A T no time in her brief history has Israel won as wide a measure of sympathy and support as she can claim Yet there is still a tendency for the Government to regard itself...

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N July of last year 238 peers found their way I to the House of Lords to vote against Mr. Silverman's Bill to abolish the death penalty. Last week the Lords, without a division,...

. HER 39,500-mile trip . . . Daily Telegraph, February 25. . 39,000 miles . . . News Chronicle, February 25. • . 38,500 miles . . . The Times, February 25. . . MET by about...

By RICHARD II. ROVERE M R. EISENHOWER has a weakness for old saws and folk wisdom, and it has landed him in trouble. Last fall, when he was reproving England and France for...

Mr. Ben-Gurion said he was prepared to accept a United Nations Commission to investigate the situation in the Gaza strip. Whether the United Nations will also be prepared to...

THE outstanding item of the Parliamentary week, as far as Since the bulk of question-time had been de- voted to pensions and national insurance, the lines of battle for the...

Mr. Torn Collins, the engine-driver of Cricklewood who was sent to Coventry for eighteen months by his workmates, has decided to emigrate to Australia. Old Tom has packed • up...

for brighter county cricket are going to end those frustrating Saturdays spent watching the batting team crawling to safety. But will they? Restricting the number of leg-side...

those covering the eight weeks before the outbreak of war in September, 1939, seems to me to reveal very little. The prospect entertained by Lord Halifax of Hitler being cheered...

seems right to reproduce it here : 66. MR. HAMILTON asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education what steps he intends to take to encourage the appre- ciation...

some of the Asian nations deported by Serov in 1943 and 1944 to return to their homelands induces some reflections on the attitude of the leaders of opinion in the free...

on another page, a sink of iniquity; but I am grateful to it for various dis- closures in the last few days : that as an economy measure by the West Riding County Council, all...

East is Mr. Spanel, a prominent businessman and a staunch friend of Britain and France. He takes columns of space in American newspapers to publicise his . own views and those...

THOUGH UNDOUBTEDLY much less im- portant than the diplomatic revolu- tion of 1756, the exchange of positions between Britain and the United States in the Middle East which...

Britain at the present day, and—if the report of The Married Women's Association is to be believed—as many as two-thirds of them may be in arrears, often because the father's...

an octogena- rian; particularly as it has had to undergo three trying changes of name since its birth in 1877, when—rather naturally—it was christened the Nineteenth Century;...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS W HEN the present Speaker had been Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury for twenty- one years, his constituents very properly decided to give him a...

THE TORY CANDIDATE was earnest and dull. He was non-U. He was a self-made man. The introduction of a leaven of such men into the Tory party in Parlia- ment is, and has long...

Prizes for entries in the recent competition are awarded to : VALERIE AVERY (Walworth Secondary School), £8 8s.—for an original story; PATRICIA DURRANT (Royal Bristow Hospital...

• Although a rose is not, I must admit, Dear Juanita, an original Mark of affection, Please don't laugh at it Nor inconsiderately pigeon hole This brief reflection. A man, you...

By RANDOLPH' S. CHURCHILL T HE jury which awarded £20,000 damages and costs to Mr. Ortiz-Patino struck a decisive blow for English liberty. Rich men like Lord Rothermere, Lord...

By KENNETH LINDSAY What precisely is Inter-Communal education? In brief it includes the so-called English school in Nicosia, two American • Academies, teacher- training for men...

By JOHN BETJEMAN Y ou may think from the casualty lists of buildings I report in this column, from the defeats which the Royal Fine Art Commission' records in its latest Report,...

By HUGO CHARTERIS Senegal T HE pink haze of fire spreads in the dark sky; to left and right in front. Now, suddenly, there is a patch behind. New explosions deafen and shake...

By JENNY NICHOLSON • •LAC /3 K gondolas threaded through the mist which shrouded Venice. Charon gondoliers in black livery, black ribbons with no flutter in them banging from...

LITTLE hope of Briggs settlement. Observer, February 24. Hone to avert Briggs strike. Sunday Times, February 24.

By LESLIE ADRIAN L IKE many people who live in an old home, I have an inconvenient and ill-equipped kitchen; and in the near future something must be done about it. But what? A...

The HO and `Lolita' Graham Greene Alanbrooke and Churchill Maj.-Gen. J. A. SI. Bond Cyprus L. E. S. Leese, Michael Stewart-Smith Small-Farm Efficiency Geoffrey Eley Cri de Coeur...

