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IS BUTSKELLISM ENOUGH? 16 Pnily Trleqmph Tuendny April I9SA OPERA BALLET CONCERTS MXIIMt IllUtl Letters to the Editor Blunders on Rhodesia Harm lo Britain from Mist tilt illations RUSSELL LEW IS considers what ill and hat to he done in the llnrlet I (vKiit fr at 7 RmmAmIki Carifr t4K LftiiiJon A --i P-'i ii'r A Cfx Kn I Hur 30 I A 1 I knee A S4 -A vft 1 "MIS It MBl ft TAIf Or' Mat a OAli vdallcn Mrv A f- aw til sv I At! ()) ON HP k'OKH lrmir jno Nvoun 8 MORNING POST Daily Telegraph June 29 1855 Morning Post November 2 1772 lAma simated October 1 1937 TUESDAY APRIL 26 1966 135 Flfet Street Telephone: London EC4 Fleet Street 4242 THEATRES OF ALL CROI PS So it would not be surprising to see another Id on income-tax af'er all Mr Callaghan will still hae another shilling to go before he reaches Mr Gaistkell's 9s 6d the will also no doubt have a go at some candyfloss item: perhaps dish-washing machines which are fast robbing rchen-sink dramas of their sordid Socialist realism The odds are that he will also pitch Corporation tax at 40 per cent instead of 35 which will further reduce funds avalable for capital n-vestment companies It is worth pointing out that even at the 35 per cent level and even for those companies which qualify for the 20 per cent and favour" cash grants both 'he incentive and the ability to invest are vastly reduced compared with preceding investment allowance regime Indeed according to Mr David Freedman's recent article in the Statist this so-called tax "reform" will penal se most severely the growth sectors like chem cals Admittedly Corporation -ax should in this way bring about a reduct on in demand: it should also put the final nail in the coffin of ire National Plan The desperate th ng is that the very foundations of the Rutskellite or Maudlaghan doctrne are looking increasingly shaky Too Com plicated For example how far is it possible to assume that increasing taxes on consumption is deflaionarv? For given the political pressures in this country to mainta overfull employment they may equally well be inflationary in so far as they stimulate increased wage demands The case of the sceptic is brilliantly put bv Mr Foster a new He questions whether taxation policy is in any wav super or to monetary policy as a method of economic control For it is just as likely to be frustrated by the liquidity (spare cash) in the possession of either individuals or firms and this liqudity enab es them to carry out their spending plans regardless of budgetary changes Not everybody agrees that British taxes are too gh (though there is ample evidence that the fiscal penalties we impose on the professional and managerial classes are now very severe compared th overseas countries) Yet few will denv that they are much too complicated This makes their effects increasingly unpredictable The Chancellor and staff may each vear do ever more sophisticated calculations but they might do equally well to toss a coin It is difficult to suppress a sense of vast impatience with the growing consequent fatuity of the annual Butskeliite ritual A hundred million on this fifty million off that yet with margins of error so big as to give the whole exercise a flavour of the absurd It would indeed be comic as well were it not for the fact that the British economy is now operating right on the margin It must be a sobering thought for the Chancellor that if he makes a major error this time nobody not even the Americans is going to bail hm out DO not see the need for severe ncrcases in Mr Callaghan told the House of Commons on March 1 I don't promise easy times I don't promise it is going to be an easy he told a Cardiff audience on March 25 There was once a Finance Minister of am the name of Prince Dam ng he shall see on Budget Day next week whether Mr Callaghan deserves a miar title However as these two quotations show he has so far hedged his bets It is as if in a drfe-ent context Mr Wilson had a oen categorical assurances both that he would not blockade Beira and that he would Mr avowed position is 'herefore flexible which is what you have to be if you go in for simultaneously facing both ways At this stage there is more to be gained bv studying facts than the evolution of Mr Callaghan's public thinking The situation is briefly that after a year and a half of Labour Government by four Budgets