T HE peregrinations of British Prime Ministers across the Atlantic since the war have never been marked by any very spectacular results. Their purpose has largely . been to...

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By Our German Correspondent Bonn O NE of the best turns in a cabaret show in Cologne recently mimicked in robust fashion the cocktail-party manners of Bonn's politicians....

The case that has made most noise recently is that of the Smithfield bummarees. Too much has been made of it, partly because of their picturesque nomenclature, partly because of...

T 1413 most curious feature of the present printing trade dispute, which has led to a ban on overtime and working- to-rule, is that the minimum rates demanded by the typo-...

has coincided with a new outburst of international affairs. Sir Anthony Eden is on his way to Washington, where Mr. Zarubin, the Soviet Ambassador, has already demanded a formal...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE Washington T - HE President has said that John Foster Dulles is the best Secretary of State he has ever seen. This is high praise, though not quite so high...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE choice for the deputy leadership of the Parliamen- tary Labour Party lies between Mr. Aneurin Bevan and Mr. James Griffiths. Others, including Mr. Alfred...

`I WONDER, SIR, if you would not agree that we might profitably advance from violent generalisations about the Independent Television Authority programmes to the civi- lised...

architect jn Britain today makes his fierce and footling attack on the new Barbican scheme doubly unfor- tunate. When he talks of 'exploitation by big business,' he is speaking...

prepared by a committee which includes three MPs who voted for hanging last year (and published by the Inns of Court Con- servative and Unionist Society at ls. 6d.). is to buy...

under the title of Polly: My Wonderful Mother. A friend of mine received the other day an illustrated postcard adver - tising the book, urging him to read it, and signed...

a letter (published by the Daily Express after The Times had declined the honour) signed by twelve 'young men' who said that they were not surprised that the present stuffy...

BY ANTHONY FLEW* Now, don't stir! Don't expose met Just this once! This was the first and only time, I'll swear, Look at me—see, 1 kneel—the only time, 1 swear, I ever...

BY ROBERT BLAKE* T HREE months ago under the title 'Oxford Divided' 1 endeavoured to explain the nature of the complicated and bitter dispute raging in both city and university...

By JOHN BETJEMAN I SUPPOSE there is a preservation order on Cams Hall, which is on the sea near Fareham, and was built in 1771 by J. Leroux. Its north front is of beautiful...

LUSITANIAN LIQUORS Kingsley Amis SEALED TRAIN Muriel Grindod ON TOUR Ivor Brien ABROAD ON THE CHEAP Wendy Hall INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT T. G. Usborne LARGER THAN LIFE Toni...

BY IVOR BRIEN FEW days ago a quality newspaper carried a pageful of travel advertisements, most of which were offering con• ducted tours. How odd to think that as late as 1939...

(i) International Incident BY T. G. USBORNE OR official conferences in Berlin I normally took the night train from Frankfurt. On one occasion, in 1948, I found myself sharing a...

BY MURIEL GRINDROD I HAD somehow expected that the train that was to take me from Lienz, in East Tyrol, back to Innsbruck would be rather a grand affair. True, it was not very...

The traveller who aims at reducing the cost of a holiday abroad to its absolute minimum should, ideally, observe five basic rules. (1) No one goes to a country merely because...

,a ng ix • Austria Belgium ••• Denmark ••• Finland ..• France ••• Germany ••• • .. Greece ••• ••• Holland ••• Norway ••• Spain ••• Sweden ••• •••...

paper on which I was working—not the Spectator—published a travel supplement in which one of the writers expressed disappointment in the Colosseum. It was, he said, so small. If...

A CCORDING to my local paper, a man appeared before the magistrates last week and applied for the restora- tion of his driving licence; it had been suspended for a Year, , of...

condemnation of the whole ITV set-up on page 67. On page 72 Charles Curran offers a brilliant analysis of 'The New Estate in Great Britain.' On page 80 Brian Inglis is kind...

a false contrast between middle - class and working - class motives and behaviour. Unlike its Victorian grandparents, the present-day middle class is not notably com- petitive...

accord with the usual standards of fairness which one expects from your journal. Commercial Television has only been established for four months and one would surely expect a...

to he a selfish motive and some muddled thinking by a member of the middle class. In the Twenties and Thirties, when, in con- trast to the present day, there were more manual...

