`Acceptance by the new members of the objectives already decided upon by the Community and, subject to such minor adaptations as might suggest themselves, of the regulations...

CHRISTOPHER HOT LIS 'Fair winds from Ayrshire fill the sky. Up Jenkins, up,' the comrades cry. 'Election day should be in June, And now's the time to call the tune,' Says Roy,...

The silent majority DAVID WALDER Already the polling cards and election ad- dresses are falling softly through the letter- boxes into a few million homes and the public...

Mr Nixon's real Americans WILLIAM JANEWAY New York — A new pragmatic politics is in operation in the United States. The old pragmatic politics—according to myth, dis-...

SAM-storm over Suez CRABRO The Russian decision to supply the Egyptians with SAM-3 ground-to-air missiles has been deplored as another twist in the inflationary spiral of arms...

Over the border ELIZABETH MORRIS The fact that no nation so far has recognised the Rhodesian republic has let Portugal's premier, Dr Marcello Caetano, off the hook for the...

Tennis balls, my liege DOUGLAS BROWN When we have matched these rackets to these balls We will in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's -crown into the...

Donnison the destroyer ANGUS MAUDE, MP There are those who hold that the Public Schools Commission will go down in history as the most futile exercise of the 1960s. I am not...

A lesson from Cambodia GEORGE GALE It is difficult without ideology to justify any form of physical violence except that judged necessary for self-defence. The violence...

NIGEL LAWSON By a most curious coincidence, the charges against the Sunday Telegraph (and others), arising from that paper's publication of the Scott report on the state of the...

The voice of the prophet J. W. M. THOMPSON There is an engagingly feline caricature of Wordsworth among the works of Max Beerbohm. Entitled 'William Wordsworth, in the Lake...

Seeing double BILL GRUNDY Driving along one day, I needed to brake suddenly. Unfortunately I found my foot going right down to the floor-boards without the car slowing down in...

Why animals? JOHN ROWAN WILSON There are few more emotional subjects than that of vivisection. It is the kind of issue on which both sides have over the years en- trenched...

Buried treasure PETER J. SMITH The assessment of the world's mineral rei serves is a notoriously hazardous business, and past predictions have so.often been wide of the mark....

Faw- cett delivered last week at Brighton a very temperate and clever lecture in favour of ex- tending the political franchise to women, — a lecture of which any unprejudiced...

JOEL HURSTFIELD Tn most periods of history people do not concern themselves with fundamental poliA tical themes: they quarrel instead about the control of the machinery of...

OLIVER WARNER Canada: The War of the Conquest Guy Fregault translated by Margaret Cameron (Toronto LOUP 75s) When General de Gaulle, in the course of a visit to Canada which...

PATRICK ANDERSON Paris Under Siege, 1870-1871, from the Gon- court Journal edited and translated by George J. Becker (Cornell University Press 81s) Jules de Goncourt died in...

CLARENCE BROWN Papa Doc: Haiti and its Dictator Bernard Diederich and Al Burt (Bodley Head 42s) As a schoolboy in the South Carolina of some years ago, I once attended an...

J. 0. URMSON Structuralism: A Redder edited and intro- duced by Michael Lane (Cape 75s) It is clear that as language users we may speak rightly or wrongly; we may, or we may...

THOMAS BRAUN The Bog People, Iron-Age Man Preserved P. V. Glob translated by Rupert Bruce-Mit- ford (Faber 50s) Glob on bogs never clogs; which is a good job, for many will be...

C. IL O'D. ALEXANDER The Protracted Game: A Wei-Ch'i In- terpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy Scott A. Boorman (our 65s) Periodically attempts are made to draw...

JOHN ROWAN WILSON One Life Christiaan Barnard and Curtis Bill Pepper (Harrap 55s) Not so long ago, the vast majority of people knew nothing about anything. The mass media have...

Dummy run JOHN HIGGINS Geraint Evan's Wozzeck has been maturing over the past decade. We first saw it in the 1960/1 season and then five years later, a shambling,...

PENELOPE HOUSTON A week which includes films by Luchino Visconti and Richard Lester, as well as a new comedy which seems intriguingly to have split the more judicious American...

Underhand GILLIAN WIDDICOMBE Conductors often seem to fall into two sexes: those whom the orchestra plays 'under' and those it plays 'with'. The difference is not the surface...

Avizandum BRYAN ROBERTSON Paul Nash died in 1946 at the comparatively early age of fifty-seven; a memorial ex- hibition was held at the Tate in 1948; his work, very carefully...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT It was a stroke of luck that the Government inquiry into the textile industry should have been chaired by a Manchester ex-business- man and advocate, Mr...

From M. K. McGowan. Philip Allan, T. M. Preston, Max Wright, Tibor Szamuely, the Venerable R. V. H. Burne, 'Mercurius Cantabrigiensis', I. A. Girvan, John Lamer, Nigel Vinson,...

JOHN BULL An intelligent appraisal of the prospects for Rank Organisation is now going the rounds. It comes from brokers De Zoete & Gorton, who argue that the present high...

Sir: In his interesting review of the NEB (21 March) Mr Anthony Burgess has one sen- tence which filled me with amazement. He wrote, The "Once upon a time" beginning of the...

Sir: I have these severall moneths forborne in silence - those vaist cartloads of antick /Ass, writ by one Mercurius Oxoniensis which you have seen fit to publish in your...

Sir: Mr L. A. Holford-Strevens is appalled (Letters, 21 March) by the appearance in your columns of my article and of several letters describing the unsavoury record, past and...

Sir: I should like to take issue with J. M. Venables (Letters, 21 March) in regard to his assertion that 'Mr Enoch Powell has the un- fortunate habit of making controversial...

Sir: Will Mr Savage (Letters, 21 March) tell us why it is 'manifestly unjust' to purchase one's freedom if lucky enough to have the money? It seems a curious philosophy to wish...

Sir: Mr Alexander (Letters, 14 March) still misunderstands me. My principal objection to his version of Guicciardini lay not in his 'philosophy of translation' but in his fre-...

Sir: Mr J. W. M. Thompson in his reference ('Spectator's notebook', 28 February) to the Daily Telegraph's rendering of bloody as b—, has unconsciously disinterred a potent...

Sir: With reference to your recent articles by Dr Jeremy Bray and Sir Keith Joseph (14 and 21 March), it is understandable that businessmen do not always take into account the...

Sir: If your antipodean correspondent has recovered from the 'horrid pain' of his ulti- mate stanza, he may be constrained to follow this oracular advice: 'Not to SPECTATOR,...

No draws JOHN WELLS The odds against anyone predicting the exact day on which the Prime Minister will call the next general election have been estimated by experts to be...

No. 5991 Polluta.sters Set by E. 0. Parrott: Pollution is the 'in- topic' this year and environmental• concern has suddenly become one of the major public virtues. Accordingly...

Across: 1 Shoot the parasite (6) 4 Crib coal and get cleansing derivative from that! (8) 10 Hangs about intentionally as they say in courtly fashion (7) 11 Earthenware no doubt...

PHILIDOR B. Weiss (1st Prize, Good Companions, 1915). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to No. 484 (Hartong and Ivanov- B5Q1/p2N2B1/2r...