This Britain . . . Desmond Donnelly, MP The Slate-Blue Right When the Bough Breaks Constantine FitzGibbon Sometimes in Trafalgar Square Arnost Lustig Peacock's Private Eye...

T is rather much to expect Labour or Con- Iservative politicians to pay the Liberal Party the compliment of much public atten- tion at ordinary times. They understand- ably...

No. 7054 Established 1828 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1963

A DEPRESSING WEEK for trade unionism, with Brighton setting too many springes to catch Woodcock. The TUC general secretary's silent prayers against wild Hills and rough uneven...

JOHN COLE writes: The vote in the debate on wages and planning at the Trades Union Congress this week has blurred the clean, precise image of a twentieth- century trade union...

T HE letter to the LCC from the Ministers of Housing and Transport concerning the plan for the redevelopment of Piccadilly Circus con- tains phrases so telling that it is worth...

.. NYONE who has seen the Royal Shakespeare Company recently, either at the Aldwych in London or at Stratford, must realise that we now have playing in Britain a' company that...

From SARAH GAINHAM BELGRADE M R. KHRUSHCHEV came to Yugoslavia as soon as the Sino-Soviet ideological talks were over, as he had said he would, to emphasise a political...

From INIURRAY KEMPTON WASHINGTON T AST week's March on Washington for Jobs L./and Freedom—an oddly Protestant title for the largest religious pilgrimage of Americans we are...

And this week we have the first book on the Ward business, and are shortly to be faced (or not, as the case may be) with the Denning Re- port. The more one thinks of it, the...

ending. It has been quite a summer for sig- nificant deaths. One too long postponed was that of Rakosi, the most loathsome of surviving despots. A journalist told me the other...

those w ho barbarise about 'Fascist' Greece know nothing of Greek politick, and are willing to take their 'facts' predigested. What one would scarcely think pos- sible is that...

‘NLy Christians and men of the world really O sympathised with Ward,' a Conservative ex-MP said to me the other day. Mr. Julian Symons lately charged me in these pages with a...

Private Eye. Even its well-known 'bad taste' is often merely the breach of conventions which have sprung up quite irrationally—such as the notion that one must not criticise...

We have not yet had time to absorb the death of Braque in old age; and as to Louis MacNeice, for the moment one can feel nothing but the initial shock, and begin to call to...

By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN URLEY is our first target. They are pretty well off there and they are real rightists. We only go for the A and B classes, of course. Get their names out...

Yes, it's too easy to carp! One of the latest British sports is sneering at Playboy—which (with the wonderful Scientific American) seems now to be the biggest-selling American...

As Mr. Tom Iremonger so rightly pointed out in the Commons not long ago, fair com- ment is becoming grossly restricted. What seems to be the Private Eye view—that since you can...

When the Bough Breaks By CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON ("N NCE Hitler had become Chancellor, on k./January 30, 1933, the transformation of Germany from a dying democracy into a...

By ARNOST LUSTIG* T HE world we live in has given a new mean- ing to the word 'travel.' Maps no longer show white patches inscribed 'hic suns 'cones,' although that is not...

'A Catholic Parent's' extremely sensible, well-expressed article? I, too, am a Catholic; my husband-to-be is a student, our financial situation is dodgy to say the least, and at...

But this is not to be wondered at. The happy and successful use of the safe period method of birth regulation depends, primarily, on a real understanding and a complete...

August 23 complains in his final paragraph that whenever he makes a friendly criticism of Canadian financial affairs he gets into hot water. May I suggest that a first step...

Canadians Donald S. Macdonald Catholics and Birth Control A Future Catholic Parent, Erika Fallaux, Tom Sullivan Roger Casement Sean 0 Rafartaigh, P. 0 Coneluiir Charles l's...

that he has been told that the Catholic percentage of our prison popula- tion is much higher than the proportion of Catholics in the country as a whole. May I ask, what...

British press in publishing Dr. Mackey's letter. The trial of Casement and the accompanying obscene trafficking of the first Lord Birkenhead pro- vide one of the most...

SIR,—In reply to the letter of Mr. Nevile Wallis in your issue of August 30 as to the attitude of the National Art-Collections Fund to historic relics, I would like to say that...

