I HE advent of Algerian independence brings to an end a struggle which has convulsed both North Africa and Metropolitan France for nearly eight years. In the course of it large...

Ben Khedda entered Algiers in triumph. But though the rump of the OAS had transferred its activities to France (where sporadic bomb-throwing con- tinued), the country still...

Front Our Common Market Correspondent T tin Common Market negotiators had little concrete to show last week for their longest Ministerial session so far, but there is g eneral...

rr lin Government's White Paper on the report of the Pilkington Committee contains few surprises. The Government accepts the alloca- tion of a second TV service to the BBC,...

By ROBERT KEE D RivING fast across the hot empty plain on which only the ruins of destroyed stone farmhouses showed that it had once been culti- vated, we saw suddenly a road...

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK D R.' FRED C. SCHWARZ'S Christian Anti-Corn- Munist Crusade is having less than what his fellow Australians used to call a bloody go so far with its...

the great convoy of coaches packed into the narrow lanes overlooking the limestone coastal plateau. Out poured the bejeaned and banjo-strumming demonstrators to get on with the...

1 was reading a book of memoirs of French life in the late nineteenth century and came across the most striking political tribute that I have encountered for some time. 'This,'...

Nazis is to ignore them. But hate generates hate, and at the prospect of a public barney, on how- ever small a scale, out come the reporters and photographers and TV cameramen....

I HAD thought Richard Hoggart would be batting on an easy wicket when he defended the Pilkington Report and 'the organic beauty of our scheme' at a conference of adult education...

Mr. Hoggart allowed himself one fling at the `intellectual journalists' (his phrase) who have criticised the Report and its tone. 'They shy away from one word: responsibility....

Hate-the-Huns demonstration kicked off in Pembroke Dock at midday with Michael Foot's all-too-predictable attack on the Government's defence policy. Last year a similar...

B y A. 1,,,LATHAM-KOENIG THE end of the Belgian trusteeship over the , 1: . twin territories of Ruanda and Burundi on July 1 and the addition of two new African members to the...

By HENRY FAIRLIE F it had not, by caricaturing its own argu- Iments and conclusions, already ruled itself out of serious consideration, the Pilkington Report would be...

By RICHARD WEST A . r Waterloo Station on Saturday afternoon, a policeman watched the hundreds of West Indians who had just come off the boat-train. `Well, that's the last of...

By KINGSLEY AMTS L I ORD DAVID CECIL once remarked that when we say a man looks like a poet we don't mean he looks like Chaucer and we don't mean he looks like Dryden and we...

systematically while under interrogation during the Emergency; he wants to know where they were tortured and who tortured them. The guilty men are protected by the law of libel,...

is not a 'genuine progressive' is too simple even for him: in fact it is a typically mechanistic and equivocal exhibit in the museum of modern political sophistry. If Left-wing...

S1R,—The set of rather hysterical letters that followed my review of Charles Foley's Island in Revolt bears witness to the potent hatred which the Cyprus Emergency aroused, and...

Playing it Dirty Michael Leapnran, Charles Foley Sharp-Shooters E. J. Hobs baivm, Nicolas Walter A Strangled Cry Paul Rippon The Lost Leader Roderick MacDonald BR Blues P.1....

hang the good labels round your neck and the bad ones round the other fellow's. An almost equally common psychological reaction is to accuse your opponent of the things you are...

who have spoken against the pro-European policy of the Government cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. The pro-Europeans may be so much in love with the European ideal...

his co-author, James Joyce, at present running at the Eblana Theatre, Dublin, was not banned for its NighttoWn, or any other scene, in 1960. It was with- , drawn by the Irish...

Just Dancing By CLIVE BARNES STRAVINSKY/ BALANCHINE, the two-headed eagle of contem- porary ballet, has swooped down on Hamburg to give a programme called Die Ballette each...

to say about British Railways cross-Channel services. The implication seems to be that the French do these things so much better. Last Saturday I travelled on a French Railways...

erroneous impression which readers of the Spectator (June 22) may have received with regard to the West Lothian by-election. In your only reference to the by- election result,...

French get a reply and literature in that language (we dis- tribute about 210.000 cross-Channel service leaflets a year in French): those who write in English are answered in...

