T HE dangerous nature of the international game which Egypt has been playing under the guidance of Colonel Nasser has been sharply underlined in the past week. The removal of...

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A WEEK of fierce press criticism of the American way of life in Germany has been succeeded by a slight back- wash of affection. The Americans are judged to have taken it well....

T HE dramatic appointment of Sir Roger Makins to the new post of Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury is the most hopeful move that this Government has made so far in the...

By a Correspondent T HE Communist economic offensive which became apparent just over a year ago and has since been pursued with an increased vigour is beginning to affect...

I NTERNATIONAL interest this week has been concen- trated in two main areas—the Middle East and Germany. ■ The announcement that Britain and America did not intend to finance...

BY CHARLES CURRAN T HE BMC strike is the first big strike of the Welfare State. It raises for the first time—though certainly not for the last—the question that will dominate...

MARILYN MONROE has been invited to Barbara Lyon's wedding this afternoon. . . . Said father Ben, who discovered Marilyn : have no idea whether she is coming.' —Daily Express,...

is one memoir which. I have no doubt, would give G. B. S. more pleasure than all the rest put together. It is the story of his meetings and correspondence with Dame Laurentia...

to be seen when any stone is turned over. The giddy manoeuvres of Communist leaders in the Soviet orbit, following the upset of the Stalin monolith, are proving no exception. It...

THERE HAS BEEN a certain amount of optimism in retentionist quarters lately that the Silverman Bill is doomed. I do not think it is justified. The basic political fact is that...

what Mr. Colin Wilson, in the Sunday Times, asserts that Shaw was. Shaw also, says he, 'is a psychologist; not, like Freud, a super- ficial recorder of animal neuroses.' (Has...

BY DAVID ORMSBY GORE, MP T HERE is an aspect of our present. troubles which has attracted little notice, but which I fancy future historians may regard as of the greatest...

BY FRANCIS WATSON A M ONG his many expressions of common humanity., Panurge had a word for the inextinguishable desire for a parcel of freehold. 'It were good to have a wall,'...

BY DR. SOMERVILLE HASTINGS, MP M ANY more road accidents are due to drink than is generally supposed. A committee appointed by the British Medical Association reported in 1954...

SIR ROGER MAKINS'S successor in Washington, Sir Harold Caccia, is a contrasting figure. Whereas Makins has served much of his career in Washington and has an American wife (the...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I MAGINE a pylon 136 feet high, only ten feet lower than the Nelson column, in your village. It will make the church tower (the average height of a three-stage...

but I was also rather small. At Eton in those days enlist- ment in The Corps, as the OTC was called, was in theory on a voluntary basis, but in practice everyone was expected to...

'The Very Devil' Prof Alexander Baykov, G. R. Barker Poets of the Fifties Geoffrey Grigson, R. M. Graves, John Lehmann, Tom Scott A Poet of the Counter-Reformation Evelyn...

Mr. P. Wiles of my Some Problems of Incentives and Labour Productivity in Soviet Industry in your issue of May 4, under the heading 'The Very Devil.' I beg the courtesy of space...

Anthony Hartley (Spectator. July 20) on Poets of the Fifties, Forties, Thirties, Twenties and Tens except a batch of names and several history notions about poetry yesterday,...

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The case for public ownership in die motor- car industry—and Mr. Gaitskell's form may well be that most suited to this industry—rests upon the desirability of looking at the...

SIR,—I would not, for a minute, set the exient of my acquaintance with writers against Mr. Roberts's. I would, however, like to point out three facts which are relevant to his...

Sm,—May I enlighten Mr. Rene MacColl and those readers whom the mystery of the Casement diaries still intrigues? From a personal friend of irrefutable knowledge I gather that...

music is of no importance in itself,' as near as I can remember, and now Mr. Hartley tells us that the poets of the Fifties are so good that they have hauled poetry out of the...

SIR,—It is idle to speculate how far individuals professing the same faith hold identical philo- sophic concepts. God alone knows that. Mr. Little and I can only discuss...

Hartley refers, not unfavourably, to the work of Edward Thomas, R. S. Thomas and Robert Graves, adding, 'I am well aware that all these are Welshmen.' My brother Robert, snore...

Hartley makes some generalisations about the poetry of the war years which 1 do not think can possibly hold water. He says: 'we all suffered considerably under the New...

THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT. (Carl- ton.) The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit was a best- selling novel and (if the usherettes' comments I listened to are anything to go by)...

Summer Miscellanies THE season of large mixed exhibitions has returned; two of them are to be found at galleries—Gimpel Fils and the Beaux Arts— which have a pronounced policy...

