`T is proper to stress,' said the Superinten- I T dent, 'that this disgusting breach of the peace resulted not directly from any racial conflict but minor differences between...

MORE AMERICANS were killed last weekend in Los Angeles than in Vietnam, and probably more troops were deployed. Four days of burning, looting, shooting, and stoning left the...

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Defending the White Paper By ROY HATTERSLEY, MP B URIED deep beneath the layers of professional assurance and synthetic self-confidence, most politicians possess a skin as...

From Afar MURRAY KEMPTON writes from Long Island : Everyone even here—as far from the scene as it is possible to get and remain on the same continent—talks about the Negro...

The Soviet Writers' Rest House • DAVID KNOWLES on The Dark Ages One year's subscription to'the'Speciator': £3 15s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and Eire. By...

Back to Form? - CHRISTOPHER BOOKER writes : It was rather unfair of Private Eye, I thought, to entitle their recent parody of the Daily Ex- press 'The Daily Getsworse.' Comets...

A Slight Case of Rape ALAN WATKINS writes: Over a month has passed since the Court of Criminal Appeal refused Derek Hampton leave to appeal against a sentence of three years'...

A rat which has injections From an experienced vet, Regains in recollection What other rats forget. They say that by December, Thanks to this picric fat, Some monkeys will...

Coming or Going? HARRY FRANKLIN writes from Salisbury : Predictably, Mr. Ian Smith. Rhodesia's Prime Minister, has let off steam again. He has to, whenever his followers'...

Riffling through back volumes in an idle Moment, I came upon a letter on the racial s ituation from .our American correspondent in New York, dated August I I, 1865--four months...

From OSBERT HASTINGS F OR several thousands of years Italians have been getting into practice for celebrating the mid-August holiday, a ritual of release even before the time...

suppose one can namedrop about a building and an organisation as easily as about a person. So then Leslie Adrian's comment that in Norway all wines and spirits are bought by...

Nothing, but nothing alters the even tenor of a BBC interview. Not even the gallant Mr. Manry —Nay I join you in your boat?' I was just reeling from the impact of the deadpan...

with protest tetters from study and rectory, boardroom and commonroom. In general we were thought to be too rude, too controversial, too destructive. Parliament is not what it...

The appalling destruction caused by almost a week of savage storms all over Chile must seriously endanger President Frei's programme of reforms. The washing away of houses so...

There is something that these three largely admirable institutions (the BBC. the Guardian and the Observer) have in common which drives some people to quite extravagant...

b ruin ARNO 1. 1) Iii ICHMAN TAIZ HE late Imam Ahmad's headsman is now a I gatekeeper at the water supply and sanita- tion project fostered by the United States aid programme....

Deptford* ROGERS By DAVID T HE rush hour sweeps hard down the Old Kent Road, past the last outpost of the Metropolitan Line at New Cross, and is finally halted at the traffic...

By GRAHAM GREENE 'Tim little man who came to the information 1 desk in Nice airport when they demanded 'Henry Cooper, .passenger on BEA flight 105 for London,' looked like a...

SIR.---The two electronic " ticket gates at Tumham Green station, which Giles Playfair writes about in your issue of August 6, are part of a major ex- periment London Transport...

in 'calumni- ously' referring to his lurid book proposing that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's works. I did not draw readers' attention to what he alone calls his rebuttal of the...

Mr. . Christopher Booker's latest essay on the Observer. Should one try to answer such a jumble of spite, arrogance and grotesque misrepresentation? Prob- ably not. I think I...

From : Peter PatersOn, Martin Seymour-Smith, D. H. W hitinf.!, R. M. Robbins, L. I. Clarke, David Astor, lint Clark, W. Diment. Devlin-Worship slit,- In the course of his...

SIR,—Quoodle's high praise for the contribution made to the development of friendship with the developing countries by school-leaver volunteers is fully justified. His implied...

to myself in the Spectator of August 6. He refers. to the Observer Magazine and then talks about the 'amateurishness with which it employed Jim Clark to write about driving...

SIR,--Mr. Lewis Hastings argues (Spectator. August 6) that because the Blacks in the Congo behaved badly, then the Blacks in South Africa, more than 500 miles away, are not to...

