BY EVELYN WAUGH

W HERE was the RB47 shot down (if it was), and what was it doing there? The first American statement, approved by President Eisenhower, insisted that—unless the aeroplane's crew...

a United States aircraft, from a British base, miss- 11 g for ten days, had been shot down by a Soviet tighter over Soviet territorial waters. Mr. Khrush- Fhev put on a somewhat...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY R ATHER than apportion blame for the anarchy into which it has fallen, it is better to say that the Congo has been unlucky. Unlucky in having suffered a...

in Africa (2) by EVELYN WAUGH also The Spectator's 58th Financial Survey

rrwo companies have announced that they I would like to bring Pay TV, formerly known as Pay-as-you-view TV. to the British public, as soon as the legislative and technical...

From RICHARD IJ. ROV ERIE NEW YORK E V the time this appears, the Democrats will 'almost surely have picked their man. Mr. Nixon will know his opponent's identity, and the...

The Home Secretary's Ruling By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS The Committee of the MCC has asked Mr. Butler, the Home Secretary, for his ruling on the throwing controversy. In response to...

From MICHAEL LEAPMAN NICOSIA o Cyprus is to become a republic in August. a At last the haggling is over; but the trouble has barely begun. Although the island has been...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP S IR BASIL SPENCE'S speech to the British Architects' Conference in Manchester last month has started a major controversy on the future of British town...

I e Churches Anglican Anonymous By MONICA FURLONG HAVE always held that after love itqA1 religion is the funniest of human, activities. and the e ve Its of the last fc%%...

(I) Departure C hilderma s in England—Mrs. Stitch in Genoa— Gully Gully in Port Said ,neeember 28, 1958. On the third day after HOLY we commemorate the massacre of the ri °...

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over the homdsexuality debate leaves room for a personal gloss, I' think. My wife and I wrote to our MP, Mrs. Braddock, after observing that neither her name nor those of...

the ground that it only sweeps the dirt under the carpet. But might not a truer analogy be that shops and hotels do best on main roads and not LIP side-streets? 1 should have...

SIR,—Both Mr. Gilmour and the Spectator must be commended for the article dealing with the aims and influence of the World Zionist movement, It was one of the most fair and...

Newte Zionism and Anti-Semitism James D. Theberge, George Lichtheim Clinical Attitudes Mrs. M. E. Sharrock, Mrs. Fay A. Pascoe, Mrs. Sarah Henderson Scientists in India Sir...

homosexuality are not to be implemented, will bring joy to many hearts, not least to that o f Mr. John Gordon. May we now hope that th e Laboucherc amendment will be extended to...

scientists. For the past five years this Institute has found it difficult to fill appointments in the field of physics, chemistry and engineering in spite of the large number of...

SIR,-1 too went to Miss Laski's London day school at the same time as Miss Laski. I was happy there, and with reason. Admittedly the teaching in most subjects was formal. Much...

SIR..I have alWays enjoyed Mrs. Furlong's articles, finding them thankfully free of the cosiness or con- de scension which marks so much writing —and s peaking—for women. But in...

to exist; 1 said there no longer was a Zionist movement. If Mr. Cooke cannot tell the difference b etween a live movement and a dead organisation I c annot help him. His letter...

six out of seven young mothers 'refuse to set foot in the place.' Had Mrs. Furlong attended my local baby clinic at the Western General Hospital she would have been met with a...

London's traffic problem will result in restrictions of such ferocious severity that private motorists will regard the Pink Zone period as what will by then appear to be the...

held once a month: The clinic doctor is also the local CP and shows an unfailing interest and sympathy W ith the babies (and their mothers). Recently she g ave up a day of her...

Object Lessons By ISABEL QUIGLY Inherit the Wind. (As- toria.)—Beat, Square and Cool. (National Film Theatre.) — The Artist Speaks. (BBC television.) You get lean weeks and...

SIR,—The doctrine of race supremacy in South Africa is fast leading the country past the point of no return. All groups are suffering the loss of basic civil liberties, and it...

go into a pub I am in search, according to season, of a Worthington or a lager of almost any brand except Skol. And when I go to a filling-station for oil I want Castro!...

curious why Cyril Ray enthused over—and why I listed—a hock (the Fleminger Zechpcter) of such a bad year as 1958. The reason is that a modern method of viniculture was carried...

SIR,— Although I have no particular desire to further the interests of the brewing industry, I must sug- gest that it seems a little unreasonable to complain that some brewers...

Obstacle Courses By ALAN BRIEN Every Man in his TFIEY order these things differently in France—at least according to Cheva- lier Hobson. There the fossilised bones of the...

Picassin By SIMON HODGSON POUSSIN in Paris, Picasso in London; two events enormous both in size and in importance. One can perhaps draw a ten- tative historical lesson from the...

Entering Orbit By CLIVE BARNES THE other day a man who never goes to the ballet (it takes all sorts) but for inscrutable rea- sons likes to know these things, asked me, with...

Matching Voices By PETER FORSTER THERE is something curi- ously blameless about a cricket. match. Anti-apar- theid demonstrations out- side Test grounds seem not so much...

What's Become of Wystan? BY PHILIP LARKIN I HAVE been trying to imagine a discussion of .Auden between one. man who had read nothing of his after 1940 and another who had read...

The Writer and His World. By Charles Morgan. (Macmillan, 21s.) To be fair to the substance of these essays one has first to make an effort of disengagement from the style. When...

Confessions of an Art Addict. By Peg gy Guggen- heim. (Deutsch, 21s.) No sooner had Peggy Guggenheim w aded out to a small island in the Indian Ocean, at the bidding of Paul...

AT a time when a new wave of ostrichism in re- gard to defence is sweeping the country it is as well to be reminded by so un-militarist a military pundit as Captain Liddell Hart...

The Scottish Reformation, 1560. By Gordon Donaldson. (C.U.P.. 30s.) CENTENARIES perpetuate legends : books pub - lished on these occasions can usually be relied on for the...

, 16s.) A nOlique and the King. By Sergeanne Colon. (Heinemann, 21s.) IN th e central, most arresting episode of Neville 6 awes's uneven, talented, irascible novel, the J...

With Dearest Love to All: The Lite and Letters of Lady Jebb. By Mary Reed Bobbitt. (Faber, 25s.) IT is, I think, a good test of a book that you buy it and give it to your ft...

THE aim of the Kon-Tiki expedition, if you remember, was to show that the similarities be- tween the cultures of South America and Poly- nesia were the result of South American...

Hellenistic Culture: Fusion and Diffusion. By Moses Hadas. (O.U.P., 35s.) Tins is a book for anyone who thinks it helpful, or even meaningful, to be assured that 'the issue...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WILL the new broom at the Treasury sweep the floor clean of outworn monetary ideas? There is not the slightest chance of it unless the system of direc-...

M ETAL BOX CO. LTD., of which Sir Robert Barlow is chairman, owes much of its impressive profit record to the very substantial sums that have for several years been devoted to...

By CUSTOS T HE news from Africa and Russia has halted the recovery in equity shares, but selling was in no great volume and the falls in prices were not severe. Declines of...

Urban Renewal By KENNETH J. ROBINSON Why hideous? Because even if you put half a dozen really first-class examples of modern archi- tecture in a row, without relating them to...

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Air Travel U.S. Style By LESLIE ADRIAN 'IF there are any passen- gers for Belfast here, please do say. We've been waiting for simply ages.' This, I swear, was the noise made...

UP in Islington, the whole of Milner Square has been bought for development by a Scottish investment company which is said to have been n inspired by the cachet—and, doubt, the...