T RADITIONALLY, the press here is wary of com- mitting itself to a decided preference between rival Presidential candidates in the United States. There is a feeling almost of...

speech, made promises (or threats) of nigher pensions, tidied-up licensing laws, and a ‘V a harder s and Measures Act that might make it rd for shopkeepers to cheat their...

T HE fact that the two Hounslow youths are to be executed next week unless a reprieve is granted is a fair reflection of the absurdity of the Homicide Law as it now stands. They...

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THE ministerial reshuffle provides further I proof, if proof were needed, of the Prime Minister's vision in the matter of appointments. He is clearly wise to insist that he...

From CONRAD HOLLINGER WELLINGTON, r41 N . ZEALAND staggers under an unequalled incubus of restrictive legislation on liquor— and staggers is the word. The public drunkenness...

full-colour art cover, will be published on November 25. Readers wish- ing to have a copy sent to friends should send their instructions and 2s. 4d., which will include postage...

By BERNARD LEVIN 'Sim and arse,' said Mr. Mervyn Griffiths-Jones, QC, 'six times apiece.' This unwonted meticu- lousness was something that we were to hear a lot more of before...

From ANTHONY HARTLEY PARIS A the intersection of the Rue des Ecoles with the Boulevard St. Michel the demon- stration did not look very formidable. Perhaps the crowds on the...

From IAN GILMOUR LOS ANOI L° N IXON has lost the campaign, but he may yet win the election. For the sake of clarity and out of traditional respect for ceremonial, journalists...

Where it is Always Noon By BRIAN INGLIS T HEY wanted to show us what Italian industry has been doing; the ten-day tour included a glimpse of everything from offshoots of Monte-...

Alastair A. McInnes, Renee Haynes, R. A. Oakshott, S. Webster-Jones 'La Commedia Umana' Robert Ponsonby lam a Pornographer' Maurice Girodias Israel Erskine B. Childers Mr. G...

'Fringe Medicine' I note that he states that a total of thirty-live men and women are currently studying at the British School of Osteopathy. • The correct total is fifty-two,...

intelligent, so frequently babble irration- ally on matters pertaining to medicine? Your support for what Mr. Geoffrey Murray terms 'fringe medicine' is singularly uncritical....

Murray's article (osteopathic sec- tion) of your issue of October 28? He states that the younger school of osteopaths 'are keen to align osteopathic practice with orthodox...

very much, but I think he has forgotten one factor leading to self-treatment. It is the saving of time. To buy something for your cold/cough/constipation at the chemist takes...

to Mr. Murray for the balanced approach to and report of Christian Science as it is affected by the National Health Service. It accurately presents our point of view and does...

of your columns for the following comments on Kenneth Allsop's article 'I am a Pornographer'? Henry Miller's Tropics were not circulated during the German occupation of France....

SIR,—I have just read your ballet critic's article ('Inhuman Comedy') on Massine's La Commedia Umana, given at the Edinburgh Festival in Septem- ber—an article which seems to me...

SIR,—Your readers can , judge ho- - Mr. Kimell e or I—has 'wandered far afield.' In my last letter l had to quote plain English to clear up one of N I !' Kimchc's curious...

lar News Chronicle readers received a copy of the Daily Mail without a 'by your leave.' Notwithstanding the fact that most newsagents ask for a week's notice when a customer...

SIR,—May a footnote be added to Cyril Ray's 'Postscript' on press releases? A press release is intended to provide accurate facts and sometimes to put an editor on the track of...

that I told Mr. Gaitskell to his face that I hate him. I have never said this to Mr. Gaitskell's face or behind his back. I can think of a few reasons for criticising Mr....

S tk.—We learn from experience, yes. But isn't that c ivilisation which distinguishes us from the beasts largely dependent on our language? Aren't there, in that language,...

men of the News Chronicle who were Hubert Phillips's colleagues. May I add the names of three who wrote regularly for the Saturday Page in the 1920s—F. W. Thomas, a man of a...

