by Desmond Donnelly

No. 6897 Established 1828 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1960

M NKRUMAH'S decision to impose press censorship is even less justified than Mrs. Bandaranaike's. Mrs. B is a political innocent: her advisers can htt've had little difficulty in...

D RESUMABLY with the idea of preserving r Western unity and strengthening Western resolution, there has long been a tendency to accept unquestioningly the argument that though...

Hazza Magali, with a number of Jordan Foreign Office officials, was killed by time bombs in Amman. King Hussein said that he believed the bombs had been meant for him, that the...

RITISH drug triumph,' Express headlines IDObellowed last week : 'Hospital danger will be removed'; and the writer, the ineffable Chap- man Pincher, went on to describe how...

“T'HEIR purpose,' says Sir Alan Herbert of Crown commissions and committees, in his pamphlet Anything But Action? (Institute of Economic Affairs, 3s. 6d.), 'is to advise and...

A RECENT 'Fund for the Republic' project was to set Norman St. John-Stevas to write a report on the subject of birth control; and it has now been published in America. It is...

From • RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK W E are at the start of a lively and perhaps useful debate on .public opinion polls. It was touched off by the publication, on August 1 7,...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP THE real significance of the great Russia- ' China clash is that it is not new. Basically it is the same argument that has gone on between the two...

p RESIDENT of the Republic, President of the Community, these two titles have so far buttressed one another. President de Gaulle could not be President of the Community if he...

By PETER FaRSTER 7 - BELIEVE in three things,' remarked my lunch 'hostess in Georgia earlier this year, an elderly lady of immense charm, 'Segregation, the Mon- roe Doctrine,...

By OLIVER STEWART A the Farnborough Air Show next week, the public will get its first glimpse of the curious package which Mr. Duncan Sandys has handed to Mr. Petir ....

SIR, - I think many would agree that the touches of violence in such a film as Ben-Hur give the audience of that film sadistic responses which they had better be without. These...

SIR.—As one of the correspondents covering the Powers trial, of whom Mr. Bernard Levin has been good enough to say that we ' did as good a job as the circumstances allowed, '...

unintentionally, a dang er ously false picture of NATO today. NATO armies are increasingly being armed with tactical nuclear weapons (atomic artillery, atomic 1 1 1 /Mlars . and...

State: Kenya ' (Spectator, August 19) is rather difficult to follow. The author seems to think that the execution of Poole was an act of injustice committed for reasons of race...

Art and Eros Reasons of State: Kenya South Africa I srael Bank Pensioners lialegh or Essex? Brave New Underworld Rider Haggard Food Labels ramisashing H. Montgomery Hyde D....

SIR,—Mr. Randolph Vigne, in his letter of August 26, implies that multi-racialisn. as visualised •by the Progressive Party of South Africa would be used as 'a cover for...

SIR,—I can think of nothing to add to my previous reply to Jon Kimche's plaint about my allegedly improper review of his book. I think I have given the only answer, and if it...

SIR,—Leslie Adrian might take a look at some British exports, as relabelled to meet the require - ments of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act. I recall buying a package...

SIR,—Christopher Hill contends that Sir Walter Ralegh 'is the most forward-looking of the Elizabethans' (June 24). But, as I have argued ('Essex and Liberalism,' in PQ 1945;...

the Spectator of August 19 the note by your contributor Custos on the prosperity of the banks. As a sep- tuagenarian pensioner I and others of my generation arc far from sharing...

SIR,—It seems to me that your contributor Neal Ascherson may have made a slight misstatement in his article 'He' when he asserts that Rider Haggard after his second novel The...

announced very firmly that 'Ladies Are Not Admitted,' and I am glad to learn from Mr. Kenneth Allsop's letter that this reactionary and obscurantist sex-discrimi- nation is the...

Playing Truant By ALAN BRIEN Beyond the Fringe. The Seagull. Romulus the Great. Mary Stuart in Scotland. (Edinburgh Festival.) A TRADMON seems to be growing up at the Edin-...

Up and Down By PETER FORSTER FINDING myself last weekend in Dieppe (by far the best southerly seaside resort served direct by British Railways) I sought out a television set...

of Prom concerts given by the Liverpool Orchestra has shown Mr. Clock's pro- gramme-building at its most crafty and imagina- tive. Only one of the Stravinsky's Symphony ;n Three...

