Yergeny Yevtushenko Beastly to the Germans Constantine FitzGibbon Good Old Roy Grace Scott The Side of Angels and Dirt John Mortimer The Lessons of Syria Erskine B....

TT was inevitable that Dr. Adenauer's reported 'remarks on Great Britain's entry into the European Economic Community should have caused much uneasiness in London. For, although...

to protect it against attack from the rebel Com- munists in Laos: the Soviet ambassador in Washington conferred with the United States Sec- retary of State, and said that the...

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By our Common Market Correspondent T HE British delegation to the Common Market negotiations approached last week's much- publicised meeting in Brussels with a brave front but...

even greater numbers than at the last general election and, by sending the Liberal back with a majority very nearly three times the late Mr. Clement Davies's, gave Mr. Grimond...

on the necessity of re- storing the cease-fire in Laos is reassuring. In fact, the situation was never quite as dramatic as it looked—the forces engaged on both sides were...

From a Correspondent BLANTYRE rrilE contrast in the atmosphere that greeted I Mr. Butler in Salisbury and here in Blan- tyre was almost tangible. There the Europeans were...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE alarums and excursions between Bonn and Washington, Bonn and London in the last ten days were strongly reminiscent of the early summer of 1958—no,...

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS O NE vital question in meeting President Nas- ser this year was how deeply, self-critically, he had studied the causes of the Syrian secession. Nasser...

By JOHN COLE T HE dockers' settlement has revealed what a dim 'guiding light' the Government ignited with its White Paper on Incomes. This is almost as important a result of...

for our pains, the striking all-purpose wish-fulfilment aspect of the current Liberal revival. In the latest of the Campaign for Democratic Socialism's broadsheets thqre is a...

in negotiation as they sometimes seem in the greater assemblies of the world. On the wooded slopes of Highgate West Hill their large Trade Dele- gation is housed, and here they...

1 am looking at a Union Party (i.e., fascist) electoral address which was popped through a letter-box in the Westbourne Park Ward of Pad- dington the other week. 'There is no...

long and splendid day London Editor of the Guardian, the one and only Perambulator of London and Edinburgh (and the author, with his late bro- thers David and Muirhead, of one...

Confessions Exclusive By BRIAN INGLIS OMMEN11NG on At Your Peril the other day k..,/ I suggested that the Mirror group could not disclaim all responsibility for the public...

state of the Common Market negotiations. He was in a bloody-minded mood about the position of Britain vis-a-vis France and Ger- many. 'It's like a negotiation between the naked

TIRE long sentence passed on Milovan Djilas in Belgrade is a sorry business. The 'trumped- tip indictment, the secret trial, the disproportion- ate term of imprisonment: these...

From GRACE SCOTT LUSAKA W ELL, I congratulate Sir Roy Welensky on winning this seat,' was the comment of a deposit-forfeiting woman candidate in last month's general Federal...

By CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON T is now twenty-nine years since Hitler came I to power in Germany, eighteen years since our armies expelled the Wehrmacht from France and seventeen...

your son. You worry so much about him. Here he lies, he earns little, his marriage was unwise, he's long, he's getting thin, he hasn't shaved. Oh, what a miserable loving...

its kind. How in what year did this come into fashion? Deliberate indifference to the living, deliberate cultivation of the dead. Their shoulders slump and they get drunk...

café at Copenhagen where everything was brilliance and comfort and stylish to the point of tedium. The old man suddenly appeared or rather happened like an event of nature, in...

FIVE POEMS BY YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Yevgeni Yevtushenko, the young Soviet poet who has been visiting this country, was born at Zitna Junction, near Lake Baikal in Siberia, in...

I'm not. Courage has never been my quality. Only I thought it disproportionate so to degrade myself as others did. No foundations trembled. My voice no more than laughed at...

SIR,—Mr. Critchley's arguments in support of the Government's defence policy should not go unanswered. His main justification for the independent British deterrent seems to be...

Torvell, RN What's to be Done with Our Bomb? G. F. Elliott and F. A. E. Pirani The Uncertain Smile of Australia Craig McGregor The Alternative Vote Christopher Hollis Liberals...

issue of May 4 is between the horns of a dilemma which merits sympathy even from those, like myself, who oppose CND on grounds both of Christianity and of practical Politics....

SIR,—One of the troubles with compressing a book- length subject into an article is the case with which one can be misunderstood. I did not mean to imply that all State Labour...

I edited, was 'misleading and irrelevant' because none of the speakers were anti-American. By this argument, any programme on anti-Semitism which did not present the views of an...

SIR, —Miss Lakeman states the case for proportional . representation and everybody knows that it is a very respectable case. But my concern at the moment is not so much with the...

