From that wide-ringed trouble a Thing came up—a grey and red Thing with a neck—a Thing that bellowed and writhed in pain. Frithiof drew in his breath and . . said with a little...

MR. JAMES HAGERTY, preparing the way for President Eisenhower's visit to Japan, had to be rescued by helicopter from the attentions of hostile demonstrators at Tokyo airport....

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H AD it not been for the ill-starred flight of the U2, President Eisenhower would now be visiting the Soviet Union—and receiving, no doubt, a friendlier welcome than he looks...

T HE proposal tor a London Ombudsmand, presented to .he London County Council in the form of a pe aion, is naturally being fiercely resisted by Sir lsa t. Ha ward and the rest...

n OOR Roger Casement! It seems his ghost is r not to be allowed to rest; on a television programme this week he was cited as an example of a spy, along with Matra Hari, Fuchs,...

T HERE are two Anglo-Saxon attitudes which the leaders of the new Europe find particu- larly irritating. One, frequently displayed by Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, is the 'but of course...

From MICHAEL ADAMS BEIRUT E LEcrioNs are being talked about again in the only two countries in the Middle East where the word retains much meaning—Turkey and the Lebanon. They...

L IKE a headmaster threatening to suspend school privileges if boys cannot learn to stop ragging in class, Sir Roy Welensky has told Africans that he will oppose 'any further...

By ROY-JENKINS, MP I N his recent Fabian pamphlet, Labour in the Affluent Society, Mr. Crossman sets out to denounce the 'revisionists' and to provide an intellectual...

On the Way to Narkover By KENNETH ALLSOP M Y education was averted in a dank atmo- sphere of Portuguese laurels, dim Victorian rooms and surrealist ineptitude. The school,...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS HE oddity about the American Presidential 1 campaign is not that there is a Catholic champion but that Senator Kennedy should be that champion. I say...

By PETER MICHAELS Since I have been on safari for a home of my own on and off for the past eight years or so, I believe that I have tracked down just about every variety of real...

cause of truth and accuracy comment on a statement in Miss Whitehorn's entertaining article on the corsetry industry last week? Silhouette's campaign to launch the Little X...

SIR.—The Spectator, one way or another, has re- cently been less than kind to Public Relations. You seem to believe that PR as a function means either press exploitation or...

of my co-religionists in Spain, -and I should like to think that your peqbag contains protests from Cardinal Godfrey, the Abbot of Down- side, Fr. Martin D'Arcy and others—but I...

SIR,—Mr. George Watson wrote in your June 3 issue: Last week's issue was brilliant as usual. But I missed an article by Mr. Erskine Childers ex- plaining why President Nasser's...

Public Relations Harvey Mitchell, Colin Mann, Sylvia Burls-Hunt Riddle of the Sands . Erskine B. Childers The Nationalised Industries Tom Baistow Homosexual Prosecutions A. E....

SIR,—Bernard Levin tells us that the Abrams analysis of the last election shows (a) that a majority even of Tory voters thinks that four of the nationalised...

SIR,—Mr. Archdale is more than muddleheaded—he is perverse. Two wrongs do not make a right; and I cannot for the life of me see how the case for treating homosexuals justly is...

what she thinks Public Relations is for, and adds tartly that this is not what journalism is for. She doesn't tell us what she thinks is the pur- pose of journalism, but might...

will be aware how heavy is the bile Mr. Jacobson mentions at the beginning of his notice. Sidewalk, the new Scottish quarterly, which he dismisses in three lines, is clearly in...

S1R,—May 1, as a navigator in many rallies and the organiser of not a few, usher in some amend- ments to the round condemnation, by your motoring correspondent Mr. Gavin Lyall,...

rather less than justice to the Church of England Newspaper in her article of last week (though when I read the dear lady's comments on other Anglican periodicals I think we...

SIR,—Regarding the article by Jack Donaldson, surely this Al should be soft-pedalled. Apart from any eventual evolutionary effects that the by-passing of the sexual act may...

Because I write about the type of boys 'who go in for fighting and horse-play,' Miss Rosemary Thomp- son calls my Jim Starling's Holiday 'an unpleasant book. She seems to have...

SIR,—In his review of a dozen current literary maga- zines Mr. Dan Jacobson was moved to devote more than a column to the discussion of an article pub- lished in X....

