FRIDAY, JANUARY. 30, 1959

Communist Party opened, and the 21st Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church was called; denuncia- tions of the cult of personality,were not expected at either....

T IKE Stalin in the early thirties, Khrushchev Ld has proclaimed economic goals which are presented both as inspiration and as incentive to the Soviet population. Not only is...

B oTh the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England have spoken in encouraging terms recently about the business outlook. The Chancellor's refusal this...

By MICHAEL ADAMS Cairo A I I ER the long delay over the signing of the financial agreement in Cairo, a real Anglo- Egyptian rapprochement looks much more remote than it did...

ON Monday they got through sixty-six questions; on Tuesday they managed but forty-nine. There is much matter for a May morning in that simple , difference of seventeen, but its...

By DARSIE GILLIE Paris T HE first parliament of the Fifth Republic has met and given the Government a majority of nine to one, after a debate in which the new Prime Minister,...

DIE DECREES of the Vatican Council of 1870 made the summoning of any more Councils unnecessary, since they declared that 'definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of...

doubtful, it is almost certain that the dogma of Papal infallibility and the two Marjan dogmas would make much progress to- wards unity impossible. The only solution that I can...

Pericles and The Cenci. None of these pre- sumably would have reached the printer if he had been our arbiter. As for ballyhoo, it is Mr. Woodruff's friends who are whipping up...

By IAN NAIRN T HE Preston motorway closed a week ago after a 47-day open season, with neither a bang nor a whimper but a bubbling. Water got in under the carriageway and froze,...

The Times last week signed by a selection of distinguished writers, I wondered who would be the first to riposte on behalf of the Ban-Lolita-ln-Advance brigade. (Will the con-...

Association—the `primary' election to decide whether Mr. Nigel Nicolson should be readopted—is a reasonable one. Mr. Nicolson has said that he will leave quietly if the vote...

By FIELDEN HUGHES rrHE secondary modern school is important if I only because a good 70 per cent, of the nation's children receive their education from it. But besides that, it...

By . GERDA L. COHEN W trtt infinite relief, I crawl under my um- brella; winter is soon here, thank God, to provide an excuse for not prolonging the ordeal. It began four...

In Pocket BENEATH THE gilded, enscrol- led ceiling of a drawing - room in Carlton House Terrace, the nine members of the Royal Commission on Doctors' Pay, grouped in echelon...

Poker-work Mottoes By ALAN BRIEN NOT having received a letter from Sam Wanamaker, I have no excuse• for returning to the subject of The Rose Tattoo. I have instead to deal...

The Rumbotham Saga By KENNETH ,t LLSOP His natural gift for injecting a new poignancy into Poet and Peasant and the old Methodist hymns was quickly recognised, and he was...

On the Make QUIGLY By IS A BEL Room at the Top. (Plaza.) AT last, at long, long last, a British film that talks about life here today—not during the war, . not in the jungle...

The Lower the Fewer By KENNETH J. ROBINSON IT has now been established that, contrary to popular belief, the lower the fewer. Or, to put it another way, the higher you build,...

Worm the Wood By LESLIE ADRIAN IT may be an ill draught that blows down your neck as you sit by the fire, but at the same time it will be discomforting to ,iwrulius...

Taking It To Heart By MILES HOWARD of death had been passed, and she was seized with the most intense fear. Of course, the diagnosis had been made and the consultant was quite...

By STRIX B Y the time I got there most of the excitement was over. The roof of the old kiln-shed had fallen in. The explosions, caused presumably by odd cans of petrol, had...

FEBRUARY 1, 1834 THE existence of the hereditary Peerage was seriously endangered by their rejection of the Reform Bill. Should they play the same game in reference to an...

Signpost for the Small Investor Money in Trust .. • • • • The New Set-Up in Hire-Purchase Year of Opportunity for Building Societies ..Maxwell Heron .. Derek Moore J. W. W....

By DEREK MOORE T HIS is a memorable year for the unit trust movement. It is the first that it enters with total assets which exceed those of 1939 and it seems to have firmly...

By J. W. W. HUNTRODS B FORE making any sort of investment, it is only sensible to find out something about the organisation and prospects of the industry to which you intend...

By LEONARD BOYLE CI AN anybody remember when the times were V./not hard and money not scarce?' Emerson may not have been addressing an audience interested in building societies...

99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1 Euston 3221 The Jumo Kenyatta Case. F. R. S. de Souza Taper's Vote i Edward Collins Art in Oxford James Cameron Clerihews Mrs. Rosa M....

hands are no longer drawing-pinned beside one out of every three beds in the women's colleges.' For some of us non-Oxford chaps interested in such aspects of a liberal...

