Tea without Sympathy ITlhe Phoeniix Ifour. Ivy SuEra liI atirick. ( Abe'lh rd-S iuniman, 13s. (d.) A I I-indli; of' Time. By Helen I oley. (IH odder :inid Stoulghtoln,...

SIR, * -AnyonC who, in a letterC, uses thC words 'the lollowing facts are undeniable,' presents me with a tcpttation 1 cannot resist. Let me try denying them. Undeniable fact...

PER ARI)DUA AD . . . ? SIR,--NIi-. John EdlF l tells us what the advent of the Skybolt ~will 111cin whelln it Comes into Ilse wi ii tile V-1om 1)CI S SO doilg he joilnS thoSe...

FIRST TERM SIR,---l cannot let one of I r. Collier's criticisms of public schools pass unopposed, since these may have givcn the muistakcn impiession that the faults existing...

SIit, It is a plity that Mr. ji:mn In-gliss article 'Iirst 'T1-if is 'ciildered unconvIl incinig through inconsistcndies. I-Ic nitntions top hats. and new boys wearing I[ton...

(I IRIS'I'-NIAS:'; OR 1K 1X-.NlkSS? SI R,---As usual, the pagil ca nlivajI thallIt ILondon (Christ mas has become is tilling the aireadldy b-iIStliug shops with dithering...

Siit, MI rs. 1u riong says, 'The (Churchi of England held at ICr inception, and hlaeS held in hcr brighitcr moments si neC, that its bishops are in the Catholic succession,...

SHARI, MY CHALICE, SIR,---II1 repl!y to Monica Fturlong's fist poilt in her letter of November 24, 1 think the signatories of the original letter arc not lsking for more than...

SIR,--Julian CritchlCy's apologisa for tihe (ecision to join Europe just will not do; the cliche that politics is the art of the possible is the unhallowed refuge of the timid...

Lqual but Unique E(Itialify tied Excellence. By Daniel Jenkills. I (S.C. M. P'rcss, 21 s.) I KNOW less than I should about the (:hristian Frolnticr Council, and I have not...

D)ON'T OUTSTAY YOUR INCOME Sii,--l hope I am not too late to congratulate both you and Derek Barton upon the article from his pen that appeared in your issue of November 17...

USISESi o 9'AS I INA K IiK I Can le:ave it to your ica drs to judge MIr. (ilioilllS (lisa1vowalls, since they cffel vel t' cililfr Wh1tll I said ill the. first placu. ilt I...

A MINISIRY OF TOURISM? SI,- Inspired by the Ubiquitousness of handsome French Railways posters in the French classrooms of Americaii schools, my sister, a teacher of English in...

SIR,-At tho end of his article on Chamberlain Brian I Inglis implies that the situation at the time of Munich is similar to that prevailing now; and that, in order to avoid...

IELIPrIIONE CALLS Sift,--Leslie Adrian's complaint about wasted expense onl timed tclephone calls to private switchboards is aipt, but a technical solution seems impossible....

AI'PPEAASEMIENT 'ITSEN AND NOW SliR--Mr. Inglis, in his perceptive review of Mr. NI4ICteod'S CUrious book Otl Nevillc Chamberlain, seems to havc been somewhat puzzled by the...

SIR,- I was very disappointed to see the facetious and telelltiotLs wa.y in which Constantine FitzGibbon dealt with Bertlrand Russell's books on the nuclear question, in, the...

Doctor in Dearth 'C' NSIIIO )N of' ;111 tilhe lactorl has elonvinced the tGovenen lit' tile spekre~lc is LordI NceVtoIn, answerilng for the (iovernniCt iII the debate on the...

Moment of liTrlth B\slailill,> 111:tt he£ h1;1d I)'C'1 1 II - Mrist sll['e B 193S3. and 1(tl IIC hld to keCep hi.S b 'liCi'S litddevll I'1'0111 tile Ctlha1;ll pevople...

To India's Coral Strand I. ivingstone's iMissionary Correspondence 18I41- 1 I _ __1856. Editcd by 1. Sclapcra. (Chalio, 42s.) I Christianily in a Revolutionary Age. Vol. 3:...

