Darsie Gillie To See the Emperor Naked Anthony Hartley Greater or Lesser London Kenneth Robinson, MP Dalton and Cheap Money Nicholas Davenport

M R. KHRUSIH III V believes in the use both of carrots and sticks in his dealings with the West. Russian intimidation in the Berlin air cor- ridors consorts ill with the...

Established 1828 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1962

COLONEL JOHN GLENN became the first United States astronaut to circle the earth: he completed three orbits, returned safely, and put in for his four hours' flying-time bonus....

rr 110SE who deliberately break the law in sup- port of causes not accepted by the majority of their fellow-citizens in a democracy must ex- pect to take the consequences....

I T is not likely that Mr. Duncan Sandys, on his visit to Rhodesia, had time to inquire into the case of Mr. Jethro Mufti, and it is quite certain that the case was not brought...

By AARON SEGAL E will get out, but only when it is too late.' These were the words of a young Jewish businessman in Oran, Algeria, who is active at the same time in the OAS and...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS T HE Wars of the Roses, I was taught at school, were sent to the English as a punishment for having ravaged France. The threatened Algerisation of...

By ANTHONY HARTLE1 A RECENT history of British foreign policy tsince the war* opens with the admission that it 'deals with the surface of events, which I; all that a...

Blackmailer's Charter By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP T SEEK to repeal the notorious `Labouchere 1.Amendment' to 'A Bill to make further pro- vision for the protection of women and...

From RICHA RD BAILEY TURIN El VERY day, week in week out, throughout the year some eighty Southern Italians arrive in Turin looking for work. Groups of them are to be seen at...

By MARION FRIEDMANN NIL THEN the South African Government de- /V Bided to extend pass-carrying to African . omen, it called the Act which was to bring his about the `Native...

By JOHN COLE T HE Prime Minister, in his talks with the rail- way unions, succeeded at least in refurbish- ing the image of Macwonder, which has become so tarnished in recent...

By KENNETH ROBINSON* N . one would describe the structure of Lon- don local government as rational. Admit- tedly a vast urban complex of 81 million people spread over some 700...

SIR,—Mr. Fennell's article in your paper is typical of the irresponsible handling of Sweden in foreign newspapers we have to put up with here in Sweden. A great number of...

Rime Svensson. Frani, M. Gardner. K. G Bolander, A. D. N. Forgot:. J. W. Pvnr Cornish Advertising and People T. B. Waddicor. J. F. Slidders The Breath of Life W. P. Knowles....

Fennell has, but I have been there often enough to hope that many Swedish people count me as a friend, for the warmth of hospitality and good fellowship I have received has...

Fennell's is a reasonable example of the genre, since he has produced the usual mix- ture of facts, incorrect information and fiction. A letter of equal length to his article...

themselves, the belief that Sweden is easily the richest country in Europe. I thought so too until during a recent visit to Stock- holm I could find nowhere to stay except a...

have allowed an article like 'Goodbye to Summer' to be published in a paper of the repute and standard enjoyed by the Spectator? This ar- ticle is an insidious mixtt.re of some...

SIR,—Mr. Roy Brooks's asides in his house adver- tising are becoming tiresome. I do not particularly admire the Sunday Times (largely for reasons implied by your recent...

she says, it was not his way to give lectures, but one could pick up much valuable information in his company. The first time I met him —dining in Florence with Pino Orioli in,...

SIR,-1 enjoy Miss Whitehorn's smart, amusing and intelligent comments, but wish she would not go around with her mind closed. A fortnight ago, writ- ing about rumour and...

