7 OCTOBER 1960

Page 3

A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE

The Spectator

' ET us have honest decisions, honestly L reached,' Harold Wilson told the pre-con- ference demonstratidn at Scarborough. 'and let us base our unity on accepting them.'...

— Portrait of the Week— AT EASTBOURNE, the Liberal Assembly declared

The Spectator

Itself firmly against unilateral nuclear disarma- ment. At Scarborough, the Labour Party Con- ference declared itself shakily for it. MR. KHRUSHCHEV ssto that Mr. HammarskjOld...

The Spectator

The Spectator

No. 6902 Established FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1828 1960

Page 4

Anatomy of Partnership

The Spectator

A we went to press last week an announce- ment was made—so casually that it attracted little notice—that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had agreed to a proposal that...

The Arbitration Man

The Spectator

rrliE Prime Minister's speech to the United I Nations Assembly has been praised, and deservedly, on two counts. It was a reasonable speech—its general theme unexceptionable,...

Page 5

Treason and Truth

The Spectator

From DARSIE GILLIE PARtS I T is normal in time of civil war to punish with a heavy sentence those who encourage deser- tion and give help to the armed enemy of the State. To...

The Perfect Squelch

The Spectator

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK I F the British have any favours to ask of Americans, they had better speak up right now. The Treasury is Mr: Macmillan's if he wishes to d...

Page 6

A Trip to Scarborough

The Spectator

After the Bombardment By BERNARD LEVIN EvEN in such a Giitterdain- ',wrung as we have witnessed this week there have been inter- vals of comic relief amid the oceans of high...

Page 8

West Side Story

The Spectator

By DESMOND DONNELLY, MP Get cool boy! Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool boy! Don't get hot, 'Cause man, you got some high times ahead, Take it slow and, Daddy-of You...

Page 10

War in the 197os ?

The Spectator

By CHRISTO T PHER HOLLIS Hr. argument about the dangers of war— concerning itself, as it does, with traditional pacifist theses, or with the state of things as it is at the...

Page 11

The Monument

The Spectator

By SIMON RAVEN t i , /mil , one summer I had to take my platoon of anti-tank gunners to fire a week's course ba the ranges at Hohne, some fi fty miles beyond t over. We...

Page 13

BY LORD ADRIAN BY LORD ADRIAN

The Spectator

Lord Adrian, OM, FRS., who is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, will lecture on the human internal communication system and the complex relationship between brain and body....

bright idea of making the balcony scene clumsy and awkward,

The Spectator

but it turned the interchange of Shakespeare's perhaps rather too ingcniouslY interwoven love sonnets into long-winded and unconvincing prattle. John Stride and Judy Dench here...

to the cinema .' young,' one of them in t his country

The Spectator

writes, 'take odd, isolated, almost id' ° „ syncratic lines like: preferring later Hitchau)

Personal Quirks

The Spectator

By ISABEL The Time Machine. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) —High Time. (Carl- ton.) THE autumn number of Sight and •Sound is a summer-up and stock- taker in such a wide sense that it...

. Mr. Ze ffi relli designed the sets, too—some of which, like

The Spectator

Juliet's airy bedroom and the pil- lared lamp-lit tomb, arc delicate works of art, while others, like the street background or the balcony, seem more like badly plastered works...

QUIGLY

The Spectator

generation of critical opinion, mostly under' graduates made vocal in Oxford Opinion (twelv e enormous years after Sequence), who care for only the visual image—and an...

THE THIRD OF THE

The Spectator

BRITISH ASSOCIATION GRANADA LECTURES The third lecture in the 196o series of annual Lectures on the theme of `Communication in the Modern World' organised by the British...

Page 14

the ITA vetoed a candid-camera pro g ramme on lines amply sanctified

The Spectator

by American shorts and BBC radio. Now, low and behold (I nearly wrote Lew and behold—we die with our puns clean) the resistible personality of Bob Monkhouse is attuned each...

Old and s q uare, it makes a committed critic feel; rather,

The Spectator

maybe, as the Thirties intellectuals Must have felt when they suddenly found them- selves talkin g to g rown-up people who didn't care about Spain : who'd missed it. 'The belief...

r _ ARO V V With the desi g nin g , and the des-

The Spectator

cription, of haute couture, it is q uite another matter—thou g h just as odd. Its g reat desi g ners are men (have they always been, I wonder? Saul clothed the dau g hters of...

FORSTER

The Spectator

to Brian Rix, of the Whitehall Theatre farces, to act as spotter-producer-actor, and ITV's back- pedal on its presti g e proposal to put out Old Vic productions on STV. 'Lew has...

The Spectator

polygamy

The Spectator

O NE OF THE odd thin g s about hi g h fashion—and g oodness knows it has plenty—is that attitudes to it do not cleave alon g lines of sex. Almost as many women as men think it...

Page 15

"4.

The Spectator

Page 17

SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY ENGINEERING

The Spectator

Methuen & Co ltd 36 Essex Street London WC2 POLITICS ECONOMICS SOCIOLOGY HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY GEOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY PAPERBACKS An established favourites among students, the...

Page 18

leaves to others to discover when they began to be

The Spectator

so. The antiquary shows you how things were, and leaves their present existence to be examined by others. Hence the former is more useful, the latter' more curious. The former...

Page 19

To the East

The Spectator

A Phoenix NIGEL CAMERON His new travels from Kashmir to Fiji, 'brilliantly drawn by a sensitive observer' JOSEPH TAGGART, Star. Illus. 30s. * THE S MAN Mark Caine's...

Page 23

1 it

The Spectator

SUPERB PIPE TOBACCO 1 11111111114•4 46 de 40 d• 444P• ds New . Aces Grieg PIANO CONCERTO IN A MINOR; Fulla NIGHTS IN THE GARDENS OF SPAIN Clifford Curzon wit h The New...

Page 24

Whether Mr. Connell is right in feeling so indignant is

The Spectator

another matter. Lord Russell and Mr. Scott feel the Government to be morally as well as politically and strategically wrong and the danger of its courses to be desperate....

Page 25

Secretary.

The Spectator

Horseferry House. London. S.W.1. STELLA FISHER in the Strand. The Bureau for progressive and interesting sec- retarial vacancies. With affection, care and security, livin g...

c nracters and spaces between words. • mum 2 lines. Box

The Spectator

numbers f.!. extra. Classified pectator Advertisement " e Purtment, The S Ltd., . 1 , 9 Gowe Street, Lon, WC1. erePhoner EUStort 3221 don (5 lines)* __ AP POINTMENTS VACANT 7, ▪...

Page 26

The Spectator

The Spectator

Page 27

The Spectator

Page 28

The Spectator

Page 29

The Spectator

The Spectator

Page 31

The Spectator

The Spectator

Page 34

The Spectator

Page 36

The Spectator

The Spectator

Page 38

The Spectator