1922 And All Th David Watt Under the Red Flag Keith Kyle Britain's Guantanamo Arnold Beichman Pride and Poverty Coim Brogan Fall Guys Andrew Sinclair 61st FINANCIAL SURVEY

A GREEMENT in Moscow on a partial test ban treaty comes at a moment when British political life is badly in need of a breath of fresh air. For three or four months now domestic...

after them.' The week's news centred round variations on a theme by Rachman, private and public. The Commons argued its way through the noisiest debate for months on rents and...

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1922 And All That By DAVID WATT • But there is another way in which reactions to Mr. Macmillan will be highly significant. Silence will mean that the rank and file are...

From KEITH KYLE NAIROBI N o sooner had Sheikh Mohamed Shamte been confirmed as Prime Minister of Zanzi- bar after last week's 'election result than Tom Mboya was on the phone...

N summer, 1959, 1 sat in the drawing-room I of the Governor's palace in Nairobi, talking with Sir Evelyn Baring. In time, he said, Kenya would enjoy far greater self-government...

By COLM BROGAN S OME time ago I found myself in a Northern university listening to a lecture on the Oxford Campaign for Famine Relief. It was a good lecture and most agreeably...

about all this spying business is how easy it makes the job of journalists. Consider. A journalist has only to write 'Mr. X was an agent of the British intelli- gence in the...

followed Herb Greer's article on old age some weeks ago. Overwhelmingly the most striking are the extent and relative novelty of the problem. Mr. F. Le Gros Clark's suggestion...

Most people come aboard at Southend. Board- ing at Gravesend is altogether different, quieter and gentler. The Thames in the early morning, breakfast when the dining-room is...

'Good News' is, sadly, not the name of the new religious daily paper that may be appearing in November, but merely the heading. of the announcement appearing in the religious...

M R. ANTHONY WEST, in his recent article, criticised a number of MPs, including Mr. Reginald Paget, QC, because of recent statements in the House calculated to reflect on...

By JACK DONALDSON D URING the negotiations for entry to the Common Market it was inevitable that planning for the future of the British agricul- tural industry should remain in...

Later the drink still flows. They have a fan- tastic capacity. The decks have been cleared, so that only the smell of staling beer fingers. but they still have newspapers co...

Five o'clock is the climax. The people of Calais come out by the hundred to line the harbour and cheer the returning English. It is not easy. For some, urgency has lost its...

Approaching Calais the loudspeaker is insis- tent and repetitive; the Daffodil will leave promptly at five o'clock. The Daffodil will wait for no one. Then some do not wish to...

Horlock Old Age S. M. Sir David Kelly Lady Kelly Sir Winston's Pyjamas G. B. H. Wightman Burying the Coffin Peter Donoghue. Geogrey Parker The Price of Money Nicholas Davenport...

why it is that, if the facts he relates have been so for the last ten years, they have not hitherto been expressed in the press. One of the main purposes of a free press in a...

SIR,-1 was horrified with the ,fighthearted manner in which Desmond Stewart treated the recent allegations of gas bombing in the Yemen. Whether poison gas was used or not and...

express my warmest thanks and deepest appreciation to all your readers who have responded so generously and sympathetically to my letter in your issue of July 12. As you are...

SIR,—Mr. Lennard's important letter is, to my mind, especially timely in that his proposal, if adopted. might well facilitate the emergence of Lord Home as the next Conservative...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. H. Collins. seems obsessed with algebra, dear money and anti-Levcrism. I am sure that Mr. Harold Lever can take care of himself, but if I...

SIR,—First of all may I express my hope that this letter reaches you. I understand that the mails from this part of the world are subject to repeated attacks by the natives, who...

SIR.—The Winston Churchill Wore Pyjamas brigade will find support for their view in Mr. Dean Acheson's book Sketches from Life. He writes that during the war he was called to...

of ignorance. It is a tribute to the perspicacity of his concept that it has become accepted without credentials intb geographical speech. 'Burying the Coffin' seems to have...

read The A ppeasers, by Messrs. Gilbert and Gott, which I had seen reviewed in the Spectator by Professor Desmond Williams some weeks before. Perhaps, even at this late date,...