SIR, - - My attention has • recently been drawn to the • article `Mental Healthmanship in your • issue , of January 18, and, as I am the "Mr. S.' quoted therein, may I clarify...

why our jobs strike friendi as being screamingly funny? 'Written any good books lately? Ho, ho ho!' they ask him. The answer' is yes (he has), but he is too modest to make it....

it—with British small farms vis-4-Vis Den- mark, cares to give some weight to the politico-econo- mic history and circumstances of the two countries I think his criticism of the...

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Sta,---Lord Templewood'i reView in your paper of Arthur Bryant's book The Turn of the Tide contains by implication some inaccuracies. For example, it gives the impression that...

truth about Cyprus. I don't know whether it has been that most newspapermen have gathered their news at hotel bars or the twistings of censorship, but reports in the British...

SIR, — You say . . there is no practicable alternative but to negotiate with Archbishop Makarios. • .' So long as the Archbishop neglects his pious duty and declines to...

to be allowed to forget their banning of Boccaccio? Pharos had a side-swipe at them last week, and I would like to ask him what he thinks the magistrates should have done. They...

word 're- stricting' and still in some doubt about it, I now begin to'see what besides the PEN Mr. Kingsley Amis , was trying to get at. If he is implying that any but a quite...

SIR,—May I please comment on the letter' of Messrs. Hartland and Harvey which appeared in the Specta- tor last week? These gentlemen suggest that my pride was deeply hurt on...

SIR.—Your Westminster Commentary in your issue of February 15 contains slighting references to the Debate on Welsh Affairs. Your commentator said this debate was especially...

the Park Lane area a most elegant woman was about to alight when the conductor exclaimed "Old tight lady.' She, to his amazement, turned and directly facing him said, `I am a...

Mountains, essays by Leslie Stephen, Mr. John Bayley seems rather disappointed that the volume does not con- tain Stephen's 'best work,' though he concedes that 'it is a good...

SIR,—Many will be grateful to Hugh Montefiore for his article on the above subject, and especially for his summarising of Christian teaching on the race question. His indictment...

WE'VE now reached the point where television is allowed to sing for our supper : on six days of the week, but not on the Sabbath. Every Sunday the audi- o ence is compelled to...

Past imperfect The Master of Santiago. By Henry de Montherlant. (Lyric, Hammersmith.) — Justice Fielding. By Roy Walker. (Guildford Theatre.)—King Uldipus. Translated by C....

MARCH 3, 1832 THE King of Bavaria has announced the acceptance by his son, Prince Onto. of the throne of Greece. It is the intention of the Five Powers immediately to take steps...

The Wrong Man. (Warner.) - Anderson Anastasia? (Berkeley.) —The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (Odeon, Leicester Square.) HITCHCOCK was a man with a formula and it always (more or...

FOR the present Michael Tippett's opera The Midsum- mer Marriage appears to have lost the struggle to stay alive. Having done its duty by reviv- ing it for only three perfor-...

From Aspidistra to Juke-Box By KINGSLEY AMIS T T is a sad fate to be the child of the urban or 'suburban middle classes. As a First or a Fourth are the only dignified kinds of...

The Hungarian Revolution. By George MikeS. (Andre Deutsch, 12s. 6d.) MR. BARBER was in Hungary as correspondent of the Daily Mail from October 25 to November 2, during the most...

A History of the Council of Trent. By Hubert Jedin. Translated from the German by Dom Ernest Graf, OSB. Volume 1. (Nelson, 70s.) A WARM welcome will be given by all students of...

Gogol. By aivid Magarshack. (Faber, 36s.) G000L belongs to the miraculous first generation of modern Russian writers that included Pushkin, Lermontov and Aksakov; those whose...

Violent Truce: A Military Observer looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1951-1955. By Com- mander E. H. Hutchison, USNR. (Calder, . 16s.) r is a pity that Commander Hutchison has...

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini. By Iris Origo. (Cape, 35s.) MEDIEVAL history has been much enriched by the feminine touch. There must be many for whom the...

6d.) Briskly written, immensely exciting secret-service thriller, set in the Damascus and Cairo of pre-Eden days, by a lively writer who patently knows his Near East, its...

the same academic groves:if not from quite so high is bough, comes this fantasia on the twin themes of switched corpse and pursuit—nOt quite so 'donnish in manner as this...

I Is. 6d.) Closely fol- lowed by this tall tale—from an author who knows better—of a girl commissioned to find an historic and priceless gem, lost for centuries. 'Atmosphere'...

A new English crime-novelist gives Soho the Chicago treatment, let syntax and apostrophes fall where they will. On the very first page, the English private dick, who rejoices in...

