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A NUMBER of contributors have been offering articles in defence
The Spectatorof Latin, since Pharos praised Oxford—prematurely, as it turned out—for abolishing it as a compulsory subject for entrance. Their defence is usually based on three main planks,...
ONE of the most dangerous as well as one of
The Spectatorthe silliest beliefs held about Defence today is that tactical nuclear weapons could safely be used in the event of minor hostilities breaking out anywhere between East and...
THE report on Help for the Arts made by Lord
The SpectatorBridges' committee to the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation is a refreshingly clear-headed document, heralding the entry of a large new private patron into the field just at the...
A s there was never any prospect that the Foreign Ministers
The Spectatorwould achieve anything at Geneva there need be no alarm over their decision to adjourn. These conferences can only be justified as a way of making it just that little bit more...
THE Irish showed a nice sense of the fitness of
The Spectatorthings by voting Eamon de Valera into the Presidency but refusing to vote themselves out of Proportional Representa- tion. But the issue of PR versus the straight vote is...
PRINTING DISPUTE Until the printing dispute is settled the Spectator
The Spectatorwill be appearing in the present altered format and with a reduced number of pages. We regret that some regular features will have to be suspended for the time being; others...
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Going it Alone
The SpectatorBy PETER BENENSON I N February, 1960, the island of Cyprus is due to take its place in the world as an indepen- dent Republic. Even if its population were homogeneous and...
Summer Solstice
The SpectatorBy MICHAEL ADAMS CAIRO TN the good old days of imperialism you could I reckon on a spell of peace and quiet in the Middle East between the end of June and the beginning of...
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Russian Public Schools
The SpectatorBy DESMOND DONNELLY, MP MR. KIIRUSHCHEV has announced that he aims to have two and a half million pupils at Soviet boarding schools by 1965. This news, in itself, will dazzle...
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Commentary
The SpectatorThe New Criminals IN the Lords debate on road accidents Lord Goddard recalled a motorist who : . . . in broad daylight drove bang into a railway crossing gate, and then fought...
En Voiture
The SpectatorBy PAT MILES I MPROVIDENT travellers, we had a night journey before us and no seats booked and now at the beginning of the run, though the train was still half-empty, there was...
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In the Coffee Bar
The SpectatorIt was as if all the people sitting on the narrow chairs Among the plants with large tropical leaves Were very patiently waiting their turn for an interview ; As if they...
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Films
The SpectatorOut of the Bag By ISABEL QUIGLY SOMETHING turned up in British films this year that has taken a long time to come. It wasn't a film to beat all its predecessors, or a new...
Opera
The SpectatorBorderline Cases By DAVID CAIRNS As I suggested last week, the irony of Cos) fan tutte (put in its simplest form) is that, as sometimes happens in life, the wrong people marry...
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Television
The SpectatorGive Sunday a Break By PETER FORSTER HAVING watched with rapt and reverend attention the last two editions of ABC's religious programme for teen- agers, The Sunday Break, I...
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorRoses all the Way By LESLIE ADRIAN Having recently come across an instance of husband who not only sent his wife a bunch f spring flowers through Interflora, but etually got...
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Books
The SpectatorThe Temptation of Sir Anthony By IAN GILMOUR 7 HE problem set by the career of Sir Anthony Eden is how the competent and skilful statesman of the thirties, forties and the...
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Somebody Loves Us
The SpectatorHAVING myself been ticked off for writing a book on Japan after only eighteen months there, I was amused to find that Mr. Chaud- huri's study of Britain followed a five weeks'...
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Fuming for England
The SpectatorNorthcliffe. By Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth. (Cassell, 42s.) ULCERS and alcoholism are said to be the occupational diseases of the journalist. Add megalomania, and...
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Wolfe's Clothing
The SpectatorThe Visited. By Joan O'Donovan. (Gollancz, 15s.) . Some Came Running is so long that I wondered at first whether to save half for next week's review. Dave, an oafish ex-writer...
Professional Investment
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT OCCASIONALLY i n my post comes a letter asking what sort of investment policy the 'professionals' are now pur- suing. The bull market has now been going...
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SI - 11,—In his review of my book, A Peer Behind the
The SpectatorCurtain, Mr. Ronald Bryden appears to suggest that Pasternak was used by the Western powers as a 'cold war propaganda windfall.' However that may be, it is unfair to imply, even...
SIR,—Recently I had an opportunity to put this question to
The Spectatoran ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer: 'Is there any point now in the travel allowance regulations?' He replie 'Absolutely none but the Treasury boys ha always considered furs and...
Letters
The SpectatorSIR,—Mr. F. Bowen Evans and Dr. Carl Bode, in replying to my review of The Young Rebel In American Literature, have thoroughly mis- interpreted what I wrote. I certainly did not...
