LSTA13L1SHED 1828 No. 6693 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1956 PRICE 9d.

T HE theme of this year's Labour Party Conference has been unity. Left, right, and centre have shared the same platitudes; the trade union horse has done its best to lie down...

W ITH the delivery last Monday of sixteen tons of documents to the Central Electricity Authority headquarters in London from the four nuclear energy groups in British in-...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE New York CHANCED to be travelling with Vice-President Nixon last I week when he addressed himself to the race question in the South. He had several times...

Lines addressed to all critics of the proposed new road through Christ Church Meadows. Come stifle now the loud complaint And exercise some small restraint! Know that this plan...

T HE Suez crisis has been in abeyance this week despite the Prime Minister's visit to Paris and the third London conference to decide upon the actual form of Mr. Dulles's Users'...

BY CHARLES CURRAN T HE Labour Party has decided to think with its blood. Outside its Blackpool Conference Hall this week was a Keir Hardie exhibition. The delegates resolved to...

THE BLAST wave was disappointing, no stronger than the wind from London's underground that strikes one in the strbet.--The Times, September 28. I WATCHED . . . staggered by the...

by Hugo O'Hear (Hollis and Carter, Is.): 'It is a pity God did not create Karl Marx before he created the world: if he had, he might have used a better system.' PHAROS

LABOUR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT often carry naivety about what goes on in foreign countries to a point which is inexcus- able in practising politicians. One of the worst instances...

the current issue of the Italian review Ulisse, which is entirely devoted to a study of 'England Today.' The various articles in this special number, which I haven't yet seen,...

uneasy about the course which commercial television has taken; and I am not reassured by Sir Kenneth Clark's apologia on the occasion of the publication of the Independent...

mine who knows that part of the world that the memory of Genghiz Khan is still green (or should it be red?) in the Inner Mongolian autono- mous region. The bier of the conqueror...

BY ANGUS MAUDE, MP I 4 HAVE tried hard to understand it,' a non-political Conservative said to me not long ago. tut I just can't grasp what the devil the Government think...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS W E are often told these days that, if we would save the East from chaos and Communism, then the most pressing need of the hour is for investment in the...

By SIR ERIC JAMES* W HATEVER their other faults, teachers have no excuse for complacency. It is probably good for us that a variety of critics should remind us of our...

BY H. MONTGOMERY HYDE. MP I FOUND Sir Max Beerbohm sitting at a table in a pleasant vine-covered corner of his garden. He was dressed in a grey check suit of distinctive...

BY ROBERT HANCOCK E VERY alternate Wednesday for the last four years, regular readers of The Times have had, on page one. under the heading 'Church Restorations,' a 600-700-...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I HAVE good news on the chain-store front. One of the scandals which called The Georgian Group of the SPAB into existence in 1937 was Woolworths. That firm had...

EEN correspondents wanted among non-Marxist atheists interested in philosophy, ethics, psychology, languages. Special interest—pure mathematics. Write in Spanish, French or...

SIR, —There is something rather ludicrous, impertinent and dishonest about Mr. Charles Curran's efforts to divert attention from his own atavism over Suez by charging cooler...

Oxford Divided T. C. W. &intim Suez P. R. Lane Brechteffekt Aloysius C. Pepper Sydney Smith T. D. M. Martin Country-House Theatricals Hugh Gregor Suburbanity Graham HoUgh OXFORD...

Silt,—As an enthusiastic Sydneyite, I can sym- pathise with Mr. Peter Quenncll's hyperbole in his review of Selected Letters of Sydney Stnith—'Only two men are on record as hav-...

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SIR,—I have read with interest the comments of the English critics on the occasion of the visit of the Berliner Ensemble. In their differences of opinion on the merits of...

supposes. In 1953 I took part in a performance of The Importance of Being Earnest in a country house in Co. Londonderry. We had intended to stage the play out of doors, but...

SIR,—The point of Mr. Betjeman's suburban drooling frequently escapes me: I am particu- larly baffled by his antithesis (in 'City and Suburban,' September 21) between a...

Good and Evil I WONDER whether the Government, Mr. Gaitskell, Sir Kenneth Clark and the noble lords who thought man must needs choose the highest when he sees it, really...

ELECTRA. By Jean Giraudoux. (Oxford Play- house.)—THE VARIETY THEATRE OF CHINA. (Princes.) IT would have been a great pity if the Oxford Playhouse which, in the old days,...

OCTOBER 8, 1831 THERE is a report current, to which we hesitate to give implicit belief, that the King, annoyed beyond endurance by the persecution of those about him, is...

ROSSINI once complained that Beethoven was too inclined to give the listener a mighty thump in the ribs. There are many who would agree, many who find that the big orchestral...

THE new season has opened with a barrage of interesting exhibitions, all of which deserve far more than summary view. First two dead artists, the Frenchman Albert Gleizes (Marl-...

THE LOWEST CRIME. (Berkeley.)—DoN CAMILLO'S LAST ROUND and DOUBLE DESTINY. (Paris-Pullman.) MY heart uncooperatively sank on hearing that The Lowest Crime was, as indeed it...

