fewer motorist s and pedestrians went than had been the r e at Easter. Headlines saying 'Atlas bases hit Y strike' turned out to be less ominous than they ElOked, but not for...

HE success of the Whitsun experiment, such I as it was, has won Mr. Ernest Marples a reprieve. For some time now the press has been growing disenchanted with him. His reforms at...

No 6885 Established 1828 FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1960

'The first issue . . appeared in March, 1883. Mr. Gladstone was Prime Minister. Lord Beaconsfield was nearing the end of his fabulous life.' 'Our first number appeared in...

From KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN L A.. week, for the second time in three months, I was able to watch a great mass of citizens marching through the streets of Cape 1 own. This...

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK T rr HE Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week completed a brief and, for non- Senators, not particularly illuminating inquest on the...

OREA, Turkey, and then Spain? Although there has been little indication so far that the moribund Eisenhower administration has yet grasped that its unthinking and almost...

By BERNARD LEVIN Now the publication of the second instalment of Dr. Abrams's survey has appeared in the cur- rent Socialist Commentary, and simultaneously there has appeared...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY rr wo new studies of French politics under de I Gaulle* have appeared, both of a very high standard—though not always very excitingly written---and though...

Invasion of Privacy By R. A. CLINE T HE late Professor Winfield, who was always optimistic about the capacity of the Com- mon Law to develop new remedies, believed that the...

Semen's Union By JACK DONALDSON I N February of this year the Milk Marketing Board announced a pilot scheme in the north of England to be the forerunner, if successful, of a...

The Christian Line By MONICA FURLONG O NCE, in the first flush of conversion, I applied for a job as a reporter on the Church Times and went along to Portugal Street to be...

SIR.---I wonder whether I might be allowed to make a correction to the letter which you kindly published for me on May 27? The proposal to link disarma- ment with aid to the...

SIR,--Your homosexual correspondents should not suppose that all who fail to rally to their cause are constrained by 'irrational prejudice.' There are practical considerations....

Christopher Driver. F. C. Gillman Mau Mau Brigadier C. S. D. Bridge U2, Jack Olwen Battersby Homosexual Prosecutions R. L. Archdale, lan Sainsbury Little Black Quibba Leslie...

Katharine Whitehorn, without necessarily agreeing that 'offending them all would be satisfying work.' British Railways ones, in my experience, are extremely good (of course,...

SIR.---May I make a comment on your editorial note 'Life With Father' on the C:orfield Report'? It is, of course, true that the Kenya Administration is to be blamed for its...

Miss Katharine Whitehorn asks what he supposes good will is for and adds: 'Ultimately, as in "all business," to sell products. That is not what journalism is for.' Surely, Miss...

Mr. Eisenhower talking about peace. The technique is to stick to the most emotionally arresting issue (an issue by the way on which I do not and cannot disagree with him), an d...

He seems to find something rather indelicate in criticising the morality or expediency of any law, or the methods used by the police to enforce it. This may suit Mr. Rothery...

Sm,—In his review of St. Helen Story in your issue of May 13, Cyril Ray comments on the 'British Grenadiers' that carried Napoleon's body to the grave at Geranium Vale....

SIR,—The comments aroused by my reference to two children's books by Miss Helen Bannerman seem to be either vaguely personal, irrelevant (for example, that they were first told...

SIR,—The weekly bulletin of the United Kingdom Information Service covering the period April 14- April 27 announced on the first page the Common- wealth Prime Ministers'...

believe that many of your readers may be in- terested in helping some Forgotten Refugees, especially during World Refugee Year. They are the exiles from Franco's Spain, who have...

enrol all South Africans living abroad who are interested in assisting in furthering the cause of non-racial democracy in South Africa. We feel that this objective can best be...

Something Blue By ALAN BRIEN Tomorrow — With Pic- tures! (Lyric, Ham- , mersmith.) — The Caretaker. (Duchess.) — Don't Shoot—We're English. (Cambridge.) — Chicken Soup With...

Personal Polarities By PETER FORSTER Personally, being strictly a red-sky-at-night man, I don't believe a word of all the mumbo- jumbo: what, for instance, happened to that...

By DAVID CAIRNS In the Abbey one is constantly reminded of opera. The brilliantly contrasted sequence of musical tempo and form is like recitative, aria and chorus. At times one...

Take the Cow by the Horns By ISABEL QUIGLY Li'l Abner. (Plaza.) Kidnapped. (Studio One.)—Sergennt Rut- ledge. (Warner.)—Les Grandes Families. (Paris-Pullman.) ABNER, as every...

