Patrick Campbell Monica Furlong Penelope Gilliatt William Golding Robert Graves Stephen King-Hall Roy Jenkins Marghanita Laski Raymond Postgate Steven Runciman Richard Wollheim...

Afri- cans demonstrated against the pass laws and were mown down by South African police armed with sub-machine guns, sten guns and rifles. London undergraduates demonstrated in...

M R. BEN-GURION'S Visit to America to re- ceive a degree at Brandeis University, even though there was a war scare in the Middle East, has been hailed as a striking indication...

T HERE asjust an outside chance, we said last week, that the slide into anarchy in South Africa can be averted. That chance has now be- come slim indeed. When a Nationalist MP...

No. 6874 Established 1828 FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1960

W FIEN President de Gaulle put down the rising of Europeans in Algeria a couple of months ago, he spoke on television of `the man- date the people gave me.' But the mandate the...

R EADLRs of the NCIVN ChrOnide on Monday were surprised and alarmed to read, as the introduction to the main news story, that 78 per cent, of the people of Britain want a return...

T HE result of the Harrow .by-election. cheering though it was to the Liberals, does not really alter their position. The earlier trend to push Labour into third place in Tory...

T• R. M. CREIGHTON writes: T HE Kenya African elected members have been blamed for intransigence, provocative- ness and bad faith in their refusal last week to accept...

criti- ctsms of their Yugoslav services. We are anxious to print it in full, but as it is nearly as long as our memorandum was, we have been compelled to hold it over until NEXT...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK T HE Congressional manceuvring over civil- rights legislation is so complex that it defies elucidation in any reasonable number of words....

By BERNARD LEVIN Berlin is a brave city. No doubt some of the taxi-drivers who won't cross The border are wanted for various kinds of echt-Deutsch beastliness; but a fortnight...

—and the rest of us By BARBARA WOOTTON H ow, in this complicated modern world, should one decide how much who should be paid for what? Curiously enough, that question seems...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN D IPLOMACY by personal contact and govern- ment by public relations, develop apace. It seems doubtful that anything real is achieved by the busy...

By SIR STEPHEN KING-HALL W HEN the news came over the wireless that the Conservative Party had won the General Election, much champagne was con- sumed in Nairobi and the White...

By PATRICK CAMPBELL N A,' I exclaimed, only the other evening, unexpectedly closeted with a klatsch of East German film-makers, `das ist ja komisch, nicht?' It seemed to have...

Sackcloth and Ashes By MONICA FURLONG I BESEECH your Reverence, let us all be mad,' Teresa of Avila wrote once to her confessor, 'for the love of Him Who was called mad for our...

we expected too much, Truly there is not much to be witty and humorous about in Moscow. The article will give much joy, however, to the Communists and I expect to see it...

is a growing national disease, The latest is the panic about oil stoves. Since man discovered fire and houses and brought one into the other some risk has been the price of...

last week's Spectator that he will be giving a detailed answer to the allegations made in the report you have published on the Yugoslav Service °f the BBC. Mr. Wiles's comments...

the BBC appears to be that I was silenced by the hierarchy because of criticism of my broad- casts in the Yugoslav press. This is not true. They were criticised off and on—never...

SIR,—Democracy without dictatorship is the problem to be solved in the Central African Federation. To most people in England it appears too simple: democracy (one man, one vote)...

the Yugoslav Service. I would like to s tate that I, for one, am not involved in any emigre, clique. My simple interest in the affair is that of any Englishman who wants to see...

Gustincic and others, G hr n Central Africa Colin MacInnes Islational Theatres Monica Fisher A Bernard A . C. Alexander, Julian Jells, D. L. Clarke raves of Academe John...

the 'over- whelming majority' of teachers are `duds,' then we should accept the fact that the profession is at present grossly overpaid. Fortunately, not everyone would...

,given up an old childhood comfort, 'Monopoly,' and nave evolved a game which, for want of inspiration, t heY call simply 'National Theatres.' Would-be players need little more...

letter that your Mr. Childers is a stickler for pre- cision and legality; so could you please ask him to reply to the following question : Can we have a few illustrative...

SIR,—Mr. Frank Howes accuses me of failing to do my researches properly; but his own are barren. The names he gives of 'successful alumni of the London conservatoires' prove...

on Monitor should not go unquestioned. It's all very well to say that this was 'one civilised person chatting to another,' but is this really what is wanted in a television...

consistently held back the advancement of teachers to professional status and respect with all that that entails in conditions and remuneration. She ought to look at how other...

The Time-Machine By CLIVE BARNES school outside of Russia that could even physically undertake the venture. Whatever its opponents may say of the Royal Ballet School, it is...

to feel deluged under the charges and counter-charges of Messrs. Childers and Unna. Surely no country is beyond reproach in its affairs with other countries; every country at...

