Friday September 10 1965

INDEED, indeed: no wonder the Greenwich pips for once fell silent in such a week. The heirs of Mahatma Gandhi launched a ferocious invasion of Pakistan, so that the shoddy,...

T HIS month the Commonwealth is on trial in a way that it has never been be- fore. If two of its members can plunge into full-scale war with each other with fellow members able...

CHANCIIAL SARKAR writes: It is not easy to describe from almost within the sound of guns and easy range of planes one's feelings about a futile near-civil war which can, bring...

One Side . . . NASIM AHMED (London correspondent of 'Dawn,' Pakistan's leading newspaper) writes: The illusion in Britain that the invasion launched by Indian forces last...

Ten Years of ITV STUART HOOD Mary McCarthyism DAVID REES One year's subscription to 1he'SpeciatOr':13 155. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and Eire. By surface mail...

Labour Pains at Brighton By ALAN WATKINS A s Wednesday approached, there was some- ilk thing oddly familiar about the atmosphere at Brighton. One had the feeling, always...

Seldom in August, Never on Saturday RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL writes: Newspapers suffer very much from the whims of the advertising agents. There is very little advertising in...

'A Matter of Grave Concern' By DONALD ROOUM W BEN this ugly chap arrested me I was not particularly surprised. I was neither doing nor contemplating anything illegal, but as a...

If we must play the game, it's best to win And stick the matter out through thick and Thynne. Since Lords must live, Lord Bath decides to try on Keeping at Longleat Park a pride...

Imperial War Museum By DAVID ROGERS T HE Imperial War Museum now stands in the Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, off the Lambeth Road. It was firSt housed in the Crystal Palace,...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK M R. JOHNSON has avoided the steel strike which the union saw no way to escape and towards which a part of the industry rather looked forward. He...

Paul Johnson, in his New Statesman column last week, wrote about 'so-called sportsmen' par- ticipating in 'colour-bar cricket' at the same time as I was writing about the South...

that the death in office of a Speaker should have been the occasion for frantic calculations about the likely effect on the Government's majority, rather than of tribute to the...

Prices in Portugal are, I am told, very low. The country is also very austere. The Ritz in Lisbon is the only place I have heard of in the world where if you ask for matches you...

The sad truth that this is not a problem for those directly involved is underlined by a report in. Tuesday's Guardian on reactions in New Zealand to Dr. Verwoerd's rejection of...

W E seldom think about Germany, but after the coming Federal elections I doubt if we shall be able to avoid it. It is true that 'these are being fought between two broadly...

A pamphlet just published by the Law Society on capital gains tax and corporation tax is inilia- ally intended for the guidance of its members : but it really deserves a wider...

But I do wish all concerned would stop and think what would be the consequences of a surrender over steel. Imagine the yelp of triumph from Mr. Macleod! . . —Michael Foot in...

SARAH GAINHAM has been the Spectator's Bonn correspondent for nine years. Her sixth book, The Irony of Guilt, is shortly to be pub- lished in the United States. RUDOLF AUGSTEIN...

A Survey on the eve of the Federal Elections What Sort of Coalition? By SARAH GAINHAM G ENEKAL elections take place for the fifth time in the Federal Republic on September...

The Spur of Berlin By RUDOLF A UGSTEIN J4 isT0Rv provides no evidence that areas which share a common language must of necesiity be one nation. England and France gave up...

A Past to Remember By Gal° MANN r- tt n. q. al 01 oi 01 iii vi as pl 1-1 Germans neither have a highly developed 1 . historical consciousness like the French or te...

Not Through Geneva By WOLFRAM VON RAVEN T HE Federal Republic finds itself accused once again of obstructing efforts to relax tension in Europe, of a greed to possess atomic...

By OTTO FREI r rHE German Democratic Republic has re- cently been achieving considerable increases in production. The hastily enforced land col- lectivisation of 1960 and the...

The Shadow of Bismarck By KENNETH AMES T liE most extraordinary thing about the press of West Germany is that it succeeds in ful- filling its mission at all, considering the...

SIR.—As far as I remember I have never before challenged an adverse criticism of my books, but I must break this rule to protest at Mr Desmond Donnelly's so-called review of A...

SIR,—T was interested to read (albeit somewhat be- latedly on my part) Quoodle's reference to the re- cent storms and floods in Chile. The press in general gave scant coverage...

SIR,-1 thought of Quoodle at the Oval while get- ting my fortnightly short-back-and-sides. I trust he enjoyed the cricket, and 1 envy him the chance; but he really must learn to...

Sot,—Had Mr. Chenevix Trench referred to the Spectator article of 1957 cited by Quoodle that helped start VSO he could never have written the letter lie did. All the priorities...

