Sir Hugh Beadle, the Rhodesian Chief Justice, arrived unexpectedly to see Mr. Wilson. Mr. Ian Smith claimed some oil was beating the embargo, but few were impressed. A new...

SEVEN DAYS of toil and trouble for politicians: some were shot and others disappeared in an army coup in Nigeria, in India there was a fight for the succession to Mr. Shastri...

television, and one com- mercial TV company banned all but the mild- est swear words. Snow and ice chilled the British Isles, bus and tube fares went up in London, gas and...

E DWARD HEATH became leader of the Conservative party at a singularly diffi- cult time, both for him and for the party. The abrupt departure of Sir Alec Douglas- Home had left a...

Friday January 21 1J66

From OSBERT HASTINGS ROME I RI was an improvisation. Mr. George Brown's British equivalent, the national finance corpora- tion,which he is shortly to announce,is clearly not...

From DON COOK PARIS HE first test of Gaullist foreign policy in I action since the re-election of President de Gaulle has been a demonstration of how little the General is...

Britain and Europe JEAN LECANUET • Does Hysteria Exist? JOHN ROWAN WILSON One year's subscription to the 'Spectator': £315s. (including postage) in the United Kingdom and...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN F OR once the television news led with a piece of immediacy—here and now. Not a pic- torial handout of Rusk descending from an aero- plane, Erhard...

The Importance of Mr. Gott By ALAN WATKINS T the last general election there was a slight but perceptible change in the pattern of British politics. The 'swing' ceased to...

January 20, 1866 The gale of Thursday and Friday last wrought fearful mischief along the coast. From every southern port we have tidings of loss, and at Brixham a disaster...

AFTER more than a year of bitter internal argu- ment, during which time industrialists have been left to grope in the dark, the Government has at last come out with its new...

and African members have simul- taneously been plunged into a similar crisis—a crisis of national unity. In India, the emotional Mrs. Gandhi's chief qualification for Mr....

some years now made a practice of in- sisting that any candidate for a senior executive post in the bank must first submit a specimen of his handwriting for expert analysis. As...

I see that the Minister of State at the Home Office, Miss Alice Bacon, has been sounding off in the Hull by-election about the iniquity of the rule that allows mortgage interest...

euphemism, are invariably more revealing than the texts of which they form a part. Monday's Times provided a perfect example of this. In two different places, on the bill page...

I congratulate the Tory Study Group under the chairmanship of Peter Thorneycroft, which has now published its report under the title Crime Has No Boundaries, for going farther...

find ways of co-operation within a system of comprehensive education. But if events prove me wrong, then the whole future of the direct-grant system will inevitably come into...

Meditations on the effect of the Chancellor's advice to us to take our holidays in England, following on his Budget. Oh. to stay in England Now that April's here. And whoever...

Superhero Falls to Earth From MUR RAY KEMPTON NEW YORK PHE moles have beaten the Superhero. We I have our subways back; and the newspapers have generally cast over our new...

Bloodshed on Sunday By CHARLES CURRAN W ITH this article, I end my stint as stand-in press critic for the Spectator. I do so at an Homeric hour in Fleet Street. Like everybody...

the Conservative party which has been very clear to close observers of the par- liamentary scene for a long time. Personalities obviously obtrude, which is a greater pity than...

Willis, C. G. Waite, Eldon Griffiths, MP, Bryan Cassidy, Emma Burden, Philip Norton, 1. F. Standish, Edward Samson, Mrs. Gaenor Heathcoat Amory, Ronald Duncan, S. C. Butler....

following Angus Maude's article in last week's SPECTATOR: a number were written before Mr. Maude's resignation from the Opposition front bench. A further selection will appear...

many directions. Nowhere will it be read with more interest than in his own constitu- ency, where erstwhile loyal supporters of the Con- servative party are awaiting with equal...

hardly befits Mr. Angus Maude to write such an outrageous article (SPECTATOR, January 14). What does he hope it will achieve? Will it help us to win the forthcoming by-election...

SIR,—II is to be hoped, if only for the sake of his . well-being, that Nigel Lawson will fail to find a 'good doctor' while his 'medical yardstick' of good- ness continues to be...

where the Conservatives should emphasise the difference with the Labour party, but he is wrong in his implied criticism of the leadership. In the minds of those of us working in...

one avoiding the worse alternative), but there are times when I de- spair of the party. The hysteria which has been aroused by Angus Maude's article in your issue of January 14...

is regrettably common even now among certain sections of the Tory party—that of regarding office as a divine right. People like Mr. Maude have not yet realised that it has to be...

substantive criticisms he makes of Conservative policy were considered and tackled by the party policy groups which have been meeting since the defeat of 1964. Not all their...

voiceless Tories. The dilemma is simply that Mr. Heath and Mr. Wilson are almost interchangeable; either could cross the floor in the middle of his speech and continue from the...

