all over Eng- land : last Thursday Mr. Macmillan announced. plans for a National Incomes Commission. As Yet unnamed public-spirited men will inquire into key wage claims,...

T HE debate in the House of Commons on the European Economic Community, in the absence of Mr. Heath and the imminence of resumed negotiations in Brussels, was not merely Hamlet...

way in which the Royal Shakespeare Com- pany is being forced to abandon its London expansion after hardly two years is a striking monument to all official bumbledom, and par-...

From Our Common Markel Correspondent BRUSSELS ttE only people who were able to derive I much satisfaction from last week's proceed- ings in the Common Market negotiations have...

By CHANCHAL SARKAR NEW DELHI N EWS from Ladakh is almost as remote - sounding as news from Tartary but there are factors other than distance which help to create confusion....

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN TT is now a truism that Marx and Engels would 'reject everything that is happening and has recently happened; that they would deny that events since...

You might he unable to buy the Spectator when you go on holiday, as newsagents do not carry surplus stock. To make sure of receiving your Spectator send us your holiday address...

FAIRLIE By HENRY E VERYONE is asking the Government—even some members of the Government arc ask- ing the Government—to give the country a sense of purpose. This sense of purpose...

By JOHN COLE r rtits could be the most interesting and poten- t tially fruitful year for industrial relations since the war. The agenda for the annual Trades Union Congress in...

Given time, one can prepare oneself gradually for the full splendours of Southend. After Had - leigh Castle there is Leigh: the demurely spread- ing dormitory above, the fishing...

E VEN the strongest must falter. In Brussels last Friday when the negotiations had ground themselves into gloom, and the room was thick with stale smoke, and papers spilled off...

First there is Hadleigh Castle, guardian of the western marches. On a bluff east of Benfleet, set among smooth mounds of the grass which specialises in cloaking ruins, squat the...

Celebrating August Bank Holiday in ad - vance, I renewed my acquaintance with Southend-on-Sea. This was chiefly because in a conversation with a number of professional ex- perts...

the glum barracks of Shoeburyness, through fields of blonde corn on the way to Foulness, until a War Department policeman stopped me. 'Where are you going?' To the sea wall.'...

East Enders is still robust and that Southend has not moved too abruptly out of its former character. Here we slosh on the ketchup, brown or red, and enjoy chips with...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP A ND what a term it has been! Was it only jeighteen months ago that every commentator was busily forecasting twenty years of unbroken Tory rule? Somehow...

day, and sedate Chalkwell. and the thin beaches of Westcliff, and found the last vacant parking space on the front just west of Southend's prodigious pier. Three or four years...

Competition in the British Market By RICHARD BAILEY W HAT are the effects of Britain joinin g the EEC likely to be in the home market? This is the piece of the whole European...

SIR. — In Brian Moore's interesting review of Mary McCarthy. in the second paragraph, appear two errors which it is rather surprising that you passed. He refers to Miss...

failed to get service for her Kenwood mixer, having been directed to Kenwood s works at Havant, Hamp- shire. As a matter of fact, Kenwood have a very efficient service...

SI R, — I note with distress and shame that by some sudden loss of memory. I accused one of the con- tributors to The Right in France of not knowing what a 'Halm do midi' means....

year: one for young writers under the age of nineteen on January 1. 1963. and the other for anyone who has not yet published a book of verse. Prizes range from £15 to f5. Would...

SIR,--Respeet for the memory of Richard Alding- ton, whose death has been announced since Christopher Sykes reviewed the recent Letters to T. E. Lawrence, need not prevent my...

SIR, — The reply to your correspondents Chambers and Canning was anticipated some twenty-five years ago by the first Earl Wavell, FM, who wrote: He will always have his...

Paying for Education 101111 Wightwu•k Mrs. Beatrice Jackson The Lawrence Myth G. Wren Himmel. f ratios Watson Riau(' du Midi Prot, sour D. W. Brogan US Passport W. D. Paden...

Mr. Fairlie would not make it t " Pulsory for the below-average child? The intel- ,eetual snobbery that advocates extra years of bore- d om for those without scholastic aptitude...

