0 NE of the few supporters of commercial television in its early stages—apart from the CTV lobby—was the Spectator; and it would be agreeable to take some credit for the...

ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6639 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 PRICE 7d.

A correspondent writes : T HE Argentine rising which began last weekend has plainly ousted General Pen5n. Whether his capitulation and reported escape mark the end of peronismo...

T HERE has been an odd note of apology in many of the obituary notices of Leopold Amery. It seems to have been assumed that there was some failure in his career which needed...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE HOSE who—like that admirable Cassandra of demo- cracy, Mr. Christopher Hollis--claim that Parliament nowadays does very little that is useful should reflect on...

M R. KHRUSHCHEV is still smiling, though, as he himself has pointed out, his smiles do not mean any abandonment of the basic principles of Marx and Lenin. The visit of the East...

Q. WHO TAKES THE BLAME ?—Evening News. A. `. . those in authority—the Ministers.'—The Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs. . . the British Foreign Office—crammed with...

BY RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL T HERE were two surprising aspects about last week's announcement that three national newspapers, the Daily Mirror, the News Chronicle and the Daily...

able to suppose that they have practical control of it? There are so many people who have been associated with Com- munist and pro-Soviet activities on the 'Preparatory Com-...

them in a mild ferment as October 1 approaches, for that is the day on which the present repressive liquor laws are to be replaced by others more tolerant. if this means a...

section of the press nurses a particular grudge against the Foreign Office which partly accounts for the malicious delight with which the inci- dent has been greeted. One of the...

Amery have, if they knew him well, paid their genu- inely humble tribute to the way in which he bore great sorrows with great dignity and lack of bitterness. It seems to me,...

`WHY IS RANDALL such an obvious rotter? He's been at the Foreign Office.' Listening to the broadcast of Heartbreak House on Monday night, I was amused at Lady Utterword's...

meeting in the House of Lords this week to consider the proposals of Mr. Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, for a gradual political integration of Malta with Britain. In the...

over the weekend. On Saturday evening in Palermo five hundred policemen had to be called in to keep order during the , selection of the Italian entry for the title 'Miss World.'...

BY DR. GEORGE BORG OLIVIER L ITT LE is known to the British public of the strong opposition in Malta to the plan for integration with Britain. Integration is not a unanimous...

been held over until next week.

is now in his eightieth year and although his health is today better than for some time past, an improvement witnessed by the great number of audiences granted during the summer...

BY PAUL GLAISTER (University College, Exeter) ILL you be coming back next term? I don't want to tie you down at all, but I must let Mr. Davidson know so that t shall be sure of...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN T HIS is the saddest week of all on railway stations. It is the beginning of the school year. Sons stand em- barrassed by their parents outside the school...

Life With Satan 0 F what, when his loved ones are from home, is the head of the household head? 'Inmates of house' is the dictionary's answer, and it seems a fair one. For the...

explains that 'The village are livid' becomes, in non-U, 'Our village is up in arms.' His attitude here is positively feudal. It implies a detachment on the part of U- users....

Cyprus of September 16 that 'it should be no secret to the Greek Government that, if a choice had to be made between Greece and Turkey as allies in the Eastern Mediterranean, it...

Strix I failed to find any reference to my favourite non-U word. What- ever has happened to hubby? — Yours faithfully,

taken from the article by Strix), I use the first of the pair. False teeth/den- tures; bike 'cycle; napkin' serviette; vegetables/ greens; my wife the wife; were going to the...

delightful article when she claims that Robert Louis Stevenson put on record this confession : 'I have endeavoured all my life to like Scotsmen, but have been forced to desist...

me with the work of writing a biography in English of the late Lokamanya B. G. Tilak, pioneer in the field of the Indian freedom movement; he was described by Sir Valentine...

issue of September 16, that 'the British Government has got into a pretty mess over Cyprus,' if by British Government the Labour Government which assumed office in 1945 is...

