David Rees Mortimer Wheeler . Spectator

of Intent. The United States declared that Communism should spread no further in Southern Asia, Mr. George Brown declared a limit to rising incomes. and Mr. Ian Smith declared...

WROTE my first editorial in tribute to the Ilate President Kennedy. Probably it was bad . journalism, for his murder was no longer news. Yet the tragedy of it filled my mind and...

Friday December 31 1905

Exit Everyman STUART HOOD writes: Richard Dimbleby was one of the few men who, having made their names as radio commentators or correspondents—often in the trials and dangers...

SOVIET UNION Split To Stay DEV MURARKA writes from Moscow: If not a declaration of war, Moscow has at least come close to a declaration of her inde- pendence of Peking. Such...

Spectator's Notebook NIGEL LAWSON A New Short Story GRAHAM GREENE One year's subscription to the 'Spectator: £315s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and Eire. By...

Cut-price Journalism CHARLES CURRAN writes: Britain enjoys a cut-price press. Its readers pay about half the cost of producing it. The other half comes from its advertisers....

The hour of our fate is approaching. We greet the trumpets of doom.—President Nkrumah. Little black brothers, little black brothers, You have such a let to remark. Could you...

Predictions for the Year 1966 By ALAN WATKINS (With acknowledgments to the late Isaac Bickerstall) ANUARY. In this Month Mr. lain Macleod is J praised for his Moderation by...

How Free Is Our Speech? By R. A. CLIME I N a country like ours which has unflaggingly attached the highest constitutional importance to freedom of speech one would expect that...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK P ROFESSOR SCHLESINGER'S memoir of his 1,000 days with President Kennedy has turned out not merely popular but almost venerated. No one seems to...

The Death of Quoodle Q DOODLE was a bitch. In my editorial will I have left a request that no witty com- ments on this undoubted fact should be pub- lished. We know .from G. K....

Going into Business By COLIN MACINNES TN 1931, I set sail for England from Australia, Iseventeen years old, covered with pimples, and equipped with three scholarships to the...

An Open and Urgent Appeal to All Male Novelists . By SIMON RAVEN G ENTLEMEN, As a novelist (of a sort) like yourselves, I find that during the last year my digestion has been...

has merely hardened the resolution of Rhodesians, including non- RE supporters, to withstand Mr. Wilson at any cost. The pseudo-legal blocking of Rhodesian overseas bank...

SH1,—I am intrigued by your political commentator's assessment of the six best speakers in the Com- mons and I am naturally gratified to see you your- self so well up on the...

From : Lord Fisher of Lambeth, P. H. Canham, Robert Dolling, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sir lock Campbell, Paul Williams, Peter Wyndham, Kenneth Mackenzie, Francis F. Stunt, R....

SIR,—I am flattered that Mr. Alan Watkins should now say (December 24) that the Monday Club is 'a highly reputable body,' for this had not been my impression of his initial...

SIR,—Referring to Strix's 'Fixed Abode' (Decem- ber 24): My deductions convincingly show, With a fine alphabetical flow, That his house must be M— If his village is N— And his...

SIR,—Mr. E. M. Milne, who tells us that the use of terms like 'Redeemer' and 'Messiah,' as applicable to Kwame Nkrumah, is a slur devised by reactionary Western newspapers, is...

SIR,—I am disturbed at the strange complacency of Mr. Alfred Sherman's review of Writers and Politics by Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien. Mr. Sherman's allegation of 'left-wing double...

a colonial issue, but he has had at a swipe at me and I must defend myself. 1 was one of those who recently, in a letter to The Times, 'dilated on the strength of moderate white...

Old Allegiance and New Bondage By ISABEL QUIGLY Lain - el and Hardy's Laughing Twenties, (Ritz, 'U' certificate.) — Thunderball. (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'A' certificate.) A...

SIR,—May I comment on some of Strix's points con- cerning Boot's route, lest wrong inferences be drawn from them? First, a path made and used by Boot alone would not be a...

SIR,—In your issue dated December 10, 1965, Leslie Adrian in his article headed 'Bitter Sweet' referred to the Wisconsin tests in which rats were fed on calcium cyclamate. This...

the other point of view, from Mr. David Ellis, who by reason of his Hebrew scholarship is well fitted to reply to Mr. John Allegro. Mr. Ellis is not oge of those so despised by...

SIR, —The Columbia University Press, or the Spectator proofreaders, are to be congratulated on a refreshing display of self-abasement. Advertisers are seldom so candid as to...

A Russian Christmas N OT only have the Russians invented the steam engine, the telephone and nearly everything else, it seems, from the ballet offer- ings this Yuletide, that...

An ideal Husband. (Strand.)—Babes in the Wood. (Palladium.)—Twang! (Shaftesbury.) AT the Strand a second instalment of Mt. Peter IABridge's scheme unfolds. Late Wilde follows...

Funderbirds T HE first few minutes of Thunderbirds (ATV —6.35 p.m. Saturdays) is taken up with yells of recognition as the rockets and space ships, their code numbers blazoned...