A FEW days before Tass announced—in tones and terms more suited to a boys' space-fiction magazine—that a `super long-distance inter-continental multi-stage bal- listic...

SPECTATOR ESTABLISHED 1828 - NUMBER 6740 - FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957 - PRICE NINEPENCE

By V. W. KITZINGER Munich H ERE in Catholic southern Bavaria the favourite time for meetings of Herr Adenauer's Bavarian CSU Party is straight after mass on a Sunday, or after...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE New York O NE gathers that over large areas of the world today the United States is known as the country where the Confidential trial is taking place. This...

Meanwhile, the Russians have made a jolly device which, if I understand the principle cor- rectly, can deliver a hydrogen bomb from Lower Slobovia to Brighton Pier in rather...

T iiE announcement of a new Russian inter- continental missile quite took the wind out of the last of the summer holiday's sails; although doubt remained of the extent to which...

TO Ptrr the record straight : on April 18 the Government made a radical change in the terms of our Declara- tion accepting the compulsory juris- diction of the International...

together with an inability to de- cide on any one policy at any one time. Rarely, however, can the party's schizoid tendencies have been better demonstrated than in the...

Catholicism from Anglican orders and an Oxford Common Room; and both men, as distinguished Roman Catholic ecclesias- tics, were given fellowships by Trinity. But partly because...

surprising it becomes that the Foreign Office was ashamed to tell Parliament about it. It • re- moves from the jurisdiction of the court any question `which in the opinion of...

contest: ordeal by television. A few weeks ago Lord Mountbatten introduced 'The Royal Navy : NOW,' and last week we had Field- Marshal Sir Gerald Templer compering 'Your...

By GRAHAM MUTTON M INDs innocent and quiet used to think, with Marx, that just as the proletariat would go on being exploited and `miserificated' till the masses revolted, so...

By KINGSLEY AMIS B UT for surprisingly vivid memories of that five-bob flip at Croydon Aerodrome in 1934 (in a DH Dragon-Rapide, if you really want to know) I should probably...

By GEORGE EDINGER MILL 1942 Malaya was a geographical expres- sion. The small Peninsula was a mosaic of Sultanates, some federated and some not, and British colonies on and oil...

Poor Jessie Brown The Nth of a series of articles compiled from the Spectator of 1857. T HE situation at Lucknow was by now very serious indeed. Impassioned appeals went out...

By JOHN BETJEM AN WOULD like to record something about Mon- Isignor Ronald Knox which may otherwise go unnoticed. At a time when there is a strain in the relations between the...

BY LESLIE ADRIAN T HE Egg Marketing Board must now be re- gretting that it launched its 'Lion' stamp with so much foolishly misleading publicity. As a re- sult the Board now...

SIR,—Mr. Christopher Hollis tells us that 'the only chance of getting Liberal things done' is by exercis- ing persuasion on the other two parties. No doubt he has his own...

Sin,—I am loth to join in the Taper hunt, and he may be right in thinking that he was adapting Shelley when he wrote of the last Divisional Secre- tail/ being strangled in the...

SIR,—It is a notable fact that not one of the pundits whom either duty or inclination has rallied to the defence of the BBC's Russian Service has attempted to answer a vital...

the finer points of modern journalism, or are there others too who find themselves increasingly irritated by the cheap, sneering style of comment upon Parliamentary...

SIR,—Perhaps I may be allowed to point out that the article 'Australia Felix' by D. W. Brogan in your August 16 issue is somewhat misleading where the Sydney Harbour Bridge is...

thought-provoking leading article (August 16) that 'the age of economists is dead.' Unfortunately, however, the economists themselves are apparently not yet aware that their...

by again reading Taper : although his dialectic is frequently strangled by meretricious tricks of rhetoric: although time and again he appears to be a reincarnation of Don...

Party should be rechristened in broadcasts to Russia in order to make it sound less 'outlandish' to Russian ears. Possibly the editor of your competition page will offer a prize...

American China Policy Alfred Kohlberg The BBC's Russian Service Au heron Herbert, Alan Hodge The Liberal Creed Richard S. Wainwright Taper Daniel George, Rev, A. Eric Smith,...

review by Peregrine Worsthorne of Jean Dutourd's Les Taxis de la Marne may have wondered who was the author of the quotation given as a conclusion to this review. Perhaps it is...

important public service by raising its voice in protest against British support for the Arab boycott of Israel which is not only morally wrong but which has been con- demned by...

between heavy tobacco smoking and cancer of the lung, it is perhaps worth recalling, especially to the fanatic tobacco idolator, the follow- ing apposite lines from Charles...

will be independent. Then we shall have our own flag, our own ambassadors and a delegation at the UN. Our Prime Minister will be able to attend meetings of the Commonwealth...

to get some facts clear. Thus he says, rightly, that the figures for inhalers and non-inhalers are much the same. Confusion has arisen by the use of the expression 'lung cancer'...

Ignorami' referred to by Mr. Glover, but most careful researches in ABC and Bradshaw revealed to me also the almost solo (!) service to which he referred, thereby proving that...

SIR, — It is good to sec a national journal like yours taking an interest in the anomaly of our Carlisle State Pub monopoly. This League, which wants to break the monopoly,...

up my copies of the Spectator and have read the letter from Mr. J. B. Parker. He accuses the NCCL of being selective. I would suggest that he is even more selective. He has...