National Art-Collections Fund about the purchase of historical relics for our museums. As chairman of the Fund I must try to answer, though no answer can be explicit and though...

SIR,—I have just seen Anthony West's observations on festivals. As far as his comments stem from Peterborough's observance of the John Clare centenary, they seem to comprise...

SIR,—Roger Casement undermined his health in his efforts to help the unknown and underprivileged natives of the Congo and Putumayo. It is some source of satisfaction to note...

comments to those of your correspondent Mr. G. E. Whadpole regarding the Roman Pavement at Woodchester. I was fortunate enough to be able to see this superb example of Roman...

his prejudices on the subject of analysis. I wonder if it is right for you to employ him to review Mr. Brown's book (Spectator, August 30)? There are hundreds of qualified...

SIR,— In writing my book Battle for the Mind, I can assure Mr. R. T. Oerton that its main purpose was never a desire to dismiss the findings of psycho- analysis. Much more...

Garbo, Garbo, Garbo By ISABEL QUIGLY Garbo Season. (Empire.)— The Birds. (Odeon, Leices- ter Square; 'X' certifi- cate.)—The Condemned of Altona. (Carlton; 'A' certificate). —...

Graham is an artist of tiny but infinite varia- tion. Her basic material' is deliberately circum- scribed, and with it she builds ballets, not as similar one to another as peas...

WE can almost put our fingers on the exact moment when Verdi's Luisa Miller ceases to be a conventional melodrama acted out by passionate puppets and be- comes a true drama of...

That sunlight has gone now : Fallen on Africa, hammered into the hard, red dirt. In the picture it still shines though, Matt On the river, smooth on the man's shirt, Striking...

Exit the King. (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.) In the event, the audience at the Lyceum didn't appear to mind sitting for an hour and three- quarters. I myself did mind, latterly....

Peacock's Private Eye BY OLIVIA MANNING His paperback* is a reissue of the excellent I edition of Peacock's seven novels that Rupert Hart-Davis put out fifteen years ago. It...

As the latest diagnostician of our national neurosis, Mr. Mander plumps, and probably quite rightly, for the Adlerian approach. Refusal to recognise our loss of world power, a...

South West Africa. By Ruth First. (Penguin, 5s.) 'WE believe that the Government of South Africa, even at this late hour, cannot be in- different to a clear call from this...

The Unicorn. By Iris Murdoch. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) BECAUSE Under the Net came out close to Hurry On Down and Lucky Jim, and was linked with them, Iris Murdoch is often...

Scandal '63. By Clive Irving, Ron Hall, Jeremy Wallington. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) 'A GIGANTIC national irrelevance,' the Spectator last week called the Profumo affair; and, on the...

• BY DESMOND DONNELLY C ommoN Man is about to suffer his unnerving quinquennial experience. Strange, earnest men and women will come knocking at his door. Some will be wearing...

The Affable Hangman. By Ramon Sender. (Las Americas Publishing Company, $4.) IN the Broadway revue New Faces of 1952 a man disguised as a Southern novelist lounged in a...

The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes. By Edwin P. Hoyt. (Muller, 36s.) The Poor Rockefellets. By John W. Rockefeller, Junior. (Alvin Redman, 21S.) THE most pertinent question...

Rocking the Boat. By Gore Vidal. (Heinemann,, 30s.) A GOOD American novelist and less interesting playwright now presents ten years of auto- biography as an alert commentary on...

The Companion Guide to Paris. By Vincent Cronin. (Collins, 25s.) The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands. By Ernie Bradford. (Collins, 25s.) FOR more years than I care to...

The loved enemy. Matter of epic. But if you like winning, cut out all epic style. Clutch wind, height, sun. Feint, undercut, Decoy, venom your weapon, shoot first; and all the...

By LOTHBURY R APID progress is being made by International Tea Stores in converting its old-style stores into self-service stores. Last year 105 were con- verted, and it is...

By CUSTOS rri HE Stock Exchange account started well and \I if to can turn in good half-yearly results very soon-as ALBRIGHT AND WILSON did-the market will be going further...