EOKA terrorists were captured in what was described as one of the most successful round-ups of the emergency. But their capture did not diminish terrorist activity; ambushes and...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958

W HATEVER else they are meant to do, the primary object of party conferences is to put heart into the rank and file, and this year's conferences, in that respect at least,...

B RITAIN's international accounts for the .)first half of this year turned out to be so brilliant that most commentators felt obliged to insist that our good fortune cannot...

By L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS T HE recent news from Karachi and Dacca might easily persuade people with little know- ledge of Pakistan that this country, too, has under- gone the...

By DARSIE GILLIE FEW men grow supple with age. Charles de Gaulle seems to be one of them, to judge from his flexible tactics and the vigour of his sudden action. His speech at...

LAST Saturday afternoon, just as the Prime Minister rose to address the mass meeting with which the Conservative Party conference ended, a young man in the balcony gave three...

`I MUST REPEAT,' the Prime Minister told the Conservative Party Con- gress, 'that the problem of Cyprus is not a colonial but an inter- national question.' I wish he had acted...

of The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, of which he was one of the editors. I had not seen him for Some time, but not many months ago I had listened delighted to that high voice of...

of dropping the prosecution of their ill-famed 'Treason Trial.' The decision of the leader of the prosecution, Mr. Oswald Pirow, QC, to withdraw the indictment, provides just...

indifferent speech instead of a good speech? The answer, according to 'Peter- borough' in the Daily Telegraph, is : 'When he is speaking on the same day as the Prime Minister.'...

sermons than that preached last Sunday by Professor Kilpatrick on the sub- ject of homosexuality. 'It is open to any senior member of this university,' he said, `to corrupt our...

By VISCOUNT TEMPLEWOOD A ROYAL BIOGRAPHY is in a category by itself. It has to be very discreet, and as the general public takes an irrepressible interest in the smaller...

By H. MONTGOMERY HYDE, MP As one of the dozen Ulster Unionist Members of Parliament at Westminster I am entitled to attend and, if called upon, to speak at the annual...

By DESMOND STEWART T HE first reforms of the Iraqi Revolution have been designed to meet the more emotional criticisms of the 'destroyed regime.' Solidarity with the United Arab...

Political Pantomime By ALAN BRIEN The Hostage. (Theatre Royal; Stratford, E.)—Shadow of ,Heroes. (Piccadilly.)--Julius - Caesar. (Old Vic.) BRENDAN BEHAN admits he always...

Ecdysiasts AT THREE O'CLOCK 'Welcome to the Panama,' says the comic, and the bald heads lean forward expectantly. The atmosphere is quiet, respectful, almost solemn. No one...

Ring Out the Old By DAVID CAIRNS MR. DAVID WEBSTER is fond of saying that the Covent Gar- den Ring is the best in the world. This may seem a per- fectly harmless eccentricity....

Cooking with a Blow-lamp QUIGLY By ISABEL Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (Empire.)—Evil Eden. (Paris- Pullman.) — The Hunters. (Carlton.) THE film version of Tennessee Williams's Cat...

By LESLIE ADRIAN I HAVE been following the first hearing of the restrictive prac- tices court with considerable interest : partly because the pattern of the retail trade in this...

Mother and Child By MILES 'TOWARD T HE quality of maternal care in the early years of life is of such paramount importance for the future well-being, both bodily and mental, of...

DEAR TOOTH, Your active career has just been abruptly terminated by a piece of toast. I cannot allow the melancholy occasion to pass without expressing my appreciation of the...

OCTOBER 19, 1833 WT have news this week from the North Pole! After an absence of four years, when even the most san- guine had abandoned all hope of seeing him again, the...

SIR,—The prevalence of crime amongst youngsters shows the failure of `social science' policies in edu- cation quite as much as of existing methods of punishment. It is...

SIR,—Mr. David Butler's letter confirms my view that something is very much wrong with the practice in this matter. On a recent BEA flight from Nice to London 1 had taken the...

SIR,—Mr. Irwin makes me ill. For two weeks now he has succeeded in shrugging off restrained criticism of two of the most moronic of the telly's effusions with the oh so old and...

SIR,—As one much involved, I beg leave to comment, with due respect, on the review (October 3) of Dr. A. R. Winnett's treatise, Divorce and Remarriage in Anglicanism, by the...

historical accuracy again, may I say an odd thing that struck me when I read Mr. Simon Raven's piece on his schooldays? It was just that, in a very different school but at...