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The New Estate David Henschel Edmund Cooney, James Hodge Tastes in TV R. E. Simms, John Irwin Christians and the H-Bomb H. M. Springbett Rev. E. 0. Sutton Professional...

Mozart Today WHERE Bach and Mozart are sitting, presum- bly side by side, among the angels, they must at this moment be exchanging glances of ex- pectation rewarded as they...

that Brian Inglis refers to Professor Maurice Goldsmith. I wish to make it clear that I am not a professor, flattering as is the title. — Yours 82 Park Street, London, WI

and humble members of church congregations taking or contemplating actions which may or do involve pain and death to others, and one of which is now recognised as unchristian....

It is not whether or no the use of force by the Inquisition was justified. It is a much more difficult one : were the Elizabethans justified in resorting to arms to keep the...

I was executed seven years ago this month. As I unfortunately missed any reference to this event in the national press at the time, may I ask if there is any truth in the...

THE first month of 1956 has brought abundant evidence of the most fashionable ways of painting. If it is a battle which is set before us, it is plainly a battle of the styles....

WARNER Bros. have speli t a large sum of money on Helen of Troy, and for once such vast ex- penditure is justified. For of its kind—the spec- tacular. super-colossal,...

THE Third Programme occasionally performs a useful function in giving us plays which we are unlikely to find in the theatre. Padraic Fallon's Diarinuid and Grainne ought to have...

JANUARY 29, 1831 AUDACIOUS PLACARD.--The reward offered for the apprehension of the assassin of young M r. Ashton, at Ashton-under-Line, is 15001. Under the hand-bill offering...

Apollonian BY IAIN HAMILTON I T is in the nature of fleas to live upon dogs, and not even ' an animal with the best of pedigrees can keep them off by its own efforts. But an...

1 - r will be a pity if this book is regarded as no more than a moving human document. Moving, certainly, it is. The unstrained quality of Mr. A. W. Baldwin's love of his father...

Nina Hamnett was once in Ireland, she decided to pay a visit to the enchantingly lovely Blasket Islands, but when she arrived at Dingle, which is on the mainland opposite the...

TI1E MAN WHO WAS SHAKESPEARE. By Calvin Hoffman. (Max Parrish, 15s.) I HAD a narrow escape once. I might easily have become a Shakespearean scholar. The talk in my home when I...

DELI VERANCE. By L. A. G. Strong. (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) DELIVERANCE is a novel to be savoured slowly and remem- bered. It moves with the leisurely pace of life in the early years...

Farm fires advertise themselves across the surrounding countryside as a rule, and most of the cases get no more than a paragraph in the local paper, although they are nearly all...

By PHILIDOR No. 34. J. HARTONG WHITE (9 men) BLACK (11 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Promislo: Q-B 7. A...

Clematis are things that seem to suffer from neglect in a lot of gardens. They are either badly pruned or left to themselves. New plants should be .cut back severely, but...

By IAN NIALL WE had been told that there would be snow on high ground. The radio forecast said other things about other places. Down in the village where the stream goes under...

am always fascinated to see the cormorant making his way upriver. He is a wary bird and by no means stupid. Where the river is wide he takes care to keep right in the middle of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is not always that the annual speeches of the bank chairmen contribute to economic thought, but on this January occasion we have, I think, gained...

By CUSTOS THE quiet drift downwards of the stock markets which had followed the Prime Minister's speech was suddenly turned into a torrent by a spate of selling on Tuesday...

the net profit- for 15 was shown as £2,549,339. This should hav 9 e 4 read £2,5 49,399. WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK. On page .,1 of last week's Spectator the Chairman Sir trie E....

HOWAND DOBSON, Huntingfield, Suffolk, and Miss P. SPARROW, 30 CUSIleCiv ft Gardens, Wolverhampton, (NOTE: The closing date for Crossword No. 871 is January 31 th e solution and...

ACROSS 3 No danger in such alliances, very 1 striking (6, 7). 9 Briefly, the commanding officer falls from virtue (9). 10 'Bring me my — 1 0 clouds, unfold V. (Blake) (5)...

The usual prize was offered for a rhymed charm for the safety of a friend making journey by air. 'CHARMS strike the sight, but merit wins the prize,' as Pope might have...

famous quatrain I strove with none; for none was worth mY strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature , Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am...