IN TERCONTINENTAL TELSTARVIS1ON began on Monday : reciprocal eighteen-minute pro- grammes were bounced between Europe and America. They saw Big Ben, the Arc de Triomphe and...

T HE factitious storm is blowing itself out. The crocodile and sentimental (and genuine) tears for the deposed are evaporating. With his motion of no confidence it was Mr....

By STEPHEN TOULMIN N his Harvard lectures on Science and Govern- ' /tient, the eminent public servant Sir Charles Snow (thrusting his alter ego, Snow the novelist, behind his...

T tIs Molony mystery pack is open at last. On Wednesday, almost three years to the day from its first meeting, the Committee on Con- sumer Protection has presented Parliament...

W E have by now had long and unpleasant experiences of successive Soviet efforts to inflame the Berlin situation, so that, like dwellers on the sides of a volcano, we have...

Ry -Our Common Market Correspondent F the Government is in trouble, it is nothing Ito the toils in which the Opposition is now caught over the Common Market question. Mr,...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE time limit by which judges and public prosecutors could retire, before pensionable age, if they felt they had done anything during the Nazi period...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS p AR1S is washing her face of stone. It began last winter, when the northern side of the Place de la Concorde suddenly blossomed like a Christmas...

for all, 1 hope, to correct a correction. Mr. Ivor Davies, who has hopes of being Liberal Member for Oxford City, got it wrong about Mr. Ifor Davies, the Labour MP for Gower,...

T WILL neither shout at the man at the wheel I nor spit on the deck, said Baldwin when he gave up the Premiership. Lord Avon would have done well to recall Baldwin's promise, do...

I'm sure my ill-wishers will enjoy the latest description of poor Starbuck as 'a squalid, mind- less piece of degenerated protoplasm,' which comes from somebody in...

books by members of the staff. If the review's good, it smells slightly fishy; if it's murderous, then there's the temptation to get someone to write a re- joinder saying that...

a house which was full of strange and pitiful noises—like the crying of an animal in constant pain. Within a few days I learned that behind a door at the end of the corridor lay...

tells me that the gossips of the inner circles take it for granted 'That's Lord Elgin. He hasn't got all his marbles.' that the real struggle a fortnight ago was between the...

ad- vocating the substitution of the word 'user' for 'consumer'? I'm altogether in favour of this, *Hutchinson, 30s. having grown quite sick of the image of our society as a...

British Goods in Europe By RICHARD BAILEY T HE prospects for British industry in the Common Market have been assessed, ap- praised and'reappraised so often in the past five...

By HENRY FAIRLIE C OMETIIING has got to be done about educa- tion in this country: on this everyone is agreed, and to this extent education is already a political issue. Not...

write: 'His was the kind of honest success which must be counted a failure. You list 'rigorous integrity' as one of his defects . Must honesty and integrity now be accounted...

Fairlie's lyrical description of the new Cabinet makes the reader wonder why we had to wait ten years for it. Was it the obstinacy or stupidity of the leader? (Not that we would...

Macmillan Expects Graham Greene, Sir Stephen King-Hall Where's Mr. Donnelly? Desmorul Donnelly, MP, R. Robin, J. A. G. Miller The Lawrence Myth A. V. Chambers, Captain R....

sorry to disappoint her but I am still here, as large as ever—even larger than life—always ready to be of kindly service to the Committee of 100. As to the so-called 'Moscow...

myth? Philby certainly, less as a cinema attraction, but far greater in action and, after all, a success whereas poor Lawrence was a failure, double-crossed by politicians and...

nuclear demonstration in Moscow? As I understand it the demonstrators were quietly and quickly disarmed and dispersed by a group of civilian- clad ladies and gentlemen who, one...

to Richard Aldington's work on T. E. Lawrence as a 'repulsive book.' It must now be apparent that the 'Lawrence of Arabia' legend was largely compounded of untruths, h...

SIR, — Many of your readers may wonder whether relief can get through to the Algerian refugees who have trekked home from Tunisia and Morocco during the last few weeks. In spite...

comment on Mr. t.clinger's letter (Spectator, July 20) which I feel should not remain unanswered. For someone who claims to have • been in Malaya during the war there, he...

complimentary CND badge on his lapel (ref. Spectator, September 29, 1961)? Or does Mr. D. Donnelly only believe in demonstration by empty squares? R. HOBIN 21 Lawn Road Flats,...

was carried out by the police, not the army, as Mr. Edinger implies. Adding nonsense to untruth he claims that the reason the troops tortured was because they were in a panic....

with the paratroops, captured twenty- two of the forty-one most badly 'wanted' Eoka leaders in January, 1957. Few of us had any illusions about the cause of our success—the work...