The Deadly Parallel

already resale price maintenance. ln spite of the manipulated wrath of the Beaverbrook press, the British public shows little interest. Price-cutting supermarkets aban- doned...

T HERE is no political reality in Asia that 1 does not concern China . . . it is clear that France must be able to speak to China directly and • also be prepared to listen to...

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From DESMOND STEWART CAIRO I E Britain's policy towards East Africa has had jolts in the last few weeks, it is nothing to the shock in Cairo, which has shown its profundity by...

The Middle Way By DAVID WATT A YEAR ago today Harold Wilson topped the first ballot for the leadership of the Labour Party. A week later he decisively beat George Brown in...

By GEORGE NYANDORO W HAl we, the Africans Whose country is at present the British territory known as Southern Rhodesia, are seeking politically can be easily stated. We are...

From MURRAY KEMPTON WASHINGTON A A YOUNG lady from Texas was wishing aloud , h. the other night, less from spite than from ill-used sense of justice, that people would give...

By LORD MORRISON OF LAMBETH I SHALL never forget the dramatic occasion in the Labour Cabinet when the Prime Minister (Mr. C. R. Attlee) reported that the President of the...

By J. W. M. THOMPSON T HERE seemed something distinctly sheepish about the Guardian's transfer this week of its main editorial office from Cross Street, Man- chester, to Gray's...

By A. P. HERBERT following correspondence has passed: November 9, 1963 Dear Prime Minister, Very many congratulations! What a splendid show! May I venture a suggestion? 1. None...

Some people worry where real economic authority would rest if the Socialists won the general election, and the shadow struggle between MC Callaghan at the Treasury and Mr....

The curious affair of Ludovic Kennedy's un- successful attempt to obtain (at his own expense, and for a book which he is writing) a transcript of the Stephen Ward trial was...

free Labour Party political broadcast. Now the same week, protected by the programme was a gift for rama is the equivalent of a thing is being said of Mr. Wilson. What could be...

Very few organisations that concern them- selves with the developing countries, especially in Africa, can claim to be independent and suc- cessful. The Ariel Foundation, now...

Fortress Breached By R. A. CLINE U NT IL the recent decision in the House of Lords the trade unions have had it all their own way. They have become a fortress made almost...

By KEITH KYLE T ITERE were two revolutionary plots in Zanzi- bar, not one. Once this central fact is grasped, some of the apparent contradictions in the evi- dence sort...

made a mistake to think he can get out of it by being rude and irrelevant. He should be old enough to know by now that when you have made a mistake the most honourable and...

SIR, — I love the casualness with which Clive Barnes admits that he didn't bother to refer back to my article on ballet before attacking it. ('That:s probably not the exact...

out the nature of your contri- butor Randolph Churchill's gross impertinence in thinking any editor should be obliged to print his letter. It is surely quite bad enough that you...

Churchill, Martin Folkard Insults and Images , Kenneth Tynan The Cure for Crime Giles Play fair, Tom Iremonger, MP Me and My Girl Kate Wharton Vive la Difference' William...

SIR.—Friendship is a commodity so rare that we are anxious to withdraw the phrase 'sunk without trace' rather than risk any cooling of Mr. Lawrie's apparently warm feelings...

SI11,—To ask the question 'Do you think that Liberals are still gaining ground, losing ground, or holding their own?' is but asking one man for his opinion of the opinions of...

SIR,-1 should have to write an historical treatise, if I were to inform Miss Smith of all the proposals that have been made (or acted uponl for making produc- tive work, rather...

SIR,—Who has been rejecting Brand X? Some three years ago, I heard that some sporting manufacturer had indeed started to manufacture a liquid detergent called Brand X, and that...

SIR,—Bravo! I might have expected somebody like Dee Wells to support the out-of-date prejudices 'progressives' hold about boarding schools in this country. What I find most...

generosity. In my letter published on January 24 I did not support the allegation that the original £3,000,000 loan to the old British Lion Film Corpora- tion was 'sunk without...

employment of prisoners and you, sir, in your admirable leader on a national police force may be unwittingly fostering a dangerous popular heresy—namely, that crime is...

