10 per cent. increase in British Railways fares in June, and in London underground and bus fares almost immediately. Mr. Marples, the Minister of Transport, under pressure from...

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C ONTROVERSY on matters of intellectual principle frequently has the disadvantage of obscuring those issues which it is intended to lay bare. The contributions to the debate...

H ERR ULBRICH CS offer to settle the problem of access to West Berlin by the establish- ment of an arbitration board 'for safeguarding peaceful traffic' may be thought of as a...

' docu ment proposed new libel law is a ferocious 'document with a dangerous capacity for totalitarian application. The basic provisions for libel and slander actions are not so...

A WEEK after the Peronista victory in the Argentine elections President Frondizi was hanging on to his position by the skin of his teeth, and it looked as though he would soon...

By FRANCIS CASSAVETTI W IEN Mr. Duncan Sandys arrived in Nyasa- land to consult the Governor, Sir Glyn Jones, on the first leg of his talks with Sir Roy Welensky about the...

From DARSIE GILLIE PARIS T HE situation in Algeria fluctuates with the luck of the bullet. French opinion both mili- tary and civil was deeply moved and angered last week by...

F rom JOHN LAMBERT BRUSSELS L IKE all other creative occupations, in con- struction estropeome, of which the Brussels negotiations are the latest variant, is most likely to be...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN 'WARD'S television appearance last week was E out of the character he has built for himself in the eyes of the German public, and therefore caused...

Britain has moved to a new address. It used to reside among the manual workers. There it thrived on slumdom, insecurity, mass unemployment; and it found its voice in the Labour...

By STEPHEN TOULMIN T REASURY Ministers under pressure enforce. economies which in calmer moments they regret. The Government's rebuff to the Uni- versity Grants Committee—their...

who once naïvely imagined that the Spectator was a . Liberal publication have now been shown that although it can be relied on to be well out in front on such matters as the...

press reactions to your article by Dr. Leavis about Sir Charles Snow: in particular Mr. Ray complained that the Observer referred to the Spectator, without naming it, simply as...

suggestion that it represents a breakaway of the extreme 'right,' including the floggers, the anti-Semites, the anti-blacks, the anti- Europeans, is a new one. Your fear th4t...

correspondence about Dr. Leavis and C. P. Snow. But I cannot take Mr. Remington Rose's insolent assertion that my 'fastidious self-assurance' is based on ignorance of the...

Leavis was only about Sir Charles Snow's talents and tastes. That Sir Charles has many good personal qualities is evident from his friends' comments;. but I do not see why...

M. Davies, R. G. Farleigh, John Thompson The Two Cultures Lord Boothby, Robert Conquest,. Dr. J. H. Plumb, Loyal Dickson, Robert Harvey The Orpington Poll • R. M. Shields. •...

who intend to vote Liberal make sure that they do so. As tar as 1 could judge at Orpington on polling day—and this view is borne out by others who were there with me—the Lib-...

SIR,—In so far as the comments in 'Press and People' in your issue of March 27 refer to Mr. Gregory, I am sure he can and will look after him- self. In so far as they refer to...

But his own is so abysmal that it would require a new Dunciad to do justice either to his folly or to his arrogance. True, owing to all lack of ability on Leavis's part to write...

ill-considered abuse in the Leavis-Snow controversy. The letters make no constructive suggestions, and they accuse Dr. Leavis's lecture of being barren— 'There is not a single'...

point raised by Mr. Inglis that polls influence vot- ing behaviour, and also with all his other points. I. Polls have shown in many elections, both here and abroad, that the...

outburst. But may I, as a director of the firm which publishes Snow's novels, answer some of the astounding charges in Dr. Lcavis's essay? Unfortunately, Dr. Leavis does not...

Sta,—Professor Wilson Knight's letter in your last Issue calls for a word of explanation from me. Perhaps I may quote from a postscript to my original article which I sent to...

23) is right in one respect and wrong in another. It is true that his remarkable article on 'Lawrence, Joyce and Powys' sheds a new and original light on the whole problem of...

