T'ailpiece It is well known, of course, that in order to learn what is rcally going on yoU have to read mare than one newspaper: WHlY I'M A SQUARIi, BrY 111 I)TIHE ClOF...

Nalcy lAstor I nevcr knew lady Astor: I wish I had. Even reading the obitLuIry notices shows mc something Of What I have missed. I cannot remember anyO(le else who in death has...

Nosmo King The l ondonI C'ounltyl Council before it dies an early and unlamented death is at it again. 'See wha t little lomniy is doing and tell him not to.' So, natch, no...

ElIetI I''iigaces The British bridge team is now playing in the Olymplic championship ill New York. If they both. qatltlify for the remaining stages, I woudld expect either...

1he Bfig} MNlonley B3ond M! arches On, and still 'the Commander' drags dovn thle dough. I see that 11o fewer than six of lan FeleCming's novels have now sold moire than a...

Trce)le Sir (Char1les Johuston is, I hear, bringing out a book on his three vearis as Governor of Aden. It is well timed. It is also .n easy bet that the baok will be urbnine,...

Scoop C'IiaI'cs GrCilciIc in thL Daily Mail has aln interesting lechniqUC. A week or two ago he noted from a photograph ill a Sundaky paper, which, of course, he (lid not...

It's a Crime A Io I lmlira cle' hrinlgs prosperity to a fishing -illage in thL spleLndid new Ngaio Mal-rsh, Dead WVater (Crilile C lub I5s.). J erkins and song-sheets and...

First Romantic Byron the Poet. B3y M1. K. Joseph. (G ol an lcz, -1s.) IlL conilpa rative ne-glect fromin which Byron tlhe poet, as opposed to 13yr-on the mn1, has sriffered...

M(OD)S ANI) OTHERS SIR,---l hink after reladinlg this week's Spectator tihat Richaird Giott's article on the M ods is quite hlilliant. Henry Fairlic got the right target right,...

WHY KHLRUSHCHI'V? SIR,---There can, of course, be no 'correct' spelling in English of any Russian word, including the name of the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party....

LONG SENTENCES SIR, It is noticeable th:it 'progressives' aid presentday apologists for almost pathological leniency with criminitials habitually. thou glh quitc unjustiliably,...

SSIl,-David Watt is probably right in thinking ihat not much can be done to improve the processes of Selecting parliamentary candidates-so long as our Clectojral law remains...

LORD KILNMUIR'S MV1EMOIRS SIR,I--1 m COSCiOUS of the obligations of charity and of the lure of hazy anld pcrverse romrianticism; in addition I know little ol ILord Kilmo irand...

ANNIVERSARUIS SIR,-My airmail issue of the Spectator (April 24) arrived this morning. I read with interest S.M.'s letter. I mn able to beat his record. He tells us that he has...

''11''E'I TFI'IIEN WARI) TRIAL Smi, N Mr. Arbllaster asks hlow and why the police stlarled their investigations into the activities of StCIelpn Ward. The answer (or part of it)...

1914-18-ANI) ALL IHIAT Stw-As a teaichcr ol modlern history I find Mr. Fairlic's article, '1914-18 And All That,' straingelY disturbing, coming, as it does, from a cumeinitalor...

FARM1 SUBSII)IES Suz,--In his interesting article [larm Subsidies Out of Control' (April 24) Mr. Jack Donaldson does, I amn afraid, start from a total misconcept)jon of thle...

FROM CONCENT RATION CANII'S SIR,-For a literary project, I am trying to locate any Church of England padre who was prcscnt at the liberation of any of the Nazi concentration...

MR. WYNNE. AND TIIE PRESS Sil,--Alir. Ra11ndoLlph Churchill is not well-informed. I hca large preCs parly (of which I was one) waiting Ontsidc Mr. (ireville Wynu1C'S hoLIse Onl...

RIEFORN1ING TIlE LAW Sw, -Mr. Vancc does not begin to make out his case. Nobody would be so silly as to suggest that Elnglish law is perfect, or in any sphere approaches...

COMPLAINTS ABOUT AD)VERTISING Siit,---- Mr. K. 1-1. Grose is very nearly right in his analysis. 0f the complaints which it was possible to investigate 60) per cciit were...

The New Face of Politics IFrro in BItER'J TRANI) 1)1E .1 0 Lu V EN E 1 AIUtis IREGARD as I Illaljor CVellt the cOnlVelltiOnl of political clubs held at Vichy during the last...

Bandaland Fr o it 1-1 A R It Y I'FR A N K 1. I N ZO>1Nt I ITi1 thin, intermittent wails of a siren b"rCa the silencc of night over this quaint little colonial town of Zomba...

