W IMF . it now looks as if some kind of a four- power meeting might emerge from present exchanges between the powers on Berlin, it is not very easy to see what could be...

VENUS WAS SHOT AT: de Gaulle was shot at too. President Kennedy showed that Russia does not have a lap start in the space race when an Ameri- can rocket set out hotfoot for...

By Our Common Market Correspondent F ROM the Government's point of view the lining of last month's storm-clouds in Brussels has already turned out to be pretty sterling stuff....

D isAinfAmENT negotiations often seem little more than special episodes in the game of propaganda: proposals are made that could never be implemented, debating points instead of...

T IIE news that the new term has just started in Glasgow with a shortage of 1,300 teachers and that in Newcastle serious consideration is being given to plans for part-time...

HE struggle for the reintegration of Katanga, I the establishment of a federal constitution for the Congo and the sharing of the revenues from the Union Miniere with the Central...

From DARSIE GILLIE A FrER August 15, France's August Bank ...Holiday, the old year is petering out. The last great wave of holidaymakers has gone forth. It remains for them all...

From IAN GILMOUR NEW DELHT T is difficult to get away from the Common "Market. Indians tend to share the delusion of the anti-Marketeers in Britain: that if Britain does not...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NLW YORK HE American Institute of Management, an ex- pression of the national religion, has pub- lished the latest of its periodic audits of the efficiency...

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about which Simon Raven writes on another page, seems to have contained a high proportion of those bizarre incidents that make such gatherings good value. The only example of...

The news that Mr. James Lemkin, an ex-chair- man of the Bow group, has joined the Liberal Party will not, I imagine, flutter too many dove- cotes, but I do find a little curious...

of replies to my paragraph the other day on the decline of CND. Of course, it is quite natural that members of the movement should dispute my estimate of its present situation...

I DON'T know why there should be all this fuss 'about Mr. Macmillan's letter to Dr. Aden- auer and the 'rebuff' he has received from him. In fact, during the Brussels...

a fine Saturday afternoon than the Zoo. At any time it has always been a favourite haunt of mine, but I had not been there for some months before last weekend, and so had missed...

By HENRY FAIRLIE SUPPOSE it is something to be twice an un- Isuccessful Conservative candidate and turn one's bile against the Government. Such is Mr. John Paul, the chairman...

What is the best type of book to read aloud? In my household P. G. Wodehouse held the floor for a long time until shortage of matter—most of his books read once and the...

By ALFRED SHERMAN T HE day I left Havana the papers carried the text of a speech by President DorticOs telling Cubans to give up what he called the `naive illusion' that the...

By RICHARD BAILEY HE idea that management as a profession was rr .1 invented by the Harvard Business School is now part of the mythology of management. It fits in alongside...

in your issue of August 24? 1 do not ques- tion for a moment the historical part of his letter: a nd I have no doubt that Mr. Edinger did play the r ole he relates in assisting...

Sitt,—I returned the ether day from Switzerland - -a country full of 'efficiency and equity' - ato read with wide-eyed amazement Mr. Henry Fairlie's article, 'Sense of...

other countries too, a terrific need for young people—young Britishers—who can 'identify them- selves with the social and economic aspirations of the people' as stated by...

J. E. Woodrofie, E. R. Chadwick, M. M. Elliott Sense of Purpose Lord Boothby The Common Market Correlli Barnett, J. E. Martyrs 'Don't Bank On It Sir Anthony Wagner. W. H. D....

SIR, ---Katharine Whitehorn complains justly of the system recently adopted by some banks of listing cheques by numbers only on the statement of account and omitting payees'...

Market is discussed, the loudest and most outraged cry from its opponents is that of a shamefully abandoned Commonwealth. As Mr. Cor- relli Barnett refreshingly pointed out,...

proud to say, has attacked public relations more often in the pages of the Spectator than I have (though it may well be that Mesdames Whitehorn and Furlong, with their one...

SIR,—I see John Terrainc's good point very clearly, but it does not seem to me a very good one. Certainly Europe will only accept Britain's entry into the Com- mon Market for...

the shortcomings of Britain's personal banking services, and would like in particular to offer some advice to your correspondent of last week, Mr. Irwin. I have been employed...

The King's Purse By DAVID CAIRNS It would be absurd to treat this incident as if it were typical of a Festival which, in the scope and coherence and bold imaginativeness of...

Aspects of the Novelist By SIMON RAVEN HE International Writers' Conference in Edinburgh was billed to undertake five ses- sions of public discussion in a vast mausoleum...

Old Furies BY CLIFFORD HANLEY Troilus and Cressida. (Lyceum, Edinburgh.) — Young Au- chinleck. (Gateway, Edin- burgh.)—The Doctor and the Devils. (Assembly Hall,...

Strip Cartoon By CLIVE BARNES THE other day Georg Solti said the Covent Garden Opera House needed a rehearsal stage like a loaf of bread. On that reckoning the Edinburgh Fes-...

Lifeless B y ISABEL QUIGLY The Life of Adolf Hitler. (Academy late night shows.) You can't make a 'personal' biography of Hitler in any medium, there just isn't the material...

Saturnine Daylight By ROBERT CONQUEST T HE quality of Roy Fuller's Collected Poems* must make any honest reviewer ask himself tee more what truly relevant comment he can...

Spanish Fury. By James Cleugh. (Harrap, 21s.) THIS time twenty-five years ago, the Spanish Re- publican Army was engaged on the Aragon front in one of those brave but ultimately...

The Marconi Scandal. By Frances Donaldson. (Hart-Davis, 30s.) AT five o'clock in the afternoon of August 4, 1914, seven hours before the expiry of the British ultimatum to...

the hula-hoop craze, before the building of the Wall. Yet some of the problems raised in his deeply thought-out book, The Two - Fold Night (trans. lated by J. M. Bernstein,...

30s.) THIS is a most interesting and important book. It is a study of the unending struggle between the Russians and the West, particularly the Americans, each to obtain...

.12/ EAR Sphinx,' Oscar Wilde called her; and it s as Wilde's admirer and—at his time of greatest nee d — rnagnificently loyal friend that Ada Lever- son is mostly thought...

`JENINIFLR LASH was twenty-two when she finished this novel,' runs the blurb for The Climate of Belief. 'Her youth is highly relevant, so we risk what appears to be a growing...

Napoleon and his British Captives. By Michael Lewis. (Allen and Unwin, 42s.) THIS is a charmingly old-fashioned book; it is half-way between an early nineteenth-century White...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is pathetic that we have never tried to do our social investment (public housing, schools, hospitals, etc.) at a separate and lower rate of interest....

By CUSTOS Lniouut equity shares remain firm under- _ neath, the upward driving force has been transferred to the gilt-edged market which n othing seems to stop-not even a flood...

A FEATURE of the report for the past year from Tunnel Portland Cement Co. (an extract of the statement by the chairman, Mr. N. M. Jen- sen, appeared in our last week's issue)...

INTERNATIONAL STORES • THE Annual General Meeting of The International Tea Company's Stores Limited will be held- on 1st October. The following are extracts from the State-...

Spare Parts By LESLIE ADRIAN I MAKE no apology for retu rn- ing to the subject of the failure of electrical-appliance mann" facturers to follow IV sales with good servicing...

Messing About in Boats By KATHARINE WHITEHORN THE word 'Regatta' is apt to conjure up visions of gleaming brass and roaring navy blue, of It is not long since West Mersea...