Fontana di Trevi I don't wonder that, Romans have been a little disturbed at the idea that the Palazzo Poli, on which the Fontana di Trevi backs, is up for sale in terms which...

Mcnsa-people Mensa is a society composed of people who have taken the trouble to sit (and pass) an arduous IQ test. The top 2 per cent., they call themselves. Recently I looked...

Spectator's Notebook T HE Tate Gallery's report for the year ended March, 1962, makes glum reading. Not that there's anything unexpected in that; and it can only be our...

Who's Wonderful? The National Council for Civil Liberties has been analysing the findings of the Willinck Report on the police. To say that the Council is suspicious of the...

Vox Populi The other morning I walked along the south edge of Kenwood. Falling away on my left was the taiga of Hampstead Heath, deserted except for the odd skier pushing...

DAGGERS AT DAGENHAM TFIE Ford management's apparent decision to stand firm against the strike planned by the Transport and General Workers' Union for February 18 in protest at...

i-Portrait of the Week- THE CANADIAN PRIME M[NISTER, Mr. Diefenbaker, has at last fallen from grace. Adopting the old-fashioned rule that if attacks on your enemies don't win...

BOOKS Miss Curry's Young Master BY RONALD BRYDEN W HAT on earth is one to make of Compton )v Mackenzie's career? It begins, as scarcely anyone now remembers, with that...

SIR,-SO Mir. Maclnnes is in a condition of hopeful perplexity! If he can believe in a God both omnipotent and powerless, a force larger and more perpetual than any human...

SIR,-In his article 'A Kind of Religion' (February 1), Colin Maclnnes says: 'to read the Gospels is to understand how little Jesus threatened, and how much he promised.' Mr....

SIR,-May I thank Mr. Colin Macinnes for the remarkably courteous tone of his article. So often, when writers criticise orthodox Christianity, they contrive to leave the...

A KIND OF RELIGION SIR,-I am sure Mr Colin Macinnes is right in supposing that the classification of contemporary minds into what he calls 'secular' and 'clerical' does not...

Name This Flower Ed- ANGELA MILNE W<. V r are all thinking of s>pring as the better W inme ahead, the time of warmth and plea3ure and beauty, the time when surely the mains...

Company Notes BRI LOTHRBELR IT is a pity that Klinger MTanufacturingl haiS not given a breakdown of its profits lfor the 1 ear to September 29. 1 962, as it appears from the...

WATT'S WATT SIR,- iFhe rioen himisclf is hoarse That croaks thu rLaIIl entnirice of Duncian Under my battlements. With his brick wrapped in two-p~nnorth of' Eureka Wire and his...

Sltt,- think that Brian Copland has prodUced one ev-71 Dest analyses of the criticism which faces aY salesnan in the country that I have come trs- S I use the word 'salesman'...

SiR,--T1he dcflenders of current advertising practice should realise that one of their critics' major complaints is the contempt which advertisers themselves show for their...

iRl- I lcIl that it hus becn a g-Iood thing that Ldvartlising shoUld I1ive conIc undlIer oflicial scrutiny th ougliO tilhe i\l0[OnV anjld Pilkington Committees and tle Rosal...

THE DANCING GIRLS Swi-I think sonic mention might be made of the grandmothers and great-aunts of the Dancing Girls of whom Mr. Leapman writes. During my term as Vice-Consul at...

SIARS APART SiRt---I, no less than Mr. David Cairrns. demand perfection or as near perfection as possible in opera; hut I also recognise the practical difficulties that face...

SIR,-Thosc who ar, distUrbed by the dominance of ...,Protit motive, who are uneasy at the present trend in mass comnmunications,- and who see advertising as the consummation of...

Sfi,- T-hc enemies of advertising. as I see it, take their stand on two principles: the moral -one that it fosters materialism, thrives on discontent, and is opposed to the...

IFNEMIES OF AD}VERTISING SIR-The conception of a mo ofiic public which ""It be protected from the evil wiles of profitmaking manufacturers is not consistent with the...

Egyptian Complexities Yw V _ 1From DESMOND STEWART CAIRO THE greatest compliment a European can pay modern Egypt is one that most Egyptians would dislike: it is to say that...

Towards Expansion IT is good to hear that the shipyards on the North-East coast have succeeded in winning eompetitive tenders for the building of three tankers for the Royal...

Government and Industry THE institutions Of our industrial society need modernising. Everyone admits it, but little enouwh is done about it. In Whitehall, it is a striking...

The Making of Malaysia TImu complicated political situation in SouthT East Asia seems likely to become even more tangled as a result of the variols intrigues being carried on...

Misgiving in Germany From SARAH GAINLAM nONN T nE attitudes of de Gaulle and Adenauer to the immediate future of the Common Markct are based on the simple and rather...

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