the week's news. Shells continued to pour into Quemoy : off Iceland, gunboats had brushes with British trawlers and their protecting frigates: in Cyprus, terror flared up once...

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1958

T HE moon was full and the tides were high in the Formosa Strait this week, and the shores consequently ready to receive landing-craft. Off the Chinese coast a few utterly...

T vvo proposals are being canvassed to prevent racial strife from spreading and recurring in Britain : that there should be restrictions on entry of immigrants from the...

rr HE return of Sir Hugh Foot to London this weekend will give the Colonial Office the opportunity to think again about its policy in Cyprus. Certainly it needs to, for, within...

D ELETE, we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, "Cannon, L.," and substitute "Blair, W." Amen.' This curious prayer, if the incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Bournemouth, is to be wholly...

By DARS • 19 45 it was also in working-class Paris, at the Place de la Bastille itself, that the General held his one July 14 parade, instead of on the Champs Elysees as had...

MERE ARE all sorts of apartheid. 'Baasskap' is at one end of the scale —crude, ugly, unapologetic. Then, in the lumpish middle, come a thousand excuses and equivocations...

has died down for a while, but members of the profession, I find, are still inclined to be touchy on the subject. Some doctors feel that the profession's honour is at stake:...

Nationalist Party will split as a result of the com- petition for the premiership, and the fact that this was resolved in Dr. Verwoerd's favour. Or, per- haps, following some...

the present state of the railways on the travelling—or, rattler, the non-rail-travelling- Public, who, it asserted, are not giving the neces- sary support. Commenting on this in...

Interplanetary Society has approached me in a state of indignant amusement about a Sunday Tittles article. The writer, reporting the current Astronaufical Congress in Amsterdam,...

By ELEANOR ETTLINGER A STREET signs colour bar petition,' ran the front-page headline of the Paddington Mer- cury, 'White residents of Oakington Road, Paddington, have signed a...

be greater or less if they were to fol low a more definite Labour policy than they are at the moment?' I cannot really believe that the high proportion . of 'Yes' replies by ....

Grist to the Mill By GEORGE WOODCOCK* M Y parents left school at eleven to go to work in a cotton mill. I was marked to do Much the same, and I did; except that when my turn...

By STUART NORMAN Au - Howl-I Ceylon's communal crisis is now A three months old, it has attracted little attention in the Weit, partly because of more spectacular events...

The Invisible Dramatist By ALAN BRIEN The Elder Statesman. (Lyceum, Edinburgh.) — The Discip- linesof War. (Cranston Street Hall, Edinburgh.) — Brou- haha. (Aldwych.) -- Much...

Air man At 7.30 a.m. the mists are already falling like sheets of gauze around the Cromwell Road Air Terminal. A hostess on the internal television network marshals the...

WHILE Shaw lived his plays had two producers, one of them invariably Shaw himself, advising the actors exactly how to speak his lines; and although actors do not normally take...

By KENNETH J. ROBINSON THE Radio Show is the perfect busk-man's holiday for Pea- body dwellers'—or for anyone else who lives at a high density with the windows open and the...

Sweet South By ISABEL QUIGLY IF the West (as I said last week) is our favourite legend, the South is our favourite pipe-dream. Malevolent and marvellous, enviable and...

Closing Time By LESLIE ADRIAN THERE is a nice of un- conscious irony in the 1958 report of the Trade Union Congress, now in session at Bournemouth. On p. 206 the report...

Less Than Kind By MILES HOWARD E have been hearing lately about the effects that nuclear explosions may have on the human germ cell and the development of the growing organism....

MADAM, I cannot for the moment recall, and Lempriere's Classical Dictionary sheds no light on, the cir- cumstances in which you became the Goddess of Summer. I assume that the...

SEPTEMBER 7, 1833 THE GALE THE effects of the gale which commenced blowing on the evening of Friday, and continued with unabated violence during the whole of Saturday, have...

SIR,—It is good of Mr. Lehmann to bother writing so lengthily (his letter in your August 29 issue), but I wish it had not been quite so flushed and shrill, which made it...

'it is a useful moment to consider what part military force has played in the Middle East during the crises of these last three years. Military force has been used or threatened...

The Futility of Force George Watson, Philip Goodhart, MP Oxford Psephology Robert Blake Journalists v. Critics Kenneth Allsop Paul Robeson and Racialism Sarah Gainham The Boer...

SIR,—I must apologise to Alderman Lower for my bad handwriting which misled the printers of my article of August 15 into attributing to the Alderman's friends a greater degree...

SIR,—We were intrigued by your contributor's phrase 'casual and watchful as tarts,' when describing the recruiting officers at the Boys' and Girls' Exhibition. All of us have at...

