cam- paigns. Mr. Macmillan's pamphlet on the Six became an immediate best-seller, even though not published by the family firm. Meanwhile the Tories tramped out to Llandudno for...

T was to be expected that the end of the I Algerian war would be followed by a political crisis in France. Throughout the Fourth Repub- lic (and, indeed, throughout the Third)...

T + HE decision of the American International Longshoremen's Association to boycott all ships of any line whose vessels call at Cuban ports may make the blockade of President...

HE proposals put forward by the MondaY 1 Club * for the selective membership of t he House of Lords must be among the most foolish to .appear from any political group for manY...

U HE Conservative Party Conference at Llan- dudno is meeting in a more confident atmo- sphere than seemed possible even two weeks ago. The latest findings of the National Public...

T HE settlement of the steel strike and the announcement of a second railway strike have made this a week of both hope and anxiety in labour relations. The steel story is...

T HOUGH American foreign aid will he $14 million more than last year and, after strenuous lobbying, $300 million more than allotted by the House of Representatives, there are...

C HRISTIANS all over the world are praying about the Vatican Council which, symbo- lised by the benevolent personality of Pope John, has already had a press out of all ,...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT member of the Bundestag with the improbable name of Majonica has pulled into the open a matter that Foreign Minister Schroeder...

By our Common Market Correspondent C OMEWHERE in that cat's-cradle that is the calendar of the Common Market a small thread of meetings can be found running through the...

By HENRY FAIRLIE N event whose importance it is still impos- sible to calculate has taken place in the past week. The leaders of the two major political parties in Britain...

on the Air I notice that the Labour Party is coming in for a good deal of criticism for its reaction to Kenneth Harris's questioning of George Brown on BBC Television last...

Since Ian Fleming's James Bond is something of a national institution, and since I am In- curably an addict, 1 went with some curiosity to see the film of Dr. No, Bond's first...

I am all for people being warned against the possible consequences of smoking too many cigarettes, but some of the propaganda at present being put out to this end seems to me...

realised that it might arouse controversy. It did, and, just for the sake of the record, I should like to say (1) that I am not an adept of any theory of eugenics, and (2) that...

rack-renting landlord class in Europe.' For Brian Inglis in his autobiography West Briton (Faber, 25s.) they are not quite that. More `golf- protestants' than...

Writ not one to wish politicians to be mealy- mouthed or to deny them the intoxication of rhetoric, but I do think that they should occa- sionally look over their shoulder to...

TUFTON BEAMISH, MP* By SIR N ow you've spent a month in Australia and New Zealand, I suppose you'll go home and write a book about us,' said an old friend who was bidding me...

By HEDLEY BULL I N the perspective of history, once a new Weapon has been shown to be of decisive im- portance in war and international politics, its subsequent acquisition by...

Maurice Butterworth. Michael Kirkham Castro's Cuba Alfred Sherman Gascoigne on O'Casey E. Goldsworthy Spare Parts B. Duncan German Pipe-Dreams Sarah Gainham Domestic Utility...

sec the commercial TV production of The Plough and the Stars. With the memory of that production in mind, especially Jack McGowran, Mr. Gascoigne's article seems to be about...

or to 'Mr. Boston I must bow deeply in shame. I have no desire to be offensive to anybody dedicated to uplift --of merchandise or busts. Daily. I order piece-parts, not major...

looking for opposition if he expects anyone to dismiss his formidable list of arts and media of communication in all their manifestations. All one need ask is—does Mr. Martin...

in which he celebrated so pompously-, but prematurely, the death of the New Left, I should like to point out some characteristic instances of an unargued defeatism underlying...

`one-sidedness' throw more light on his own state of mind than on either Cuba or my articles. Though granting my facts to be correct, he insists that I should have found an...

Sut, — Mr. Kenneth Adam did me more than justice (in your admirable 7,000th anniversary issue) and this minor correction is offered as an act of justice to someone else. I do...

Writers and Patrons By FRANK TUOHY rr HE thirteenth Festival of Literature at Chet- '. tenham, which ended last Saturday, attracted more enthusiasm and larger audiences than...