Probably Balfour was. The rest had specialist knowledge of special fields.' What about Attlee, Baldwin, Campbell-Bannerman, Lloyd George, or for that matter,. Sir Winston...

By IAN CAMERON EVERYTHING there is to say about the British Lion dispute and the film production crisis has now been said, apart from a few relevant but inherently libe 110 u s...

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. (Colum- bia; 'A' certificate.) `THE end of the world,' in the days when I heard the phrase bandied about,...

By DAVID PRYCE-JONES Anlorra. (N ational Theatre.)—The Fourth of June. (St. Martin's.) — Nights at - 60v4 the Comedy. (Com- (Oxford Playhouse.) THE story line of An- dorra is...

Ily CHARLES E OF three current revi- vals at Sadler's Wells— Carmen, Idomeneo and The Girl of the Golden West-1 attended Car- men on an 'ordinary' as distinct from an 'invita-...

THE fifteenth Young Con- temporaries show which closes in Suffolk Street this Saturday seems to me to have been unfairly slammed in responsible quarters. My impression at the...

The Psyche Unchained By M. R. RIDLEY T HE chapter headings of Miss Ward's books are an ominous warning to the wary reader of what he is in for—'Close to the Source,' 'The...

HERE at last is the English translation, good but not impeccable, of the second half of the author's Histoire de la Liberation de la France, which appeared in 1959. In spite of...

Fiction of the Forties. By Chester E. Eisinger. (University of Chicago Press, 59s. 6d.) Tradition and Dream : The English and Ameri- can Novel from the Twenties to Our Time. By...

ONE'S appreciation of unfamiliar sights is often conditioned either by a vulgar possessiveness or by that more refined, phenomenon of the sub- conscious, the need to 'identify...

The Last Years of British India. By Michael Edwardes. (Cassell, 25s.) Peking versus Delhi. By George N. Patterson. (Faber, 35s.) MR. EDWARDES says that in describing the last...

Pushkin : Selected Verse. With an introduction and prose translations by John Fennell. (Penguin, 7s. 6d.) NEARLY everything of importance that Dos- toievsky and Tolstoy ever...

Cowan's War : The Story of British Operations in the Baltic 1918-1920. By Geoffrey Ben- nett. (Collins, 30s.) SELDOM have so many problems been concen- trated in one area as...

there was a chip of a lady diamond Who said 'Twinkle twinkle,' And a chip of a gentleman diamond Who said 'Twinkle twinkle,' And when they were fused into one By a large...

NATHALIE SARRAIII Ifs three full-length novels have already been published here and the ap- pearance of Tropisms and The Age of Suspicion should clear up any last doubts about...

Before the Deluge 'Thu play was the last thing we ever did. . . . After that came the war.' This fairly gums up Martha Bacon's first novel, A Masque of Exile. The war is the...

By CUSTOS T HE further setback in equity share markets followed on the reappraisal of Mr. Wilson's tax proposals for company dividends. As one broker pointed out, assuming that...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT EVER since Mr. Harold Wilson made his speech at Swansea pledging dis- criminatory taxation of company profits—more on the go-ahead, successful companies...

By LOTHBURY.- A FINAL payment of 12 per cent from Grove- wood Securities increases the dividend from 15 per cent to 18 per cent for 1963. Profits have increased from £166,000...

By PHIL1DOR No. 164. C. W. SHEPPARD (First Prize, Good Companions, 1921) BLACK (8 men) WHITE (12 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No....

ACROSS I. Macbeth wasn't sure if he could see the point (6) 4. Get a boar, change it, and write it off (8) 10. State of net result? (7) 11. Squares in pairs (7) 12. I'm...

The Burning Question By LESLIE ADRIAN Of course, there are difficulties. There always are. It was legal, technical and vested-interest difficulties that slowed down legislation...

Grant. 11 Yesterday. 12 Readable. 13 Pieria. 15 Dodo. 16 Near. 17 Niece, 20 Venus. 21 Lute. 22 Ides. 24 Joshua. 26 Arrivals. 29 Nefertiti. 30 Drina. 31 Soso. 32 Pli*svright....

By ALAN BRIEN IT is sometimes said that if the ex-Communists or Britain could be ever re- activated they would form the largest party in the country. This dream of King Street...