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INDEX FOR JANUARY -JUNE, 1962 INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES A A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, 745 (A) Ableman, Paul, As Near As 1 Can Get, 760 (R) Abrams, M. H. ' The English...

Adams, Michael, 67, 196, 714 (A) Adrian, Leslie, 26, 53, 84, 122, 152, 189, 221. 253, 284, 317, 348, 382, 426, 458, 522, 634, 666, 702, 773, 838 (Cl) Allcot, Guy, 592, 686 (R)...

BY TELFORD TAYLOR

with snow, fog, blizzards and ice. Britain, as usual, behaved as though the island had never before experienced snow, fog, blizzards and ice: pipes froze, football matches were...

T HE trouble with the Earl of Horne is that he x is not Mr. Butler. His attack on the United Nations, had it been made by the Home Secre- tary, could have been written off as...

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N OW that the President of the Board of Trade has rejected the advice of the Monopolies Commission, and said that the Imperial Tobacco Company should be allowed to keep their...

in its contest with the Society of West End Theatre Managers, who had with- drawn their advertisements out of resentment at criticisms in 'Mr. Puff's Theatre Guide.' The Royal...

Desmond Stewart writes: IJILE the Twist was being danced in the , Beirut night clubs, -the political party known as the PPS attempted its second coup d'etat in twelve years....

THERE are three good reasons why the de- 1 cision of the post office workers to work to rule was unfortunate. It extends a form of in- dustrial action to a branch of the Civil...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN G ERMANY'S public year was dominated by two situations—rather than events—both of them, though serious enough, phoney : Berlin and the general...

By BERNA RD EVIN But among the usual batch of such letters last week was one which raises a question or two worth exploring, outside the points in the letter itself. It is, of...

By ROBERT CONQUEST I regret having given erroneous informa- tion and/or advice about Fidel Castro and his Cuba. As token of my repentance I undertake to abstain from...

By TELFORD TAYLOR J N a judgment noteworthy for its lucidity and dignity, the District Court of Jerusalem con- victed Adolf Eichmann under all fifteen counts of the indictment...

From JAME S TUCKER D OWN here in South Wales our commercial television company, Television Wales and the West, recently took off Tempo to give us The Roy Rogers Show instead....

Fighting Back By R. A. CLINE A T last people are beginning to fight back. There is a good chance that the creeping growth of that dangerously diffuse and undis- ciplined...

Spectator why, in my concern to promote the intelligent study of literature, I haven't recommended the writing of parody, so perhaps I may be allowed some not very original...

God and the Soviets In Ferment Hopes and Fears Edible Fungi Travellers' Cheques The Death of Napoleon Malta Preserved Man and Caveman %gestic Fats' Approach to the Pyramides...

SIR, —By the time you read this your leader- heading, 'One for the Morgue,' will have proved tragically prophetic for dozens of Christmas road- users. It is therefore alarming...

publisher's editor responsible for this book, that the review of our publication God and the Soviets by Censtantin de Grunwald, in your issue of December 8, went rather beyond...

the influence is not a crime in the same way that, say, theft is a crime.' 15 Heath wood Gardens, Swanky, Kent [Theft is recognised as a criminal activity by thieves : driving...

vine- yard mentioned by Mr. Postgate in his article 'Approach to the Pyramides' has a fine reputation, but is it really, as Mr. Postgate says, 'over-adver- tised'? If so, where?

be avoided, at least as far as France is concerned,.by getting them in francs from a French bank in England. The initial cost is very small and there is no charge (and no waste...

SIR,—Darsie Gillie's rhetorical question has my full assent: `What hope can there be of consolidating peace if the diplomatic immunities which arc essential to diplomatic...

Sta,—So far as I am aware, nobody else beside Mrs. Knight has called my polemic on the Humanists fair comment, though, of course, / like to think that it is, and I am grateful...

