the milder airs of East Berlin, Mr. Khrushchev put off the Berlin problem and the conclusion of a German Peace treaty for six or eight months—pending a resumed Summit conference...

T would not have been surprising if Mr. I Gaitskell had begun, these last few weeks, to think about the attractions held out by- a pro- fessorial chair, or a series of...

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TT would be idle, though agreeable, to believe 'that the views on the Summit expressed on page 761 by Mr. Desmond Donnelly were any- thing but extremely unusual in a member of...

T HE D'Oyly Carte's Gilbert and Sulliv monopoly still has a year and a half to r the copyright on Gilbert's librettos does expire till the end of 1961. But the company br...

From RICHARD ROVERE NEW YORK, Tuesday R IGHT now we are debating, in Washington and elsewhere, whether it would be wise, Patriotic or useful to hold a great debate on the...

From SARAH GAINHAM BERLIN T NEVER expected to feel sorry . for Walter 1 Ulbricht. The least pleasing of men, the most intransigent of Communists, he rules East Ger- many as if...

From Our Bombay Correspondent Frill: existence of a public opinion and degrees I of responsiveness to it are looked upon as a fair indication of the nature of government. By...

By BERNARD LEVIN THE grapevine had been saying for some time that the Minister of Housing, Mr. Henry Brooke, would give Mr. Jack Cotton and the Legal and General Assur- ance...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP T HERE is a great deal of mistaken sympathy for Mr. Macmillan following the collapse of the Summit Conference. The real truth is that the policies he has...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS W HERE do we go from here? The faith of the simple-minded pacifist who believes that all men are men of good will and that it is only necessary to bring...

is some three hours' sail I from the Pira:us. In winter there is only one boat a day, but in summer there are many more because this tiny island is now one the most celebrated...

general public, and the apathy and timidity of our legislators, it is unrealistic to hope for early action to reform the present homosexual law. No legislation, however, would...

wider implications of the statements made in the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the Yugoslav Service of the BBC? Mr. Allan said : 'The...

disgraceful methods used by the police in certain areas stem, I believe, from the attitude that since homosexuals are automatically criminals they are 'fair game,' and so it...

Sum- mit fiasco have been profoundly disappointing. The size of the issues alone warranted your more serious concern and the fact that virtually no major develop- ment in...

Homosexual Prosecutions Jan Sainsbury. John Hunter, Rev. A. Hallidie Smith Inquire Within A. Alexander The Schizoid State Ronald Vincent Smith U2, Jack Peter Brown, Olwen...

SIR,—I feel in a sense honoured that my letter has called forth the nobly expressed indignation of parts of Mr. Rashid Karapiet's letter. However, I would indeed be nail, and...

SIR,- -While one has unbounded sympathy for the unfortunate chauffeur, so expensively caught in the toils of the law, it is surely pertinent to inquire whether his solicitor...

Garden revival, surely the bobing of the Royal Hunt and Storm by his clique was very unkind and ill-mannered in view of the fine perform- ance which Mr. Pritchard and Covent...

SIR,--What appears to have escaped your reviewer of The Image Merchants, Miss Laski, in her attempt to hose down the whole public relations world with vitriol, is that anyone...

when the nations of the world are spending £40,000 million on arms (Philip Noel- Baker, Nobel prizewinner, 1959) how long can one and a half billion hungry people wait? One...

so faithfully as I would ever believe him capable of careless writing, much less of slovenly thought. And so I am compelled to believe that ;t was no pen-slip when he wrote in...

for finding a good deal of smugness at AA meetings. His experience has evidently been more fortunate than mine. But I would be sorry indeed if my single criticism were to be...

Whitehorn's article on the 'Designs of the Year.' In defence of the practicability of the cast iron casseroles which were chosen, I must say that the lids—although they may...

SIR,—May I add a suggestion to those of David Cairns for improving the present Covent Garden production of The Trojans, namely, a small bid vital emendation to Dent's...

Too Big for the Barber By DAVID CAIRNS EVERYONE has been hard at work establishing why the Covent Garden Barber of Seville, on paper so brilliant, is in actuality so compara-...

Situations Vacant By PETER FORSTER A typical example was last Sunday's Time Factor (ATV), by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman. The title proved ironically pointed. A young...

