W E begin this week an important and wide- ranging survey of the British printing industry, and in particular of its effect on news- papers and magazines. The history of this...

U NDER the slogan 'Hanging's no answer' the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment is—as it announces on • another page of this issue—holding a mass meet- ing...

IT \VAS REGARDED as a matter for congratulation that as few as forty-four people were killed and 1,219 injured on the roads over the Easter week- end, TWO MARCHING COLUMNS of...

No. 6928 Established 1828 FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1961

T uns week the Spectator has a new Literary Editor, Ronald Bryden : his writing on books will already be familiar to our readers. In warmly welcoming him, we part with sorrow...

By KENNETH MACKENZIE f r HE result of the Treason Trial is a tremendous .1 victory for the banned African National Congress and its allies—and for sanity and tolerance—and a...

From SARAH GAINHAM VIENNA n RINCE METTERNICH would lift his aristocratic r nose if he could see the ballroom of the 'New' Hofburg and the new Congress of Vienna that is being...

By MICHAEL IVENS M ANY years ago I was describing to a friend a curious and, to me, perplexing psychical experience. `Why don't you have a word with William Gerhardi?' said my...

The White Americans By MORDECAI RICHLER ANADA, remember, is a two-headed culture. V./The French is protected by language, the English isn't. We English-speaking, but not neces-...

Needless to say, the unions do not leave these allegations unanswered--although some unions' officers are prepared to acknowledge, in the shadow of closures and rumours of...

The biggest single grievance that the NPA have against the unions concerns restrictive practices designed—the NPA complains—to promote the feather-bedding of labour, and to...

By JOHN COLE How efficient is British printing? With newspapers closing or threatened with closure because their revenue cannot keep pace with rising production costs, it is an...

One is handicapped in judging the validity of such a defence by the cagey attitude of the NPA itself. When I asked one of its officers to discuss labour relations with me, he...

Obviously, restrictive practices would not be possible if the unions did not exercise effective control over the supply of labour; and this brings us to what I regard as the...

Allegations about restrictive practices are not, of course, confined to Fleet Street. They arise also in general printing, out of what the em- ployers feel is the unions'...

grammar school masters doing sixth- form work deserves support but I would suggest that the hardships and injustices which are the teachers' lot are not restricted to the men...

standing should have published at the present time Mr. Charles Brand's article under such an all- embracing title as 'The Teacher's Lot.' Indeed, no one could say that as a...

Teacher'sLot'--- wire the gram- mar school masters! Has Mr. Brand ever been inside a secondary modern school, I wonder? Despite • first-class honours degree 1 chose to work in a...

Sheila M. Brooks, Richard M. E. Henderson. Arthur Blackwell, Katharine Whitehorn, 'Secondary Modern Teacher,' H. R. Wills Books for Overseas Readers James C. Kennedy, Leslie...

a number of squabbling factions at a time when all teachers should be firmly united in an attempt to obtain a substantial increase in the basic scale. It is about time that...

setting up as booksellers if it did not receive so many letters from readers complaining of the inefficiency of bookshops—including one or two run by the signatories of last...

SIR.—Affecting to feel more sorrow than anger, Dr. Leavis asserts that I labour to repress critical debate. This is false. On the particular issue of modern literary•history to...

not too diffident, practised in the methods of argument and study, and, in a formal sense, better-educated than 90 per cent. of the popu- lation? Or with the dimmer secondary...

about education, he cannot risk strike ac- tion lest Jones and Smith fail to pass their I I-plus; he suggests, however, that parents should strike by keeping their children home...

tives of 'fairly well-known bookshops,' have taken you to task because The Spectator Ltd. offer to obtain books for overseas readers. As booksellers their case would have been...

hackles rose at the tenor of his ,argu- ment, though I would echo many of his asides. Mr, Brand's article seeks to perpetuate the fallacy that the - really hard work in...

