THE E EN MEMOIRS IAN GI L MOOR

T HE news that the Germans were looking for bases in Spain should have caused rueful amusement; instead, the reaction here was hys- terical—where it was not sanctimonious. Yet...

PRINCESS MARGARET made the gossip-columnists look even more inept at their dingy trade than usual when her engagement was announced to a Y o ung man that none of them had even...

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rrtie Chancellor of the Exchequer, contemplat- ing his Budget, receives even more gratuitous advice than Princess Margaret contemplating matrimony; and among the earliest with...

T HE editor of the Cambridge newspaper Varsity deserves to be congratulated; he has managed to extract a statement from the Chair' man of the Appointments Board about the report...

protracted correspondence in our columns on the subject of the BBC's Yugoslav services. Some of the allegations made, and not answered, were disturbing; but as we heard that a...

T in: current anti-Gaitskell line on the Left is (as Tom Baistow puts it in our correspon- dence columns) 'that by the time—perhaps un- comfortably nearer than we think—Russia...

'THE discourse on brainwashing given by Or .1 Alexander Kennedy, Professor of Psycholog i • cal Medicine at sEdinburgh University, to the Royal Institution has attracted less...

By RICHARD BAILEY* W HAT sort of shape is Italy in as the poli- ticians mill around in search of a new gov ernment? On the economic front things have never been better. In the...

Meets Grivas From CYRIL RAY ATHENS M R. CONS'I ANIINE KARASIANLIS has been the, Prime Minister of Greece for an unbroken period of four and a half years, 'a darn good...

By IAN GILMOUR sl ed Hitler and Mussolini as though they were n ice g e ntlemanly figures of the pre-1914 era; and t I l tr Anthony Eden treated President Nasser as u gh he was...

One Called Smug FURLONG . By MONICA stablished Religion where he would meet with o fl , e Giv e - No-Offence, one M ind-Thine-Own- - 'alvatio it Christian falls in with the...

Stg, — You are perfectly entitled to your odd little campaign for the free sale of potentially dangerous, habit-forming drugs. (Even if they were less harm- ful than alcohol,...

to anticipate trends in public opinion is a little disingenuous. You 'specifically con- demned' Mr. Anthony Crosland's proposal to poll the voters on the purely technical ground...

SIR,—Mr. Silvan Jones is wrong. He should read Labour's Constitution (price 4d. from Transport House, Smith Square, SWI—they're still selling them, I checked). It says masses...

S1R,---11 is a pity that your correspondent responsible for 'With Mac Through Africa' on February 19 has not bothered to keep abreast of recent liberal trends and developments...

Richard Clements, Tom Baistow Francis Noel-Baker, MP Africa D. T. M. Williams Lord Raglan T. R. M. Creighton Philip R. Meldon Irving Wardle, Sidney Harrison T orrid z ones...

school where I wasted three years would find any difficulty in vouching for the accuracy of David Cairns's quota- tion from the institution's senior lecturer in the history of...

space for my article last week on 'Land Hunger' in Kenya, I forced you to reduce the length of my third para- graph, dealing with agricultural economics, when it was already in...

points to which taken exception are 'simply from the be st av ailable historians.' It is usual for writers who ,Op 3 m r ! others to do so with due acknowledgment, but debt...

grateful to David Cairns for attacking our com- placency. May I make further points? (1) We are in business to teach many students who will never be artists. They arrive with...

SIR,—Having served in Kenya as a rehabilitation officer I would like to comment, without going into the legality or morality of locking up individuals without trial, on Victor...

No Allowances By ALAN BRIEN How far should a critic make allowances for . . . At this point I would usually interrupt the speaker, even if I were the speaker, to announce my...

Is It Over, Over There? By PETER FORSTER The particular bogy feared by networks, by sponsors, and by the great advertising agencies which are probably the most powerful forces...

Hitting Off the Present By ISABEL QUIGLY PETER SELLERS'S disguises, like Alec Guinness's, are internal disguises, shifts of character more than wigs and whiskers; but both...

Doubly Damned By DAVID CAIRNS Mr. Kubelik, can't we have another chord?' Mr. Gabor Cossa, the Cambridge producer, has gone about his entire work in a similar vein, and there...

Free Spenders BY DONAT O'DONNELL 'It is not possible to be thrifty and yet hold a high position in the corner gang.' —William Foote Whyte. M R. WHYTE, one of the numerous...

UNTIL his death in 1598, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, had for forty years been the key figure in the administration of Queen Elizabeth. Some- times his authority was challenged...

s lang and the language of the underworld, Fings re certainly not what they used to be. A hundred years ago, glossaries of Seven Dials argot—the 'flash' language of early...

The Collected Poems of Roy Campbell, Volume 15s.) The Collector and Other Poems. By Peter Red- grove. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 12s. 6d.) ROY CAMPBELL was such a masterly and...

THE jacket of this highly entertaining and useful book, which describes it as 'the history of the Cold War years—selected articles with added commentaries by two famous...

The Dandy. By Ellen NI oers. (Seeker and War- burg, 36s.) Taw:. dandyism is a state of mind, the pure cult of personality, the dedication of oneself to one- self, the pursuit...

The Ballad of Peckham Rye. By Muriel Spark. (Macmillan, 15s.) ursuit of the Prodigal. By Louis Auchincloss. (Gollancz, 16s.) WELL, the last thing I expected Colin Wilson's b...

reading The Less Deceived. (Listen Records, 39s. 6d. each.) GEORGE HARTLEY and his wife have an imprint of their own in the Marvell Press in Yorkshire and they also run the...

By CUSTOS riThE demoralisation of the gilt-edged market I is due entirely to the Treasury or the Bank of England, whichever has the last word. The government broker is sent into...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT under no such illusion; he is busy directing the great and powerful motor companies to build their new factories in the areas where he wants them to go in...

M ANY interesting reports are now being re- ceived from Building Societies, the majority of which are reporting record results for 1959. Abbey National Building Society. The...

Homes Ancient and Modern By KATHARINE WHITEHORN AN ideal home can mean anything from a mud-hut to a houseboat; in the oontext in which it appears every year at Olympia, it...

II 3' RAY NIOND POSTG A TE* Tuts time, in reporting on the hotels and restaurants which have come to my knowledge since the last edition of the Good Food Guide, I am going to...

Plastic Parade By LESLIE ADRIAN There have been enormous improvements. But many of the plastics in use still cannot perform the duties they are trying to take over from other...

VARIOUS firms now offer very dry wines as suitable (under medical advice) for diabetics . Peter Dominic Ltd., for in' stance, have a red and a whit e Portuguese at 6s. 9d. with...

ACROSS.—I Fitfully. 5 Spiced. 9 Brassard. 10 Prunes. 12 Line up. 13 Maritana. 15 Skipping-rope. 18 Paradise Lost. 23 Emeralds. 24 Palate. 26 Drover. 27 Diogenes. 28 Dressy. 29...

ACROSS 1 Noises abroad? Just so! (6) 4 Bitterness seems inevitably in- volved with cash (8) 10 Apt to be confused (or not) in a renowned murderer (7) 11 Where chaps get vigour...