SPECTATOR ESTABLISHED 1828 - NUMBER 6744 -. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957 - PRICE NINEPENCE

T HE £ had already begun to fight its way back on Monday and Tuesday before the Chancellor made his speech to the International Monetary Fund in Wash- ington. Currency...

of modern Turkey. If the opposition wins, it is pledged to reform the constitution, to introduce a Supreme Court to prevent abuse of power by any future Govern- ment. to...

E OR a time, it seemed as if even 7 per cent. was not going to be 'enough; that the good done by its expression of the Chancellor's determination to maintain the £ might have...

And so to Brighton THE most memorable thing about the Liberal Party Assembly at Southport was the breakfast bacon at my hotel; crisp without being burnt, correctly apportioned...

I DOUBT WHETHER Mr. Tom Dri- berg's discovery of two extremely partisan political circulars emanat- ing from the office of the Adminis- trative Secretary of Cyprus caused any...

on its second birth- da y , including a long leader in the Manchester G uardian denouncing 'advertising magazines.' or the benefit of those of you who are lucky t n uugh to have...

the Nuffield Foundation a little dis- appointing. When funds of this nature are 'available, I would expect them to be devoted to those fields where the need is greatest : either...

to admit I came within an ace of missing the new Chaplin film A King in New York after reading (and being depressed by) the reviews. I got the impression that those writers who...

Manchester Guardian is wrong. Advertising in programmes, whether it is presented honestly as such or not, is forbidden by the Act. True, the Act allows advertising where it has...

been hearing much about a worse deprivation of liberty: the suppression of some newspapers the news agencies in Indonesia. I am glad to hear that, just as the Ghana Bar...

By CHARLES CURRAN A DESPOT, according to the dictionary, is 'a ruler or ruling body exercising or invested with absolute power in a State, irrespective of the wishes of the...

By CYRIL RAY THE call-girl system will boom, we are told, if the Wolfenden recom- mendations sweep clean the streets : has any dows of Soho and Shepherd Market—Trench Lessons by...

By DR. DONALD Mei. JOHNSON, MP ELEVEN of us had taken the 8.5 from King's Cross. 'I have been trying to get to Ramp- ton for twelve years,' remarked one member of o u r...

eaderAhip Survey No. 3 and summarising the I nformation supplied by readers in recent questionnaires, arc available at ls. Od. post f ree. Requests for copies, with remittance,...

By JAMES BREDIN T HE day I arrived, the New York Times published a survey trying to answer the ques- tion, 'Who's got the tickets?' To get them, apparently, meant either booking...

By STRIX LTWANT some meat.' I 'Yes, sir,' said the butcher. I could see that he expected me to particularise. His small shop was festooned with meat. It would have been better...

of Auntie Times has been 'taken advantage of by Sir Francis Meynell. Last week Sir Francis wrote her an amusing letter holding up to ridicule Sir Albert Richard- son's notice...

The Organisation Man By LESLIE ADRIAN COUPLE of weeks ago it was The Hidden A, L P erstraders: this week it is The Organisation wta , '1 that has me worried. There would be...

SIR,—Mr. Mursell's questions are answered seriatim: 1. The law certainly forbids identification parades as these constitute a breach of the principle that the prisoner shall...

SIR,—As I was abroad attending a conference on the Atlantic Community, I was unable to reply immedi- ately to the comments in the Spectator of September 6 and September 13 on my...

Sts,—Mr. Priestley's article in the New Statesman . n . bega justifiably, by approaching Pinfold's ordeal from a Jungian standpoint, This is at present a wide- spread method...

SIR,—ln last week's Spectator Pharos suggests that 'a gulf' exists between Mr. Jo Grimond and myself on 'the Suez fiasco.' In the Carmarthen by-election, writes Pharos, 'the...

SIR,—As my use of the word 'roué' to describe the late G. L. Stampa has caused his descendants distress, I gladly apologise. When I wrote the description of him, which continued...

Cyprus The German Ambassador The Liberals and Suez I dentifying the Prisoner G. L. Stampa 'Murder' Priestley and Pinfold Ric hard P assports The Last Trump Cri de Crevecceur...

one does not need to be a psychiatrist to be convinced that he is aware of his own limi- tations, which is as it should be. But he goes rather too far in implying (without...

SIR,—'Child Murders and the Press' is your head- ing over a letter in last week's issue. How do you know they were murders? According to the amend- ments of law of England and...

the introduction of margarine in the average British kitchen. I am happy to say that from my experience of the good British cooks' power of dis- crimination I do NOT share his...

SIR,-1 should like to assure Mr. St. John that have indeed heard of the 'Over Forty-Fives Association. Would he be so good as to tell us, for the sake of interest, how many...

SIR,—We have, solemnly, declared that we will never be the first to use the atomic weapon. Surely it is a great and unwarranted assumption on Mr. Wettern's part that after the...

SIR,—My attention has just been drawn to the article in your current issue by Mr. Christopher Hill on 'The Church, Marx and History,' in which he states that 'the late Mr....

SIR,—The '12.6ponse de Crevecceue seems to deal very adequately with Mr. Cyril Ray's original 'cri,' except that it leaves him unenlightened as to 'what goes into margarine.'...

