IN ALGERIA, the situation was serious, but not hope- less ; in France, the situation was hopeless, but not serious. In Blantyre, the situation was nasty, and in- the House of...

TN 1956 Pyc Radio Ltd. decided to change from 'paying its employees' wages in cash to paying them by cheque, and so encountered Section 8 of the Truck Act of 1831, which...

T lin di ff erent atmosphere in the negotiations about Kenya, which we noted last week, has been even more marked in the last few days. In his survey of the background to the...

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T HAT Left-wing sympathisers cannot see the relevance of Crichel Down (or, for th at matter, of the Monico affair) to their econorni c i doctrines is itself symptomatic of the...

' N a leading article on Sunday the Dispatch lamented that nothing could be said about the sentence passed last week on Guardsman Michael Dowdall : 'whatever your opinion it...

F on more than fifty years, time's-up for visitor; at the Royal Free Hospital has been signall ed by the ringing of a handbell. It was rung for th e last time on Saturday, the...

From DARSIE GILLIE O acute immediate dangers. In Algiers the. ‘'Ett the weekend. France's problems entailed Right-vying conspirators have shown themselves master hands who have...

Stay close to your desks and never go to sea, And i5 yooall maybe rulers of the Queen'sNavee le —but not inevitably recognisable as such, even et _ by officers of flag rank. Or...

By JOHN SPARROW FT HE 'tapping' controversy began in 1957. It I arose out of the disbarring of Marrinan, a barrister who was found guilty of improper relations with the...

Mare's Nest THAT is what Mr. John Sparrow (why does he refer to `Marrinan and `Fox' in that abbreviated fashion?) calls the recent te- newed anxiety and argument about...

By T. R. M. CREIGHTON M R. PETER KOINANGE means a good deal more to the Kenya African elected mem- bers than simply a bargaining counter. If the African elected members hanker...

BENENSON From PETER HAVANA A F TER five and a quarter hours' orating in front of TV cameras Fidel Castro pushed through the cheering crowds, still waiting at 3 a.m., to spend...

to make some comments on Bernard Levin's interesting and enlightened analysis of the present outbreak of anti-Semitism in Germany, as it were, from the' other shore. It is true,...

he Spectator has every right to attack Social- of to attack public ownership, to attack the form I s h riali onalisation in Britain from 1945 to 1960; and of Bri tish agree...

his students tell him. He is their Principal, however, and he cannot seriously suppose that no more outspoken criticism is voiced by students. As a student at one of the...

SIR.—I do not retract a word of the appreciation of the virtues of the 'oligarchy' at County Hall which I included in a critical letter you published a year ago,. On the...

Round Robin Critical Quarterly Scottish Poetry Robin AlarriA. • Ronald S. Mallone J. M. Feehan Hugh Jenkins A Student Phyllis Bottome A. E. Dyson Tom Scott Sydney Goodsir Smith...

somewhat misleading. There was, in fact, no test case. A test case presumes that a defence is entered into and no defence was put up in the case to which the Professor refers....

Scottish anthology, Honottr'd Shade. is not perceptive enough. He quotes from a poem of mine: Beggar up and ither beggar doun Yea tis aye the same, tis I maim aye beak stane ....

Sm.—I - he fathers have eaten sour grapes and the teeth of the children are set on edge. . . .' The second and third generation of Scrutineers (to continue in scriptural vein,...

SIR,—Would it not have been more courteous as well as more fair minded to have telephoned to ask for information on the Writers' Declaration against Racial Discrimination before...

SIR,—Recent reviews of Honottr'd Shade, Mr. David Craig's in the Spectator being among them, makes it necessary to raise the question of qualifications in . a reviewer with...

The Literary Gang By DAVID CAIRNS THINGS are really beginning to world of London opera. CEdiptts move at last in the egg-bound Rex has become all the rage with the musical...

Theatre By ALAN BRIEN A Moon For The Misbegotten. (Arts.)—The Room, and The Dumb Waiter. (Hampstead Theatre Club.) O'NEILL, like Dreiser, was one of those American writers who...

Smaller Bangs By SIMON HODGSON 'ITALIAN art and Britain' at Burlington House opened the year with a resounding bang, and now a series of smaller but quite distinct bangs...

Serge The Terrible By ISABEL QUIGLY The Boyars' Plot and Greek Sculpture. (Academy.) Waiting Women. (Cameo- Poly.) — Journey to the centre of the Earth. (Carlton.) THE second...

- Rescuing the Workers B Y ANGUS WILSON T HE English have for some time now been accustomed to look at themselves as sociolo- gical objects without too much embarrassment or...

Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson. Edited by John Kiliham. (Routledge, 28s.) 'TENNYSON should be read very carelessly or not at all.' Sir Harold Nicolson's audacious...

r tasT, an anthology of children's writing : from Once upon a time there was a little princess . • • , through nurseries, gardens, seashores and farm- Yards to the adult...

THE completion of this great work (the first volume appeared in 1910) itself marks a decisive stage in the long history of the peerage. When an institution is vigorous, it...

across the way from mine. . . . Paul was usually thought to be Crown Prince of Serbia, and never denied it unless directly asked.' It wasn't until the ninth chapter of his...

Fade Out. By Douglas Woolf. (Calder, 13s.) Rosemarie. By Erich Kuby. Translated by R. C. J. Muller. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 16s.) 'WE'LL get away because we must. The great...

Bridge of the Brocade Sash. By Sacheverell Sitwell. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) 'His works have stood as bastions of intelligence, taste and style against the Philistine.'...

• • The Stock Exchange Under Fire The Investment Clubs • • Unit Trusts—The Way Ahead National Savings . • Hire Purchase.. . • • • Building Societies in the News .. Maxwell...

By E. W. I. PALAMOUNTAIN IN 1959 the total value of British Unit Trusts I open to subscription by the public grew from about £100 million to almost £200 million. Even allowing...

By LOTHBURY ?T I NE post-war revival in the growth of Unit I Trusts in this country, it can be claimed, has done much to foster the growth of the Investment Club movement which...

y PETER L. MONEY A TIIOUGII hire purchase has been in use for over a century as a means of obtaining goods on credit, never before has public interest in it been so great. The...

W rit the tax reliefs of the last Budget, the rise in productivity and the ending of politi- cal uncertainties by last autumn's election, per- sonal spending has reached new...

'Mr. E. R. Lewis (Chairman) at the Annual General Meeting of The Decca Record Company Limited:. 9;,,,