down; the firing in the Straits of Formosa flared up. The pattern of house divided against house can through the week, until the more sensational news- ' papers were hard...

A PPEASEMENT was not always a pejorative term; Sir Anthony Eden ,used to employ it to describe his policy when he was Foreign Secretary before his resignation in 1938: But it...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1958

• • By RICHARD H. ROVERE LAST Thursday, the President summoned Mr. Dulles to New- port, where Mr. Eisenhower is fishing and golfing for an in- definite period; and the two men...

G ENERAL DE GAULLE will win his referendum and France will accept the oddest constitu- tion in Europe. It was always likely that the majority would vote for it, because most...

By J. E. M. ARDEN A NEW and apparently sinister piece of evi- dence has recently come to light about this, one of the most horrible and—still—mysterious racialist crimes of...

SEPTEMBER 14, 1833 A GREAT portion of the aged tree under which the farce of-electing Members for Old Sarum took place, was blown down in the course of Friday week.— Salisbury...

The Brahms was Better I N the Taper Collection of Seaside Mayors, now on view at Wildenstein's, public attention has naturally been focused upon Alderman Grimble- deston of...

in the yearbook of the Soviet Encyclopmdia, which shows that the Russians are enthusiastic categorisers, in Mr. Allsop's vein. The main trend covered is the Lucky Dzhims—the...

is opened by the addressee and not by anybody else, then he can put 'Private' on the envelope. But this is not necessarily an intimation that the con- tents are for the...

about what, if anything, is the distinc- tion between `Personal,' Private' and 'Confiden- tial' on correspondence. It seems to me that they have, or ought to have, three quite...

EVER SINCE SUEZ, Ministers and Government back-benchers have been telling us with some monotony that this country was not and would not be a satellite of America. So . much for...

even more successful politician if he were a less good politician. He has a way of finding rationalisations to justify what his party has or has not done : they are usually...

that grew up around him greatly enlarged the office of Lord Chief Justice of England. It had certainly grown too big to be filled by the Attorney-General, who may perhaps be...

enough without speeches of the kind the Chief of Air Staff made in Sheffield on Monday. `If the Chinese start using nuclear weapons,' said Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle,...

By .CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS What is needed today, and what is singularly lacking, is a courteous and objective inquiry, free from personal anecdote, on the lines of Bagehot, into...

By HAROLD CHAMPION N 1953 few observers of the Jamaican political I scene, least of all Norman Washington Manley, would have prophesied the defeat of Alektinder Bustamante's...

By BRIAN INGLIS In 1948 the Louisville Free Public Library opened its main building to negroes and in 1952 its ten neighbourhood branches. In 1950 the University of Louisville...

By WALTER TAPLIN N o doubt one should be careful about using the word 'saint.' There was certainly nothing obtrusively religious about Mrs. Gage, though some of those she...

a black suit, shuffling his adjectives like a con-man with other people's banknotes, made a tinted out- burst about Blackpool Illuminations. Th' Lights, he said, were not only a...

Purple Patch By ALAN BRIEN burgh.) TYRONE (itratale is the Mike Todd of the British theatre. No play is ever quite big enough, loud enough, bright enough, confusing enough for...

Art EVERYONE looked hunted to start with. Scoured and buttoned into cascades of frills or into crisp white shirts with Bavarian braces, they wondered why they had come. Was...

Festival Tristan By DAVID CAIRNS AFTER the deep trauma inflicted by Covent Garden's Tristan, the Stuttgart performance at Edin- burgh is pure balm. No one can say that it is...

Fake Primitive By ISABEL QUIGLY God's Little Acre. (London Pavilion.)—No Time at All. (Leicester Square Theatre.)— The Decks Ran Red. (Em- pire.)—The Crimson Curtain and The...

Black and White- TV By PETER FORSTER THESE off-peak weeks for ad- vertisers seem to mean that ITV's commercials must con- stantly emit that demonstrably untrue little jingle...

Xenophobia By MILES HOWARD S OCIETY, like the individual, has its recurrent disorders, and hate of the alien is one of them. The present state of this disorder in Britain is...

Half-Baked By LESLIE ADRIAN To my mind, the real cause of the decline lies in the growth of the chain bakeries. In the first place, good bread cannot be mass-produced. Nobody...

By STRIX rrt trn , is one of my favourite characters in literature. I enjoy every line on the twenty- three pages which, in Some People, Sir Harold Nicolson devotes to his...

I have just received the following letter from a French African in Paris : As a Negro myself, I have read your letter in the Spectator with great displeasure. The pith of your...

