R D ELIEF that President de Gaulle's waiting game worked—and worked far better than could have been expected, a week ago—is now changing to concern about the deeper implica-...

r , E.W people can have expected the Prime Minis- Where Mr. Macmillan did leave some doubt— and in the circumstances he could hardly have done anything else—was on what he...

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bottom and middle of Africa, on the edge of Arabia, at Belsen, Great Russell Street, all over the West End of London, at Lancaster House, in Trinidad, and even in Ireland. Not...

Denning told the House of Lords last wee , he was afraid to challenge police evidence because it would be unlikely to endear his client to the jury; now, counsel can attack the...

rrHERE is an old Kurdistan saying—or if there 1 isn't, there ought to be—that if you are anxious to borrow money you would be unwise to spit in the lender's eye. Underground...

Black Business MR. THOMAS E. BERGMAN is a thirty-nine-year-old journalist who is television critic of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, a paper he has served for the last four...

By GRACE SCOTT As Sir Roy Welensky said when introducing Mr. Macmillan to the crowds gathered in and around Salisbury's most modern cinema to hear him, Rhodesians were very glad...

By IAN GILMOUR Li AD the Americans considered, ' Sir Anthony rlasked Admiral Radford, ' the effect [of using force] on world opinion? ' Sir Anthony was refer - ring to the...

By JACK DONALDSON 111ROSPECTS in farming for those with capital r can be described today as excellent. The present level of support is not seriously questioned by the political...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS rr wo years ago all the scientists agreed that it I was possible to detect underground tests, just as one could admittedly detect tests in the air or...

By PAUL BLOOMFIELD D ESCENDED from three proconsular genera- tions of Stracheys; first cousin of Lytton Strachey and on his mother's side nephew of John Addington Symonds, St....

Embarrassment of Empire Critical Quarterly Scottish Poetry Shell-An g l e The Great Fortune Th e Wind and the Rain Stylistic s Loss of Face Johnston, John Allan May Sudhin...

will decide in the long run whether we shall have a boom or a recession? Motor-cars are the strongest and most consistent factor in demand. Manufacturing industry outside the...

SIR,—In Kipling's days out-of-fashion clothes and coaches used to be sent by slow boats to India where they found a ready market among the Bengalis. Nowadays, it seems outmoded...

a series of misrepresentations, I was praising it with certain reservations. To have left these out would surely have earned Mr. Coleman's irritation over 'defiant quixotry"?...

my review of Honour'd Shade. (1) Of course, Mr. Smith was not concealing his use of Yeats's 'The Great Day.' But my point was that Mr. Smith's poetry consisted mainly of rather...

SIR. —Mr. Bernard Levin was not quite right about the Hemingway incident, and his shell-angle theories in Madrid . . . at least about the result. Hemingway's theory that...

Debased Coinage By ALAN BRIEN The Lily White Boys. (Royal Court.) — The Beggar's Opera. (Questors, Ealing.) WHAT ever happened to the proletariat? The propertyless ones, who...

St St lt ,-- -Your comment on 'Loss of Face' (January 29) Is_ critical of the Admiralty for not making its new tirst Lord better known, but seems also to disparage fiord...

SIR,—When your reviewer, Mr. John Coleman, says of my new novel that 'a sense of direction—the why of a novel—is conspicuously, fatally absent,' I can- not help feeling that he,...

Wind and the Rain is to come to life once more not as a quarterly, but as a yearbook published from America and edited from London. It will continue to be 'A Review of the Arts...

columns as 'a pretentious peddler of "stylistics." ' Dr. Spitzer's finest essays appear never to have been translated out of the original German, which puts t hem out of reach...

The Small Savages By ISABEL QUIGLY a a High Wind in Jamaica (al- o _ though when I first read it, at - t: ° o an unsuitably early age, it struck me as a typical bit of adult...

Live Beats By PETER FORSTER THERE is a genius for making opportunities as well as for taking them, and considerable as are Kenneth Tynan's gifts in the latter respect, in the...

