a better precedent than the...

vast and surprising new enthusiasm sweeping through the Established Church; but I rather wonder on what she bases her report. How many bishops, for example, enforce thc.use if...

Rev. T. F. Robinson, W. N. J. Howard, Rev. V. W. S. Leatherdale, Rev. J. W. Kennedy Never So Good? Brian Bond Cheap Literature Sir Alan Herbert, Sir Stanley Unwin...

singled out for this special form of Capital Tax which presses most hardly on expensive scholarly books in English, whether produced here or imported from a broad, That the tax...

Things are really happening these days. Next year's retranslation of the New Testament' will, we hope, give a real impetus to the retranslation of the Book of Common Prayer into...

a letter fro m my friend, Dr. Sudhin N. Ghose, in your issue of December 18, in which he vehemently denies Kipling's knowledge of Indian India, and even charges h im with lying....

StR,—ln his article (January 8) on the current out- break of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in Western Germany, Mr. Bernard Levin's suggestion that people should keep a sense of...

Mr. Simon Hodgson's article 'Attic Attitudes,' a very untrue impression of that lovely country, of its Peo Ple. of its officials and of its food. People who do know Greece will...

Founda- tion has been reported in your columns. This Founda- tion professes a concern to.establish a good name for South Africa. It will seek, on a projected half a million per...

Greece determined to be miserable. Every time he ordered a meal he deplored his absence from the Tour d'Argent; when the bill came he was upset because drachmas.don't look like...

SIR,—I appreciate Mr. Cairns's courteous reply to my letter. It is true, as he states, that the orchestras of the conservatoires do not always reach, in their terminal concerts,...

Nigeria and one might question much of what he says. May I take him up on two points? I. Although I have been closely interested in music in the Eastern region since 1939, I do...

exposed the fallacy of much that Mr. David Cairns had written about the colleges of music in a recent article. Mr. Cairns's further comments on this letter will also inspire...

The Critics' Revenge By DAVID CAIRNS KNOWING better than the creative artist is a favourite obsession of our neurotically analytical age. The habit is growing among music...

Words Made Flesh By ALAN BRIEN Bloomsday. (Unity.)—A Pas- sage to India. (Oxford Play- khouse.) IT is an admirable discipline for a critic to find himself flattened nose to...

Worse Confounded By PETER FORSTER REALLY, a most confusing week, 'el which has left me unsure whether I am suffering from critic's palsy or snow-blindness, what with all those...

Charming Ethnics By CLIVE BARNES THE big, yawning difference between amateur and profes- sional performers is usually one of relaxation—and this is even more marked with...

Self-Parody By ISABEL QUIGLY Pillow Talk. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — The Jaywalkers. (Plaza.) — The Shakedown. (New Victoria.) — Happy Anniversary. (London Pav- ilion.) IT had to...

Something occurred after the operation To scare the surgeons (though no fault of theirs) Whose reassurance did not fool me long. Beyond the shy, concerned faces of nurses A...

Big Stores and People's Palaces BY MARGHANITA LASKI T o start with a point about which there can be very little disagreement : Reginald Pound has Written a very competent...

This evening, motherly summer moves in the pond. I look down into the decomposition of leaves— The furnace door whirling with larva:. From Hull's sunset smudge Humber is...

To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865. By Burke Davis. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 50s.) Jim Fisk. By W. A. Swanberg. (Longmans, 25s.) WHEN the Civil War broke out, there was a...

Logical Positivism. Edited by A. J. Ayer. (Allen and Unwin, 48s.) • Before the inexorable judgment of the ne w I logic, all philosophy in the old sense; whether I t is...

No Surrender. By Robert Harbinson. (Faber, 18s.) AN autobiography that stops at long trousers — the form that blurb-writers call an evocation of childhood — has observable...

Shakespeare's Wooden 0. By Leslie Hotson. (Hart-Davis, 30s.) WHETHER Mr. Hotson has his inspirations in the bath or in the Public Records Office, they are more frequent and more...

IT is slightly chastening to read Allen Drury's Advise and Consent, the enormous novel about Washington which has led the American best- seller lists since last September. For...

he Co rrespondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. I, 166 1-1675. Edited by H. W. Ttirnbull. 0 stip ( C.U.P., i'..7 7s.) at '- ` 11ce and Civilisation in China. Vol. III. By Joseph oseph...

DAVENPORT By NICHOLAS ONE of the fetishes in Western capitalism, which we seem keen to preserve, is the worshiprof the Gold Reserve—the golden calf of the capitalist system....

By CUSTOS • L Asr week our bill rate edged up to .£3 I 5s. 8d. per cent.. while the American is about 4i per cent. City eyes are anxiously watching the next move of the...

D UILDING SOCIETIES are facing keener competi- D tion in the small savings field than before, but none the less the reports coining in for 1959 are showing excellent results....

ACROSS.-1 Absalom. 5 Medulla, 9 Pin- on. 10 Nonentity, 11 Abloom. 12 Emeritus. 14 Indus. IS Cashiered. 18 Grapevine. 20 Proof. 22 Mercator. 24 Tassie, 26 Old Lights. 27 Horse....

Solution on February 5 ACROSS 30 I Painter of tho marsh? (6) 4 Though apparently hoarser, he • can stdloollect the stakes (8) 9 th And e destroyer (] in thelittle valley one...

But Does it Work ? By KENNETH J. RGBINSON THE American magazine In- dustrial Design has just pub- lished its annual review of • The editors admit they can't hope to know 11...

B y KATHARINE WHITEHORN THE art of canning has its 150th birthday this year, and the celebrations that will attend the anniversary were given a cautious send-off in a room...

Clean as Clean By LESLIE ADRIAN A FRIEND of mine some time ago bought a pink coat. Not a hunting coat, but a shapely and rather expensive coat that was lined with Vilene, a...

You wouldn't think, of cutter Lane as a name to set the gastric juices ‘ flowing. But this narrow alley in the City, off Gresham Street (Which is opposite the GP0),, has two...