All Monarchists Now David Marquand The Hinge of Europe Robert Conquest Who's for Aroostook? John Rosselli How the Lights Went Out Robert Kee • The New Tippett David Cairns

rr HE history of the tension between Presi- I dent de Gaulle and President Kennedy is full of cross-currents. On the surface, the relationship between them looks rather like...

SCOTT CARPEN- TER. the second American to go round the earth through space, confessed to having experienced 'a few moments of anxiety.' Mr. Khrushchev praised him for his 'very...

No. 6988 Lstablished rRIDAY, JUNE I, 1828 1962

rilue Ford Company's decision to stand and I fight at Dagenham, though late—perhaps too late—is justified and welcome. In the almost un- precedented statement the company issued...

From Our Common Market Correspondent BRUSSELS T liE French arrived in Brussels this week pre- pared to be tough. It was obvious agreement was not far off on manufactures from...

By FRANCIS CASSAVETTI nt ROY WELENSKY, on his best behaviour, L./gave a Salisbury press conference a fortnight ago his latest version of why he held Federal elections in April....

From SARAH GAINHAM T HE East Zone of Germany (DDR) wants a credit in goods from Federal Germany to the value of about £100 millions for five years to be repaid mainly in oil...

A friend of mine tells me he knows of 3 well-known sex-maniac, who has spent most of his life on probation for interfering with small girls, who is thinking of voting Liberal at...

evening in heavy traffic .when the c ar in front suddenly stopped. So did we, just in time, and the car behind us, and so on, bumper to bumper. A leggy girl with a pretty face...

of the Daily Her•ald in circumstances that could never have been easy. He had hardly taken over the editor- ship when he found himself being mumbled in the great maw of the...

Mr. Maurice Edelman's suggestion of a parallel between the condemnations of Bertrand Russell and Socrates is rich in power to start trains of thought—not the least being a...

I strongly advise all who either love or loathe this paper to get hold of the current issue of Private Eye where the Spectator is sent up in pages of delectable parody....

L ORD HUNTINGDON'S letter in Wednesday's Tinter is a textbook demonstration of the fallacies of innocent fellow-travelling. He is dismayed by the prospect of Earl Russell's...

Turkey ,By ROBERT CONQUEST IN Ankara the other day I stood near the front of an unemployed demonstration outside the National Assembly and listened to a union official,...

The Ankara demonstrators, called to march in bare feet to the National Assembly, sensibly forgot about the bare feet bit, but some three thousand of them gathered. About a...

The Ankara demonstrators were not workers proper—nor members of the union which or- ganised them. They were migratory workers— peasants who come into Ankara from a wide area...

ROME r CONOM1CALLY speaking, Italy is riding the Lecrest of the wave; politically, she faces the world with much less self-confidence. These con- trasting attitudes are...

By DAVID MARQUAND W E are all monarchists now. As Mr. Kingsley Martin points out in his new book on The Crown and the Establishment*: `A century ago, courage was necessary to...

By JOHN ROSSELLI NEW JERSEY Here we are, visiting a family of good pleasant People whose names will never get into the news - p a pers. The F.s live in a hundred - year - old...

said that Donald Hume's 'confession' was palpably false; and we suggested that this fact was symptomatic of his fantasy-ridden and grossly abnormal mind. We did not set out to...

to an article appearing in the Spectator of May 18 by Constan- tine FitzGibbon relating to a banquet in honour of President Heuss in 1958. Mr. FitzGibbon writes : When some...

Webb, pausing only to wonder whether the late Mr. Webb would have been quite so enthusi- astic in rounding up the Messinas had they been the last criminals at large in this...

SIR, — In his article 'Birth of a Science' Mr. Ronald Bryden proposes the term 'culturology' to describe the science of communications in 'literate evolved societies' and claims...

SIR,—In his discussion of the hymns of Dr. J. M . Neale, Mr. Broadbent has neglected the fact that Neale's aim was not to write poetry. He was pro- ducing an English version of...