Sin,--1 am sorry that His Excellency the Mexican Ambassador does not agree with my estimate of the Mexican press. I'm not clear as to what other points he challenges in my...

SIR, —After crossing French, Belgian and Dutch borders during a short visit to the Continent with absolutely no fuss this is what my re-entry into England, which is now my home,...

SIR,—I am anxious to find some prayers and bless- ings for animals (in general or in particular) and also some prayers for our own right relation to animals: prayers and...

91i¢,—Miriam Chapin in 'The Canadian Election' naively proposes that the Liberals lost their hold on Quebec in the 1958 Federal election because Premier Duplessis 'ordered his...

SIR,—Mr. Angus Maude's brilliant analysis of the present political situation in this country hits every nail upon the head. What the electorate wants is neither Conservatism nor...

laCk of candour on the part of the Trustees of the Westminster Memorial Trust because it alleges that Moral Re-Armament is not mentioned in a letter to residents in Westminster...

SIR,—The dangers of the introduction of politics into local government may not be apparent to the recently-elected councillors until after a year or so in office. Local...

Seen and Heard By DAVID CAIRNS SONICSTAGE, the new 'wide screen' process which Decca's engineers have used in their recording of Salome, has not been received without a...

The Vision of the Moonboy By CLIVE BARNES Originally Stravinsky, the designer Roerich and the choreographer Nijinsky conceived the work as a myth of pagan Russia. This Russian...

Touched by Pleasure By BAMBER GABCOIGNE The Private Ear and The Public Eye. (Globe.) — Blitz (Adelphi.) — England Our England. (Princes.) THE first play in Peter Shaffer's...

Dear Kindred By ISABEL QUIGLY The Lady with the Little Dog and The Music Room. (Academy.)—The Girl with the Golden Eyes. (Cameo- Royal.)—The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance....

The Old Trashbox By CLIFFORD HANLEY Sydney Newman, who was imported to launch ABC's Armchair Theatre and who is now mov- ing over to the BBC, does not, of course, take this...

All Square at the Centre ANYONE who is still interested in what the Earl of Snowdon was really up to in the dark days of his press persecution in r — the Haymarket can now get...

The Side of Angels and Dirt BY JOHN M OR I IM ER T OD AY the quality of innocence eludes as it attracts us. We continually pursue the child- like, the naïve and the simplified...

Hitler's Secret Book. Translated by Salvator Attanasio. (Evergreen Books, 25s.) DISCOVERED among the captured German docu- ments in Washington, this characteristic outpour- ing...

Was Cicero. By Elycsa Bazna in collaboration with Hans Nogly. Translated by Eric Mos- bacher. (Deutsch, 15s.) CICERO, as all the world knows, was valet to the British...

The Duchess of Dino. By Philip Ziegler. (Collins, 28s.) THIS is a book to be commended, but with strict reservations about to whom it is commended. 'Her eyes "burning with an...

JACK KEROUAC'S tenth book, Lonesome Traveller (Deutsch, 15s.), is a collection of jottings, diary entries and general outpourings that date from When he was writing On the Road....

Puzzles and Epiphanies. By Frank Kermode. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 25s.) IN a study of his business called The Gay Science, the amiable Victorian critic Dallas, who is now...

Maxim Gorky. By Richard Hare. (O.U.P., 21s.) ONLY by the exercise of a powerful imagination can one hope to write a convincing study of so vital a personality as Maxim Gorky....

A Clockwork Orange. By Anthony Burgess. (Heinemann, 16s.) The Blood of the Lamb. By Peter De Vries. (Gollancz, 18s.) Therefore Be Bold. By Herbert Gold. (Deutsch, 18s.) The...

DAVENPORT By NICHOLAS WHAT has been disturbing the City is not the dockers' suc- cess in attacking Mr. Lloyd's wage restraint, but the bad behaviour of Wall Street. In the old...

By CUSTOS T IE vicious effect of the new capital gains I tax on the security markets was well illus- trated in the last ten days. Because few dare to sell holdings of safe...

T H E low level for lead and zinc prices was pri- marily responsible for the heavy drop in pro- fits of Consolidated Zinc Corporation for 1961. The reduction was £1,835,447,...

Blood Flukes and Hookworm By KATHARINE WHITEHORN THE raw colonial officer's wife heading off to the About half the lectures at the three-day course 'were severely practical,...

Ways with Watercress By ELIZABETH DAVID POTATO and watercress soup is familiar enough, and very nice too; as the sole adornment of a roast chicken or a steak, a few sprigs of...

By LESLIE ADRIAN THINGS are looking up in di laundry business. I have r cently had personal experien of the improvement that b come about since the formatio of the Guild of...

You would expect Raymond Postgate to have the right idea, and I was interested to see what he would serve at the six o'clock party to celebrate the union between his Good Food...