By JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

the very last minute that the Prime Minister was only teasing had the smiles wiped off their face: Lord Home r eally did become Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for...

Government changes last week was like watching a game of bridge with all the court cards removed from the pack; the way the Prime Minister shuffled and dealt was bound to be...

N O. 6892 Established FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1828 1960

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK, AT the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, A Adlai Stevenson got the largest and warmest demonstrations and the fewest votes. There is now...

T HE suggestion that the Government should pay for those services which the railways have to maintain for national or social considera- tions, or because the Government tells...

S IR FrIZROY MACLEAN'S contribution to the defence debate in the Commons last week has had less attention than it deserved, presumably because it put forward a thesis palatable...

By I R. M. CREIGHTON T ut: Central African Federation is looking in- creasingly frayed at the edges and torn at the centre as the inevitable results of the domina- ti on of...

By BERNARD LEVIN Instead, he will stand at the despatch box, wrinkling his nose pinkly, stuttering like a berserk machine-gun (it would need the pen of a Taper to describe the...

By JOHN KENNET H GALBRAITH in r c art the floor of the Democratic National i h e ' rs. In the voice at once grave, alert, vibrant, o ne in Chicago, I was approached by t ile of...

By KENNETH ALLSOP A GREY, opaque moth glimpsed in but seemingly shunning the brighter glares of publicity, the name of William S. Burroughs has been curiously intrusive for...

By BRIAN INGLIS 'THERE are two issues in this 'Black Box' affair, 1 and they ought to be kept apart. Is the Box —and the whole technique—bogus? And is there potentially a...

will be published shortly by Chapman and Hall.

By EVELYN WAUGH (Illustrated by Quentin Blake) (3) Zanzibar—Kongwa Zanzibar—Dar-es-Salaatn—Kilwa—the corona- tion of Bishop homer A. Tomlinson—safari- groundnuts February 19....

TANGANYIKA: THE MASAI, THE KING OF THE CHAGGA.

began in the Spectator for July 15. Copies of back issues may be obtained for 1 11d. each, including postage, from The Sales Manager, 99 Gower Street, London, WCI.

shows no 'flash of frankness' in his statement about Zionism deliberately 'sabotag- ing specific Western schemes to admit Jewish DPs (i.e., Rdosevelt's and the Kimberley...

he will persuade Mr. Erskine Childers to back up his assertion that Ahad Ha'am was opposed to Zionist political colonisation in Palestine. If he cannot give the facts, I would...

The Schizoid State Carry Allighan Air Travel—US Style J. 0. Cherrington American Provocation Geoffrey Stone After Wolfenden Geoffrey P. T. Paget King, Allan Hors/all The Proms...

SIR,—Leslie Adrian is fortunate in his experiences Of American airlines. i. have never actually flown BOAC, but frequently with its associated companies , Quantas, Teal, East...

be assured that my failure, until now, to reply to the several letters addressed to me in your June 3 issue was not due to discourtesy but to the time-lag that delays the...

Sia.—How very interesting to learn from Mr. Myles J. White that he and Mrs. Braddock have more important things to do' than to concern them- selves with trying to right a...

Project Co-ordinator, I can spell, I did know' Mr. Cyril Ray had left the Sunday Times, I do know he lives in Islington (he was surprised once that I did know), I kneW he didn't...

SIR, Surely the validity of the complaint that some brewers fail to serve in their public houses the pro- ducts of rival companies is in the fact that a public house requires a...

Sig.—The annual Prom syllabus always seems to Provide ammunition for, controversy. No matter What the planners do complaints are heard that there 's too much of this and too...

theses on her views on homo- sexuality': nor would I want her to. Surely, though, it is not asking too much of our MPs that they should study the evidence on a matter which has...

SK—When the Russian shooting-down of the RB47 was announced. the Campaign for Nuclear Disarma- ment attempted to organise picketing at the Ameri- can Embassy from Thursday to...

SIR,-1 was astonished to read Leslie Adrian's con- demnation of all American food found outside New York and San Francisco. Granted that in most countries the capital provides...

