2-The Stage is Set By a (Corrcsponden( G EN EVA GL.NLVA has rcelenlly been startled out of its early spring torpor by the resignation of Mr. Knud Larsen. the Danish chairman...

Are We in 1 938.? By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP NEXI' week's Geneva meeting of Foreign Ministers may be the prelude to the most important-and dangerous-international negotiations...

I AM GRATEFUL to Alistair Cooke for his cxplana- I tion of his Kenneth Tynan piece. A report of what actually happens can be dull; a little fantasy helps to enliven it: and why...

IS 11 '100 M ii to.0 ask that politicians should do out of Parliament what they are traditionally required to do in Parliament: declare their interest, when they have one, in...

I HAVE HEARD what seems to mIe a plausible cx- planation of the only puZZliIg feature of thc Small World controversy: why did Ed Murrow 'feed' Siobhan McKenna with the question...

OmiER MISFIrS, as M Ps have been arguing in the Commons, have been luckicr. The rock 'n' roll singer Terry Dene went to hospital with 'emotionial strain' two days after being...

itROM 'niL. Daily ExpCr'ess, May 1. I PENNEY'S TRIUMPH A-homixbs for all-IImIadC of 'waste' Bly Chauipman PinjCh/Ir . his n1.cans-: I It will now bc much casier for the...

TO CALLI WHAT IfAPPENED) at Shepton Mallet a 'mutiny' seems to me to be a curious use of the term: it was, surely, no more than a riot; and in any case the men concerned in it...

IANCV FRKEE SIR.- I doll't knloW, bLit |can nlw() begill to gueCSS, hlOW Ogden Nash fclt about tile I ondon1.]| lime reviewer Who praised Ihim for 'at skilful talent mlaltted...

OR)E, WINGATI'E Sill,- Inl his recent biography. Orde WVin~gate, Mr. Christopher Sykes reCOutLS all OCCasIon onl which Wingate was lincd unljustly by a Sheffield mliagistr-ate....

ST'RENGTH OUT1' OF WEAKNESS Sit,--- I would like to makc a conmmcnt on Mr. Christopher l-ollis's ouitline of the nuclear dilemma and the solution hie commends. Surely it is the...

'TIlE BLOODHIOliNI) St I iast week l)ouglas LFiirbanks was q] tiotcd as saying: We are l111 of us ignoranut, but onl diflerent subjc(ts IPharos will surcly appreciate the truth...

NO TIME TO) READ Snm,--- Who, cvcn1 among the so-called 'CuIltUrCed classes,' comcs cICan about the amount he really ICads? It is not only looking an1d listening that leave 'no...

LETTERS Israel and the Arabs The Bloodhound Fancy F'ree Strength Out of WVeakness Noz 'I'imie to Read Orde Wingate Purchase ':ITax on Records Male or Female? And Now Nyasalanid...

Musical Minds Conversations withl Igor Stravinsky. Bv Tgor t1 . I . .- . - A Straviinskv and Robert Craft. (LWater, 21 s.) l110ing into Aquarius. By NI ichacl Tippeit....

COMPANY NOTES S INCL. I referred to the Ross Group in these notes on March 13 the full report and accounts have been received and they are most informativc arnd attractively...

The Picture Nail I biroLught ;1 Death of Alelson home, \\ here I H Lillu, it, by inadveritncee on a fly. Down crashed tile heavy frame, oil the i1v flew, And how my curses...

BO OKIS Pasternak's Life 13 - [RANK KERNIO)1- A (MoOD deal of Pasternak is now available in A English, and it will be useful to start with a Word about the contents of' these...

What For Slaves Uwaware? A Mid-Century View of Applied Science. By MagLnus Flyke. (J tAMN/I Muas l ly, 16s.) Tm, rather hectic title of this book is not juIstitied by its...

Forgotten Sea Struljlc for the Sea. By Grand Admiral Rceder. (Williaim Kiniber, 25s.) Memtoirs. By Admiral Docnitz. (Weidenfcld and Nicolson, 36s.) No one would envy the...

MY OWN FEE-LING is that Ulster's future would be much brighter if the 'Ulstcr is British' attitude which-1 notc from Mr. Hyde's article--still exists were banished. ('an...

ALTHOUG11 IlIlRE is still the formidable hurdle of Convocation, when every fully paid-Lip MA from every second-rate public school in the country will be entitled to a vote, it...

WE ARE SOMETIMES invited to sympathise with Home Secretaries because they have to decide whether or not a murderer should be hanged, though why we should feel more sorry for...