SIR,—One would not wish that Strix in his fascinating article 'Slim Volume' should make a false point in stressing the enormous changes and their implications in the passport of...

Julia Strachey is wrong when she calls Jacques Moran a sadistic clergyman. He is of the Catholic laity; he explicitly states on p. 13 0 that he is one of the lay faithful. She...

IT was perhaps inevitable that so un- compromisingly American an enter- prise as the Jose Limon Dance Company (who have been appearing at Sadler's Wells) should have so many...

Grand' Rue. (Curzon.)—Seven Thunders. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—No Sleep Till Dawn. (Warner.) — Omar Khayyam. (Plaza.) BOREDOM is the leitmotiv of Latin provincia : not for the...

Without the Prince Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) — Nekrassov. By Jean-Paul Sartre. (Royal Court.) I SUPPOSE that what 'gives Hamlet its peculiar difficulty and...

SEPTEMBER 29, 1832 THE custom of claiming a flitch of bacon at Dunmow Priory is shortly to be revived. Notice was given in due form on Tuesday last, that the happy couple who...

M IDNIGHT. To Milton it was 'blackest,' to Keats 'still'; Shelley found it 'profoundest,' Poe 'dreary,' Shakespeare 'dead.' To the lyrical disc-jockeys on late- night AFN it is...

(RECORDING COMPANIES: D, Decca; OL, Oiseau-Lyre; R, RCA; V, Vox.) THE issue of a complete collec- tion of Chopin's Mazurkas, in chronological order on three records (D), is an...

Tales of Unrest and Typhoon, by Joseph Con - rad (Nelson Classics : 1 vol., 6s.); With Edge d Tools, by H: Seton Merriman (John Murray , Ils. 6d.): The Turn of the Screw and The...

Scotch, Sir, Scotch By IAIN HAMILTON A IOTI IER book about Robert Louis Stevenson is not the thing to set the heather on fire or scorch the shrubs of Surbiton. Not now. Mr....

WALTER LORD says that 577 people—all in some way involved in the event on December 7, 1941, which has come to be known as 'Pearl Harbour' —helped him to write this book. By...

THE reading of literary works is an arduous, Puzzling business for it may entail the exercise of i ndependent judgment. No wonder, then, that a s Ympathetic hearing greets the...

Divorce in England: A Centenary Study. By 0. R. McGregor. (Heinemann, 18s.) THE history of divorce in England before and since 1857, which Mr. McGregor surveys in the opening...

THE first of these books has now reached this country in its American format, and the second, which had already done so, will be published here next year. Something should be...

THAT despotism should be Oriental has always seemed a fitting sort of notion. Athenian freedom contrasted with the slavish obedience of the Medes and the Persians, the decline...

COWPER and Jefferies seem to stand at opposite ends of the Rural Revolution. In 1784 Cowper wrote to LJnwin telling him that the aim of Th e Task was 'to discountenance the...

The Midwich Cuckoos. By John Wyndham. (M ichael Joseph, 13s. 6d.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque. (Hutchinson, 15s.) The Black Obelisk. By Erich Maria Remarque....

Man on the Run. By Eustace Hamilton Ian Stewart-Hargreaves. (Allan Wingate, 13s. 6d.) ONE . sultry summer's day in 1952, when I was living in Tangier, I mounted the small,...

way. Nor have I as yet caught a char, the red-bellied, handsome fish of Windermere and at least one of the Welsh lakes. They can be caught on a fly, but most are taken by other...

By PHILIDOR No. 120 Specially contributed by J. HARING (Holland • BLACK (8 men) WHITE (12 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution nex t week. Solution to last...

With the Guards to Mexico! By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 16s.) PROSE writers, whose experience of the world is limited to their typewriters, two or three Paris cafes, a trip to...

'Sort of cousins o' me Dad's they was, but we didn't 'ave nothin' to do wi"em. When she got married vin was invited an' we went, but only to see what they 'ad, an' they 'adn't...

Among my g,randfither's most awe-inspiring tales of hard times was one of a journey he made on foot with nothing to sustain him, through blizzard and darkness and countless...

By IAN NIALL A MAN I met along the road today was complaining that he was quite worn out searching for secret nests, the bugbear of the amateur poultrykeeper who cannot dream...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 395 Report by Angela Kent C r o mpetitors have been invited by a travel agent to write a testimonial for one of his holidays. They ' ike the agent but...

1 G. ACROSS , amblers keep an eye on this hazard of .the sea (3, 4, 6). 1 9 0 G. en erously give a classical book to a friend (9). It at is Possible that almost everybody ' s...

which happened to me in New York ajfew weeks ago. The usual prize of six guineas. is of ered for the best explanation, combining 'ingenuity with plausibility, of the woman's...

By CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange has ne ve „ r before had such a knock as the or t , delivered by Mr. Thorneycroft la y week. The News Chronicle had headline '12,000,000,000 City...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHEN I surveyed the wholesale slaughter of security values on the morning after Mr. Thorneycroft's raid—there has never been such a slump before in a trade...