STEVENSON died in London, the city in Which he first sprang to international prominence aS US delegate to the United Nations conference In 194 5: and the West mourned a great...

I F any sign were needed of the confusion into which the British Medical Associa- tion conference so readily falls it is the regularity with which, each year, 'clarifica- tions'...

Friday July 16 1965

A New Confidence DEV MURARKA writes from Moscow: Are the Chinese coming to the end of their triumphant pose as the only true revolutionaries and friends of the down-trodden?...

The Sixth Republic? DON COOK writes from Paris: Until a couple of weeks ago, a certain amount of euphoric political chatter was to be heard on the Paris cocktail-and-salon...

After the Debate The Outlook for the Economy EDWARD HEATH Also a Special Review of the Financial and Business World • J. H. Plumb on the Whigs One year'ssubscription to the...

The Curtain ARNOLD BE1CHMAN writes from Johannesburg: The last remaining bastion of freedom in South Africa is a handful of English-language dailies. Of this perhaps half-dozen...

The Old Frontier Between the time I am writing these words and the moment you read them, the flower of today's Journalistic profession will have gathered in the Pews of St....

I have never been in favour of closing pits merely because they are uneconomic.—Mr. William Paynter, general secretary of the National Union of Mine- workers, on the report of...

The Troubles of Mr. Speaker By ALAN WATKINS A YOUNG Conservative MP recently put to me . n„the view that the summer recess was wrongly placed in the parliamentary calendar. It...

Front MURRAY kEMPTON NEW YORK AST weekend Mr. Johnson announced a num- ber of shifts in his domestic establishment. General Maxwell Taylor withdrew as Mr. John- son's...

By IA IN MACLEOD E NOCE! POWEl.L has the finest mind in the House"of Commons. The best trained, and the most exciting. There is an attitude of mind Which can be called...

Mr. Crosland's new plans for comprehensive schools look like government by not-always- gentle persuasion: send in your plans to the Ministry saying how far you intend to go com-...

T HE news of the death of Adlai Stevenson was stunning. Yet, as so often, there seem to ! l ave been presentiments. Meeting him in 4 -ondott this week, one found him putting out...

In Italy the people cheered President Frei wherever he went. The press was full of him. In France General de Ciaulle's reception was at its most spectacular. The press ditto....

'Mr. Harold Wilson, Prime Minis- ter of Gre a t Britain, governs by gimmick,' in Standing type. I would not be in the least sur- Prised if he thought out some wheeze before the...

passage in Eisenhower's memoirs shows that Ike's words have been quoted out of context to such an extent that his original meaning has been rev:rsed : am convinced that the...

There are perils in advertising one's paper on television. I got one letter from a lady who said that she liked the filmed shot and wanted to take advantage of my offer. 'Would...

A Study of Opinion The 71st season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, organised by the BBC, opens at the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow, July 17, and continues until September 11....

By BRIAN CROZIER W HEN Lord Chalfont was still the defence correspondent of a prominent left-wing daily, his alert, intelligent face and quintessen- tially Welsh name...

SIR,—While in no position to dispute whether the Tory party are, in fact, 'obsessed by clandestine operations to remove their leader,' as suggested by Mr. Colin Jackson in his...

From: Michael Foot, MP. Gyles D. Brandreth, William Warbey, MP, S. H. Liddington, C. H. Hartley, Nina Bowden, Jacques Heyman, A. J. B. Temple. • Privilege SK—Quoodle says...

SIR.—Sta g e designers are unfortunately subject to extreme waves of fashion. For the last two years Mr. John Bury has been London's (and Stratford's) most fashionable designer,...

SIR,—Most of the recent outcries On behalf of sexual freedom strike a wistful, pipe-dream note. And a middle-aged 'pipe-dream at that few of the advocates, I guess, are really...

a Mission' just before it went to press has led to the omission of a point of some sub- stance. Your foreign editor tried to contact me before the article went to print. so I...

SIR,—Mr. William Warbey is a LpbOur Member of Parliament. After reading his article, 'Failure of a Mission,' in which he mocks what 'was born as a dream in the mind of Harold...

$112,—Strix, in his Endpaper of July 9, has the fol. lowing paragraph: Mr. E, the manager of our village shop, has put a large notice up in his window. Pinned to the top of it...

Stit,—The central London office of Oxfam is spon- soring a scheme to involve business people between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one. It has long been felt that it is not...

The Well-tempered 'Cello By CHARLES REID WI STISI-AV ROSTROPOVICH is now two-thirds of the way through the thirty-two 'cello concertos or other concerted pieces he is playing...

Bolshoi Revisited D o you like the Bofshoi ballet, or do you like Bolshoi dancing? There is a marked difference, and while personally I admire both I am careful not to confuse...

A Week of Documentaries T HE pains and ecstasies of . child-bearing one evening, the embarrassment, 'with your knickers in your pocket,' of getting advice on birth control the...

THERE is a gruesome fascination in those 1 instant families that advertise life insurance or building societies: father, mother, boy, girl (girl generally the elder, just to...

Ane Border Bandit Armstrong's Last Goodnight. (Chichester Festi- val Theatre.)-4,000 Brass Halfpennies. (Mermaid.) HAVE put together a sort of Babylonish 1 dialect that will,...