E by HARRY FRANKLIN EVELYN WAUGH in RHODESIA KENNETH ALLSOP on LONDON'S STRIP CLUBS

N ATURALLY it is a pleasure—and a relief—to be able to congratulate the Government on the happy outcome of the Nyasaland Constitu- tional Conference. Mr. lain Macleod, Dr. Hast-...

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Hammars- kiold that it faced 'peace or war' in the Congo, called on Belgium to withdraw her troops from Katanga, and Belgium, in a sulk, mumbled some- thing about not wanting to...

H ARRY FRANKLIN'S report from Elizabethville gives a fair indication of the difficulty con- fronting the UN in dealing with Katanga. It is obvious that Belgian troops must be...

From MICHAEL LEAPMAN T HERE are dozens ut excuses for the low poll in the Cyprus elections. It was a hot day, many people were on holiday, the result was a foregone conclusion....

T in: most illuminating comment on Mr. Khrushchev's reply to Mr. Macmillan came in the Daily Telegraph. Ministers here, the Telegraph said, 'take the strongest objection to it...

T HAT strip clubs have been multiplying in London recently is generally known : that the resulting competition tends to provide their patrons with more bizarre and more...

W HETHER a Channel tunnel is the best of all the possible ways of linking Britain with the Continent is a matter for debate : a bridge might be a better solution; and it is not...

H MACKENZIE From KENNET CAPE TOWN HAD the unusual experience last week of going Ito Stellenbosch, the university town which nurtured Afrikaner nationalism, and hearing an...

You might be unable to buy the Spectator when you go on holiday, as newsagents do not carry surplus copies. To make sure of receiving your Spectator send us your holiday address...

By BERNARD L.EVIN MR. MORGAN PHILLIPS has been a long time up Mount Sinai, and some of the Israelites (if Mr. Michael Foot is not a Lost Tribe, I should dearly like to know...

From HARRY FRANKLIN* ELIZABETHVILLE A MONTH before Congo Independence Day A I sat in the great lounge of a house in Leopoldville's most fashionable street. It had been the...

Brave New Underworld By KENNETH ALLSOP rTHERE are probably three hundred strip clubs 1 prospering in Britain, two hundred of them in London alone, though an accurate figure is...

Box of Tricks By PETER MICHAELS PARIS A LTHOUGH there are well over 100 night-clubs and cabarets in Paris, they fall naturally into only two categories: the factories and the...

Constructive Malice By H. A: CLINE T HE doctrine of constructive malice has long bedevilled the English law of murder, con- fusing not only juries but judges as well. A man ,...

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(5) The Rhodesias Saturday night in Ndola—Salisbury— Utntali- Zimbabwe. p. T HE civilised route to Southern Rhodesia is from Beira in Portu g uese East Africa. That is the...

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SIR,—Mr. Raymond Postgate's comments on rail- way catering in your issue of August 5 must be left to others to judge. But he is wrong in his facts when he tries to take the...

SIR,—The Spectator should be congratulated for Ian Gilmour's sober analysis of Zionist policy, and one could also fully endorse Erskine Childers's article of July 22, but both...

criticise an anthology of poetry after reading only 75 per cent. of it? Yet this is exactly what he has done. The fact that mom people listen over the air than can be...

three National Democratic Party leaders arrested in Salisbury last month, and also for the defence of those arrested in the course of the demonstrations which followed the...

John Reade. Enoch Dunthutshina and others Zionism and Anti-Semitism Gertrude Elias Road and Rail M. Francis Thy Proms F. E. G. Pirouet Into the Rough Mrs. E. Herbert Tht Duke of...

Snt,—It is not surprising that the arrest by the Southern Rhodesian Government of the leaders of the National Democratic Party sparked off violence in Salisbury and Bulawayo....

SIR. —Commercial firms are not alone in causing the irritation of which Leslie Adrian complains. Having recently overstayed my welcome at a parking meter I found I was required...

