T HE Spectator this week includes three appeals from Africa—from our correspondents in South Africa and in Northern Rhodesia and from Chief Luthuli in exile—for British support...

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not the Russian with a rocket in his pocket, or the American with a dollar sign on his top hat, or even the French- Sitting astraddle the barricades, but the e, ntline driver...

TT may sound inconsequential, but one of the 'main reasons for the breakdown of the Cyprus talks is to be looked for a few hundred miles to the West, in Malta. The dispute is...

A s we have been agitating for years past for a 11, reform of the law relating to contempt of court, it would be ungracious to criticise the Bill Lord Shawcross has laid before...

N balance the Prime Minister can look back on his African tour with pardonable self- satisfaction. Certainly his speech to the South African Parliament compounded for the...

I TN-Communist countries an election is a cool' paratively simple matter. There is only 011 candidate, and the voter either votes for hun not at all. In democratic countries...

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK m HE debate over missile production, American I and Russian, goes on and on and on, and the truth, if there is , any truth, seems increasingly...

The distribution of the Specialor will be affected if there is a railway strike; readers who cannot obtain their copies through the ordinary channels should write, enclosing...

at e • Cast A new decade for defence, 'is a tactical flue weapon? Is a missile with a range of 200 , r " 60 0 miles a tactical weapon?' This, surely, is 1 question that ought to...

wo things have become clear about the nature of the. railway dispute during the past few d aYS. The first is that, as Nicholas Davenport wr ites this week, the railwaymen seem...

By ROY JENKINS, MP A FORTNIGHT ago, at the end of the long Christmas recess, Parliament slipped unobtru- sively back to work. The dominant atmosphere in the House after, as...

Queen of the North -West By I-N FL-M--G (creator of J---s B--d) 'W E want Bond, we want Bond,' chanted the local piccaninnies crowding round Black- Pool Station when 1 arrived...

Words and Deeds From KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN T HE day before Mr. Macmillan made his sur- prising and stirring speech—those words 'individual merit, and individual merit...

By CHIEF LUTHULI Chief La:hull is President of the African National Congress. He is at present banished by the South African Government to Groutville, a remote part of Natal,...

custom, which has spread to the Rhodesias, is for town councils and management boards with large African populations in their responsibility to sell beer to them and to use the...

Raving Reporter By PATRICK CAMPBELL M ISS GLORIA NORD, tiny jewel of the roller- skating rink, suspended rumination on her chewing-gum when she saw the prospect ahead. 'Well,...

Wilder Shores By R. A. CLINE T HOSE wreaked on the wilder shores of divorce law will find themselves in familiar country when comparing two recent decisions. As is well known,...

Motoring Devil's Work The Lily White Boys On the Beat Mr. Dooley Mahatma Gandhi Congested Magistrate? Courts Dissent Derek Hoddinott Kenneth MacGo wan Andor Gomme John Long...

recent events in France and Algiers. Is it true that these events have been 'set off' by de Gaulle's own policies? Surely the shadow of pos- sible rebellion has been dark in...

SIR,—I suppose we shall go on getting letters from Mr. Dyson as long as anyone finds the Critical Quar- terly worth commenting on. I too was sharply re- buked (by Mr. Dyson's...

the current number of the Spectator, some of your older readers must have been reminded of their youth, perhaps with a sad shake of the head. As one of the few 'funny lines' in...

on t he insurance companies who refuse to grant per- centage reductions to members of the Institute of Advanced Motoring. I am both an undergraduate and a sports-car driver, and...

SIR.—In his review of The Lily White Boys Alan Brien only found one line worth quoting. Unfortu- nately this particular line is hardly part of 'the original dialogue of Harry...

Metropolitan magistrates' courts, your contributor, Mr. R. A. Cline, points out that when traffic in divorces became similarly congested, commissioners were appointed to help...

SIR,-1 can speak only for myself, but I have found my respect for and confidence in the police very much reduced by the knowledge that some of them, when in plain clothes, act...

very kind, indeed flattering, review of the third volume of Science and Civilisation in China in your issue for January 22. Though loth to disappoint the more mystical of your...