The Princess and the Showmen By CLIVE BARNES It would not have been surprising if the new three-act American ballet, The Princess, at the Strand Theatre, had followed this...

Nights Out in the Thirties BY HUGH GORDON PORTEUS n EMINISCENCES of the recent past seldom rise ,,,much above the level of the gossip column. They are apt to invest with a...

Or Mr. Yeats & Mr. Logue You're committed, Mr. Logue, So you think? Others were not, Mr. Logue? So to what, Mr. Logue, So to what? Uncommitted Old Yeats Gets no first in...

'Neighbour, neighbour, don't forget: Thirty shillings due tomorrow!' Fate and Mammon rule us yet, In the midst of life we are in debt, Here to pay and gone to borrow. How and...

I heard you in the next room singing: The notes were you: 'With gaiety and lightness she runs up,' I thought, 'a delicate newel stair, And hovers there, and hovers there.' I...

A London Childhood. By Angela Rodaway. (Batsford, 15s.) T H ERE are so many apparently good reasons for writing an autobiography. As for instance: novels are so seldom truthful,...

Sleep Long My Love. By Hi (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) Hillary Waug Wearing . . ., published seven yea of the landmarks among twe American crime-novels—a quiet, pletely enthralling...

Translated by Meredith Weatherby. (Peter Owen, 18s.) A Treasonable Growth. By Ronald Blythe. (MacGibbon and Kee, 18s.) `IN fact, I must own that both of our two expedi- tions...

who writes travel books, I beg leave to abandOn the pen-name I plucked out of thin air many years ago, for crime-novel reviewing only, when Mr. Pym was probably still in the...

cut to a familiar pattern, of th e man who murdered Stanley Setty, cut up his bod y, threw it out of an aeroplane and was convicted only as an accessory, and who now doe s life...

The Facts about Nixon. By William Costello. (Hutchinson, 25s.) THE great thing about Mr. Macmillan is that he writes his own speeches. Indeed, it is not easy to think of...

Murder is committed in the course of a bibulous, amorous Irish country - house party. Nigel Fitzgerald is very good at drawing-room comedy, not so good at methods of and motives...

is beautifully printed, well and wittily wiil ° ( t hough Mr. Hale is a little too free and ionagined conversations between real people, careless in his spelling of proper...

observations o n what a he Ne w York District Attorney does, and how does it, with some mildly melodramatised 'illustrative incidents, told in almost incoherently „ urgid...

Edinburgh. By Eric Linklater. (Islewnes, 25s.) ONCE again the trains have taken their freight of critics to the Edinburgh Festival and the critics have lifted up their sad eyes...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Cinema attendances in this country have now dropped below the annual rate of 600 million, a lower level than any of the experts had expected, for it is...

b isan of off-guard tendrc et souise " r f oolish of women to abandon la Robe , CheMise, ela llY Englishwomen with their long backs and bend serpentine- 4 4 ," ogures look best...

By CUSTOS T HE index of industrial shares (now on l y per cent. below its January peak) is li , no t true measure of Stock Exchange activity . recent weeks the most active...

By STANLEY HYMAN T HE Government's current campaign to stimu- late exports is based on the assumption that a large number of small firms in this country are capable of trading...

rP, ..te n ct ic4 A as " b e k „ WN AYS, well known as constructional all 6: - gineers, steel stockholders and erectors of 4 tisC d t s of steel work, have had a busy and e...

The Hand of the Potter By MONICA FURLONG EVERY generation has its own mystique of Child- care. That of our mothers' generation cen- tred upon the bizarre feeding notions of...

Pity the Poor Roadsows By KATHARINE WHITEHORN But even those women who almost never drive taxis have a hard enough time just being women drivers. There have been a number of...

Slick Chicks By LESLIE ADRIAN When it comes to birds and beasts, it is the other way round; life is shortened instead of over-prolonged. But flavour fares no better. The nation...

LANCASHIRE at Lord's once moved Francis Thompson to poetry: he'd have had a job on this week, with 'Yorkshire Clinch the Title' on the evening-paper bills opposite the synagogue...

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