in Ken- nedy clothing, President Johnson settled into the White House with vigour, firmly nailing his colours to the civil rights mast, agreeing to meet Dr. Erhard soon after...

. that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain. . . c o Lincoln a hundred years ago at LI Gettysburg. And President Johnson, in his noble speech to...

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us now go to church to hear sermons, we have to listen to them outside church on even the most mundane and secular issues. A simple trading matter—the giving of discount in the...

T HERE may—the outside observer can hardly help catching a whiff of them—be disputes about personalities in the Labour Party, which reflect either an already uncomfortable...

Rhetoric or Reality? By DAVID WATT THIS week's three by-elec- tions at St. Marylebone, Sudbury and Woodbridge, and Manchester, Open- shaw, are our first genuine preview of...

From MURRAY KEMPTON WASHINGTON M R. JOHNSON'S first speech to the Congress is said to have been drafted one half by Mr. Kennedy's Theodore Sorenson and the other by a resident...

By H. C. ALLEN There are rare instances when the sympathy of a nation approaches those tenderer feelings that generally speaking are suppoged to be peculiar to the individual,...

By ANDREW SINCLAIR nROHIBMON in America seems only a memory, r or fiction on a film. Yet it ended exactly thirty years ago, on December 5, 1933. When it was over, after nearly...

The first long-range weather forecast for Britain is a re-. markably cagey piece of soothsaying. Only eighty words, and only the last five of them, 'but little snow is...

PERHAPS the Labour Party here had better find a new cry after the defeat of the Labour Party in both Australia and New Zealand. 'Time for a change' cut no ice, even though Sir...

Architects and others interested in the arts seem to be pleased with Geoffrey Rippon's de- cision not to throw the design of the new Foreign Office building open to competition....

What Mr. Brown did or did not say on tele- vision matters little. Whether his manner was or was not appropriate to the occasion is no doubt debatable. But there can be no two /...

All four of the permanent new features in this issue are contributed by old friends of the Spectator. Murray Kempton will now be writing weekly from Washington, alternating a...

isn't mentioned in it. And, of course, it is Irish-trained. J. M. Rogers thinks Santa , Claus is the best horse he has trained since Hard Ridden, which won the Epsom Derby in ,...

To: The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, WCI, Please send the Spectator for a year as my gift to my friends listed below. I enclose £ s. d. (at the rate of 30s. per gift...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP T HE sudden succession to power of new men in three of the four leading Western coun- tries has created one of history's natural staging posts for...

By RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL ?THE new consortium which has been formed to I wrest Mr. Roy Thomson's Scottish television licence from him is a curious medley of interests. It...

From DONALD HORNE SYDNEY N or even Sir Robert Menzies expected that the Australian Labour Party would' be beaten so completely in last Saturday's elections. It all looked wrong,...

Starting with The Spectator By HAROLD HUTCHINSON* HAD finished my first day at work as an I office boy in the Spectator. They had been polite enough to appoint me as a junior...

From DESMOND STEWART CAIRO E XASPERATION is perhaps the key to the latest changes in Iraq. The army was exasperated by a fledgling SS, insolently opposing the author- ity of...

Nicholas Davenport's articles on the Split Society, but there is one statement in his third instalment that requires some qualification. There he writes that 'the average rich...

SIR,—Mr. Houghton's letter is a classic example of the professional politician's talent for misrepre- sentation and concealment of truth. No sane person proposed, in 1948. as he...

SIR, — Congratulations to you for publishing, and Nicholas Davenport for writing, the four best articles on economic policy since Maynard Keynes died. Together, they constitute...

The Situation in Singapore Abdul Raltim Karin, The Split Society Lord Booshby, Donald McDonald Below the Bread Line F. O' Hanlon Conventional Disquiet Christopher Booker, R....

SIR,—The World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners, an emergency committee set up under the auspices of the Anti- Apartheid Movement, is distributing a...

for publishing Richard Ingrams's highly illuminating 'apologia' for the 'satire movement.' My only complaint perhaps is that his preference for 'dirty words written on walls'...

what is called the 'Satirical Movement.' The antics of these young people may be amusing, but their value in any constructive sense is abso- lutely nil. They certainly do not...

advanced in your review of my Collected Poems? It was a kind review, but it was surprising that Julian Symons of all reviewers should have picked the word 'image: out of my...

SIR, — On October 4, in Where?, the Advisory Centre for Education announced that the National Extension College would be starting its courses in January next year. Since then,...

SIR,—While I am grateful to your reviewer, Mr. David Watt, for his few kind words in your issue of October 18 about my little book on the early diamond fields in South Africa, I...