Living with Nasser ONl. of the morc plausiible aspects of the (;idtilian's story on! Mondlay aboUt President Nasser's nLucIlcar weapons was thaIt it olfered ainl explanation...

KPortrait of the Week2I I'RSDI)FNT NASSIR WaS restored to his pedcstal as Britain's public encmy No. I: Mr. ilhitlCr aCCusLCl hini of htl9C imprliallistic al iti iolIs an1d one...

The Smaller Territories JF the Commonwealth Prime Ministers have Iany time to spare in July they should consider once more the future of the smaller territories in what was the...

Progressing Backwards M ODERNISATION should begin at home. Most MPs would agree warmly with this proposition and thus will welcome this week's proposals to add substantially to...

CATHOLICS AND BIRTH CONTROL Putting the Case for Change By BRUCE, N1. COOPER Recently the debate over the Catholic attitude to contraceptives has developed in a remarkable...

Company Notes B3 LOT ( lURI' S I.N11'PAI. IIOI.DINGS, havill, sold oil iHs S1H-Parpndilil (Selaingor) Rubber stilbsid iary, is 1no0v III ill\ cstent tu ist. The company's...

Investment Notes By CUSTOS IE gilt-edged market received the news of -the new governriment loan-k400 million of 54 per cent Funding 1987/91 at 97-without flinching. T he...

Affluence in Offaly By MARGARET STEWART TULLAMORE, capital town of County Offaly (formerly King's CoLunty, Uf Failghe oflicially and 'County of the Faithful' colloquially), is...

BO OKS Conrad the Great By TONY TANNER 'Yes! But a Polish noblemLnan, cased in British tar! What a concoction! NotIs veerrons!' (Conrad-before Icaving for the Congo, 1890.) N...

2-The Making Of A Margoinal Seat'? Ity ,1. IV. M. 'I'130NIS1 S (N I I ILI lt, licaven k nows, be sntlmc kind of d isulbIlity to ctrlry intlo poiticd1 idte th rcputation of...

Political Commentary THE SPRING OFFENSIVE l-Hw] F'Tories Hope For A Miracle Ity 1) A V I1) WAT'T A tX'1liV-t4W 1 nrS CIICIgetiC youn1]g WiltshirelAlia n hats dun1ine mr fr i...

Sphiniix of tile North I rite Ijuperor Ailexand(er 1. fly E. NM. Alnmedingeln. ( I[lhe B3odiv I-lead. 30s.) MI iss Ai~ml)1\ [N, who has al ready written biograplhils l (...

Mount Zion A North Wales Village. By Isabel Emimett. (ROIutledge and Kegan Paul, 28s.) Tlhc Probulemii of Wales and Other Essays. By J. 14. Recs. (University of Wales...

Tenement Symphony 'I le Tenants of Moonbloom. By Edwalrd L.CeWis \ a I I .nIIt. (Gollancz, 2Is.) TIhe Carib Sands. By IFcrence Kelly. (NMac- nillnan, 22s. (id.) T'he...

Testament By CHRISTOPHI'It HOLLIS Lord Kilmuir, who in earlier life Was known as David Maxwell Fyfe, Although without an old School Tie To hoist him upwards to the sky, Yet...

Man Apart The Lonely Sea and the Sky. By Francis I (. Iliclester. (Hodder and Stoughton, 30s.) I TIlE publication of Francis Chichester's autobiography, The Lonely Sea and...

Protestants and Politics Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary IEngland. By (hristoplirc Hill. (Secker and Warburg, 63s.) 1] isl R(Rxl synthcses, lilke kingdomis, rise...

Beauty and the Beast ? Bfy HENRY FAIRLIIE ' st our fancy, or does this first iSSLue of -( ionter appear in a good seson?' asked its edlitors all those ten years and seven...

Succession Problems The King's Men. Edited by L. A. Fallers. (OU.P., 40s.) Ftorks .arid H-opi. By lFlspctli-t I-I uxly. (C(iatto and Wicldus. 30s.) lie Somiatli D)ispute....

'Glod-R.I.P.' F ron NU I At 14 A Y K F NI' IP T N WVASIINGTON OVI OeRLv G1:.,)?(;i} W\V.L (i'r of AIlablmia G CAMClv herev I~z \eck} tod plead~ witth tile Congress tIo...

The Truth About Nasser's 'Bomb' ty I' ON A ItI) B E'A (T N T Aralb-Israeli arms race has been a costly I all'air to all concelr1nLd andl seems likely to stay that way. 'I he...