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alternatives are for Britain should the present negotiations fail. The harsh truth is that they scarcely exist at all. The Commonwealth alternative is now mani- festly a dead...

MR WILSON, however, stuck at it : he addressed the Lord Mayor's banquet and spoke a little more about his vision of Europe, proposing a new European techno- logical community....

week, 'really have to go through all this again?' He was referring, of course, to the nego- tiations, or whatever the currently favoured word is, for entry into the Common...

logy. When the hatchet men of today do their lethal work of depriving people of their property or rendering their contracts illegal, they bring to the killing an apparatus so...

N Tuesday morning the French press gave only a very modest amount of space to Mr Harold Wilson's speech the evening before at the Lord Mayor's banquet. In government circles,...

and sterling. On both these points the French position is firm. As far as agriculture is concerned, a system has been established in Brussels which means that member countries...

assistance pro- visions laid down in the Treaty for the help of member countries in balance of payments diffi- culties—to a country which, because of the existence of large...

technology lab to your plant... • • ` into action and their one aim will be to help you translate theory into proven commercial practice. Comparative fuel cost statements...

of achievement and capacity, but also in the tech- niques of state intervention to promote techno- logical advance—even though we have much to learn from free-enterprise...

in certain psychosomatic diseases such as asthma and constitutional eczema, but even these have often turned out disappointing in the long term. People who stop smoking under...

a therapeutic method. It • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • id/ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • survived as a parlour trick, a...

H OUSES have always absorbed me. Swedish manors with generals going mad in the library; 338 Rue St Honore where Robespierre lived during Terror '94; the home with a certain...

Fleet St Squeeze By DONALD McLACHLAN I T looks as if Mr Geoffrey Browne's report on productivity and restrictive practices in the newspaper industry will now be ready just as...

an aircraft. Especially visiting Americans with all Europe's airlines to choose from. What does sell tickets is having flights going to the right places at the right times....

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in his letter (SPECTATOR, November 11) commenting on my article (November 4), charges me with having allegedly 'dressed up "the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate"...

to read, but difficult to swallow. He writes that he 'read it with ease, but with a growing sense of cold distaste.' Your readers may have noted 'that he nowhere even attempts...

comprehensivisation. Since a comprehensive school takes all children and not just the top 15-25 per cent, of course it needs a bigger school to produce 'equal' results. To com-...

By PAUL GRINKE HE art treasures of the mediaeval city states I of Italy have been visited and admired for so many years that it is easy to forget how vulner- able they are....

hard to see how churches can provide the security and elementary safeguards against theft and damage which public galleries employ. But the thought of denuded churches is not a...

also staffing Directed by IF AN ENTERPRISE-VINEYARD FILM PRODUCTION TECHNICOLOR ® CYRILCUSACK-ANTON DIFFRING - JEREMY SPENSER ALEX SCOTT FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT and JEAN-LOWS...

dome administered by the Circulation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Department, which does Trojan work in education, has just set up a modestly presented but...

the scene as if it were on stage. The word 'weep' adds to the deliberately formal quality. In Alamein to Zem Zem, Douglas writes : 'Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we...

the editors tell us, it proved impossible to include the colour illustrations. Many of the drawings depict dead bodies, and Douglas's attitude to death is the key to his mature...

Keith Douglas was at divisional head- quarters, with an easy job as officer in charge of camouflage training. Bored and frustrated, he set out, in direct disobedience of orders,...

childhood was spent in genuine poverty, but not in desperate or even excep- tionally unhappy surroundings. The accident that destroyed his minor civil service career may have...

a meeting of the London Dialec- tical Society Amberley had spoken in favour of family limitation : 'and after all it turned out to be a medical question how this could best be...

elections. Ponder the figures suggested as reasonable for election expenses by an ad- vanced reforming Liberal of the 1860s. The Duke of Bedford offers a thousand undepreciated...

Roaring, which takes us refreshingly far from home to a parched Alberta in the 1930s, where a Swedish-Canadian undertaker promises rain in return for votes. As its huge hero...

Mary Renault gifts of empathy and total immersion in the chosen time and subject, she writes a spankingly good story about Matilda, whom the legends cal] gentle but she calls a...

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Commons at the beginning of this month is not the managerial revolution which Mr Wilson seemed to promise. It is merely a revised version of the Bill which came before...

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terms with the society in which they are rooted,' but surely it is obvious that they have already done so seeing that they are prepared to work under the Prices and In- comes...

taking the first steps to joining the EEC, brought no particular cheer to the equity share markets. The fact that it would take a year or two before the European move, if...