Enright's Green Insect DAN JACOBSON BY C LEARLY, one should not read a dozen 'little' magazines* one after another: it isn't fai r on the magazines and it isn't fair on...

Shakespeare and Company. By Sylvia Beach. (Faber, 25s.) SYLVIA BEACH was one of the good American ladies who looked after Joyce, and the main but not the sole interest of this...

ONE may well feel after reading this candid and on the whole sensible book, No Place Like Home (Phoenix, 16s.), by a gipsy and about gipsy life (he prefers to call them...

The Everlasting Circle. Edited by James Reeves. (Heinemann, 25s.) r ests bilingual selection of Bertolt Brecht's Poems represents his work from his first book up to the late...

Guenther Podola. By Rupert Furneaux. (Stevens, 18s. 6d.) NEITHER of the main issues in the Podola case had ever been raised in an English murder trial: that of fact—was he...

The. New Cambridge Modern History. Voltage XII: The Era of Violence, 1898-1945. Edited by David Thomson. (C.U.P., 37s. 6d.) THIS is a book we have all been waiting for. Th e...

The Crossing Point. By Gerda Charles. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 18s.) The Limits of Love. By Frederic Raphael. (Cas- sell, 18s.) 9eRDA CHARLES'S intelligent and ambitious novel...

Islands By WILLIAM GOLDING I is always interesting to revisit the scenes of lour childhood, and literary scenes have the endearing property of changelessness. No rib- bon...

The Fifth Testament. By Ernest A. Gray. (Bodley Head, 12s. 6d.) Sir William and the Wolf, and other stories from the Days of Chivalry. Retold by John Hampden. (Dent, 12s. 6d.)...

So Long Ago . By Joseph Stamper. (Hutchin- son, 21s.) A Nursery in the Nineties. By Eleanor Farjeon. (O.U.P., 30s.) IT is easy to see why reminiscences of working- class...

I5s.) AN article on child care recently suggested that children's meals should not be considered as something to be 'got through'--successful if they escaped being frightful....

The Bombard and Viking's Sunset. By Henry Treece. (Bodley Head, 12s. 6d. each.) The Blood Red Crescent. By Henry Garnett. (Bodley Head, 12s. 6d.) The Adventures of Ulysses....

„.„ (Hodder and Stoughton, 8s. 6d.) white Horses and Black Bulls. By Alan C. Jen- 30n Starling's Holiday. By. E. W Hildick. 30n Starling's Holiday. By. E. W Hildick....

Whale Adventure. By Willard Price. (Cape, 13s. 6d.) Dangerous Journeys. Selected by Leonard Roe. (Hamish Hamilton, 8s. 6d.) IT used to be the fashion—perhaps it still is—to...

The Rib of the Green Umbrella. By Naomi Mitchison. (Collins, 10s, 6d.) By now one knows what to expect of Naomi Mitchison : one knows that she will be strongly, if sometimes...

Seven Men of Wit. By Margaret J. Miller. (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) EDWARD LEAR was the second youngest of twenty-one children, grew up to draw birds and animals in beautiful...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Playing with the rate of interest means playing ball with the international merchants of hot money. This should be regarded as beneath our dignity as a...

By CUSTOS MHE equity share markets opened in good I form after the holiday. The feature was the sharp rise in the European leaders—UNILEVER and PHILIPS LAMPS. Our domestic...

M R. A. C. DUNCAN chairman of Odhams Press, will probably tell shareholders at the forthcoming annual general meeting how far the printing strike affected the group profits last...

Restrictive Practices By KATHARINE WHITEHORN THERE is a war on at the moment which will shake the women of Britain to their foundations, if the makers of the founda- tions have...

ACROSS 1 Two instruments join in the dance (8) 5 Old coin for treats (6) 9 Hawaiian dish with layers for Diana from this place (8) 10 Very horsy! (6) 12 Does it avail the...

Pull- face. 10 Pirate. 12 Lance. 13 Nihilists. 14 Disks. 16 Ordinands. 17 Craftsman. 19 Cleek. 21 Artemisia. 22 Audit. 24 Temple. 25 Stellate. 26 Canaries. 27 Cerles. DOWN.-1...

Rallying Round By GAVIN LYALL ANYONE who manages to give the impression of being in a bit too much of a hurry on the roads is invariably hailed with Happily, a number of...

Dangerous Currents By LESLIE ADRIAN AROUND Christmas time there was a scare over the importation of con- tinental electric appli- ances wired differently from British ones — I...

SMOKED salmon, saddle of lamb, Stilton and strawberries is a superb English luncheon, even if it is somewhat sibilant —all the more so in the case I refer to, for it was given...