ESTABLISHED 182 8 No. 6692 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1956 PRICE 9d.

A LMOST overnight events have begun to move fast in the field of international economic policy. Discussions are now taking place in London, Paris and Washington about trade and...

T HE decision of Britain and France to take the Suez question to the Security Council has brought about a lull in the development of the crisis, and has also cleared up the...

IR ANTHONY EDEN'S visit to Paris is seen by French L./ opinion against the background of joint diplomatic defeat rather than as the return of the visit paid to London in the...

Next week's Autumn Books Number will include articles and reviews by Kingsley Amis, Alan Bullock, Oliver Edwards, Antony Flew, Christopher Hollis, H. Montgomery Hyde, MP, Graham...

THE DRAMA, on Lake Coniston Was watched by his mother. . . —Daily Herald, September 20. His MOTHER, Lady Campbell, turned away from watching her son's wild crazy ride across...

‘I 'M going to vote for Ike; my son is a jet pilot and he'll keep us out of war.' So said the elderly and dogmatic lady who shared a taxi with me in Washington. But the driver,...

THE Suez crisis still hangs uncomfortably low above 1 the week's news. The second London Conference con- vened last week was chiefly notable for the presence of Mr. Dulles who...

BY CHARLES CURRAN A BIG change is taking place in the Government's public relations. For Ministers have suddenly become aware (and so has the Tory Party) of a fact that has been...

of anyone who was disturbed by the Lang case or by the White Paper on Security to The Secret Police and You, published by The Campaign for the Limitation of Secret Police...

MR. HUGH oArrsKELL's appearance on the BBC's Press Con- ference last week confirms the impression that, if television has any influence on voters, the Conservatives will be the...

the possible danger to the public health of the new loaf, with its lower nutritive value. I propose to do nothing of the kind. A great deal of nonsense, it seems to me, is...

allowing their publicity department to boast that their new air-to-air guided missile, the Fireflash, is 'as big a technical advance over conventional argument as the aeroplane...

our bakers : the quality of the pour they have to use prevents them from making the kind of bread that we enjoy so much in France. Still, bread should be vastly better now than...

BY DESMOND DONNELLY, MP F OR the past ten years the Labour Party has been chasing Keir Hardie's ghost. Its hope is to thereby discover what he would do if he were alive today....

BY KINGSLEY AMIS A SELF-ADMINISTERED introduction to music has certain points of interest, if only for its recipient. One might safely say that while supplying some needs it...

Later I turned my attention to those who could not be said to have just come to listen to the music : the two or three dozen couples who were dancing in a small rectangle at the...

BY CAPTAIN B. H. LIDDELL HART T HE fortieth anniversary of the introduction of the tank into warfare, by the British, is a timely moment for reflection. In tracing the origin...

By ROBERT BLAKE HE united and concentrated genius of Bedlam and Colney Hatch would strive in vain to produCe a more striking tissue of absurdities. Yet this is the policy . ....

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I DO not think appeals sent through the post ought to contain articles of value for which the recipient is expected to pay. It seems to me a form of moral...

'T was no rapid revolutionary change of manners that brought about the difference that now exists between the Elizabethan and Victorian eras; no polished mentor came forward to...

in the review of new novels in the Spectator for September 14. It carries me back to the period from 1906 to 1909, when I was an undergraduate at Oxford. It meant `to do...

Sia,—,Your comment upon the success of the Communist countries' export programme does not surprise me. Here in India, where formerly the only method of obtaining quality goods...

. Divine, Redeemer, Thine the cause, Mother of God, the throne is yours, The Church, alas, is Evelyn Waugh's. —Yours faithfully, JOAN BROCKELSBY 10 Wolverton Gardens, Horley,...

The Archbishop and Politics Rev. H. R. Wilson Made in Russia M. Stirling Driberg in Moscow Tom Driberg Sell-Out Christ Church Tory Blue Hares Ralph Chislert `Snurge' C. E. Stone...

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SIR,—`He becomes daily more like a lath of wood painted to look like iron,' says Mr. ' Donnelly of Sir Anthony Eden. Was he forewarned that a Magdalen col- league of this Prime...

associations and the your leading article shows what could alter the whole situation—'a closer association with Israel.' It's about time that common sense prevailed in the...

