It is, in the first place, important-to realise that ness, finds her resources strained; Nigeria, with Certain facts have also emerged about the of capital. Here also is a vital...

leaders found their own security in doubt. At home the Radcliffe Tribunal began its monumental task: abroad everyone went spy-catching. The United States claimed it had caught...

By R. A. CLINE N OT even the rule that comment on the Vassall affair should be suspended while proceedings arc pendin g has stopped commenta- tors from voicing their uneasiness...

K HRUSHCHEV'S latest speech to the Central Committee marks a striking trend in the Soviet economy. For it makes official what has hitherto only been hinted at by economists and...

rritae Chinese offer of a cease-fire along the I Indian border, coupled with a withdrawal twenty kilometres behind the positions occupied prior to November 7, 1959, raises a...

From Our 'Common Market Correspondent E started this meeting with "cautious pessimism" and end it with "cautious optimism." ' This characteristically deadpan CO° 1 " ment on...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS F RANCE has surprised herself—or at least her political journalists. While warning voices had been raised against the inability of the ` traditional'...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE river rolls, swells past, battleship grey and with waves that still seem wavelike though they are made by the huge ponderous barges and not by the...

By HENRY FAIRLIE T HAVE heard during the past week from a source 'which could hardly be closer to Lord Dilhorne —`Certainly,' he says, 'Dilhorne is the name of a distinguished...

Of course, it is true that intellectuals are Pa r " Ocularly likely to avoid political issues or W take a rosy mirage of myth for reality. But I must say that Lord Russell's...

'If every tree there had a vote, all [Sir Pie r ! Debenham's] opponents would forfeit th elr deposits.' J. W. M. Thompson in the Even ing Standard. November 20. QcErQuf6

In August, 1959, the Commission of Jurists had already 'voiced its concern and issued a warning respecting the precarious situa- tion of the Rule of Law in Cuba,' but as late as...

A NYONE who has read Dr. Cruise O'Brien's book To Katanga and Back must agree that it is a minor classic of political description, which thoroughly deserves the praise it has...

I have been reading with fascination Al an Rogers's account in the Daily Herald Of . j1'5 adventures amid the seedy paranoia of the Unt °1/ _, Movement. Mr. Rogers joined the...

I should like to think that all those in this country who have not yet had their eyes opened as to some of the less pleasing character- istics of the present Cuban regime would...

By EVELYN WAUGH I T is unlikely that the world's politicians are following the concluding sessions of the Vatican Council with the anxious scrutiny given to its opening stages...

By LORD BOOTHBY W HEN you write the kind of book that I have done,* you are naturally concerned about whether the frightening pace of modern events has beaten you to it; and...

By KINGSLEY AMIS l WAS often told at school that to have your intellect and your emotions working together in close harmony meant you had a unified sen- sibility, like Donne's,...

Creighton No Licence to Kill R. E. Hunter, 'General Practitioner' Reporting Africa Colin Legunt, George Edinger New Money R. 0. Whiting Rare Excellence Trevetzen Peters The...

SIR,—May I , differ with two points you made in Your admirable leading article on Southern Africa ('Alter' natives to Sir Edgar') of November 9? I am not sore what you mean by...

SIR, — It is not the horror of deformity that has been driv en L (He Lome, though Tribune's Flavius may think so. e i r _,_ s ul,usl move in very restricted or insensitive n The...

Round the Christmas Shops ONSUMING GROUPS throughout the On one thing, however, Consuming Groups are in full accord—that the Best Buy of all Christmas presents is the...

rightly for expansion and he proposes to finance it by means of loans and new money. I am not competent to follow the technical details, but presume that the first, if not the...

rightly exercised at the failure of British journa- lists to recount the positive achievements of govern- ments in Africa (the same is true of Asia) which, left wing or right,...

SIR,—Congratulations on your editorial comment 'Reporting Africa' (November 16). It raises a number of important questions (unfortunately hardly ever dis- cussed) which should...

the Vandeput case, may 1 point out that, regarding mongols, it is possible to recognise this at birth in almost every case and not 'several weeks after,' as you suggest? The...

regular articles on the German political scene wills interest and respect, but it was with dismay and amazement that I read the more than mild discussion of the Spiegel case,...

not knowing quite what 'cliche means) is brave enough to interpret the sales of his book as evidence of his literary excellence—not of the popularity of his subject. Joan...