involving substantial tax increases and panic cuts in public spending and further enlivened by an import surcharge a 6 per cent Bank rate credit tightenings and hire-purchase squeezings all crowned by a debt of £900 million after all this we have now arrived at the same position as the Treasury in October 1964 predicted we would be if there were no changes policy Earlier )rtliodoxies Yet in one sense the Chancellor must be breathing a sigh of relief For he has won his battle with Mr George Brown over who is top economics Minister what else can we read into Mr loss of responsibility for the prices and incomes policy? The failure of the Department of Eeonomc Affairs to usurp the primacy in the shaping of economic policy means a return to the earlier orthodoxies of Butskell-ism whatever Labour spokesmen may say about their break with the past Readers will recall that Butskell-ism" is compounded of the names of Butler and iskell and that it stands for an economic policy on which they agreed aiming at price stability full employment a sound ba ance of payments and economic growth all to be obtained through the overall control of demand Monetary policy played a part though a secondary one in ths control but the main method was to vary taxes Thus when demand was excess ve giving rise to inflation and balance-of-payments trouble taxes were rased When demand was slack and giv ng rse to unemployment taxes were lowered Mr Brown has sought to overthrow this established routine by attempting as the central feature of economic policy to control incomes more drectly in order to link them to productivity The fact that in the past 12 months wages have gone up ne times js fast as productivity is the measure of how completely this policy has so far failed Even if Labour intends to rejuvenate the incomes policy in the years ahead th early warnings fines and gaol sentences as far as the coming Budget is concerned Mr Callaghan must approach hi- task as if ncomes pol cy did not exist He is fact flung back more com- A LH PHI 530 9 SO MaU I fu da at 3 0 JOk BROUN ANNA NEVO nj HY HYZhLL Xar It rrl ll nFLIPPIN 5 1 I'-'M No Af Incare a Ifet HrMinc 30 A 7 toteAy mat and PMiAmtai 71 7 A A 6 Ma 7 Ja A 7 via i SO A a I CoiMNix 'ft Aa va 44 7pm 5 Map 7 so 4 Mi) 30 A 7 Net- (it I nra3 XOifU IB Idiot I 4 i 9 20 21 Mill (r iri'lnii A llik ttilaona and I A Mavi O-na Ik Kartiarun 17 18 vi ffll 54 4 AMK xsv 35 Sati 5 A 8 In ip a APO I I BurkOap anj Saturday at 6 0 and 8 40 ALIKED MARKS RITH 1)1 NM N( A Port VAor A SI I 9- mt 0 8 30 I)aid lomf mon l)a Jane Batter iae Sa ar 4 rnd Indeed 4 Sen ncd NR lam Domla Hrn CM I Ht I Ri Mo rr 7 40 Lnd Enters Thea re foin-n) omang That 28rh Apr i 7 00 pm 'hereafter htl 74 Sunt IIW i Jief I at LATP HT IONIGHI ONl ROHFRI CRhELY Poetry readina 1015 1130 COMEDY Wh i ft ft SPIKt WtLLKiftS Hll KIRK Ann OWino I jI 6 PerU Mat 3 dm Uorld real me (u CIIIHION A- I Ih I DIANA SANDS A ANION ROfXrLK Hie Owl and the One ot the rich eat mox an nh hted cacntiert exi hitiona I have er ern Let' Mail The Criterion he no her hi on thn a rr oiT a i Ued A Sat 2 30 MARS MAR I IN The Smith Muaical "Hello IKdly A unqiaeationable Smatheroo I m-s 1U Hiss I em 84 birnno at Ma- Sked 2 A Saturdat Id (J NICHOLAS PVKsONs Rofini HainB NOSk IN FIFTH Mil AKIOLS SE' Dl ft tOHft 1 A She a Han I HeJ i Mona SX -ho rr I he nnirivf IT IS VERY VFRY FUNNY Sa I met HRII LIAN NNS I I rrrt CAMMH Iem 4 "4 XI HX1I1 tlW PH llll PS Man and Superman OLOK G-f 1 3'42 to I hiai at a h' A at 4 i I Mauhairlv New Mut Starve lnaa Nw tman Much r'an many Kt rt a ca Sch nave oard into the tn triumphant rwr CritKt Vjvc XX i 1)1 (RUN Ih 'i AN SNA S- GR I I he P'tme ot Sn Jean HmhIi Ra MPA II Mi llll IH illK XX Prchi e-c tents While Cuardma ha RM I I IO I ML S'- A lad (iriln Baa tee Mora Aa OM Never Caw Irll fin XJL Evnr ai 8 tr Sat 60 A 8 4 3 Ian carmk hxh pa i ri ariill DIIYS LAYF HOLDEN ar in the Lome Na XXIu Xr b' th vx aterh use and xx Hall THb FlNNILSl PLAY IN LONDON" Har-Md Hotwow Sunday Timet LY Ml( DONALD XXOLFIT A FVETfc KLYIN Ol SON Hotter i A Miahelh Vt'tsl OU I STANDING MUSK xl IN LONIKFN NOW IN SI Bay fair 8 40 Tburt A Sa 6 A 8 41) Honnd ihe Frinse 1966 KnttcJ ed SI AG NjFlCTNILY FUNNY Daily £eirfapi Xf RXI xll) 6 Kevj i' i Tom at 6 A 8 40 RIKNAKD Milts the Waiaa 8 40 IH MA RAL ax Ihe Miser and Ml MNaKD MILLn a Ihe Imaamary a) mi xx 7 45 Tart A Sat 4 30 ne St'i'a i Olixer IH IN RL