T HE announcement by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons of the further steps the British and French Governments propose to take to resolve the Suez crisis will have come...

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By Our Middle East Correspondent Cairo B Y the third day of Mr. Menzies's visit to Cairo, when both sides had explained their positions and the first exchanges of views had...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE New York A FEW days ago, Kennett Love of the London bureau d the New York Times introduced to his readers an excellent word, 'resile,' which is to be found...

T HE week ended as it began, with the Suez crisis. The recall of Parliament was an expected and obvious preparation for the equally expected failure of the Menzies Committee's...

WORLD CHAMPION heavy-weight wrestler John Bland . . . took a fall. As he rose his kilt fell off. And there he stood in his trim, white football shorts.—Daily Mirror. . . . his...

BY CHARLES CURRAN rpREASURY investigators, I am told, have been visiting 1 the United States in order to examine the capital gains tax machinery there. For something may have...

me the other day, rather against my will, to gd to 'Rock Around the Clock' at the Elephant and Castle. But I must say I enjoyed the experience. The film is a judicious mixture...

War Office that he had not notified it of his / address for 1956, sent the required information and added that he had changed his name on succeeding to his father's peerage. The...

the ridiculous affair of the discus-throwing lady to a sensible conclusion. The Director of Public Prosecutions hasn't made up his mind and the police are still fussing about. I...

seems to have allowed ill temper to get the better of him when he named the murderer in Miss Agatha Christie's latest who- dunit. I can't blame him for not being thrilled to the...

WHEN, LAST MONTH, the Independent Television Authority lamented .that it could not ensure a proper balance on com- mercial television programmes, unless it was paid the £750,000...

BY JOHN VAIZEY A CTUARIES have a high status in modern life. Most normal people hate mathematics and are terrified of sums so they always believe in actuaries and try to do what...

BY ANTHONY HARTLEY C ZECHOSLOVAKIA has, by all accounts, changed less than many other East European States since the twentieth congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The...

BY J. A. TERRAINE OU see them still, all over the country : cracked, chipped, decapitated, tilted, overturned or still upright amid the undergrowth beside roads and bridges and...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I DOUBT if archmology was ever more popular than now. This is something to do with television. But it is also because archwology is a science and not...

I was reading an agreeably ridiculous school story called Play the Game, published, I should think, about 1912. I bought it for the charming colour illustrations which were the...

P: How good of you to come !' I exclaimed for the fourteenth time. Id iss a brivelege,' replied Ronnie in a preternaturally guttural accent. He was wearing a dark-green ulster...

SIR, — May one suggest that although most of the qualities attributed to G. K. Chesterton by Mr. Paul Jennings arc not to be denied, Mr. Kingsley Amis may still be right? At...

SIR, — Mr. Rodger has written an article which will win sympathy for its breadth of vision, but in calling, by implication, for the aboli- tion of parties within the Church, he...

Investigating Orwell T. R. Fyvet Against Churchmanship Rev, Roy Herbert Cranwell Week A Cranwell Parent Chesterton Brian F. Glanville Courage and the Countryside Enid Airy...

SIR, — On April 27 you published a paragraph giving instances of the bullying of new junior entrants by gangs of seniors at Cranwell. You will now rejoice to hear that I am told...

Mr. Besjeman has voiced the feelings of many thousands of people who work voluntarily to preserve our heritage. Voluntary work is tradi- tional, often held together by the...

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Bishop Gore and mentions a number of leading mediaeval theologians who accepted the doctrine of the Immaculate Con- ception. His admission that they were not all prepared to...

I HAVE been reproached for making no mention of Independent Television News in the course of a recent diatribe on commercial pro- grammes. I was only being tactful; when one is...

Windows for Coventry IN three weeks' time the six windows now on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum will go into storage until the Cathedral is ready to receive them early...

CEDIPUS: one man's tragedy is another man's complex No one has mentioned Freud, but in his centenary year his influence must have been more than usually potent. Altogether we...

CONTINENTAL film festivals seldom pass with- out international bad temper and a lot of com- mercial publicity of 'cheesecake' or other varieties. The thirteen days of the...