Spirit of Pilgrimage By DAVID CAIRNS This is only as it should be. The moral of Idorneneo is the same one that The Coronation of Poppea puts even more forcefully—that in opera...

The Quality of Justice By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Fe"The Just. (Playhouse, Oxford.) —Clap Hands. (Lyric, Ham- mersmith.) THE theatre can offer no more fully detailed manual of...

Muted on the Bounty By ISABEL QUIGLY Mutiny on the Bounty. (Royalty Theatre, Kingsway.) BEFORE anyone asks me point- blank, or works it out from • internal evidence, I had...

The Art Schools B y NEVILE WALLIS RIGOROUS autocrats of the art tinguished independents such as Sir Hugh Casson to head the School of Interior Design, and Care l Weight as head...

Marine By CLIVE BARNES THE curious thing about Ashton's Ondine is how good it is--consider- ing. Revived last week at Covent Garden, all its virtues were again in evidence and...

Another and Another By CLIFFORD HANLEY Some people will be working tremendously hard, of course—the television people. There will be more and more of them, occupying a cor-...

By DERMOT MORRAH E VERY ancient society has its domestic Customs and foibles, which its members, 'when age and forgetfulness have sweetened memory,' tend to look on as sacred...

By ELIZAB ETH DAVID A N organisation we could do with at Christ- mas time is one which would provide pack- ing depots—boutiques perhaps they would be called—places to which all...

By ROBIN McDOU ALL T SHALL be spending Christmas with my dearest 'friends, in one of the pleasantest houses I know. It stands in a fine position, is marvellously pretty within...

By SIRIOL HUGH-JONES Most everyone likes parties. I hope that YOU do too. Because among my guests I want The fun of seeing you. PT HERE'S a proper way of doing everything...

By DENZIL BATCHELOR T is a comforting, Christmassy thought that I next to sport and religion, both pledged to re- establish the Human Brotherhood, nothing leads to lifelong...

By ANDREW ROBERTSON N his memoirs Lord Chandos recalls two 1Guards officers who, before luncheon, 'were unapproachable. Their intimidating silences, when the most that, could be...

By AIDAN PHILIP T HE last harems of the free world flowered and died without producing a Mrs. Becton. In consequence we are left with no authoritative `Manual on Anderun...

By the Editors of PRIVATE EYE Christopher Booker William Rushton and Richard ingrams is for Kingsley AIMLESS. He is a typical modern in-tele-ctual. In the 0..den days...

Fantee Shakespeare BY RONALD BRYDEN A FANTEE Shakespeare.' It was Shaw who coined the phrase for O'Neill, obviously with The Emperor Jones in mind, ignorant of The Iceman...

Samuel Beckett : A Critical Study. BY H ugh Kenner. (John Calder, 30s.) Beckett and Behan and a Theatre in Dublin. BY Alan Simpson. (Routledge, I8s.) A LQT of the trouble...

The Harry Golden Omnibus. By Harry Golden. (Cassell, 21s.) ON the main street of what used to be Montreal's working-class ghetto there is a popular, ex- tremely expensive...

( 1. mine, 'is something which begins, "Dear Sir. 1 - don't wish to complain, but ..."' I am beginning to feel like this about novel reviews. Every month, particularly in the...

Drawn and Quartered. By Charles Addams. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl. By Jules Feiffer. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) Nothing Sacred. By Hugh Burnett. (Merlin Press,...

When you were an acorn on the tree-top, Then was I an eagle-cock; Now that you are a withered old block, Still I am an eagle-cock. To how many poets, and how many more critics,...

acquaintance once drew up, on a large sheet of graph paper, a military version of snakes and ladders. The hazards increased in seriousness the farther up the hierarchy you got....

There is no blood to point the wound. Nor where I drag myself along A spoor such as dying animals show. I would be happier if there were; Instead 1 carry in my head The stain...

