L ORD Salisbury may be right in his belief that a miasma of mistrust has arisen in Africa; that the white settlers there now feel suspicion, contempt and almost hatred of the...

I RONICALLY, the crowds which assembled to demonstrate against the Proteus on her arrival in Holy Loch could, with equal propriety and greater sense, have cheered her. They...

THE COMMONWEALTH PRIME MINISTERS MEI and all efforts to maintain, amid the cries of stinking fish, that they were coming to discuss subjects other than South Africa proved...

No. o924 Established 1828 FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1961

From DARSIE GILLIE O NE of the deeply rooted beliefs of the scep- tical French is that those in authority un- leash an 'affaire,' whether a scandal in some byway of public life...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY T HE agenda of the General Assembly of the United Nations at the beginning of its new session makes impressively diverse reading. Among the subjects listed...

To say that Beecham will be missed is both inadequate and misleading: inade- quate because 'missed' is a poor pale word to describe the gap the death of this in- comparable...

1. The Elected Squares From MORDECAI RICHLER* MONTREAL I N recent years Canadians have become aggres- sively proud to be . . . well, Canadians, and the upshot has been a...

funds which will make it possible for the Bahraini prisoners on St. Helena to engage in further legal proceedings. if they wish, to obtain their release. It consists of two...

lately at a dinner table in France a South African, a nationalist Afrikaner. He became talkative, we sat over our brandy until two o'clock. When he was a Cambridge freshman, he...

By A. D. C. PETERSON R ETURNS to Malaya notoriously end in sur- prises. In 1945 I escorted the heroic re- sistance leader, Chin Peng, OBE, at the surrender of the Japanese...

By LEIGH VANCE T HE case before mine was about a forged cheque. Ted Willis and John Lemont, who had come with me from London to testify to my various qualities, stood on either...

that adequate comment would run to great Length, but I think the fundarbental fact is that solicitors should be able to treat barristers as special- ists. At present, this is...

hich surely goes far to meeting the criticisms in your leading article, My own deeply felt doubts on the desirability of legislation to define contempt? If there is any single...

Stit,—In the Spectator for March 3 Professor Kermode writes: 'young people are less prone to Donne-intoxication than they were twenty years ago; it is also true that Milton and...

Leavis Mischief or Contempt Paul Ries Collin Frading Stamps P. E. Winnir The Romantic Miss Riefenstahl Peter Forster, A. Crawford Apartheid Barbara Castle, MP, and others A...

SIR,-- Mr. Cyril Ray's amusing article in your Febru- ary 17 edition on the opening of the first super- market in North London to give away 'Star Trading Stamps' may have...

SIR --The offices of the Committee of African Organisations and the Anti-Apartheid Movement were destroyed by fire on Saturday, March 4, while a demonstration was taking place...

Riefenstahl are interesting. though I think he has misunderstood the whole point of the programme. As he says, the BBC did not in any direct way 'point the finger' at Miss...

SIR --Robert Muller wrote an article proving that Lcni Riefenstahl was pro-Hitler. B. A. Young finds the article 'completely opposed to that concept of freedom for which we were...

that the power to admit the mother lies entirely with the tattleaxe,' nurse or sister. In hospital (in London) where I trained, the sister and matron were anxious to extend...

SIR. ---Win Mr Golding allow a little pedantry about science fiction? The phrase itself was used first about 1931- such alternatives as, I am afraid, 'scientific- non having...

S1R,—Can your reviewer, who asks why Tom Paine has lost his influence, be the brilliant Professor Barraclough who was rebuking English historians for their insularity so...

describing how she sat for four (1.0.s at her daughter's bedside in hospital. But it should be pointed out that twenty-one years ago I, then aged two and a half, was taken to...

of allowing mothers to go into hos- pital with their small children. There is, too, on the other side, a problem which many mothers must face who themselves have to go into...

One Fat, One Lean By ISABEL QUIGLY Pepe. (Columbia.)—The Rebel. (Plaza.) The film Pepe (director: George Sidney; `L/' certificate), which is draped round his rather ineffective...