ING MLMi 1 I LSI OR Cfc Jrea under 16 j-pt ex Sj etenmgi Ol I YM I Ml Jam and the Payimh Towifh a 7 WeJ at 7 3 Thurt A Sa: at 2 15 A 7 30 Julie Kla omedy Ft Ol 14 ill NAIION AI THL aTrI Adu- tHKk Mas to June bt vptft al jrm Open to 1 Apr Fv ee fr rr B- Ofl lo tn I A I Xll Cer '8 34 vx XX 30 pletelv than any preceding Chancellor on to the use of taxaton as the exclusive means of managing the economy He can hardly put the Bank rate up to crisis level again with i crs and therefore provokng one Bank and hire purchase credit are already severely limited So the instruments of monetary policy like much else in the Brtish economy are already fully employed More than that the promised resort to specially low interest for certan classes of borrowers such as the proposed mortgage opiion scheme must weaken the effects of monetary res'raint The less monetary policy is allowed to work the more resort must be had to taxation as the method of control Yet does the situation call for more taxation? The experts ire by no means agreed The anti-deflit onary school argues that Mr past measures though surpnvngly slow to take effect are quite enough to be going on wth Any further deflation may it is suggested upet business confidence hus leading to a reduction of capital investment and the sacrifice ot longer-term growth The case for higher taxes is based in the first place on the prime need to strengthen the confidence of our overseas creditors who are plainly of the opinion that deflation is necessary especially as they were fobbed off las' time with the promise of an effective incomes policy Our debt position is such that our creditors call the tune even if objectively speaking it is the wrong tune Danger Signals Ye' it not all a matter of confidence There are real danger signals whjh we cannot afford to gnore One is that impor prices the (all of which the past year heped to restrain the rise in the cost of living now appear to be turning upwards again This evidence combined with that of the lowest March unemployment figures since 1936 and more unfilled vacances than at any time since Labour took office suggests that prices may go spiralling upwards if nothing is done to curb demand These are the moderate and tacti-ca arguments for a deflationary Budget The more fundamental one which Prof Paish has already put in these columns is that labour and other bottlenecks will oontinue to foster inflation until the unemployment ratio rses to 21 per cent The truth is however that despi'e bulk purchase of economists and all the frenzy of planning the area of the economic unknown rema ns uncomfortably large My own guess is that Mr Callaghan will opt for safety and higher taxes He will probably a to cut consumption The promised gambling taxes which are likely to br ng only the derisory revenue of £17 million a year will plainly not eontr bute much to ths objective BANK COMPROMISE For some time the future of the Governorship of the Bank of England has been busily discussed in Westminster The Earl of Cromer who has been Governor since 1961 and whose present term expires in July this year has not endeared himself to the Labour Government bv his outspoken criticisms of public finance Rumour has been busy about the intentions One not very easily credible report was that one of the economists with known Labour party connections would be appointed to succeed Lord Crowfr Another much less incredible was that the new Governor would be drawn from the higher ranks of the Civil Service with the name of Sir Eric Roll Civil Service head of the Department of Economic Affairs much canvassed as favourite It was still considered possible however that Lord Cromer would be appointed for a further five-year term: after all his predecessor Lord Cobbold had been critical of Conservative Governments likewise After all this it will be regretted that though there is said to be no ill will Lord Cromfr is to leave at his own request but the appointment of Mr the present Deputy Governor to succeed him comes as a certain relief That is not of course to underestimate the great abilities of a high civil servant such as Sir Eric Roll But the fact that Mr O'Brien is a lifelong member of the Bank of England staff as also is the prospective new Deputy Governor Sir Maurice Parsons clearly offers much more assurance that the voice and policy of the Bank will remain independent and individual