Two Views of Bonnard Pleasure and Repose [Hous e great Bonnard exhibition at Burlington 1 . House has already established itself, and rightly so, as the most pleasurable event...

SIR,—Your entertaining correspondent Mr. A. D. Mac Dougall was unlucky in one of his sallies against the ladies, when he asked derisively : 'Has anyone ever heard of a great...

SIR,—In your last issue your dramatic critic observes: 'It is so long since we heard a great play in modern verse on the stage that we have quite forgotten what it feels like,...

M EMORY is the key to Bonnard's work. Not that he worked 'from memory' in a literal sense; his paintings rather are about memory itself, in much the same way as The Remembrance...

to have a regular article on 'Medicine Today.' Health has been regarded as an unimportant sideline for too long, and the disastrous results are likely to keep it increasingly in...

Back to Nanny B EFORE setting at large the five episodes of Shaw's Back to Methuselah, the Third Programme cunningly invited Mr. Irving Wardle to introduce it; so that...

Three Larks and a Wren W will meet; and there we may rehearse more obscenely and courageously.' Words, first used by Nick Bottom the Weaver, which must often be on William...

The s Curdle in the Blood The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. (Plaza, 'A' certificate.) P make a thriller which thrills must be one f a film-maker's toughest tasks. Because...

By J. H. PLUMB I T is easy to forget the turbulence of seven- teenth-century society : not only its civil wars, plots, executions, but also the casual violence which was so...

The Art of Marvell's Poetry. By J. B. Leishman. (Hutchinson, 50s.) THE poetry of Andrew Marvell reveals a mind of astonishing complexity. His dozen or so great lyrics repeatedly...

Ma. ROVERE, who 'covers' Washington for the New Yorker, has had the good idea of re- printing some of his pieces on the Goldwater crusade and the 'genial' idea of calling it The...

No paths go down to the still dirty water of the Sea House. The polychromatic coze dun with lightlessness. This is where Tot the Water Giant, Mish the Big Fish, Brush the...

By PETER FLEMING RICHARD SORGE, a member of the Communist party and also, for convenience, of the Nazi party, was arrested in Tokyo by the Japanese security authorities in...

Snapshots and Towards a New Novel. By Alain Robbe-G rillet. Translated by Barbara Wright. (Calder and Boyars, 30s.) THE settings to the current batch of novels are diverse, but...

By PHIL1DOR 266. G. Hurncons (Hampstead Express, I9 0 5) BLACK (ix men) a WHITE (10 men, WHITE to play and mate in two moves ; next week. Solution to No. 265 (Cheney) : 1—Q R 8...

By CUSTOS ? upon investment White Paper had little effect I upon the equity markets, which had already discounted its basic innovations. There had already been a sizeable fall...

Investment Largesse By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT rTHERE must have been a terrific wrangle be- 1 hind the scenes before Messrs. Brown, Callaghan and Jay shook hands on the White Paper...

million startled the market, but the Government declared its intention of exercising its rights—subject to the terms being satisfactory, which will not be known until the end of...

THE STEEL COMPANY OF WALES LIMITED IMPROVEMENT IN TRADING RESULTS NEED FOR PRICE INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS ACHIEVED BY NEGOTIATION WITH TRADE UNIONS THE Annual General...

By STRIX CAGOULARD, bradbury, Menshevik, speakeasy, the Young Marshal, stuka, the `Girl Pat,' snoek, Baillie- Stewart, Yadil, Tishy, Fowler's match, Jix, the Christian General,...

By LOTHBURY HE rise in profits from the Westminster Bank I is in line with those of the others. The net profits, after allowing for a 40 per cent corpora- tion tax and...

Group Therapy By LESLIE ADRIAN Derby and District's Choice has an article on local government in its current issue which records that 'there is no longer the avid en- thusiasm...

WEBSTERS PUBLICATIONS LIMITED LT.-COL. W. D. GIBBS REPORTS HIGHER EARNINGS AND DIVIDEND THE 11th annual general meeting of Websters Publi- cations Limited was held on January...

By ALAN BRIEN The best first-aid for a burn or scald is cold water. Change it as soon as it warms up to skin temperature. You will find the pain rapidly dis- appears and leaves...

ACROSS 1. Like Baba going on an excur- sion? (6) 4. Old portraits of representative millionaires perhaps (8) 8. Plan that has no place for meals (8) 10. Sweet girl with...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 1205 ACROSS.-1 Battered. 5 Abased. 9 Claptrap. 10 Pleats. 12 Lycfe. 13 Grisaille. 14 Whole-hearted. 18 Quin- tessence. 21 Andantino. 23 Arrah. 24...