The Alternatives WEEK that began with the resignation of Mr Frank Cousins from the Cabinet I . ... .. . . - . and ended with the Labour left forcing a debate to show its...

Strike Fever The Complaint of a Discontettl'd Sca(man I must go down to the seas again. to the stinking sea and the docks, And all I ask is a smart clip and a knock at the...

The Consequences of Mr Cousins POLITICAL COMMENTARY By ALAN WATKINS T about eight o'clock last Friday morning I Lwoke up in the Ivy Bush Hotel, Carmarthen. staggered to my...

Heavy Petting Across the Channel COAX AON .AlA RKET Bv NMALCOLNM RUTHERFORD T the beinninn of this \\ eck such x' *s the L official pe,:misml in London one might aJnlt stha...

After Megan BY-ELECTIOAN REPORT .N the past \ecrk I ha\ e been treated with more kindness and consideration by officials of all parties than I %Nould have believed possible....

A Spectator's Notebook HERE is something to be said for taking a few days' holiday in the country at a time of solemn political rumblings. A sLig!t extra sharpness. perhaps....

Waiting for Kennedy? A M!ERICA4 From MILtRRAY KEMPTON *it mil\, Mlr Johnson these da\,. one begins ti se .in. i's NCIV nmuch like hberinL the A i;>edse. lie n \.'. flrl.I...

News is News THE PRESS By DAVID FROST [ c.n't las.' a newts editor said to mn gloomily on MIonday. 'you mark my E ord'. It can't last.' It was not. of course. the summer...

A Woman's Place SEX EQUALITY By JACKY GILLOTT EXUAL equality is currently having the airing of a lifetime-at least, since it was realised that giving women the vote did...

I Politics and Power: The United States Senate | 1869-190I. Power House By David J. Rothman. (Harvardi O.U.P., 56s.) THE United States Senate is the most impressive...

Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Bond's Last Case By Ian Fleming. (Cape. l0s. 6d.) l1J4FSE two stories, according to the blurb, were written in 1961 and 1962 respectively,...

SIR.-Colm Brogan. in his article on the Cathob Marxists (June 24), underestimates the seriousness of the position as far as the Newman Association is concerned. Not only does...

SIR. Mr Norman St John-Stcvas (I etters, June 24) confuses the issue by implying that unborn children should be treated with the same respect as that accorded to those born The...

It's a Libel SIR.-The critics of Lord Goodman's speech on the press in the House of Lords are not likely to be fortified bv the letter from Mr Charles Fenby. the Chairman of...

Lucky Dip Abortions SIR,--Please ask Diane Munday (letters. July I1 to re-read my letter of June 24: it is the patient. not the gvnaecologist. who is sick and depressed in...

The Catholic Marxists ¶ E O~ occwI From: Adrian Clinninhuwm. Audrey Donnithorne, Lord Lloyd of Hamp.%lead. Professor H. C. McLaren, Mrs Dow Zihinerniann, Keith Mack, R. B....

SIR. --NMars Blum (L etters. Jtun 24' asks how any- one can be certain that abortion might not have a seriously adverse psychological ellect on a woman. True. But how can she...

The Independent Schools' Future SIR, -What appals many Conservitives is the weak front the party's representatives put uLp ill the preservation of institutions which have...

The Good Old Cause By J. H. PLUMB RITISH historians have fought shy of the late seventeenth century, although a recent revival of interest can be discerned amongst the...

What Lord Boothby Believes SIR.--In his review of What I Believe (sPF (T.4IOR. July 1) Professor Antony Flew says it is a mistake to think that personal statements do not...

Russia or Prussia SIR.- Th- seems to be a mispiint in tie h..t word of the scLond column on page 785 of your June 24 air edition. I would be interested to know if the error was...

The Shock of Quality SIR,-As one of the firms of British architects who collaborated- both in design and in administrationwith one of the American architects mentioned in Mr...

Poetry Competition SIR,-A poetry competition will be held as part of next year's Hampstead Festival. The prizes will be £50. £40 and £30. Entry forms and conditions from:...

Britain and South Africa SIR,--For one thing. at least. I commend Miss Rosalyn Higgins (Letters, July 1): she does not conceal that she is an interested party in the...

A Certain Age SIR.-I wonder if you wkould be good enough to settle an argument? All of us here at 108 have read Lord Egremontfs article about courtesy in our SP(rTA1OR. and we...

Hollis' Follies SIR.-Malaysians not pocts know it's Canberra and Tun not Sun Hock for Hollis more like gin Cannot tell his Lim from Lin Nor an Aziz, Ben from bin. ANtrHONY...

The Steel Steal HE a -- ~~iHJnh vO~ - By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT .T has been said that steel nationalikation \sas the price paid for Mr Cousins's entry into the Cabinet. Events...

Market Notes By CUSTOS [HE market has been dominated by steel and gold. No one knows when vesting day for steel nationalisation will be, but, assuming that the Bill is passed...

Western Approaches BALLET rIEN people start worrying about Western Theatre Ballet-and ballet's aficionados are constant worriers, with good reason nowadays -it is usually...

Diary of a Genius. The Writing on the Wall By Salvador Dali. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. (Hutchinson, 35s.) The Journals of Anais Nin. (Peter Owen, 42s.) A...

Eastern Tango EAST EUROPEAN LETTER By M. L. ROSENTHAL UST back from a month's tour of Poland, Rumania and Bulgaria, do I know who the people really were that I talked with...

I The Erasers. The New Novel By Alain Robbe-Grillet. (Calder and Boyars, 32s. 6d.) Lonely for the Future. By James T. Farrell. (W. H. Allen, 25s.) The Legacy of the Stiff...

I The Missiles of October. Show down B' F.o' Abel. iMac- I Gibbon and Kee. 's.) IN some cVrious way the Cijb;n mniosilc crisis of 1962 has acquired a totally stale, unreal...

The Animals' Arrival So they came Grubbing, rooting, barking, sniffing, Feeling for cold stars, for stone, for some hidingplace, Loosed at last from heredity, able to eat From...

The Fractured Mandala ART HE eve is the first circle,' said Emerson, quite accurately, and you get a similar sen- sation of first principles-though allied to emotional states...

Tue BloodI Knot and The Trial.i of Brother Jero. THEA TRE Knotty Problem (Hampstead Theatre Club.)-- Whfien Did You Last See My Mother? (Comedy.) D OOUGHLY speaking, the...

Spain, 1808-1939. Spanish Testament By Raymond Carr. (Oxford I History of Modern Europe: O.U.P., 63s.) The Revolution of 1854 in Spanish History. By V. G. Kiernan. (O.U.P.,...

He Wrote Good - K N ? R 0 E By ANTHONY BURGESS WAS in Russia when Ernest Hemingway died. P'ravd (l had a he tdfine-' Swe'r' (Jc'mnim'iava I think it vas. Many YOung,...

Ibsen the Norwegian : A Revaluation. I . . - - . . ..... .. - Ibsen's Way By M. C. Bradbrook. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) IN Norway a nod is the friendliest of greetings: no...