Without any doubt the choice of a new Governor from outside the Bank and the City would have seriously strained relations between the City and Westminster Mr appointment is however a compromise Though it may sound orthodox it is fact an innovation for a lifelong Bank man to become Governor Traditionally the Governor is somebody with past experience and position elsewhere in the City this was true of Lord Cobbold though he had spent many years at the Bank as it was of Lord Norman Lord Catto and Lord Cromer There is reason in this since it is desirable for the Governor to be independent and to be a responsible spokesman for the City Life in a central bank is somewhat cloistered and outside experience is an advantage This was one of the qualities that have made Lord Cromer's Governorship a valuable and distinguished one What must now be hoped and is expected by those who know him best is that Mr will derive strength and independence from the very completeness of his identification with the great institution of which he is to be Governor Fcrrnonrc Growth in Fditrd bu Hrndersori ei denfetd i colson 42s London Day by Day than a situation where the Soviet nion which still holds down half Europe by force and a number of one-party dctatorships should arbitrate upon Rhodes a where apart from the illegal I nothing hJs been done contrary to their Constitution wh ch was ratified bv the voting population in 1961 it is difficult to imagine If matters continue on their present course Britain mav well lose the whole of her trade with the Union of South Africa which would be ruinous to our precarious balance of payment position and could end by involving ail southern Africa in a futile and unnecessary war I agree with the Opposition that taks should be re-opened with Mr Smith but thev must be on a realistic basis A reasonable educational grant from Bn'atn to improve African higher educa ion and thus pave the wav for a gradual transition to majority rule might well have prevented I ast November and ght still provide a genuine compromise It is however certain that anv crash programme of education 'o ensure an African matority in 'he next few years won be totally unacceptable to Rhodesian op nion faithfully VICTOR RAIKFS London SAV 5 Ethics and Social Justice Clause I Miristianitv Sir In hs n'erestng article Weekend Telegraph Mr Tom Dr berg made 'he remarkable clam that historc Christ an tv was p- manly concerned with soc al justice on ear'h I presume he wou agree that any Christian seeking social justice through political activ tv should se' hmself particularly high standards of ntegritv and avoid al po itica! tricks especially confidence tricks What then does he make of the following statement? Socu im as common owner-sh was not much mentoned in the ection campaign and mavbe for sound reasons But now surely there a'e the soundest reasons for telling the people what the goal of the Government is" I quote from Lord Soper writing in Tribune As I am not a Socialist I must be in Ford Soper's eves a very inferior knd of Christian but it seems to my blunted moral sense that Lord Soper has imputed to the Pr me Minister that political duplicity which Marx and Engels contemptuously condemned If a political leader wins an election by conceal ng true purpose then he surely wins by means of a massive fraud 1 must make it clear that I do not accuse Mr Wilson of th massive fraud The accusation comes enttre'v from the ennobled clergyman wno does not ee it as an accusation at all 1 wonder what Mr D'lberg thinks of felow toiler in the Clause Four Chrstun vineyard If i stian So ci a ua could do with less of it Yours faithfu'lv COLM BROGAN London WCl IMAGE Sir Mr A Smith gives (April 20) an eloquent and harassing account of the poor image of Britain projected in Australia by reason of British moral and commercial deterioration aided by further British failures in public relations in Australia Mr Smith's strictures may oi the whole be accepted For one thing Australian publicity efforts here are far better easily victorious over an item of official statistics which estimates the people leaving Australia since and including i960 as not less than 1 600000 In an es'imated Australian total population of about 11(00000 the emigrating proportion certainly beats any comparable British hgure Austraha is statistically on the move To where? Yours faithfully GEORGE CROSB1E