Sean Lemass Patrick Lynch Donal O'Donovan Brendan Behan Niall Sheridan Desmond Fennell John Montague That Damned Cowboy Murray Kernpton The Old Men Julian Critchley, MP...

No. 6983 Established FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1828 1962

the year, more cars on the roads than ever, slightly, fewer deaths, more marchers from Aldermaston, and twenty-nine political prisoners out of Mountjoy Gaol, Dublin, freed under...

Fr HE Prime Minister's visit to Washington will I find President Kennedy and his advisers fully engaged all along the diplomatic front. The most immediate and most embarrassing...

HE capture of ex-General Salan may not I deprive the OAS of its most daring or efficient chief. In fact, the circumstances of his arrest suggest that he was hardly taking his...

l xERE are five more by-elections pending, and it is virtually certain that the Conservative candidates will do badly in all of them. In two— both safe Conservative seats by any...

T HE Common Market negotiations have taken a difficult turn during the last month. Mr. McEwan, the Australian Trade Minister, last week set alarmingly high conditions for his...

T HE first breath of warm air caught the country's road-menders by surprise. As a rule the pneumatic drills start vibrating the moment we prise open our winter-warped windows....

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK Oh. God, now that damned cowboy is president of the United States. —Senator Thomas Platt, on the death of William McKinley, and the accession of...

By RICHARD ROSE T tin ups and dcmsns of the parties at individual by-elections tend to obscure the long-range significance of trends in voting behaviour. One Orpington, one...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T seems to be universally taken for granted here that Britain will join the Common Market, that the present negotiations will be ,complete in essence...

Cudlipp Plays It Cool By BRIAN INGLIS T HE headlines that greeted us in Nice the other morning included France Dimanche's predict- able announcement of a crisis in the royal...

a new book which was warmly reviewed by John Vaizey last week. I share Vaizey's feelings for Neill, who certainly radiates something that can only be called goodness; and I've...

T DON'T know whether there were twenty or 'forty or sixty thousand nuclear disarmers snaking along Knightsbridge on Monday. I didn't count them myself and 1 wonder how Frank...

for I'm bound to say that the marchers looked care- free and happy in their tight jeans and bright sweaters—so carefree and happy that I felt genuinely sorry to have to note the...

the Garrick takes seriously the convention that its premises should not be used for business pur- poses. In these days, of course, everyone does business everywhere, so there as...

attended among others by the Queen and the Prime Minister is now beginning to draw around itself the true shimmeringveils of legend. Last week a correspondent from Trinity...

The cheeks . of but cousin of Great Turnstile 'Must haVe deepened from their usual pink into the plain red of embarrassment over the weekend. !'Hemingway, Ilya Ehrenburg, Claud...

The Old Men By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP We are not as a nation confident of our future. We have not as a nation been ready to face the reappraisal that must follow the closing of...

By OLIVER STEWART HOSE who want to fly at 2,000 or 3,000 1 miles an hour will eventually be asked to choose between two different kinds of air vessel: the efflux box and the...

By CRAIG MCGREGOR HE slimmest men's ties in the world today I are sold in Australia. It's as handy a symbol as any of just how much with it the country is determined to be, and...

in Action 'Frustrated' Mr. Lloyd's Wicked Alternatives Dr. Murdo Mackenzie Ronay Rushes In Egon Ronay The Scottish Economy Roderick Macdonald Taking German Lighty Dr. Walter...

columns to expose a serious weakness in the law and practice of magistrates' courts? Last year, after a clear record of some thirty-five years, I was involved in a motor...

avers, speaking of the Russians, and the Chinese, that 'our morals are superior to theirs.' Does he mean that the English are a more moral race than the Russians and the...

Sat.—International tension inevitably leads to a sense of helplessness on the part of many ordinary citizens, for problems which may well affect the destiny of the entire human...

clinics in the London area. These saw in the period 1960 - 61 approximately 78,000 patients. Many of these clinics are badly in need of voluntary workers, especially in Acton,...

last week of A. S. Neill's book, 'who remem- bers with truth his own comparatively recent school- days must yearn for . . . the glorious beauty of Dartington and the freedom...

Sts,—As a critic myself, I am sceptical of writers who complain that reviewers have not read the books they write about, but Mr. Philip Mason makes me wonder. In his letter to...

SIR,—When the Spectator casts the tartan-draped eyes of the English establishment over the Scottish economy it should try and keep them open. Your sroart young correspondent,...

Nicholas Davenport, in a recent issue of the Spectator, alluded to the Chancellor's 'pay pause' as a neurosis. He writes, in last week's issue, that 'The. Chancellor's parting...

week, headed 'Ronay Rushes In,' a drawing of an unscrupulous, not very perceptive figure lifting his foot, must have depicted Leslie Adrian himself in the undignified process of...

SIR,—It is obviously still fashionable to impress readers and 'listeners with one's knowledge at foreign languages, and it is a charmingly unobtru- sive compliment to reader and...