By ISABEL QUIGLY Saturday Night and Sun- day Morning, (War- ner.) — London Film Festival. (National Film Theatre.) THE truth is a slap in the eye to some people and I think...

Court Scene By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Political Theatre—Yes or No? (Royal Court.)— Abelard and Heloise. (Arts.) EVERYONE agrees that the Royal Court has recently contributed more to...

Cool and Shook-Up By CLIVE BARNES THE far-off days of dance, dance, dance, pretty lady, were nearly ended by Agnes de Mille in Okla- homa! From then on dancing took an ever-...

Punch at the Critics By PETER FORSTER Ma. J. B. BOOTHROYD, the humorist, wrote to the Times the other day to complain that Late Extra, A-R's late-night magazine programme in...

Romantic Manifesto By DAVID CAIRNS AN excellent aspect of the non-establishment character of the new regime at the BBC is its championship of Berlioz, a traditional object of...

The Minister and His Gods By DOUGLAS COOPER MONO intellectuals who have played a role in nkshaping the thought and destiny of tw entieth-century Man, Monsieur Andre Mal- r aux...

the East, 'in the mood of the pil g rim,' to fi nd out whether it could o ff er any answers to our Western 'perplexities and dead-locked problems.' Inolndia he investi g ated...

ONE of these essays; written without the least attempt to disguise the author's encyclopaedic cast of mind, is about psychology, and re- proaches modern practitioners for their...

Storyboard. By John Bowen. (Faber, 15s.) PHILIP CALLOW is our only real Lawrentian. Parts of his latest novel—and it is a novel of Parts, scenes strung together across the...

REMARKABLE though it was, Dorothy Macardle's The Irish Republic had one obvious disadvan- tage: Miss Macardle was a fervent de Valera supporter. An impartial study of 'the...

Kennedy or Nixon. By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Macmillan, New York, 13s. 6d.) THE New Yorker recently carried a cartoon showing a campaign committee room of the Presidential...

By VISCOUNT T HE Pool of London, stretching eastward for some two miles below London Bridge, is one of the most historic reaches of the River Thames. 'Is very name may well be...

By CHARLES CROOT E VERY Thursday, at a little before noon, a man rises from a conference table in the heart of the City of London, and walks across a room to open the inner of...

C. GROVER* By ANTHONY D ETWEEN 1652 and 1708, shortly after the LI Restoration, the coffee house had become an established institution. One such house was that of Edward Lloyd...

By LOUIS WULFF U r and up go the gleaming buildings of the post-war City of London, carving a new skyline of concrete and glass rectangles high above the irregular, haphazard...

By RICHARD BAILEY EFORE this year's party conferences are D forgotten, it is worth taking a look at what was said by the assembled delegates and repre- sentatives about Europe,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT TINKERING with the very big problem which confronts him Mr. Lloyd has reduced Bank rate from 6 per cent. to 5/ per cent. He hastened to tell the Institute...

By CUSTOS O NCE again the equity share markets have been sustained by good dividend payments. Although the signs of a trade recession multiply, the market is not likely to come...

S IR LEONARD PATON, chairman of Harriso n° and Crosfield, was a little cautious last Ye ar in forecasting the results for 1959-60. Profits fo r the year ended June 30 have...

Against the Poor By KATHARINE WHITEHORN PEOPLE of liberal opin- ions find it easy to pregnancy caused on a fourteen-year-old girl by rape, that established in case law the...

Beefeating By LESLIE ADRIAN Peter Evans, the young originator of steak houses and managing director of two restaurants which bear his name in Soho and Kensington, believes...

Design Prevention By GAVIN LYALL MR. GEORGE ROMNEY is the president of Ameri- can Motors, the man who a few years ago (and before Detroit ever took the idea seriously) intro-...

I APOLOGISE for return- ing to the—to some— tedious subject of public relations: I hope. never to have to do so again. But Mr. Roger Wim- bush's letter last week, and Mr. Eric...