rilE CONFERENCE of Commonwealth Prime Ministers opened in London. The place of Mr. Verwoerd, South Africa's Prime Minister, was Liken by Mr. Louw, Minister of External Affairs,...

Spitting into the Wind O NE fact stands out above all others at the Commonwealth Conference. It is that this is the last occasion of its kind at which a majority of the faces...

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T uc disreputable farce on which the curtain I fell for the last time in California on Monday went on being both farcical and disreputable to the end, with an added touch of...

T HE 'passage through the Senate of th e Douglas amendment threatening the Unite d Arab Republic with economic reprisals unless, it opens the Suez Canal to Israeli shipping, an...

M R. G A1TSK ELL reels on. His capacity for saying and doing the right thing, to the wrong people, at the wrong time, is so great as to be positively uncanny. It is perfectly...

The Eleventh Man By KENNETH MACKENZIE CAPE TOWN T HE people we have governing this country are, as everyone must know by now, racialists and totalitarians. What everyone...

The Schizoid State By NICHOLAS MOSLEY rritE two main convictions of racialism are, firstly, that it is the basis of all human life (Hitler wrote, The highest aim of human exis-...

Curious Partnership By T. R. M. CREIGHTON B RITAIN% constitutional powers to control legislation of Southern Rhodesia's exclusively white parliament and to veto discrimination...

Front DARSIE GILLIE volt+ T Algerian war has not lately been crY much in the public mind—or perhaps ouc, should say in the shop windows shown to the pub' tic mind. Apart from...

By ROY JENKINS, MI' M AR* policy shifts in Britain—certainly when the Conservative Party is making them, and perhaps when the Labour Party is doing so, too—follow a...

How it Began By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP I r is just over fourteen years since Stalin per- f °rnled the funeral rites on the wartime Grand Alliance. Speaking in Moscow on February...

By GEOFFREY ROBERTS I T N 1957 I entered, voluntarily, the psychiatric department of a famous London hospital. Here I was subjected to what I learned later to know as an...

SIR.--At the risk of inviting the most obvious and unconstructive riposte, maY I suggest that Mr. Levin has not stood close enough to the Liberal Party dur- ing its resurgence...

SIR,- Miss Monica Furlong seems to leave us with the impression that Moral Re-Armament is a sect or aspect of Christianity, and this I think is not so. To judge by their...

Israel' by asking in the first paragraph: 'Who would willingly exchange the god of light and poetry [Apollo] for a vindictive bully, a celestial bore [Jehovah]?' The answer is...

sa o et • Spring in Israel Shiela Herbert, Gertrude Reed Moral Re-Armament F. Ray Bettie)" The Liberal Party R. A. Walker The 'Tied House' System A ustin Lee That Pill Joanna...

help for the victims of the earthquake disaster in Lar, in Persia, which has struck the town, reducing most of it to rubble, and leaving in its wake a trail of destruction and...

SIR,—I am . .,writing the life of John Dunn—the eminent violinist—and require further data. Personal reminiscences, photographs, programmes, etc. etc., which will be...

that the tied house system is a beastly nuisance and a , destroyer of reasonable amenities. There are very few good draught beers left (no Wonder the con - sumption sumption of...

on the Treatment of Offenders, of which I am Chairman, to consider whether there are grounds for re-introducing any form of corporal punishment as a judicial penalty in respect...

Tusa's letter? The crisis of Sadler's_ Wells was not caused by the LCC withdrawing its grant, as, at the time of the 'crisis,' we were not in receipt of a subsidy from the LCC....

22) Mr. Waugh has sounded a note of warning. There is, it seems, 'a fashion among Catholics, particularly in France and the USA, to ape the external austerities of...

juice to start the day, but I think I have a better and cheaper drink than any he mentions. For lemon: 3 lemons 3 lb. sugar 2 pints boiling water 1 oz. tartaric acid. Wash,...

Christopher Hollis of the problem k cif The 13omb, but in his recent article on The Pill l e.ic a a m rly sad to see that his religious convictions have distorted his approach...

SIR,—We are. preparing for Helen Darbishire and the Clarendon Press a revised edition of The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1806-1850), ori- ginally arranged and...