HoIbsoni's Choice Is Moral Re-Armarnent, then, all harni ? No, I think not. Th1C fUll-tiMC workers SpCeld a certain amount of their tinic in visiting thc scenes of induLstrial,...

Sin and Suede Shoes So much iahiv'efC is obviously bad for those who adopt it, even if it merely turns them into harmless cranks. But there is another aspect of MRA which it is...

Name-Dropping Ihere is another sense in which Moral Re- Armament seems particularly medieval-in its famIIoLIs and fanatical love of names. The M RA magazine consists almost...

Investment Notes By CUSTOS T HIE week in markets shows Lip once again the investment advantage g dur, ing a deflationary 'down' period in holding 'defcnsive' conIsuLmrer...

Company Notes SAMUEL OSBORN produced unexpectedly good results for the year to July 31, 1961. The steel industry generally is not working to capacity, but this company, with...

Action Now T E time has COm11C for the Communl11Ilists to be 1shown that they cannot get away any longer With their racketeer-control of the Electrical irades Union. By fraud,...

Westminster Conmnmentary Grallochs By BERNARI) LEVIN T E I -ouble with IlliSSinlg QuLestionll ie is taIlt YOU mliss things like this: 2. M r. Marcus Kimball (Gainsborough):...

Birth of a Nation A Match to Fire the Thiames. By Ann Stafford. (1-Idd0CIer a1d Stouglton, 21s.) 'II IS IS tlhe Story Of the famo110uS London dock strike of' 1889), which...

French Canada From I NIIRIA NI CHAPIN MNON I RAI. oF R more than a yeal Quebec has talked Findependence. Newspapers arc full of discussions, mectings overflow, slogans...

The Mind of MRA it B BANI it ER It C A S C 0 I G N E' Ti oL mui ((tIllIll'9tS have realised that they cdln win the wiorl(l 1)by exploitiing the inintmoralily of the West. They...

Official Intent Since thie (COlmutnllliSIS FIre uIsilln the WeSt'S amorallldity, thie Surest answer to COmImIunLIlliSml1 is to strengtlheni the Wcst's morals. And ihis can only...

Kremlin and Galilean Religion in the Soviet Union. By Walter Kolarz. (Macmillan, 50s.) God and the Soviets. Bv C. de Giunwald. Translated by G. J. Robinson-Paskevskv....

Funny, Ha-Ha Signs of the Times, 1939-1961. By Osbert Lan- castcr. (John MuNlay, 21s.) The Explainers. By Jules F cifter. (Collins, l2s. 6d.) I Said Oddly, Diddlc I? By...

Half-way House Japanese Inn. By Oliver Statler. . (Secker a6 Warburg, 35s.) OlIVER STATLIER is an American JapanoPhile who so far has been best known for his b°ok on modern...

WAITING FOR FOUCHET Wi have heard a great deal lately about the YCovernmilent's detcrmination to prevent Commoniwealth ties being weakened by Britain's adhesion to the Common...

K Portrait of the Week7 IIGIFFING, BROKEZ OUT1 AGAIN betwccrl United Nations and Katangan forces, not before Dr. Conor O'Brien, who had been UN rcpresentative iln Katanga,...

Pantonime Wooing tlitabe)dII anid Leicester. By 'liz.abeth Jenkins. (Gollancz, 2ls.) story of Elizabeth and ILeicester invites selnsational treatment. Even at the time there...

'Unworthy Allegations' By FRANCIS NOEL-BAKER, MP XIRAORDINARY and irresponsible . . . unIEjustificd and derogatory remarks . . . grossly exaggerated ... unworthy...

Feeding the Lions Humanist Anthology. Compiled by Margaret Knight. (B3airrie and Rocklifr, 21 s.) The Humnmtist F'rame. Edited by Julian HLuxlCy. (Allen and Unwin, 37s....

BO OKIS The Wife's Tale B )Y S Y 13 I 1. 1.1 IS F. 1) F ( R 1) 'V ou belittle hil, it' yOU thikii 1 \NIws just ; pissiollate female to him and rather dumb.' So II rieda L...

Unclouded Eyes The English Mystical Tratdition. 13v David I I Knowles. (BuLrnlIs dd1(l Oltes, 25s.) I I TIIERE is no sUbject on which it is more diflicUlt to write than...