X-Portrait of the Week - MR. N,\(1 111 AN lcrt for his tOur. ObScrVinlg at l ondon Ai rport that 'thcsc ailC cxcil lig (lays for Africa'. III so110orlot Of this vicW Ca1ie ,cws...

SIXES AND SEVENS T I negotiations for the Eluropean Free Trade Association have been successfully completed; all that remains is their ratification by all the parliaments...

New Year Honours I1 is a pleasure to congrazitulate two people wvith whom N we have long-standing ties, for their appearance in the New Year HlnoLUrs List. Sir Evelyn Wrench,...

To the South T 1: P'rillleEinic ister haltss been sent oil' oil his .Aficall ltonur withl as iood a11n 'li/ud-mflc j(' iS \wCe ConlId have wished for: r the 3ow Grouj...

(ON'EIP'i' O1 (OURIT Sim. The - xecutive C(ollillitice '1 ust ice has not Vet .cosidlered thle impl icaittiOnls o' the Scott ish Daily^ Abll case and may not (do so until it is...

NO, NO, NINETlT! Slit ----l oIjl Withi uch of 'No. No. Nincile!' ill ) otjr isSue of JILdualy 1. Bslt I filnld the Conclusion silrallge What, one more division of the Royal...

Si [Z. - I fie ihdon I)istijct C(o III iItce of II IuIs tiS L of Jourllnaists at ; cliing held on January 5 1ii nan ill1l oSIN' V rsolvCe to 'ecoillmlelldl its R;aLio a 111...

TPANOR.I.MA' I Sm,.- In lis Tlc'c\iselll )onLclumln itf I).ccjm..b- 2.5 %'1rf Peter Forsele. wvlr(te : 111 /9tunu , ( 1313() he11C 1,lkeC-LuJ) is hong oVcl'tItIC'. h111d tile...

(LUSTIA , 1)1. IIEAJUMIONT SilR.-- Ikaunlon! s Auric is flt)t fs colillnlcllI v I(I io(ltenl as Mr. Jil stiggests ill his rcviCw 01 IOCLitL/C villets I Itrne v Io .Amerii i. A...

C. 11. R1()L'PI ANI) 'THE IIIIC ISm.- I nil grateful to INI r. Ilernart Ird N III fto his criaraierrrsticaliy pungenel(t 11e&Cis, ill the Ile lolo' NAotebook last week, about...

PRESSURE GROUP SIR - Seedsllnull are not tilc only perpetrators of' nonWaranIty claises. Nearlily aill manutictii' cuaratecs, f'or- illstlalne, depirive the purc haise ws ho...

Public and Puritanical 'IThe Miary of John Evelyni. Lditcd by E::. S. De Beer. (O. U. P., 30s.J) [TIs vol01ime inl tlhe Oxfolrd series of Standard Authors is based on lI r....

The Dissolving Novel Portrait of a Man Unknown. By Nathalie Sar raute. I ranslated by Maria Jolas. (Calder, I Ss.) The Wayward Wife and other stories. By AlbertO Moravia....

Inquiry into Legend Artlhurian Literature in the Middle Ages. Edited by R. S. Loomis. (O.U.P., 3 gns.) Tm-i-i authors of this book are described as 'thirty professional...

Three-Ply Cotton Gcezira. By Arthur Gaitskell. (Faber, 42s.) WORDS too freely iiout.hed inflate, like coins. 'Partnership' is a word bloated now beyond comprehension, but Mr....

Layabout Stand on Me. By Frank Norman. (Secker and ; Warburg, 16s.) I HAVE not read Mr. Norman's earlier work Banig to Rig/its, but if all the praise that was given to it had...

MOSLEY SIR,-l have always found one of the most irritating aspects of modern life the ease with which journalists can impute to one false opinions by quoting out of context. I...

THE MONSTER OF PICCAI)ILLY CIRCUS SIR,---In his letter published in your issue for January 1, Mr. W. P. King accuses Mr. Bernard Levin of not knowing the dilference between a...

ASKING FOR AIR ACCIDENTS SIR,-Your correspondents Mr. David Hollings and Mr. Peter Garner fail to do justice to my main contention which is that longer take-off ruls and higher...

'Let us be moral' A History of Western Morals. By Cranc Brinton. (Weidenfcld and Nicolson, 36s.) MOIRALS are indispensable to human life, of course. Fortunately there are...

Melancholy Eye The Innocents At Home. By Lord Kinross. (John I Miurray, 2is.) The Innolc(efnts At Holme is a travel book about thie United States which is less patronising...

Cheap Literature By A. P. HERBERT I HAVE a good mind to begin the Sixties with a ISmashing Test Case. But I should have t6 get my respectable publisher to fire the first shot:...

COMPANY NOTES M ()NTAGUIE BURTON ha's mnaidc more lVm thatn theexpected recovery irom tlie deprc sell prOfits Of M!o Ve"it'S Srg, (ii oGtL) tr adinmg proli is for the yea r to...

Road and Rail ill the U.S. Ity R ( Y .l EN K I N S, N]I' D !JINc; Novemiber and early Decemiber I had to iiike lour round trips betweeni New York and Boston. My naturalll...

INVESTMENT NOTES fly CLUSTOS Pb- .1 isadeilloralisation in the gilt-edged market ti a sad s'ght and the Tl-eilSffy has largely, 'Ieif to blame, having produced a White Paper...

The Roots of Anti-Semitism From SARAHI GAINHAM BONN tILRE are almost as many irrational ilIiSiOnS about anti-Semnitism as there are in the thing itelf. One is that 'ordinary...

A Halting Hosannah It N ERIC SEVAREID T i I: Prime Minister ShOLidl elljOV his Sta.V inI the T lstiCIOLS S,11011S of GoVelrnmen1Cslt House. Lagos; IA\t unb}lllemllishledl by...

BOOKS The Murry-Go-Round 13v KARL MILLER T HE mixtutre of 'a m1ovie villain and St. Anthony of P'1adua, by a painter of tle lbaroque, oft a card-sharping l.othario and aI...