National Unity Committee, took power in Turkey by a coup and assumed the offices of President, Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Com- m ander - in-Chief, pending the...

No. 6884 tstabitshed FRIDAY, JUNE 3, I 8 2 B 1960

rr HE Turkish Government of Mr. Menderes I was hardly so high-handed, bloody-minded and corrupt as the South Korean Government of Mr. Syngman Rhee, but it was sufficiently re-...

HE falling-off in the recruiting figures for T There is nothing to prevent the Government from irresponsibly offering renewed inducements in cash or kind to bring the recruiting...

I T is a sad situation for the British aircraft industry. It did more than most to develop the small touring aeroplane yet now that a market for this kind of machine Is...

F OR every one reader who works his way through the Corfield Report on the origins and growth of Mau Mau there are presuniably several thousand who will have seen only a sum-...

WELL, well, well, well, well. So this was what the Prodigal Son felt like It had been a long time since I was at the House of Commons, and I was naturally eager to know how much...

From Our Industrial Correspondent A FEW months ago the leaders of two printing unions, the London Typographical Society and the National Union of Printing, Bookbind- ing and...

.Y PARENTS collected information from a M dozen schools: this was the most expen- sive, so they sent me here." Thus John Burnett in The Observer reports the disillusioning...

The Minor Key By PETER FORSTER A A I the age of twelve I was sent to a minor .1,,public school in the West Country with a reputation for sensible eccentricity. Twenty years on...

By EX L ET Ss begin by asking what classes of person are in fact sent to prison. . Many were there because they could not or would not pay sums of money adjudged by the courts...

By BEATA BISHOP T HE basic situation is always the same, the woman said. I dream I am back in B, and I can't get out again. Something goes wrong, I suddenly find I've lost my...

By KENNETH GREGORY My determination to keep the horses as much in the background of my Derby Day as possible, did not arise from the fact of My not being able to paint them...

feel strongly that insufficient is being done to enlighten public opinion on a topic which has for too long been shunned. Furthermore, because we deplore a situation which...

ten Bantu workers are instinctively dishonest and congenital liars.' SIR,—Mr. Garry Allighan knows 'that at least eight out of ten Bantu workers are instinctively dishonest and...

raises several important queries and seems to need a deal of correction. Mr. Allighan makes two principal assertions: first, that most black South Africans are 'dishonest' —`at...

SIR,—Picking one's way carefully through his last letter, it is perhaps possible to form a fairly clear idea of what Mr. Ronald Vincent Smith considers 'impertinent and...

Robert G. Moorcroft The Schizoid State Rashid Karapiet, R. F. Harwood, Dr. Arthur S. Wigfield, T. D. Powell-Davies, J. Boxwell Little Black Quibba E. Carol Carlisle, Mrs. Margot...

and 'slovenly thought' and dispute with Bernard Levin the use of the word 'off' instead of 'on' then surely he might spare us the use of italics to stress his own lack of...

SIR,--Katharine Whitehorn ('Feeding the Press,' Spectator, May 27) wants to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Of course there are PROs whose only aim is to secure free...

and East Africa lie embedded in the annals 0 1 the last 300 years. When the Dutch farmers in the seventeenth century moved northwards through the Cape Colony they annexed the...

SIR.—One's first impulse after reading your cor- respondent James Tucker in the current Spectator (May 27) is to wipe one's feet and move on. However, some protest must be...

different from those one applies to discriminating between cleaners or car-hire firms? I have been reading Helen Bannerman's books to my children over the last five years, and...

SIR,—While I fully agree with Mrs. Scurfield's point that it is more important that articles for domestic use should fulfil their function well than that they should look...

SIR.--Mr. Pages's letter prompts two questions. First, was he at the first night of The Trojans, the only night of Mr. Sisson's cabal? Had he been, he might have felt that the...

SIR,—I must write in defence of The Story of Little Black Quibba, so maligned by Leslie Adrian last week. I wonder if he/she is a parent and if he/she knows that the author,...

as usual. But I missed an article by Mr. Erskine Childers explain- ing why President Nasser's nationalisation of the Egyptian press is in the interest of Arab freedom. Surely,...