Tuppence Coloured By ALAN BRIEN Follow That Girl, (Vaude- ville.) — The Dancing Heiress. (Lyric, Hammer- smith.) — Inherit The Wind. (St. Martin's.) This is the bait which...

The Shame of Waste By PETER FORSTER Now the Sheriff enlisted a near-by group of actors to improvise sketches and give us some Method Lust : `Then perhaps we can Pin Lust Down,'...

Romantic Sparks By ISABEL QUIGLY Les Enfants du Paradis. (Academy.) — Can - Can. (Metropole, Victoria.) — Summer of the Seven- teenth . Doll. (London Pavilion.)—Lift to the...

Berenson BY RICHARD WOLLHEIM Y\ NE like myself was particularly marked out \Jfor being converted into a myth.' The Phrase occurs in one of the long encrusted sen- tences of...

English Political Caricature: to 1792, and 1793 to 1832. By M. D. George. (0.U.P., 140s.) DOES Vicky ever reflect, as he inks the Prime Minister's reproachful features on to...

TitE dust-jacket of June Havoc's autobiography carries a photograph of a standard film-star face, open-lipped and dewy as in a soap commercial, that seems no more relevant to...

As I watched, the animals that lived in her shoulders broke from their cages. They prowled in the room with its ivory carvings. They were lions! They roared, and I thought...

No one can die twice of the same fever? Tell them it is untrue : Have we not died three deaths, and three again, You of Inc, I of you? The chill, the frantic pulse, brows...

Algeria in Turmoil. By Michael K. Clark. (Thanes and Hudson, 35s.) WE have long been accustomed to the spectacle of British and American journalists becoming Passionately...

Houdini. By William Lindsay Gresham. (Gotlancz, 21s.) THERE are, Mr. Gresham tells us, people known to the spirit medium trade as 'shut eyes'—people whose yearning to believe...

An Unfinished Autobiography. By Gilbert Mur- ray, with contributions by his friends. Edited by Jean Smith and Arnold Toynbee. (Allen and Unwin, 25s.) GILBERT MURRAY did not...

By STEVEN RUNC1MAN I N these days, when academic pundits are apt to tell us that narrative history is 'out' and that scholars should not concern themselves with fine writing,...

House of Many Rooms. By Robin White. (The Bodley Head, 13s. 6d.) THERE is a good deal to be said for Mr. Nabokov and most of it was, quite recently. But apart from the...

F ootball Ambassador At Large. By George Ray- nor. (Stanley Paul, 12s. 6d,) is a fifth season, the football season. From "'lust to late spring the round ball rolls across...

MR. O'BRIEN counts fifteen volumes of criticism among Gide's works, and Pretexts is put together from four of them. It squarely presents Gide as a critic, though it couldn't be...

PHILIP KERR, 1 1th Marquess of Lothian, was a v ery difficult man to categorise. Today the aver- age informed reaction to his name would prob- a bly be to recall that he was a...

By WILLIAM GOLDING T N 1942, Mr. Raleigh Trevelyan was exploring the loft of the Essex house where he lived in Great Canfield. The place had been noticed as the village of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT To everyone's dismay the warning has gone out from head office—see the Prime Minister's speech to the con- ference of Conservative trade unionists—that the...

T H E equity share index has now recovered a third of its fall and if the IMPERIAL ( 1 1 .EMR AL dividend turns out to have been fully ° R 'scounted it will not do much more...

?THIS year is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jeyes Sanitary Compounds Co. Ltd. The trading profit for the year ended December 31, 1959, shows an increase of £92,618 over...

Pink Diamond By KATHARINE WHITEHORN used fictionally : Ruby in Ruby Gentry, Sapphire in THE fascination of jewels must have something shady about it. Look at the way jewel...

Man is Soft By KENNETH J. ROBINSON WELL remember Sir Christopher Wren once say- ing . .' The remainder of the sentence was lost in a great bellow of surprised laughter. The...

,ought for Food COte d'Azur By RAYMOND POSTGATE HAVE come back from a short holiday in the South of France, in the Riviera area, and I noticed some changes there which ought...

HAVE been making th e acquaintance of some of the much-trumpeted 1959s, a ' tasting given by Lebegti! of a wide range of clarets and some of the noblot burgundies, red and...

Coming Clean By LESLIE ADRIA'N IT was a year before I could pluck up the courage to have my new suede jacket cleaned. Fearing that the cleaning process would leave *ti my...

ACROSS 1 Is it possible to find work for the stoersman? (7) 5 The reveller's got a skinfull (7) 29 9 Right for a long time (5) 10 Do performers on these get paid on a sliding...

ACRO5S.---1 Pallas. 4 Barbecue. 9 Reason. 10 Decadent. 12 Interval. 13 Idolon. 15 Enid. 16 Sobersides. 19 Prefecture. 20 Afar. 23 Perish. 25 Environs. 27 Londoner. 28 Metier. 29...