Bravo Bravura By CLIVE BARNES SOMETHING quite unexpectedly important has happened at Covent Garden, and it is called La Fille Ma! G ardee. The ballet, originally created in...

McCarthy BY EVELYN WA UGH I F Senator Joe McCarthy were alive today he would be fifty-one years old (or by his own false account fifty), an age at which politicians are...

The Status Seekers. By Vance Packard. (Longmans, 21s.) MR. VANCE PACKARD is not a sociologist, which means that some of his conclusions about con- temporary America are...

k(411:RT SOUTHEY is a writer whose reputation has become somewhat dimmed in the last 150 years, 11(1 it is not likely to get any brighter. However, In his Portuguese and French...

Francis Thompson. By J. C. Reid. (Routledge, 25s.) Tuts book is fascinating because Thompson is fascinating, with all the fascination of character produced to excess. Born in...

The Glory of Parliament. By Harry Boardman. (Allen and Unwin, 21s.) MANY years ago, my friend Taper and I used to sit of a night in the Brebis qui Tousse, sipping cup after...

Irwin Shaw. (Cape, 18s.) Camphor. By James Garford. (Faber, 15s.) FRANK TUOHY'S The Animal • Game was easily the best first novel to appear in 1957, showering rockets of promise...

and it lacks only the critical force of Joyce. Mr. Baines corrects hardy bio- j 1 r4 ,Phieal mistakes, some of them Conrad's own; hn na.s energetically added to existing...

intrigue and polite blackmail In classier parts of London between British diplo - matists and those of small South American re - public. Reasonable fascimile, in clipped and...

6d.) Four tough and rather over - described Sydney layabouts get together to tunne l into a bank and half a million quid. Quite exciting to watch whether they'll get the money...

6d.) Sort of young Londoner wh o lives in bed-sit., works in City office, is mildlY amorous, owns—but can hardly afford to run - : battered sports car and gets Written about in...

ACROSS.—I Romney. 4 Croupier. Vandal. 10 Catnaps. 12 Rhapsody. 13 Urchin. 15 Erin. 16 Designates. 19 Scholas. tie. 20 Grip. 23 Chorus. 25 Clarissa. 27 Bassinet. 28 Builth. 29...

'In tragic life, God wot, no villain need be.' The killer here is a psychological casualtY of the war; he brings death to a small Californian town, and drives those who love him...

The Face of the Tiger. By Ursula Curtiss. (6Yr e , and. Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) The familiar, and welcome, Curtiss combination of everyday setting (this time a rather tatty New...

ACROSS 1 This fussy worker blushes from side to side (6) 4 From Mars to me comes a little monkey! (8) 8 Ancient tribe of cricketers? (8) 10 Top-line appearance in the last...

By CUSTOS T HE equity market has been going through its first sizeable reaction since the start of the bull market in February, 1958. Each dip in the index has been slightly...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT SEVERAL of the bank chairmen had some rude things to say in their annual statements about Stock Exchange prices. Lord Aldenham, of the Westminster, with a...

By Our Industrial Correspondent I F there is a national railway strike on Sunday week, the responsibility can be widely shared. Already the simplifiers have decided that it is...

L LOYD'S PACKING WAREHOUSES. Last May the chairman, Sir Eric A. Carpenter, gave shareholders to understand that they might e c .xPect a profit (before tax) exceeding £1 million...

Semaine de Paris By KATHARINE WHITEHORN It must have been especially hard last week, since it rained in Paris most of the time: Paris women, dowdier than I had remembered,...

Overwrought Chippendale By KENNETH J. ROBINSON THE Earls Court Furniture Exhibition is a frightening affair. Every January more than 200 British manufacturers get together and...

WHAT does a wine-drink er drink when he isn't drinkin g wine? I have a liking for ice- cold lager beer, and for real fruit, freshly squeezed (why is t' it impossible to get...

A Chance to Complain By LESLIE ADRIAN The chairman of the Committee,, Mr. J. T. Molony, QC, has asked members of the public who wish to provide evidence to write, not later...