6 APRIL 1962, page 5

No Beards In Buenos Aires 'what Does A Democratic Government

do when a large portion of the electorate freely chooses a totalitarian party?' Thus some- one on about Argentina at the weekend. This is the kind of question guaranteed always......

A Cool View In Oxford There Is Evidence Also, Wheedled

from this paper's circulation manager, that Oxford de- cided early on to stay well above what it plainly regarded as a vulgar Cambridge squabble. While 1,144 extra copies of the......

Folly In Cyprus

M HE statement by the Greek Cypriot Minister I of Labour, Mr. Papadopoulos, that the Zurich agreements could not be regarded as a permanent obstacle to the full realisation of......

Snowballing

Is this Leavis-Snow business going on for ever? My American correspondence suggests that the row is having even bigger repercussions in the United States than here. No doubt......

Knocking The Master

I'm delighted to see the second issue of The Dubliner, a literary review intended, among other things, to plug the gap left by the death of the Dublin Magazine a few years ago.......

Spectator's Notebook

rr HE fight for the uncommitted centre, for the I swelling ranks of smart young men and women who have automatic allegiance to neither of the great embodiments of the coun-......

Clap Clap Clap

Talking of establishments reminds me that I've made a note not to miss Lenny Bruce at our own Establishment. He is the latest in Lon- don of the American entertainers who......

The Syrian Tangle

Fog OR the moment it seems that Syria is to be even a sporadic civil war. The con- fused situation which has prevailed there during the past few days consisted in its essentials......