Ending in Albany? Murray Kempton Mere Wealth in America D. W. Brogan Lollipop Went the Weasel Bernard Levin The Scottish Economy Stephen Fay

down, but sweetmeats went up: there were no changes an the duty on tobacco; motor-cars became cheaper and suits and sofas dearer; the tax on speculative gains didn't seem to...

M R. SELWYN LLOYD's second Budget leaves the frontiers of the economy virtually unaltered. Within the territory, however, there has been a good deal of boundary changing....

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T IIE 90 per cent. vote in favour of President de Ciaulle's Algerian policy demonstrates decisively how little red support the partisans • of 'French Algeria' enjoy in NI...

T liE tortuous arguments on a European political union which have been going on among the Six members of the EEC since last July may now be coming to an end. Some kind of...

T ar: appeal sent to Mr. Khrushchev by Presi- dent Kennedy and Mr. Macmillan is evi- dently a last-minute attempt to avoid the resump- tion of nuclear testing as well as an...

MHE distinguished members of the Radcliffe Committee on security procedures can hardly be accused of a fondness for witch-hunting, and some of their findings should therefore...

T HE re-arrest of Milovan Djilas comes as an unpleasant reminder that Yugoslavia, mild though its regime may be in comparison With those in force in other East European...

T 'THANKS in large measure to the skill and per- il sistence of Mr. Maudling, the Kenya con- ference has escaped shipwreck, and disputes as to whether or not the resulting...

From MURRAY KEMPTON ALBANY, NY A NY visitor to Governor Nelson Rockefeller at his seat in Albany almost has to think of Grant at Galena or Dick Diver in the Finger- lakes....

i.e., on Thursday, Apr4 19.

Lollipop Went the Weasel By BERNARD LEVIN And, talking of green leather, once again the sight whose significance is only apparent when the House is full, living prbof of the...

'The truth about the plot for which Zinoviev, Kamenev and the others were executed, we do not know . . . very likely there was a plot. . . A social revolution is accompanied...

comment is bound to be uncomplimentary, we may as well try to get the record straight to be- gin with. Erpf is certainly an evangelising capitalist, a proselytising believer in...

Mr. Yvor Winters, the American poet and critic of whom I wrote last week, is great on 'importance.' He certainly wouldn't go for Ian Hamilton Finlay's Glasgow Beasts An A Burd...

O N Monday one of my favourite tycoons was dining with me, and 1 thought as he talked that some British publisher, all unsuspecting as yet, perhaps, is in for a brisk and...

Because he who begat liked the name. —A salty name, he said. —Call me Ishmael, said I sourly. —You're too clever by half, said he, like 1 Ii politician you've got so many...

Before I pass on this gossip I must confess that I've made no attempt to check its authenticity. It happened some time ago when the Queen was lunching at Trinity College,...

I had on Monday with Mr. Antonin Buzek, ex- head of the Czechoslovak news agency in Lon- don, who has asked for political asylum here. Mr. Buzek was emphatic about the success...

By D. W. BROGAN RNEST, the rich are different from us.' 'Yes, Scott, they have more money.' I don't claim to have given the ipsissima verba of this conversation between Scott...

By STEPHEN FAY T HE Scottish economy is a lame duck. It is unbalanced, plagued by inertia and lack of initiative. It is different from the English economy, but it relies on the...

By NEVILLE VINCENT p ORTUGAL, member of NATO and the Atlantic Alliance and part of the 'free world,' is probably one of the most i misunder- stood nations in Europe. J-ohn...

able up to now to rely on one thing alone—namely, the confident assurance that a word from the Chairman of the UGC was as good as a cheque in the Bursary'—he would seem to have...

7'he Master of Sidney .Susse x College, Cambridge, 'Graduate' Mr. Robert Edwards Peter Forster The Invasion 01 Landicea • Anthony Blond, John F. Elkin, John Pudney Hymns as...

there is 'an awkward water- mark of truth' about a publisher being a 'well- connected personage who takes his time over a good lunch, but is not specially competent at spotting...

