T HE Summit Conference in Paris did not in fact confer, because of Mr. , Khrushchev's having worked himself up into quite an impressive pet 4 bout the flight of an American...

No. 6914 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1960 Established 1828

p RESIDENT DE GAULLF. has succeeded before in extricating himself and his country from hopeless positions by a capricious but subtle combination of apparent inflexibility on...

W HEN Lord Lambton writes a memorandunl on Africa, and publishes it with a fore' word by the Marquess of Salisbury, the reader may be excused for expecting a piece of well -...

A s its portrait shows, the past year is not one which will be recalled with pride or pleasure. Few years, admittedly, look satisfying in retro- spect; but 1960 was surely even...

By BERNARD LEVIN GEORGE ORWELL tells, in Homage to Catalonia, of the occasion when, on sniper-duty in the front line only a few score yards from the Fascist positions, he saw...

W FILN I was leaving school my headmaster asked me what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I told him I wanted to write, and he looked gloomy. 'What are you going to write...

Karachi to Dacca is to become forcibly aware of Pakistan's unique and un- comfortable geographical position, straddled like a man in constant danger of doing the splits and...

1. The Case of the Thirteen Viewers By PETER FORSTER N OT every day is one quoted in the Otago Daily Times of Dunedin, New Zealand, so let me start there. Following the New...

By BRIAN INGLIS W HEN the idea was first put forward it was called, as I recollect, Subscription Tele- vision; this became Pay-as-you-View, soon abbreviated to PayTV;.now, it...

liquid milk natural wood raw cream carcase meat free-ranging chickens shell eggs real life true love lasting marriage ordinary person believing Christian serious literature...

SIR,—In his Essays in Antiquity, Peter Green seenn to have Made a vigorous attack on what might V Called the Classical Establishment; and Geolirel Kirk's review bears every mark...

a 'humanities study' (like that of English literature) has no 'serious function' if it is not ultimately a study of 'how to live.' This is a not un- common view, but I think it...

towards CND which it is now be- cornimi fashionable to adopt. (The changes in attitude to CND since its inauguration would make a fine study in journalistic motives.) I am sure,...

SIR,—Alt)lough I. agree with most of Lady Wootton's article, urely—and surprisingly—she is idealising one aspect of the situation? Not every child has 'familiar and beloved...

into Life Simon Gray and Howard Burns, John Holloway Essays in Antiquity Denis Henry and B. Walker What Shall We Do With Naughty Children? Rosalind Chalmers Whitewash?...

SIR,—Dr. Donald Davie refers to the Cambridge undergraduate literary magazine, Delta. According to Dr. Davie, 'the student writers never considered (I) that great works have...

fully entitled to criticise my television manner, and I make no complaint about that. He is not entitled to sup- port his criticism by misrepresenting what I said. I did not...

Davenport has brought out what I think is incon- testable, that you cannot run the British economy as a free-for-all subject only to monetary controls of a general nature. The...

in the Thirties, 'the Americans are Fascists.' Though I am reluctant to dispute such a . matter with so eminent an expert on things Ros- man, I remember, in November of 1942....

Ludovic Kennedy asks for 'information as to Admiral Rogge's contribution towards keeping the gas chambers filled.' That is easily given. He fought, very efficiently and in a...

reply to Mr. Bergonzi's unfair attack on Opus Dei. Surely it is inconsistent for one who prides him- self on being a liberal Catholic to admit the illiberal motive of giving...

associates intend that the principles embodied in the Libraries (Public Lending Right) Bill be extended to cover all libraries where only one copy of a book may be used by...

SIR,—With vanity and vainly, I have long been try- ing to infiltrate into the English tongue a word meaning 'he who has a maniac love of nostalgia.' Despite anguishedly precise...

Crisis Time By CLIVE BARNES AND what, you may ask, shattered the ballet world during 1960? The answer is nothing, although on the whole it was a good year — perhaps the best...

Timati's no wave like the old wave, has been the theme song of the advance publicity for Me and the • French- woman CX' certificate), a film in seven episodes by seven...

The Pinchbeck King By SIMON HODGSON THE Winter Exhibition at Burlington House, 'The Age of Charles II,' does its best to survey a time when Wren happened, when Newton happened...

The Third Nation By RONALD BRYDEN F ROM Trollope's runically-titled shelf, the greatest Victorian political novel of all is missing: How Did He Do It? He never told how, 'Mr....

Kwame Nkrumah and the. Future of Africa. By John Phillips. (Faber, 25s.) Tshekedi Khania. By Mary Benson. (Faber, 30s.) HERE are two books, each by a white South African, each...

That cock crows all day, He crows all night. Somewhere behind my bed, Somewhere behind my desk. He struts his strip of green, Drums on the laterite, and crows. Any hour is the...

whose claim to major significance, even within the recent history of British educa- tion, could be challenged: the founding in 1 950 of Keele, or the University College of North...

DR. ELTON is a fortunate man. He has wrought in our understanding of early sixteenth-century English history a transformation comparable (at a distance) with that which Namier...

Japan. By Ester Dening. (Benn, 27s.) THREE books on Japan. One is by a journalist who spent a year there with his wife and child simply 'absorbing an atmosphere as remote as we...

Sir Patrick Hastings. By H. Montgomery 1 - 0 (Heinemann, 30s.) IN spite of the general boom in personality cO l° public interest in the characters of leading ad' catcs has...

Lugard: The Years of Authority 1895-1945. By Margery Perham. (Collins, 50s.) RH A M `Lugard,' as this great book will certainly be called by future history students showing...

I N 1905 the Russians dress-rehearsed their re- v olution; and in 1907 Elinor Glyn published T hre Weeks. It sold three million copies, and Presented the Russian Queen as 'a...

COMPTON MACKENZIE'S Greece in my Life is a loosely knit and entirely sympathetic memoir in which the author tells us how the affairs of Greece have not only influenced his...

The Gods of Prehistoric Man. By Johannes Maringer. Translated by Mary Ilford. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 42s.) ONE trouble about prehistoric men is that they did not leave us...

It has no claim: is one. Its water makes 15 — For beaches other than those on which it b(.j Ill . And its waves die for more than their own sa bak Ilci IAN P r , It makes no...

DAYEN . PORT By NICHOLAS FOR the investor it has been a frustrating and exasperating year. The equity market, accord- ing to the Financial Times index, finished about I IJ per...

affected the brewing profits of Art° Guinness, which for 1958-59 were down froia £7,000,000 to £6.3 million. Results for 1959', are around the same level as 1957-58—a little di...

By RICHARD BAILEY T HE failure of his mission to Algeria has dealt President de Gaulle's political prestige a serious blow : is this likely to affect the economic situation, or...

B y WIIITEHORN and RAY 1. All public telephones, whether for local or long-distance calls, shall give warning pips at three minutes, and cut off completely at four. It shall be...

Avuncular Oracle J. ROBINSON By KENNETH 'PERHAPS we should be less likely to create the sort of architectural chaos that we see around us if we were taught more about...

Teething Troubles By MONICA FURLONG Several things strike parents, though, about the way this campaign is being conducted. First, the tone of moral grief and disapproval which...

Chef de Cuisine By LESLIE ADRIAN ' F gentlemen will have French cooks, they must pay for French tricks,' wrote Hannah Glasse of the eighteenth-century nobkman whose cook was...