after all, and tens of thousands of Japanese danced their delight at his discomfiture and Mr. Kishi's. But he did go to Okinawa, which the Okinawans weren't very pleased about;...

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N EXT Wednesday, the House of Commons will debate a Private Member's Motion, proposed by Mr. Kenneth Robinson (Labour MP for St. Pancras North). The motion is: To call attention...

eri HE British Medical Association's policy deci- sion that healers should be banned from treating patients in hospitals was inevitable: the only surprise is that the BMA...

T ilE first issue of/Africa South in Exile urges a tougher policy towards the South African Government. Moral exhortations, it points out, have no effect on the likes of Dr....

PP ROBABLY the most telling commentary on the decline of the Labour Party is the current trend of speculation on the party's next leader. According to the Gallup Poll's report,...

From DARSIE G1LLIE PARIS A last PreSident de Gaulle has got the window open. Preliminary conversations between representatives of the rebel 'government' and the French...

Next Week SUMMER NUMBER Articles, poems and reviews by KENNETH ALLSOP, KINGSLEY AMIS, F. W. BATESON, D. W. BROGAN, D. J. ENRIGHT, MONICA FURLONG, THOM GUNN, ROY JENKINS, FRANK...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP rrHE parallels between the premierships of 1 Mr. Harold Macmillan and Mr. Stanley Baldwin arc striking and disturbing. There is the same smugness in the...

By OLIVER STEWART The term 'weapons system' was probably first used in the United States of America, but it was quickly adopted here and the idea behind it was enthusiastically...

Yet Zionism has been accepted as the right and progressive solution to the Jewish problem. As Orwell noted, 'on the Palestine issue it was de rigueur among enlightened people to...

If it be objected that Zionism is no more unscrupulous and no less liberal than Arab or African nationalism, the answer is that the Arabs and Africans do not indulge in the same...

By IAN GILMOUR r710NISM is now the only successful settlers' ,lobby in the Anglo-Saxon world. Settler interests in Central Africa still write their letters to the Times, but...

The existence of Israel is anyway itself an obstacle to democracy among her neighbours. The very natural nationalist resentment that the existence and conduct of Israel causes...

There is, then, a divorce between Israel and anti-Semitism. But there is a disturbing pos- sibility, which has always haunted anti-Zionist Jews, that Zionism will effect a...

Reasoned Decisions By R. A . CLINE N OTHING can produce a greater sense of in- justice in a litigant who has lost his case than not to know why he has been defeated; and...

The degree to which Israel will succeed in her objectives depends on the West, above all America. Left to her own resources Israel is not viable. Her prosperity, her existence...

I was looking not at the Street Offences Act which is merely the implementation of Wolfenden (Part III), but at the clear indications that the war against female prostitutes is...

Homosexual Prosecutions `G. F.,' R. L. Travers, R. L. Archdale Street Offences Dinah Tait Franco's Spain Christian Democrat Left and University Socialists St. Helena Story...

SIR, —The Madrid newspaper Pueblo of May 19 gives an account of the farewell banquet given by the Madrid City Council to the Commission of British MPs visiting Spain. In his...

theory of mine that the more homo- sexuals are sent to prison the more homosexuality will spread, and the more it spreads the more people will be sent to prison for it. It...

the Party Conference may decide, until the electorate expresses itself in favour of uni- lateralism. But if party programmes are to be de- cided by Big Brother in the House, and...

SIR,—Mr. K. C. Rothery (Spectator, June 3) writes of a homosexual youth `corrupting' a normal man and visualises the possibility of `a chain reaction spreading the vice'...

has been a technical success in making the West End a far less sordid place than it used to he' fairly took my breath away. Certainly a man is less likely to be publicly...

SIR,—The local reporter of the St. Helena Monthly Register, quoted by Mabel Brookes, was accurate in his report that Napoleon's body was carried by 'British Grenadiers.' In view...

Furlong would not make such wild and unjustified generalisations (The Christian Line,' June 10); in fact there are three matters over which I must take her to task, in just one...

with envy. His exhortation not to miss it, however, is ironical—and not, 1 fancy, only to me. First, publicity : it was not advertised in the evening papers and underground...

ments about Gladstone and Disraeli, and ask what makes the quotations so essentially different. One answer is that one of the statements is true and the other untrue. In March,...

and the reasons for the sur- vival of its contemporaries raises a question which is wider than the merits of any one particular periodical. The decline in the number of the more...

not that the characters are rough secondary modern school boys, but that the story, intended, apparently, for boys in this type of school, suggests to them that inattention and...

Luminous Names By ALAN BRIEN BRECHT and Shaw are two luminous names in my nonconformist theatre, two agnostic saints in my political calendar whose literafy relics still work...

Oceanographer By SIMON HODGSON Mr. Nolan, in his new pictures of Leda and the Swan at Matthiesen's Galleries, is immediately interesting as a craftsman, a craftsman, that is,...

Marvellous Monsters By ISABEL QUIGLY Republic of Sin. (Berk- eley.)—Village of the Damned. (Ritz.) THE late Gerard Philipe was, in his roles and public personality, an...

Magic Properties CAIRNS By DAVID `Q,' that moist-eyed club- man of English letters, has described A Midsummer Night's Dream as 'born of a Sunday—if the old proverb be true...