sped to and fro pleading with the NUR to avert the rail strike threatened for Monday next. London's Under- ground may also grind to a halt. Mount Etna erupted. The King of the...

PEBBLES on the surface of the moon were photographed in minute detail by the Russian Luna 9, and scientists predicted a man in the moon in three years' time. Heavy betting fol-...

at will, and news- papers were forbidden to leave spaces showing where they had been censored. Private Eye was ordered to pay damages it could ill afford in a libel suit brought...

QOON after the present Government as- L3sumed office, the Chancellor of the Exchequer warned the Organisation for European Co-operation and Development in Paris of the probable...

Friday February 11 1966

By MALCOLM RUTHERFORD TT HE Rumanian Ministers who have just left London after an eight-day visit made up the most high-level delegation to have come to Britain from any...

A MERICA Socialism Harlem Style From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK M IGHT we not think of the economic history of the United States over the past genera- tion as a...

East of Suez PHILIP . DE ZULUETA One year's subscription to the'Spectator: f. 315s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom. and Eire. By surface mail to any other country:...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN J UST over four months ago the Federal elec- Pions ended in a vote of confidence for Chancellor Erhard; already public opinion is looking ahead to the...

Four trains on the Western main line have been derailed in recent weeks near Didcot. The times are badly out of joint, But not as badly as the train. • Four times last week it...

By DICK WILSON TT is easy to speak, harder to act,' the Oriental 'saying goes : 'but the most difficult thing is to understand.' It is an apt description not only of Chinese...

By GILES PLAYFAIR W had,' said Mr. Jenkins, in an interview reported on Monday, 'an area of public disquiet about the train robbers' conditions. . . . When there is disquiet it...

The Revolt Against Mr. Brown's Bill By ALAN WATKINS " - TELL me,' inquired a member of the Govern- ' last week, 'tell me, do you know what silly clot was behind that Foreign...

T HAVE waited until now before commenting on 'the BBC's decision to ban Peter Watkins's film The War Game because I wanted to see it for myself first. I dislike censorship, but...

I'm delighted that Miss Margaret Herbison has promised to look into the notorious earnings rule that lays down that any pensioner between sixty- five and seventy has his pension...

As I write now, there seems to be a good chance that Mr. Humphry Berkeley's Bill to'implement the Wigfendeb PropoSils on - the law relating to homosexuality will succeed in...

in their embarrassment over the Courtney affair. As a nation of hypocrites, we reserve our biggest hypocrisies for the relationship of private morals and public life. And how...

Curiouser and curiouser becomes the case of the Rutsian writers. On the eve" of thi trial in Moscow of Sinyaysky and Daniel for having written—and published pseudonymously...

When Wilson Harris was editor of this paper and found himself in disagreement with the judgment of one of his book reviewers, he would express his dissent in a published letter...

Thus, a small swing against the Government in Hull would be in line with the small swing in favour of the Government since the last General Election, shown by the latest Gallup...

knows (for if not, why did Lord Normanbrook invite senior civil servants, rather than doctors and psychiatrists, to see the film before he banned it?) but won't admit, there is...

By REGINALD MAUDLING, MP W HETHER it comes with the spring or the autumn, 1966 is almost certain to see a general election. The Conservative party will launch an all-out attack...

February 10, 1866 Statements of Sir Charles Wood's perfect re- covery have been made so assiduously, that the public was not surprised on Tuesday to hear of his resignation....

By BENN W. LEVY S O it has happened to you; you who have been a respected, orthodox, intelligent, well- liked man of the world, God-fearing or at least opinion-fearing (and,...

The Offending Eye By DESMOND DONNELLY 11/41 11/4Tukr is going to happen to Private Eye? What should happen? These thoughts struck me as I read that Lord Russell of Liver- pool...

writes as a Member of Parliament should be well informed about the practice of political journalism when he writes about it. Besides doing his homework, he should also,...

From : Giles Mayfair, Ronald Bun, Robert McKenzie. R. H. S. Crossman, MP, Michael Ivens, J. W. Roche, D. 0. Davies. John Robson. John Tripp, Harmon Tupper. Michael Quartley....

raised in your 'Spectator's Notebook' last week in the course of your very generous comment on my article on recent political development in Encounter for February. You stated...

SIR,—In Modelled on Mussolini. I stated that the new Industrial Reorganisation Corporation was a step towards corporatism. Nicholas Davenport has certainly been sensitive to...

SIR,—Last week ∎ou printed a letter twin my friend Robin Davis which needs an answer. Mr. Davis said that Mr. Crosland's 'shot across the bows' is 'the writing on the wall' for...

Slit —In February, 1964, the London clearing banks announced that the closing of banks on Saturdays was 'being urgently considered' in order to reach 'an early conclusion.' On...

at the University of Michigan took part in a demonstra- tion against the Vietnam war and staged a 'sit-down' in the local draft board office (i.e., conscription office). They...

Sia,—In your comment last week on our recent party political broadcast, you observed that 'politics is a dirty game' and said that 'Mr. Crossman knew well enough that his...

SIR,—Poor Mr. Lucie-Smith has been knocked clean out of the ring by five angry lightweights. He needs a second in his corner to wipe his wounds. Let me declare myself at once:...