Lesmahagow Lanarkshire GLASS IN DANGER Sir Admirers of Morris and co stained glass are anxious about the future of the windows in All Saints' Church Dedworth near Windsor This characteristic and beautiful series of seven windows were created by Burne-Jones Morris Rossetti Webb and Brown between 1863 and 1887 The church is due for demolition soon but nobodv not even the vicar knows what is to become of the windows When 1 was in the church recently I noticed that two or three of these irreplaceable examples of Victorian stained glass at its best had already been damaged If it is not possible to incorporate the windows in the proposed new church to be built on the same site mav one hope that they will be fittingly preserved elsewhere perhaps added to the very interesting collection of ore-Raphaelite ass so notably caroi for the Victoria and Albert Museum? Yours faithfully MARY CORRINGHAM London W2 POLL TELLERS Sir I am amazed at the nonsense that has been written about tellers at poking booths in your letter columns In the hrst place tel ers are officially appointed by the local political party officials The obiect of ask ng voters for the number is simply for transport purposes There are many people who because of old age and other reasons cannot vote unless thev have transport Tellers in no wav encroach on the privacy of a voting rights In my long experience as a teller the great majority of peop I have encountered have been very proud to let others know wh ch party they have voted for Could it be otherwise with the peop who obiect to tellers? Yours sincere ARTHUR REDDICK-Fetcham Surrey from Sir VICTOR It 4 IKE'S SIR As one who lived for a time in Rhodesia 1 have watched with horror the grave political blunders which hjve been made by the British Government durng recent months upon this issue Anyone who knows anv thing of that country must have realised that the Rhodesians were not bluffing last autumn: yet Mr Harold Wilson depending upon one of his famous hunches decided that the unilateral declaration of independence would either never take place or if it did would rouse the Rhodesian peop against Mr Smith Mistaken on both counts he then announced non-penal sanctions a policy which the Opposition with considerable lack of wisdom decided to support It should have been evident that mild sanctions could never succeed and must inevitably lead to fiercer ones The Pr me Minister next turned to the oil embargo which left the Opposition in hopeless disarray and as this proved ineffective a naval blockade has followed Now Mr Wilson has turned to the LTn ted Nations in spue of the lesson of the Congo and it seems possible hat mandatorv sanctions may be demanded there Anything more hypocritical Model Life of a Model Scfisi and Hard ork Sir As a model-girl and therefore part of that "low form of life referred to in Mr Paul Johnson's condescending and very unkind Weekend Telegraph article the Model-Girl Down to 1 t'eel 1 must protest I should have thought it pra se-worthy of any teenage girl's intelligence imust she be to attempt a job in which she can earn £20000 iVfr Johnson's figure) a year rather than a mundane office job Most model-girls work very hard and if they are sensible they keep their feet firmly on the ground Because one is thin it does not automatically follow that one has to diet all the time Mr Johnson is absolutely right when he says: "We are all slaves to fashion" Thus writers (especially empty-headed ones) write about what is in fashion Recently in the New Statesman Mr Johnson wrote a leader condemning Enid Blvton because she had written stories about a doll called Little Black Sambo" It is too easy to pick holes in model-girls and to suggest that they are dim But they are not ai as vulnerable as Mr Johnson states: the majority however are perhaps a little mo-e sensitive than he rea'ises Yours faithfully SUSAN LYNN London Wl (aged 18) WAR AND PEACE Sir The letter which Mr Burns wrote to you about a conversation between mvself and the late Air ce-Marshal Marix seems to me to call for an additional comment The characterisation A Gentleman's War not only applies to the moment when Manx gave me his revolver so that I could shoot my horse At the same time he offered to let me keep my sword Although this was only October 1914 one nevertheless had the impression that it would be a long war I therefore aked Manx to send me