GREAT GOINGS-ON in space. SPace came near home when the image of a man, relayed through the American satellite Telstar, was r eceived on screens in Western Europe. The face that...

T HE London discussions of the Secretary- General of the United.Nations seem to have revolved around the intimately connected sub- jects of the Congo and the organisation's...

From SARAH GAINHAM 1300 rr HE result of the provincial elections to 1 North Rhine Westphalia on Sunday hal altered the political picture considerablY,;1 only in the largest...

ABout MPs had their first opportunity this L./week to discuss their collective reaction to the Pilkington Report, and to the Government's White Paper on Broadcasting which...

From Our Common Market Correspondent lip: sometimes talk as if the discussion in Brussels was merely a question of fixing a bunch of Commonwealth farmers. Nothing Lild be...

Front DARSIE GILLIE an epoch. You may take it grudgingly, and say the French had not the necessary spirit to object; or nobly, and say they showed a Christian forgiveness. What...

M R. LIONEL GROUSE'S article in the current Crossbow, the Bow Group's quarterly, has received plenty of attention. It is boldly headed `What The Middle Classes Want' and is...

The visit to London of Mr. Zdenek Fierlina er, the Speaker of the Czechoslovak Parliament , h as at least shown that cool calculations about de - mocracy's shortness of memory...

wondering whether he w as one of those wh o happen to be born not merely middle-aged but middle-aged long after their time. He writes to fact as if the past two decades had...

California, writes perfectly good verse straight from its electronic heart. Any- one who has ever enjoyed the gobbledygook Poured forth at public readings in Greenwich Village...

By HENRY FAIRLIE IT is not often that an important speech is 1 made at the Mansion House in reply to a Lord Mayor's address of welcome. But the speech made last Friday by U...

a deadpan variety is a n excellent possession for a statesman. So I was glad to have a friend retail to me U Thant's r e mark to a correspondent of the Daily Worker t 0 whom he...

By JULIAN CRITCHLEY, MP T HE British Army of the Rhine is very much in the news. This is as it should be; the only Pity is that what it does or does not do during t he week is...

By BRIAN INGLIS N its White Paper the Government promises I to take careful note of the Pilkington Com- mittee's arguments against Pay TV, but insists that 'there are urgent...

By BERNARD LEVIN F on. years now we have been told that the bloody country is going to the bloody dogs. Ya urig people are disrespectful to their elders, s urtax is ruining us,...

of referring to demo- cratic Socialist leaders as murderers worse than Hitler, they are scarcely in a position to object to an occasional snideness in remarks about themselves....

Report, when he criticises it for `diminishing freedom. The Report argues that the viewer's freedom to choose from the full range of possible programmes is itself restricted by...

Windle l 'ilkington A. D. Whannel. .Vlartrice Butterworth. Henry Adler P iaOng it Dirty tan .Sainsbury, Jeffrey Blyth, Charles Adeane V evtushenko Victor Litvin RR Blues...

opinion and public conscience he does not know the difference between mob law and social philosophy, which means that he has no busi- ness to be writing about the Pilkington...

SIR,—If the idea that 'broadcasting must be in a constant and sensitive relationship with the moral condition of society' has no meaning for Mr. Fairlie perhaps it is because he...

d u ci t being anything approaching an exact science, e s not have terminology laid down by some Bureau of Standards and with a ban against anyone using the words differently....

SIR,-1 know very little about Cyprus, but it has often been said that there are parallels between events there and events in Ireland between 1916 and 1922, even to the sporadic...

SIR, —Further to your comment recently regarding the candidature of two members of the Union Move' meat in Paddington, may I advise that I have been nominated as a further...

with the phrase, 'Mr' Cyril Ray and others have had some harsh things to say about British Railways cross-Channel services. The implication seems to be that the French do these...

a party in Nicosia, t talked with one of the 'restrained' and 'humane' senior UK police officers referred to in Sir John Harding's White Paper who were sent out from Britain to...

Sut,—I should be grateful if you would bring to the notice of your readers a plea for information. I am hoping to publish an anthology in English trans' lation of poems written...

the Soviet poet Yevtushenko, says that he noted an absence of the concrete and the particular in his poems. This is not a characteristic of Yevtushenko's verse as a whole, which...

of war we fought in Malaya and Cyprus. When I was a National Service infantry officer in Malaya fourteen years ago, the policy was to torture captured bandits until they...

By DAVID CAIRNS IT is possible to regard Glyndebourne as an institution in gracious but inexorable decline, and this is how I have been in the habit of regarding it. According...

The Great Divider By CLIVE BARNES STYLE, put in the mouth of a critic, is so often a chinaman- a demon googly bowled at the batsman-artist who can com- mand no certain reply....

Alexander Calder By HUGH GRAHAM Both Wright and Calder must be credited with bridging the gap between American living and American seeing. Wright, in spite of his lip- service...

Disasters in the Sun By ISABEL QUIGLY HOLIDAY time is upon us, both liter- ally and cinematically, and for the second time in a month we go holi - daying with an American...

E VER since Pilkington I've been afraid to enjoy anything too readily on the screen; in case it turned out to be trivial. I think I agree with the Committee's strictures on...

The Shadowy Source BY PETER FLEMING E E appears, by his modest and disaffected narration, to have described things as he raw them; to have copied nature from life, and to have...

OF all the national heroes thrown up by the nineteenth century. Garibaldi is virtually alone in having retained his halo undimmed. It is not clear whether this is a result of...

The Nuremberg Trials. By J. J. Heydecker and J. Leeb. Translated by E. A. Downie. (Heinemann, 42s.) IN their introductory chapter, the two authors of this volume explain why...

The Novelist as Philosopher. Studies in French Fiction, 1935-1960. Edited by John Cruick- shank. (O.U.P., 21s.) THERE should by now be a formula (which could be kept...

Volcanoes. By Fred M. Bullard. (Nelson, 45s.) Usrru. the mushrooms actually sprang up over the first atomic explosions, surely nothing could compete, for sheer drama, with a...

.THESE two handsome volumes, which contain the first work by Ford Madox Ford to be re- printed in this country since the Penguin issue of 1948, deserve a cheer and a half rather...

Men and Walls. By Tomas Salvador. Translated by James Curtis. (Putnam. 18s.) Chiteau-llonheur. By Philippe Jullian. Trans- lated by Edward Hyams. (Macdonald, 16s.) Tomas...

The Moons of Paradise. By Mervyn LeVY• (Arthur Barker, 42s.) The Moons of Paradise. By Mervyn LeVY• (Arthur Barker, 42s.) ELAINE MAY, in one of their talented sketches, plays a...

By CUSTOS r r HE gilt-edged market has taken the centre of the security stage. The spark which set off the blaze at the end of last week was the discovery by the jobbers that...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT ONE hears that Mr. lain Macleod told his Tory back- benchers that the Prime Minister had 'something in the bag' which would help am no political correspon-...

L RD CORNWALLIS, the chairman of A. E. Reed and Co. Ltd., reported fully to shareholders in our issue last week. The following points from his speech arc worth repetition: (1)...

Traveller's joy By KATHARINE WHITEHORN The main difference between the two is that whereas Take-a-Guide aims almost entirely to provide driver-guides of irreproachable back-...

Ladies' Halves By ELIZABETH DAVID WHAT on earth comes over wine waiters when they take the orders of a woman entertaining another woman in a res- taurant? Twice in one week...

By LESLIE ADRIAN A HARBINGER of summer fell through my letterbox early last month—the new edition of Elizabeth David's Summer Cooking . For the last seven years this...

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