TIMON OP ATHENS. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) HOWEVER unsatisfactory Tinton of Athens may be as a play, it none the less contains some of Shakespeare's most mature poetry,...

which some critics have mauled A River Breeze is hard to understand. Admittedly it is an undistinguished example of that old-style West End farcical comedy which Nathan once...

THE title of Indian Ballet is, of course, a mistake; as the forms of Indian music and drama differ totally from those of our civilisa- tion. so its dances. in their style and...

OKLAHOMA I (Odeon, Leicester Square.)— INVITATION TO THE DANCE and THE MAGIC LAMP. (Ritz.)—THE PROUD AND PROFANE. (Plaza.) Oklahoma! filmed is at least as exuberant as the...

Business and Biography BY CHARLES WILSON I N the early Victorian age, when men still lived in the shadow of Malthusian prediction of famine, poverty and death, biographies of...

A HISTORY OF POLAND. By O. Halecki. (Dent, 21s.) THIS is a famous book, the work of a scholar of international renown. Originally written in French, and published in Paris in...

BLACK POWER. By Richard Wright. (Dennis Dobson, 25s.) PAN-AFRICANISM OR COMMUNISM? By George Padmore. (Dennis Dobson, 25s.) THE first two of these three books are by coloured...

I AM A MATHEMATICIAN: An Autobiography. By Norbert Wiener. (Gollancz, 21s.) THOSE who normally confine their reading to 'culture' might well sample Professor Wiener's book as a...

THE NEW BEING. By Paul Tillich. (S.C.M. Press, 10s. 6d.) 'Do not call yourselves Lutherans,' said Luther. 'Call yourselves Christians.' St. Paul found it necessary to address a...

THE STORY OF THOMAS MORE. By John Farrow. (Collins, 18s.) To the making of books on Sir Thomas More there appears to be no end. So one has the right to ask what fresh...

IT is safe to say that no critic, not even Matthew Arnold himself, ever tried 'to see the object as in itself it really is,' although he may help others to do so. The critic, as...

OUR hearts go out to those earnest members of the younger generation who, while striving to keep pace with the talked-of fiction of today, feel constrained to make acquaintance...

WHY I'M NOT A MILLIONAIRE. By Nancy Spain. (Hutchinson, 16s.) MISS NANCY SPAIN'S memoirs are something of a mystery to me. They are written, as we all know, by a successful...

SEPTEMBER 17, 1831 . . We are most unwilling, at so critical a period, to embarrass the Government by any recommendation or reflection which could remotely involve its...

A friend writes to offer some useful advice about handling a wasp nest. 'You will doubt- less be interested to know that DDT powders are available in forms suitable for treating...

BY IAN NIALL MY angling outings take me far into the hills, and I usually fish, with an interval for a snack, for at least eight hours during which I see no one, and hear only...

British championship is that every other year it overlaps with the International Team Tournament, so that it is held with six of the leading players absent and any victory is...

Herbaceous borders are a delight in a gar- den and to establish a good border one must plant with the nature of the soil particularly in mind. The ground should be well drained,...

BY PI-1ILIDOR No. 67. G. GUIDELLT ,„ 0 „ mate in two moves: solution next week. g Solution to last week's problem by Fink and Tane: R-B 8!, no threat. 1 . . . Kt x P; 2 Kt-B 7...

ACROSS 1 Exercise, for the Gunners? (6) 4 Not on strike, this poet (8). 10 William's deeply in debt, we hear (7). 11 Get equipped for war? Rather! With bands! (7) 12 'What...

Set by Blossom • The usual prize of six guineas is offered for original contributions for inclusion in a highly improbable anthology 'Now We Are Sixty-Six,'. on the lines of A....

The usual prize of six guineas was offered for a translation of Annette von Droste Hillshoffs poem, 'Santis : Herbts.' Wenn ich an einem schonen Tag Der Mittagstunde habe acht...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THOSE who study the chart of the index of industrial share prices have been impressed by the fact that the recent downward swing stopped short of the...

BY CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange has often been called a casino by unfriendly critics, but the only occasion when it behaves like one is when international politics intervene and...