the sword after the war This he indeed did sending me the sword through our a attache in Berlin The handing over was recorded in the Bntish and German Press If 1 could sav something about all things that have happened since then I would wish only that there should be no more war between European peoples but that the young generations should marshal their thoughts under the slogan A Peace" Yours faithfully VON LERSNER Schallstadt Germany DISTRICT SIX From Prnf A VI 1VMVG At least two rather curious assumptions seem to underlie Mr John letter (April 21) First that tn Southern Africa the rehousing of the poorly housed is unlikely to be to their advantage And second that the coloureds in Cape District Six have lost their votes! But he is no doubt pretty safe in supposing that in Southern Africa as equally 1 would suggest in Britain non-whites if treated bv whites with contempt must be apt to resent it The question is how commonly are thev? Mr Hunt's language is a reminder that intolerance is at worst no monopoly of those to whom he so sweepingly imputes it Yours faithfully A MANNING London W2 COSTLY SPEED Sir In the publicity British Rail have given on the electrifica-ton of the line between Euston Stafford Manchester and Liverpool there is a discreet silence about the high increase in fare for businessmen res ding in the afford area who wish to keep morning appointments in London No cheap-dav tickets nor cheap-period return tickets are now available before the 10 am tra from Stafford It now costs travelers who need to reach London before midday £3 1 3s instead of the £2 before April 18 Yours truly Stafford RIGBY BY NUMBERS Sir Lord Russell of Liverpool at least had something to be thankful for in his telephonic marathon (April 20 1 If we let the Post Office get away with their meretricious scheme for suppressing exchange names Lord Russell's next attempt will commence with 9466262 then 54266f6 64X0425 and so on If Mr Wedgwood Benn tells us this is progress it's time he gave I up Yours faithfully Cheltenham LYALL Ihe sound ol Mui Mas a Kojferi AHammr 1 rja A Crowe fsLLAMI (ft Matinees xxed Thu an a 2 4 Frank (field dnes James Ko nncar knneh Lofifiur and Artn Banes the Wood tisi week Slav A Ha Ne mhe I mmv la btkk I bora H- Fredd Fr aton An a Hirris and in 0141 Gay mcd Sho I nloi! I rughs FiT A Dll a 6 and 8 45 Darnel Maaaev Mar Tboffiat ar Jvin verJj Kareloiii in Ihe Park PRINt OF WAILS RAKBKA SI Kf SAND "Funny MIC HALL (RAlt XX HI 8ort Ll 1 1 A 1RLN WORTH NOtL OW ARI bbadawv mi Mm Einriaa A Came Into 8m 'mi SI ad St I Ving il I km' ko Si CWII IS' sefgeaai Musrae' Daasr Ape 27 to May The Vostey Inhertaacc 81 XRIIS I en XX BERYI BEN PI AY OF YF Stand Aard Ox er 300 pfx ix 4 Ihe Rilling ol Sister George BAYILLF I 4 On the I rsel PISI BRKH I OW Pr Sketch SXX INtINt 1 I ZIP I sT Ml vlt XL IN I SOIL IT A HU BRF ATHLI ns JOY MINI Cl LLFNT iVxl I) Hr uperh i sa AH Nena H'Nh'B lei 8883 I roni ilic Aie of Elegance OPPOSITION IN KENYA President Kenyatta has consolidated his power in East Africa since May 1965 when he had to intervene personally to prevent a gift consignment of Soviet arms being landed in Mombasa Fears that Mr Oginga Odinga then Vice-President of the Republic and Deputy Chairman of the A party would seize power have since receded Stripped first of his party office and then of his Vice-Presidency Mr Odinga is in the political wilderness licking his wounds He has there been joined by two Assistant Ministers 26 MPs and latest but probably not last by the former Minister of Information Mr Achieng Oniko It is only surprising that Mr Oneko who is a Communist svmpathiser did not leave the Government sooner An Opposition thus exists in Kenya grouping itself around the resentful Mr Odinga The new Kenya Union supposedly 30-strong in a House of Representatives numbering 117 will not or not yet bring a return to the two-party system That existed indeed Kema before KADU decided to cast in its lot with the ruling A which the Odinga faction has just left Mr Danifl Moi now Home Affairs Minister and a steadying influence in the Kenya Government was himself the former chairman of A But plainly he does not regard the walk-out as a revival of the two-party system as he has shown by confiscating the passports of the dissident members They are treated more as outcasts than as Hon Members of an Opposition Two Leftist Ministers from Zanzibar who