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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S REPLY to the Soviet Note on the RB47 affair deplored the unprovoked Soviet attack on an American aircraft and denied allegations of Anglo-American...

F ox a time it looked as if Khrushchev's outbursts would help to waft the Republicans back into the White House. The American elec- torate, it could reasonably be argued, would...

No. 6891 EsLablished FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1828 1960

' W HEN shall we learn?' Mr. Clement Davies asked in the Commons last week, comment- ing on the Government's prolonged mishandling of the Cyprus question. To judge by Mr. Selwyn...

A FEW weeks ago we criticised the irratior A ality of the campaign then being waged by some newspapers against the pep-pill Preludin . Now, attention has been diverted to a...

W HAT became known from its publicity in the press as 'the Iris Case' is a disturbing example of the inadequacy of our present legal system, and of those who have to enforce it,...

N the TV Times for last week a writer boast! I that the advertising magazine Jim's ln'n ha: run non-stop for over three years, and goes or to describe how the various performers...

F rom DARSIE GILLIE T HE magic calm known as 'les vacances' is spreading its soporific waves through France. A little while ago it had been feared as the propi- tious moment for...

From MICHAEL ADAMS Two years ago, on July 14, 1958, the Iraqi Two swept aside the regime of Nuri es-Said, which at the time looked like the most stable element in an area...

By BERNARD LEVIN WE were talking, as we usually are these days, of the Labour Party. The Labour MP was speculating about the election for a sticcessor to Aneurin Bevan, and we...

the Israel-Arab war of 1948 really begin? Few Arab versions have been pub- lished; and though there have been several from the Zionist side, none tells the real story. The...

You might be unable to buy the Spectator when you go on holiday, as newsagents do not carry surplus copies. To make sure of receiving your Spectator send us your holiday address...

By HAZEL THURSTON w HEN a judge decides that there is no case to be put to a jury it is understandable that the public should wonder how it has happened that proceedings were...

The average number of copies of the Spectator sold weekly in the period January—June, 1960, as certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, was 42,453. Compared with the same...

Problems of Sex By R. A. CLINE T HE real strength of English law, particularly the common law, is to be seen in its treat- ment of questions to do with property, com- mercial...

By DESMOND DONNEL . LY, MP T HE Government is shortly to say whether it intends to sponsor a space research pro- gramme. The decision is important; if it does not go ahead with...

will be published shortly by Chapman and Hall.

(2) Suez Kenya Mermaids in Aden—With Stanley in Africa- Mombasa—Gedi—Kilimanjaro. February 6. A cool, fresh breeze down the Red Sea. For an Englishman the English make ideal...

containing the first instalment of Evelyn Waugh's Tourist in Africa. may be obtained for 11 id. each, including postage, from The Sales Manager, 99 Gower Street. London, W.C.1.

weeks after publication date so I hope I am not too late to join in the fight about Zionism and anti- Semitism. I have some sympathy for Ian Gilmour's view—the kind of sympathy...

J. White Zionism and Anti-Semitism George Sacks, Walter Goldstein South Africa T. R. Curtin The Proms G. H. Bosworth I nvitations Raymond Neville Rubbing the Corners Off...

Mrs. Braddock had 'more important things to do' during the hOmosexuality debate. She is not given to writing explanatory theses on her views on homosexuality or any other...

the discrction to take judicial notice of the appropriate recommendation of the Wolfenden Report in inter- preting the Street Offences Act. But. had he? Such Reports arc...

course of research in American politics, I would like to contribute some facts to the debate on anti-Zionism in the hope of lowering the tem- perature in this heated exchange of...

SIR,—There is a revealing sentence in U. R. Q. Henriques's defence of the school she attended with Marghanita Laski : 'Pupils were called by their actual first names, not by...

Chablis at Prunier's in St. James's during his student days as related by Desmond Donnelly. Madame Prunier didn't open her London establishment until 1935.-:—Yours faithfully,...

Stn,—The initial response to the appeal by the Trustees of the Arts Theatre for an endowment fund in commemoration of Lord Keynes's services to his country and to Cambridge has...

London's musical life that it is surprising that the introduction to the 1960 series in the Radio Times has passed unnoticed. The BBC's Controller of Music, who writes it. says...

SIR,—How right Bernard Levin is! Only this week I have received a communication from Cambridge House consisting of, ostensibly, an invitation to a garden-party to meet Lord and...

your re- portage of African affairs, which is as bigoted in its way as that of the most Right-wing Rhodesian news- paper. Your attitude towards the white people out here often...

