4 JANUARY 1963, page 11

The Turf Game

By BRIAN BEHAN He advanced us £100 on the strict under- standing that every penny profit would be divided equally in our coop. Of course, of Course, we murmured, feeling like......

A Diplomatic Ducai Bore

It is rather curious that such passionate in- terest should be displayed in the revelations of volume after volume of documents from the German Foreign Office archives. I should......

No Pansies The New Carnival Will Not Retain All The

pleasures of the old. Among the more popular events in the eighteenth century was the daily baiting of bulls in the city squares. The bulls, taken from the slaughterhouse, were......

Venice Reviving

Venice is determined to be in the news. The exhibition here at the RIBA is not the only part of the drive for publicity. Italia Nostra is also Proposing that visitors to Venice......

Spectator's Notebook

H mom( will will always find it remarkable that when, after 1945, the West had to face a Communist challenge whose nature and size Were then unknown to it, the leaders of the......