SIR,—With reference to Mr. Kenney's letter in your issue of May 11, it may be of interest to readers of the Spectator to know that donkey is still frequently served for dinner...

Sington, Stanley H. Canham, Brian Inglis Beastly to the Germans E. D. Pickering Donkey for Dinner H. Grobe Culturology Julius Gould, J. Peter White Hymns as Poetry Nicolas...

writings of Hoggart et. al. This word has already been pre-empted by the American anthropologist L. A. White to mean the science of culture. And culture? This is 'an...

week, that Hume murdered Setty. His evidence merely confirms that Hume was a patho- logical liar. Mr. Potter now boasts that the People, was prepared to pay Hume £10,000 for the...

did not say the alternative vote would not be worth hav- ing, if we could get nothing better; what 1 did say was that we must not expect the alternative vote to give us what...

Educational Television, foreshadowed in press announcements last autumn, is now legally in being. We feel it necessary to state that the sponsors have made no attempt to elicit...

letter confirms my suspicion that he does not know what a hymn is. He persists in judging it simply, or primarily, as poetry. It would be as absurd to judge an aria in an...

SIR,-1 would like to state that in my last year as a pup.l at Darlington I went regularly to Holy Com- munion, yet was tolerated and even respected by the other pupils. (I may...

The Space Series By CLIFFORD HANLEY AND while we're on the sub- ject of formula series, let's n ot forget the rigorous pre- ordained ritual of space flight. If you think of...

unusual quality of John Symonds's work, though he is not wholly as unrecognised as she suggests. His adult novels are little known, but in the sphere of the imaginative story...

a life of Edwin Muir. I shall be glad to hear from anyone who has letters or other relevant documents or who is willing to communicate mem- ories. Any documents sent to me (at...

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

The New Tippett By DAVID CAIRNS . d TOWARDS the end of Michael Tippett's opera The Midsum- mer Marriage one of the characters remarks: 'Fate and freedom propound a paradox....

Locked In By ISABEL QUIGLY Strongroom and Two and Two Make Six. (Leicester Square Theatre.) IN a week as flat as the fens even a molehill of talent looks sizeable, and of the...

A Cad for All Seasons By BAMBER GASCOIGNE fate advance publicity for The Lizard on the Rock announced that anyone who liked A Man for All Seasons, Becket, Russ and Luther...

At Twelve Mr. Byng Was Shot. By Dudley Pope. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s.) Too often, the biographer with a man's reputa- tion to vindicate kills with over-kindness. One is...

PROFESSOR MADARIAGA openly and Mr. Cline more discreetly convey information which is slanted to their political viewpoints. Professor Madariaga's is a politics of 'if only': if...

A Matter of Life and Death. By Virgilia Peter- son. (W. H. Allen, 21s.) Scenes from an Armenian Childhood. By Vahan Totovents. Translated by Mischa Kudian. (O.U.P., 15s.) JACK...

GWENDOLINE BUTLER is very good and getting better. She has, among contemporary English detective writers, a probably unique gift for the macabre, coupled with excellent...

C hinese Garden. By Rosemary Manning. The ( .7ape,15s.) A Da 1 In H J Rose of Tibet. By Lionel Davidson. Gollancz, 18s.) se to Deceive. By George Bradshaw. Hart-Davis, 21s.)...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WALL STREET apart, the cause of the Stock Exchange slump at home is not difficult to find. It- is the attack on profitability which this Government has de-...

By CUSTOS r - r FIE bourses are slumping all over the Western I world. Since the beginning of the year Wall Street has fallen by over 20 per cent.; London, according to the...

S UNDAY PICTORIAL NEWSPAPERS has done well for the year ending February 28, 1962, trading profits having risen from £1,725,711 to £1,993,580. The Sunday Pictorial itself in-...

By CYRIL RAY IT's only a month or so short of ten years since I wrote an obituary of Rosa Lewis, and now they are writing the obituaries of that inconsequen- tial establishment...

Souping it Up By ELIZABETH DAVID CURIOSITY rather than much hope of joy impels me from time to time to try some of the many tinned lobster bisques and other soups made from...