confirmed that Britain had offtred bases to the Bundeswehr. T he United States Treasury gave up trying to get Western Germany to pay £214 million a year— Or : indeed, a red...

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A first glance it is the African leaders who are being 'unreasonable over the coming constitutional conference—with Hastings Banda brandishing a spear and saying he has come not...

ACCORDING to Lord Lambton, writing last week in the Evening Standard, the Prime Minister told American correspondents in the course of an off-the-record meeting that 'nothing...

F- one-tenth of the energy expended during the past ten years on campaigns for more and better hanging and flogging had been concen- trated on the obvious problem of a dwindling...

W 1TH so much attention being paid to using a prisoner's period of punishment —his gaol sentence—to equip him for a life in which he will not be tempted to break the law again,...

U NIFORMITY in pub closing hours — according to Sir Frank Soskice, the Opposition spokes • man on the Licensing Bill —' is highly desirab le to prevent would-be drinkers dashing...

being an enlightened newspaper pro- prietor—at least by the standards currently pre- vailing. Word had it that the employees of the recently deceased Empire News were getting...

'CI AN it be,' Barbara Wootton asks in her criticism of the Ingleby Report in our pages this week, 'that the British really hate and fear the young? ' By contrast with other...

By BERNARD LEVIN HAS, I asked in this space a few weeks ago, Mr. Gaitskell had it? And if so, I went on, what pre- cisely is it that he has had? I came, after profound...

By BARBARA WOOTTON N or so long ago children of seven years old used to be tried in the ordinary adult courts, alongside of every type of adult criminal. That came to an end in...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY W HAT was once paradox is now platitude. The remark which Orwell threw off some- where or other to the effect that Western Socialists were hypocritical in...

may appear to have gone the way of 1 most of the other countries of the Middle East which, in recent years, have accepted the rule of their army officers: yet there is a dif-...

The Time Machine By JOHN WILLIAMSON H . G. WELLs's time machine is a nice piece of Victoriana—perhaps the only machine ever described, except the first Centurion tank, about...

be kicked to death on a public footpath bY hooligans in search of money. BUT I am surprised that the moral responsibility for thi s revolting crime can be so lightly regarded...

sympathise with the views expressed by Lady Wootton and other of your correspondents. But I do not think that sympathy alone is enough. It can rouse public opinion—as it most...

Neville Braybrooke. Rev. Nick Earle, Maurice Jacks Spanish Justice Vicente Girbau Leon . Catholics and Abortion Rev. L. L. McReavy am a Pornographer' Nicolas Walter And Fight...

was shocked to read in the Times of Novem - ber 14 the statement issued by the Spanish Ministry of Justice, in reply to the group of foreign lawyers who have recently visited...

devious. No one who has read the Book of Revelation could agree that the New Testament speaks only of re• demotion and forgiveness. There is a paradox where condemnation and...

SIR,—Not being conversant with the editorial poli- cies of the Olympia Press, I cannot tell Mr. Donleavy why some of its publications carry lists of other titles and some don't....

but one statement : that the Homicide Law is 'nonsensical.' There my agreement ends, for its main theme is that corporal punishment is no deterrent. You are by no means alone...

abortion was very inaccurately summarised by Katharine 74 'hitchorn, quoting Dr. Glanville Williams, in your Issue of November 4. The unequivocal Catholic con- d emnation of all...

SIR,—There is a more serious objection than the size of the sample to be raised against Roy Jenkins's use of the Daily Herald poll to suggest that four-fifths of Labour voters...

remarks on the interesting light which the archives of Eton cast upon current notables. He finds particular satisfaction in the record that Mr. Robert Turton, MP for Thirsk and...

me as saying that practi- tioners of herbal medicine are 'irritated' that our Patients tend to be mainly the failures of the National Health Service. May I say that our...

his criticism of A Subject of Scandal and Concern, John Osborne's TV play; with one notable exception—Maurice Richard- son of the Observer—most TV critics savaged this...

but she is less than fair to Mr. Ferris over his article on Anglican parsons in the Observer. It did not appear to me, and I have been in Orders thirty-two years, serving in the...

SM.- -When Mr. Cyril Ray sets out to jibe he should take the elementary precaution of getting at least some of his facts right. Or does the Spectator consider that facts are not...