Exposed to Adults By PETER FORSTER Last week, for example, the child of inquiring mind could have gained knowledge from London television about medicine, farming, geography,...

Washed Up By DEREK 'HILL the modish but with life. . Terrain Vague suggests :hat the commercial success of Les Tricheurs has convinced Carrie of his right to ,a corner in...

Nun's Priest's Tale It y 11.% N1 E R C ASCOIC N E The Devils. (Aldwych.) IN The Devils John Whiting uses words and iniages with the precision of a jeweller. Each one is...

There will be no Whales By CLIVE BARNES A few days ago I was sent an off-print of a 10,000-word essay on Avant-Garde Choreo- graphy' by Selma Jeanne Cohen, which appears in the...

The English Dream BY RICHARD WOLLHEIM T he Long Revolution* will take its place be- side Crosland's The Future of Socialism as a serious and original attempt to secure a...

WISSI v JONi buss children for United IYmphomilloid. a company working on 'a long- range government contract, fifty years, highly s pecialised and top secret.' Towards the end...

English for Maturity. By David Holbrook. (C.U.P., 21s.) FROM the fen and boulder clay of Cambridge- shire the Village Colleges have risen like stately pleasure-domes. These...

The First Five Lives of Annie Besant. By Arthur Nethercot. (Hart-Davis, 42s.) VICTORIAN England was rich in talent, moral fervour and eccentricity, but even by Victorian...

Modern German Stories. Edited by H. M. Waid- son. (Faber, 18s.) Best SF Four. Edited by Edmund Crispin. (Faber, 15s.) The Heart of London. By Monica Dickens. (Michael Joseph,...

The Waste Makers. By Vance Packard. (Long- mans, 21s.) I Am tired of woe-woe books about America, especially if they are by Mr. ,Vance Packard. I yield to no one in my...

ENTERTAINING and elusive as ever, Anthony Carson is once again on the prowl through his' own inimitable terrain. Looking for a Bandit (Methuen, 15s.) is a collection of sketches...

Secretary of the Interior for a . personal profit of half a million dollars. It took ten years of legislation and detective work to get the crimi- nals sent to prison; the lease...

personally honest presidents such as Truman (IN and Eisenhower there were scandals: Mr. Bolles 110 4 discusses them in a gritty prose crammed with „Olin, figures and unfamiliar...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN the nature of things capitalistic inside the growth economies the rich people are inevitably getting richer much faster than the poor are getting less...

6d.) Two neat little anecdotes of n lackmail and murder, linked together by the per- sonality of the blackmailer, set into a framework- story in which a journalist, helped by...

• den iii .s book displays a sure command of facts • d vistas, and of phrase. Time and time again k,, LiniS up an episode or an argument with a .e n , k nee that finally,...

By RICHARD BAILEY D ESPONDENCY in the United States about the balance of payments situation has now abated: the outflow of gold has been checked and in the four weeks following...

By CUSTOS we have all been saying for the past six ts st,1 months or more that the D-mark should be of t y . "P - Nalued, none of us expected it to happen last dolgin:‘'e4end....

EEK AND MOORLANDS BUILDING [,SOCIETY have had a busy year. During 1960 the assets and liabilities of the Nalgo Building Society and the Stockport Atlas Build- ing Society were...

Passenger Training By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Just about every sub- ject which the human mind is capable of learn- ing is nowadays taught in some accredited in- stitution:...

The Cornice Green By KENNETH J. ROBINSON Is your cornice green? Does your roof line bulge with tropical foli- age? Or don't you yet own the newest status symbol of the...

R. P. M. ADRIAN By LESLIE SOME rabble-rouser once said that the rich would do anything for the poor but get off their backs. In the past two or three years I have felt like...

Imagine, therefore, how downcast we were, and more even than sentimentally, when our house was burgled, two years ago last August, and the pretty little ring, along with my...