BRYDEN EVELYN WAUGH: RETURN FROM AFRICA

Francis Powers, accused of espionage, who pleaded guilty, and a reprieve was refused for Peter Poole, sentenced to death in Nairobi for the murder of his African houseboy. The...

C OMMENT on the Powers trial before it began ranged between two extremes: on the one hand, those newspapers which produced scarify- ing accounts of the treatment to which the...

T HE wind of change has blown some odd things through the doorways of Africa, but none would be odder and more ironic than the refusal - to reprieve Peter Poole, sentenced to...

No. 6895 Established FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1828 1960

He spoke concernedly about the weather, according to the rules of Printing House Square etiquette. It was some time before I could put the question that worried me. 'Are you...

T tiE article 'Yugoslavia in the Balance' in this week's Spectator reminds us that it is time for a PS to the controversy in our columns earlier this year on the BBC's Yugoslav...

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK T HE newspapers are spread with stories about the 'strategies' being planned by the Presi- dential campaigners, but the fact of the matter is...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN N EWSPAPER guesses about the 'secret' of Rambouillet and—now—the secret of the Bonn talks between Adenauer and Macmillan mostly ignore one thing....

Mr. A. E. Harrison, who was Sales Manager of the Spectator for fifteen years up to the time of his retirement in 1950, died last week at the age of seventy- eight.

By BERNARD LEVIN So, or even nevertheless, Penguin Books are apparently to be prosecuted, under the Obscene Publications Act, 1959, for their publication of the unexpurgated...

From a Correspondent JOHANNESBURG W HEN I first arrived in Johannesburg I soon learnt the racial laws : white shall not drink with black; white shall not sleep with black;...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY TN March, 1959, following a rising in the holy 'city of Lhasa, the Government of the Dalai Lama proclaimed the independence of Tibet and repudiated the...

By R. MARCETIC F oRi the last ten years, Western opinion and policy have been firmly based on the premise that Titoism was better than Stalinism, and on the assumption that...

Not Smug Any More By MONICA FURLONG W AITING for a tram in the Underground one morning I found myself humming an en- chanting tune, and executing a few tentative dance-steps....

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(6) Last Days Salisbury—the Matopos—Capetown—flotne. March 20. The changes in the city are greater than a first glance revealed. The streets, as all the inhabitants...

Extracts from Evelyn Waugh's Tourist in Africa began in the Spectator for July 15. Copies of back issues may be obtained for 11 d. each, including postage, from The Sales...

Wee! Erskine B. Childers, Henry Adler 0 Venezia! James Morris The Road from Billericay Nicolas Walter otne and Carthage ,4. D. Fitton Brown the Proms G. H. Bosworth Into the...

from public know- led Ile . , not open to the public'. Loose as this definition uf the word may be, it had direct bearing on the at expressed in your editorial under the...

SIR. — Jon Kimche's objections to my review of his and his brother's book are curious. Mr. Kimche SIR. — Jon Kimche's objections to my review of his and his brother's book...

Miss Elias, with whose views I have great sympathy, seems to be blurring the issue. I share her concern for the loss of mystique in Zionism and the pre- occupation with purely...

SIR,—II seems churlish to answer back so kind a reviewer as Mr. Christopher Sykes, but because I am quite childishly proud of my book Venice I cannot resist reassuring him...

SIR,—! think Mrs. Herbert might find it difficult to show that there is a correlation between criminalitY and nursery schools, but in any case, she seems to have an...

Spectator line of giving the Labour Party ostensibly impartial advice that is suspiciously favourable to the policies and interests of the small group of Labour MPs who happen...

SIR.—Mr. Pirouet asks me a question to which I hope you will allow me to reply. 'Would I', he asks, 'criticise an anthology of poetry after reading 75 per cent, of it?' The...

SIR,—In your issue of August 12, Mr. M. I. Finley demurs at Mr. Warmington's description of the final destruction of Carthage in 146 tic as 'a truly tragic event' and of...

SIR,—The cabaret on 'the former premises of a horse butcher' mentioned in Mr. Michael's article 'Box of Tricks' must be Le Cheval d'Or. It certainly has not disappeared. As...

Prom Truths CAIRNS By DAVID an introduction to the young composers, Singers and instrumentalists of Britain. Should they fail in this they would break faith with the tradition...

Back to School By ALAN BRIEN The Keep. (Royal Court, Sunday.) —Julius Clesar. (Queen's). GWYN THOMAS has several qualities we need in the theatre today. His language is...

Gift Horse By CLIVE BARNES THE whole trouble is that Ashton overdid it in the first place. A man can be too generous. When four years ago the Royal Ballet had its twenty-fifth...

The Tail-End By ISABEL QUIGLY 11 Tetto. (International Film Theatre, West- bourne Grove.) De SicA is one of the bizarrest things in the Italian cinema, the kind of man (and of...

Woostershire BY RONALD BRYDEN TT is golden afternoon in Market Snodsbury. The 'chimneys of Brinkley Court, rural seat of Mr. and Mrs. Portarlington Travers and their peerless...

Ibsen. Translated and edited by James Walter McFarlane. Vol. VI: An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm. (0.U.P., 25s. Acting edition, 3 vols., 5s. each.) Translated...

THE Library of Living Philosophers, in which series this massive volume of 866 ,pages is the tenth, is an ingenious development of the con- ventional idea of a Festschrif t. In...

A Common Grace. By Norman MacCaig. (Chatto and Windus, 10s. 6d.) He's Celtic, yoii see. Touchy. Proud as Satan. Full of this imaginative stuff. Not but what he hasn't got his...

WE do well to be chary of those who adopt the cause of animals at the expense of people, and at first sight the Grzimeks father and son, authors of Serengeti Shall Not Die...

Stephen Crane: Letters. Edited by R. W. Stall- Cohen. (Centaur Press, 21s.) 'CRANE was not a great letter writer,' admit the editors of this handsome but somewhat daunt- ing...

ARMS and the man, they sing this week; and in styles ranging from grand opera, through smoking-room ballad, down to the shrill mono- tonous scream of a man in the gutter. A Sort...

Peace, gentle grandsires. Your descendants' Is stayed. Pale Hooper's regiments withdraw, And chfiteau-bottled from the cellars boom Ancestral voices prophesying Waugh. doom...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT UP to last week I had been working on the theory that the 'bear' market in equity shares, which began on January 5 when the FT index had marked up 342.9,...

H . S. WHITESIDE AND COMPANY now own thirteen subsidiary companies, three of which were acquired during 1959. These new acquisitions contributed to the record sales of the...

E X CLUDING the climate out-of-doors, a holiday --,, tIt Y favourite EAGLE STAR outstanding-and :. °1nt lY with this company and the NATIONAL COM- i° t he Stock Exchange,...

Winnie The Moo By KATHARINE WHITEHORN THE stands at the Boys' and Girls' Exhibition at Olympia were so various that it seemed as if the organisers had simply rung up two...

Gilding The Kipper By LESLIE ADRIAN JUST how far are food manufacturers allowed to go by law when dress- ing up their products to please the eye as well as the palate? This...

Old Sports By GAVIN LV ALL 1 , 11 AvE been spending the few sunny days of late wondering whether to buy a small sports ear . I haven't made up my wife's mind on this Yet , but...

in the travel books o the younger entry—as Pet er attention, both well-deserv ed Fleming, say, might turn bi 5 turned last week to Kenneth Allsop's article 0 ° the...