A LORD of Appeal, an accountant, and a Professor of Economics comprise the long-awaited 'independent impartial body' to review pay and prices. After weeks of rumbling and...

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S INCE the modern period of international 1 'arbitration began with the Jay Treaty at the end of the eighteenth century this country has led the rest of the civilised world in...

By CHANCHAL . SARK AR MHE Tamil-Sinhalese language problem, which I kept Mr. Bandaranaike from attending the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London this year, is the...

WITH the fall of Nizwa and Firq the revolt in Oman seems to be over. Talib bin Ali, his brother, the Imam, and the Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar are hiding in the hills, while...

THE leader-writers and the political commentators (the other political commentators, that is) spent last week what seemed to me an un- necessarily large amount of their space...

PRINCE PHILIP dines tonight at Cowes with the Imperial Poona Yacht Club. . . . Dr. Reginald Ben- . nett. MP for Gosport and Fareham, is its Com- modore. He- was one of its...

Leonard Schapiro, lec- turer in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, should be of particular interest for anyone who has been following the controversy over the...

THE Committee of Public Accounts has criticised the 'abortive expen- diture' of some £40,000,000 on the development of the Swift aircraft, originally designed as a fighter and...

MP, ridiculed the State- owned pubs in his constituency, Carlisle; they were an example, he thought, of what Professor Toynbee had in mind when he referred to 'civilisations...

the correspondence columns of The Times, a Commercial' from Mr. Val Parnell. The Times, Mr. Parnell was complaining, had 'minimised the credit due to ATV for having been the...

quotation had been sent to me by a friend; it was culled, he said, from the Church of Ireland Gazette; in all inno- cence, when I used it the other week, I gave it that...

By D. W. BROGAN s:)NRAD has celebrated the magic of the land- I fall,, the shock of pleasure that comes to the mariner when he makes land. Airfall (if there is such a word), the...

Foreign Relations Committee that he could not pronounce the name of India's Prime Minister nor remember the name of Ceylon's, seem to me to have missed the best line of de-...

The third of a series of articles on the Indian Mutiny, compiled from the Spectator of 1857. o the reader in England the situation in I mid-June must have presented a very con-...

By DARSIE GILLIE VEN if a poet has been dead for nineteen Ecenturies there is no reason why critics who do not seem to have read him should take away his reputation in order to...

By STRIX El OUR hundred and eighty miles is quite far r enough to drive in a day, and when we reached Mtsensk on our way back to Moscow we were both tired. The morning had...

By JOHN BETJEMAN F OR the hundreds of architects and surveyors who are willing to build something new, there are hardly more than a score who are will- ing to repair and, if...

By LESLIE ADRIAN TEXT to the deplorable orange-dyed kippers, n there is nothing more unappetising than the dyed smoked haddock. Swimming in its pool of yellow-tinged milk, like...

SIR,—A fortnight ago Mr. Betjeman and some friends, 'driven nearly silly by the • bumper-to-bumper traffic on the main roads, turned off at Faversham into a silence that was...

the present dispensation—and some things arc ordered well. They cannot be ordered as ill as all that from the Liberal point of view so long as, in Hudders- field, Bolton,...

contained a few words of commendation and a good many more of unfair criticism suffused with emotion. His letter in your issue of August 9 con- tains further baseless charges...

Secretary has appointed a Departmental Committee under my chairmanship `to consider whether pro- ceedings before examining justices should continue to take place in open court,...

The BBC's Russian Service Leonard Schapiro The Liberal Creed Christopher Hollis Philip Goodhart, MP Off the Main Road T. V. Taylor Examining Justices Lord Tucker Hong Kong P. S....

be used to claiming that defeat is vic- tory, but even in politics some degree of consistency is desirable. `Liberalism,' says Mr. Watson, writing to you as the editor of the...

SIR, —I think it would be a pity if Mr. Gerald Hamilton's version of 'the well-known rhyme' on the four Georges were accepted as correct (page 820, June 21, 1957). Another...

SIR,—Your two brilliant correspondents have col- lided on a precedent for Dame Edith Sitwell's limitation of review copies. Now, please, will some- one disclose what critical...

SIR,—For someone who is obviously not partial to double-headed eagles, Mr. Barraclough's review of my Austrian Odyssey in your issue of August 2 was quite kindly done. I hope it...

should be at great pains to stress that the Mutiny of 1857 was in no sense a 'National War of Inde- pendence,' a section of the British press should be trying to raise a scare...

to Euston by train (other than Underground) would be Fins- bury Park/Dalston Junction /South Hampstead—a mere thirteen miles or so in all agdinst the eighty-five miles by the...

SIR,—Pharos seems to suggest (Spectator, August 2) that the evidence of a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and cancer of the lung is distinctly shaky. It is,...

sense of proportion in your leading article 'Cavaliers and Eggheads,' and have not resorted to the ludicrous as most writers have done in attacking. Lord Altrincham for his un-...

the Green Howards 'fired on the population' of Hong Kong last October. Then in the next sentence he says they were 'called on only to stand by to keep the ring while others did...

SOME of our newspapers have recently taken to publishing pro- files and histories of famous businesses, and the present season, when those London art dealers who trade in...

