L L the political parties can look back in satisfaction over their annual conferences. The Liberals have found a vigorous new leader; Labour has achieved a wider, if not deeper,...

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T HE struggle for Eastern Europe becomes more fraught with incident every week. Now that the Yugoslays have confirmed the contents of the Soviet letter to the satellites...

W ITH Iraqi troops now massed along her eastern frontier, with Israel to the west, and officers' groups preparing their coup d'etat to the accompaniment of the disintegration of...

T HE world can be left in little doubt about the lead which Britain has established in the peaceful use of atomic energy after the ceremonial opening of the Calder Hall nuclear...

By Our German Correspondent BOO A DMIRAL RADFORD may yet make a lasting name for him' A self in his own country, but if he fails he can be sure of a small but significant place...

T HE Suez debate was duly carried to the Security Council last week and came to its appointed end on Saturday when Russia vetoed the Anglo-French resolution. The Coun- cil,...

By CHARLES CURRAN I T was a curious conference. The silences revealed as much as the speeches when the Tories met at Llandudno last week. The decision to give the critics their...

11 MR. A. P. WADSWORTH, who has been forced by persistent i health to resign the active editorship of the Manchester Guardian, is by far the most distinguished journalist of the...

always endearing in Wadsworth, for his qualities are so various and his stature so very great that he could do anything with anybody and be admired the more for it. He will be...

equivalent of box-office poison in America : I am interested to see that this is not yet true here; the films take ° at the party conferences have had a good press. A word o f...

of the strangest parties ever held within the precincts of the Houses of Parliament : given by one formerly certified lunatic f or the press, in order that the press might meet...

Sir Anthony Eden 'est devenu Europeen,' because he is convinced that Labour will win the next election and unless something is done will then ruin the country by 'un retour d un...

one good point : the lack of the censor's permissu superiarunz would leave managements open to the,risk of prosecution by any common informer, or local watch committee. This...

Earlier this year he called Sir Anthony 'the best Prime Minister we have,' which was hardly an extravagant encomium. On Saturday he said that Sir Anthony had repre- sented the...

Sherek described a chat he has had recently with the Lord C hamberlain on the subject of the censorship of plays. The ! - Ord Chamberlain, Mr. Sherek said, is not only...

BY T. E. UTLEY I N the current number of Encounter, Mr. Wollheim has examined the familiar proposition that the intelligentsia is going Right and has found it, by somewhat...

By PETER WILES M R. CRANKSHAW* is a much more serious and competent observer of the Soviet Union than many give him credit for. The suggestion that Bulganin and Khrushchev's...

BY OLIVER STEWART P OWER and the almost limitless secondary ways of using it in a motor-car are the chief attractions at Earls Court. The driver of a 1957 model has more power...

OCTOBER 22, 1831 LEVIATHAN. —A large whale was cast on shore at North Berwick, about fourteen days ago. It was sold by the captors for 371. I0s. exclusive of the bones, which...

By R. H. LANGBRIDGE I T has been said with some truth that publishers' advertisements are seen only by people with an interest in books. This is, of course, true of all forms of...

13 v CHARLES WILSON. T , HIS* is the first of three related surveys called collectively 'Industry and the University Graduate.' It is focused on the problem of graduate...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I AST week's golden October weather has made me think of Surrey and what a beautiful county it once was, and in some places still is. Sunset behind Sutton...

of working in an office.' I must, in my time, have uttered these words. I like to think that I did not utter them often, partly because they are plaintive and partly because my...

Conscience and Constituents Lord Altrincham Secret Police Powers Berm W. Levy The 'Mail' and the Guards William Hardcastle Bread and Flour Sidney Dark Oxford Divided T. C. W....

said to his constituents— then he has surely not gone far enough in the action which he has taken, or proposes to take. He should bring his revolutionary creed out into the...

SIR,—May I offer one small correction to Mr. Benenson's correction of Mr. Curran? The resolution I moved at Blackpool to limit the encroachment of secret police was lost, it is...

the early editions of the Daily Mail for October 8 and inquiries from other quarters were being made, that the War Office issued its own statement. This, somewhat naturally,...

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crowded congregations and vast assemblies at the trade union meetings. Today the only crowds are to be found at footbal l meetings and the 'dogs.' Mr. Simon PhiPPs is completely...

the first WEA Summer School at Balliol College. Compared with the present volume of traffic it was then almost unbelievablY deserted. I learned that the issue then between the...

remarks last week (September 28) about the nutritive value of different types of bread! But it was more than common sense for, as successive reports from the most eminent...

have read the statement of the Dean of Christ Church to which Mr. Blake refers me. I agree that it is restrained, reasoned and dignified, though I do not accept its con-...

think differently from him by attaching the label of 'Philistine' to them that the logic of the Minister's proposals for Oxford has escaped him. Whatever decen- tralisation of...

ATTACK! (London Pavilion.)—THE MouN- TAIN. (Leicester Square Theatre.)—You CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)---MatesEL4 STRIPTEASE. (Cameo- Royal.) Attack! is...

of gin-sodden arida Godscll as his anxious a convincing picture of a woman g first love for the tenth time. They .t supported and one always feels that play is about real...