BY entrusting the selection of the five new orchestral works for the first time to a panel of judges, with perhaps a keener interest than Sir John Barbirolli's in contemporary...

SOME of the people at Lime Grove occasionally forget that television is just another means of communication; that in itself it is of little interest and that its feats, such as...

JULY 30, 1831 THE EX-KING OF FRANCE.—The Bourbo_Oi among other kingly qualities, had a disinclination to pay their debts. Pfaffenhoffen and others, Charles the Tellt'' owed...

Six Sorts of Genius BY BRIAN INGLIS F OR over a quarter of a century those of us who were once Shaw addicts have been on the defensive. First we tried to justify his attitudes...

Sr. MARY LAMBETH, Part Two: Southern Area. Edited by F. H. W. Sheppard. (Athlone Press, 40s.) THIS great book, cheap at the price, is about a long strip of built-over land...

THE GOSPEL AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. By Arthur Michael Ramsey. (Longmans, 15s.) THE little phrase 'Holy Catholic Church' is tucked away in the third paragraph of the Creed, and...

TIME RIGHT DEADLY. By Sarah Gainham. (Arthur Barke r, 1 Is. 6d.) Best first novel of its kind for many a month. Amusing' promiscuous British newspaperman is murdered in occupie...

THE MIND OF SANTAYANA. By Richard Butler, OP. (Rout.e_ 1 dg C and Kegan Paul, 2 Is.) Of THERE is much for, and against, this book. It is a product intelligence, admirable...

ROBERT Hooxe. By Margaret 'Espinasse. (Heinemann, 21s.) HISTORIANS have for some time been aware that Robert Hooke has been underrated : Mrs. 'Espinasse sets out to give him his...

C ONSPIRACY AMONG GENERALS. By Wilhelm von Schramm. Trans- lated by R. T. Clark. (George Allen and Unwin, 16s.) S tinsiotARv, but of vital importance, to the Officers' Plot of...

,LoRENcE has appeared in novels so often that when it turns up in fiction yet again it may very likely appear—rather as the Tuscan l andscape is apt to look, at first sight,...

of The Times and now secretary to the Press Council, has written a congenial volume on the British press for the 'Pageant of Progress series. I cannot feel that his attempts in...

the general reader in simple lan- guage? How much can an intelligent layman be expected to grasp from a dozen pages on Keynes's General Theory, and about thirty pages on how the...

Story performed I thought it, in spite of some criticisms of detail, an effective dramatic plea against a barbarous social institution. Based on the Bentley and Craig case, its...

BY IAN NIALL IN the course of excursions into the hills to fish I frequently see numbers of brown hares, but when I first came to this part of Wales where the terrain is not...

Carnations, and some pinks, can be propagated by layering, although the latter are perhaps best increased by making cuttings. Non-flowering shoots are selected and a slit made...

MR. DAVID GREEN has written a fascinating Recount of the life and times of Henry Wise: G. ardener to Queen Anne (0.U.P., 70$.) has l . „lisf the right amount of personal history...

last week's Spectator) the , imount of total life funds given in para. 3 should have read £3,500,000.

! 1 Y now Miss Len Howard must be as unpopu- Lar with the mechanistic scientific school, who ' t old that birds and animals are activated by f li othing but conditioned...

'You remember Bob what used to live at the far end yonder?' said the old man. 'Short. thickset chap, he was. Got half his face an' lip off, he bad.' No one seemed to call him to...

When he came racing up behind me with what was surely a broad smile on his face, I might have known that our acquaintanceship would not prosper. He was the sort of collie that...

BY PHILIDOR No 60. R. BURGER (1st Prize, American Chess Bellew 1955) BLACK (7 men) WHITE to play and WHITE (11 men) mate in two moves; solution next week. A num ber of...

between G. B. S. and St. Peter. on the presentation of the former at Heaven's gate, demanding admission. Tuts competition, in honour of Shaw's centenary, offered competitors an...

The usual prize is offered for either notes for a speech or an extract from a speech to be made by any one of the follor ing distinguished visitors, or former pupils. at a...

4 Miniature battleship in contest? (3,2, 3) 8 The huntress in this garb is naturally in the pink (8). 10 'The wild hawk stood. . . . And , with his foot on the prey' (Tennyson)...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tutu: important changes at the Treasury are, We hope, the beginning of a revolution. Those of us associated with the Boothby Parliamentary and industrial...

By CUSTOS THE stock markets have behaved much as they were expected to do with amotor strike on hand. The fall in BRITISH MOTOR shares to 6s. 6d.—a yield basis of 81 per...