STRIKE NOW IN THE WEST M oS I of the attention turned to the I rades m LUniorn Congress at Douglas has been (octised on thcledeence (febatc, where BLuridan' s ass ate both...

- Portrait of the Week--I at ( \Rk()N NNI) MR, (1 i1SINS, and NJ I. iRalSaVluhti "ldI i\Ir. c(ILqimb colntinu(I to) slw marked ({li tgvvwilcnt wih c1lci other, respectively....

Silly With Hatred A S the sittlutilfl io l the (ongo grc\N hoLrli\ rioorc bilood y and con wi cd. thc so.c ra of light dim enotigh, to hc sure came from the possibility that...

Box-and-Cox Office T i: has long becin a xildesprcad b elicl that the men who run the box olice at hlie ROYa O)pera IHouis were frightened by an opera-singer A hCIn the\ \\ ClC...

t a IVIhERE '1lE' REINDI)EER ENI)S SIR, I-LIS Miss Katharine Whitehorn (Wh1cfrc tf]c Rceindccr Ends,' July 29) tricd rcindeer soupl' ' Mladc from reindeer broth. with a litt1le...

I ENI) 01' TERM SIR,--It 'Scrns that in my 'Wstilli)nstCr Commcntary' which you published on August 5 1 did the Prcsident of the Board of Trade a great injustice. [1 attributed...

REASONS O1 ST'AiT: KENYA MIONSII :1R I I1 R1A( I IA)KR lN (C111. Jali ill liVCC Uile triste mllalis profonde Sat isfaction vOtre 6ditorial du 16 --,ict intiltli3: 'Reasons of...

IT'S A CRNIME, I SIR. It is it shamc that N\Ir. C(iil Ra a ]i < C. rl'ldC'J his psI(IL)mIyVIn (SP(C or.lur, SePtmlble 2) I 1 as pl lning to write at whOdUnlilit 11n1dler the...

TANIIIRIRINC WiT1 1FO1) Na, May I comnrncnt on Leslic Adrian's i ;licc in tile Spec/latr of' AugList 1 9 onl belf-1l1 (of th mle ll n hcrs of this ('oliuncil? No butter...

NFN'. AIIITHORS Slt. New Authors L iiited has just pib i shed tle twentieth book in their series, marking tIlze end 0o two years of publishing. The SIccess of this j11n'...

I BRAVE NEW UNI)DRWORLD SIR,---Ncw York must not be neglected as a centre of sado-mnasochistic displays. Whilc a local regLIlation limits the extent of nudity permittcd in...

BO OKS Sillies By FRANK KR MIODE1 C AtBRIciDE at the turn of' the century is les increasingly well documcnted anld endS ly intcresting There Was an unusual concentration of...

Tulfs and Ore Ice'se ITwo Ireatises of (overnmenlt. iFlited by Peter L-aslett. (t.U.P., 55 s.) I m: great and chief' end of' ren's Ulliting into Commonwealths and putting...

MusiH The Man Without Qualities. Vol. III. By Robert Nlisil. Translated by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. (Secker and Warburg, 35s.) Ur Rrcii, the Manl Without Qualities,...

Biedermeister I Creen Henry. By Gottfried Keller. Translated I by A. M. H(olt. (Calder, 21s.) I Madrigal. By Chapman Mortimer. (Cresset I _ rIess, 'C s.) I A Crooked...

Friends Politicians and the Wat, 1914-1916. By Lord Beaverbrook. (OldbotLIrle, 15s.) Politics in the First World War. By A. J. P. Taylor. (O.U.P., 3s. 6d.) NO-i the least...

Investment Notes 1ly CM U ST 0 S T ir Dal.y Mail, which runs a mitch fuller index of 440 industrial sharcs than the Finla(ial Timr .' thirty leaders, conlirms the...

De Gaulle on the Detensive 11 F r 4) in 1) A R S I F C I 1, 1. I F, t F I N h-" N " - . . I I - IIIII(L ik ...... 1), 11A R I,,, | his' 1I; prc ollfcefrilce I dc'idtci (IC...

NlClVS O1UT IN TIlE TI'liEtFIRS SiR.-()rwell hiinelf OllCC anusingly pointed out s with what a fatal inevitability, once they have gained currlency through repetition. the most...

SIR,--It is distressitig to see Mr1. IliH~ Gordon PIorteus contrihutint. to tile fashionable denigr ition of John M iddleton M urrv. As a vounig writer in the early Thirties I...

SIR.--hII commenting on Colonel lort-Phillinm', article. Commander Stephen King-Hall states that in any East-West conflict in Europe the use of tactical nuclear weapons by the...

BRAINWASHING Sm, -- The excellent article by NIr. Levin in your issue of August 26 a bout the likelihood that Calpta in Powers had been brainwashed prior to his trial was...

Letter of the Law Victims By R. A. CLINE IN Saxon England. a criminal paid compensation to his victim, as well as a fine to his overlord. Sixty years ago, it was pointed out...

Assassination in Context By SALLY BEtLRAG(,E A l a banquetl giNvCl in northern .1Jordin for King HuLssein aind his Ninuistcrs. l-izzaz Majahi, recently assalssinated Prime NI...

Necessary Journeys Alienation. Edited by Timothy O'KeeIfe. (Mac- Gibbon and Kee, 18s.) MACGIBBON AND KEE have devised a third title to rank with those gruesome abstractions,...

King of Rome Napoleon's Son: L'Aiglon. By Andrt6 Castel¶ (Harnish Hamilton, 30s.) Tim sub-title was bound to be 'L'A i,8'/o.' I E since Rostand (and, indeed, long before him)...

Company Notes IN spite of keen comlpetititol in hel stiucStuCra - steel industry (Cozens and SuIclilre (Holdings) hid a remarkably successful year. trading profits havingl...

Look, No Wheels! Bly KENNE I .1. ROBINSON N o home.' said a slogan at the Earls COult Radio Show, 'is complete without one.' One what? The radio industly was, in fact,...

Dog's Best Friend Bly JAMES TUCKER Y NYSC(ORRWG colliery, closed in the 1920s and sealed ofl in 19-49, stands a few yards from a counlcil estate and children's swings in the...