T HE Mansion House dinner to the bankers and merchants of the City of London is an outstanding event in the economic calendar. It is the occasion for the Chancellor of the...

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BY J. E. M. ARDEN K HRUSHCHEV is flying to Yugoslavia these days with all the regularity of Neville Chamberlain hopping over to Ger- many in 1938. The last trip, with the visit...

T HE reservists recalled over Suez may have become restive —it would be surprising if they had not—but there is no evidence that they are mutinous. In some cases individual...

As the Security Council proceeds with its debate on the As crisis, whether in open or in secret session. it is becoming increasingly apparent that results are to be looked for...

By A. SILLERY* HAVE just come back from the Bechuanaland Protec- torate, a country I last saw in 1950, when it was convulsed by the Seretse affair: the Bamangwato tribal...

Llandudno I WRITE as the Tory Party assembles here for its annual conference. This is the most self-critical gathering in the party's history since 1946. The list of...

after the first performance of the Bolshoi Ballet reminded me painfully of the entertainment provided after the Queen's Coronation. There was the same determined rush for food...

I' M WILL BLAME and many will sympathise with Mr. Nigel N icolson, one of the most eloquent Tory abolitionists, for w ithdrawing his support from the Silverman Bill. As MP for...

tele- vision suggested I should watch the BBC's latest serial, David C oPperfield—praised by the critics—and ask myself what Would have been said about it if it had appeared on...

ROCK 'N ROLL at Duke's 21st birthday party.—Daily Mirror, October 10. No ROCKING. Duke's party is so sedate.—Daily Express, October 10.

as a new broom for the Admiralty, I hope any dust he sweeps up is not going to get into his eyes. At a press conference last week he said : 'It is being seriously suggested that...

and its offshoots will have to take over the patronage of the Arts from others from whom it has taken the means of patronising anything. The clause in the 1948 Local Government...

BY ANGUS MAUDE, MP T HE practical measures of Tory policy needed today can be briefly and generally summarised. Overseas, policy should deviate only for the most compelling...

BY CHARLES WILSON T HERE are two ways of looking at the normal bonhomie of English politics. You can, on the one hand, regard it as superior to the Continental habit of...

BY IAN GILMOUR M R. BEVAN' said a few months ago that the Tories had become bloody-minded over Cyprus; and the ..- Manchester Guardian agreeing with him thought that they were...

BY SIMON PHIPPS T HE greatest challenge to the churches in Britain today is the yawning gulf between themselves and the mass of industrialised society. To realistic Christians...

BY E. W. R. LUMBY T HE lorcha Arrow, which was the occasion of a train of events with momentous consequences, owed her generic name to the Portuguese—`lorcha' being their name...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN N N unceasing battle goes on in the Church between Hymns Ancient and Modern (first published 1861) and The Eng- lish Hymnal, which is fifty years old this week....

T HE One That Got Away, by Kendal Burt and James Leasor (Collins and Michael Joseph, 16s.), is a fascinat- ing story and will find many readers; but some of them. I suspect,...

SIR,—By now it should be clear to all that Mr. Kingsley Amis reviews books the way he does more to air his meticulously malicious views on Eng. Lit. and his fellow-men than to...

SIR,—Whether the readers of your tradition' ally independent weekly gain any advantage when the 'Political Commentary' is regularlY written by someone so adhesively committed to...

Sitt,—I have never previously taken exception to an unfavourable review. Any reviewer needs and deserves to have considerable latitude— but there are accepted limits, and I fear...

Oxford Divided Robert Blake, Renee Haynes, Paul Ries Collin Comprehensive Education Robin Pedley Beware the Jabberwock A. B. Stables Secret Police Powers Peter Benenson Murder...

small the mercies for which he gives thanks; for Mr. Sandys in his predicament; and for the heads and members of all colleges in the High. But that is at least partly because 1...

of what T. C. W. Stinton calls `Mr. Blake's College'; but, with many other mem- bers of the university to which both your correspondents belong, I agree with every- thing that...

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The Bolshoi Ballet THE long-awaited, almost-abandoned, thunder- ously acclaimed, opening performance of the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet in London on October 3 provided ammunition for...

SIR,—Mr. Guest should no' imagine that the motor-car is a business expense. Licentiates of the oldest profession are respected by tax gatherers, reputedly the second oldest and...

SIR,—Oliver Edwards writes of Thomas Mann, in a recent review : 'Perhaps it was that touch of insensitivity that allowed him, the great artist, to murder our sweet English...