SIR,—A word to your television critic: it wasn't C. Day Mills who appeared in We Dissent. In fact, it wasn't C. Wright Lewis either.—Yours faithfully, [The name of the...

became aware of the resurrection of Mr. Dooley in your issue of January 15; he spoke with the authentic voice which I recollect in the early years of the present century. I...

'Some Disarmament is Strength,' has to quote the nuclear scientist Dr. Lapp in support of one of his arguments. Unfortunately Dr. Lapp, by accepting at its face value an...

the chairmanship of Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, in order to help in the collection of Mahatma Gandhi's letters. speeches and writings, the publication of which is at present...

Ghost-art By ALAN BRIEN The Wrong Side 'of the Park. (Cambridge.) THERE are some tours de force which can only be described as manifestations of ghost-art. I mean those...

CAIRNS By DAVID A NEW wind is blowing through our concert halls. We may not like what it is bringing with it, may wish ourselves for- ever snug in the old, safe world of the...

Ole Smoke By CLIVE BARNES Naturally I have picked up a good deal of the jargon. I can talk about son and duende, palmas and pitos until the bulls come home, and I have seen...

Love and Corpses By ISABEL QUIGLY don Pavilion.) — Bed of Arch.)—The Burmese Harp. (Everyman, Hampstead.) — Night and Fog. (Berkeley.) FOR days, if you remember, or it may...

Smashing Things By ANTHONY CROSLAND 114 _ R. POTIER is a twenty-three-year-old ex- chairman of the Oxford University Labour C lub, who was also a prominent figure in the old U...

I Am My Orother. By John Lehmann. (Longmans, 25s.) THE second volume of John Lehmann's auto- biography is about his war. He has published a great quantity of writing about other...

The Greek Historians. Selected and Edited by M. I. Finley. (Chatto, 30s.) MOST people probably still leave school with the notion that Herodotus was an amusing but frivolous...

N apoleon Immortal. By James Kemble. (Murray, 28s.) GotA tiE once said that he found the experience clf thinking about Napoleon's career similar to t hat of reading the...

Poetry of This Age: 1908 to 1958. By J. M. Cohen. (Hutchinson, 25s.; Grey Arrow Books, 5s.) WE already owe a debt to Mr. Cohen for, among other translations, his Penguin...

Freud: the Mind of the Moralist. By Philip Rieff. (Gollancz, 30s.) SUBTLE and closely reasoned, alive to spreading relevances while it focuses on particular points, this book...

A Commodity of Dreams. By Howard Nemerov. (Seeker and Warburg, 16s.) An Aspidistra in Babylon. Four Novellas. By H. E. Bates. (Michael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) The Stuff of Youth, By...

By CUSTOS A STRIKE-BOUND market is the scene as I write here in the City. The gilt-edged market has, however, scored some advance, while equity shares have been losing ground...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Mr. Amory's intention in rais- ing Bank rate to 5 per cent. was to repeat Mr. Thorneycroft's tac- tics and try to frighten the trade unions into a...

N ORTHERN DAIRIES continue_ to increase their milk business in Yorkshire, where they L many depots for dairy produce, ice cream. and frozen foods. Recent acquisition of Ivanhoe...

Letting My Hair Down By KATHARINE WHITEHORN HAIRDRESSERS are of two kinds: those who won't do what you ask them, and those who can't. On the whole I prefer the first, since...

ACROSS 1 Not, however, the book-worm. (4-6) 6 Rush around about nothing (4) 10 Just the region for the ascent, we hear (5) 11 A thousand and one in assemblies give battle (9) 12...

ACROSS.-1 Toucan. 4 Folded up. 9 Coburg. 10 Prestige. 12 Meetings. 13 Mantua. 15 Able. 16 Palindrome. 19 Masti- cates. 20 Odds. 23 Carib,. 25 Heat wave. 27 Autserges. 28 Critic....

• • Nobly, Nobly, to the North-West. By RAYMOND POSTGATE First, then. on the way towards Oxford. I think there is little doubt you should stop at Milton C °mmon. which is on...

To check this recipe I consulted the sumptuous Old Vienna Cookbook, one of the American 'Gourmet' series, published here by Hamish Hamilton at 75s. There I also found one of the...

Delivering the Goods By LESLI E ADRIAN In the hope that it may give them some satis- faction, give a few manufacturers and stores a jolt and, possibly, do us all a bit of good,...