ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6644 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1955 PRICE 7d.

0 NCE the decision was taken to have an autumn Budget, there was no doubt about what the Govern- ment should do. The Chancellor's task was to stop inflation gathering speed...

C OMING up for the third time at Geneva, the Western , Foreign Ministers should now be brooding over the L.., changes which have taken place since the much pub- licised...

T HE emergency. Budget, Burgess and Maclean, an arms race in the Middle East, a Nein! from the Saar, the fourteen-day rule, national service; what with these and other hardly...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE R. R. A. BUTLER has built up a reputation on the shakiest foundation of all—mere success. And he is anxious. No one will believe any longer / that the pages of...

of the Manchester Guardian in rescuing some of its best writing from the usual oblivion into which daily journalism disappears. As with the 'Bedside Guardian,' the Glasgow...

GUY BURGESS AS I KNEW HIM A letter from Arthur Norris to Christopher Isherwood

dignified neutrality in its dealings with its rival. But the time comes when the line between neutrality and spinelessness is hard to draw. The BBC was approached recently by...

AMONG ALL the reports of the Russian naval visit to Portsmouth 1 don't remember seeing anything about the anti-communist Russians who went down to conduct propaganda, among the...

a great number of young girls who come across from the Continent, to live au pair with English families and improve their English, are being treated. They come in good faith,...

by the Department of Justice in Ireland contains the information, 'One prisoner died as a result of judicial hanging.' * * *

BY FRANK LITTLER F EW of his readers would consult Koestler on Anglo- Portuguese relations, but there is a significant passage in Arrival and Departure. Describing war-time...

even slower progress than usual in that congested labyrinth. This is not good for the temper. So, when the traffic lights turned green and I found myself unable to move because...

trating rays upon the advertising methods of the BBC. He objects especially, and I'm bound to say that I agree with him, to the incessant free advertising of 'minor film-stars...

`EVERYONE IN FRANCE, however, had a chance to look at M. Cocteau in his green uniform, cfeated by Lanvin.'—Man- Chester Guardian, October 21. . . AND COCTEAU, resplendent in...

By L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS Nor, indeed, do these obvious and visible contrasts exhaust the difference between the two parts of Pakistan. Before parti- tion, Sind, the Punjab...

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS 0 operation is more difficult to conduct than that of an empire in retreat. No reasonable person, whatever disputes there may be on details, can deny that...

By JOHN BETJEMAN T HIS week I went straight from St. Cuthbert's, Philbeach Gardens, round the corner to the Motor Show. One lives by contrasts. St. Cuthbert's is vast,...

Faits Divers I HAVE never been much of a one for statistics or even. if it comes to that, for facts, and I often suspect that readers of this page—indulgent though I assume...

SIR,—I expected your leading article on 'The Professional Author' to make at least some passing mention of professional authors. I should, it appears, have known better. We were...

that the specially chosen lesson in the cathedral would more appropriately have been Matthew vii, 3-5? Whatever differences may exist in Oxford about whether a road through...

lawns—if any—disappeared un- der a hard surface long ago), express sympathy with Mr. Robert Blake and his fellow Oxonians? It should be of some comfort to reflect that the real...

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abuse as a legitimate weapon in the campaign they are waging against him if they choose to do so. But they must not be allowed to get away with the assertion that the proposal...

Oxford Divided Senior Tutor of The Queen's College, Rector of Lincoln College, Ivor R. M. Davies, the Rev. Mr. Victor H. Beaton The Professional Author Howard Wyce,T. R. Fyvef...

SIR,—It seems, judging from the complaints of Mr. Vaughan Wilkes in your issue of October 14, that Church circles are still content to offer a sweeping diagnosis of our...

made in his recent article, viz., 'Hours of leisure for those still at school means the whole of the day on half the days of the year, and from 4 p.m. till bedtime on the other...

SIR,—I write to acknowledge an error in my review of Messrs. Alsop's book We Accuse, published in Spectator last week. My state- ment that Dr. Oppenheimer left America for...

far more secure than in the pre-war days of depression, you throw some doubt on George Orwell's picture of the 'nerve - racked, dun - haunted' writer of the Thirties, and you...

SIR, —Mr. Trevor-Roper is surely unadvised in describing Fr. Hughes's volumes on the Re- formation as tendentious, for it would be difficult to make more tendentious statements...

