A PART from one communique which sounded ominous. the news from Denver has been encouraging. President Eisenhower has been making good progress and is now practically out of...

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HE signing of a contract for the supply of Czech arms to the Egyptian Government and the hint that Saudi Arabia and Syria might do likewise seem to have caused excessive...

T HE almost simultaneous announcement of the with- drawal of the Sultan of Morocco to Tangier and of the French UN delegation to Paris following the placing of Algeria on the...

I N Jtly, August and September Britain as banker for the sterling area paid out gold and dollars or ran into debt , to the tune of nearly five hundred million dollars. The main...

OREIGN affairs have been boiling merrily this week. What with the French delegation flying back in dudgeon from New York after the vote to include Algeria on the agenda of the...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I T gets curiouser and curiouser. It now seems certain that the changes in the Government are going to be postponed even beyond the reassembly of Parliament. At...

assistance and advice in connection with the publi- cation of [the Duchess of Windsor's] memoirs' are no longer required. 'The Duchess,' he says, 'has whims more than opinions,...

there has been a German invasion there this summer. So strong has it been that the Sicilians assume that every non-Italian is a German. My friend was having dinner with three...

A FORTNIGHT AGO I asked what proportion of Communists in a body makes it reasonable to suppose that they have practical control of it. The reference was to the Preparatory...

gallery at the end of the first performance of the Punch Revue. I was present and I heard the booing but it (lid not for a moment occur to me that this was a case of the stern...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE This ability of Mr. Crossman to find a satisfactory intellectual basis for his opinions, attitudes and actions of the moment is, of course, his most obvious...

BY GEORGE STAFFORD GALE 0 NE of the major curiosities of Coronation year, and there were many, was the warmth of the reception afforded to the navigating antics of the Russian...

TREVOR ROPER, and the article on 'The Professional Author' which was to have appeared this week.

By COLM BROGAN I F the news of melodramatic goings-on in Soho came as a shock to many Londoners, it is a fair assumption that it was received with quiet satisfaction by the more...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I WISH I were a director, or at an rate an influential ` employee, of the firm of Patmacs, who own, among other attractive premises, the Tabard Inn, Bedford...

trains there are on the London undergrounds, the District and Inner Circle lines in particular, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays? No doubt an official of the London Passenger...

I stood last Sunday afternoon in the warm October sunlight with a beautiful girl beside me on Battersea Bridge. The high tide was just ebbing out, and as we looked down into the...

Under Two Flags I HAVE been reading with great interest a book about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the last war; it is called Islands in Danger, by Alan...

clownishly concedes, 'a tenacious controversialist'; on this specific issue she is right as accurate about the facts as she is, in my view, justified in her protest against Mr....

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stated that 'at the time of the disappearance of Maclean and Burgess, "the right people" moved into action,' bring- ing 'subtle but powerful pressures to bear' which, he says,...

'The Establishment' Sir Robert Boothby, MP Hon. David Astor, Randolph S. Churchill John Connell, Stephen Dumpling Lady Violet Bonham Carter Some of my Best Friends are Scots...

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been in his own self-interest to withdraw the base and baseless charges against myself and others which he has proved him- self unable to support by one jot or tittle of...

describes himself when endeavouring to besmear his fellow Scots. The phrases, 'cringing fellow' and 'spirit of a menial,' suit him admirably and mark him as a nauseous sycophant...

in England and now resident in Scotland, I should like to comment on recent passages in the Spectator. If Miss Robertson were to complete her experiment, I am prepared to bet...

SIR,-I would like to correct a misconception which your readers may have gained from a reference to me in your last issue. You re- marked : `Mr. Crossman is now the hard- worked...

has recently gone and got itself a new look. In fact, 'post-Muggeridge Punch' is now a term at least as well known to the public as 'Proto-Sumerian' or 'Post- Jurassic,' and,...

GAUGUIN MANY of the Gauguins at the Tate, particu- larly it seems those painted in Tahiti and the Marquesas, have been set by their owners in wide, elaborately carved frames...

The Theatre THE MULBERRY BUSH. By Angus Wilson. ;(Bristol Old Vic.) ANGUS WILSON'S chief motive for writing a play (a programme note tells us) was his con- viction that the...

THE KING'S THIEF. (Ritz.) -THE VIRGIN 'QUEEN. (Carlton.) --THE TROUBLE SHOOTER. (Odeon.) IT is curious that with such vast resources at its command the cinema industry is rarely...

THE excitement of the first. CTV week died rather fast in the second, when what lOoked likely from the beginning—the fact that we need expect no enormous innovation—became...

OCTOBER 9,1830 THE fate of Belgium is decided, as far as the opinions and resolutions of the people of Bel- gium, signified through the Provisional Gov- ernment at Brussels, can...

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The Making of a Master BY MARTIN TURNELL I T is a strange thing that, in an age as passionately devoted to literary research as our own, an early work by a Euro- pean master...

BY JOHN WAIN I T is my considered , opinion that only two of our academic • literary critics have produced, in the past twenty years, . books that could be called great; and...

BY KINGSLEY AMIS T O the eye of today, the young men of the Thirties will look as if they started their literary careers under the burden of immoderate advantages. In the...

ME EASTERN SCHISM. By Steven Runciman. (O.U.P., 21s.) This book is based on the Waynflete Lectures which Mr. Runciman delivered at Oxford in the spring of 1955. It is a brief...

ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE. By Dylan Thomas. (Putnam, 9s. 6d.) FOR its eloquence alone this fragment of Dylan Thomas's pro- jected autobiographical novel was worth publishing....

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THE C.U.P. have reissued William C. Braith- waite's standard work, The Beginnings of Quakerism, which was first published in 1912 and twice reprinted. The new issue is a second...

the stalks and see that no water is retained in the hollow butts. Begenia $ should be taken up at the same time. The stoic must, above all, be frost-proof and dry.

By IAN NIALL YESTERDAY I found myself standing still to watch a horse and cart go past, so unusual has the sight become. The horse was a rather old one of the Shire breed, and I...

A letter about bird preservation in Australia comes from Mr. Max Henry, of Chatswood, NSW, who remarks: 'The growth of natural feeling for the wild life of Australia .has been...

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Solution to No. 853 no noon ill The winners of Crossword No. 853 are: Ma. W. E. Gums., 4 Lyneltoo Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16, and MR. C. W. Oats, Cleveland.,

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By CUSTOS MR. BUTLER'S optimism at the Mansion House dinner—a sentiment where restraint is not apparently to be intensified—helped the gilt-edged market up half a point or...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE speeches at the annual Mansion House dinner to the bankers and merchants of the City are usually more significant for what they leave unsaid than for...