SIR,—The statement by your contributor, Mr. Ian Niall, in your issue of August 10 that the blue hare 'is quite evidently a native of England as far south as Derbyshire' is...

SIR,—The comment by Pharos on my reported statement implying that Mr. Guy Burgess had secured the publication in Russia of Sir Harold Nicolson'i book, Diplomacy, is correct. Mr....

GUYS AND DOLLS. (Empire.)-SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT. (Academy.)—RuN FOR THE SUN. (Leicester . Square Theatre.) OUR Teddy boys await their Runyon. Our unsung underworld is surely...

Braque at the Tate THIS fine exhibition is both belated and timely; belated, because it is perhaps the first lucid account of cubism which the British public has been shown and...

THE full official title of the Proms just passed was 'The 62nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.' In retaining Wood's name, the BBC is now only upholding a pious...

THE brochure put out for the Third Pro- gramme's tenth anniversary is disturbing; it contains too many reminders of what we have missed by not listening regularly enough. In...

OCTOBER 1, 1831 Colonel TRENCH brought before the House his scheme for transferring King's College to Bnckingham House, and for appropriating the remainder of the latter...

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. By Lillian Hellman. (Arts.)--UNDER MILK WooD. By Dylan Thomas. (New.) ONE of the numerous disadvantages of the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of plays is...

The Two Sides of Colonialism BY LORD ATTLEE T HERE are two names written large in the history of Africa, Rhodes and Lugard, that typify two contrasting aspects of the impact of...

SHAKESPEARE IN HIS AGE. By F. E. Halliday. (Duckworth, 30s.) STEERING a nice course between the dark, satanic mills of the Shakespeare industry and the unending bat:limes of...

ARTHUR KOESTLER. By John Atkins. (Neville Spearman, 16s.) 'A LITERARY and biographical study,' the publishers claim; but in his preface Mr. Atkins contradicts them, saying that...

THIS book consists of a number of sketches drawn from the author's experiences and observations in the Middle East. His active connection with it dates from the First World War,...

THE virtuosity of travel writers begins to exceed, though you' might think this impossible with so much space at their disposal, the multiplicity of subjects, and excuses so...

THIS book may not become a classic like its namesake, Anthony Collett's The Changing Face of England, but it is a competent study of an interesting subject. We are taken on a...

BY assuming in turn and sometimes simultaneously the roles of biographer, autobiographer, historian, interpreter, literary critic, traveloguer, moralist, novelist and...

the Heavy Dragoon as detailed by the Colonel in Patience in the song 'If you Want a receipt for that popular mystery. . .' A prize of six guineas is offered for up to eighteen...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 343 Report by R. Kennard Davis The usual prize was offered for a completion, in not more than ten lines, of '0 where, 0 where is Polygon?' I asked of...

ACROSS 1 Weathercocks among the litter? (6) 4 As a low dog was heard to say, 'I'm doomed' (8). 9 Doctor gets a plateful, but it's all the rage (6). 10 The ship for 7? (8) 12...

Digging one's own potatoes is one of the Joys of having a vegetable garden. It is a long time since I grew any. Eelworm put paid to elY modest bit of cultivation, but, at the...

in spite of the theory that they ventilate it and help drainage. One should use a worm-killer to eliminate them and remove casts commonly found in damp weather. A birch broom is...

BY IAN NIALL THERE is a great fascination in the behaviour of ants. I had just come into the garden after reading about their communal existence when I discovered that the day...

Which followed any feet it encountered. He came, finally, to my own and I stood still. lie don't bark nor nothin',' said the boy. :Plot like the other one.' I waited to hear...

By PHILIDOR No. 69 Specially contributed by Dr. L. A. GARAZA (Montevideo) BLACK (7 men) Winn to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem...

B Y CUSTOS As the Stock Exchange has been pacifist by 'conviction throughout the Suez crisis it was natural that it should respond hope- fully when the dispute was referred to...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is something that the report of that White Elephant, the International Mone- tary Fund, accepts the fact that full con- vertibility of currencies is...