16 OCTOBER 1964, page 11

No Cheers For

the Loser From mURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK M R. GoLowATER's movement has always been a Vendee stirred in the west against the great capital on the Eastern Seaboard. As bishop of his......

Backbone It Seems Likely That The 'result Of This Election,

when analysed, will confirm other evidence that the electorate is splitting up and re-forming in new groupings. Dr. Henry Durant, of the Gallup Poll, says that the proportion of......

The Don't Cares One Effect Of This Sort Of Propagandist

excess, I fear, is that it furthers the estrangement between the electorate and politics which has been de- plored from many quarters in recent years. People complain that they......

Moscow Bingo

In spite of the faint mystery about the week- end fire at the British Embassy in Moscow, and the contradictory statements made afterwards, most people who have actually been......

The Visitors Neither Of The Two State Visits Ending This

week seems to have been a conspicuous suc- cess. The Queen's presence in Quebec has served only to provide the Separatists with extra pub- licity, and it was unwise of the......

Sticky Wicket One Or Two Newspapers, I See, Have Sent

their cricket correspondents to Cardiff to make sense of Tod Dexter's political activities there. They have, of course, produced excellent reports, but somehow I am reminded of......

Reflections Of A Victor

Proclaiming their choices By symbol and token, The popular voices Have clearly outspoken. You leave it or take it. The ballot discloses. We've managed to make it By tip of our......

'palinurus Nods?

Entertaining and as apparently omniscient as ever, Mr. Connolly reviewed two books on the ancient world in last Sunday's Times. In his com- ments on J. M. C. Toynbee's Art in......