W HAT is the Commonwealth and what do we really want for it? Those are the two questions which the Commonwealth Prime Ministers must constantly brood upon during the next two...

Report to the UN, was repeating his belief in one nation, one vote, America and the Soviet Union shadow-boxed the world over and this time the West was seen to be doing more...

A WAKE or die—the Trades Union Congress this week has its future in its own hands alone, and the 1962 Blackpool conference will be remembered either for dragging the TUC groan-...

From SARAH GAINHAN I W E live and learn. When 1 was a girl , I-- with most of my countrymen—was sure the Germans ought to resist with force th e tyranny under which they lived...

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i s week, you may like to know that there is a comprehensive index to it, published twice a year The index costs 5s. each issue, and that for the six months January- Jane...

From CHANCHAL SARKAR NEW DELHI AN Asian would look at another Asian country . A . with an understanding quite different from a non-Asian's. An Indian, for instance, looking at...

I could see after only a brief encounter at a crowded cocktail party with C. D. Notley, who died last week, why he was such a force in his world. Good advertising was putting...

have flattered rather than offended Rintoul. But the entry for the following day shows Hunter's patience sadly strained: Came home at nine and was rather annoyed to have Mr....

Not for the first time Laurence Scott, managing director of the Guardian, has proved that a news- paper tycoon can still tell the truth. The paper which he read to the Economics...

TH E Prime Minister has been busy preparing he ground for the delicate discussions with his Commonwealth colleagues which begin on Mo nday. By that time he will have had long...

have noticed, not a little proud of our founder, first editor, and distant father-figure, the radical R. S. Rintoul of Dundee. Journalists are much of a muchness in some...

From JOHN COLE BLACKPOOL A TOTAL of 987 delegates have been meeting at Blackpool this week in the 94th Trades Union Congress, but only thirty-five of them really matter. More...

have been sitting in a cottage on the edge of Exmoor, high above the coils of dense foliage that screen the course of the Exe, and in that (for England) remote stronghold I...

By T. R. NI. CREIGHTON W HY. when delay is so dangerous, does Butler hedge? This was the question I heard most often from liberal Europeans and, sometimes in less polite...

By ALFRED SHERMAN el ASTRO himself has put an end to tiresome V./arguments about whether his regime was Communist, so one can begin right away with the question of what kind of...

well as understand- ' able, that I have never held a position of authority in the educational world. Faced with an experiment or a new process in teaching I find myself wholly...

Stu,—Concern about recent developments in Volun- tary Service Overseas is not of a kind that can be allayed by a conducted tour of the office. The Acting Director and his...

P. M. T. Sheldon-Williams, John Antony British Voluntary Service M. McCaw, E. F. G. Haig Thalidomide Babies Quentin de la Bedoyere The Ideal Editor Frank Singleton The Common...

privilege and pleasure of corresponding with some scores of volunteers all over the world. So I was partly amused and partly disgusted by the letter you printed from Mr. M. M....

or any other season. It is the Spectator, arm in arm with fellow-smearers the Mirror and the Mail, that wants to lead Britain into the backwater of Europe. Briefly, our...

eminent critics of Henry Fairlie as Graham Greene and Lord Boothby, but his current attack upon the Earl of Sandwich has at last brought my typewriter to the boil. May I, as one...

for denying the remedy of legal abortion to the mother of a thalidomide baby, It is the same argument whereby we can never assume the right to take innocent life without fear of...

Market meeting was the most vicious piece of woolly-minded democratic anti- democracy I have ever read. lithee Earl of Sandwich believes what he says, it would be to his...

to be working also in the field of public relations, .may I be allowed to reply briefly to Mr. Cyril Ray's diatribe against the latter? Able newspaperman though he is, Mr. Ray...

SI R , ` - What a pity Cyril Ray is not in public rela- ti ons. He seems such a natural for the trade, par- ticularly so far as the projection of the Ray image f ° es. Take his...

tions, I still appreciated Mr. C. D. Hamilton's picture of the ideal Editor. May I suggest that what he was writing about was the direction of newspapers. Besides the Editor,...

8111 ,—Mr. Correlli Barnett writes: 'For. Britain to t urn her back on Europe and European problems • • • would be an act of political blindness and Moral cowardice, etc. etc.'...

Afterwards By CLIFFORD HANLEY TT was well on towards midnight in the Festival 'Club bar, the dangerous time when the intel- lectual quips not only get louder and louder, but...

Package Deal CLIVE BARNES By As we know from their folk-dance troupes, the Yugoslays are born dancers and many have found prominent places in the ballet companies of the...

The Supreme Value By DAVID CAIRNS NIusicAux, the pattern of the Edinburgh Festival is now clear. The programmes are to be grouped round one primary and one secondary theme....

Niggards of Their Wealth B y BAMBER GASCOIGNE Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger. (Arts.)— Love's Labour's Lost. (Regent's Park.) THE plot of Hamlet was tradi- tional and...

Sick for Home By ISABEL QUIGLY No, it isn't the subject that makes a film, any more than it makes a painting or a poem. I was tempted to think that, with a subject as...

Mass, Might and Myth By IRIS MURDOCH alvi not the polymath who would be the ideal reviewer of this remarkable 'book. To deal adequately with Crowds and Power* one would have...

`No African in the Congo has ever had the slightest idea of rebelling against authority—par- ticularly against the high authorities. Is there any group of evohres who on their...

DON'T know whether Mr. John Williams, the author of this book, has ever been employed by the Beaverbrook press or not. He might well have been—his style has all the forceful...

Man and the Sun. By Jacquetta Hawkes. (Cresset, 30s.) Til ts book has already been tolerably we ll re- ceived. It's part popular science, part anthology, s e lective rather...

James Stephens : A Selection. Introduced by Lloyd Frankenberg. (Macmillan, 30s.) MY introduction to James Stephens's work came at a Dublin party , some years ago when a man...

The Prodigals. By Petru Dumitriu. (Collins, 25s.) The Trial of Callista Blake. By Edgar Pangborn. (Peter Davies, 21s.) BEFORE, during and after the wars which are their most...

THE career of Ouvrard, the Ivar Kreuger of the Revolution and the Empire, deserves a goodbook. This isn't it. Written by a German business - man, it has the faults of amateur...

By CUSTOS J UST when the gilt-edged market was really getting strong the Treasury, as usual, came out with a damper—a £500 million lap' issue of the long Treasury 51 per cent....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT MR. F. T, BLACKABY, the new editor of the economic review • £ of the National Institute of Economic and Social Re- £ search, is a man of much common...

R ECORD trading profits at £2.88 million against £2.56 million have been made by btternational Tea Co.'s Stores for the year ending April 28, 1962. A large increase in turnover...

Inspirations, Inc. By KATHARINE WHITEHORN THE history of invention is full of homely little anecdotes about Watt watching the kettle boil, Newton struck on the head by a...

Shopper's Choice By LESLIE ADRIAN How much can you save in ordinary, everyday shopping if you hunt for bargains, watch out for 'special offers' and go to a market in a poorer...