The . Futility of Force M. G. lonides Paul Robeson and Racialism 'Bola Ige Purging Intellectuals J. E. M. Arden VTOL and Noise Robert S. W. Pollard Racial Intolerance Roland...

SIR,—I was very interested in Mr. Oliver Stewart's article on 'VTOL at Farnborough.' The fact that technical developments are making it possible for aeroplanes to ascend and...

his account of the controversy in Encounter seems to resemble only rather tenuously what was actually printed there. Those interested in all these side-issues may care to refer...

issue of September 5) that 'from being a city which was, at least to outward appearances, quite respectable, London has developed into a hive of prostitutes. . . How many have...

SIR,—In your surprisingly equivocal comment on the recent outbreak of racial intolerance you suggest that it has something to do with the failure of the Government to implement...

Council is `Kafka-like.' Clearly, one of the statements of his criticism must have re- ceived inspiration from the Castle. He writes in the Spectator for September 5: . . ....

S1R,—I am afraid that in last week's issue Pharos was responsible for some rather misleading statements which need correction. The letters of Professor Fisher he refers to...

'defending the indefensible' may be doubted by those who have any direct knowledge of South African affairs, but the reference to the late Prime Minister, Hans Strydom, in 'A...

SIR,—As a housewife there is nothing I wish more than to learn that the Egg Marketing Board has been scrapped. Why should the sadly overburdened taxpayer foot the bill for an...

Sta.—Doubtless neither the author nor your re- viewer of Lord of the Flies are men of science, or they would have realised that the substitution of 'short-sighted' spectacles...

books by the television powers that be (Spectator, August 29). Lest your readers think that Publishers do nothing, this is hardly so. A body of • Publicity boys and girls...

SIR.—Again and again in the Spectator• one sees an advertisement for Shell County Guides, edited by John Betjeman; and in the list, one on Devonshire. Can you tell me where...

Self-Knowledge BY D. W. HARDING T HE centenary in 1956 of Freud's birth was not a favourable moment for assessing his achievement. His active work had not long been ended. His...

Brief to Counsel. By Henry Cecil, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, with foreword by the Hon. Mr. Justice Devlin. (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) MR. HENRY CECIL'S anxiety to impart...

'Fasant on 'The Welfare State.' By Richard M. Titmuss. (George Allen and Unwin, 20s.) THE hunger for a more than superficial know- ledge of the society in which we live has...

Stalingrad. By Heinz Schriiter. (Michael Joseph, 25s.) Auritouatt his book on the Battle of the Bulge is sloppily written, Robert E. Merriam—who served in the Historical...

The Late Augustans, Longer Poems of the Later Eighteenth Century. Edited with an intro- duction and notes by Donald Davie. (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) THE poetry written between the...

WI-u.:tv the mass of the people no longer wants the liberty which the middle classes won for it, then through the neglected forms of free politics Caesars come. Mr. de Riencourt...

London's Riverside: Past, Present and Future. By Eric de Marc. (Reinhardt, 30s.) THERE are still those who sniff, in more senses than one, at French domestic plumbing. But...

Reflections on the Psalms. By C. S. Lewis. (Dies, 12s. 6d.) PROFESSOR LEWIS uses Coverdale's translation of the Psalms, the one we have in the Pia* Book, because it is so...

No Spartan He The Voyage Home. By Ernst Schnabel. (Gollancz, 13s. 6d.) Louis AUCHINCLOSS, to explain the title of his new novel, Venus in Sparta, quotes an observation of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE end of October or, at the latest, the beginning of Novem- ber is the time I have marked in my diary for the start of the Government measures to re-...

Mythisc, II Digital. 12 Ovcrniccly. 13 Miss. 15 Zephyrs. 17 Blushed. 19 Engross. 21 Ermines. 23 Ossa. 24 Catnnerdown. 27 Tornado. 28 Trireme. 29 Picayune. 30 Dennis. DOWN.-I...

By CUSTOS A BELATED summer calm has fallen on the ,.stock markets, but what brokers call the 'undertone' is still very firm and everyone is agreed that British securities, both...

T RONOH MINES cheered the tin market wi th its good results for 1957, having doubled It s net profits and stepped up the dividend frost 2s. 41d. to 3s. (60 per cent.) on the 5s....

ACROSS 1 This form of transport can develop ice (10) 6 How and wherein to find the sluggard (4) 10 The wanderer with a heavy tread (5) 11 Regimental neckwear? (9) 12 1 threaten...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 445 ; Report by W. May Byron The usual prize of six guineas was offered for aid amusing piece of prose in not more than-seventy-five. words of one...

reminder, by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, that it was illegal to fish for goldfish in a goldfish bowl. The usual prizes are offered for the best sets of verses in...