Turning the Screw Time Lock. (Dominion and New Victoria.) — No Time for Tears. (Rialto.)—Night Pas- sage. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)— A Hair in the Soup. (Cameo- Polytechnic.) THERE...

SIR,—Your commentator from Westminster, Taper, refers to Mr. Philip Bell as sitting for 'some fearful hole in Lancashire.' His readers, who presumably look for information about...

AUGUST 18, 1832 THE take of salmon has been so great at Fort William this season, that the ice has been exhausted, and the fishers have had a number of horses employed in...

u l l A R, RCA; V, Vox.) (RECORDING COMPANIES : D, Decca; f" 1 0 HAVING previously recorded the J existing seven symphonies of Vaughan Williams, Boult and the LPO have brought...

Hot and Sweet MEL TORMg is undeniably an accomplished singer. Not as ac- complished as Sinatra, Crosby, Perry Como or Nat King Cole. But still accomplished. It is therefore...

By EVELYN WAUGH IT is more than thirty years since Miss Compton- Burnett published her first novel and revealed to the world her brilliant and peculiar talent. If InY memory...

THIS book consists of seven essays in a modern and peculiarly English genre : what Mr. Wain calls in passing 'conversationally-styled criticism.' Yes, Sainte-Beuve had his...

sleepless watchman to the sea, For their deep singing may be heard Throughout a night of thunder and their red Eyes take him dancing silently Down to the choking sea-bed. Far...

Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918- 1945. Vol. X, June 23-August 1, 1940. (H.M.S.O., 32s. 6d.) THIS volume consists of official German docu- ments of two sorts : foreign...

UNLIKE most painters Mr. Trevelyan is lost when he writes. There is in his book none of the pre° . sion and originality in writing which often go es with the manual skill of his...

Gogmagog: The Buried Gods. By T. C. Leth- bridge. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 21s.) IN the eighteenth century the figure of a giant cut in the turf, either inside Wandlebury Camp...

DURING a brief visit to a battlefield in the winter of 1944 I saw three things which moved me rather less at the time than they did later in retrospect, and which I did not...

6d.) First-rate novels of action and adventure are rare, and here is one that Henley and Stevenson would have clapped their hands over—fast, credible and ex- citing, set in the...

Who crisped the amorous composer by long-ago arson in cultural Lake Michigan countryside? Miss Nielsen is an elegant writer but a sloppy plotter—solution is by tape- recorder,...

espionage, sabotage, and blackmail is a typically American kind of organ- ised crime; this typically American kind of crime- story about it is convincing and exciting, and would...

Israel Zangwill. By Joseph Leftwich. (James Clarke, 21s.) THE publishers claim that this is the first biography of Zangwill. It is not a good one. It lacks method and...

12s. 6d.) The bad cops slug the innocent, and the good cops slug the guilty, and eventually who croaked the rich and lovely nympho is made clear, and the good cops go to their...

6d.) Third in a series of slightly sentimentalised semi-documentaries of the muddle of mystery that comes in hour by hour to Scotland Yard, and how the skilled yet simple-...

The Soft Talkers. By Margaret Millar. (Gol- lancz, 12s. 6d.) Brilliant surprise packet: sar- donically amused and sardonically amusing story of well-heeled Canadian smart set in...

6d.) Rather too laboriously contrived a tale, about rather too many murders, to be on the top of Mr. Stout's big basket of books, but lazy, gormandising Nero Wolfe and the...

6d.) Immensely complicated, tough, tense tale—with twists—about cops, crooks, private eyes, and bosomy blondes in Chicago, by one of the best of all contemporary crime-writers...

The World of Suzie Wong. By Richard Mason. (Collins, 16s.) A Moment of Warmth. By Francis Irby Gwalt- ney. (Seeker and Warburg, 18s.) THESE four authors pair off neatly :...

'You got two ways you can go. You can go roun .1, '1 r • I do, because it's before!'

understood, and added, `to lay the table, I promise d to do it.' He would be at home doing that, I judge later, when the thunder came, and rainspots the si of sixpenny pieces...

Geese aren't my favourite creatures. They are to 0 unpredictable and have a habit of becomir belligerent for no apparent reason at all. Last week was staying in a village where...

By IAN NIALL a Meer a lady hobbling along a country lane, or man with his arm in a sling, just lately and you w find that he or she has been bitten by a horsefly. dare not...

By PHILIDOR No. 115. J. HARING (Holland). 1st Prize, B.C.P.S. 1956 Informal Tourney. BLACK (9 men) WHITE (9 men) WiltrE to play and mate in two moves: solution next ‘vee_ k•...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE collapse of the French franc should be a lesson and a warning .to the monetary 'establishment' in every country. How long can we go on pretending...

By CUSTOS THE same influences were at work in the stock markets this week as last. The gilt-edged market lacked support, industrial equities were mixed—an analysis of...

Muffin and Crumpet Baking and:Punctual Delivery Com- pany.' A prize of six guineas is offered for the title of a proposed charity or organisation appropriate to 1957 and an...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 389 Report by R. Kennard Davis Competitors were asked to suppose that Laputa (See Gulliver's Travels) is holding a Geophysical 'ear, and to describe...

ACROSS I Any response here about the player? (7) 5 Sick, and accustomed to it (3-4). 9 Pray sup with me, says the old Derby winner (7). 1 0 To a Frenchman so much spirit leads...