N OBODY who has studied Sir . Alan Herbert's diatribe on Royal Commissions can feel optimistic about the prospects for Pilkington- particularly after its predecessor's fate (the...

a warrant was out for the arrest of Mr. Lumumba, who spoke, nevertheless, in the Parliament at L eopoldville, what time the rival 'government' of M r. Ileo was holding forth on...

No. 6899 Established 1828 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1960

F Rom his letter in . our correspondence columns this week, it s e ems as if Dr. Durant has misunderstood Richard Rovere's recent Com- ments on the public opinion poll in the...

FT HE original object of the United Nationt intervention in the Congo was to restore order and, then, to hold the ring while tlic ordinary democratic processes began to opcsal e...

Autumn Number , Desmond Donnelly, MP: Report from Mesh . ° Philip Oakes: Books Unprosecuted Peter Forster: rry—the first live years Alan Brien on the Dublin Dram Festivil l and...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE West is in danger of letting Berlin slip out of its hands by default. Day-to-day decisions get left to the Germans, and the Ger- mans are still...

From MICHAEL LEAPMAN OST papers die quietly with a sad, limp, little announcement on the front page. Anybody who knew the Times of Cyprus could not have expected it to do the...

By BERNARD LEVIN SING hey this mild autumn morning for Mr. George Thom- son, Labour Member of Parlia- ment for Dundee East, and a man who clearly cares nothing for fashion. For...

By A. HALILIDIE SMITH T o me the most significant piece of informa- tion in the Feversham Report is not that there are only a hundred births annually as the result of AID, but...

1946 Richard Crossman, MP, member of the Anglo-American Commission, concluded in his Palestine Mission: The choice was between two injustices . . . if I believed in social...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY N ow is the time when the Presidential elec- tions perform their customary disservice to American foreign policy, whose steadily grow- ing paralysis in the...

Ideally Speaking By MONICA FURLONG IIRISTIANS,' a caustic friend likes to point out to me, 'never think. They indulge in "prayerful consideration."' And I get his point....

SIR,—In the course of cutting ti. transcription. r" r which I take full responsibility, certain qualify' words slipped from my simplchearted gloss on M r. Rayner Heppenstall's...

Out in the Thirties Hugh Gordon Porteus Tampering with Food Gwendolen Barter Pullman Charges Stephen Preston The Limitations of NATO Sir Stephen Wagner R. Bat nard More New...

letters, one on the use of Lle c tionable colouring matter to make oranges look like oranges, and the other on the labelling of aP pulp as orange? Mine deals with tampering with...

SIR,—In the last couple of years so much has bet n said and written about prostitution by such a vast number of people, yet never a word on the subject from those most directly...

the NATO forces used tactical weapons it would inevitably lead to large-scale nuclear war and says that he has heard this opinion on innumerable occa- sions. I admit that the...

Of ; tirq Of ; elf SIR,--If Simon Raven had behaved himself Zeus. he would more probably have been intro to 'sensational and unheard of' experiences 1,4 than at any address...

ril Po fie ( ab s fro le t of it he 3 B o ] lie hO n Of Ut Orq arid 1 13ii Of Of , Of SIR.—For young writers with only short stories novellas to show as evidence of their...

inferior quality of the food served in restaurant cars operated by the Pullman Car Company. There has been no improvement since then, at least in the cars working the Southern...

ing questions: (a) How the 'unofficial ban' on the works of Wagner operated at Covent Garden between the years 1939 and 1946, when there was no opera performed there during...

The Orchestra Speaks By DAVID CAIRNS THE supremacy of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, demonstrated in four concerts at the Edinburgh Festival last week, has a touch of the...

Life in the Pond By ALAN BRIEN ROBERT BOLT is that rare phenomenon—the young playwright of ideas who is commercially success- ful. He is the most West End of all the new wave....

To Catch a Thief By ISABEL QUIGLY Pickpocket. (Paris - Pull- man.) — Anna of Brooklyn and All the Young Men. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE cinema, that un- blinking eye, can be a...

Inhuman Comedy By CLIVE BARNES THERE can be very few people alive today who have seen Leonide Mas- sine's new full-length ballet La Commedia Umana twice. I have. It is based...

Putting Up a Black By PETER FORSTER Character-drawing was vivid but far from starry-eyed. No suggestion of Sammy as the under-privileged man crucified by economics: the plain...

In My Ark By WILLIAM GOLDING I aEntEmarlit walking in a steep Welsh valley and turning aside to see if the nuts were ripe. I , l ifted a leaf and found it covered a red...

Signs of an undertaking —reminders, only, without the drama of fall or spring : they arc small but explicit signs, for instance the face of an old woman on the bus— she ribs the...

Now then, what have we here? Well, to begin with we have something most jolly and accePl; able, proper to go in the Christmas stocking 0 , 1 all very big boys, to wit,...

ANYBODY who knows enough to consider writing history of English, or of any other considerable literature, will usually know how impossibly com- plex are the methodological...

A Full Life. By Lieut.-General Sir Brian Hor- rocks. (Collins, 25s.) HAVING suffered in my time from what may be called the global strategy of the book-rooms, I do not intend...

the recommendation that 'For at Y lover of the novels it will bring a new lt 1111 e°stoPrr; to hension, and. for the less partisan reader „s rival any Victorian romance.' Miss...

The South Sea Bubble. By John Carswell. (Cresset Press, 30s.) The City. By Paul Ferris. (Gollancz, 21s.) IT is astonishing to think that a man born in the time of the last...

The Inspector. By Jan de Hartog. (Hamish Hamilton, 15s1) T he Way to Colonos. By Kay Cicellis. (Seeker and Warburg, 15s.) t he Double Blind. By John Rowan Wilson. (Collins,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT SUPPORT for my plea to Mr. Selwyn Lloyd to reduce Bank rate to 5f per cent. this week or This is the very disturbing suggestion which Mr. A. C. L. Day...

By RICHARD BAILEY W HO is the most famous Finn of all time? Sibelius, Nurmi, Mannerheim in some order would probably be the first three. But who the top ten would be is...

V TOKES LTD., of Guildford, are best known as V filtration and silencing engineers,. but the group now covers the manufacture of processing and cleaning plant for a very wide...

By CUSTOS Mini week the bull market in equities received a check. It seems that one or two fences will have to be jumped before it makes a big stride forward. The first is the...

Taking Stock By ELIZABETH DAVID and Edwardian eras are to blame. The instructions in some of these books were enough to put off the most intrepid cook. The 1891 edition of...

Service Hatch By KATHARINE WHITEHORN BOOKS about a childhood lived before 1920 always seem to be more about the servants than the grown-ups; every pattern of living, every...

g Interest Balancing the Books By LESLIE ADRIAN How good are our book- shops? A colleague who knew that a particular book was about to be 'published ordered it from Foyle's...

ONE of the many appealing things about the News of the World, which is the paper I turn to first on a Sunday morning, is the coy peri- phrases it uses in avoiding words and...