HICEI side are we on? Anybody who thinks W the question is unnecessary should con- sider again the chorus of glee that greeted the discomfiture of the American Government over...

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an American photographer spying from the air on Soviet military secrets; the Royal yacht refrained from shooting down a Daily Express photo- grapher spying from the air on...

might make in time for the sumnit t which would do more than his present efforts to convince his three colleagues that the wa ll who ordered the Russian tanks into Budapes t is...

By BERNARD LEVIN IN case Mr. Gaitskell does not have enough to worry about al- ready, two recent studies of the Labour Party's electoral chances can be confidently recommended...

Where Do We Go From Here? By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP T tut story of Soviet-Western relations since the outbreak of the Cold War in 1946 falls into three phases. First there was...

From CYRIL RAY GIBRALTAR O N Wednesday a week ago, May 4, the Spanish authorities lifted the restrictions that have obtained, in one form or another, at the land frontier...

Forgotten in Tranquillity By MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE rT" HE first school I went to was kept by a Miss Monday. It was round the corner from where I lived, and in a semi-detached...

By KENNETH GREGORY Mr. Southcott inadvertently allowed, for the first time during his innings, a ball to strike his person. 'Out!' shrieked the venerable umpire before anyone...

SIR,-1 fear this correspondence is plunging so deep into detail that readers who do not have every back issue to hand must find it hard to follow the argu- ment. It also seems...

SIR,—A virtue of the Spectator is that it says what it feels as well as what it cautiously thinks. It is not confined within the limits of thin-lipped objec- tivity. But am I at...

Pill Fruit Juice I S INS a Record? Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust George Rylands and others V oluntary Service Projects Frank A. Judd The British Society of Aesthetics Sir...

lit,—The great majority of Masses in the Roman basilicas are said at side-altars by priests who turn their backs on the people, It is true, as Fr. McCabe remarks, that at some...

SIR,—Twenty-four years ago Maynard Keynes built a theatre at Cambridge at his own expense and soon after presented it in trust to the university and city. With next to no...

are "considerable pockets of undernourishment" is surely a masterly under- statement when more than a thousand million people in the world are in fact undernourished.' Is it not...

if you would draw the attention of your readers to a proposal to form a ' British Society of Aesthetics. The purpose of the Society is to promote study, research, discussion and...

a glass? What comes out is orange juice. —Yours faithfully, CYRIL RAY

a pleasant enough drink and is a good cheap substitute for the commercial squashes but it does not resemble the real fruit juice craved by Leslie Adrian.—Yours faithfully, 3...

lady at Aldershot who was attempting to play the piano continuously for 132 hours, and asks whether this is a record (not, of course, for piano-playing, but for lunacy). It is...

SIR.—An interesting feature of World Refugee Year has been the evidence of large numbers of people anxious to offer voluntary service to those in need or distress. The files of...

Savage World By ALAN BRIEN Over The Bridge. (Late of the Prince's Theatre.) Over the Bridge was billed as 'the controver- sial Belfast shipyard play.' This was a fair...

By SIMON HODGSON WHEN a Royal Academy exhibition becomes excit- ing it has begun to lose its usefulness. I said last year that soundness, dull- ness even, reasonableness and...

Ageless Juvenile By PETER FORSTER Quite why Granada, With its bias of evangelism leavened with sophistication, should have chosen to disinter this ageless juvenile is rather a...

Virgin Soil B y ISABEL QUIGLY Flamenco and As Long as the Head Beats. Continentale.) — A Terrible Beauty. (Lon- don Pavilion.) You don't need to know much about it to see two...

The Ghost of Hector By DAVID CAIRNS Within the rather unimaginative context of the original production, many of the faults of th is revival are totally unnecessary and born of...

Waterloo. By John Naylor. (Batsford, 21s.) The Last Years of Napoleon. By Ralph Korn- gold. (Gollancz, 25s.) The St. Helena Story. By Dame Mabel Brookes. (Heinemann, 30s.)...

_ Poems. By William Plomer. (Cape, 18s.) LONG, long before consolidation was the cry, long before the Movement, William Plomer was writing verses that kept a tight rein on both...

A Clergyman's Daughter. By George Orwell, (Secker and Warburg, 18s.) SOMETHING odd happens to Orwell's novel on page ninety-six. After a leisurely opening that takes Dorothy,...

LORD HALDANE was described by Haig as 'the greatest Secretary of State for War England has ever had,' and by Lloyd George as 'the most confusing clever man I have ever known.'...

N ationalism and the Right °Wing in japan. By Ivan Morris. (0.U.P., 50s.) IN many ways the faint, rabble-rousing of the r,i)°st-War Japanese right locks pathetically funny. do...

Kentish Family. By Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Hugessen. (Methuen, 63s.) English Genealogy. By Anthony Richard Wagner. (0.U.P., 55s.) THE story of the Knatchbulls is one repeated,...

Hy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is a pity that Members of Parliament, when they were debating the second reading of the Finance Bill, had not had the advantage of reading the article...

From Our Industrial Correspondent ute National Committee of the Amalgamated I Engineering Union, having sentenced Mr. Gaitskell to four months of sleepless nights over his...

By CUSTOS it tht eCt S it T HE issue of a Jamaica Government loan a 64 per cent. coupon at 991 (1978 -80 another reminder that dear long-term mo o now accepted by all the...

PROPERTY rest of the equity market, but share- s company shares have suffered a fall m l the in well-managed companies, soundly e ased, have nothing to fear. I ,Western Ground...

ACROSS 1 Gift for example in rough clay (6) 4 It gets one so ruffled (8) 10 So a move can be made to depart (7) 11 0 let's get mixed up in writing (7) 12 Attraction shown by...

ACROSS.-1 Champagnes. 6 Scab. 10 Patti. 11 Ostracise. 12 Look over. 13 Pamela. 15 Mike. 16 Ha-ha. 17 Ascot. 20 Rotor. 21 Espy. 22 Brer. 24 Osprey, 26 Scramble, 29 Embrocate. 30...

Supermarketeering By KATHARINE WHITEHORN MECHANICAL handling is something which every woman hopes to attain for the food and the • laundry; and avoid for herself and the...

Meet the Architect By KENNETH J. ROBINSON WHAT is an architect? When eager young Brian Cooper asks that ques- tion in Brian Decides on Building (a Chatto and Windus Career Book...

Over There By LESLIE ADRIAN I HAVE just returned from a trip across the United States and first noticed how well consumers are doing there when I found that, in some juke...

when I first tasted it, Yugoslav traminer came on to th e British market during 1 959 ' and I have been renewing roY acquaintance with it. Like th e Alsatians, the Yugoslays...