SIR,—It is surely odd praise for a biography Rossetti that it leaves the reader with 'a new se of Morris's stature.' As well write a life of Shel to show how preferable was...

growing influence of the `Secu lar Institute of Christian Perfection' in Spanish politics is revealing; but the remark of one of their leading members that 'they will soon start...

received by a British graduate student, John R. Johnstone, from the United States immigra- tion authorities. He has been denied extension of his visa which would be necessary...

'Most Favoured Nation' is Wales, accord- ing to your television critic Peter Forster, who has watched '0 Sul i Sul.' If he took off his rose - coloured spectacles and examined...

Flattering Unctions By ALAN BRIEN Out of this World. (Phoenix.)—The Bride Comes Back. (Vaude- ville.)—The Life of the Party. (Lyric.)— The Maimed. (Royal Court, Sunday.) -...

Llareggub Calling By PETER FORSTER The Postmaster-General authorises fifty hours of programmes per week, with a maximum of a further hour each day for special outside...

Moral Obtuseness By ISABEL QUIGLY I Aim at the Stars. (Leicester Square Theatre.) I AM not sure which is nastier to listen to, the repentant or the unre- pentant Nazi (or,...

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BY MORRIS GINSBERG A the beginning of the twentieth century there was wide agreement among representa- tive thinkers about the nature and possibilities of a general science of...

sociology is rising. This may be due less to any recent "whieveMents of sociologists than to extraneous (si reo _ [11 uances and the deficiencies of other sub- Wets. D...

l y p e d utleg ONE criterion for judging a social survey 1 11 whether it shakes or dislodges fixed ideas. IA does this elegantly and with economy, so rin the better. The...

'JUST forty years after his death the figure of Max Weber stands as a kind of great hovering Presence over the discipline of sociology, to say nothing of the broader...

Tradition and Change: A Study of Banbury. By Margaret Stacey. (O.U.P., 35s.) THE well-wishers of sociology in Great Britain would have it become the portraitist and instruc- tor...

Political Man. By Seymour Martin Lipset. (Heineniann, 30s.) OF all the areas of human behaviour, political behaviour, is one of the most amenable to the poweiful empirical...

The Unmarried Mother and Her Child. By Virginia Wimperis. (Allen and Unwin, 35s.) IN Britain today there are well over a million persons living in fatherless families—a figure...

THIS symposium contains papers read to a con- ference organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Institute of Race Relations. The worthy intention was to have a...

BY PHILIP LARKIN pinst alment of Mr. Betjeman's verse auto . - NE of the most striking passages in this first 4 ° Ri,raPhy* describes how, as a schoolboy in tcs I gngate he...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHAT a mess our economic policy has become! It is pathetic to think that Mr. Selwyn Lloyd can go blithely down to Liver- pool and tell their Society of...

A lThance. By Stendhal. Translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale. (The Merlin Press, 16s.) ‘ider. By Stendhal. Translated by H. R. L. Edwards. (The Merlin Press, 12s. 6d.) Sir,„...

By JOHN COLE T GAVE a talk a few weeks ago to a group of 1personnel managers in Scotland, and during the period for questions had the temerity to act as devil's advocate for...

y CUSTOS L nsiweek I could not have been more pessimistic and I hope some readers followed il lY advice to take some profits last Friday. I r epeat, 'the outlook for equities...

rT THIS is the 150th anniversary of Herrburger Brooks Limited, and the chairman, Mr. C. W. P. Hughes, is able to recommend—and jus- tifiably—a dividend of 15 per cent. The...

By KATHARINE WHITEHORN of the Executive at the Hall last week had some professional ; °Il lectio n with industry. Both types looked :, lera blY healthy (the only lot who looked...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON NOr so long ago con. scientious parents were worried about their child- ren acquiring 'the ideal bedtime companion. This was not an educa- tional...

THE news that the and Navy Stores 1. '! making a bid to take O w Gorringe's seemed souf how much more por ter , tous than the gobbling" of Harrods by that 1 113 11. r...

Interfauna By LESLIE ADRIAN EDIBLE luxuries nearly always make a good Christmas present. They also absolve the shopper of that perennial doubt about every gift from the...