A WEEK OF INVITATIONS, some pressing, sotne pressed for, ceremonial and State visits. With the hotting-up of the American mid-term election Campaign, the world has necessarily...

rrNE spate of rumours about an impending As the Kalends of November approach, the West's course is quite clear. We have our rights in Berlin and mean to stick to them. And it is...

N the eyes of its own party the Government I has rallied with extraordinary speed. All the signs show that it is regaining support among the electorate generally. The Llandudno...

T ILE occasion for the demonstration on the part of Flemish nationalists in Brussels last Sunday was a new parliamentary Bill dealing with the use of national languages within...

T HE NEW academic year opened sadly this week with a severe staff shortage of scien* tists at Cambridge and the announcement of en' forced financial austerity at Oxford. The...

W resignation as British representative on the Trusteeship Council of the UN—and civil ser- vants who resign are bound to pay the penalty of ceasing to influence policy—it has...

PARIS From DARSIE GILLIE RESIDENT DE GAULLE is engaged in deliber- ately making enemies of the second of the tw o groups that brought him into power in 1958. With the first he...

A DULL Labour Party conference is an im- possibility: the shifts by which the leader- ship asserts and balances itself on top of the furious civil war that rages all the time...

No doubt about it: the men and women crammed into that inelegant pavilion under the Great Orme gav e the strongest impression tOt merely of unity (that is easy enough for theme...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK N America aroused against Fidel Castro at the month's beginning has been pronounced quiescent in the month's middle. Dr. George Gallup's newest...

1 walked along the main street of Llandudno, a bum inter- cepted me with spirituous smile and hand at the ready. 'I'm sorry to approach you in the street,' he said, 'hut you...

Last year the oracle uttered through Tribune from the beaches of the Riviera, and it said: 'Damn you, England!' Now, from England, it utters again in the same place, and it says...

By HENRY FAIRLIE Y the end of Mr. Macmillan's speech at the rpl Conservative Party conference, most of the representatives from the constituency associations and even some...

fortnightly article at least four times before you fall on it—once in typescript, once in galley, once in page proof, and finally when the paper comes off the machine—need no...

But there were further treats in store. In the morning I was called twenty minutes later than I had asked, so that I missed the train I had meant to catch. As a parting pleasure...

Mr. Donald McGill died in London on Satur- day at the age of eighty-seven. He was the cher maitre of that most popular of pop art. the big-bottomed picture postcard; the...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Ht.:NoEasioRms and Vatican Councils seemed last Thursday morning destined to go fatedly together. At the First Council ninety- eight years ago Papal...

By MICHAEL DENNY ‘A tisrr of mild and bitter, please.' `I'm sorry, we've no mild.' The hopeful face looks puzzled, hurt almost. The outstretched hand retreats. 'We gave up...

H. Wightmart Don't Go West Ian Rodger Castro's Cuba Mary Mackintosh Cut Him Wife T'roat Out A. F. B. Crawshaw National Theatre Lisa Hughes The Naga Revolt George N. Patterson...

SIR, —Mr. Spender seems oddly confused in his analysis of the current state of literary affairs in Britain. He foresees London becoming a kind of Yeatsian Dublin because a...

rather premature obituary of the New Left included a misleading reference to my article in New Left Review 13/14. He implied that I wrote as a member of the New Left, 'spurned'...

I contribute nothing positive to the debates in which the New Left engage, still less is he in a position to condemn. I do not know Mr. Butterworth; Mr. Butterworth does not...

MacLeavy's linguistic corrections to my rendering of Jamaican conversa- tion, and shall certainly buy a copy of Professor Cassidy's book. 'Pickneys' is certainly right for...

a noted authority on Nagas as Dr. Hutton, I would like to produce the evidence which led me to make the distinction between 'subject Nagas' and 'free Nagas' to which he takes...

is that there is no such thing a s can-opener that will open any can. Nor should openers be necessary. I don't know what a s e A u ; opening' can is, but why can't all cans be...

SIR,—I agree with so much your correspond ent ! Stephen Fay, says about the Dublin Theatre Festiva' that I hesitate to ask you to let me take him 14 on any point. But I think he...

Sherman's article on Castro! (September 7.) 'Castro's was the first Communist regime to take over an economy in working order [which] now shows the disastrous effects of the...

of Sir Laurence Olivier's work at Chichester enjoys a certain isolation and (b) those of us who have been visiting the Old Vic a good deal longer than he repudiate the idea that...

says: most would today agree that sweating it out is more Christian than a great deal of pious exhortation.' This may be so, but from the rest of the article I am not certain...

really do take exception to the article by Da'rtaicri Magee entitled 'The Fraudulent Society' and serva to one sentence: 'Ever since the Con- servatives s eame back to office in...