came to hob-nob with the Odinga faction have been brusquelv sent home by President Kenyatta Hs prestige is such that he can brush off the reproach of still having a defence arrangement with Britain A can hardly be shaken in Parliament but Mr 30 will sow tribal mischief and relv on General Drought and General Povertv to raise fallen totem Kenya must be watchful ALL Fit 8 sa 5 A 8 XSDREW RLlt ksHxNK I to In Alihl lor a I 'n ngs at 7 30 SIjiv TTiurx 3 0 MICHAFL Db NISON Dl I Cl (iRAY iKNL i-X JL ROtFR IIYFSIY St ARttARF I IOTRWOOD li HARD Xn Hwbnwd fkl DfiVH Li Matt rd 4 Sjt 5 A 8 Svhtl 1 ho ndke henc scsler Ruhard Br erx IVymonJ it Jul a Lodtnooifi VKTORIX Pxl At I Nth 6 8 4 Fi xt SpftJu ir TR Nia a nt While Mmsirrl Show" in 4-n sr ng ur No 166 HI 1 1 Xl wn bs 0 ed 2 3vY 8 RKI AN Rl Xlt omrrde tr is fin Stay 21 trars Sigmc New fixed I MM spy It Me S' I -rn Danny la Rue irhara XX ndvor try XX i XX IH A I In -m-dv HnvS the World Dealing jnJ to he IHE FI I ST PI AY OF Da Is trmt Trnter to vt vi i XX Ml St Mu 5 a' 7 7i vua sv 8 satx 45 Wad 3 VANbSSA I The Prime of XIBs Jean Brodie Ci RtllORDOS tON Theatre shakrxpej am arr caeon ad' sr! for stv si Blewrv ix Pi i Henry ix pt tl -te via na Der perf deta'v 1 xl OF ll TOW Dll i riir R- IFengrrous urse and MAX BYGRAVbS Res Turf is for xll ififxirfs ceJ Roy 74 Od Rrompoa Rad Lndoa 7 Ren 0121 and all branches Mr NMS Stand New Me mi liin Debut between their Liverpool London and Southampton offices Recent critics of the alleged laziness of management should note the assurance of Mr Douglas Barrington the hotel's managing director that these are hard working Vauxhal Motors have just held their fifth Wives are not brought and there is no time for golf The Lygon which has an international ciiente'e does nor need these conferences to fill its 54 bed rooms bu' quite a number of country hotels are depending more on them Mu sir ol I fy nasty VEHL DI Mi Nl Hl who his 50i oacert al Festival Hall tonight will conduct his youngest son and his two sisters in the Mozart three-piano concerto assures me that it is rather premature to refer to a Menuhin dynasty" But he thinks rhe 14-year -old Jeremy making his debut as a solo pianist is the most likely of his children to become a professional I take great pleasure in noticing his real grasp of a score" At Eton Jeremy is getting on as well in science is in mus So the question of his future remains open Saring II igli gate For a long time the family have lived at Highgate and Mr Menuhin has agreed to be the first president of the Highgate Society which is having its inaugural pubic meeting next Tuesday Its aim is to make the neighbourhood a better place to live and work in For a start six committees are being formed to encourage community life proect Highgate against traffic evils improve public transport and ensure that changes in the environment will enhance amenities I wish the society luck It is going to need it Health of Horses 1 5 morning Lord Willoughbv de Broke chairman of the Animal Health Trust's bloodstock industry committee will receive at its Newmarket research station the gift of a new stabling wing from the Home of Rest for Horses Col Critchley the chairman is to hand it over and Lord Leverhulme will acknowledge it as the Trust's chairman Thousands of Reports The wing adioins the surgical unit presented bv the late Miss Gladys Yule The Home aiso present ng orthopaedic instruments to improve the treatment of surgical cases and develop new techniques The station has treated hundreds of valuable horses and made several thousand diagnostic reports to the veterinary profession Lou-Lerel Activity IOBBIRS and brokers alke 1 hear are worried by the tunnelling under the floor of the London Stock Exchange for its new building They fear the bottom is about to fall out of the market PETERBOROUGH IT is being stressed that Mr George Brown is taking his medical tests in a public ward of the Paddington General Hospital His sole privilege is to occupy a cubicle at one end of the ward which gves hm a degree more privacy An earlier report that he was occupying the private ward he entered three years ago for a hernia operation had not passed unnoticed by the medical profession Some were disposed to take a critical view of this in the light of Mr Robinson's announcement in February that he had ordered a review of the 5600 private beds in MIS hosp tas lit nan fttr