MR. MAUDLIN°, President of the Board of Trade, spoke kindly of the Common Market in a public utterance, and Mr. Macmillan bade the Minister cif Labour, the Minister of-...

T uft: Court of Criminal Appeal on Monday dismissed . George Blake's application for leave to appeal, against the sentence of forty-two years' imprisonment passed on him for...

No. 6939 Established FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1828 1961

A s Mr. Gaitskell tots up the figures once ..n.more, just to make sure he has them right, he no doubt stops from time to time to pinch himself. And well he might; the victory he...

From DARSIE G ILLIE PARIS T HE restored dignity of the French State has a strange look today. It is true that the Government does not fall down under strain or criticism. But...

From SARAH GAINHAM VIENNA T UST before he was to meet President Ken- J nedy, Charles de Gaulle went, for the first time, to Bonn to see Chancellor Adenauer. It may be surmised...

By SIR BASIL HENRIQUES N June 13 in a written reply to a question in the House the Secretary of State for Scot- land stated that in 1958 there were 963 cases of 'lewd and...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP The principles of Socialism are as good as they always were, and they are never going to change, but we must re-think how to apply them.—Richard...

The Museums Association and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust have insisted that a place of honour in the extension to the Sunderland Museum be given to the stuffed walrus which...

By LUDOVIC KENNEDY I T took eighteen years to clear the name of Oscar Slater; and the way things are going at the moment it looks as though it is going to take about the same...

By JACK WHITE S IXTEEN months ago I paid a short visit to the Congo, and I wrote afterwards, in the Irish Times, about the danger of a movement for autonomy in Katanga. I am...

was reluctant to become embroiled in argument with these 'pro- gressive' publicists. Mr. Toynbee's new letter shows one of the reasons: that awful feeling of having got into a...

with deliberate mis- apprehension. Mr. Childers will therefore have to forgive me if I do not take up his 'interpretations' of what I have said and written. It is, after all,...

to obtain the release of the three Bahraini prisoners from the island of St. Helena. During my visit to Bahrain I discussed the prob- lem with the ruler, his legal adviser and...

A. H. T. Chisholtn Cuban Aftermath Robert Conquest The Other Exodus Jon Kinache, Peter Lumsden, Edward A tiyah Opus Dei A. R. Villanova Faster! Faster! Quentin Crewe Blind...

turns basically on whether these men 'were .arrested on trumped-up charges' as he states. Whilst reluctant to prolong his most exaggerated (in my view) series of articles on...

Sta,—Mr. Bryan Magee complains that Mr. David Cairns is guilty of a collectors' piece of journalistic dishonesty. Mr. Cairns is not; but in his com- plaint Mr. Magee is guilty...

teacher, training; yet the graduate who applies to do a Dip. Ed. faces a series of obstructions. It is difficult, for example, to get a grant free of parental means test : one...

dently believes that an act which is not criminal is necessarily 'perfectly lawful.' He is wrong. This falsifies two of his three propositions and destroys the paradox he...

STR,—Two years ago I was teaching in a well-known boys' public boarding school. After negotiations. the school's accountant reached an agreement with the local inspector of...

so many teachers think their status depends upon their salary. Is the trouble that most of them come from working-class homes and cannot think profession- ally? What a bleak...

to misrepresent the facts, to quote selectively and out of context; also to give, by use of a juxta- position which I can only describe as lacking in scholarly integrity, the...

people, I have always thought that the Jews, having been so badly treated by the rest of us, ought to be allowed a fair latitude in making themselves safe from us. But this goes...

SIR,—In a recent review of my book, The Anatomy of Glory, adapted from the French of Henri Lachouque, your reviewer, Mr. Cyril Ray, writes: Mrs. Brown translates with more...

SIR,—Mr. Suarez's statement that the recent dis- turbance in the Faculty of Economics of Madrid University was due to a dispute with the Opus Dei is false. It was an entirely...

SIR,—Anatole France once suggested that the mysterious sin against the Holy Ghost might be bad taste. Mr. Donnelly's references to the Royal Family in his article in the...

Surplus Stock By BAMBER GASCOIGNE WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME sees a serious play as a light play with bits fitted into it. The Bad Soldier Smith is basically a two- hour slice of...

A Kind of Magnificence By CLIVE BARNES THE scene is Covent Garden during the inter- val on Monday evening: the Kirov Ballet from Leningrad has reached the half-way mark with...

An Idea of Colour By HUGH GRAHAM Nevertheless Daumier himself would have been delighted that the organisers of the exhibi- tion chose to confine it to paintings and draw- ings....

Brando X By ISABEL QUIGLY One Eyed Jacks. (Plaza.) !Vs always a risk, and can so easily be humiliat- ing, to go outside your own field of talent or experience. The inspired...

Horizons of Bone and Stone BY HUGH GORDON PORTEUS IROSHIMA was not more thoroughly obliter- ated than many a great city of the ancient orld. Of such perishable stuff are...

Itv a recent review I put forward a plea for the co-operative writing of history. Now here is volume five of the New Cambridge Modern History, the major co-operative historical...

Gibbon's Road to Rome Gibbon's Journey from Geneva to Rome. Edited by Georges A. Bonnard. (Nelson, 50s.) IN April, 1764, after a diligent study of the history, antiquities and...

!V1 R. WILSON has written an absorbingly interest- ing book, perhaps even more, to be commended for the questions it raises than for those it answers. What he has done is to...

THE first poem in this collection. 'The Old Hunts- man,' is hardly even a ghost today. A colourless dramatiC monologue, it lacks the infinitely but subtly self-centred presence...

George Gissing and MG. Wells. Edited by Roy A. Gettman. (Hart-Davis, 25s.) IF GISSING is a great writer (and there is a sense in which he is) it is because the greatness of hit...

The Adonis Garden. By Daphne Fielding. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 16s.) RATHER more than six years ago Mrs. Fielding published Mercury Presides, a highly enjoyable volume of...

Henry's Wife. By Ralph Ricketts. (Chapman and Hall, 15s.) THE impressive build-up given to Andre Gorz's The Traitor is enough to intimidate any critic. Who am I to argue it out...

shortly.

By RICHARD BAILEY THE visitor to Paris just now will find the cafés along the Champs Elysecs already given over to the tourists. The boule- vards ring with talk of itiner-...

By CUSTOS T HAVE just been reading a challenging re- assessment of equity shares by a leading firm of brokers. As they truly point out, the equity investor today goes for...

U NITED DRAPERY'S chairman, Mr. Joseph Collier, reports another large in- crease in the company's trading profit for the year ended January 28, 1961. This amounted to...

Shopping Around By KATHARINE WHITEHORN It is hard to escape the conclusion that Mrs. Housewife, on the whole, goes through life in a daze. Four out of five have no shopping...