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rr HAT the Pilkington Committee had come I down on the side of the BBC was known, through leaks, long before its report appeared. What was not suspected was that it would reveal...

Prime Minister was asked"how independent was Britain's nuclear deterrent : he said that it was legally and consti- tutionally independent, but integrated with the Arneri,:an...

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o serious person expected sweeping revolu- tionary recommendations from the Jenk ins Committee on company law. It was appointed at the end of 1959 when everyone was worried...

M R. DEAN RUSK 'S European tour appears to have convinced him that, since President de Gaulle is unwilling to discuss the integration of France's deterrent within NATO until the...

A As the Common Market negotiations reach „t_theitr climax, the time is coming for the Government to be rather more positive about the political aspects of Joining Europe. If...

Next week's issue will contain articles and reviews by: KINGSLEY AMIS, BERNARD BERGUNZI, RONALD BRYDEN, PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR,' CHRISTOPHER HILL, FRANCIS HOPE, BRIAN INGLIS,...

C OME time at the beginning of next week it a will be announced to cheering Moslem crowds that Algeria has voted itself free. The tricolour will be hauled down, except in the...

of Japan has refused to sign the recent Oslo declaration of the Socialist International, and has made public a statement of its displeasure with that document, which it finds...

the other day somebody asked me, politics and Wall Street aside, what I thought. I said that the American press still strikes me as altogether admirable in its responsibility...

straight in conditions which would today be thought unfit for beasts or even for Scottish tinkers; and they worked, as none of us could now work, for a pittance that wouldn't...

stories* of two remarkable old men (one from South Uist, the other from Donegal) who had said their pieces fluently into tape-recorders. The Scot is Young Angus MacLellan, 'son...

to improve matters. It should be far more ruthless in discharging those who have committed offences of this type. It should be allowed to ban the sale of spirits in junior rank...

psi sure that Mr. Profumo's decision to put the 'Rhine Army under curfew isn't the best way to restore discipline and raise morale. It will con- centrate incidents around...

the other a writer—tried The Penguin African Library The first four volumes: African Profiles Ronald Segal 6s A Short History of Africa Roland Oliver and J. D. Fage 5s...

love scene which was both tender and hilarious. There are insular school- teachers, even today. And as a viewer, I don't care if my dramatist puts his teachers in bomba- zine...

Conversations with Stalin. By Milovan Djilas. (Rupert Hart-Davis, 16s.) IT is a pity that this book cannot be reviewed by Mr. Vladimir Dedijer, now in this country. For though...

Western capitalism—the shortcomings of our system of international exchange, the inade- quacies of our trading reserves. Imports have to be paid for by exports or settled by...

Canadian market used to take about £280 million-worth of British goods. to talk glibly of our marvellous export oppor- tunities this year without reminding us that some of our...

.{ODES UNIVERSITY iMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA tions are invited for the following JRER IN EUROPEAN HISTORY SURER IN SOCIOLOGY 1st January, 1963. he salary scale is R2340 x 120-3300...

has brought on most of her troubles herself by pursuing a foolish financial and economic policy for many years. She over-borrowed from the United States to speed up the...

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with no parental contacts is at a boarding school in Hertfordshire which closes for the holidays. Is there a family who would help David during these periods by giving him...

PERSONAL PROBLEMS, nervous condi- tions, habits, consultant Psychotherapy, hypnosis. R. K. Brian, M.B.H.A., 19 Wig- more Street, W.I. LANgham 4245. PRINTING AT LESS COST by...

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£4e+ Ade the enchanting pink wine An R.S.L. Selection WINES THIS EVENING . . . might well turn out to be the first, heady, real summer night of the year. Try an anticipatory...