ANOTHER birthday to be celebrated : this time the English Opera Group's, which has reached the age of ten, having done valiant work and proved itself truly English by...

THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA. By George Bernard Shaw. (Saville.) AT the time of the Shaw centenary I thought of any number of Shaiv's plays which could be revived with success in the...

I ONCE saw the silvery tie Sica in a film where, dubbed rather unsuitably in French, he defended Gina Lollobrigida, accused of mar' dering her husband, on the grounds, quite...

THE large retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery by Merlyn Evans rep- resenting a career of twenty-five years places me in a predicament. I have a deep respect for...

I ASKED two people who came round for a drink the other night if they minded listening to the last twenty minutes of the play on ITV. They were old enough friends to cry 'For...

OCTOBER 15, 1831 DAME PARTINGTON.—"The attempt of the House of Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm at Sidmouth, and the conduct of...

A Lamp for Labour BY GRAHAM HUTTON S OCIALISM and Conservatism have become too much alike to please Socialists and Conservatives; and they are in a bad way. While the Tories...

THE GERMAN SCENE. By Edmond Vermeil. Translated by L. J. Ludovici. (Harrap, 25s.) EDMOND VERMEIL, whose earlier work, Germany's Three Reichs, belongs to the standard literature...

MODERN ENGLISH PAINTERS. VOL II: Lewis to Moore. By Sir John Rothenstein. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 35s.) THE two volumes which the Director of the Tate Gallery has devoted to...

OF all the Socialists, Communists and anarchists who skirmished and bickered throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century Proudhon still seems the most sympathetic and...

I T may be said without malice that Mr. Hugh Ross Williamson's greatest service to the Church of England has so far been this autobiographical account, sincerely and...

THIS FEMININE WORLD. By Mrs. Robert Henrey. (Dent, 18s.) SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. By Mary Pickford. (Heinemann, 25s.) IN her latest book Mrs.. Robert Henrey has elected to lavish...

ME STORY OF THE R. AND A. By J. B. Salmond. (Macmillan, 28s.) `I was alone with my wife and we drifted towards Wimbledon Park.' Lord Brabazon is one of the few men living who...

AN APPROACH TO MODERN PHYSICS. By E. N. da C. Andrade. (Bell, 25s.) AN APPROACH TO MODERN PHYSICS. By E. N. da C. Andrade. (Bell, 25s.) the science of flashes and bangs, stands...

THE TRAIL OF THE BROKEN SNOWSHOE. By Margaret Goven. Illustrated by Donna Little. (Dent, 10s. 6d.) THE AQUALUNG TWINS FIND CHINESE TREASURE. By Frederick Falkner. Illustrated by...

ON the back of the title-page of Andersonville, by MacKinlaY Kantor (Allen, 20s.), is the announcement, 'Asterisks in the text denote words and passages which have been deleted...

BY IAN NIALL HARVEST continues here in October, as we expected, with wind and rain that make the gathering more difficult. The wind dries out the stooks but it is not easy to...

BY PHILIDOR No. 71. L. WOODWARD BLACK (6 men) WHITE (lb men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Goethart. R–R 31...

John Moore, whose work I have always admired, has written another excellent country book. It is called Come Rain, Come Shine (Collins, 18s.) and it is a meandering, delight- ful...

The wounded jackdaw hopped out of the Shrubbery across the road while I stood look- ing out of my bedroom window. Four others, Perched on the iron railing, watched the progress...

Final earthing up of leeks and celery should be done in a dry spell. If the latter have not been grown in a trench with this in mind they should be earthed by hoeing up in order...

Ry NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE question now being hotly debated in the City, as to when Mr. Macmillan should ease his disinflation policy, is not one which is likely to receive an...

BY CUSTOS, THIS was a good time to take a holiday from the City, for trading on the Stock Exchange has rarely been so idle. The market in industrial ordinary shares is reluctant...

ACROSS 1 Got a hair-cut on election day? (6) 4 'We are - down the ladder, rung by rung' (Kipling) (8). 9 June 14, 1645 (6). 10 Accommodation that doesn't seem sufficient for...

The usual prize was offered for a paragraph for October, 1956, on the lines of the well- known advertisements of one of the 'Big Five' banks, and parodying: Stephen Potter, J....

will be on sale /rot'? November 1. The usual prize is offered for a letter from the appropriate Civil Service department to citizens who with' draw their bonds-on similar lines...