The Christian and Africans Sir Angus Watson Cyprus J. Phrantzes, Richmond Palmer Some of my Best Friends are Scots Sir Linton Andrews Posh Lingo Christopher Rowland, David...

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IN describing Wieland Wagner's Stuttgart pro- duction of Fidelio as decadent I am trying to define, not to criticise, it. As everybody by now has read, he has thrown out the...

Painting WILDE AND BRATBY Two exhibitions—of work by Gerald Wilde (Institute of Contemporary Art) and John Bratby (Beaux Arts Gallery)—ask to be con- sidered together, for...

SIR,—Strix's suggested expression 'arriving by air' at London Airport is not only 'languid' and 'almost protocolaire.' It is also tautological. Have you ever tried to arrive at...

I FEEL like a reporter writing up a women's institute meeting on the eve of a coronation. Almost as this column appears the new tele- vision era will be starting, and everything...

LUCY GALLANT. (Plaza.)----PETE KELLEY'S BLUES. (Warner.) THE moment he is confronted' with a career woman, the constant filmgoer can be sure that she is going to be utterly...

September 25, 1830 ANTI-POLICE MEETINGS.—Meetings against the New Police force, with a view to its modifica- tion or its suppression, have been held in a number of parishes. ....

ROMANCE IN CANDLELIGHT. By Eric Maschwitz and Sam Coslow. (Piccadilly.) THIS musical version of a pre-war comedy ought to be a winner; the jokes, tunes, pseudo-1912 clothes,...

The Balance-Sheet of Vichy BY D. W. BROGAN I T is now eleven years since the last, crumbling fragments of the Vichy regime slid into the dust, since Paris was liberated and the...

THESE two books offer an excellent contrast. Tudor Family Por- trait is vivid, superficial, alive with reality; England under the Tudors is analytic, professional, the product...

I WENT TO Moscow. By Canon Mervyn Stockwood. (The Epworth Press, 15s.) THE HUNGRY SHEEP. By Sir David Kelly. (Hollis and Carter, 18s.) 'NEVERTHELESS I am sure the Soviet Press...

THE LAMB. By Francois Mauriac. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) IN The Lamb, M. Mauriac's Bruin Boys are back at school again, behaving much as...

A card from a Glasgow reader asks about birds eating blackberries, and remarks that although the writer gathered some 200 lb. of blackberries each war year, he never saw a sign...

moths and other crawling insects are to be intercepted on their way to the higher branches. Remember to band the stakes as well as the trunks. Bands should be roughly ten inches...

BY IAN NIALL IF the boys sitting on the walls and standing at the crossings on Sunday afternoons in little villages in my part of the world used to specu- late where the cars...

BY PHILIDOR No. 16. Specially contributed by PHILIP BARRON BLACK, 4 nicu. WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Gooderson:...

'Are pine needles harmful to a lawn?' I was asked not long ago. I have looked after grass —not a lawn—beneath pine trees and feel that a heavy deposit of needles such as that...

ACROSS 1 A bend on the road at the lock (7). 1 5 A troupe of dancers produces an arabesque, it seems (7). 2 9 Gives polish to a sweeping bow (5). 3 10 Does she figure among...

Correspondents to The Times have suggested that there should he a review of London's political statuary and that some of the lesser lights 'no longer so highly valued as at...

iii The winners of Crossword No. 851 are: THE VEN. E. LISLE MARSD.IN, The Aradeaconry, Lincoln, and Miss M. C. SI IFI-SMITFI, County ttotel, Lindtield, Sussex.

'We are the —ys,' 'Hurrah for B x'1) figured in sponsored radio pro- grammes from the Continent before the war. A prize of LS is offered for an adver- tisement song (not more...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund are not important in them- selves—as everyone knows, the Fund has been a dead letter since its...

By CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange account ended on Tuesday with a further fall in ordinary shares. There was some recovery from this level, but before long the downward trend is most...