Destiny Obscure By DAVID CAIRNS THE Covent Garden Forza del Destino can be assailed from many directions. There is the miscasting of the prima donna. There is the flimsiness...

Soldiers' Tales By IAN CAMERON WHEN he set out to make a film about D-Day, Darryl Zanuck operated in the tradi- tional Hollywood manner. He took a best-seller by Cornelius Ryan...

Partly Living IT is unlikely that Cur/it/wide will ever get a much better production than Stuart Burge's at the Aldwych. It is set in autumnal colours of brown and gold on a...

By NEVILE WALLIS WHEN, soon after the war, I attempted to interest im - pulses a youngish generation in the of the fin de siecle with an anthology of its literature and art,...

Forcing a Laugh By CLIFFORD HANLEY And yet, when you think of it, it isn't easy to tell a joke. An audience can hear, or see, a grim tale of jealousy and madness and death, and...

Collectors' Pieces BY EVELYN WAUGH E NTHUSIASM for Victorian taste is not, as I sometimes see suggested, a modern fad. When, forty years ago, my friends at the university...

HAN SUYIN'S new book offers two short novels, Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love. The former, in my view, should not detain us long. Taking the true story of Bertha Hertog, a...

Welcome aboard the Nautilus, monsieur! 1 vow you shall confess yourself amazed Ten thousand times before our cruise is done. What spectacles are mustered in the deep! Beauty...

BY MORDECAI RICHLER E have grown accustomed to think of America as the country of the one-book writer, instant reputations and critical hyperbole, but the truth is that in...

IN spite of his flip style, the world Mr. Amis reveals in his short stories is so nightmarish that it comes as a shock to find that he is a realist. Most human beings are...

To touch the fringe of an unknown country, without the chance of penetrating it, is a tan- talising thing. Like an encounter with a stranger, those brief, guarded moments of...

BY DAVID REES AS1 of the senior war-time commanders to 1_, publish his memoirs, Lord Alexander's brief. urbane volume,* padded with a series of 'battle maps,' covers most of the...

Epitaph for Luther Brown While teaching in the United States I came to know a brilliant footballer, who was subsequently killed in an air crash. His name was not Luther Brown,...

The laughter at the bar rumbles rich, Masculine as steak. More drink is served . Tankards clang and tumblers ring; Dull memories are cuffed and searched, Together heads are...

Passing the hoarding where she was display From which destructive nails had peeled Long ragged strips of irregular depth, (Breast and buttock in the gutter fade), One glimpsed,...

Dancing, they make sound out of speed, Hold down rhythm under each gym shoe And bring up music to suit their need. Not as we do, patiently awaiting the HO Moment to make the...

I have what I think are intolerable dreams, Belonging perhaps to another psyche —My operator green or bored, a Nike Demoted to the exchange. In teams Irresistible arguments...

He was as loyal as them all—and more; But what especially stirred his righteous nature Was that her husband used her in this way —Teased like a child, insulted like a whore— To...

Old books, brown and smelling nicely, That you got for sixpence or so In those hard-up schooldays, or as Student on a paperback bursary- 1890ish, ripe when you were born. An...

IT'S all too easy to have fun with Miss Stevie Smith. The difficulty about her work is to know how to place it. She can develop a perfectly serious poem from an opening as...

Henry VIII. By J. J. Bagley. (Batsford, 16s. ) WHETHER one is for Henry VIII or against him, there can be no denying his qualifications for inclusion in the Batsford 'Makers of...

By ERIC MOTTRAM S INCE the nineteenth century the intellectual American has related his social isolation to the cultural movements of his time in order to gain some meaningful...

Felbrigg : The Story of a House. By R. W. Ketton-Cremer. (Hart-Davis, 35s.) GREAT houses—old, courteous and lovely—are organic entities; and Felbrigg (near Cromer, in Norfolk),...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT No one as a rule pays much attention to the opinion of theoretical economists—it is different, of course, in mat- ters of applied economics, which is our...

By CUSTOS A NEW look at the security markets confirms me in the opinion that the time has not yet come to be a bull of equity shares. It is now certain that we are going into...

EBENHAMS fall of £3.8 million in pre- tax profits for the year ended July 31, 1962, came as no surprise following the interim state- ment of a decline of 43 per cent, in pre-tax...

when you have read it each week, you may like to know that there is a comprehensive index to it, published twice a year. it consists of both a Subject index to everything in the...

Bet You Anything By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Mind you, I know plenty of people who wouldn't be where they are but for insurance, and I do not just mean important men from the Pru in...

Whose Interest? By LESLIE ADRIAN Mr. Oldaker says : 'I should say that I accept the reasons for this Group's coming into being, but that, as a private citizen just as much as...