SIR,-11 hesitate to criticise Taper, knowing how many moths have been scorched by that flame, but I find the argument in his latest 'Westminster Commentary' so objectionable...

Department of the United States Embassy, welcome the news that Graham Greene is under- taking a biography of Mr. John Gordon. However, in view of Mr. Greene's public allegiance...

decided to become my Boswell. To have the promise of immortality from a writer of such distinction is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me in all my humdrum life....

concert organisations gallantly strugglin; to perform contemporary music in the face of t :i avant-garde that does nothing but ask for compli- mentary tickets and a public that...

State should still be buying antique oil paintings when its galleries are already filled to overflowing with such works of art : certainly far in excess of educational...

SIR,—I have long thought that an undue love of the parenthesis was apt to mislead Taper into writing a disorderly sentence, but I should never have con- sidered him a disorderly...

says there were the 'customary few who did not know what a clerihew was' Neither does he!' The three verses submitted by H. A. C. Evans arc not clerihews. My dear old friend...

SK—Shortly after reading Michael Adams's interest- ing article on 'Anglo-Egyptian Agreement,' 1 canie across a message front ' The Times Jerusalem corre- spondent about Israeli...

because he can now be fined £5 for throwing down an empty cigarette carton in the street [and] thinks this law is an outrage' is wrong all along the line. MEREDITH WHITTAKER...

the road to his Xanadu assisted by Theodore Roosevelt, who declared : 'Every man who has in him any real power of joy in battle knows that he feels it when the wolf begins to...

The nose-end that twitches, the old imperfections— Tolerable now as moles on the face Put up with until chagrin gives place To a wry complaisance— Dug in first as God's spurs...

On Scientific Method By A. J. AYER NE of the merits of logical positivism was that kJ it aimed at annulling the divorce of philo- sophy from science. No one went so far as to...

The Tanks: The History of the Royal Tank Regiment and its predecessors, Heavy Branch Machine-Gun Corps, Tank Corps and Royal Tank Corps, 1914-1945. By Captain B. H. Liddell...

The Cambridge History of the British Empire—Volume 3: The Empire-Commonwealth 1870-1919. (C.U.P., 100s.) The Imperial Idea and Its Enemies: A Study in British Power. By A. P....

THIS miscellany contains speculative and critical pieces, stories and earliest poems. A few of the contributors are very big names. It is, all the same, a dull book. From Ernst...

Poems Partly American, By A. L. Rowse. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) POEMS by elderly dons should perhaps be judged by a special standard like that applied to the paintings of the Royal...

The Feathers of Death. By Simon Raven. (Blond, 15s.) The Sergeant. By Dennis Murphy. (Muller, 15s.) The Breaking of Bumbo. By Andrew Sinclair. (Faber, 15s.) The Best of...

Tribune 21. Edited by Elizabeth Thomas. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 18s.) • Tribune 21 is the Boswell's Journal of radical journalism, the collected soliloquies of the odd men out....

THE question raised by Mr. Lancaster and Mr. Betjeman is whether or not there has been any architecture, worth considering as art, erected in modern times, counting these from •...

Greek Culture and the Ego. By Adrian Stokes. (Tavistock Publications, 15s.) WHAT does it mean to be an integrated per- sonality? What are the characteristics of maturity and...

Darwin's Century. By Loren Eiseley. (Gollancz, THE development of evolutionary theory reads , like the story of a slow conspiracy. The, final ex- plosion,shattered the...

a gentleman — wear a black coat and hold your, tongue—has stood the test of time. The usual prize, of six guineas is offered for similar brief tips (one, from each) which might...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 465: Report by Pibwob Competitors were asked to provide the pools fan with a verse addressed to his pin. . B. CAUSER reminds us that 'gambling's a...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT FULL convertibility, that is, for domestic as well as for external sterling, remains, we are told, the object of British policy and I was therefore...

DRITISH INDUSTRIAL PLASTICS. The fi rst .Dnine months of the 1957-58 trading period were very good-tip 20 per cent.-but the overall piciure for the year ended September 30,...

ACROSS 1 Spelling's the forte of 'theSe old girls! (8) 5 Donkey in the hamper got by (6) 9 Xenophon on the up-grade? (8) 10 One of three boatmen (6) 12 Irishman has love for the...

Tam's. 11 New. Guinea. 12 Faniaron 13 Insole. 15 Gold. 16 Bill. 17 Podal. 20 Amytts. 21 Each. 22 Aver. 24 Elijah. 26 onnusner. 29 Lightship. 30 Thorn. 31 Decd. 32 Dear Brutus'....

By CUSTOS F r HE equity share markets are still going 1 through the correction phase which was triggered off by the election scare. Sentiment has not been helped by Wall Street...