An Edinburgh Notebook SIR,-As the newest Scottish National party candidate, adopted only last week, it may ill become me to quarrel with Mr Ludovic Kennedy's view expressed in...

Lace and Window Pane M S=C $r muJsic By CHARLES REID IY this time Pierre Boulez is an established Idarling with Prommers, especially the younger end, though it must be said...

Circuit and See SIR,-As a fervent admirer of the Leslie Adrians-I always go straight for their page when my copy of the SPECTATOR arrives-I was shocked by the arrogance (excuse...

A Tiger in Mao's Tank SIR,-My regret for the unchecked typing error which led you to print (September 2) a slightly inaccurate title to the book by Valentin Chu, which was...

That £50 Allowance SIR,-I was delighted to read the article 'Plca for a Fuss' (September 2), by J. H. Huizinga, and only wish it could be printed in the popular press. Most...

SIR,-It is rare to read something with which one totally agrees, or rather to hear oneself speaking in another's mouth. Mordecai Richler's 'Universe of Hatred' is quite...

Prestige Medicine SIR,-John Rowan Wilson in hIls c\cllent article on 'Prestige Medicine' (Sr'i: (AI R JIiV I) points out the stupidity of spending enormious sums on expensive...

Victims of the Youth Culture SIR,-When I read Dr Wilson's article Victims of the louthi Culture (September 2). I was horrified by his almost Wcllingtonian approach to this very...

SIR,-Perhaps the reason why no one has made a fuss about the travel allowance is not an unhealthy and dangerous apathy, nor even a patriotic manifestation of the stiff upper...

SIR,-Mordecai Richler rightly protests against the facile invocation of the six milfion Jews murdered by the Nazis. His hymn of hate, however, certainly is not a fitting...

The Universe of Hatred ~~E 3 ur ~EDOD® . From: John Donovan, Kenneth MacGowan, Eric Alexander, The Countess of Lauderdale, Rita Cole, Dr S. V. Humphries, Ian T. Smith, R....

TV MPs SIR,-Mr Ludovic Kennedy, ever since his appearance in the pioneering Rochdale by-election television programme, has been regarded as a welcome advocate of increased...

Spectator's Notebook -T would be easy to assume that Dr Verwoerd's pre-eminence in South African affairs was such that his removal by assassination is bound to make a profound...

Men off the Beat THE PRESS By DONALD McLACHLAN HEN Scotland Yard over a year ago called in the London School of Economics to advise on relations between police and public,...

The Last Show? A VIA TION By OLIVER STEWART SHE flying display and exhibition held by the Society of British Aerospace Companies at Farnborough no longer serves the purpose...

On an Eightieth Birthday To Siegfried Sassoon Triumphant Siegfried with his horn Blows bold defiance to the Norn And breaks the barriers of Wotan, Where das Betreten ist...

Mr Macmillan's Tract for Today WINDS OF CHANGE By JO GRIMOND, MP REVIEW of a book by an ex-Prime Minister slips into being a review of the author and his opinions. That may...

The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-45. War and Peace Edited by Brian Gardner. (Methuen, 30s.) In Retreat and Other Poems. By Philip Hobsbaum. (Macmillan, 18s.) Points in a...

Andre Malraux: The Indochina Adventure. The Royal Way By Walter G. Langlois. (Pall Mall Press, 42s.) ANDRE- MALRAUX'S early years have long been something of a mystery. It is...

The Planemakers Bv JOHN BULL N ';.> at Farnburough this week ; . B. ih-h aircraft industrv wehich, in sp2 o( sonue e..ellent orders this Near, reni.iin, dlm piried. The...

Hard Times ifW' ES @M,-- UNTDE COT- By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ISIONS of the great depression of the 'thirties shocked the Trades Union Congress into stunned silence when the...

Market Notes By CUSTOS 'HE rally in equities has been extended and the 'bulls' are arguing that it is more than a technical recovery. Some investment institutions have...

The Time of the Angels. Symbol Clash By Iris Murdoch. (Chatto and Windus, 25s.) IN the rectory of a city church, bombed out during the war, lives Carel, a priest who believes...

Fleurs du Mal By ANTHONY BURGESS EVOLUTIONS lead to steel whips, salt mines, land great writers in prison. Nevertheless, the term 'revolutionary' continues to carry only the...

Death Comes to Berkeley AMERICAN LETTER By ARNOLD BEICHMAN 'WENTY months ago, the University of California at Berkeley was the arena of battle between a 'New Left'...

Naught for Your Comfort AFTER VERWOERD From STANLEY UYS CAPE TOWN IR VERWOERD'S assassination could not have happened at a worse time for the ruling Nationalist party in...

The Pyramid Inch. NEW NOVELS The Lomax Saga By Desmond Stewart. (Chap- man and Hall, 25s.) The Decline of the West. By David Caute. (Andre Deutsch, 36s.) One Man in the...

Raspberry Ripple ART OUR shows of sculpture by young artists have opened this week which all exemplify, in ditterent ways, certain tenets now established by the revolution in...

Hospital Breakdown MEDICINE TODAY By JOHN ROWAN WILSON T has been enough to turn a young house surgeon's head. Leaders in the major news .. .. . . . I .. papers, radio and...

Mao's Utopia By TIBOR SZAMUELY SHE millennium is upon us: the wolf has moved in with the lamb, the leopard lain down with the kid, and the world press. from Pravda to the...

Splendours and Miseries BA LLET ru: needs ntuIt love the best ashen we see it, and with the Kirov Ballet now initalled at Covent Garden we can see the best classical dancers...

Robert Kennedy: Ever or Never? AMERICA From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK NE'S private obsession with Robert Kennedy has the unexpected excuse of being part of an obsession which...

The Chase. CINEMA Black Eye (Odeon, Leicester Square, 'X' certifi- cate.) 7he Chase is directed by Arthur Penn. It is his fourth film. Coming to the cinema in 1958 from...

The World Crisis s expected, Mr Wilson has got his Lmajority. By a small margin. the trade unions' loyalty to 'their' Government has overcome their traditional belief in free...

Knocker Muggeridge E O By SIMON RAVEN SoME years ago I had the rather bizarre S experience of dining with three newly married friends, all of whom were homosexual, and their...

How Long Will They Trust Harold? POLITICAL COMMENTARY By ALAN WATKINS T Blackpool, not far from the 'inter LGardens, there stands the largest and most splendid specimen of...