League is rather too ingenuous. The main gravamen of my complaint is that .a person only has to visit a few dozen pubs in the whole country and he knows what the brews are like...

SIR,—I don't know what Katharine Whitchorn meant by 'functional' in the sentence: '. . . the original Gothic cathedrals, with all those angels and corbels [me] and gargoyles,...

week's issue may be interested to know how, in the end, he decided to handle his new manuscript. To satisfy their curiosity (and to deflect the energies of rival publishers),...

travel around the world before truth has time to get to the nearest corner, may I be allowed to record a fact, and this is the fact. That there arc dozens of people, both men...

as of your own publication thank you for the appreciation of Clare Hollingworth in last week's issue? We Guardian readers are not unappreciative of the great courage and...

The Law and the Profits By CLIFFORD HANLEY WE have had the law courts played as documentary (The Verdict is Yours); played for cosiness (Boyd. Q.C.); played for drama (The...

A Dream of Fair Women By BAMBER GASCOIGNE A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Stratford- upon-Avon.) — Nil Carborundum. (Arts.) Julius Ctesar. (Old Vic.) ONE of the many impres-...

Child Bride By ISABEL QUIGLY The Light in the Piazza. (Ritz.) 'IF an Italian woman's in- / distinguishable from an Ameri- can ten-year-old who's been kicked on the head by a...

Screen Test By CLIVE BARNES Tim gentle art of producing ballet for television is simple. Like jumping out of a box with both arms and legs tied be- hind your back it requires...

Effects and Causes By DAVID CAIRNS A CORRESPONDENT, Mr. Downes of St. Albans, sends a cri de cceur to the effect that 'we have enough to bear from Music Critics without their...

By SEAN LEMASS, TD* I WELCOME the opportunity of contributing to this special Irish number of the Spectator. At this time when the immediate future seems to promise momentous...

TODAY The A New Ireland Looking to Europe Industrial Development Authority The Confirmation Suit Irish Television Makes Its Bow Ireland's Visitors Witness • SEAN LEMASS •...

By DONAL O'DONOVAN T the closing session of the national con- .vention of the Export Council for Europe —held at Eastbourne at the end of last year— Sir Norman Kipping,...

By BRENDAN BEHAN F OR weeks it was nothing but simony and sacrilege, and the sins crying to heaven for vengeance, the big green Catechism in our hands, walking home along the...

By NIALL SHERIDAN N ATIVE television came to the Republic of Ireland on New Year's Eve, 1961, when viewers in the eastern half of the country tuned in to the first pictures sent...

By the crumbling fire we talked Animal-dazed by the heat While the lawyer unhooked the lamp From the peat-blackened rafters And climbed the circle of the stairs. Without, the...

By DESMOND FENNELL T HE most widely loved of our visitors are the British working people. This is because they are the most numerous and at the same time the best-humoured, the...

Martians Bearing Bursaries By KINGSLEY AMIS rr HERE is an innocence, an unworldliness about I most sociological writing which can be its greatest charm. With the possible...

`Imperfect? Does anything human escape That sentence. And after all, we get along.' But now we have fallen on evil times. Ours is the age of goody-goodiness. They are planning...

The Discovery of the Great West. By Francis Parkman. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) Ordeal by Hunger. By George R. Stewart. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) THE year 1846 was a...

Battles of the Crimean War. By W. Baring Pem- berton. (Batsford, 21s.) As Mr. Pemberton makes clear in the opening passages of his first-rate book, while the Crimean War may...

IT is now generally agreed that the Early Life and Later Years of Thomas Hardy, published (in 1928 and 1930 respectively) as the work of his second wife, and now reissued in one...

The Strength to Dream. By Colin Wilson. (Gollancz, 25s.) HERE is a simple defence of the role of the imagination in literature. There are two anti-imaginative schools of...

The Biology of Art. By Desmond Morris. (Methuen, 36s.) THE cynic who skims through Dr. Morris's book on picture-making by the celebrated Congo and other apes will observe that...

Wiwi' an excellent novelist Mr. Scott would be i f he could give as much definition to his human characters as he gives to his background of birds, beasts and trees. The Birds...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT BEFORE the Stock Exchange starts another two-year boom in equity shares, egged on by Mr. Lloyd's trick tax on six months' speculative gains, it would do...

By CUSTOS ui ellects of the speculative gains . tax are now being seen in the equity markets. The rise in 'quality' investment shares. has been ac- centuated. There has been a...

MPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES has I been in the limelight so strongly over the past few months that its accounts for 1961 may have lost their normal appeal. However, in spite of...

Mews Cheese By ELIZABETH DAVID MILK FLOWER, fiat di lane, is a variety of Italian mozzarella cheese, the cheese which turns into the implacable layer of indiarubber on top of...

• • By CYRIL RAY IT'S ten years since 1 wrote my only articles for the Britannica Book of the Year, drily recording, for the exigu- ous Britannica fee, the events of 1952 in...

N OT so much a wine, though, as a bottle— the imperial-pint bottle in which the old- established • but '.forward-looking firm of Berry Brothers in St; James's Street is now...