Chelsea Beaujolais By ALAN BRIEN Rhinoceros. (Royal Court.)—New Cranks. (Lyric, Hammersmith.) — The Caretaker. (Arts.)—The Offshore Island. (Unity.) OLIVIER, Welles, Ionesco...

A Tank of Critics By DAVID CAIRNS In the prevailing anarchy of London musical life it was inevitable that sooner or later a week would turn up in which the good things, instead...

Travellers' Tales By PETER FORSTER THE degree of co-opera- tion between the BBC and the Sunday Times in sponsoring the travels of Mr. David Attenborough must have been...

Total Theatre By CLIVE BARNES Unquestionably Janine Charrat's Les Algues was the most revealing and exciting ballet shown. Originally produced in 1953 and seen briefly in...

Addicts' Week By ISABEL QUIGLY Who Was That Lady? (Leices - ter Square Theatre.)--Hell a City. (Warner.)—All ille Fine Young Cannibals. Odeon, Marble Arch.) ANOTILER lean...

Nobodaddy on Folly Down fly R. C. CHURCHILL rIOD' was the enigmatic answer when I once asked a mutual acquaintance what T. F. r i owys looked like. That must have been in the...

THIS book, the companion to Selected Works, Volume I: Prose, which appeared in 1954, con- sists of a complete translation by J. B. Leishman and others of the first volume of the...

Nancy Astor. By Maurice Collis. (Faber, Ns.) THIS is a collection of anecdotes, impressions , reminiscences contributed by Lady Astor her- self, by her servants and by her...

The Comic Sense of Henry James. By Richard Poirer. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) RICHARD. POIRER quotes, in his first chapter, a passage from James's Preface to The Spoils of...

Charles 11. By Hesketh Pearson. (Heineman!' 21s.) CHARLES II is easily the most intelligent king i English history. His epigrams often incorporat very shrewd political...

THE Spanish Civil War • persists in literature and painting—as a symbol of futility and heroism, treachery and massive horrors—even more powerfully than either of the two Main...

T HE WORDS are not meant to be insulting, but simply to put in the shortest possible form a question that might occur to a visitor from another planet where things were done...

The Stages of Economic Growth. By W. W. Rostow. (C.U.P., 12s. 6d.) THE idea of 'stages' in economic growth is as old as the study of economic history. If Professor Rostow had...

The Future of Man. By P. B. Medawar. (Methuen, 10s. 6d.) IN a year when scientific technology has excelled itself in the production of a four-minute warning system there is a...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ALTER the weeks of suspense the news of the moderate restraints power of compound interest is so potent that the interest margin that can be earned now on...

D UNLOP RUBBER. Dunlop, by reason of its encouraging report for 1959, can now move into the 'blue chip' class of investment. Accounts disclose that the group's . overseas...

By CUSTOS T HE rally in the equity share markets did not last long, although the Treasury's new • restrictions were not seen as any menace to the hir e - purchase finance...

ACROSS. — I Musical. 5 Bagshot. 9 Starred, 10 Alyssum. II sugar - candy. 12 Mast. 13 floe. 14 Golden goose. 17 Parting shot. 19 Ems. 20 Rope. 22 Hodge- podge. 26 Initial. 27...

ACROSS 1 Flowers for Silvia (8) 5 Self-evident where her set is (6) 9 Getting the batsman out—at Boston? (8) 10 Juicy subjects for the press (6) 12 Found among kindred...

Westward Ho! By RAYMOND POSTGATE* Cornwall is smaller than Devon, and more overrun and spoiled by tourists. (Have you ever tried to enter Polperro in the season? It is im-...

Showing a Leg By KATHARINE WHITEHORN But now things are hotting up. The black stocking gimmick has brought coloured stockings in its make; and coloured stockings have twice the...

Pluvius Policies By LESLIE ADRIAN NOT long ago an intend- ing holidaymaker going to the South of Spain asked for an insurance policy to pay the ransom money if he and his...

ALL writers about wine are witty and wise, but Philip Morton Shand, who died on Saturday, Was wiser and wittier than most. More opinionated, too: he couldn't abide port, the...