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the usual Pagan rites of human sacrifice, the victims being laid out in rows and gone over with motor-cars until nicely clOne. The Minister of Transport was said to be studying...

W I ON the Defence White Paper appeared two . months ago it contained the soothing in- formation that defence expenditure had at last been stabilised, with a consequent...

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O NE consolation that can be drawn from the events in South Africa is their salutary effect on the Central African Federation. By all accounts members of the Dominion Party, who...

TT is surprising how little attention has been I paid here to the broadcast made by M. Debre , the French Prime Minister, when he returned to Paris last week from his brief...

F rom SARAH GAINHA\1 T HE acceleration of measures to achieve Western European Union in the Common Market is a political action with political reasons. European Union was begun...

T f IE present troubles in South Korea—which , . are at least as bloody and unnecessary as those in South Africa—began more than a month ago with the opening of the...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS M R. WATKINSON : `No one could be quite certain when the Russians were going to attain complete accuracy with their long-range missiles, but for at least...

Irish Number Articles, reviews and poems by DOMINIC BEHAN, PATRICK CAMPBELL, ERSKINE B. CHILDERS, DESMOND FENNELL, DESMOND FISHER, VALENTINE IREMONOER, SEAMUS KELLY, PATRICK...

From MICHAEL.PICARDIE* ID he drink from our cup?' 'Yes, he did. What's the matter?' `Man, how can you let a kaffir drink from our cup?' 'Why not? He has no disease, washes...

The full alphabetical index of contents and contributors to Volume 203 of the 'Spectator' (July-December, 1959) is now available. Orders and remittance of 5s. per copy should be...

A Knock on the Door From KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN I THINK it was one of the Pan-Africanist leaders who first said that for an African South Africa was like an occupied...

By SIMON RAVEN E XCEPT in so far as it is always of interest to break new ground, I was not keen to come to Israel. Long since persuaded by Norman Douglas, I knew that Greece,...

From DENIS MACK SMITH RIO DE JANEIRO, EASTER MONDAY O N April 21 the new capital of Brazil will he V./ formally opened. Brasilia in these last few days is a scene of feverish...

II y ALAN BRIEN T HE first time I took part in an anti-bomb march I was reporting it for the Evening Standard. About thirty of us, in crumpled rain- coats with nervous drawn...

SIR,—I regret that I have only now been able to find time to reply to Leslie Adrian's allegation that customers in licensed houses are being restricted in their choice of...

Sia,---Whilst we all appreciate Mr. Postgate's opinion on fine wines, - I feel , that someone must correct him when he writes about wines which' it is only too obvious he has...

SIR, - - --1 was very interested to read Mr. .Hollis's statistical commentary on' God's Law in regard to contraception last week. It seems to me that neither he nor that other...

That Pill Hambrosia White Anglo-Saxon Protestant The BBC's Yugoslav Service Patron or Dictator? El Dorado Cam Ipaign for Nuclear Disarmament Canon L. John Collins Holidays...

appeal for funds from a well-known children's home in which the sponsors say—I quote the appeal—To cut down expenses, we have embarked on a pro- gramme of "centralisation."...

SIR, — Mr. John Tusa is entitled to his opinions : I am entitled to expect that he should get his elemen- tary facts right. The group of Trustees who stayed on and did not...

poorly qualified to be a Pr ofessor of History—true enough; and that w estward Ho! was unhistorical, as indeed it was, " I nugh not noticeably more so than the majority of...

SIR. In your April 1 issue, Penelope Gilliatt has written a chatty article on 'El Dorado,' marred slightly for me by the nagging overtones of bitterness toward things...

SIR.--In the last six months the British public have increasingly concerned themselves with the BBC's Yugoslav Service. This general disquiet was most evident in the weekly and...

is always a pleasure to read Mr. Bernard Levin and I was particularly pleased to read his attack on employers who operate a colour bar. I was distressed, however, that he should...

The Show of Evil BRIEN By ALAN The Merchant of Venice. (Stratford - upon - Avon.) —What Every Woman Knows. (Old Vic.)— Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All. (Theatre Royal,...

is to be channelled into effective political action during the next few months, the Campaign must have funds. May I appeal to all who marched with us in the flesh or in spirit...