La Bayadere is close to the heart of every Russian ballet lover, and for that matter lover of Russian ballet. Choreographed in 1877 by Petipa for his favourite ballerina...

City of Man By TERENCE BENDIXSON As a result of the news- papers emphasising the flashiest drawings in the Buchanan Report, those showing life in a layer- cake metropolis,...

By DAVID CAIRNS WE expect a composer's later music to be like his earlier, only more so. A change in manner like that between middle-period and late Beethoven is terribly...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. (Coliseum; certificate.)—What a Crazy World. (Rialto; 'A' certificate.) Stanley Kramer's Ir.) a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an American...

Gentle Jack. (Queen's.)— Shout for Life. (Vaude- ville.) How to give a rendering of the plot while saying what he thinks of it, is a horn on which a theatre critic is often...

What Hayman can do most beautifully is to invest a tender and penetrating study of a waif- like girl with the remote solemnity of an icon. His art is often discomforting as...

Letters from Limbo By GRAHAM HOUGH He was saying a thing to me some days ago, which I believe is the great Maxim he proceeded by; that Wisdom in public Affairs, was not what...

Terrible Swift Sword. By Bruce Catton. (Gol- lancz, 52s. 6d.) WHAT was the most important event in modern history? It would not be absurd to say that it occurred in the summer...

Confusions. By Jack Ludwig. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) JOHN MACDOUGALL HAY'S Gillespie is a horri- fying but magnificent book which was well worth reviving. Even the First World...

Nineteenth-Century Fiction. By A. N. Kaul. IN Democratic Vistas, pessimistic as to Ameri- can facts, optimistic as to American possibilities, Walt Whitman posed one of the...

What is Remembered. By Alice B. Toklas. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) Ir was The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas which gave Gertrude Stein in late middle age the Wider reputation...

The Old Testament Anew By THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK rTHERE are those who would jettison the Old I Testament. It has had its day. It has been superseded. Let it go. There are...

John Keble. By Georgina Battiscombe. (Con- stable, 45s.) `WELL, and what is the Church of England?'— `The Church of England is a damn big building with an organ inside.' With...

The Fathers of the Greek Church. By Hans von Campenhausen. (A. and C. Black, 25s.) Letters from Vatican City. By Xavier Rynne. (Faber, 30s.) ONE of the most interesting features...

The Honest to God Debate. (S.C.M. Press, 6s.) MANY people had a lot to say about Honest to God when it was first published. But now that The Honest to God Debate has also come—...

Joel Carmichael. (Gollancz, 25s.) The Dogma of Christ and Other Essays. By Erich Fromm. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 18s.) God is No More. By Werner and Lotte Pelz. (Gollancz,...

Unity: A History and Some Reflections. By Maurice Villain. (Harvill Press, 36s.) The Episcopate and the Primacy. By K. Rahner and J. Ratzinger. (Nelson, 12s. 6d.) Apdstle and...

Social Concern in the Thought of William Temple. By Robert Craig. (Gollancz, 25s.) . University and Anglican Sermons of Ronald A. Knox. Edited with an introduction by Philip...

The Religions of the Oppressed. By Vittorio Lanternari. (MacGibbon and Kee, 50s.) IT is an old political expedient of oppressed societies first to become what they wish to over-...

By CUSTOS rr HE weight of new issues is restraining the I advance of the market. The total outstand- ing—mostly fixed-interest but this week some large issues by tender of...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHEN Wall Street re- opened after the Presi- dent's assassination there was a fantastic scramble for shares. The industrial index, which had fallen 21...

By MARY HOLLAND still got a good deal of vicarious romantic pleasure from them. All of us who were boarders did. The school was right in the middle of army country with day...

By LOTHBURY F OR the third year running, the trading profits of J. Brockhouse, the old-established com- pany of general engineers at West Bromwich, declined. But this may be...

Disservice By LESLIE ADRIAN But the thousands of smaller establishments have never lifted a finger, nor have some of the larger multiples. There is a well-known chain of shoe...

By ALAN• BRIEN THE actor-manager Sey- mour Hicks published in 1922 a volume called Difficulties, an expanded • version of an earlier pam- phlet, If 1 Were Your Father....

By PHILIDOR No. 155. J. HARTONG (1st Prize, Good Companions, 1922) BLACK (8 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Taken from Chess...

ACROSS `7;111 , ie...t of a tic rise cod loll 1 - 1 AN ignOn P1111111i, ex. trout: ■ lc% oL1 cliff i . did a Hit of home decor:ding (7) 0 lie gels confined to hi.iriwks about...