V-Portrait of the Week7 WE STILL DO NOT KNOW whcthcr therc is balm in Gilead, but an American scientist has asserted that there is life (vegetable life, at any rate) on Mars,...

MAY MORNING T H-IAT a ForeCign Ministers' conference is to be held at all is a gesture on the part of Mr. Khrushchev. What 1h wants is a Sumlmlit Conlference, and he has always...

EASTER SIR, -- filC gale Of CXllfx illillng away ;1alts of the New 'l'estanictit has been played out this lon1e time. It is a CuLriOLIS atnalcllronisln that an atteCmp11t "I '...

STRAW FOR SILENCE Sii,-- Strix Ind Straw - an]d a literary fragment from the past. Onl an evening ill March. 1931, I rfolnd a pall of stiraw over the toad outside lclckley C...

PURCHASE TAX ON RECORDS SIR,--Whilst echoing Mr. Bassett's views on the iniquitous purchase tax levied on gramophlone records, I fedl that he does not really understand the...

MALE OR lENIALE? Sim,-- May I draw tile ittention of leslie Adrian and yourscl to tilc following extract froni the Spectator. No. 319. Thursday. March 6, 171 1 ? I have...

PULLMAN SERVICE SIR,- -1 amn glad to know from leslie Adrian's article in the Spe'ctalor of April 17 that his recent criticism's of the Pullman Car C'omnpany have had the...

SIR-I refer to a letter published in the Spectator of April 10 fromn Mr. T. R. M. Creighton, in which he purported to correct a statement hc had made in a review of Mr. Colin...

ANI) NOW NYASAIANI) SiR.- We arc very grateful to you for printing the articles of Dr. Creighton and supporting them with your editorial opinion. At this time when the Federal...

Barking White Down Second Avenue. By Ezekiel Mphahlele. I (Faber 1 8s.) IJown Second A venue is the autobiography of anl African intellcetual, who grew up in one of the...

Off-White Goddess I The Cult of the Mother-Goddess. By E. 0. James. (Thames and Hudson, 35s.) Tinis might rate as a supplementary volume to The Golden Bough. Where Frazer...

A Loss of Husbands Bess of Hardwick. By Ethel Carleton Williams. (Longmans. 25s.) BESS 0F H-IARDWICK was a self-made woman. She made herself in the only way possible for a...

Cold Ashes Cricket frroi the Craiiidstanid. B3y Kcith NI iller. (0](IhoLIC, I ()s.) Mapi's Men in Australiai. Biv Alec Blcdscr. (Stanlley PauLI I, 10s.) \ir least thirty...

Islands for Sale Providence Island. By Jacqucttt I-Li'kcs. (Cliatto a n L\'iind ls, I6s.) Arturo's Island. By l Isa Morlante. ((Collins, 1 5s.) The Vine of Dark Grapes. By...

Partie de Campagne The Lost Domain (Le Grand Meaulncs). By Alain- Fournier. Translated by Frank Davison. (The World's Classics, O.U.P., 7s.) ALAIN-FOURNiER belonged to...

Art's Sake The International Law of Art. By Barnett I Hollander. (Bowes and Bowes, 63s.) No lcgal work on art exists, apparently. Mr. Hollander, a native of England but a...

Absent Friends The Life of Sir Alexander Fleming. By Andre Maurois. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. (Cape, 25s.) Tiw historian of science, like any other, can either be a...

Nomads' Land By WALTER SCHWARZ BEERSiEBIA IN the valley and among kinsmen,' says Abu Abdulla, which is Bedouin for 'welcome.' Then he kills the 151st sheep in our honourthe...

Goods Across the Sea By Our Industrial Correspondent W ~IJEN an English industrialist says that he 'W cannot open a factory in Ulster because of high freight costs, his...

Ulster Youth By PETER A. R. CALVERT THE nice thing about Belfast is that it is so Teasy to get out of it,' was coined in an inspired moment. It is not entirely a compliment....

INVESTMENT NOTES By CUS1TOS I T III 'bull' market goes on and tile Financial T 'i'mesv indUstriall index has climibcd to over 230 -about 7 per cent. higher than it was on1...

Ulster's Traditional Industries By PATRICIA McLAUGHLIN, MP IN Northern Ireland the traditional industries are still the most important, despite the success which the Northern...

UI LSTER T ODAY Towards a Balanced Economy Siobhan and the BBC Ulster's Traditional Industries Ulster Youth Goods Across the Sea * SIR FRANCIS EVANS a H. MONTGOMERY HYDE, MP *...