MONICA FURLONGG

Pr HE Prime Minister's decision to go to the I United Nations was wonderfully predict- able: hOw could he resist the opportunity to demonstrate those talents for diplomacy...

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11% C LOWNING CONTINUED at the United Nations, the Congo, through St. Pancras, up and down the Labour Party, round the American Presiden- t i a lelection, over Cape Canaveral...

'ITN HEY have tied me to a stake, I cannot fly'-- I Mr. Gaitskell must be telling himself, con- templating Scarborough—`but bear-like I must fight the course.' Some members of...

OST commentators appear to have awarded the first round to Senator Kennedy after the Presidential candidates' initial TV contest; but probably neither of them will get much...

I the problem of anxiety in young children. By the developed use of play-analysis, a technique I which she created, she was led to a number of important insi g hts into the...

1Pr ° 111 KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN pUTURE historians are going to look back on jus t this republican referendum campaign that is in finishing fini shing as the most absurd...

A LTHOUGH everyone is talking about her in Madrid, there seems to be very little to tell of Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, except that she is a thoroughly 'nice' girl, who has...

1. The Liberal Call By BERNARD LEVIN 'THE Left has nothing to Fear but Fcar itself.' With this strik- ing, albeit imbecile, slogan Mr. Jo Grimond sums up the argu- ment of his...

party conferences' is that they vicis hould rally supporters, provide the fai thful NE , „ith i a week of agreeable social intercourse by inesea, and make the best use of a...

Bastions of Privilege By R. A CLINE T un day before surrendering to his Labour supporters over the 1906 Trade Disputes Act, the Liberal Attorney-General had said that he could...

By MONICA FURLONG I MET someone last summer who remembered the old days at Harlow. She remembered the day they shot a thousand birds before lunch on the Arkwright estate, and...

been implicit in the writings of Ebenezer Howard, had been foreshadowed in the work of the Barlow Co Mmission and had been promised in the Ab ercrombie plan for Greater London...

The Board had appointed a General Manager, Mr. Eric Adams. Mr. Adams was a lawyer, working as Town Clerk of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington, and from the first time they...

Each housin g g roup would have its own shor pin g cent r e, community centre, branch library and health centre. But since no one could have much sense of belon g in g to a...

the Board was appointin g Frederick Gibberd to draw up the master plan of the new town. Durin g the early Thirties Gibberd had belon g ed io the revolution- ary g roup known as...

Gibberd was the first planner to give pre- eminence to pedestrians in the shopping centre of a town. This has been copied in other new towns and in Vallingby, the model suburb...

Writing about the town for the Architectural lorrnrai Gibberd gave a motorist's-eye view of the town From them [the main roads] a series of Pictures of the town are seen in...

The professional class of Harlow was recruited from all over the country and came there be- Broad Walk, Town Centre, looking towards Market Square, cause they chose to. They...

'Mixed development'—the phrase used by the Corporation in the early days of the town to describe a policy whereby rich and compara- tively poor lived together in the same...

Van dalism brings the town a certain amount of publicity—it is a favourite subject for visiting louthalists and television producers—but it is played down by the Corporation...

SIR,—In his note in reply to my letter about The Desert Generals last week, Christopher Sykes raises an important question of historical method. Though he concedes he does not...

in last week's issue would be hard to beat. But at least it is comforting to know that the priest who wanted to sweep all of us 'pleasant and civilised heretics' out of the way...

displeasure, the Church of England obstinately continues to believe itself part of the Church, without being arrogant enough to suppose itself the whole. I have made no attempt...

arising from a state of affairs in which the Western powers were the first to use tactical nuclear weapons would, I believe, be marked at the Staff College: Too good to be...

SIR.-1 have read with astonishment and incredulity Mr. A. R. Nicholson's contribution to this correspon- dence. Of course, our nuclear weapons are 'dirty.' And if ours weren't,...

Berlin Leonard Beaton The Limitations of NATO Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Lort-Phillips, Sir Stephen King-Hall The Desert Generals Correll Barnett Taking to the Bottle Elizabeth...

Sta,—In claiming that the plan for Berlin published under my name in the Guardian constitutes appease- ment, you are concerned only with appearances. The reality is that West...

