BOOKES White Anglo-Saxon Protestant 13B ROINALI) BRYDEN VINGSLEY is th1 mriost L:nglish of English JI Writers.... Consider brief]ly and respond. Have you winced and blushed'?...

'DYNAPOLIS' Sint,-- I did not go to Dr. Doxiadis's discourse, but I would like to take up a point raised by Kenneth Robinson at the end of his article. The thing about lineal...

PATRON OR DICTATOR? S4., -The article in last week's issue of the Spectator by Mr. Charles Wilson carries a footnote pointing out that he is a Fellow of Jesus College,...

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BERENSON Sm. ----Manv of the critics who have lately been writing about Bernard Berenson record, in pain and puzzledomr the fact that he regarded 'modern' painting. including...

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PROC ESSED MATERNITY SIR, My experience of confinement in a famous l ondon tcaching hospital coincides vcry closely with thc details given by Mrs. Furlong. The mothers and...

LUST AND SLOTH SIR,- -111 reviewing a programme on Lust which I wrote for ATV's current series on the Deadly Sins, Mr. P. Forster made fourtCeen substantial misqLuotations and...

SI-. Miss Whitehorn did not exaggerate; she merely gave figures. Thcse figures indicate two things. with 11o numerical accuracy: that there is a shortage of teachers, and that...

SPARE THE POLITICIAN Seit,--Presumiahly Lord Beaverbrook, like most people, favours flogging for thugs who attack helpless old women but not for political actions the...

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King Cobra IrLderick the Great: An Informal Biogral)hy'. By Ludwig Reiners. (Oswald Wolil, 30s.) Iii term 'informal' il Mr. Rteiners subtitle Presuniably means, ill this age...

IWIRNARD LEVIN IN MOSCOW - - I . I .1 . . .. I SIR,- -As I am about to leave tonight to visit for the fourth time the city so strangely described by Mr. Bernard Levin I feel a...

SIR,-. I was unpleasantly surprised to read in the BB(-s statement in connection with the current publiCity about its Yugoslav Service that the account given by the Spectator...

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A RASPBERRY FOR THE TEACHER S.,-----Thc controversy arising out of' Miss Whitehorn's article with all its sordid implications, once again shows how necessary it is for teachers...

TORRID ZONES SIR,-Mr. E. B. Childers poses an interesting hypothetical question in asking what Welshmen and England would say if a State like Israel would have been imposed on...

ANTII-SEN1MITISM Si t.-- I miLst apologise for reopening the qluestion of the C'ambridge University Appointments Board secretaries anci their anti-Semitic remarks, bUt I ha1ve...

HOW M UCH? SIR,-- Barbara Wootton condemns her arguments out of her own mouth. If, as she admits, 'objectivity necessarily vanishes when it comes to measuring the...

lR,.--Why is everybody being so horrid to Bernard L'-V0n') He has written some dear little 'Roedeaniana' rn both your columns and the Express a bout going a broad, one assumes,...

SIR,----Crhails you are right to be annoyed by some aspects of Israel's current policies, such as her voting with France over Algeria. But I think this has led yoU into being...

Pressure Groups B i IrE(. the Pilk ington (i uillebauld debate goes B any farther. it is worth taking it look at one aspect of these reports which has not, as yet. attracted...

- A Brickbat for the Consul A F-rit demionstraitors had t 1 rou n bricks f thIrough the windows of" the 3ritish Consulate in San Francisco, the Consul-General is reported as...

De Gaulle Ti \NVEarmnth ol the welcome London has accor ded to President de Gaulle (which seems to have struLck him with a certain amount of agreeable surprise) has been an...

Selective Irresponsibility P l LSSOl IRICHARD ill -MuSS, hailed as the l .irouL1 Party's Condorcet, has just produced a Fabia l Tract (No. 323, 2s. 6d.) cialed T/he Irr(...

The Budget T III, first histinct is to conglrltulatc the Chancellor on his good sense- and his couLatge. It is easy enough for critics ol the Conservative Party to laUgh'i at...

PLUGGING THE LEAK Ti1 I~lil le Minister's explanation of what he p really said in Anierica--as distinct froll what Al' reported hie said ---sounds reasonlable 'tl enough. It is...

[-Portrait of the Week A TORY BUDGE L- madc a lot of Tories very cross -It 9tVeC 110 relict to paycrs of Surtax or to "vnler-occcpicrs; it increaIscd the tax on profits, Thd it...

Unconscionable Max C(reait Coimipatnionis. By MN ax Eastlman. - -1 , (NI LLSCUIlYI Precss. 2 I S.) IN (;rei C(omnpaniions the companions themselves, not to mention the facts...

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INVESTMENT NOTES ity CUSTOS fiii happy care-frec rush to buy on the Budget eve was shown to be a mistake on the mornt after. The gilt-edged market which should "Ve taken heart...

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The King and the Tsar From I)ARSIE GILLIE HIE Visit of a modrciln sel[-made monarch to T another sell-made monarch's territory creates gravitational disturbances of the...

Letter of the Law 'In the Face of the Court' B12 It. A. ( 1CIN E I N the preseut state of the law there is no appeal From a judge's decision to commit a man to prison for...