T HE report of the Smithfield Market Committee is rather less revealing, and much less enter- taining, than was expected. It shows up the deficiencies of a system in which...

Wolfenden Report and the United Nations debated Cyprus. The Labour Party's new policy digest was pub- lished and Mr. Richard Nixon arrived in Britain. The Amalgamated...

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the reduction in Bank rate from 4+ per cent. Ito 4 per cent. is not the last step for some time in the Government's policy of financial easement, then there is a danger that the...

By SIDNEY Z. EHLER H ARDLY ever has any people received so mod' sympathy from the Londoners as the Czechs twenty years ago, at the time of the Munich crisis. Wherever they...

T HE fuss over Berlin is now rather more, than k a fortnight old, and both sides are standing pat. The Soviet note that was formally to an- nounce the decision to hand over to...

O N Monday the Colombo customs impounded j copies of a book published by Andre Deutsch in London earlier this month, and sent by them to Ceylon. Entitled ' Emergency '58, it is...

How republican really are the French? The word is no longer used in opposition to monarchy. It implies a sturdy defence of your right to equal treatment and to an equal say in...

and want the Spectator sent to their holiday address should send their instructions to reach the Sales Manager, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, by Decem- ber 5,...

'THE vice Anglais,' said Mr. Leslie Hale, 'is not buggery but hum- buggery.' It was the perfect epi- graph for the House of Commons debate on the report of the Wolfenden...

press is less often heard now than it was twenty years ago, it is still occa- sionally made; and I have no doubt that some of the readers of the Express, the Mail, the Herald...

interview with the Prime Minister on Southern Television. The Guardian complains that he turned it 'into a vehicle for psychological political warfare'; describing Mr....

of the Sunday Times, but in its leader on the Wolfenden Report debate it has said something which needs to be said in Tory circles. 'Criminal law ought to be not only in accord...

it was, did help to bring out how impossible it is to lay down hard- and-fast rules or general standards for advertisers to follow. Agreed that there should not be indis-...

in a sense this is a comment almost as unfair as most of the editorials that have so far appeared on the subject. The Labour Party, after all, can reply that it and its...

cartoons, made and printed by Purnell and Sons Ltd. (nothing about `TU all de- partments'; I hope nobody has slipped)—the Labour Party's general policy- statement is out at...

By DESMOND STEWART Khartoum A A T breakfast on the 17th The Morning News was on sale in the dining-room of the Grand Hotel, built fifty years before for the compatriots of Lord...

occasion of its centenary this week admits the existence of a problem it has never succeeded in solving. The complaint has long been heard in the profession that the curriculum...

By ANTONY FLEW* cl own call it Stoke or North Staffs. We call it 1.../Keele. For the University College of North Staffordshire, founded only in 1950, is being built around...

By HARVEY COLE R. CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW wants to stop television programmes being interrupted by commercial announcements at 'unnatural' breaks, and proposes to introduce...

By BERNARD LEVIN I T is always a nasty sight when a powerful country makes war upon a weak country for reasons other than those it gives, and somehow it always seems nastier...

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Dale AT THE Eccles- ton Hotel they were selling confidence at thirty guineas a time (deferred terms available). By the door stood Mr. Michael Adam, a stocky man with a crew cut...

No Business Like No Business By ALAN BRIEN Hook, Line and Sinker. (Pic- cadilly.) — Chrysanthemum. (Prince of Wales.) THE commercial theatre in England is distinguished from...

By DAVID CAIRNS HANDEL has had to wait 200 years for a full stage per- formance of Samson. And it cannot be said that even now, with Covent Garden's sump- tuous and devoted...

Timon of Norway By PETER FORSTER 'THE first performance of John Gabriel Borkman, the latest masterpiece of the acknow- ledged chief of European dramatic art, has taken place in...

Unmysterious Goodness By ISABEL QUIGLY The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)— The Two-Headed Spy. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) Sally's Irish Rogue. (Rialto and...

liked their entertainment lavish and they liked it lurid. Yet it took more than gladiators to make a Roman holiday. With an exquisite taste for the finer things of life, the...

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be easily met for some time . without the banks feeling 'fully lent.' The reason for this is a simple one. The years of the credit squeeze have disturbed the pre-war rela- tion...

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a growing extent in trade, and since it was useful for foreign traders to maintain their currency balances in London in the form of sterling, it was not long before several...

third-party, burglary and many other miscellaneous contingencies. The marine department has sponsored aviation cover; the life department is today almost submerged by the demand...

still just as essentially an institution of individual underwriters as it was in 1691 when Edward Lloyd provided quill pens and ink for marine under- writers in his Lombard...

banks likely to play in the world of con- vertible currencies which we are always promised foreign holder of sterling will be assured that any pounds he earns or holds can at...

of exchange would be guaranteed. The difference between the two may be some- what technical. But it means just this to the foreign holder ; while at present he may hesitate to...

an old-fashioned pump in Cornhill. It dates back to the days when each 'insurance company maintained its own fire brigade; and the circumstance that it is still preserved by...

in Asia TRUCIAL OMAN HADHRAMAUT ' NDONESIA THE CHARTERED BANK (Incorporated by Royal Charter 1853) HEAD OFFICE: 38 BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C.2 Branches in the United...

be made to another building near Watling Street—the Hall in Alder- manbury of the Chartered Insurance Institute, an educational and social body which has a member- ship of...

to invest across thirty or so dompanies. The investor with small means mostly finds a cold, if not frigid, reception if he tries to achieve such diversity of risk—and an...

T HE heavy burden of the growing 'soul Perplexes and offends more day by day, ote Mr. Eliot dispiritedly, and I suppose ne such feeling lies behind our various ,scriptions to...

very Mines of Solomon. SIMON RAVEN Billy Bunter, on the other hand, is not a credit to his world. In Frank Richards's original weekly stories in The Magnet, Bunter was no more...

the war (The Happy Lion) we expect a lot from Roger Duvoisin, who has written as well as illustrated Petunia. Petunia is a goose who learns through hubris and nemesis what...

Burrow was convinced that at the root of our difficulties, as individuals and as a society, there lies an unjustifiable preoccupation in everybody with an image of himself—an...

recesses of the human heart' out all the resources of Mr. Sansom's sensuous imagination' VAN DER POST The Lost World of the Kalahari q ‘ ■• q40 00 00