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since the invention of the motor car' was the result of Monday's one-day token strike by railwaymen on the Underground and on British Railways Southern Region. Mr. Gunter, the...

I N theory, the Government's latest prescription to lead the nation back to economic health is unexceptionable. The era of the pay pause (the first, negative phase of the...

No. 6971 Established FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1828 1962

THE situation in Metropolitan France will I soon come to a crisis. Neither of the parties to the present struggle, the OAS or the French Government, can afford to let it...

'THE. paralysis with which London was seized on Monday carries a number -of lessons. It underlines the clumsiness of the Govern- ment in general, and Mr. Marples in particular,...

By JOHN COLE S HOULD the awards 'of any arbitration tribunal be binding? As the railway dispute crawls towards a crisis, the role of the Railway Staff National Tribunal is' seen...

From JOHN LAMBERT STRASBOURG a t I N the event of a third world war, I don't believe in any neutrality, neither Austrian, for Swedish nor Swiss,' declared the eloquent...

By ROBERT A. MANNERS* A ntr■si a background of mounting political slander and an alarming increase in inter- tribal hostility, Mr. Reginald Maudling will meet on February 14...

Probate Divorce and Admiralty By IL A. CLINE T HE death of Lord Merriman a fortnight ago was in some ways the end of an era. He had presided over the Probate, Divorce and Ad-...

By KENNETH MACKENZIE R. VERWOERD has a primitive's belief in the magic of words. A few years ago he decided to remove all the ill-feeling about passes by the simple expedient...

By GWYN THOMAS L AST autumn's poll on the Sunday opening of pubs in Wales showed us the map of rejec- tion plain. The entire South-East, the crowded valleys and the coastal...

C. Wilkins Advertising and People J. H. Butterfield Suggestio Falsi Margaret Knight. Valerie Myer In Ferment Darsie Gi!lie Petty Pilfering A nne Scott-James OAS—FLN Lord...

regrettably the advertising business so far has chosen to take up a pretty defensive attitude. It has been heartening, therefore, to note that the defence so far quoted in your...

Sin,—Lord Shackleton says that he and his fellow script-writer were not responsible for certain mis- leading abbreviated quotations from Nansen's diaries that appeared in the...

the medical profes- sion to Captain W. P. Knowles's pulmonary panacea. In the •field of medical treatment it is for the innovator himself to produce the initial scientific...

at the William Andrews Clarke Memorial Library in Hollywood is held the MS of The Importance of Being Earnest. When I visited the Manuscript Room of the British Museum in 1960 1...

that Nansen did not believe in God, for he showed by his actions what it was to be a true Christian.' If I, as an Englishwoman, approve of the way Nansen carried on. does that...

me that the four French officers on trial in Cairo for espionage and plotting to murder Presi- dent Nasser should at the worst be called 'alleged spies' until they have had a...

issue you reported that 'in Algiers and Oran thirty-one Europeans and Moslems were killed, and seventy wounded, by European grenade-throwers and torrimy-gunners': shocking...

SIR,—I am writing an article on Cognac and wondered whether any of your readers can tell me where on earth Napoleon comes into this galley. True, he did spend his last night on...

SIR,—When we read Monica Furlong's letter last week we, too, were fascinated. We searched our minds and our records to discover why we were sending material to someone who so...

Sur,--Two points. First, if Bernard Levin's sanity is worth 3s. 6d., spend it on a Pelican, Riddles in Mathematics by Eugene P. Northrop. The Matches Game is explained on pp....

other people's property, especially with that of poor old British Railways. Your leader-writer, discussing British Railways' report on thefts for 1961, says of certain items,...

Partial Eclipse By DAVID CAIRNS The inadequacies of the revival do not come directly from Covent Garden's perennial difficul- ties, lack of money and lack of rehearsal space...

All About Adam By PETER FORS] ER SPEAKIN . as an ex-teenager, I wish to say we all fink a lot abaht religion. We also fink a lot abaht bints and pools and the palais; but...

Bad Dream By BAMBER GASCOIGNE A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Royal Court.) A Midsummer Night's Dream ends with amateur theatricals; Tony Richardson's new pro- duction begins with...

Martha By CLIVE BARNES NEAR the end of Fokine's Memoirs of a Ballet Master there is a gloomy chapter en- titled 'The Fight against the Modern Dance.' Most of it is 4...

Deepest Sympathy By ISABEL QUIGLY Day Shall Dawn. (Everyman.) —Hungry for Love. (Conti- n ent ale.)—Lover Come Back. (Odeon, Leicester Square).— The Ninth Circle and Blood and...

1688 And All That BY BERNARD LEVIN O NCE upon a time, as I sat with sharpened pencil and opened notebook in a lecture= room at the London School of Economics, the door opened...

WHEN Dag Hammarskjold first appeared at United Nations Headquarters he found the scene turbulent with FBI agents still hoping to detect in every recruit that pink glow which was...

THE great value of Albert Luthuli's auto- biography comes neither out of its style, which is flat, nor the events it describes, which are history, nor even the signposts it...

So far as I have been able to judge, this able (and admirably translated) book has been damned with faint praise by the majority of English reviewers; and the reason is not far...

Simon de Montfort. By Margaret Wade Labarge. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 30s.) THE writing of mediaeval biography promises to become a major activity. To recently published lives...

Three Eighteenth Century Figures. By Bonamy Dobree. (O.U.P., 30s.) BONAMY DOBREE'S Three Eighteenth Century Figures is a collection of three long essays which were first...

The Non-existent Knight. By Italo Calvino. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. (Collins, 16s.) Sources of Unrest. By Peter Vansittart. (Bodley Head, 15s.) The Conscience of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Turn public should not be sur- prised when business tycoons, cheered on by their banker seconds, start fighting one an- other without gloves. The...

By CUSTOS A TER the sharp setback last week the equity markets remain in a very cautious mood, as they should be in the face of the most dan- gerous labour situation seen for...

for the year ended October 31, 1961. Shareholders were warned by the chairman last June that provisions for bad debts, together with exceptional losses in- curred by their...

By ELIZAB ETH DAVID Mr butcher tells me that he's been dealt a few brickbats following the Christmas and New Year freezing spell. Customers, finding their joints half- frozen...

Trading Stamps By LESLIE ADRIAN YET another weapon laid to the hand of the retailer in these cut- price, cut-throat times is the trading stamp. For some reason, having operated...

for the Sunday Tele- graph—the three posh Sundays all made front, page news of y the official obliteration of the names of Molotov,'Voroshilov, Kaganovich and Malenkov from the...