SIR,—Speculations concerning Frederick the Great's would-be contributions to music could hardly go further than they seem in Sir Denis Brogan's letter. Frederick the Great was...

We Came, We Saw, We Concurred By DAVID BENEDICTUS MNE conquest of the Waterloo Road by the I East Berliners ranks with Hannibal's cross- ing of the Alps as a triumph against...

Word That I Lack T HERE are three jades in radio ' s stable: music, words and other noises. What with the P i rates, the Light Programme and its new pri- vate paddock all day...

W E tune in or climb to the Proms balcony oith apprehensive ears. A newly commis- sioned work, composer British, is coming up. Are we going to enjoy it? The cynic in us replies:...

People's Art A Ar the Hamilton Galleries a small, fascinating . 1,show has been mounted of '30 Centuries of Iranian Art,' covering the Amlash, Luristan and Islamic periods....

been widely circulated, but copies arc still available and may he obtained, with stamped envelopes for replies, from the offices of the Spectator, 99, Gower Street, London, WC1.

By HENRY WILLIAMSON R ICHARD JEFFERIES, who died in 1887, was one of those men who are born with an extra-sensory awareness of the wild or natural world, and the strange...

IT is tempting to • compare Mayakovsky with Kipling. Both poets, for example, express the once fashionable, but now dated, ideology of an imperialist ruling class, and each has...

CATIIOLIC emancipation, in 1829, may have brought with it few immediate practical advan- tages for Irish Catholics, but it won for Daniel O'Connell an ascendancy in Irish...

The Nooks and Byways of Italy, by Craufurd Tait Ramage, appeared in 1864. Since then it has been a rarity known to few. Miss Edith Clay has edited Ramage in South Italy...

Number. 7 : Alexander Hamilton's Secret At- tempts to Control American For;:ign Policy. By Julian Boyd. (PrincetonIO.U.P.,.32s.) TitE.Ainerican approach to revolution has been...

The • Fidelio Score. By Gerald Sinstadt. (John Long, 15s.) A British Intelligence courier is killed, not accidentally,. and his successor is sent, inadequately briefed and...

ever happened in remote Pindletor, on the edge of Dartmoor, and yet what Chris Knight saw . on the common on the fi rst night of' his visit sent him running to the village hall...

• Gurlie, Joe, and Spider White Mule. By William Carlos Williams. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 30s.) EXCEPT for The Great American Novel, which is 'experimental' prOse-poetry and...

THE more I read new novels, the more I am convinced that what makes most of them so mediocre is a failure of sensibility in the writer -a failure which we recognise, in its many...

9 Macropod. 10 Big-wig. 12 Aprons. 13 Sprouted. 15 Permanent way. 18 Wishing- wells. 23 Narwhalk. 24 Scouts. 26 Ornery. 27 Confrere. 28 Greats. 29 Detritus. DOWN: I Tom-cat. 2...

ACROSS 1. A novel piece of luck (8) 5. So fast? You must be dreaming! (6) 9. Up came a trunk for the stan- dard (4-4) 10. Bear a utensil (6) 12. I wish a pound for the man from...

Investment Notes By CUSTOS T 'I 1 E attempt to put the equity market better in the new Stock Exchange account is fizzling ° tit as I write. The latest bulletin of the National...

By LOTHBURY T Antiference Group is just about holding its own with pre-tax profits of £225,727 for the year ended March 31, 1965, against £240,790. The company is mainly...

By LESLIE ADRIAN One way out of this situation is to buy an 'as new, one good owner' second-hand car. We all know the tale of the bashed-up car so advertised that had in fact...

Another Part of the Forest By STR1X THE other day I found myself, for about ten minutes, in a curious. mildly disagreeable, and thought-provoking situa- tion. I was, or rather...

By PUILIDOR 244. 0. GALLISCHEK (from Richter's Schach-Delikatessen) BLACK (3 mew WHITE (to men) W "IL ,t.• thi s position Black plays . . . R—I3 6 ch; how can .,, "Re avoid...

By ALAN BRIEN RELUCTANTLY. I am coming to the conclusion that be- d ing a professional critic of anything may be an un- natural occupation. I would rather not admit this as I...