29 OCTOBER 1965, page 6

Robert Bevan One Hundred Years Ago This Year Robert Bevan

was born. He was a founder member of the Camden Town Group and later of the London Group. I have seen only a very few of his paintings, mostly in private houses, although he is......

The Proms Inquiry A Correspondent Who Knows His Albert 1 -

makes supplementary points about the Special , recent opinion-study of the 1965 Proms. 'Altbot the BBC declines to publish attendance figilf he writes, It was obvious to any......

Propose' Last Friday The Times And The Daily Tele- Graph

were, I think, the only papers to carry the interesting footnote to the Prime Ministerl letter to Mr. Smith that the words, 'I propose to fly,' ‘N, ere an echo of the words used......

Soviet Union

Eastern Approaches DEV MURARKA writes from Moscow: First Ben Bella, then Sukarno. In two regions, two major leftist figures have suffered setbacks which have thoroughly alarmed......

`choice In Welfare 1965' Five Guineas Is An Awful Lot

of money to pay for the slim volume published by the Institute of Economic Affairs. The report is by Ra lph Harris and Arthur Seldon, general director and editorial director of......

Wiener News For Years Now The Wiener Library, Origin Set

up to provide the academic basis 'fOr study of National Socialism and recently panded into the Institute of ContemP,n History, under its new director Walter Laqtt has been......

Mr. Speaker

With genuine respect and affection from the whole of the House of Commons Dr. Horace King became on Tuesday the first Speaker who had been a member of the Labour party. Perhaps......

Spectator's Notebook

G REETINGS to a new Spectator. I have just been reading the first edition of the monthly journal of that name published in Eastern Nigeria. The editor prints some impressive......