No Trespassing By ALAN BRIEN Joie de Vivre..(Queen's.) IN the climate of avant- garde opinion, it is almost dangerously Un- -\ fashionable to be an admirer of Terence Ratti-...

Television By PETER FORSTER Last week they showed this episode in the new Drake series, and it actually' turned out to be a parody of that same Hitchcock play, with the awful...

Monkey Business By CLIVE BARNES Norman Morrice's ballet fable The Wise Monkeys had its first London performance last Monday on the opening night of the current Ballet Rambert...

Let's Make a Drama By DAVID CAIRNS As an opera, we have hardly begun to take its Measure. How—despite confident assertions that 'in the last resort' Britten has 'somehow'...

Carrying On By ISABEL QUIGLY The Story of Ruth. (Carl- ton.)—Doctor in Love. (Odeon, Leicester Square.) IT'S hard to see why they go on making mammoth biblicals like The Story...

The Decline of Grandeur BY JAMES JOLL TN the quarter of a century since H. A. L. 'Fisher's History of Europe* first appeared, Europe itself has changed unrecognisably; and...

HOLLYWOOD is an island, and from the auto- biographies intermittently washed up on our shore it is clear that it is not an easy place in which to support life. The note of such...

A Bundle of Sensations. By Goronwy Rees. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) Ma. REES subtitles his volume 'sketches in auto- biography.' He goes on in his foreword to ex- plain that he...

The Pleasures of Exile. By George Lamming. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) RACES formerly subject and silent have found a voice, but the ensuing dialogue with the heirs to Western...

DR JOHNSON used Charles XII to illustrate the vanity of human wishes: He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a talc. Johnson was quite right....

Shakespeare and the Rose of Love. By John Vyvyan. (Chatto and Windus. I 8s.) MR. VYVYAN'S first book. The Shakespearean Ethic, was valuable for its fresh insights into par-...

This book is a collection of fifteen essays based on talks given for the Irish broadcasting station during the past five years. The subjects are the dominant figures in Irish...

Some Graver Subject. By J. B. Broadbent (Chatto and Windus. 30s.) Elaonousrsrr's original and learned interpreta- tion of Paradise Lost is a highly critical act of homage He...

The Great Alphonse. By Lawrence Levine. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) THE reissued At Swim-two-birds defies classifica- tion. It might be described as an extremely funny One-man...

The Merchant Bank and Industry • PETER H. DICKINSON Sad Investing • DEREK FORBES Unit Trusts -• G. H. FLETCHER The Long War Drags On • J. W. HUNTRODS Pensions in the Affluent...

By DEREK FORBES T HE spectacle of too much money chasing too few shares came to a summary end on Janu- ary 4 when the Financial Times index clocked 342.9, a peak that has never...

By G. H. FLETCHER T HE financial surveys published in the Spectator for each of the last four years have stressed the advantages of investing in unit trusts and the demand for...

By J. W HUNTRODS RITAIN's finance houses are fiercely competi- tive and intensely individualistic, and this redounds greatly to the benefit of the growing numbers who utilise...

nice to feel that in addition to full employ- ' ment, high wages, and the general fatness which everyone apart from the writer seems to enjoy these days, we are now all to have...

By C. JOHN DUNHAM S OME six million people have investment or mortgage accounts with building societies so it is hardly surprising that even the mention of a rise in interest...

By Our Industrial Correspondent T HERE was no sign that the City' was taking any great interest in an event which took place last week in Bloomsbury; but it is possible that in...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT We must get together 'a great band of merchant adventurers.' Perhaps he was taking seriously the complaint of the Economist that the ennobling of so many...

K EY FLATS' are very well-known proper - ties to flat-dwellers in London, and arc owned and ably managed by London County Freehold and Leasehold Properties. The chair - man and...

By CUSTOS Fr HE steadiness of the equity share markets in I the face of shockingly bad news is quite remarkable. In the old days the war-like threats of a great power like...

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Basketwork By LESLIE ADRIAN 'THREE dozen quarts of ale: . . . Ginger beer, soda-water, and lemon- ade, of each 2 dozen bottles, 6 bottles of sherry, 6 bottles of claret,...

THE older and more eminent that men are, the fonder, always, of dressing up. The Fellows of the Royal Society entered the Albert Hall in pro- cession on Tuesday for the royal...

Dogs on Trial By JAMES TUCKER , omE of them are just shepherds; others are S what we call gentlemen farmers,' the old lady said. 'This one on now is a gentleman farmer, you...