I cannot allow her to disparage National Drie d Milk without protest. I have never used branded powdered milk; but I understand that National Dried is made under licence by at...

SIR,—Your dramatic critic evidently finds The Tiger and the Horse an unsatisfactory play, but is at a loss to know just what is wrong with it. Perhaps it is easier for those...

with her jeers at Spirit- ualism and Spiritualists in your September 23 issue, ought to have taken the elementary trouble to get her facts right. She parades her ignorance by...

S112,—I must apologise to Dr. Havard for a gross error in stating that he had suggested in his book The Detection of Secret Homicide that all deaths should be notified to the...

but when nonsense obtrudes reply is needed. It would have been wiser to check the fate of the National Dried Milk issued before condemning it so roundly. At the children's...

SIR,—If we survived death, said Miss Whitehorn- Spiritualists would be so much more chic Healing twice as effective Ghosts would be less of a clique 'Controls' would be...

SIR,—Among the criticisms in Mr. Hill's apprecia- tive review of my edition of Locke On Government is the reproach that less than justice is done to the rigorous analytic work...

Leapnian did not join the Times of Cyprus three or four years ago. Cer- tainly it 'consistently denounced the ill-conceived obstinacy of the Colonial Office' and rightly, but he...

Bald Statements By ISABEL QUIGLY Surprise Package. (Leic- ester Square Theatre.) —Too Hot to Handle. (Astoria.) IN something as full of faces as the cinema a new face—a...

Pullman diesel train travelling between London and Manchester? When I went up to Manchester on this train a f ew weeks ago I was agreeably surprised. I had an excelle nt meal...

Life in the Cave By ALAN BRIEN Billy Liar. (Cambridge.) —Once Upon a Mat- tress. (Adelphi.) Billy Liar has been widely described ' as a farce—if it were, it would be a very...

Decree of Nullity By PETER FORSTER OF all our important younger dramatists, John Whiting is the least rooted in time and place —in fact, standing at the opposite extreme to...

Foreign Lessons By DAVID CAIRNS IT is tempting to use the visit of foreign musicians to England as a stick with which to beat our own. It is a temptation that should not be re-...

The Toy Raj By RONALD BRYDEN S 1 AMFORD RAFFLES died a disappointed man. He had extended India to the Malacca Strait, almost to the bounds of her old empire whose heirs built...

APART from the three ex-Prime Ministers (only two of whom can feel any sense of rounded achievement), Lord Morrison has more reason than any other retired British politician to...

Penguins Progress. (Penguin Books, 2s. 6d.) PENGUIN BOOKS are celebrating their twenty-fifth birthday and have issued this booklet to mark the occasion. They started in 1935...

A History of the Nursing Profession. By Brian Abel-Smith. (Heinemann, 30s.) T HIS book shows that if women had built the empire they would not have let it go. They seldom have...

Coming of Age. By Babette Deutsch. (O.U.P., 15s.) MR. RICHARD EBERHART is a poet who has al- ways baffled me with his strange mixture of power and clumsiness. Not that there is...

The Custard Boys. By John Rae. (Hart-Davis, The Chinese Love Pavilion. By Paul Scott. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 18s.) The Blinding Light. By Heinrich Schirmbeck. (Collins, 21s.)...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IF the St. Pancras rioters had marched on White- hall and, after being joined by the ex-overtime motor workers and har- angued by Sir Patrick Hennesiy, the...

By CUSTOS S ome excellent company reports—still out- numbering the bad ones—could not pull the equity share markets out of their reactionary phase. A bear market in Wall Street...

By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Of all consumer trades, cosmetics probably depend the most on advertising, suggestion, pre- sentation, gimmicks, human gullibility and gulf. The new cream...

Riding the Yo-Yo By GAVIN LYALL I WAS complaining, in private, some time ago that the British motor industry seemed to be making no effort to catch up with home demand; seemed...

with a strange mixture of pride and irritation that I heard the other day that I am about to become smokeless. It is, obviously, going to be the greatest possible nuisance to...

If this is the popular papers' idea of showing their sympathy for the young and innocent vic- tim of a truly shocking tragedy, they might have considered how Miss Herbert might...