The Itch for Play : Gamblers and Gambling in High Life and Low Life. By L. J. Ludovici. (Jarrolds, 25s.) WHAT lies at the heart of the wish to gamble? A desire for something...

Constantly in Pursuit. By Patrick Campbell. (Hutchinson, 18s.) ACCORDING to a friend of mine who was onc e ' briefly but gloriously, Golliwog Corresponde nt to the Guardian's...

The Tunnel under the Channel. By Thomas Whiteside. (Hart-Davis, 16s.) INSULARITY is, I suppose. a natural emotion: . what I have, I hold; an Englishman's home is his castle; the...

The dial spins back, clicks still. Just half an inch Of silence then the abrupt eruption blurts Its two quick jets of noise into his ear. Again the double spurt; again. Three,...

The world had grown too complicated, so He went back to the cause of things and laid The fiery day within an early shade. It was impossible to see things grow. And this he knew...

The green tree wavers in the rambling wind And shivers into stillness, into what Rambles within the wind and can be caught In sprays of form and blocks of shape and turns Of...

Do not dismiss me too easily. I have a face other than the one you know. Madam, I could without difficulty destroy you. Did you mark the place where we entered the wood? Oh, it...

Walking around in the park Should feel better than work: The lake, the sunshine, The grass to lie on, Blurred playground noises Beyond black-stockinged nurses— Not a bad place...

After Po Chu-1 We all have our faults. Mine is trying to write Poems. New scenery, someone I like, anything sets me off! I hear my own voice going on, like a god or an oracl...

The quiet fruit dilating At the speed of a season and Heavy berry Lade the tended branch. The hand waiting and The sun's downpour. Its bath of light Sweetens the liquor in The...

The Great Hunger, Ireland, 1845-49. By Cecil Woodham-Smith. (Hamish Hamilton. 30s.) THERE are events in a nation's history that are watersheds. The American Civil War is one. I...

The Motorist's Bedside Book. Edited by Anthony Harding. (Batsford, 30s.) WHEN, in the 1930s, the Government refused to provide any money for building seaplanes to fly for the...

Facing the Dictators, 1931-1938. By the Earl of Avon. (Cassell, 42s.) MEMOIRS are personal reminiscences: childhood scenes, moments of political crises vividly re- membered,...

by ERIC BOIS Illustrated by ANNE-MARIE TRECHSLIN 'An extremely handsome volume containing 60 paintings and much information about the history and cultivation of roses....

In a Word. By Margaret Ernst. With drawings 13s. 6d.) In a Word was first published in America in 1939 and contains the last drawings James Thurber was able to do in pen and...

LONG before adults think of the question as any - thing but a joke, children start asking themselves: 'What am I going to be when I grow up?' They are serious - about it, and...

Bark and Bellow John Blackston; father a bookmaker; lives in large urban flat with television in three rooms; given almost every new toy he asks for; received a tape-recorder...

Listen and I'll Tell You, by Edward Korel (Blackie, 12s. 6d.), is nicely illustrated by Quen- tin Blake. It is a book of Indian animal tales —tales and tales within tales—that...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Of course this has to be kept in mind and the fact that Mr. Maudling has made a very cautious and correct approach to re-expansion shows that he is well...

in our Religious Books number to be published on December 7.

By CUSTOS T HE international crisis has halted the rise equity shares but the charts indicate the in turn of a bull market. The turn actually can le A :g June—the bottom of the...

n ecca's figures tell a very satisfactory story for the year ended March 31, 1962. Turn- over rose by 121 per cent. and exports by 142 per cent It was not an easy year for the...

Something Small By LESLIE ADRIAN Do I sense a small silent revolution amid the tin- sel and glitter of Decem- ber's great saturnalia, an ever so slight stiffening of public...

By GERARD FAY W um - makes city people, comfortably and sometimes luxuriously housed, rush down to the country at weekends to stay in cottages that most country folk would...

By ANGELA MILNE L YING in bed on Sunday morning, wondering by what message to what bit of brain one summons the energy to get one out and on one's feet, I found myself...