WITHIN the past. few days, television has shown us two great plays. ITV did Chekhov's Seagull and the BBC The Tempest. I suppose we ought to be grateful. Here is the BBC at its...

BY BRIAN INGLIS M ANY a historian has owed his lifetime's reputation to the book he is about to write : Lord Acton's is one of the very few reputations which have survived...

TRIAL BY ORDEAL. By Caryl Chessman. (Longmans, 18s.) Tins is a horrible book, and 1 would not advise anyone to read it for fun. Indeed, I should think very meanly of anyone who...

THIS IS OUR WORLD. By Louis Fischer. (Cape, 35s.) Our OF THE GUN. By Denis Warner. (Hutchinson, 18s.) BOTH these books are of the kind best described as first-rate reporting,...

CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN MIND. By Leo Gurko. Foreword by Sir Beverley Baxter. (Rider, 18s.) DR. GURKO (Professor' is, we learn, not a title much respected in America) has written...

SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape, 16s.) Ma. NICHOLS in the rustic state feels he is 'a compact and co-ordinated member of a civilised society' where passions are...

6d.) This stylish and amusing writer handicaps himself from the start by having as his Holmes and Watson a rich, Bentley-driving school- master and an odiously precocious...

crash on a Costa Brava honeymoon, in which a secret formula goes astray, sets off a chase through the streets of the City of London and the back alleys of small Spanish towns....

shade too technical, surely, about wild-fowling and its appro- priate artillery for the kind of stay-at-home who suffers his vicarious thrills by way of crime-stories—but...

VOTE AGAINST POISON. By John Sherwood. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) Engagingly lively story of a by-election both caused and bedevilled by murder of sitting member. Flirts...

6d.) Suspedted sororicide in East London suburb, where local redbrick Poly. has an anatomy lab. handy for tidying up superfluous limbs and torsos. Good on the seedy,...

6d.) French detective-inspectors are in the fashion, but although Mr. Bude has dreamed up a Maigret of the midi, stationed at Nice, there is an obstinately home-counties air...

bourne prinking itself for the 1956 Games is the background to this murder mystery, but the Olympia of the title refers not to the stadium but to the Manet nude whom the...

(Sheed and Ward, 9s.) Something fresh for the jaded palate is a nun-detective, even if the French and (one presumes from the publisher's imprint) faithful author has played a...

6d.) Max Murray's death this year was a loss to those who had a taste for his neat plots, dry dialogue, and touch of disillusioned wit. There is one more of his novels still to...

A TRADITIONAL week, fictionally speaking; the standard high, but without any surprises, the expected qualities and a good deal more. Storm Jameson's The Intruder (Macmillan,...

Here, by way of contrast, is the prose laureate of the great Aus- tralian out-back, and although the kidnapping of a number of released murderers, and the motive behind it, are...

THE function of Punch for most of 115 years has been to mirror accurately, then to mould subtly, and finally to create entirely certain middle-class attitudes towards (a) the...

Intercepted Post, edited by Donald Nicholas (Bodley Head, 16s.), a miscellaneous collection of letters, written principally by Jacobite sympathisers and intercepted during the...

*G-MEN' merely means 'Government men': the nickname was invented by Machine-Gun Kelly in 1933 for the FBI, which dates from 1908. With headquarters at Washington, under the...

BY IAN NIALL NEARLY every common bird has enemies of some sort and, most of them, its friends. There are rook shooters, and rook protectors who would never allow their rookeries...

I began to hear a rustling in the undergrowth. It was more than the noise made by a foraging bird, and at length the maker of the noise began to break through. I found myself...

I3v PHILIDOR No. 72. G. LATZEL (Tiedsehrilt N.8.13..19391 mate in two moves: solution next week. I Solution to last week's problem by Woodward: R-K 8, threat Q-B 7. 1 ......

Frost is a menace in the flower garden. Lift begonias and dahlias at the first sign of it and store them in a frost-proof shed. Geraniums should be moved in under glass at about...

A tale of untimely ants comes from a London reader who writes. 'On a September Friday afternoon at 4.45 last year, I entered our front downstairs room to find the curtains,...

the. first thousand years of Welsh verse—The Burning Tree: Welsh verse. edited and selected by Gwyn Williams (Faber, 25s.)—is a useful companion volume to the fine Introduction...

West Indies (Macmillan, 18s.) is a short and unpre- tentious book, it nevertheless represents an ambitious undertaking. The subject defies the limits of a single volume; the...

el prize of six guineas was offered for verses, in a similar vein to those of the Colonel in Patience, on any of the following : a politician, a Post Office telephonist, a...

ACROSS 1 Niggard 1 tie up, what a pity! (10) 6 After morning I should be in the centre L adies Ladies not admitted under this law (5). 1 1 What's left after the clues have been...

large notice board inscribed : ELEPHANTS HAVE RIGHT OF WAY. The usual prize is offered for a whimsical paragraph in the manner of one of the late Logan Pearsall Smith's...

BY CUSTOS THE market in Government stocks and in all 'gilt-edged' fixed interest securities was encouraged by the sober speeches at the Mansion House dinner, which, we know, are...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT DEAR SIR ROGER, My first duty is to express my condo- lences. You have given up a brilliant diplomatic career at Mr. Macmillan's behest to take on a...