`If you are to have a parliamentary administration, the conditions antece- dent are that you should have a Government which declares the prin- ciples on which its policy is...

'Is there no way to preserve him [Mr Grimond] for the benefit of the nation as a whole?'—Mrs Regy Reynold in a letter to The Times. It surely would be very nice If Grimond...

say this fellow Roebuck was involved,' said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat dozing in front of a speech by Mr Anthony Barber. 'Tell me, what kind of man is he?' I described the...

By SIMON CLEMENTS T HE future of Malta, it seems, no longer even hangs in the balance. The British government is preparing the way for the navy to keep only a few essential...

MR K's VISIT From DEV MURARKA MOSCOW c visitcs in Moscow say that Mr Kosy g in is going to London only to forestall more of those dramatic dashes of Mr Wilson to Moscow....

EUROPE From MARC ULLMANN PARIS Thus Mr Wilson has a simple choice: either he can g ive up any idea of ne g otiatin g chan g es and make up his mind to accept the rules of the...

AMERICA From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK T HE publication of William C. Bullitt's and Sigmund Freud's Thomas Woodrow Wilson* has been stonily received here. The psychiatrists,...

EDUCATION From BRYAN WILSON BERKELEY The disquiet at Berkeley has festered for more than two years, and has taken on the character of a state and even a national political...

HE controversy over the Government's pre- budgetary kite-flying about family allowances is becoming dangerously removed from common sense. The motive behind ministers'...

MEDICINE TODAY By JOHN ROWAN WILSON O NE of the remarkable features of medicine in the last two decades has been the oppor- tunity it has given us to watch evolution while it...

By J. ENOCH POWELL, MP The great 'East of Suez' controversy, if not quite attaining the grade of a non-event, has turned out to be remarkably narrow. When Britain has quitted...

February 2. 1867 If proof were wanting of President Johnson's deficiency in political sagacity,—which unfortu- nately it is not,—it could not be better illus- trated than by...

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TELEVISION By STUART HOOD ' T SHOULD dearly like to know how many people sat through the entire four and a half hours on the Kennedy assassination which took up all Sunday...

AFTERTHOUGHT By JOHN WELLS Tim great delight, of course, of beginning with a title like that is that nobody, has a very clear idea what it means, and that, according to the...

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it China. 12 Trisected. 13 Raman. £5 Noisome. 17 Pedants. rp Passive. 21 Totem-pole. 23 ann. 24 Spoon. 25 Rheostats. a6 Chestnut Mem DOWN.-2 Nullified. 3 Koala. 4 Cake tin. 5...

article 'Literature and Censorship'; but the way it dots so is psychologically interesting. Why does he need to bring in 'sexual ex- cesses and perversions' or the notion that...

SIR,—Mr Hugh Ross Williamson, an ex-Anglican clergyman, like so many converts from what he would call Protestanism to the Roman obedience, is plus royalism que le roi (Letters,...

SIR,—Those who have not had the advantage of reading the Warren Report might be forgiven for supposing that Mr R. A. Cline (January 27) would not mislead them as to its...

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SIR,—When my husband, who is a physician, has a patient whose complaint is due to wrong diet he pre- scribes a change of diet Complaints such as con- stipation, skin trouble....

Snt,—The arrogance of Mr Martin Seymour-Smith's article 'Literature and Censorship' (January 20) almost diverts attention from the weaknesses in his argument Throughout the...

last one sees the point in this con- troversy. ELIZABETH HARE Redcross Lane, Cambridge

From: David Summers, Canon Howard Dobson, The Yen C. Witton-Davies, Elizabeth Hare, A. W. B. Simpson, Keith Macklin, Martin Sey- mour-Smith. Meg Dougal, Richard Rose, Evelyn...

SIR,—You ask in your Notebook (January 27) if there is 'any other cliché that is so consistently used today to signify the very reverse of what it should mean.' Surely the prime...

SIR, —Dr Sisson's argument that the great Englisbi translators wrote in a contemporary idiom brought to my mind a sort of odi et atno in a popular song of the late 'twenties :...

SIR, —There has been much comment recently in your columns upon relations within industry and your readers may be interested to learn that an Institute of Industrial Relations...

SIR, — I am presently writing, and assembling data for, a book on Mantric Poetry. This will include sections on the use of hallucinogenic and stupor- inducing drugs as aids to...

SIR, —In his article about Malcolm Lowry (January 20), Anthony Burgess suggests that Under the Vol- cano was translated into Dutch immediately after the book's first appearance...

SIR, —From reading accounts of what the Econo- mist Intelligence Unit is reported to have said, one would derive the impression that what a news- paper writes is not of much...

SIR, —It is a little hard for a translator whose work has been so highly praised as that of Mr Graham Snell to be blamed for a misprint. Your reviewer, who devoted a generous...

No. 32o. H. W. BETTMANN (1st Prize, Good Companions, 1918) WHITS to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 319 (Sparke) : Q - B 5, threat Q-Q 3. t....

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FLOODS LAST Sunday night, the Apollo Society arranged an evening at the Haymarket in aid of the Italian Art and Archives Rescue Fund, which now stands .at some £120,000. Nearly...

By RONALD HINGLEY Russian poetry from that of the English- speaking outstanding features distinguish modern speaking countries. The first is that poetry cuts a wider swathe in...

IX In the Casino Ballroom, The judges disagree —Some leading local ladies: Dai Evans: a JP— On picking Miss Glamorgan (West) 1963. 'No, Mr Wynne—on poise, now, Miss Clydach...

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DR NORTHEDGE has written the first large-scale study of British foreign policy in the inter-war years to achieve academic stature. His theme is the decline of Britain from the...

By SIMON RAVEN M UGGERIDGE silent' was what one contribu- tor to the SPECTATOR New Year Symposium desired for 1967. How well we know the feeling. Like the Children of Israel,...

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By CUSTOS T HE outstanding feature of the stock markets this week has been the announcement of two new Government loans, £400 million of 61 per cent Exchequer Loan, 1972 and...

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