American Quartet Uncle Vanya. (Chichester.) No one, 1 imagine, has ever liked a revue while disliking the performers. However sharp the content of the sketches, those two old...

The New Rambert By CLIVE BARNES FOR as long as I can remem- ber, the Ballet Rambert has been underprivileged. Its back was almost broken by patronis- ing pats about its past,...

Jungle Story By ISABEL QUIGLY The Lion. (Leicester Square Theatre.) IF you take two people who look like human beings and strike you as being people and make you mind what...

Wall of Death By DAVID CAIRNS THE whole question how to make good music available to the general public is vet'y much in the air, what with the perfor- mance of the...

New Map of Hell By RONALD BRYDEN T tus side of Auschwitz, we can no longer shudder at the statistics of the Middle P assage. Historians of slavery estimate that, in the two...

Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions. By THIS is a translation of a brief work that was published in 1939, and it is an excellent thing that it has appeared. It is of...

Equitable Assurances. By Maurice Edward Ogborn. (Allen and Unwin. 42s.) EACH day the Stock Exchange is open, the assets of British insurance companies increase by over two...

Robin Fedden and James Morris. Of these, F. D. Ommanney's book will perhaps give most pleasure to the average armchair traveller, since it is such a curious mixture of easily...

Mirror of Minds. By Geoffrey Bullough. (Ath- lone Press, 35s.) 'IN man nature and life somehow go beyond themselves; in him they lose their innocence. They acquire mind—and mind...

The News from Karachi. By William Wood. (Gollancz, 15s.) HENRY DE MONTHERLANT'S The Dream was first published in 1922, when its author was twenty - six. Like most first novels,...

c.LRIAINiy among the best of the month's books 1S th is field is Banking on Death (Gollancz, t s.), and surprisingly its author is a woman, I Thna Lathen. I say surprisingly...

SMITH'S POTATO CRISPS HIGH POTATO COSTS AFFECT PROFITS THE Thirty-third Ordinary General Meeting of Smith's Potato Crisps Limited was held on August 1 in London. Mr. F. Le...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE significant day was last Friday. If the City was ever to show confidence in the new Chancellor and in his ability and willingness to re-expand the...

A. J. WAIT (HOLDINGS) LTD. (Builders, Shop Fitters and Joinery Manufacturers) ANOTHER RECORD YEAR THE 6th annual general meeting of A. J. Wait (Holdings) Ltd. was held on July...

LETHENTY TEA ESTATES WEATHER AFFECTS CROP THE 64th Annual General Meeting of The Lethenty Tea Estates Association, Ltd., was held on July 31 in London, Mr. G. S. Napier-Ford,...

(M anufacturers of "Halo” and "Tango" Hair Nets, Laces, etc.) Ttjr ,5th annual general meeting of the Byard 9 1, eturing Co. Ltd., was e on July 76 . in . ill'Nottinghant. Mrs....

By CUSTOS ( "r HE cause of the setback this week was not 1 Mr. Macmillan, but the threat of a break- down in the Common Market negotiations. This makes for great uncertainty,...

EMU WOOL INDUSTRIES LIMITED GRATIFYING PROGRESS OF BRANDED PRODUCTS T iHi 14th annual general meeting was held on July 26 in London. In his circulated address, Mr. Neville...

W. J. SIMMS, SONS AND COOKE, D. ANOTHER YEAR OF SUCCESSFUL TRADING BOARD'S PROGRESSIVE POLICY LARGE VOLUME OF CONTRACTS AND ORDERS IN HAND MR. H. W. W. SIMMS ON DECADE OF...

IR Philip Warter, chairman of Associated a British Pictures, gave a rather gloomy interim report forecasting lower profits for the year end- ing March 31, 1962. The preliminary...

The True Emulsion By ELIZABETH DAVID Wins the mayonnaise season in full blast, once more the familiar complaints about bottled mayonnaise and salad creams are heard in the...

By LESLIE ADRIAN THE Molony Report (herein- after known as the no-bolts- from-the-Blue Book) is 330 pages long, weighs about 1 lb. and costs 18s. It cannot be de- scribed by any...

By CYRIL RAY You would never think it, to look at the two of them, but Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on- the-Naze are already adminis- tratively, if not sociologically, one—an urban...