Sharp-Tongued Muse By WILLIAM GUTTMANN THE appearance of The Estab- lishment has made it fash- ionable to talk about the con- tinental cabaret and especially its heyday in...

Across the Lake ISABEL QUIGLY II y THE Top Ten, to film enthu- siasts in this country over the last few weeks, has meant one thing: it has meant Citizen o Kane, L'Avventura,...

Smile on the Face By II AMBER GASCOIGNE The Art of Seduction. (Ald- wych.)—Play with a Tiger. (Comedy.) Boni The Art of Seduction and Play with a Tiger present us with people...

KINGSLEY AMIS I 'THAT morning Alec Mackenzie had been un- I able to eat even his usual small breakfast, so when, some minutes out of Euston, coffee and light refreshments were...

Valetudinarian By MARTIN ESSLIN 1 N the recently published reissue of Livia Svevo's I charming memoir of her husband, there is a facsimile of a letter by Svevo addressed to...

IT is now almost twenty-six years since General Queipo de Llano declared, after seizing the city of Seville, that twenty-five years of military dictatorship might be necessary...

Trenchard. By Andrew Boyle. (Collins, 45s.) THIS book has many defects. In the first place, it is far too long (734 pages of text) and is written in a sloppy, breezy style which...

HISTORIES of Russia tend to be bedevilled by theory. Does Russia belong to Europe or Asia, or does it form a Eurasian world of its own? Does its social structure bear an...

Translated by Henry Kamen These poems, written by Boris Pasternak in the last years of his life, are taken from `In the Interlude : Poems, 1945-1960,' to be published by the...

The air is heavy with the passing storm. The world revives and breathes in paradise. Through all the clusters of its blossoming The lilac dridks freshness and vivifies; And life...

Those days of childhood I recall again, How you would lean out of the window's space Into an almost quarry-like dark lane Beneath the trees where noonday shadows trace. The...

Early in the fall of 1960, 1 received an elaborate color brochure advertising the Chev- rolet for 1961. Inside, the only full-page illus- tration is a brilliant portrait of a...

The Courage of his Convictions. By Tony Parker and Robert Allerton. (Hutchinson, 16s.) PROFESSIONAL criminals seem frozen in the same pattern as compulsive gamblers. Both are...

Letters of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Translated by Ethel Colburn Mayne, with an introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. (Peter Owen, 35s.) No great writer has suffered so...

Five Plays. By Tennessee Williams. (Seeker and Warburg, 35s.) 'MEANWHILE! — I want to go on talking to you as freely and intimately about what we live and die for as if I knew...

Island. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus, - 18s.) 'Bur if theology and theosophy, then why not theography and theometry, why not theognomy, theotrophy, theotomy, theogamy?...

Counter-Revolutionary Agent. By Hans Tanner. (Foulis, 22s. 6d.) Wan fine originality Mr. Tanner calls his first chapter 'Our Man in Havana." Exactly whose man he was he never...

A Disturbing Influence. By Julian Mitchell. (Hutchinson, 16s.) AF1 ' L•R all the pseudo-poetry, metaplasm, beat- nik guff, half-baked metaphysics and general Brummagem by which...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Jr was ungenerous to impute Lord Ritchie's outburst to fury at a capital gains tax which has not yet even been defined. He was speaking at a conference of...

By CUSTOS r r HE dullness of equity shares, damped down 1 by new issues and the selling of a few speculators nervous about the capital gains tax, and the strength of gilt-edge...

e IR IAN D. LYLE, chairman of Tate and Lyle L.3 Ltd., gave a full report to shareholders at the annual general meeting held on Wednesday, March 28. The accounts differ from...

Mustard and White Wine By ELIZABETH DAVID From the day 1 heard the story, now five or _six years ago, 1 started experimenting with various kinds of mustard, a condiment which...

Tubby By LESLIE ADRIAN In spite of this, the window-box business has never had it so good; the firm is doing three times the business it did during the Coronation. Business...

By CYRIL RAY AT half-past ten that morning I was inoculated against small- pox, typhoid, paratyphoid, cholera and. yellow fever, and at half-past twelve I was on the Torbay...