SIR,—Mr. Golding may be interested in another numerical slip of Stevenson's. In Chapter 21 he writes that seven or eight men supported the assault on the block-house by covering...

SIR,—If one believes as Mr. Roland Vincent Smith does, that the situation in South Africa is best described as a struggle for power between black and white, then my article 'The...

of certain esoteric tendencies in recent little magazine writing, has gone a bit too far in suggesting that politics, traffic problems and such are the only 'real' pressures?...

So You Want to be a Press Agent? By ALAN BRIEN EVERY play has to have a press agent. Sometimes it seems as if every play has to have Hugo Puffball, but this may only be an...

Knickerbocker Glory By CLIVE BARNES As Britain's most consistent artistic dollar- earner (and artistic dollars are always the nicest) it could only be expected that The...

Cycle Royal By PETER FORSTER This was very well handled in a modest fashion —the modesty consisting, I should add, in the use mainly of sensibly suggestive interiors (halls,...

Show of Resistance QUIGLY By ISABEL A Generation. (Acad- emy.) – The Unfor- given. (Leicester Square Theatre.) IT is hard to remember that since the generation Andrzej Wajda...

Those Abominable Sunflowers By SIMON HODGSON THE recent large exhibi- tion of works by van Gogh at the Musee Jacquemart Andre in Paris raises two questions in my mind. First,...

The New Left By A J. AYER O UT OF APATHY* is the first of a series of books on political and social questions which are intended to define and popularise the position of the...

The Disastrous Marriage. By Joanna Richard- son. (Cape, 25s.) Hanover to Windsor. By Roger Fulford. (Bats- ford, 25s.) IT is a sad moment when a good subject becomes...

COCK of the walk for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, the great photo-reportage magazines have now, I suppose, largely relinquished their com- manding position to television. In...

Italian Renaissance Studies. Edited by E. F. Jacob. (Faber, 63s.) IT is exactly a hundred years since Burckhardt inaugurated the concept of the Renaissance as most people still...

Mr. Love and Justice. By Colin MacInnes. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 15s.) 12s. 6d.) • COLIN MACINNES'S new novel comes, I suppose, as a comparative failure after City of Spades and...

On Alien Rule and Self-Government. By John Plamenatz. (Longmans, 21s.) THE end of colonialism, the emergence of back ward peoples, the emancipation of the exploited...

Tins is the most exhaustive examination yet made of the relationship between the unions and the Labour Party; and it comes at a most topical moment. Mr. Harrison is a shrewd,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT jillt IN the last ten years the turn- over at the widely popular *, t2 I stores of Marks and Spencer has \''' grown at an average rate of 91 \\ per...

Crash Costs By DAVID MALBERT FrHE garage man ran his hand expertly over I the buckled wing. 'A fiver,' he said, 'as you are going to pay for it yourself. 01 course, if it was...

A YEAR ago shareholders of British and Commonwealth Shipping were warned by the chairman, Sir W. N. Cayzen, Bt., that it might not be possible to maintain the 20 per cent....

By CUSTOS B RILLIANT company reports from MARKS AND SPENCER, DE LA RUE, METAL BOX, COURTAULDS, not to mention HARRODS this week, helped to sustain the market in equity shares,...

Bend, Stretch, Sink By KATHARINE WHITEHORN A NEW concern has just started up in a set of rooms above Oxford Street. It is equipped with a large number of gleam- ing chromium...

Designs on You By KENNETH J. ROBINSON You, dear sir or madam, will soon have to be re- modelled, whether you like it or not. I have this on the authority of Richard Hamilton,...

Go11 optious Potful By LESLIE ADRIAN IT may astound you to know (as it certainly It was a brief visit to Cornwall this spring and the purchase of a jar of pure Cornish honey...

ONE thing I can't understand about Americans is their habit of making dry martinis fiendishly strong — at least four and usually more of gin or vodka to one of vermouth —and...

ACROSS I l-)c is one if you do this to him 171 5 Turner seems not to have been a very good peer! (7) 9 A chore can be so dingy (5) 10 It sounds almost as if the Chinese...

Tense. 11 Dayton. 12 Flatters. 13 Narvik. 15 Investor, 18 Stopgaps. 19 Spider. 21 Noble art. 23 Prosit. 26 Chigl. 27 Die-sinker. 28 Fancy dresses. DOWN.--1 Paladin. 2 Early. 3...