the Wall Geoffrey John'son Smith Private Member's Bill William Gerhardi on -William Gerhardi

T HERE is not, at first sight, anything to con- nect the two public figures who appeared so frequently on television and in the news columns of the papers earlier this week :...

the Civil Service arbitration system; leaders of the Civil Service unions took the offer as a promise and, in spite of previous experience of Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, one that would be...

rr HE death of R. H. Tawney brings to mind what Shaw said of an earlier figure cast in the same mould, William Morris: 'You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not...

MHE most interesting point made by the Regist- rar of Restrictive Trading Agreements in his annual report concerned the extent to which re- strictive practices continue even...

Joao Cabral writes : E XPRESSING disappointment at the Western powers' attitude over Goa, Salazar has threatened to abandon the UN and to revise . the Anglo-Portuguese...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY liArEVER anyone watching foreign affairs VV may feel about the year 1961—and it very often seemed a little like being taken for a ride down the Cresta Run...

Meals on Wheels By GEOFFREY JOHNSON SMITH* . . we shall also try to make it easier for them to go on living at home. For example, better provision will be made for a "Meals on...

From WILLIAM GOLDING HOLLINS, VA. E AST COAST blanked out from North Caro- lina right up to the Canadian border; ,a half-continent under a pat of fog; nothing visible but the...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS I HAVE always had a great feeling of kindness I for the Oxford Union. It is the only Society, as far as I can remember, that has ever had the eccentricity...

From MICHAEL ADAMS BEIRUT I T is never easy to be sure of anything in the iddle East, but the New Year has opened in an atmosphere of uncertainty unusual even for this...

is the way things are, and it pays us, and the rest of you will just have to put up with it—Mr. Brian Copland writes: . . the small pro- portion of the population who disliked...

Ian Sainsbury, Mrs. Susanne Perry Justice in Jerusalem Clement R. If alfon In Ferment Ahmed Anis Committee of 100-plus D. W. Peetz God and the Soviets S. V. Utechin One for the...

SIR,-1 was very interested to read the articles by Victor Gordon and Brian Copland on 'Advertising and People' and your comments in your issue of January 12. Both Victor Gordon...

SIB,—Your correspondents John Powell and Basil Cripps (January 5) should both know bow to answer their* own questions, and you, sir, were nodding when you moiled your...

SIR,—Bernard Levm is of course completely right in his strictures on the Secretary of the Scots Corn. mittee of 100. Most of its members would lose their crusading zeal at...

then they can be excused 'partly be- cause they are often unaware of their condition.' Your last sentence reminds me that the speed limits in the parks were increased from 20...

Sia,-L-Mrs. E. M. Horsley, the publisher's editor responsible for bringing out in English God and the Soviets by C. de Grunwald, says that in my review of the book 'I went...

that judges, when acting in their official capacity, do not normally reach their decisions via personal specula- tions on situations and facts but by conscientiously...

SIR,—It appears from your issue of December 29 that Mr. Bamber Gascoigne hasn't been doing his Shakespeare homework. He wades into the Old Vic production of Macbeth because it...

client' is an old joke—but a bad one. The apparently growing tendency for clients to dictate more and more to agencies (overtly or otherwise) is especially dangerous in the...

the four French spies now awaiting trial in Cairo a diplomatic character they do not legally enjoy. After the uncovering of this French subversion and espionage case, the...

The Cinderella Story By CLIVE BARNES To call the Prokofiev music sub-Tchaikovsky is not particularly insulting. In ballet music it is rather the equivalent of saying: 'That's...

Image-Breaking By BAMBER GASCOIGNE A CAREFUL survey Of the people debouching on to Greek Street from the Establishment last week revealed no one faint from loss of blood, no...

Not a Happy One By PETER FORSTER THE most extraordinary com- mercial of all has arrived. It shows a platoon of commandos blowing up a bridge, while a • soft, urgent male...

Uncertain Amis By ISABEL QUIGLY Only Two Can Play, (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — Purple Noon. (New Victoria and general release.) WHY doesn't Kingsley Amis come across on the...

JANUARY 19 (and 23, 26, 30, Feb. 2): Don Carlos (Covent Garden). 19 Macnaghten Concert (Thirtieth Anniversary): works by Stravinsky, Britten, Rawsthorne, Vaughan Williams,...

Divas' Gifts By DAVID CAIRNS THERE are people who cry `canary-fancying' at the men- tion of Sembrich or Bonin- segna, and sweep aside im- patiently the whole cult of the...

The Uses of Obscurity By WILLIAM GERHARDI M ARVELLING in the glow of turning over a new leaf at a quarrel resolved in mystic bliss by simply blaming himself and exculpating...

IT used to be said (perhaps in jest) that the American Revolution was made possible by a temporary alliance between the Lees of Vir- ginia and the Adamses of Massachusetts. The...

AUTHORS of inside stories rarely manage to get inside anyone except themselves. First - Hand Report: The Inside Story of the Eisenhower Ad- ministration, by Sherman Adams,...

JOSEPH PAXTON was a gardener in the grand manner. He was also an inventor and ad- ministrator and he had a gift for friendship with all sorts of people. He was born in 1803, the...

X, Vol. 1, 1960-61. (Barrie and Rockliff, 32s. 6d.) ARE the times really so bad for the literary maga- zine? These two Bumper Books have an opulence in their production which,...

Bebo's Girl, By Carlo Cassola. Translated by Marguerite Waldman. (Collins, 16s.) The Shame of our Wounds. By Arthur Roth. (Hutchinson, 16s.J A Small Armageddon. By Mordecai...

FOR detective-story readers, this January, like most others, is best treated as catch-up-with-the- classics month, for among the few new books published there is little that is...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT My interest in President Kennedy's message is to see what lies behind its content. As a liberal I am disgusted that the opposition of the conservative...

D URING the past week, the other four big banks have reported their profits for 1961. Lloyds Bank gives another scrip issue of one for six; last year it was one for five. Net...

By CUSTOS HE optimists certainly have a knack of ig- noring bad news and exploiting the slightest sign of good news. For example, Mr. Lloyd's warning in his letter to the TUC...

Door to Door kIy LESLIE ADRIAN to find the answer to the question : how do you reduce the price of a large household appliance by nearly £50 overnight and still hope to make a...

Cumberland Sauce By ELIZABETH DAVID Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery, 1845, doesn't mention it; neither does Mrs. Becton's House- hold Management, 1861; nor Francatelli's Cook's...

• • • The twenty years are nearly up, and there is no sign of Carlo Sforza's being proved right— certainly not if one goes by the two new books on Mussolini thaj James...