Commercial Blur By PETER FORSTER ONE of the paradoxes of advertising is that the wider they cast their net, the ' deeper the ad-men must research into the public mentality. If...

Beyond the Pale By ISABEL QUIGLY Come Back Africa. (International Film Theatre, Westbourne Grove.) 'By the time he was ready to shoot his film,' Bloke Modisane writes' about...

Bears BY DONAT O'DONNELL Tolstoy asked Aylmer Maude : 'How is it . . . that these gentlemen do not understand that, even I n the face of death, two and two still make four?'...

Critic's London Diary. By Kingsley Martin. (Seeker and Warburg, 30s.) Critic's London Diary. By Kingsley Martin. (Seeker and Warburg, 30s.) MR. KINGSLEY MARTIN was appointed...

years of Queen Victoria. The popularity of th e , The word came into the language in the earlY pursuit scarcely survived her reign. Now it I s the concern of rather few...

I Remember Rontano's. By Henry . Kendall. (Macdonald, 21s.) THe commercial theatre and the fruit machine have much in common. The investment is made, the available actors,...

Deutsch, 10s. 6d.) The Guinness . Book of Poetry 1958/59. (Putnam, 10s. od.) A Critical Quarterly Supplement—Poetry 1960. ( I s.) EDWIN Mute's book contains all that was in...

The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot. By Hugh Kenner. (W. H. Allen, 30s.) THIS, we know, is an age of criticism. And the criticism is in its old age, chiefly the wisdom of...

A History of Soviet Russia. By Georg von Ra n ` (Atlantic Books, 50s.) f a d THE interpreter of the Soviet scene has to ,3 1 . 1 the ordinary difficulties of the historian plied...

The Jews in Our Time. By Norman Bentwich. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) Dg. BENTWICH has written this short book as a proud testimony to the virtues and achievements of his race. As...

holiday book to come off as well as Erico Verissimo's Mexico (Mac- donald, 30s.). Mr. Verissimo is a Brazilian writer who lives in Washington, and his book starts out under...

PRIME MINISTER LORD SALISBURY used to say that when he read a book, he liked to be told the facts and then left to do the thinking for him- self. The best readership is with...

awn in Colour. By Noni Jabavu. (John b Murray, 18s.) 1 ,: (1 , 491 in Colour is a book by an African which 111 upset many other Africans. In a season of f acile oratory about...

FROM the bomb-proof retreat of The Cen- tenarians, his last, widely praised novel, Mr. Phelps has moved back to 1920 and the more vulnerable entrenchments of childhood. The play...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WI: are going to hear a lot more about the balance of payments in the next six months. It is quite likely that Mr. Amory will be regretting that he...

N last week's issue (page 552) we published an I extract from the chairman's statement to the shareholders of Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Company which disclosed a highly...

By CUSTOS T is not yet time to back the gilt-edged market I up to the hilt but surtax payers should keep an eye on Funding 3 per cent. 1966-68 which can be bought at 82i to...

Out of Vogue By KATHARINE WHITEHORN PUTTERING about in a Hertfordshire bookshop the other day I picked up a couple of dusty old volumes . . . that sort of remark usually...

ACROSS.---1 'Baseball. 5 Alfred. 9 Lucky dip. 10 Altus. 12 Allure. 13 Malinger. i5 Ostreophages. 18 Frustrations. 23 Upper Cut 24 Friary. 26 Icebox. 27 Pavement. 28 Ea , ily. 29...

ACROSS 'Such as found out — tunes' S (E cclesiasticus) (7) Record waiting to be filled in the Lamle book here? (7) D ecorated darters (7) (7 plant to flourish in asylums )...

Submerged Tenth By LESLIE ADRIAN The chief source of trouble seems to be those all-in-one masks, with the breathing tube built into the facepiece and terminating in a valve in...

IN the 1960 Michelin, just out' there are only ten three-sta r restaurants in the whole of France, as against eleven last year. Mere Brazier, at the Col de la Luere, a dozen...