SIR, — Although one agrees so much with Mr. Betjeman's various remarks about the importance of preserving beautiful and historic buildings, it is difficult to go the whole way...

WHOEVER may be the finest soprano to be heard today, few would be likely to award the title to Maria 011 0 :1 ., Meneghini Callas. Nor, probably, , ' 1 %6" has she much interest...

Plays at Edinburgh EVERY year the Edinburgh Festi- val Society gives its official blessing to at least four theatrical ventures. This is not, compared with its musical...

Loving You. (Plaza.)—Action of the Tiger. (Empire.)—Man of a Thousand Faces. (Odeon, Leicester. Square.)—The Abom- inable Snowman. (General re- lease.) THERE is nothing...

I HAD hoped that George Chin- nery, the subject of a useful exhibition at the Arts Council, would emerge from his compara- tive obscurity as a minor painter of firm and...

SEPTEMBER 1, 1832 A POLL took place at Norwich on Tuesday, for the • ollice of Sheriff. The candidates were Mr. W. Foster and Alderman Steward; the contest terminated in...

If I should touch her she would shriek and weeping Crawl off to nurse the terrible wound : all Day like a starling under the bellies of bulls She hurries among men, ducking,...

Punch Drunk By BERNARD LEVIN W HAT is art, growled Samuel Butler, that it should have a sake? So we might ask, faced with Mr. R. G. G. Price's A History of Punch*: what is...

German Rule in Russia, 1941-1945. By Alexander Dallin. (Macmillan, 60s.) IN Germany history is traditionally an instrument of politics. After the First World War, German...

Afghan Interlude. By Oliver Rudston de Baer. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) MR. CHASELING is a missionary, but not a mis- sionary whom Mr. Maugham would ever have fallen foul of. So...

The Message of the Scrolls. By Yigael Yadin. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. By A. Powell Davies. (Muller, 15s.) By now nearly all the...

The Millionth Chance: The Story of the R101. By James Leasor. (Hamish Hamilton, 18s.) 'Bur did they really exist?' one may say now of airships, like a child amazed among the...

THE most remarkable thing that can be said about this book is that it is about the most remarkable statesman of the present day. Paul Weymar was selected by Adenauer four years...

Road to Revolution. By Avrahm Yarmolinsky. (Cassell, 25s.) THERE is a vast literature in Russian on the nine- teenth-century Russian Revolutionary Movement, dating partly from...

A Walk on the Wild Side. By Nelson Algren. (Spearman, 15s.) The District Officer. By Michael Kittermaster. (Constable, 15s.) AMERICAN novels are often long, incoherent, coarse,...

Envy and Gratitude. By Melanie Klein. (Tavistock Publications, 12s. 6d.) MRS. KLEIN, in her new book, explores the origins of two qualities which, as a psychoanalyst, she has...

front doors an' just brushes the rain right on through, them bein' on a steep 'ill, like!'

water I had regularly seen one or two lizards basking, although• I had never managed to get within three or four yards of them before they were off. Lizards have incredible...

two-day, argot-loaded, train ride across the States, extraditing a tapioca-brain lush who used to peddle chippies and pantie-peelers, and fend- ing off a Sicilian gang,...

By IAN NIALL 'GETTING jagged,' as the woman in the little green- grocer's shop put it, is one of the natural hazards of blackberrying. 'I wouldn't do it for one-and•six a...

S. stopped to lean on the wall and tell me that he is now well past his eightieth birthday and has 'beat ole Jack by two month, just like ah said ah would, tha knows.' Jack, I...

She Wouldn't Say Who. By Delano Ames. (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.) Latest of the heavily lighthearted frolics of the irresponsible Dagobert-and-Jane, husband-arid-wife...

Three brothers live in a quietly rotting farmhouse, to which one brings a bride, who discovers that this is a bourne whence pretty servants and governesses—and a wife?—have...

makes promising, conventional start with usual kind of detective story, about usual kind of pleasant public-school bobby asking usual sort of questions in such usual Places as...

By PHILIDOR No. 117. A. ELLERMAN (2nd Prize, Good Companions, 1915) BI.ACK (I I men) WHITE (10 men) wiirrE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...

knit, mystifying piece, admirably translated, by the twin masters of the psychological suspense story. Escaped prisoner-of-war switches personality to deceive woman who shelters...

ACROSS 1 Frilling to cover a wrinkle at the neck? (6) 4 Day for a jam session (8). 9 In good trim at the printing works (6). 10 Defence of the philosopher is revealed among...

entitled I Was A Teenage Werewolf. Allow- ing that certain words such as 'teenage,' fiesh; 'Eve,' night,"bride,"breakfast,"passion,' etc., are incandescent, competitors are...

On the model of Harty Graham's Ruthless Rhyme named after, and evocative of, the play An English- man's Home, competitors were invited to compose a Ruthless Rhyme similarly...

By CUSTOS TAKING stock of the investment position one finds that the index of industrial equity shares has only fallen about S per cent. from its top, which was on July 9. As...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE new Council of the Stock Ex- change is setting about its job with great gusto. As everyone knows, the Stock Exchange is a private institu- tion with...