THE ORESTEIA OF AESCHYLUS. Presented by the Madeleine Renaud / Jean-Louis Barrault Company at the Marigny Theatre. SARTRE'S Nekrassov at the Thatre Antoine is already out of...

article, 'Trafalgar'? He says, Pew admirals have laid their plans with more forethought.' I think it is correct to say that at that period no admiral except Nelson pre- pared...

THE curtain rises on a hut, as primitive and homely as the fisherfolk who live in it. After some intimations of the supernatural, a knight in armour arrives, dominating the...

For-Lowista its recent show of young sculptors, the ICA has arranged an exhibition of eight comparatively unknown painters, five of whom have been students at the Slade School...

HOWEVER varied in material and in style the two opposing programmes are—and the P i few days have given some notable instances 0' rock-bottom stupidity as well as some to p...

MARCELINO. (Academy.)—LovE Is A MAW' SPLENDOURED THING. (Carlton.) --- 1 : 11E GIRL Rusti. (Plaza.)—How TO BE VI- 16 VERY POPULAR. (Rialto.) Tins has been a melancholy week in...

Two SYMPHONIES ON successive nights last week, both using the same bait, in the form of Malcuzynski playing Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, the orchestras of Manchester and...

OCTOBER 30, 1830 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—When his Tues d a y went down to the House of Lords on Tiles" he was hissed by a considerable number idlers in Old Palace Yard; and...

i f • • No th ing f not Cr itical BY JOHN WAIN I T is no wonder that Dr. I. A. Richards* has always dazzled everyone; he gives off, such a radiance that one has to approach him....

FIRST FOUR MINUTES. By Roger Bannister. (Putnam, 15s.) DR. BANNISTER has never been one to take the easy conventional way out, neither in his training, in his racing—nor in his...

THE EXPANSION OF ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND. By A. L. Rowse' (Macmillan, 30s.) THE first volume of Mr. Rowse's Elizabethan trilogy dealt with th r e . structure of English society and...

WHAT is 'occasional verse'? There is a useful distinction to be Made between poets who arrange their poems around some central theme and those who simply unite their poetry by...

THE BAY IS NOT NAPLES. By Anna Maria Ortese. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) THE SANDWICHES ARE WAITING. And Other Stories. By Jan e McClure. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) F re d THE LAUNDRY GIRL AND...

`To Shakhat and his seed, the males, for ever.' So reads the dedication of a tomb on the hillside above Palmyra, in stark non• classical contrast to the tall Corinthian...

and the early days of November. Cottage tulips are among the most satisfactory for display' in May. Earlier varieties include some wonder - fully bright blooms such as Mme Lefeber.

More references to eel fishing conic from a reader . who lives at Littleton Panell and says that the use of a bundle of worms was known as 'clatting for eels' when she passed...

BY IAN NIALL THE habit of celebrating November 5 and the tendency to anticipate the day, in my part of the world, by almost a month is one that may ultimately lead to...

It doesn't often fall to my lot to pluck a fowl, but I once had a frightful struggle to feather a goose at Christmas. Goose grease and feathers adhered to my face as well as my...

BY PHILIDOR No. 21. SAM LOYD (1892) * ' In The Art of the Checkmate (G. Bell, 12s. 6d.) , Victor Renaud and Georges Kahn have produce d another book of the well-known and...

parents, teachers and children,' and it should certainly be of great interest to the first two categories. In eight chapters the author describes interviews with children of...

b e usual prize was offered for a 100-word classified matrimonial advertisement on dialf of any one of the following : Caliban, Medusa, Mrs. Malaprop, Nero, Apollyon, Jezebel,...

but the replies have seldom been recorded. Com- petitors are invited (for a prize of £5, which may be divided) to supply answers, of not more than sixteen lines in the original...

ill The winners of Crossword No. 856 are: M ss MARGOT Waite, 24 Audley Avenue, Stretford, Manchester, and Mas MARTIN, Barnton Avenue, Edinburgh 4.

ACROSS 1 What the officer does when leaving the hotel? (8) 5 Hew sad, it has no substance) (6) . 9 Tid y up the cancelled golf match (5, 3). 4 Girl pm returning, being booked...

By CUSTOS ON the eve of the autumn Budget the stock markets were quiet but very firm. As no one in the City understood why Mr. Butler wanted an interim budget no one was pre-...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT * * * But let us see why the whole idea of profit-sharing is fundamentally dangerous both on economic and political grounds. Economically it fosters...