M R. KHRUSHCHEV's resounding defeat on the Congo issue at the United Nations ha , understandably exhilarated the West. Not since the collapse of the Berlin blockade have the...

New York for the fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations, and were pleased to see each other. Among the thirteen brand spanking new African States admitted (along with...

No. e900 Established 1828 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1960

T rr HOSE of us who rely on the Guardian to provide sensible and detached comment on foreign affairs received a shock last week when it printed, as a leader-page article, 'A...

Now we must watch the classical colonial pattern being worked out in Southern Rhodcsal . One hour's rioting obtains more tangible conces' sions than months and months of...

Q urrE the best of Encounter's series 'The . Future of the Left' is the most recent (and possibly the last, as the Left may have decided its own future by this time next month,...

From MICHAEL ADAMS BEIRUT N asser nas travelled farther West than Yu goslavia, though he has paid visits in the past to I ndia and Pakistan. Bandung and Moscow. It b r...

j the United Nations Assembly when he was Irish Ambassador in London will be the first II) c ongratulate the assembly on the wisdom of its choice. Frederick Boland was an expert...

people live in the New Towns, and what kind of lives they lead. But less has been heard of the towns' history. Who thought of them ? Who planned them? And on what principles?...

By BERNARD LEV1N THEY tell me that I quote Mr.' Mencken too often: a fig for them. 'Has the art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear unqualifiedly ratty,...

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP Mexico in 1960 is different in atmosphere from Mexico I956--which was my last visit. The difference is largely the product of the great new catalyst of...

ever endured. The three weeks which elapse between the Trades Union Congress and th e Labour Party Conference usually have no special significance. But this year, after the...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY M R. KHRUSHCHEV'S impending arrival in New York, accompanied by a downpour of Heads of State, appeared to illustrate once more his uncanny knack of making...

. . Something Blue By PHILIP OAKES IXTY minutes from New York, Sunset Knoll a is a commuter's haven where satyriasis rages like the common cold. As half the community wives are...

The End of the Beginning By PETER FORSTER THAT, I wonder, would they like us to say about them? On the fifth anniversary of In dependent Television, what can its contractors a...

in the Spectator of September 9 Mr. Cline has commented upon my book The Detection of Secret Homicide and has stated that I have suggested in the book that all (his italics)...

and space I can- not forebear to reply to your comments upon my letter in the issue of the Spectator for August 26. First, I was neither extolling nor denigrating the present...

and yet a pleasure, to find the theatre completely full although it was an ordinary weekday, when Twelfth Night was splendidly per- formed and therefore thoroughly appreciated....

SIR,—Sir Stephen King-Hall has misunderstood the nature of my dissent from his view that large-scale nuclear war would necessarily follow the use of tactical nuclear weapons by...

m ay Protest against Monica Furlong s . Christians.' use of such expressions as 'The Church and i s Sill must know perfectly well that there s„ Bo such thing in England as a...

Sykes makes some points which do not seem to me altogether well founded. May I ask him: 1. On the most generous view, what political re- ward can he see resulted from or could...

T he Rev. E. Benson Perkins. I. F. Lethbridge T h e 1- .;'esert tio Generals Correlli Barnett imitans of NATO A. R. Nicholson °Ilt emP Stratiord t of Court L. J. Blom-Cooper...

Have you a copy of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be? Assistant (icily): Things Aren't What They Used To Be? Is it a war book? Me (humbly): No, it's a play. Assistant : Oh, then...

Thank you for drawing attention to the un- c of Covent Garden's subscription scheme, of , 1 1 seems to proceed from a completely false idea the tn a o ra ve habi ge ts and...

in his closing sentence last week, referring to one of the most respectable and oldest trades that exist—the Stationery Trade! I would like to lead Mr. Adrian towards a copy of...

largely con- cerned with the present distributive difficulties of the Meat trade in Pimlico, I was very pleased to have n al' of my own dramatised comments justified by `Y...

as Mr. Leslie Adrian should be prepared to publish the results of a survey based on five telephone calls on a Friday morning in mid-September is surprising. The glory is, for...

Stage Irish By ALAN BRIEN The Playboy of the Western World. The Scatterin'. The Krcut- zer Sonata. The High- est House on the Mountain. The Voices of Doolin. (Dublin Festival.)...