The Morning After By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Judith. (Her Majesty's.)—The Genius and the Goddess. (Comedy.) — Sail Away. (Savoy.) Judith is a library critic's pit- fall. Giraudoux's...

Arthur Boyd By HUGH GRAHAM OF the eighty or so current ex- hibitions in London, it goes without saying that the most interesting, if not the best, is at the Whitechapel Art...

Muscles By CLIFFORD HANLEY EXCITEMENT is the rarest prize on television, and possibly it to becomes more and more diffi- cult to generate as we grow more blasé. Wimbledon...

Exclusive Story By ISABEL QUIGLY Paris Belongs to Us. (Paris- Pullman.)—The Power and Morin, Priest. (Academy.) JACQUES RIVETTE'S Paris Be - longs to Us ('A' certificate) is...

Under the Bim, Under the Barn By PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. S AYING what song the sirens sang is as hard as any of Donne's - hypothetical tasks. But it seems almost easy compared...

A PILGRIMAGE to the Dalai Lama has its own peculiar hazards. He lives at the former British hill station at Dharmsala, some 6,000 feet up in the foothills of the Himalayas, and...

Tnis admirable description of the fighting on the North-Eastern Frontier in the war against Japan concentrates on the battle for Imphal in the spring and summer of 1944. The...

The Fall of Crete. By Alan Clark. (Blond, 25s.) THE paratroops whom Hitler used to seize Crete and whom Goering hoped would be able to leapfrog into Cyprus, Suez and points...

Jor- dan. (Heinemann, 30s.) MIDWAY through Muriel Spark's Ballad of Peck- ham Rye, her daemonic Scots arts graduate , Dougal Douglas, compiles a list 3f phrases suit - able for...

Crossroads of Power. Sir Lewis Namier. (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.) NAMIER'S qualities never shone more brightly than in the essay : indeed, he rarely attempted anything else, for...

The Historical Revolution, 1580-1640. By F. Smith Fussner. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 45s.) REVOLUTIONS, as Marx very nearly said, are the locomotives of historians' careers. The...

BY FRANK TUOHY El ; M. FORSTER is a novelist whose great and ' obvious virtues make it fairly certain that his books will keep fresh and discussable out- side English Faculty...

IHERE is a sense in which the History of Ideas can never completely exist as a study; it ought rather to be called the history of unverified (or unverifiable) ideas. When ideas...

Trust in Chariots. By Thomas Savage. (Hart- Davis, 18s.) lhe Man with no Shadow. By Desmond Meir- ing. (Hodder and Stoughton, 16s.) The Olive-Trees of Justice. By Jean Pelegri....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Sterling, as we all know, is one of the world's so-called 'reserve' currencies, for foreigners hold about £4,300 million in sterling deposits. Ac- cording...

BRITISH SUGAR CORPORATION A SEASON OF STEADY GROWTH THE 26th annual general meeting of the British Sugar Corporation, Ltd., will be held on July 24 in London. The following...

MOUNT CHARLOTTE INVESTMENTS SATISFACTORY RESULTS THE 29th Annual General Meeting of Mount Char- lotte Investments Ltd. was held on June 27 at Betta- fcods Restaurant, London...

M R. W. E. BUTLIN, chairman of Butlins Ltd., has exceeded his estimated dividend for 1196I by 55 per cent. by declaring a final dividend of 55 per cent., making 70 per cent. for...

By CUSTOS MFIE economy is probably in better shape than I the stock market would suggest. The hire- purchase debt rose in May for the first time since July, 1961, pointing to...

The Notion of Steerage By JOHN ROSELLI S MIPS just now are almost the least of the Cunard Line's worries. Yet even while they get ready to defend against Labour attacks the...

N ow and again, perhaps when 1 am a little starved of sugar, because of fighting shy of puddings, I fancy a sweet after - dinner liqueur rather than a brandy. Fortunately, there...

By CYRIL RAY Ir was a summer's evening in one of those smart Thames- valley restaurants. Between courses, the couple at the table in the window could look out on to the satin...

Real, All or Pure By LESLIE ADRIAN This is not the case, t am assured by officials of both the British Standards Institution's Con- sumer Advisory Council and the Silk Centre....