Sut, — Starbuck has some good fun in your issue of October 5 with a new Russian novel whose hero is reprimanded by a waiter who says, 'Young man, you have just insulted a...

independence as a nation and taking her place with other adult members of the Commonwealth it is disappointing to find you printing an article which suggests that she is still...

comment on the letter from Herr Kurtz about Berlin. The present Berlin problem, that is to say, the one existing since November, 1959, and s harpened since August 13, 1961, is...

Ste,—What steps are being taken to safeguard the jobs of the customs officers at the ports dealing with continental traffic if we enter the Common Market? Should they not stage...

The Old Vic and the National Theatre By BAMBER GASCOIGNE ONE night last year I was watching a production at the Old Vic which had the most magnificent costumes. Kings, cardi-...

Ireland, Your Ireland By STEPHEN FAY DUBLIN entered the theatre festival stakes as long ago as 1957, yet the Festival still man- ages to retain its early euphoria. Only the...

Movies on Show By IAN CAMERON Rendezvous at Midnight and Crime and Punishment 1962. (Cameo-Poly.)—The FOR film critics, this week has been just like the good old days when...

Anger, God and Glossies By CLIFFORD HANLEY VIEWING for the houseboun d loafer threw up another little pearl last week when the 11 0 C lunchtime programme Let's Imagine...

Of Alan Reynolds By NEVILE WALLIS Is it necessary to know any- thing of an artist's life in order to appreciate his work? The short answer must be in the negative. Yet how...

Two Sicilies BY SYBILLE BEDFORD HIS violence of landscape, this cruelty of Climate, . . . even these monuments of t he Past • • . standing round us like mute ghosts, all those...

`WHERE are we going? Where indeed are we going?' asked the trade union leader with a national reputation in my presence at Brighton last week. He was not being plaintive. He wa...

Ma. Joint BOwEN's latest novel is about birds in a golden cage. The birds are highly sophisti- cated, highly sensitive Peter Ash and Norah Palmer. Their cage is the world of...

FRED M AJDALANY has written a convenient, intelligent journalist's description of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. By gathering into one fairly short book accounts of the settler...

T he Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce. Edited by George Harris Healey. (Faber, 21s.) THE kind of Joyce worship which would make the number of visits he paid to the lavatory an...

writing his stories under the dateline 'Peking,' he incurred the wrath of Time for reporting the positive features of the Chinese scene, and that of the Communist officials for...

01- all of Hollywood's stars, Clark Gable is the only one whose hold on the box-office com- pletely mystified me. Brando, after all, gives off an effect of brooding strength;...

Dear soul, whenever you may conic upon the rest that's missing, do reshape my body at its best— aged thirty-three or thereabouts, or rising forty. well before it stales into a...

Sherlock Holmes: A Bio g raphy. By William S. Baring-Gould. (Rupert Hart-Davis, 25s.) The Sherlock Holmes Companion. By Michael and Mollie Hardwick. (John Murray, 21s.) ON...

OF course the new writers must be read, and thankfully often they turn out well. But what a pleasure, what a relief sometimes to settle down with the good old favourites, and...

LONDON SHOP PROPERTY LIMITED YEAR OF PROGRESS THE Thirty-first Annual General Meeting of the London Shop Property Trust, Ltd., was held on October 4 in London, Sir Cyril Black,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT This was the general picture Mr. Maudling drew. An improved position abroad with sterling stronger and exports increasing (about 6 per cent. over the past...

Oules of Sardines By ELIZABETH DAVID By 1824 Joseph Colin had established a sardine-tinning factory in the Rue des Salorges at Nantes. The birth of the industry was attended by...

BEKOH CONSOLIDATED RUBBER ESTATES SATISFACTORY CROP Tur. Forty-Second Annual General. Meeting of Bekoh Consolidated Rubber Estates Limited was held on October 10 in London, Mr....

Mr. D. G. N. Lloyd-Lowles, chairman of , T ap and Die Corporation, is that profits have been maintained by reason of the company's ` st r °rIg overseas sales; these increased by...

By LESLIE ADRIAN ACCORDING to the experts we shall never have a self-opening can. It would be too costly. Nor, I am told, will the frozen- food industry ever completely replace...