SIR,—Anent the interesting piece on mushrooms by Leslie Adrian, your readers may be interested in Christensen's Common Edible Mushrooms (Univer- sity of Minnesota Press,...

SIR,—Although only an occasional reader of the Spectator, I have always regarded it as a periodical in the highest traditions of well-informed journalism. Your leading article...

SIR,—It would be uncivil of me to quibble with Mr John Hale after his kind review of my book Th Great Siege; at the same time I wonder whether he i correct in his statement that...

. . And another thing : American Express travellers' cheques are accepted all over the United States by restaurants, shops and railway booking offices as if they were legal...

SIR,—When, in the early stages of the Peninsular War, the British Army lay behind the lines of Torres Vedras, Wellington sent to England for a pack, or packs, of hounds to...

SIR,—It seems to me that Margaret Knight is being; less than fair to herself, her beliefs, Nansen and? the BBC. I neither heard the broadcast nor know much about Nansen, apart...

in the tissues of Napoleon's body is to be explained by the antimony preparations used by his doctors. The minerals of antimony are usually found in association with those of...

The End of the Beginning ? By DAVID CAIRNS 10 raise 'their hesitant British voices in Auld lang syne.' There is not, of course, the smallest danger that auld acquaintance...

Word-Play By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Cinderella. (Players' Theatre.) —Little Old King Cole. (Pal- lad i um.)—Puss in Boots. (Theatre Royal.) — Alice Through the Looking-Glass. (Lyric,...

Down Coronation Street By PETER FORSTER To judge from Mr. Derek Hill's ecstatic plug for Coronation Street in last week's Spectator, I have been defaulting in my duty as a...

The Gulliver Game By ISABEL QUIGLY Babes in Toyland. (Studio One and general release.)— Pocketful of Miracles. (Lon- don Pavilion.) THESE pantomime days there is a choice of...

Tchaik By CLIVE BARNES WHAT would ballet in Britain be like if Tchaikovsky had never lived? We could hardly have invented him; after thirty-two years of struggle we have yet...

To Build Jerusalem It CHRISTOPHER H i lLL U TOPIAN thought springs from the contrast between reality, and possibility; from a realisation that society could be organised on...

The Edge of the Sword. By Netanel Lorch. (Putnam, 45s.) RECENT events in Syria sharply remind us of the perennial, resurgent undercurrents of the Middle East, seldom still for...

18s.) WHAT is science for? With great success Stephen Toulmin has failed to answer the intended ques- tion of his book, based on a series of lectures given at Indiana University...

Chief Whip. By Viscount Chilston. (Routledge, • •Kegan Paul, 45s.). POLITICAL biography is a demanding art whose chief difficulty lies in striking a balance between the...

IN A week of competent traditional novels, works like those of Mr. Ingrey and Mr. Ologbosere have a particular appeal. The first tells, in his own words, the story of a...

Paul Klee : The Thinking Eye. Edited by Jarg Spiller. (Lund Humphries, 17 17s. 6d.) Barbara Hepworth, By J. P. Hodin. (Lund Humphries, £4 10s. 6d.) The Work of Graham...

the case of the pay pause. Every rational person is agreed that restraint in demanding in- creases in pay is desirable in the national interest, because if the rise in pay...

From JOHN T HE marathon sitting of the EEC Council during the week before Christmas and again for two days before the New Year, when the Ministers of the Six tried,...

M ERCANTILE CREDIT increased its volume of business for the year ended September 30, 1961, but not its profits.. These, before tax, slumped from £1,624,007 to £677,995, and the...

By CUSTOS I T goes without saying that the investor nnist play for safety this year. As a start he should take up a reasonable amount of dated gilt-edged stocks. If he is due...

On Draught By LESLIE ADRIAN Draught excluders come in many forms. Strip plastic foam, about a quarter of an inch in sec- tion on a sticky backing, is very effective for the...

Postscript MY first little outing almost every New Year is to see the previous twelve months' ac- quisitions at the National Por- trait Gallery, where this time the two...