The Young Visionary BY PETER QUENNELL T HE vast majority of Ruskin's present-day readers are either elderly or middle-aged. To the generation that has grown up since the war he...

BY ALAN BULLOCK N O department of State in our time has been more exposed to criticism than the Foreign Office. The heads of the indictment are familiar enough, have been indeed...

ALL the memoirs of George Moore have been malicious, including his own: here we have,.one that is a record of unbroken affection lasting for over thirty years. Nancy Cunard...

THOMAS MANN: The Mediation of Art. By R. Hinton Thomas. (Clarendon Pres, 25s.) 1914 Thomas Mann, middle-class litterateur of Mitteleuropa, bestriding the Americas too by virtue...

THE REASON OF STATE and THE GREATNESS OF CITIES. BY GIOVANNI BOTERO was a dismissed Jesuit who had a minor political career in the employment of Italian princes. He published...

MAzziNi. By Gaetano Salvemini. (Cape, 18s,) THE thoughts and enterprise of Mazzini illustrate in a nineteenth- century idiom more than one plausible generalisation about human...

RECENT ARC-DEC/LOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BRITAIN. Edited by R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 42s.) WE have in recent years had many books popularising the methods...

Russell. (George Allen and Unwin, los.) 'ON reaching the age of eighty it is reasonable to suppose that the hulk of one's work is done, and that what remains to do will be of...

MORE COMIC AND CURIOUS VERSE. Selected by J. M. Cohen. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) !:1 - is a pity in a way that (as can readily be guessed) the 'curious' in the title of this...

Louis XV. By G. P Gooch. (Longmans, 25s.) DR. Gooch has spent a long life in the service of historica l scholarship, and few historians are more skilled than he in making the...

P iEcE, OF CAKE. By Geolf Taylor. (Peter Davies, 15s.) QUITE a long time ago now. Those children in cradles, that so m any of us in battledress worried about, are now on...

HAUNTED HOUSES. By Joseph Braddock. (Batsford, 21s.) IN his preface the author explains that 'writers must seek to enter ; • tain'; and quotes, 'Unless they please they are not...

T HE HEART HAS ITS REASONS. By the Duchess of Windsor. (Michael Joseph, 30s.) WHEN I was young enough to know better I used to moon over t he photographs of Mrs. Simpson in some...

I PASSED FOR WHITE. By Reba Lee. As told to Mary Hasting s Bradley. (Peter Davies, 15s.) CALL ME COWARD. By Colonel Eugene Dollmann. (William Ki nv ber, 18s.) OF these four...

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS. By J. M. Allegro. (Pelican Books, 3s. 6d.) I NSTEAD of the conventional white and blue of the Pelican books, the dust-cover of Mr. Allegro's recent little...

LO KAMANYA TILAIC. By D. V. Tahmankar. (John Murray, 21s.) TAHMANKAR'S workmanlike biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who may partly be described as the father of Indian...

BEDOUIN COMMAND. By Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Young. (William Kimber, 21s.) LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PETER YOUNG, than whom no more truly Elizabethan character exists today, has a...

FOR A KING'S LOVE. By Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia. (OdhamS Press, 21s.) EVER since Alphonse Daudet wrote his famous book Rois en Exil, which was about the last reigning King...

FOOD. VOLUME II. STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL. (History of the Second World War.) By R. J. Hammond. (H.M. Stationery Office and Longmans, Green and Co., 1956, 50s.)...

ONCE you have read a few novels, it becomes rare to meet a com- pletely new way of life in fiction, an outlook that strikes you as genuinely surprising. We have all .of us lived...

and while what I hope is the final assault of the pests continues, I must hasten to thank more than a dozen people who have written me about the treatment of wasp nests. It is...

There are, I imagine, few men who cannot recall having played conkers. I regularly caught the fever when the season came round in my boyhood, and had all sorts of ideas on how...

By PHILIDOR No, 70. G. H. GOETHART WHITE ( to men) solution next week. * It is a great temptation, and a dangerous weakness, to try to make more of an advantage than the...

9 Noised, H) Marathon. 12 Mulberry. 13 Citron, 15 Nail. 16 Accomplice, 1) Free for all, 20 Apes. 23 Double, 25 Triphone. 27 Lancegay. 28 Hipped, 29 Rarities. 30 Gerund. -...

Clamping potatoes is, generally speaking' less satisfactory than storage indoors. Ripeness is decided by the state of the haulm and the firm setting of the skin of the potato....

By IAN NIALL Local_ controversies vary in intensity as well as in their area, and we are in the midst of one now that embraces not the adjoining parish, but a more distant city....

Show opens on October 1 7 ' Competitors are invited to submit advet' tisements for insertion in either the popular or the technical press for a model ( 01 models, but not more...

R. Peddy The Chairman of the American Rocket Society has produced a 'Constitution ?! Space Travel' ('The earth ship should be invited to land by any living beings the" I may be...

SPECTATOR COMP Report by The usual prize of six guineas was offered anthology, Now We Are Sixty-Six, on the for contributions to a highly improl able lines of A A. Milne's Nov....

ACROSS 1 She burned and loved and sung (6). 4 Advertising chaps should be expert in interplanetary travel (8). 9 Hesitant yes, after all (6). 10 Downy little beds they...