SIR,—On January 26, I wrote a television article, the first paragraph of which could be read as a tribute (which in this sense was perfectly sincere) to Mr. Jimmy Edwards, but I...

issue of last week, but I think he does less than justice to the efforts of the publishing trade to remedy what he calls 'the chaos of its distribution system.' Apart from the...

Sta,---Recently I called in at the Central Lobby of the Houses of Parliament to leave three personal letters for three different MPs, to learn that only one unstamped letter can...

SIR,—Katharine Whitehorn's article in your publi- cation of March 23 (I received it only today) pin- points the many difficulties and problems that beset a wife when she becomes...

SIR,—It is a little surprising to find a liturgical manual, intended for practical parochial use, sand- wiched in one review between volumes of poetry (one of them by Samuel...

SIR,—Mr. John Rosselli in his fair, depressing and accurate review of the state of British publishing omits only to comment on the arrival of the non. book. I mean the sort of...

to answer a critical review, might first read what the reviewer wrote. In 4 Scattering of Dust, Mr. Herb Green indicated that the 1945 Skif rising was provoked by the French...

Parmee wonders why the works of European novelists such as Queiroz, Galdos, Baroja, Storm and Fontane are not available in English translation. There is a very simple reason. As...

The Great Bed of Turenne By BAMBER GASCOIGNE The facts don't fit this picture. Paris may have produced as many playwrights as London in the past decade, but they are hardly a...

SIR.—May I record the delight of another Gael at Colin MacKay's condemnation of the great Wart. William Cobbett, too, warned us of the great dangers of this great city with its...

Hate-Feast By ISABEL QUIGLY Viridiana. (Curzon.) `Viridiana is at the Curzon,' as the posters about London are saying: uncut (though pretty dimly subtitled) and preceded by...

A Flying Kick By CLIFFORD HANLEY WE mustn't imagine we have finished with the high-level fuss over television violence. Now that it has been estab- lished on ministerial...

T HE mistake, with Delius's opera, as so often, I is to compare it with something else. Com- pared with Tristan and Isolde his lovers are poor pale figures, shadowy and...

Some of Our Best Friends BY 1A1N HAMILTON T HE twentieth century was invented in America; and, although Europe must take a large share of responsibility for ihis invention, it...

The Children of Sanchez. By Oscar Lewis. (Seeker and Warburg, 36s.) OSCAR LEWIS is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois. This extraordinary book, over 500...

The Colonial Reckonin g . By Margery Perham. (Collins, 13s. 6d.) MARGERY PERHAM'S Keith lectures should be read and meditated by anyone interested in the future or in the past...

As NEWMAN'S biographer, Miss Trevor excites both one's envy and one's sympathy. Her subject is perhaps more continuously and variously interesting than any other man of his age;...

Ralegh and the Throckmortons. By A. L. Rowse. (Macmillan, 35s.) THIS book is written around a diary kept by Sir Arthur Throckmorton between 1578 and 1595, and between 1609 and...

As If She Were Mine. By Alex Hamilton (Hut- chinson New Authors, 18s.) The Favourite. By Frangoise Mallet-Joris. Trans- lated by Herma Briffault. (W. H. Allen, 16s.) MARK...

MOST of this month's offerings are thrillers but there's one really good detection from Patricia Moyes, who steadily improves. Backgrounds, always good (ski-ing, sailing), now...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT A GREAT sigh of relief went up from the City when it found that the capital gains tax-so recently talked up to elephantine proportions-had become the mouse...

By CUSTOS T in, Stock Exchange welcomed the Budget and prices generally advanced. Prices of the confectionery and soft-drinks shares were marked down, but motor and component...

Copper-Bottomed By ELIZABETH DAVID IRRITATION at the fre- quency with which I had to take my copper cooking utensils to Soho for retinning caused me, some years ago, to sWap...

fr HE Earl of Derby gives his first report as 1 chairman of TWVV Ltd. (Independent Tele- vision for South Wales and the West of England). This is the first year of operation of...

By CYRIL RAY IT was in Lahore of all places and, of all newspapers, in the Civil and Military Gazette, Kipling's paper, that I read last week of the West Pakistan Government's...

i T was cold lager beer, quite rightly, with the luncheon curry at our High Commissioner's hospitable board in Karachi last week, but in the evening, with a European-style...