Presidential Question Marks Darsie Gillie The Day of the Ba'ath Arnold Beichman More, Mr. Maudling Nicholas Davenport A Spectator's Notebook tr ix Another Time Gries Playjair...

Moscow, and the international air was heavy with mutual self-congratulation. Mr. Macmillan claimed on Saturday that Britain was represented at the talks 'by the right and...

O NLY three months after the signature by Egypt, Iraq and Syria of the latest agreement for Arab federation it has become a dead letter. President Nasser's attack on 'the...

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Labour's Love Lost By DAVID WATT p ' EACE, perfect peace with loved ones far away.' The man who will breathe this pious line with the deepest sigh of relief in the Palace of...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS ("1 LOBED till the end of August' is a neatly- written notice on the iron blind of a shop next door to us where two middle-aged women sit in the window...

organised their first Game Fair (in 1958, at Stetchworth near Newmarket) an attendance of 2,000 was expected; and although in the end 8,000 turned up and the catering...

Notebook M . KIIRLISIICHEV thinks that it will be a long, long time before China becomes a nuclear power. The hitherto accepted method of becoming a nuclear power is for the...

to speak for the agricultural community as a' whole; but, looking back over a summer of almost continuous frustration and disappointment, there is one mat- ter on which I am...

A great many ladies were watching, and some took part in, the fly-casting competitions in the lake at.Burghley. I have regretfully to report that not one of them was wearing...

Grabbing the gun at his side, Lee shot one of the bandits. The other, whose knife was already at Lee's ribs, dropped it in fright and turned to run. But by then Lee had whipped...

if nobody ever indulged in invective, but to refer to the BBC as a 'spiritual sewer' purveying to the public a 'diet of dung' seems to me merely Goebbels-esque. This inele- gant...

By ARNOLD BEICHMAN The infidels lend one another mutual help. Unless ye do the same there Will be con- fusion in the land and great corruption. —al-Quran, Sura 8:74. DAMASCUS...

is the purpose of all our fighting and rushing about'?' the chief of the regiment's political department asked Lee. That was easy. 'To bring happiness to the Tibetan people, of...

The Revival of Local Government By WILLIAM A. ROBSON T HE next two or three years are likely to be of decisive importance for local government. It is worth while, therefore,...

Q UI1E the most astonishing sight of the two weeks' assembly here of theologians and scholars from all the main traditions of Christen- dom was that of the Cardinal Archbishop...

grotesque inaccuracies and venomous 'misrepresentations. The assertion that Mills had a 'singularly incurious mind' is absurd; it is not true that he was impatient with the...

SIR,—In his review of Jung's . Memories, Dreams. Reflections., Professor Eysenck takes the opportunity to repeat his well-known denigration of psycho- therapy in general and...

of the Psyche R. T. Oerton Sir David Kelly Martin Gilbert and Richard Gott Pride and Poverty Dr. A..1. Hawes, S. Ranganalhan Britain's Guantanamo B. N. O'Brien Anarchists All...

SIR, —I am slightly shocked at the article of Mr. Colm Brogan in your last issue. Like many of your readers, touched by the poster of a hungry negro child with distended abdomen...

SIR. —We would like to apologise to Lady Kelly for any suggestion in The Appeasers that her husband, Sir David Kelly, thought, as did his press attache in Berne, that the war...

his advocacy of aid with strings, he starts with the innocuous one of right to audit and presumably would like to include interference with 'damaging' social customs. Since he...

SIR,—Your contributor Arnold Beichman states that until recently 'le vice anglais' was inflicted upon prisoners in Aden. Since I have always understood that 'le vice anglais'...

SIR, — According to your 'Portrait of the Week,' the Federation of London Anarchists burst into the Cuban Embassy and broke the Ambassador's glasses.' The truth is that on...

Pooh-Pooh By CLIFFORD HANLEY IT is right and proper to pooh- pooh the Power of Television when anybody makes extrava- gant claims for it as a social force or a social evil. We...

By DAVID CAIRNS THE Oxford Bach Festival, held last month, raises once more the horrid question of authenticity. Of course we are all purists nowadays. The scholarly attitude...

Golden Girl Gone By ISABEL QUIGLY Marilyn. (Carlton; 'A' certifi- cate.) 'REMORSE is worse than grief,' my 'help' remarked in her sibylline way over the ironing not long ago,...

It's a Brute By DAVID PRYCE-JONES I, John Brown. (Ipswich Arts Theatre.) — The Antique Shop. (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.) -- The Provok'd Wife. (Vaudeville.)—Skyvers. 1...

The Oxford Tradition By F. R. LEAVIS ' A s a critic he could be sensitive and percep- tive.' It is to Lawrence that the concession is made, and the critical poise is...

Power and the Pursuit of Peace. By F. H. Hinsley. (C U.P., 40s.) INTERNATIONAL relations is a difficult subject to write a book about. It makes nonsense of the customary...

338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia). By Victoria Ocampo. Translated by David Garnett, with an introduction by Professor A. W. Law. rence. (Gollancz, 15s.) ONE of the attractions...

Henry Wikoff, the American Chevalier. By Duncan Crow. (MacGibbon and Kee, 30s.) Its: recent years a good many people, myself not among them, have felt the want of a heavy, high-...

IN June, 1808, Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley, thirty-nine years old, and about to take command of a new British Expeditionary Force to the Iberian Peninsula, was...

Amateur Agent. By Ewan Butler. (Harrap, 21s.) Was prepared for almost anything that bleak afternoon of February, 1941, when for the first time I visited Woburn Abbey. The Abbey...

FROM Michelet to Taine, from Aulard to Mathiez it is hard for the general reader of history to grope his way to any balanced view of the French Revolution. The great French...

The Blue Lantern was Colette's last major work, published when she was seventy-live, a kind of journal full of reminiscences. She begins seri- ously, almost philosophically,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT . The only real success he can point to is the rise in exports in the first half of the year and this„ may be only a. flash in the pan. In the second...

By CUSTOS T His week being the last of a three-week account the equity share markets have been taking a knock. The good company reports have been forgotten (e.g., Gus and...

By LOTHBURY M It. W. E. BUTLIN, chairman of Rodin's, the largest holiday camp organisation in the UK, certainly believes in 'it pays to advertise.' The chairman pointed out...

By GILES PLAY FAIR E ARLY in 1946 one still needed a priority to cross the Atlantic. If I remember right, there were two ways of flying: by seaplane to Baltimore or by...

On the Warm Side By LESLIE ADRIAN W ARMTH without waiting' goes a Gas Board heating slogan which could make even British Railways' policy of waiting-without- warmth obsolete....

By ALAN BRIEN N EITHER Jesus Christ, Socrates nor Buddha (as Yeats . once pointed out) ever wrote a book. Those of us who make a living scribbling, scribbling about scribbling,...