Strong Woman By ALA N BRIEN Ned Kelly. (Theatre Royal, Stratford East.) ONE of the troubles with Joan Littlewood is that she doesn't know her own strength. Invite her up to...

A Farewell Tinkle By ISABEL QUIGLY Le Testament d'Orphee. (International Film Theatre, Westbourne Grove.)—Oscar Wilde. (Carlton.)—The Trials of Oscar Wilde. (On general...

Find Me An Abstract Man By CLIVE BARNES Tun Frederick Ashton/ Igor Stravinsky Scenes de Ballet never has been popular with the intel- lectually submerged nine- tenths of the...

The Horse's Mouth By SIMON HODGSON There is a detachment about Sickert which is hidden from us by the subjects he chose, especially in Camden Town. and by his use of paint. He...

Serpents BY DONAT O'DONNELL When Deganawida was leaving the Indians in the Bay of Quinte in Ontario 'he told the Indian people that they would face a time of great suffering....

THIS book is an aggregation of pieces (but the elaborate preface insists that we must not say so) in which Mr. Holloway asserts his independence of prevailing critical methods...

Out of the Smoke. By Ray Parkin. (14 0 Press, 21s.) Tuts is the story of some of the survivors -0 Australian cruiser Perth, which went down_ 14 Java with flags flying at the end...

PROFESSIONAL historians are frequently re- proached for their inability or unwillingness to write Clearly and crisply on matters which might !merest the general reader. The...

The Law and the Profits. By C. Northcote Parkin- son. (John Murray, 15s.) , 'WHAT a pity.' It is possible to start the review before reading the book. Here is another Parkinson,...

New Deal in Central Africa. Edited by Leys and Cranford Pratt. (Heinemann , ' New Deal in Central Africa utters fighting . 0°to , Aimed at a limited audience of the Pol lit „ii...

The War: 1939-1945. Edited by Desmond Flower and James Reeves. (Cassell, 50s.) A SCORE of war-time leaders commend this thousand-page anthology. Not all of them, per- haps,...

Two Tudor Portraits. By Hester Chapman. (Cape, 25s.) MISS CHAPMAN is an expert biographer. She has a sensitive, imaginative approach, and she is thorough and conscientious in...

The Art of William Blake. By Sir Anthony Blunt. (O.U.P., 36s.) AN intelligent child's guide to Blake's visual work has been, as one can realise now that it has appeared, a...

(Heinemann, 16s.) All or Nothing. By John Cowper Powys. (Mac- donald, 16s.) AFTER the authentic vernacular liveliness of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the short...

By CUSTOS MHE rally in equity shares has been restore d ' I as 1 thought likely, but I did not anticipa t e that it would be accompanied with loose Pk about inflation. If...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHEN I was trying to analyse the bear market in Wall Street over two months ago I attached some importance to the current malaise of American public life...

P Rorns for 1959 of Wiggins Teape, the paper manufacturers, are 34 per cent. up at £4.47 million. The dividend has been increased from 17 '2 to 181 per cent. and is covered 1.7...

13, the sentence 'There has been an appreciation of some £5,000,000 in the com- pany's holdings of ordinary shares' .should have read: 'The capital appreciation„ of holdings of...

Feeding the Press He has an absolutely scandalous job,' my uncle said once of an old cricketing friend. 'He's supposed to get hidden advertising into news- paper articles so...

Eisteddfroth TUCKER By JAMES As is widely known, most of us in Wales look forward to the summer only because it is the season of the Royal National Eisteddfod. In the same sort...

Homework for Hirers By LESLIE ADRIAN A FEW weeks ago, when Meriting about car hire in this country, I'mentioned So, first buy your computer : you will need it to sort out a...

The admirable new Ecrin Maconnais-Beaul°' lais has been formed to protect the good naive of the wine: Gilbeys is shipping the first of its Beaujolais (there is a white Macon to...

11 Molests. 12 Allurement. 13 Mary. 15 Undated. 17 Elastic. 19 Kinglet. 21 Soloist. 23 Fops. 24 Free for all. 27 Rat-race. 28 Driving. 29 Dec orate. 3 0 Adhere. DOWN.-1...

ACROSS 1 '— for the Parson, 'Batty for the Clerk' (Kipling) (6) 4 Where to see the stage cyclist on board ? (8) 8 How a lion gardant appears (4-4) 10 Rodent in a pastry-case...