Roundheads and Cavaliers By DAVID CAIRNS Falstaff and 1 Puritani- are any two Italian operas less alike? On the face of it, Verdi's last opera and Bellini's stand at opposite...

Personal Remarks By ALAN BRIEN Bachelor Flat. (Picca- dilly.) - Roger the Sixth. (Westminster.) -It's In The Bag. (Duke of York's.) IT's odd how many dramatic criticisms man-...

Medium at Work By PETER FORSTER Eviav now and then the medium really does justify its existence. The other Tuesday was such an evening, and it is worth halting the busy roar of...

By ISABEL QUIGLY Sergei Eisenstein. (Every- man, Hampstead.)— The Chaplin Revue. (London Pavilion.)— Black Orpheus. (Cur- zon.) `As perfect in its timing as Eisenstein?s pram,'...

Annals of Lyndhurst BY KARL MILLER y AM half inclined to believe that the Common- ' wealth really exists—outside the reproachful cries of English leading articles—if only...

, 11 Years there has been a deal of complaint about the Singapore fiasco, and many have m aintained that the matter should have been eli_ade the subject of an official inquiry....

The Defeat of John Hawkins. By Rayner Unwin. (Allen and Unwin, 25s.) The Brethren of the Coast. By P. K. Kemp and Christopher Lloyd. (Heinemann, 21s.) MR. UNWIN'S excellent book...

THERE are to be six volumes of Swinburne' s letters—two thousand or so in all; two volunles have now appeared, taking the story down to 1875, when Swinburne was thirty-eight....

A Life in the Theatre. By Tyrone Guthrie. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) Theatre: The Rediscovery of Style. By Michel Saint-Denis. (Heinemann, 15s.) THE flavour of theatrical memoirs...

Invitation to a Beheading. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 15s.) VLADIMIR NABOKOV wrote Invitation to a Be- heading in Russian in 1934, when living as an emigre...

MY left-wing friends, I generally observe, see n much more ready to take a lenient view of th e , wholesale deportation by the Soviet governme n ` of seven small nationalities...

The Second Empire. By G. P. Gooch (Long- mans, 30s.) THE Second Empire is now a fashionable field for research in France, especially research in e conomic history. And Napoleon...

THE new kind of traveller needs a new kind of guide. Everybody now knows that the Parthenon is in Athens and that Maxim's is in Paris, and how many stars each is likely to be...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHAT are the chances of more restrictive action being taken by " the Treasury? Ican imagine Mr. ) Amory tapping his economic barometers each morning and...

By CUSTOS T HE argument as to whether the market rallY is due to small private or to large institutional buying is not very helpful. The rally is the thing. The insurance...

WIRETYPE BINDERS for binding the Speetaw' at home are still available. Each binder will hotel twenty-six copies. • The BINDERS are specially designed for filing consecutive...

T HERE has been a welcome increase in the dividend declared by C. C. Wakefield, from 22 + per cent. to 271 per cent. It is also proposed to make a scrip issue of one for two....

Where the Bee Sucks By KATHARINE WHITEHORN `I[ ADVISE all women to make their husbands take up orchids. Then they will always know where to find them: in the greenhouse.' These...

By LESLIE ADRIAN THE idea of moving • around the countryside with a self-contained residence on my back has always appealed to me, and I investigated The conversion companies...

Browsing in Brighton By RAYMOND POSTGATE* IF a Londoner wishes to leave his city for enjoy- ment, his instinct is to go to the South Coast; and if he is particularly intent on...

, 21 So I was especially interested in a tasting arranged by Christophers, of Jermyn Street. scholarly firm with a most distinguished list, of six Gruaud-Larose vintages from...

18 19 ACROSS Coleridge's fun-fair? (8-4) 9 How the fried fish-shop was set ablaze? (9) II) All het up about the time (5) 11 Fashion for morning till night in Ohio (6) 'That lie...

10 Single-man. 11 Waddle. 12 Strained. 14 Tosti, 15 Realities. 18 Resonance. 20 Poser. 22 Holidays. 24 Paxton. 26 Slow- coach. 27 Trace. 28 Estoril. 29 Fiddles. DOWN.-1 Cold...