The Angus Maude of Literature? By EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH I DON'T know whether to be stunned or amused. I little thought, when the SPECTATOR approached me for an article supporting...

SIR, —Here on this small island thirty miles at sea –notable among other things for the fact that the eighteenth-century ancestors of us Tuppers, Coffins and Starbucks would...

SIR commend most enthusiastically (difficult word this) your inclusion of the word 'chiliastic.' Our language is so rich and we should welcome every stimulus to its fuller use...

Dryden's Complaint D RYDEN complained of Seneca and other Roman dramatists that they could never think of anything for their young lovers to do: `To speak generally, their...

Meet the Wife IF Antonioni shows us the Italy of Downs, in 'which everything is in almost excruciatingly exquisite taste, Fellini shows us the Italy of the picture magazines,...

Pop Group W HERE did it come from, where has it been hiding all these years? I speak of the intent crowd which has been listening at the Festival Hall to the complete Beethoven...

Roll Call T HE event to make for at once is the 'Young Contemporaries' annual muscle-flexing at the Suffolk Street Galleries: it's on only until the end of next week. As usual....

The Thin Man By A. ALVAREZ T HAD better admit straight away that I find imost detective stories unreadable. I haven't the knack of skimming simply for clues and the plot. So...

AFTER being immersed in a muddy stream of gossip about Scott Fitzgerald, one welcomes Mr. Piper's perceptive account of his life as a writer. It is impossible—Fitzgerald himself...

The Crime of Katyn : Facts and Documents. (The Polish Cultural Foundation, 37s. 6d.) THE preoccupation of war and limitations of censorship prevented the British public from...

A SELECTION of letters, or extracts from letters, written by and to Oswald Spengler could not fail to be of extraordinary interest. Whether or not one agrees with Protc,sor...

Capote's Happenings By M. L. ROSENTHAL N EW YORK has become a city of 'happenings.' I refer not so much to the gross events themselves: the power blackout, the newspaper strike...

This place is too mild, Nothing dangerous could Happen here, I think, Nothing great, either; If somebody screams or throws A tea-cup through a window, They are removed...

illustrious Friends. By Sheila Birkenhead. (Hamish Hamilton, 50s.) Garibaldi and His Enemies. By Christopher Hibbert. (Longmans, 45s.) ON February 23, 1821, Keats died in the...

By ELIZABETH JENNINGS Thinking of Love That desire is quite over Or seems so as I lie Using the sky as cover And thinking of deep Dreams unknown to a lover. Being alone is...

Langrishe, Go Down. By Aidan Higgins. (Calder and Boyars, 30s.) The World of Luke Simpson. By Vincent Brome. (Heinemann, 25s.) WHAT really lifts a novel out of the order of mere...

By PIIILIDOR 269. H. ABMS (2nd Prize, Deutsche Schachreitung, 1 9 6 5) wmm to play and mate in two moves solution next week. Solution to No. 268 (Guidelli): Kt —B 5, no threat....

Company Strip-tease By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ' Bill the sharpest criticism of the new Companies 'Bill comes from the Stock Exchange it is not because Mr. Douglas Jay has gone too...

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND Higher Profit and Dividend THE Annual General Court of Proprietors of The Royal Bank of Scotland will be held on 1st March in Edinburgh. The...

By CUSTOS A crivrry on the Stock Exchange has greatly increased and the equity share markets have been trying to break through the previous high level of 359 reached by the...

By LOTHBUR VERMIING went right for British Sugar Cor- Emoration during the year ended March 31, 1965. The company was free from profit and divi- dend control and benefited from...

Oil shares fully deserve their recovery but whether BP, up 10s. or so in recent weeks, has been carried up too far by North Sea gas is a moot point. The announcement that a...

CASTLEFIELD (KLANG) RUBBER ESTATE MR. ADDINSELL'S STATEMENT THE Fifty-ninth Annual General Meeting of Castle- field (Kiang) Rubber Estate. Limited was held on February 4 in...

Cold Comfort By JOHN ROWAN WILSON These complications can be treated by anti- biotics, but in the management of influenza itself modern medicine has little to offer. The virus...

CONSUMING INTEREST Out, Damned Spot By LESLIE ADRIAN TIME was when so-called dry cleaning was some- thing of a miracle. Away went soiled and heavy garments that had once...

Drink and Drinking (Mac- millan, 45s.). Naturally, anyone who sets out to provide a wordbook is going to leave a few words out and get himself taken to task for it, but what he...

The Face Beneath the Mask By ALAN BRIEN No seasoned professional among journalists ever minds discovering that the cliché is wrong. You can- not hope to catch the fitful,...

ACROSS 27. I. Fellow-worker, or black-leg? (12) 9. Presumably Kipling's soldier got bloomin' seven a week (9) 10. An avuncular relationship is unavoidable with her (5) 11....

Smacks. 9 Foxtrots. 10 Choler. 12 Epochs. 13 Puncheon. 15 Brilliantine. 18 Trumpet- major. 23 Upper ten. 24 Strict. 26 Orison. 27 Seaboard. 28 Eagles. 29 Spurious. DOWN.-1...