SIR, -1 think 'the messy playthings which mothers detest' is the real factor in the increasing demand among mothers of all income groups for more nursery schools. It seems...

reminiscences of my friend the Duke of Levin. (Incidentally, how strangely the title 'Duke of Levin' rolls off the ear—on the Campden Rec. ground we always knew him...

Molony Committee (on Consumer Protection) has not yet submitted any interim report. It pro- duced a brief one in April dealing with unsa re con- sumer goods and advocating Home...

Star–Alas my handwriting! It was in Tunis, not in Paris, that the Moslem Algerian students held their congress. It could scarcely have met in a city where the organisation was...

SIR,—My copy of the Spectator did not reach me until late this week, thus it is only now that I write to congratulate you on your fine article on the throwing controversy by Mr....

The Fog People By ALAN BRIEN IT is one of the more boring heresies of mod- ern criticism that nothing is worth saying that can- not be said at length— 'scholarly' means 'in two...

Fashion's Slave By DAVID CAIRNS Fashion can also, by its frivolity, seem to defeat its own purpose by encouraging the blimps to stew self-righteously in their own prejudice...

Gothic Absurdity By ISABEL QUIGLY Psycho. (Plaza.)—Murder by Contract. (National Film Theatre.)—From the Terrace. (Carlton.) YES, I know the publicity value of being stern with...

Headmasters BY WILLIAM GOLDING T HOSE who are wary of Lytton Strachey but flinch from engaging with Stanley's thick volumes will be grateful to Mr. Bamford for presenting this...

Cyprus and Makarios. By Stanley Mayes. (Put- nam, 30s.) CAS1R0 and Banda just don't go together. Mr. Crozier clearly knows a lot about post-war revolutions and because his book...

JOHN ADDINOTON SYMONDS rightly described Venice as the Shakespeare of cities. I suppose !here are anti-Venetian eccentrics and exhibition- I s r ts—but they have as much hope of...

Carthage. By B. H. Warmington. (Robert Hale, Enemy of Rome. By Leonard Cottrell. (Evans Brothers, 21s:) • ••• • Boys, Professor Brogan recently Wrote, 'are all for Hector...

For Love or Money. By Richard Rees. (Seeker and Warburg, 21s.) SIR RICHARD REES was associated editorially with The Adelphi when, in the Twenties and Thirties, it provided an...

Baron Bagge and Count Luna. By Alexander Lernet-Holenia. (Blond, 18s.) les difficult to find a way of praising the two short novellas chosen to introduce Alexander...

Brief Authority. By Charles Hooper. (Collins, 2I s.) To anyone who has any lingering doubts that the regime in South Africa is an overtly Fascist one, this book will come as a...

Gone Away. By Dorn Moraes. (Heinemann, 18s.) . . I HAD fallen in love properly at last,' writes Dom Moraes in his preface, 'and that con- fused me. . . . I felt I should go away...

Year of Decision. By Philip Mason. (0.U.P., 210 LIKE a hurt airliner trailing flames - and srrtoke, the Rhodesian Federation rumbles round in circles above our heads. The...

From RICHARD BAILEY BRUSSELS N Belgium just now business, outwardly at any Irate, seems to be much as usual. The big stores in Brussels are having their sales for the Fin de -...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT LATELY the United States has been losing gold at quite an alarming rate—$20 million in the week ending August 3. This \ does not necessarily mean that the...

rr HE Pye Group has been very much in the I limelight by its recent successful battle for control of Telephone Manufacturing Co.— 'Temco.' This ultimate acquisition will...

The Wild Ones By KATHARINE WHITEHORN Out in the backyard there are even more cages, for this Regents Pet Shop near Camden Town is as much a zoo as conventional budge-and- puppy...

Little Helps KENNETH .1. ROBINSON THANK heaven for Little, boys. I refer to the boys who work for the Arthur D. Little set-up in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. Their life is a...

Living Cheaply in America By LESLIE ADRIAN ,1` MY own stay in America was rather of the tip-and- run variety, trying to see as much as possible in an inconveniently short time....

aroused a comparable amount of public interest in recent weeks. Half an hour before the doors of the Tate were due to open on Sun- day, at two, the queues for Picasso stretched...