Laws and Flaws. By Edward F. Iwi. (Odhams, • 21s.) Hhiti Government officials 'and readers of the correspondence columns of 7'he Times will be familiar with Mr. Iwi, a lawyer...

ingenious, brilliantly readable, utterly incredible murder-puzzle : who threatened that the judge would be killed on the very morning that the man he had condemned went to the...

15s.) Rather a lot of co- incidences—and a whopper to wind up with- in an otherwise admirably commonplace inquiry into seeming suicide by exhaust-pipe of middle- aged...

The Case of the Four Friends. By J. C. Master- man. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) The Professor of Poetry and sundry dons have all beguiled us in their time, and here, now,...

Michael Arlen-ish heroine—though she bears a more Dornford Yates-ish name than Shelmerdene—moves through a London and Home Counties landscape seamed with racing cars, sown with...

The diary of the deceased is a well- worn device, but an author new to the genre, with a nice hand at character-creation,• makes skilful use of it in this study of death in a...

woman is chosen, by advertisement, and groomed by a sort of Svengali to marry a millionaire who has not hitherto even heard of her. Succeeding, she 'transports millionaire's...

style is not only pedestrian, but flat-footed : it somehow suits this story of theft from a provincial bank and murder in a pro- vincial town. Superintendent Waghorn has to ask...

with a trumpet voluntary of praise. None of the three distinguished English contributors---;Lord Dunsany, Roy Vickers and Anthony Gilbert--is on top of his form, though Mr....

The Master. By T. H. White. (Cape, I5s.) WHAT goes on inside Rockall? A fascinating hypothesis is supplied this week by T. H. White, in a book which he himself describes as 'a...

'The Movement.' They get rather confused, indeed, by using this term of two scarcely overlapping lots of poets—the moribund Empsonians and the Poets in New Lines, an anthology...

to compress a description of a whole field into forty or fifty pages for that rather undefinable figure 'the layman'! It is a credit to them that they so often succeed : but...

least a dozen non- fiction books, published recently about criminals or the police (Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner, by Henry Goddard : Museum Press, 18s.). There were one or two...

they stick to facts, recording what happened and who took part when and where; for good measure it is often desirable that a consensus of critical opinion written at the time be...

by Eric and Barbara Whelpton (Robert Hale, 18s.) is its name, which inevitably suggests a comprehensive itinerary. Moreover the su gg estion is reinforced by the unequivocal and...

State and the Citizen, by K. M. Panikkar ; Asia Publishing House, Rs 6-12). 'It is Jenghiz Khan with distance control exercised by a hundred methods. Its picture is that of some...

A prize of six guineas was offered for a calypso suitable for singing on the occasion of a 1957 eleven-plus examination. ONE competitor accompanied his entries by a note in...

doubt that it would have crept into many of his plays. For the usual prize of six guineas competitors are invited to provide three continuous clerihews in a conversational form...

recently published in the United States, occurs this• extract from a letter by CBS: 'Yesterday, at Massinghanz's, John Burns came in. We meant to have a great political council;...

NOVELS, ETC. Penguin : Pigs Have Wings; Laughing Gas; The Mating Season; Very Good, Jeeves; Carry On, Jccves; by P. G. Wodehouse (all at 2s. 6d.). Collins Fontana Books : The...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT MR. MACMILLAN'S weekend 'stag' party at Chequers must have been \ an exciting affair. Each Minister had the opportunity to say exactly how he would run...

The enemies of fruit trees are numerous, but tar- oil spraying (best done in January) can still be carried out this month. Later on, of course, lime sulphur should be sprayed at...

'In the old days,' said E.,, smiling fondly at the recollection of some pleasant scene, 'we lived in a village over the hill there. Times were hard, how- ever, and we were a...

By PHILIDOR No. 91. Specially contributed by C. MANSFIELD BLACK (6 men) WHITE (8 men) WHIT! lo play and mate in two moves: solution nex t week. Solution to last week's problem...

After I had retired to bed, perhaps because I had supped too well, I found it difficult to sleep, hearing first a bullock lowing and then two serenading cats somewhere lower...

By IAN NIALL Ir needs a hard frost to put things right in the garden and on the land, some people say. Without hard weather all sorts of 'pests come through the winter in...

By CUSTOS sold off to I would advise holders to take their profits. The huge borrowings of the Bowater group make me disinclined to join the public rush. Including the loans of...

ACROSS 1 This captain provides his own ink for his notes (6). 4 Is this where the oarsmen get washed up? (8) 10 A land-speed record or a vessel (7): 11 The lawyer's clerk...