0 NE of the main objects of the Rent Act is to provide. a pool of houses into which people can go; to stimu- late mobility in order that people may be able to find the type of...

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FT1HE Defence debate in the Commons, as Mr. 1 Roy Jenkins says in his 'Westminster Com- mentary,' left listeners more confused at the end than they had been at the beginning,...

By RICHARD H. ROVERE yfr AMERICAN politics has never produced anyone as gifted as Harold Stassen in the art of Stassen collects moral victories the way Bobby Jones used to...

"Tine gold and dollars figures for February are A. outstanding. No less than $135 million was added to the central reserves and at the same time Britain and the sterling area...

John Bull's Schooldays (2) by JOHN BETJEM AN

By DARSIE GILLIE I AM supposed to write about France. In fact, fortnight after fortnight, I write about Al- geria. The invitation not to do so is particularly strong in these...

BY ROY JENKINS* In another sense, however, it should have been a good debate, for it was notably free from the faults which are frequently attributed, not least by the regular...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY N January, 1953, Mr. John Parker, Labour MP Ifor Dagenham, seconded by Mr. Carson, then Conservative MP for the Isle of Thanet, intro- duced a Private ....

Archbishop of Liver- pool, to the recent hostile demonstration against him by an Orange crowd, and that of Monsignor Fiordelli, the Bishop of Prato, to the Florence slander...

Medical Journal Was right to condemn the BBC for its Your Life in Their Hands series, but that it did so for the wrong reasons; the BBC's treat- ment of medical subjects is...

eye with a neat right, left and centre on Tuesday when he quoted headlines from the previous morning's papers : the Telegraph, 'No rent-split today among Con- servatives'; the...

MONDAY'S Panorama devoted a brief and infuriatingly inconsequen- tial few minutes to what was in- tended to be a discussion of the serious weeklies. It arose out of Lady ....

Employers' Confederation should condemn em- ployers who pay 'extravagant wages.' Its argument is that so long as full employment continues, there is no untapped reserve of...

M R. ROGER FULFORD has made the roughest comment of all on the Labour Party's present position. Writing to The Times after Rochdale he stated, 'In the 1955 Election the Labour...

France was com- pleted lust before half-time when Jackson inter- cepted a .French pass and ran gloriously for 60 years to touch down. Ah, those sixty glorious years! PHAROS

Act is taking all unconscionably long time to produce any effect; and I was glad last week to hear that, in some industries at least. its influence has already been...

By COLIN HAYCRAFT T HE London taxi, like the London bus, is one of the traditions of the metropolis. Its design, much influenced by the Model T, seems to have changed little....

By PETER BENENSON N o one was more surprised than I when the Hungarian Legation telephoned one morn- ing to say that there was a visa waiting. Having said and written quite a...

By CYRIL RAY T HE Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition was born in 1908 and so, damn it, was I: it is now a national institution—the editor of the Daily Mail says so in the...

By STRIX T HERE was a time when the horse was indis- pensable to homo sapiens unless indeed this clever biped relied upon the camel, the llama, the Yak or the husky. But the...

Into the Frying Pan By LESLIE ADRIAN T HE casual revelation two weeks ago that in my household we wipe, and do not wash, the frying pan clean has uncovered a fascinating...

Tinkling Symbols The Sport of My Mad Mother. By Ann Jellicoe. (Royal Court.) LAST week I suggested that King Lear might be theatrically less of a slow-burn and more of a thun-...

TELEVISION has done pretty well to get into two first-class controver- sies in one week. The BBC's new hospital series Your Life in Their Hands has upset the BMA; and the Prime...

Wild is the Wind. (Gaumont.) IT would have taken a bold man to stand up after the press show of Wild is the Wind (Director : George Cukor) and say loudly, amidst the waving of...

(RECORDING COMPANIES: D, Decca; OL, Oiseau Lyre; R, RCA; T, Telefunken; V, Vox.) WHATEVER criticisms may be made of the big gramophone companies, they cannot be accused of not...

MARCH 9, 1833 THE Reformed Parliament has commenced the business of taxation in a somewhat inauspicious man- ner. The House, on Wednesday, voted the renewal of the Sugar-duties...

me to wonder just what is the enormous appeal of women's magazines to almost all women, including myself. The only women of my acquaintance who profess not to read women's...

thinking that voters are forsaking his party for several different reasons. Two of those he mentions, foreign and colonial policy, have been the cause of My own secession. But...

SIR,—Professor Desmond Williams in reviewing Vanished Supremacies made me 'frankly avow' a practical purpose in writing the essay on 'The Down- fall of the Habsburg Monarchy'...

says that `nearly every woman in this country today is earning money, either part-time or whole-time.' The Registrar-General says that there are 18,491,000 women aged between...

angry letter attacking Victor• Anant's article on "Pop" Fiction,' calls Mr. Anant 'plainly a romantic young man' and then accuses him of not being suffiCiently romantic. But...

his psycholog;cal troubles; as for his reading list, he airs his literacy as selfconsciously as a navvy in a new suit. But it would be a shame to let so important an argument...

The Reason Why Sir H. J. d'Arigdor-Goldsmid, MP. R. L. Jacomb Side Lines of History Sir Lewis B. Namier NV' Fiction Lois Mitchison, Howard Wyce, Elizabeth Montagu, Robert...

finds it as empty and shallow as it is amusing. Indeed, not - only is his criticism utterly naive in its distracted attempts to avoid the pit of naivety, but also this criticism...

as the normal stock in trade of an English weekly that has a claim to be intelligent have gone beyond the permissible in Simon Raven's review in your issue of February 21 of...

article in your issue of February 28, 'The Day the Lama Came to Tea,' is clearly intended to be entertaining rather than accurate and contains a number of obvious fictional...

Great Prehistorian By GLYN DAN IEL I !■1 the middle of the last war, disillusioned by its futility, disheartened by its destruction, and c onvinced that, whatever the...

ON January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Reich by Marshal von Hinden- burg. From that date the former Austrian un- employed labourer dominated the...

THE 'square pegs' are eight American eccentrics of the nineteenth century, all intolerable people to deal with, but admirable in their variously cranky ways. One sympathises...

but it will be appreciated that the margin between 21 per cent. and our current net interest yield on the whole of the funds is larger than the margin which existed in 1947 when...

to Mr. A. C. C. Brodribb, whose father's name, as author of the example provided, was misquoted in the Spectator of February 14. The subject proved a popular one, 'pop' Singers...

29 'Oh, a goodgrove of -for me' (C. Morris) (8). 30 Wrigglers take some credit making these baskets (6). DOWN 1 They have joint responsibility in the matter of protection...

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should possess or r ain this summer a good Honours degree pre- e r s ahlY in Economics with Statistics as a main " . ..Acct. The latter is not essential provided that I t...

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