12 APRIL 1963, page 9

But Neither This. Nor The German Initiative At Brussels...

in the week, nor the first hints of a thaw in Paris, did anything to lessen the con- fusion which characterised the talks at Koenigs- winter. The British guests were given more......

It Seems To Me Perfectly Clear That If President Kennedy's

'true course of history' is indeed to be realised, the US Administration will have to take its courage into both hands and offer to put some genuine political content into the......

The Most Positive Of All Performances On The British Side

was, naturally, Mr. Richard Cross- man's. Having confessed that, because he had at last backed a winner, he found an ox sitting on his tongue, he thereupon summoned up all his......

Spectator's Notebook

r"1" HE annual Anglo-German Conference at Koenigswinter, started in 1950 by Frau Lilo Milchsack and sustained in its independence by her formidable combination of energy, grace,......

The Mild Boo To De Gaulle Has At Long Last

been made, of course. I heard Mr. Adlai Stevenson in Bonn make the same sort of state- ment as he had made in London a few days be- fore about multilateralism, and indicate......

Letter To An Emigrant

By KENNETH MACKENZIE D EAR S1R,—You, and the surprising thousands of others who have decided to go to South Africa, have, of course, been told all about the sunshine, the......

So Much For The Light Relief. But For All The

uncertainty, confusion, depression and indeed dread in which the talking came to a stop, some- thing emerged. Speaker after speaker had talked of Atlanticisation and the like.......

I Spent A Couple Of Days Reconnoitring In Bonn Before

the conference began. Certainly the pros- perity of Western Germany is great and is still growing,. if rather more slowly because of the acute shortage of manpower. But the......

'yet My Feelings Were Mixed When I Set Out Last

week. It was nine years since I had last been to Koenigswinter, and things were simpler then. The menace from the East was simple and our protection against it was simple; and......