In our issues of April 5 and June 28, 1963, we published in the course of contributions by Mr. Robert Conquest references to Dr. Corliss Lamont in which be was described as...

Crowns Awry By DAVID PKVCE-JONES Henry VI and Edward IV. (Stratford-on-Avon.) — Gali- leo. (Mermaid.)—The Beg- gar's Opera. (Aldwych.) FOR his Henry VI, Shake- speare...

Us and Them By CLIVE BARNES 1 - r is possible, I suppose, that the frantic ballet activity of the past three weeks has finally done for me, and no sooner will I replace the...

On the Vampage By ISABEL QUIGLY Eve. (Cameo-Royal; 'X' cer- tificate.) Eve is three-fifths preposterous, but Joseph Losey, the Ancient Mariner of film-makers, glit- tering eye,...

Major Occasions By NEVILE WALLIS THE excitement aroused by the New London Gallery's double exhibition of the recent works of Henry Moore and Francis Bacon is a sign that...

Fall Guys B Y ANDREW SINCLAIR V ANZETTI knew why he and Sacco were burned in the electric chair. 'We were tried during a time that has now passed into history. I mean by that, a...

Buller's Campaign. By Julian Symons. (Cresset Press, 30s.) Ma. SYMONS is to be congratulated on his account of Buller's campaign, an account which also clarifies in some detail...

The Fate of Admiral Kolchak. By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 35s.) FOR many years , after its close the Russian Civil War received little attention from Western scholars; and...

The Penguin Book of Religious Verse. Edited SOME years ago, we were told that a new art form had been developed called (by Lindsay Anderson) 'jazzetry' and consisting of poetry...

Ice Station Zebra. By Alistair Maclean. (Collins, 16s.) Go Tell it on the Mountain. By James Baldwin. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) Giovanni's Room. By James Baldwin. (Michael Joseph,...

WHEN the last tent peg has been hammered home, the harassed parent reaches gratefully for his pipe and his crime novel. The rigours of sleeper and channel crossing can be...

Purposeful Investment III NORMAN MILLER Full Service 111 LAURENCE CORLEY Still Too Inarticulate? 111 JOHN CRAWLEY New Look for Insurance ■ FRED DORRIEN ICFC Today III THE RT....

By LAURENCE CORLEY T Eus may be the era of the specialist, but a notable feature of trading in this day is the alacrity with which one shopkeeper dabbles in the trade of...

CRAWLEY By JOHN Ts the City—the very citadel of private enter- I prise—wise to be so inarticulate? Admittedly, the City is not so inarticulate as it was, for, ask- ing itself a...

By FRED DORRIEN rr HERE must be few insurance shareholders who are unaware of the difficult time the industry is facing, with national fire wastage at new high levels and a...

CBE By the Rt. Hon. LORD PIERCY, T o look at ICFC today, it is, 1 think, neces- sary to examine first its yesterday. In other words, the Corporation's growth and develop- ment...

By KEITH KNOWLES T the beginning of 1962 lending for house purchase was at a low level because of the relatively poor inflow of funds from the public towards the end of 1961....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT might be thought humili- ating for the American Presi- dent, chief priest of the free enterprise world, to have to confess publicly that his capi-...

By CUSTOS P RESIDENT KENNEDY'S bombshell of a tax on buying foreign securities had surprisingly little effect upon the market in Throgmorton Street International shares such as...

Bring Forth More Fruits By ELIZABETH DAVID COLD ROAST DUCK with a puree of green peas: cut up cold roast duck, and arrange it round a pyramid of green peas made into a puree....

By LESLIE ADRIAN WITH so much in the offing in television—a second chan- nel certainly . for the BBC and probably for ITV too, and colour, eventually, for both—you may feel...

By ALAN BRIEN p ROFESSOR J. B. S. H ALDANE once entered his living room and discovered himself already there in his favourite chair. Secure in his scien- tific atheism, he...