Black Supremacy wagens scuttle in close-up along the clover-leaf junctions of a Negro tenement gas-cooker; in a white pets' beauty parlour a poodle is crimped and combed. Black...

Future Indefinite By CLIVE BARNES LONDON BRIDGE, they say, is falling down, and some of them are saying much the same thing about London's Festival Ballet. Certainly its...

Suburban Sex By ISABEL QUIGLY Strangers When We Meet. (Odeon, Leices- ter Square.)—Jazz on a Summer's Day. (Cameo-Poly.) SUBURBAN adultery — or the flinging of respectable...

King of Shaft BY JOHN COLEMAN L S. CA - roN has cropped up again. You may ,or may not remember him from Lucky Jim as the shifty, spurious academic—an epistolary Presence,...

This is the gay cliff of the nineteenth century, Drenched in the hopeful ozone of a new day. Erect and brown, like retired sea-captains, The houses gaze vigorously at the...

A Tourist in Africa. By Evelyn Waugh. (Chap- man and Hall, 16s.) READERS of the Spectator will know that A Tourist in Africa is Mr. Waugh's brief and un- emphatic account of 'a...

A COLUMN such as this is no place for finicking classifications, but since anyone at all these days thinks himself qualified to write about his travels, we are entitled to draw...

BY RICHARD WOLLHEIM N his memoir of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Norman I Malcolm recounts how one day he and Wittgenstein were walking along the river in Cambridge when they saw a...

Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It. By Mae West. (W. H. Allen, 25s.) My Father, Charlie Chaplin. By Charles Chaplin, Jr., with N. and M. Rau. (Longmans, 25s.) As. Freud says in...

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. By Vladimir Nabokov. (Wcidenfeld and Nicolson, I5s.) Where the Boys Are. By Glendon Swarthout. (Heinemann, 16s.) Where the Boys Are. By...

Jean-Paul Sartre. By Philip Thody. (Ham Hamilton, 21s.) sh ry is r. ng be )(I he n- ns art ve ' Sc TY of of ell im ng is. g 5 let se a WHATEVER the fluctuations in French...

Ws odd to learn that, of the bulk of these pages, a publisher's reader once wrote: 'I have read these chapters with very little interest and a good deal of disgust.' It's odd,...

Married to Tolstoy. By Cynthia Asquith. (Hutchinson, 30s.) THE bother with the story of the Tolstoys' mar- riage is that everything is on such an uncomfort- able scale....

By COLIN M AcINNES R ,, , , ,,„ IN i books—particularly novels—is an , , ungrateful task, because it demands quite , "Ri work (reading the things, perhaps even T \ h Ore than...

12s. 6d.) Pleas 3li e straightforward, sober-sided novel in whic h ,, fi h g Colonel gets shot by sporting gun after 113 "0 infuriated the village (and especially the 1113 i be...

and usually pretty Plat si ,bis American crime-writer back on form wi th d i t carefully matter-of-fact account of hoe' Se t policemen at his 87th Precinct cop-hous e :l e r...

of British murders, murderers and murder to of this century, with a few counsel and ludic ii given an air of some sort of scholarship by b e „ t h arranged dictionary-wise,...

Press, 15s.) The special relationship that up between accuser and accused, pursuer' ' ,r• pursued, suspect and cop, even torturer an d ' a n d tured, has been explored in novel...

By CUSTOS rritu. break in the Dow Jones index of Ameri- I can industrial shares to 588—down through the expected support level of 600—was a signal for the bears to sell. My...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT , _ m arding. In London the scramble for gold has be en so hectic that the price jumped this week ° a n equivalent dollar price of $35.251. Now if 1 '° 11...

Licensed for Spirits By K ATHARINE WHITEHORN IF anyone noticed a strange blue light shinin g over Caxton Hall last week, it was probably the combined aura of the delegates to...

y AST year Loyds Retailers acquired by an L. / exchange of shares Outram (Investments), a company manufacturing electrical goods and also trading as wholesale bakers. This...

Taking to the Bottle By LESLIE ADRIAN I orsaft: 'knew a woman ■ %ho had a cupboard full of Welfare vitamin tab- lets amassed in the course of three pregnancies. 46:ct them,'...

Look now at only one, and by no means the most pathetic, of the sequels. A parson I know in East Anglia writes (I omit some of the proper and place names): 'Last Tuesday a man...