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1 9 6 2 MHE Prime Minister's meeting with President
The Spectator1 Kennedy in Bermuda attracted little of the attention normally attending such occasions; and it was none the worse for that. Relief, rather than enthusiasm, appears best to...
—Portrait of the Week— HIE BIRTHDAY of the Prince of
The SpectatorPeace was cele- brated.One hundred and twenty-seven people were killed on the roads of Britain, and 525 in road accidents in the United States. A United Nations spokesman...
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Whose Face Spited ?
The SpectatorFrom DARSIE GILLIE PAR iq U NM- the Paris police dispersed the anti-OAS demonstration on December 19, the real objection of the French Left-wing opposition to the de Gaulle...
Advertising Authority
The Spectator'Those who devote their lives to advertising and understand the functions and methods of advertising—the advertisers, the agencies, the media owners—should be in the majority ....
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Bleak Midwinter •
The SpectatorBy JOHN COLE D ECEMBER 25 this year was notable principally for the fact that on that date Mr. Selwyn Lloyd's wages pause had been in operation for five months. Although it has...
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Suggestio' Falsi
The SpectatorBy MARGARET KNIGHT T N what Sir Julian Huxley has called 'the hagiology of Humanism,' no name is more honoured than that of Fridtjof Nansen, explorer, humanitarian and winner of...
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Comus in the Congo
The SpectatorBy CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN rt is a good practice, in time of crisis, to re- read Milton's Comus. I tried this recently and I found, not at all to my surprise, that Milton had...
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Coronation Street
The SpectatorBy DEREK HILL eNSTEAD of draping wards with pictures of ISanta Claus, hospital sisters in different parts of the country have been hanging up pictures of Coronation Street and...
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OUTSIDE THE WALLS
The SpectatorS12,—Mr. Charles Pannell's admirable article in the Spectator advocating a new Bill, to be called 'The Burial of Offenders Act,' should be read by all. He refers specifically to...
Sim,—The truth of the proposition that all men are redeemable
The Spectatordepends on the correctness of the Be- haviourist hypothesis. Behaviourists believe that all men are innately equal and that differences in per- sonality and ability are 'due to...
IN FERMENT
The SpectatorSIR, —Mr. Desmond Stewart speaks of 'the arraign- ment of French spies in Egypt' as if spies had in fact been caught and their misdeeds were certain. He goes on to imply that...
The Criminal Society Renee Haynes. think Rosman.
The SpectatorIn Ferment D. R. Cline Outside the . Walls Gerald Hamilton, G. Corderoy French Canada R. S. Potterton The Mind of MRA John Marks, John S. Moore, Bamber Gascoigne Travellers'...
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PUBLISHERS' COSTS
The SpectatorSIR,—Considerable wage increases have recently works in the British Isles. This, in conjunction with been granted to employees at printing and binding other increases that have...
SIR,—Bamber Gascoigne, in the course of advocat- log (inter alio)
The Spectatorthat MRA should get its facts right, makes the remarkable statement (p. 849), apropos the Middle Ages: 'it was a period when all art, with the exception of architecture, was at...
SIR,—Mr. Charles Pannell, in his article 'Outside the Walls' in
The Spectatoryour issue of December 15 (p. 891), writes that Mr. R. A. Butler, speaking in the House of Commons on June 15 this year, . . . acknowledged in the same speech that if "the facts...
TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES
The SpectatorSIR,—Cannot something be done about the racket which foreign banks, bureaux de change and hotels are apparently free to operate in the matter of exchange rates? During the past...
SIR,—A deluge of outraged MRA letters was ,a pre- dictable
The Spectatorreaction to my article; and it was equally predictable that many of them would accuse me of living a life of vice. But it is disappointing that none of them challenge any of my...
`UNWORTHY ALLEGATIONS'
The SpectatorSus, -I wish to endorse the views expressed in Francis Noel-Baker's recent article on the inade- quacy of the British motor industry's export efforts. Within the last year, I...
SIR,—May I refer your correspondent Elaine Windrich to Lord Keynes's
The Spectatorfamous letter to the New Statesman of October 14, 1939, in which he said : The intelligentsia of the Left were the loudest in demanding that Nazi aggression should be resisted...
THE MIND OF MRA
The SpectatorSER,—Among readers highly delighted by Mr. Bamber Gascoignc's incisive exposure of 'The Mind of MRA' (December 8) surely some must have been distressed, as I was, to see the...
DISPLACED PERSONS
The Spectatortation of Displaced Persons, has already raised and spent approximately £500,000 in housing the tragic SIR,—'Lifeline,' the Association for the Rehabili - aftermath of the slave...
FRENCH CANADA
The SpectatorSIR,—I have always admired Miriam Chapin's most perceptive writings on French Canada and I doubt that there are many contemporary observers who share her knowledge of these...
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Music
The SpectatorOdorous Comparisons By DAVID CAIRNS ONE of the hardest temptations to resist in criticism is the Even two composers with certain problems and materials in common like Strauss...
Theatre
The SpectatorMushroom Soup By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The Fire-Raisers. (Royal Court.) — Macbeth. (Old Vic.) From various remarks it seems clear already that the man is an arsonist, but Biedermann...
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Cinema
The SpectatorTime-Piece By ISABEL QUIGLY Air last a French film that actually dares to be romantic. Jacques'Derny's Lola ('X' cer- tificate) is a delight. From start to finish it's a...