SIR,—May I, through your paper, express the grateful thanks of nearly half my white countrymen and some, at least, of our unconsulted non-whites. for the . kindness and...

sharp•distinc- tion between what Mr. St. John-Stevas believes 'as a Catholic' and what he believes `as a liberal'; and it is as a liberal that he believes that 'the dictates of...

0, 0, Antonio By ISABEL QUIGLY The World of Apu. (Academy.) — II bell' Antonio. (Paris Pull- man.)—Taste of Fear. (Warner.) Is it inverted racialism? A friend of mine came out...

Milton, which hasiccently appeared in your columns, is the work of correSpondents who are either teachers of English. or professional critics, or both. Their dispute may or may...

SIR,- - TwiCe in the last few weeks your TV critic has referred sarcastically to a certain BBC announcer. Your critic would appear to hold' the vievi , that because the...

Semi-Detached By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Much Ado About Noth- ing. (Stratford-upon- Avon.) — Sparrers Can't Sing. (Wynd- ham's.) Ir• Much Ado isn't funny, it's nothing. It lacks the...

Medium Drama By PETER FORSTER Houston is an admirable player who seems easier to cast than he actually is, and 1 am both sorry and glad that shortly after watching his...

Poets and Peasants By CLIVE BARNES However it is the Soviet-style `democratic peoples' republics' who have really tuned the folk-dance troupe to the pitch of art, and im-...

Comic Forbear By DAVID CAIRNS THE notion that Falstaff is a freak of style with . - out portent in Verdi's output was always a pretty rotten one. Now that Un Giorno di Regno...

Signals From a Rotten Star B Y RONALD BRYDEN AST year, Philip Toynbee published an appeal L i in several weekly and Sunday newspapers for contributions to a symposium of...

Science and Human Values. By J. Bronowski. (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) Is science 'mechanical' and 'amoral'? Are the values of scientists distinctively 'other' than, or alien to,...

Tom HARR1SSON is not one of the British institu- tions which have changed since 1937. He still has the same bounce, the same gusto and the same curiosity. Recently he managed to...

The Relevance of Whitehead. Edited by Ivor Leclerc. (Allen and Unwin, 42s.) 'Tun true method of philosophical construction is to frame a scheme of ideas, the best that one can,...

HEttobo - rus was told in Egypt that the Pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid probably soon after 2600 BC was a wicked ruler who compelled the people `to labour, one and all, in...

COMBINED Operations HQ was a military laboratory, an inter-service training establish- ment and, in the words of Earl Mountbatten, `the only lunatic asylum in the world run by...

The Chapman Report. By Irving Wallace. (Barker, 18s.) Across the Water. By Michael Campbell. (Heinemann, 16s.) Kindred by Choice. By Goethe. (Calder, 15s.) THE only reason for...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT TURN, if you will, to our eco- nomic affairs at home. Have you ever seen such a frightening mess? The Statistical Office has chosen this odd moment to re-...

By RICHARD BAILEY TN his message to Congress on the Economic 'Growth Programme Mr. Kennedy said the performance of the American economy over the past seven years had not been...

By CUSTOS T IIE markets opened firmly after the holidays and it seems that every financial writer has recommended buying before the trustees are let loose on the market by the...

T HE Earl of Derby, chairman of TWW, the independent Television contractors for South Wales and the West of England, advises excellent results for the past year. Net profits...

Healthful Hall By KATHARINE WHITEHORN As soon as I arrived, I became, in the eyes of the staff, a patient. I had a consultation: my weight, reflexes and habits were made the...

Alien Admissions By JOHN LYDGATE It was an ancient observation that certain fevers never attacked twice. In the eighteenth century, Edward Jenner; a country doctor, ex- ploited...

Junkets by Jet By LESLIE ADRIAN THE joys of flying by jet are mixed, I'm beginning to discover. It's fine to be told by the pilot that you are travelling at 557 miles an hour...

WITHER'D is the garland of the war, the soldier's pole is fall'n or something. Caesar's apartments have been struck, as they say in the film studios, and they began on Cleo-...