by CHARLES FLETCHER-COOKE, MP

I N his end-of-term report this week Charles Fletcher-Cooke points with satisfaction to the amount of work that was done at Westminster— the institution, not the school—before...

went, taking with it at least seventy-one people, despite the new speed limits and repeated warnings to take care on the roads. Just before the holiday Mr. Marples announced...

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o much attention was given in the press to the appointment of the new Foreign Secretary that less than justice has been done to the man who, by his departure, precipitated the...

PARIS From DARSIE GILLIE T HE National Assembly is on holiday. Before separating, M. Debr6 gave them their home- work. They were to study the House of Com- mons. They would...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY T inquest on American foreign policy has lasted a good time now, but fortunately the coroner (whoever he may be) has not yet had to deliver a verdict. The...

From Our Correspondent D R. PALMA CARLOS, the defence lawyer for the eight Angolan leaders whose trial began on July 25 in the military court of Luanda, was stopped at Lisbon...

watch the end of the world— in an open collar. My father is furious.

O FTEN, as I look back on my early life and compare it with the lives of young people today, I am struck by the great differences be- tween my early life and the lives of young...

End of Term By CHARLES FLETCHER-COOKE, MP T HE Duke of Omni um went down to Gatherum foi a Saturday-to-Monday and n:ade his final list, hetped by the Duke of St. Bungay and...

The Best That Money Could Buy By QUENTIN CREWE M Y parents gave me the most expensive education England offers. They could do that for me, they said, and no more. Once it was...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE Russians are not the only opportunists trying to benefit from the eclipse of the United States. President de Gaulle, as seen from Bonn, is seizing...

(4) Chagga and Masai Masai—King of the Chagga—thc last of the Junkers—The Emergency. LI ROM Dodoma we drove north, blank bush on our right, hills on our left; a seedy track,...

RHODESIA, SALISBURY, UMTAL1, ZIMBABWE.

that first - hand experience of the Bantu is precisely what apartheid is designed to suppress? I don ' t. — Yours faithfully, 3 Lyndhurst Terrace, NW3 J. F. LEHIBRIDGF

confusion of thought has been caused by overlook - ing the basic fact that these ' Radionic ' and ` Radiasthesia ' boxes do not actually diagnose from the materials placed in...

M. Mainza Chona, T. R. M. Creighton The Schizoid State Margaret D. Budd, J. F. Lethbridge The Black Box H. Tudor Edmunds After Wolfenden Harry Thorpe Tourist in Africa A....

Mr. Creighton ' s article Congo Nerves on page 173 of July 29 issue. Had he omitted the last paragraph of it, any adverse comment from an African would have been inconceivable....

printed last week? It read Sir Edgar White - head is ' kept out of touch with the African masses by . . the incompetence of the capital ' s Native Affairs Department. ' Capital...

Sm, — Two things need to be said in answer to Mr. Allighan ' s argument about Bantu morals. The first is that he can have read or taken in very little anthro- pology or anything...

1 11,—I was not concerned in my letter to justify any extended meaning' of the Street Offences Act; but Merely to argue that the Divisional Court had quite reasonably held the...

it. I dealt specifically with the pro- grammes appended by Mr Glock to his arti hese Will be heard by a thousand times more petit than the Albert Hall can house. My statements...

Sus,—In his article Thr Export Pa/aver Nicholas Davenport states: It may be true that the British exporters are not taking enough advantage of their privileged position in the...

'a revered commissioner named Charles Douglas.' I presume that our expert means t he famous administrator and author, Sir. Charles Du ndas.—Yours faithfully. " University of...

SIR,—General Eisenhower last week challenged the Soviet Union to agree to the holding of free elec- tions to permit people everywhere, in every nation and every continent, to...

Slit•-1 wish Mr. Waugh had tasted what he describes 'a horrible mess of mealies.' The Swahilis are renowned for their cooking and their normal diet is cassava (a local variety...

S lk. — Pinfold may have been 'neither a soldier nor a regular soldier,' as my review said last week, but that was not how Mr. Waugh in fact described him : the quotation should...

The Message of Innocence CAIRNS By DAVID It is as if, to cover our discomfort, we had to invent loud lies about the work (such as that hoary old parrot-cry that the plot changed...

Essays in Recognition By ALAN BRIEN ONE of the least remarked, yet most remarkable, differences between a play and a film lies in the effect the audience has upon the players. I...

Historical Present By ISABEL QU1GLY IF you write about films for a popular daily they tell you (well, they told me) never to presume anything in your readers. Never suppose...

Original Crime By PETER FORSTER 'Om prisons are teeming, crammed with a great army of inmates.' The leaden mediocrity of phrase, the curiously toneless timbre of voice, so like...

No, No, Napoleon By CLIVE BARNES FEST IvAL Ballet's marathon summer season at the Festival Hall opened at a surly dog-trot the other week with the first London performance of...

Mark Twain and the Calm Squatter By DAN J AGOBSON T HE earliest known work by Samuel Clemens is a short sketch called The Dandy and the Squatter, written when Clemens was...

MR. WILSON has followed up his controversial Yeats and the Tradition with this study of five dance-plays and twelve related poems. The method he uses is similar to that of the...

pRIFFAULT was a Communist and The Mothers is, In one way, a gigantic exemplification of the evolutionary theories of Engels's The Origin of the Family; Briffault felt that the...

The Life of Beethoven By Alexander Thayer. (Centaur Press, 3 vols., 4 gns.) MOZART was one of the three greatest composers who ever lived. He also—at (for him) a quite advanced...

Fausto and Anna. By Carlo Cassola. Translated by Isabel Quigly. (Collins, 16s.) Insufficient Poppy might initially appear as an exotic Durrellesque flower in that it is set in...

ONE of the threats tha the famous writer must now face is the disciple who will sooner or later discover every hack piece he ever thought safely buried and triumphantly make a...

Some Men are Brothers. By D. J. Enright. (Chatto arid Windus, 10s. 6d.) Seeing is Believing. By Charles Tomlinson. (0.U.P., 12s. 6d.) THINKING of D. J. Enright's poems, one...

DAVENPORT By NICHOLAS As one of , the more outspoken and persistent of your predeces- indeed, unnecessary in a society of common- sensible people, Mr. Amory had the happy...

T HERE is a belief amongst investors that Great Universal Stores derive the majority of their Profits from hire-purchase contracts. As a matter of fact, less than 25 per cent....

Going For An Airing By KATHARINE WHITEHORN IN these days of swift and streamlined travel, when all efforts are con- centrated on merely con- veying one from A to B, it is...

Railway Fare By RAYMOND POSTGATE IT is almost impossible to collect enough evidence to deliver a ' genuinely satisfactory judgment on British railway food. Merely to acquire...

Demon Barbers By LESLIE ADRIAN THE battle for men's beards is on again. The wets (cut-throat and safety razor and blade manufacturers) are gird- ing themselves to fight off...

.”1 • • • THERE was a pronounced flavour of end of term about the last sale of the record- breaking season at Sotheby's, even to the unchecked chatter at the back of the room,...