The New Respectability By DAVID CAIRNS The festival chose not only Debussy, Elgar and Hoist to speak for the solid achievements of the twentieth century, but also Stravinsky,...

Sad and Funny By ISABEL QUIGLY The Apartment. (Leices- ter Square Theatre.)— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (General release.) SENTIMENTAL comedy (with the word...

Eden's War By ALAN BRIEN Troilus and Cressida. 5 (Stratford-upon-Avon.) AFTER some years wish- fully misreading Shake- speare almost as per- versely as most of our directors...

Flying Scott By CLIVE BARNES OVER the space of thirty years British ballet's founding mother, Marie Rambert, has done the State some considerable service. Last week her...

Inconsequences By PETER FORSTER Mr. Pinter's new TV play Night School was about a young lag returning home to find that his aunts have let his room to a night-club hostess who...

By JOHN COLEMAN F OR a man who, on his own confession, detests the lenses of publicity, an image of Mr. Waugh has registered %N. ith surprising clarity on the public retina. It...

his book as 'un- dogmatic musings.' This is quite a fair descrip- tion. It is a collection of essays, and Read pursues his familiar themes, of the significance of art, its...

MANY Australians (I would have been one, once) have thought that the Fascist movement located in Sydney in D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo was a slander on our egalitarian, fair-go...

Degas, Manet, Morisol. By Paul Valdry. Col- lected Works, Vol 12. Edited by Jackson, Mathews. (Routledge, 25s.) 'ALL that is to be known about me is contained in EsCholier's...

History of the Royal Society, by Thomas Sprat. Edited by Jackson 1. Cope and Harold Whitmore Jones. (Routledge, 50s.) THE Royal Society originated in a successful piece of...

Common Sense About the Arab World. By tic Books : Stevens, 30s.) DURING the last few years the leaders of public opinion have done a memorable job in misre- presenting the...

The Art of Llewellyn Jones. By Paul Hyde Bonner. (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.) A HIGH-LOADED mule-wagon rattles into the narrow dirt street between a handful of drab, boarded...

21s.) 'The sauciest remin- iscences of London's West End since the memoirs of Harriette Wilson,' the advertisements say. M'well, yes—but 'since' is the operative word....

The Progress of a Crime. By Julian Symons. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) A local loud-mouth is done by a bunch of teddy-boys; the police are not above clobbering information out of the...

Neither so terse nor so telling as the Symons novel, this is still well above the recent English average. A successful and con- ceited playwright is suspected of the murder of...

of detective novel that flour- ished thirty years ago, when all the world was young, and English detectives were well-bred into the bargain, and when famous, fading and pas-...

of a puzzle and less of an atmospheric piece than usual, though it is hard by the Place des Vosges, in the picturesquely dingy Marais, recently done so proud by Mr. John Russell...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE Radcliffe Committee had some memorable words to 'say about the annual report of the Bank of England ('the meagre- ness of which has become a byword)...

By CUSTOS W HY is it that equity shares do not fall more in the face of shockingly bad international news? Well, would you buy Government bonds in the face of the Treasury's...

By JOHN COLE THEN the fume over Home has subsided, V Mr. Macmillan's new team of economic M i n tisters will still be talking about exports. The ;t development came at the...

E NSTOCK TRUST returns pre-tax profits for the year to March 31, 1960, of £86,428, as against £76,807 for a fifteen-month period. The Company owns Frank H. Ayling, engineers....

Where the Reindeer Ends By KATHARINE WHITEHORN To revisit a coun- try after six years is always a gamble : one as- sumes that the bad things will be unchanged and On the...

Into the Rough By MONICA FURLONG 'But,' she said, 'we feel that nursery school teaches them too many cruel things too soon.' She was thinking of children's tendency to gang up...

Molony: Interim Reflections By LESLIE ADRIAN The end of one year's work by the Committee seems a good time to ask how consumers' inter- ests are faring. Are manufacturers...

I WONDER how many man- hours and tempers were lost in London last week, how many appointments missed and meals spoiled, because of the traffic jams caused by the State visit and...