CENSORED CRITICISM SIR.-In dcnying that 'the N inuiiter . . . rel used to allow BOAC to include six pages ot criticism the Mlinistryvs Chict Inlorniation Officer words his...

I)DEMAND ANI) SUPPLY Snti,-Starbhck complained last u, cek of thle buOY't seller's seeming reluLctance Io partIt xith hlis warsl bt himn, however, try ordering a singlc copy...

LESSEIR URY trlz.nl tin I *t, Sit,-It is proposed to gather together in a cl'of logue raisonnle all the widely dispersed w'o0 cr the painter Lesser Ury (1861-1931). This %wldl...

HOOVER'S CLEAN SWEET Si.,--1 am somewhat unclear aboLt NI r. Niurray Kemipton's complaint against the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. He tells us of a report by a former...

THE COMMON MARKiT THE COMMON MAKfIt r Followving recent correspondence in thlist J'Pt about the Common Mlarket it has been p m ,0 t ) 119 that one of tile letters pUblished may...

BET YOU ANY'HuING SIR,-In his letter criticising Katharine Whitehorn's essay on insurance, Mr. A. S. White states: 'it is well known that since the war motor insurance has been...

THE NATIONAL THEATRE SIR,--1 hoped that my earlier letter might concentrate correspondence oii the subject that your theatre critic originally opened--namely the standing and...

BLACK AND) WHITE ISSUES SmI,-A typographical error in my article 'Black ind' White Issues,' of October 26 on the Northern Rhodesia elections, places Mr. Harry Nkurnbula not in...

POLISH SERVICIEMEN SIR,--- I hope you will allow me to expla1in to thotskd your readers who saw my letter which yoll were tknt enough to publish in your issue of November 2. it...

Putting DoNv i the Sacred CowS TFIE oisit tofde 1 Ug C mic 1 committt I to SWedenI1 is a s ') I ltee The British .1 oits, as the oides>t " tl \ c -Id to0 often shoW re...

Folly at Dagenham X1JEYLHER a miraculous compromise i1 V duced at Dagenham before Novemlber or not, it is ironical that, just as Mr. Maudl gave the motor industry a...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS Around the Age Groups By BRIDGET TISDALL NOT long ago, I believed that the most con.stantly recurring themes for writers of children's books could be...

Spectator's Notebook M Y suspicions that Latin American opinion is neither so pro-Castro nor so auto- matically anti-Anerican as some romantics here would have us believe were...

Resistance Mov emnent I 1-1 to ?lI I was talking on the telephone yesterdaY friend in Rome. 'Seen anything of the Ecunlen' Council?' I asked him. 'No,' he said 'excePt ti there...

UninecCssary Es iE Castro's popularily. said Ha~3, began to fall otT as soon as it became obvious what he meant by 'democracy.' (Like other progressive Latin Americans I have...

WAlio's WVasting Whose Time? The opening of the new Parliamentary session reminded me of a review of 'The 1959 House of Commons' which I came across recently in Occupational...

No Toadying -. echO $ 'What service?' asked a correspondent ""took a poor view of being mulcted on a CroSS Channel steamer. I asked the same questiOO of a bartender at a French...

Percy Cudlipp Percy Cudlipp asiill be missed in very many places, not least in the club which he enlivened with his conversation. Nobody could keep count of the 'best stories'...

Open Yoi r Betjemans A Ring of Belis. Pocms of John Betieman introduced and selected for the young by Irene Slade. ( 1 hI Ni \ uLI rt. l 5s.) A LNA\LIY Of being11 one of the...

Over the Hill A Kid Nobody Wants. By Robert Kost, (Harts Davis, 15s.) A Book by Georgina. By Barbara C. Freeman, (Faber, 13s. 6d.) A Dog So Smali. By Philippa Pearce....

For Small Stockings WHEN you read,' says the hit song from a current musical, 'you begin with A B C,' and whether you pronounce it conventionally or phonetically, whether you...

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I-Portrait of the Week-, AS WAR SCARFS DIED DOWN for a white, the details Of less Scarifying politics caught the eye. Railwayenl rejectced Dr. Beceching's offer of a 5 per cent...

Investment Notes Bv CUSTOS A TREiMENDOUS cheer on the Stock Exchange greeted Mr. Maudling's proposals, but the best prices were not held. And for a good reason. There was no...

False Images Carson Was Here. By Anthony Carson. (N4e thuen, 15s.) The Guntz. By Frank Norman. (Secker and Wi- burg, 21s.) SEVERAL times these last few years I have grate'...

Thug Rule The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism. By F. W. Deakin. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 70s.) IF gratitude in politics is seldom...

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Mao on the Warpath ? T[HE world's attention is now at last turning Tto the dangerously messianic militarism of Peking; Moscow's erratic methods of 'peaceful' Conspiracy have,...

Older Children's Animals THiAT animals have to suffer touch misplaced humrnan affection is a commonplace; that large numbers of books about aninials are written for children by...

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The Spiegel Case Fronm SAR Ai\ GAINHA1A I Voss I . t.,-. T E Haambilbut g weekly newspaper DX'r Spiegel was last week given the finest piece of free advertising by its sworn...