S111,—Though I am not noticeably depressed, it is nice of the Bishop of Grimsby to want to cheer me up. But the obituaries of Professor Tawney that he mentions do not really...

small joke, long-lying, bronchitic, may I address myself to my fellow sufferers? We are, in a sense, the people who matter in this discussion, and the regular information in the...

objects to Mr. Victor Gordon's comparing aspirin BP and Aspro with Disprin. He states that soluble aspirin is 'more readily absorbed and affords better gastric toleration' than...

that the BBC is finding difficulty, and is in many cases unable to engage the most talented of the present-day musical artists. Their contract for- bids them to play or sing for...

of 'Advertising' if it were not so con- stantly regarded as somehow having an existence quite separate from the rest of our free-enterprise trading system—with take-overs,...

SIR,—I have read with interest the letters you have published in reply to Mr. Gibbs-Smith's article 'The Breath of Life.' I am only interested in facts—not opinions, but in...

SIR,—Distressed by Mr. Cyril Ray's nostalgic cry that he hasn't 'seen a clog-fight for these more than forty years' I hasten to assure him that only recently a man was kicked to...

Don Regal, Don Remote By DAVID CAIRNS THE first night of the new Don Giovanni at Covent Garden was—judged by the high standards by which this carefully prepared and sumptuous...

Dropping In By BANIBER GASCOIGNE My Place. (Comedy.) —The Bed Bug. (Mermaid.) THOSE of us who periodically sit down to write world-famous comedies know that the scheme usually...

Between Two Worlds By ISABEL QUIGLY A View from the Bridge. (Plaza.)—The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. (Warner.) SIDNEY LUMET, who was one of the white hopes of the American...

Anti-Inflationary By MORDECAI RICHLER The Four Freedoms (ATV), advertised with such an' air of self-congratulation, is begin- ning to shape up as a worthy bore. Last week's...

Ardon By HUGH GRAHAM FEW modern art historians would risk a theme like Roger Fry's `Characteristics of French Art.' An impartial account of a nation's artistic achievement is...

Last of the Viceroys BY PHILIP MASON Pr tit: one success of the colonial period; a great 1 Empire given away, yet the imperial people and their former subjects still friends;...

ILLUSTRATIONS : Lenin addressing a crowd (facing page X); Mussolini leading the March on Rome (facing page Y); Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg (in profile); how well have...

CRANMER is one of history's whipping-boys. Beaten by his schoolmasters as a child, bullied by Henry VIII and Northumberland as arch- bishop and finally burnt as a heretic by...

The Moral and the Story. By Ian Gregor and Brian Nicholas. (Faber, 30s.) ON the whole English critics are right to be suspicious of generalisations about literature, or life, or...

`HER colouring with its glint of reddish hair is not unlike the most well-known studies of Whistler's white-girl symphonies.' The reference is to the lady in Fragonard's The...

'I HAVE not had a clear and fixed ambition. I began to write novels because my friends said 1 could. The same for plays. But I always had a strong feeling for journalism, which...

That cool, wide world where even shadows are Ordered and relegated to .a shape Not too intrusive and yet not too spare. How easy it has seemed to wander deep Into this world and...

of any artist, and it is only natural that philistines should detest and deny it, asserting that all art is really autobiography. The assertion i s particularly damaging to the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT AN economist, discussing with me the remarkable career of our late friend Hugh Dal- ton, complained that he was the Chancellor who unfortu- nately brought...

By CUSTOS 'THE coutt . rAutps reply to to is cunning. It 1 is to give an immediate 10s. worth of 7 per cent. unsecured loan stock, 1982-87, a 121 : per cent. dividend for...

F the first time for many years there has been a small reduction in the trading profit of The Pullin Group Ltd. for the year to Septem- ber 30, 1961. This, in spite of increased...

Wine, Women and Beer By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Say for what were hop- yards meant And why was Burton built on Trent? As if we didn't know. Still, there is nothing like seeing for...

Too Much Too Fast By LESLIE ADRIAN [As] ‘s,cek, after two years' careful considera- tion, the BBC at last did its bit for the consumer with a short talk on the Home Service and...

• • • Now, though, it is not particular newspapers merely, but real books in hard covers that are giving Lord Mountbatten a going-over. True, Leonard Mosley, whose book on the...