From: Robert .S. Moore, George Edinger,' M. M. Carlin. Elizabeth Stamp, Felix Greene, George E. Assinder, Robert Noll, L. IC Towle, Lilian Knapp. Defending the White Paper...

Read about the man with the Revolting Hunger in Transatlantic Review 19. Out now. Also: the works of Elizabeth Montagu, William Trevor, B. S. Johnson, Brian Patten, Robert...

Sus,—With reference to Mr. Randolph Churchill's article in last week's issue and his criticism of the 'crop of literary lionesses who are assaulting by novel and article the...

SIR,—What a delightful word, frivial One can imagine the writer thinking of one word but (being The Times) changing it half-way to produce this telescoped jewel. Keep this word....

Classics Master By CLEMENT CRISP I T would be impossible to make a happier debut in these columns than by writing about the New York City Ballet and the splendours of...

SIR,—Amon g st the many letters you doubtless re- ceived for and against Vanessa Redgrave's cd di cr.eur. mine is one of unqualified support. L. R. TOWLE Manor Farm,...

Rake Cottage, Milford, Surrey

Like a Drain T HANKS to the National Opinion Poll, Lord Hill, the ITA, •the programme contractors, and the people who actually make the pro- grammes for commercial television,...

Promotion W ITH the forty-ninth and last of this year's Promenade Concerts out of the way, every- body sits down to answer (with comments, please!) the Spectator's...

The Dreaded Bridal How to Murder Your Wife. (Leicester Square Theatre.)—The Sandpiper. (Empire.) (Both 'A' certificate.)—The Visit. (Carlton, 'X' certificate.) A s a...

Lickerish Allsorts A T the start of Mr. James Baldwin's fine .. play The Amen Corner, Miss Claudia McNeil seems an all-embracing sanctuary in her white cassock, but within two...

By D. C. WATT *THE GRAND DESIGN. By Franz Josef Strauss. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 18s.) TII1S GERMANY THE STORY SINCE THE THIRD R , I1(.11 . By Rudolf Walter Leonhardt. (New...

Munich, or the Phoney Peace. By Henri Nogueres. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. (Weidenfeld and Nieolson, 45s.) Plough My Own Furrow. By Martin Gilbert: ( Long ma ns, 70s.)...

The Messingkauf Dialogues. By Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett. (Methuen, 16s.) As well as being a great poet, Brecht was one of the cleverest of men; as clever, one...

The Nature of the Beast. By Robert Holies. (Heinemann, 21s.) The Itinerant Lodger. By David Nobbs. (Methuen, I8s.) The (Diblos) Notebook. By James Merrill. (Ch4to and Windus,...

(1952), Officers and Gentlemen (1955) and Unconditional Surrender (19 1 51), has now been issued in a one-volume - 'final version of the novels' by Chapman and Hall (500.

The Merchant of Revolution : The Life of • Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus) 1867- ALEXANDER ISRAEL HELPHAND, the mad 'be- hind the pen-name `Parvus,' revolutionary activist...

THE last great work executed in Britain by navvies, says Mr. Coleman, was the Settle and Carlisle railway line, finished in 1875 after six years' hard. The Victoria Line, now...

As readers of Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago will remember, the novel ends with twenty-five short poems which are put forward as the work of the central character, Dr. Zhivago him-...

Economic Thoughts on Congress By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT TP the Government really wants to put teeth 'into its incomes policy, it should first take statutory powers to compel Mr....

By CUSTOS H ow 'political' equity share markets have become was demonstrated one day last week when the sad news of the Speaker's death was flashed on the ticker tape. Buyers...

By MARY HOLLAND All you need is greed, ruthlessness and luck.' He then goes on to describe what he likes: 'the artistic romanticism of the nineteenth century,' and what he...

Counter Measures By LESLIE ADRIAN For one thing, the suggestions nowhere recog- nise that each section of the retail trade needs separate consideration. For instance, some...

By ALAN BRIEN But the difficulty about tying to alter your routine as a freelance journalist is that you have no routine. It is no use deciding to get up half an hour earlier...

By PHILIDOR 247. S. LOYD Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1856) BLACK (5 men) WHITL (6 men) WHITE to play and mate in four moves ; solution next This illustrates the old idea...

ACROSS 25, I. Most unusual for an ambas- sador (13) 9. I get leg in with an explosive result (9) 10. The golden ass (5) 11. Imagines in the making (5) 12. Damocles sat beneath...

ACROSS.-1 Kaleidoscope. 9 Linn- heart. 10 Ideal. 11 Nasard. 12 Valencia 13 Stoats. 15 Vestment, 18 Bass-drum. 19 Cosset. 21 Westward. 23 Escarp. 26 Tress. 27 Water-cart. 28...