SIR,—Now that the banks are being so generous with their money, has the time not come for the Government to deal honestly with our money? Would it not be a good idea for the...

Quigly, reviewing the film Vertigo in your issue of August 15, wrote: `. . . we peer ver- tiginously down a skyscraper every timeithe detective has one of his agoraphobic turns,...

SIR,—May I say how heartening it was to read your comments on the recently published Lambeth Con- fer ence Report? The article was a little disappoint- ingly brief, but its...

perience of or have witnessed the advantage of homoeopathic treatment in illness and in the treat- ment of disease believe that it would be in the general interest if this...

S know so well how Mr. 'Bola lge feels. It is indeed bitter to feel oneself different. When I was a girl I was ugly with a lot of straight foxy red hair a id graveyard teeth...

SIR,—Your television critic deplores the fact that 'neither network oilers any programmes dealing with books.' In fact, for the first six months of this year, ABC Television...

Pasternak's Novel By FRANK KERMODE F this book,* which will never cease to en- gage the minds of all who care for literature, the early reviews are unlikely to say much of per-...

Alan Ross. (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) MANY new poems one sees now read like uneasy statements made in a void; they lack roots or relationships and any assurance they have often...

A Sense of the World: Poems. By Elizabeth Jennings. (Andre Deutsch, 10s. 6d.) THIS is Elizabeth Jennings's third I and it is her best. Rhythmical mo occasionally inpenetrable...

combining a traditional style with a modern freedom, Leonard Clark contrives in his poems to make the best of two worlds. If he uses old forms, he also breaks out into loose...

The Decipherment.of Linear B. By John Chad- wick, (C.U.P., 18s. 6d.) HUMAN nature loves to uncover secrets, and part of the interest in archaeology at the present day is surely...

The Recovery of Unity: A Theological Approach. By Dr. E. L. Mascall. (Longmans, 25s.) No one could even begin to read a book like this without realising how strenuous an occupa-...

`AUTOBIOGRAPHY as a literary form was estab- lished in England during the seventeenth cen- tury.' With this opening sentence Mrs. Bottrall sets herself the fascinating task of...

Injuries Sustained A Room in Chelsea Square. (Cape, 15s.) The Peacock Brides. By Gerald Bullett. (Dent, 15s.) THE first novel is about rape and the disruptions, the loss of...

The Threshold. By Michael Stapleton. (New Authors Limited, 15s.) IN The Threshold, Michael Stapleton has used the material that goes by tradition into a young man's first novel...

gambling boss is croaked on the Ferris wheel at a fairground : who will get- tho one person that saw the killing—the killer or the cops? A tight little American suspense story,

12s. 6d.) Ladylike little number about a complicated series of murder attempts in Lisbon, narrated by the middle-aged English widow who sees all, understands every- thing and is...

THE larger part of this book consists of details familiar, specifically or in kind, to all who have made any study of the history of the English language. Well ordered under the...

The Hours Before Dawn. By. Celia Fremlin. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Sedately written, quite suspenseful English thriller of threatened children, based on a psychological quirk go...

tale of pursuit by' a writer who is particularly good at atmosphere, suspense and ambiente; the cold war in a warm climate.

and The Big Still. By Roderick Wilkinson. (John Long, I Is. 6d.) Salmon-fishing in County Kerry and whisky-pinching in the Scottish Highlands, respectively—two very pleasantly...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT NOT being a trade Unionist I had to sit down and think why I found the second report of the Cohen Council on prices, produc- tivity and incomes as...

By CUSTOS T HE pause or setback in markets in the last few days of the account which ended on Tues- day should have provided the investor with an opportunity to buy some cheaper...

A MALGAMATED ANTHRACITE HOLD- INGS extend beyond their interests in the distribution of coal in Southern, North-West England and Wales; in fact their industrial divi- sion now...

ACROSS 1 Rout high-born in a minor oath? (6, 6) 9 As Kipling might have remarked when choosing a title? (6, 3) 10 So dear of Colette! (5) it That sailor's eye that can take...

ACROSS. - 1 Collar-bone. 6 Free. 10 Vapid. 11 Tall-light. 12 Catonian. 13 Agenda. 15 Wick. 16 Vice. 17 Taste, 20 Oasis. V Noah. 22 Stot. 24 Cloche. 26 Hastings. 29 Antelopes. 30...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 444: Rcport by J. A. R. Pimlott voting alphabet of the 1:stablishniene or a begin with 'A is for Antis). The usual prize was offered for either a rh....

Competitors are invited, for the usual prize of six guineas, to write not more than sixteen lines of verse, by way of apology, warning or sympathy, on the occasion of recent and...