John Bull's Schooldays Juvenile Crime The Church of England and Nationalism Divorce W. Stratton Mills Isabel Quigly E. P. Hibbert Rev. W. J. S. Weir C. F. J. Baron John G....

Sut, — I am preparing for the Museum . Press ° biography of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Will any rea der with any unusual reminiscences of that great actress —or any letters from or...

SIR,—The Alan Brien-Edmund Crispin correspa fl ' dente in the Spectator has involved this bookshop in a rather odd way. Since Mr. Brien wrote that : 'He [Mr. Crispin] must stop...

believes that the Festival Hall is sacred to concert-goers . . . are winers and diners allowed in without buying concert tickets?' There is a simple answer. The restaurants are...

and tourist class on the London-Edinburgh Viscount service of BE A having brought no form of reply from the PRO w e can only assume that his facts as stated are correc t, as...

SIR,—You will have gathered from my contributions to your journal that I hold no brief for the fighting Services. There are several important facets of their organisation that...

think I must have travelled south from Scot' land on the same train as Strix, because I, too, looked out of the window and saw with dismay that we wer e passing through Lincoln...

SIR, — May I apologise to the drama department of ATV for the fact that, bemused by the plethora of telegenic initials, I directed at them in my television article last week...

SIR,—Following the decision of the High Court at Karlsruhe that all Bavarian beer must be brewed only with hops, malt, yeast and water, there was a reasonable hope in this...

Tonight, I cross the mountains. In the rain. A splendid start. Hard too : because no range Is one plain barrier, one sharp upturned file. In some ways, hills are curiously...

Posthumous Miscellany BY EVELYN WAUGH R ONALD KNOX lacked only longevity to be a national figure. Had he lived to be eighty he Would, most unwillingly, have found himself...

M. ARON says that he is not a pessimist, or at least that he is less of a pessimist than those who prophesy universal disarmament because they privately believe that only a...

NEVER havin g been to Australia, I cannot sal' how far Mr. Prin g le's psychoanalysis of that country corresponds to reality. I ima g ine that some parts of it (the bit about...

Th e Generalship of Alexander the Great. By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 35s.) Iltr career of Alexander the Great, spanning east and west, has a...

nuhlished 46 years aeo. not 56 as appeared in last week's Spectator,

Gimpel the Fool and Other Tales. By Isaac Joseph, 13s. 6d.) THE best South African writers come very near the knuckle as far as our own fiction is concerned the plain, domestic...

Eyes in their Feet On to Timbuctoo. By Anthony Carson. (Methuen, 12s. 6d.) A Room in Moscow. By Sally Belfrage. (Andre Deutsch, 15s.) THE traditional function of the...

A Ripple from the Storm. By Doris Lessing. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) Man in the Background. By Wolfe Miller. (Jonathan Cape, 15s.) The Weather Family. By Edgar Mittellaolzer....

To feel strongly about the United States, to realise that Americans are misunderstood here, and to set out to put them and their country in a better perspective is a worthy...

ALTHOUGH Joyce Cary began picking up book society awards as early as 1936, it was not until 1944 and The Horse's Mouth that he really came to public notice. A man whose main...

I DON'T think one realises quite how brave and patient the women of the past were who fought for women. A fascinating question, even more fascinating than the women's courage,...

DIMAS'S great-grandfather, both his grand- fathers and his father and uncle all perished in the blood feuds of the mountain clans : 'The land was never one to reward virtue, but...

By CUSTOS T HE announcement of a £15 million Australian loan of 5{ per cent. stock 1975-78 at 98 did not stop the rise in the gilt-edged market although it depressed the prices...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ALAS! At the meeting of the International Monetary Fund in New Delhi orthodoxy reigned and from the ministerial 'big guns' assembled came salvo after salvo...

M ORPHY RICHARDS is now a household name among manufacturers of consumer goods, and, as might be expected from the increas- ing demand in this trade, has had a good year. Group...

ACROSS 26 1 One would naturally expect to if astride a sea-horse (4, 3, 5) 27 8 Mushroom of Oriental flavour that might emerge from a burnt pot (6-3) 9 The Sappers get a fresh...

9 Vigilant. 10 Miller, 12 Torso. 13 Exhauster 14 Historically. 18 Peregrinator, 21 Urchin cut. 23 Etude, 24 Innate. 25 Binocics. 26 Gadget. 27 Aganippe. DOWN.-1 Cavity. 2...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 450: Report by James S. Fidgen Regional stamps have recently been issued for use in Scotland. Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel...

and Holidays Association endeavours to keep our foreign friends abreast of 'the British way of life.' Doubtless much of this information is supplemented by letters written home...