Tiro Opinions At first sight it seems wholly admrable that Mr Brown snould be in a public ward and there upholding the attitude of his party and the policy of the Minister of Health Asked why he was making this review Mr Robinson observed at the time: because people who are able to pay should not be able to get treatment more quickly than those who cannot" There is room however for another op nion Mr Brow might be held to represent exactly the sort of case which justifies the provision of one bed in 80 for paying patients His loyal submission to a cubicle in a public ward does not fortify Mr Robinson's approach It exposes its weakness I nhnppy Annirersary '0R Sir Ronald Plain cnairman of Roan Selection Trust the Zambian copper producer rhe current crisis makes an unhappy cele-brat on of his 40th year in the industry As an ardent believer in stable prices he has long striven to dissociate his group from the daily fluctuations of the London Metal Exchange Now he has been forced at least temporarily to abandon his policy The present political situation in Central Africa must astonish him His own multi-racial company is an example of enlightenment in tra ing educating and housing local employees Ronald was one of the architects of African advancement in Zambia and he has kept excellent relations with President kaunda Figures Have Yo Frontiers I I OW the accountancy profession moving was shown as: gh: at the Ha dinner gven by Mr Bi'ker pres den: of trie A'sociation of Certified Accountants who had Mr Jay President of the Board of Trade among his guests Mr Ba-ker was presented th the first honorary membership certificate of the two-year-old Mdd East Society of Accountants by Dr Fauzi Saba He had made a special journey for the occasion The society covers the 13 Arab States II lien lienn Sasli Killed risn ORS to niiig Bath Fs ai will be ab 'o see I recent acquisitions by the fas- CINEMAS ran in CMdard SIHHSVILIE nj HE FIBS! 6 i At IKI lr I Mat i Jc ILIUT I PIR11 J4B aMii i rj rr The ft 1 pc -ma-r 0 ft BocSaMr TELEPARUAMENT arda i L( llhfuf ana I rr IP Hr Jr PIL R- MhFI Xl IX cinating Museum of Costume at the Assembly Rooms These include the Restoration dress of st ver tissue and embroidered lace I illustrate It has been guen by Cap: Vaughan descendant of a Devonshire baronet created by Charles II He and Major Pares have also added to the fine collection of men's 18th-century waistcoats Mrs Doris Lang'ev Moore who founded the museum and made it over to Bath keeps it up to and has a wonderful show of 19th-and 20th-century dress But what most attracts the eve is the egance of the days when Beau Nash ruled the city Half Full or Half Empty? SKID bv a BBC interviewer yesterday whether the Daily Worker now the Morning Star had lost a lot of readers and some of its staff as a result of the Russ an attack on Hungary in 1956 the editor replied: 1 would argue that we kept most of our readers and most of our staff" The Future of Cunurd f'HF unusual of Basil Sma lpeice chairman of Cunard and a score of the executives from both des of the Atlantic was seen in the Cotswold village of Broadway at the weekend They were holding at the Lygon Arms an intensve conference on Cuna-d's future based on management consultancy and market intel t-gcnce reports Sir Basil t' me he thought was the first time a great line's functions had been so scientifically ana vsed He does not expect until next year's launching of the new £23 llton 0 4 a decison about her name The dea of calling her smpiy 0 4 unlikely to be adopted because cht suceest a troop- sh ie Oueen mage is difficult too Anne is dead and ctor a isn't qute ir orking II eekends Incidentally this conference illustrates a growing for business men to meet the country so that thev can ta without n'errup-tion Cunard chose the Lvgon because it is conveniently placed ROI FIN IHE Hl( KIN 46N (Ka Not fl mv P'1'4 1245 10 5-40 tl 0 eRi i aaa 1 Du 0 xXa--c MHRliXN -X Xu tiN I ra mm a 0 3 2 5 Nh i NKM 1 Hftlllf of IH HI I I ft ro ft 7 45 ft 8 4 fi 11 55 C(N IY(IM UN 4 r'erfU RInMN XJUSTIRE A 3J RO Na 2 0 35 8 30 1145 4 fi 3 0 C1M I XIHI Rfi 4 4 8 fkt li lech IV Mv of i a ne I onex Pr iimiaee 12 5 2 6 20 8 33 CN i I I I I Vatu'Ja I a lev a (fi) ROh fi MORE VI VIVX MARIA A P' 1 5 1 50 3 10 Y0 I ate 11 a OOMINION JAie 3nftJrA Chritophei Ddc INI SOUND OF Ml Nil I in I Hid A() fi Co ep i I lOCTOB ZHIVAGO A (fi cm erf hi 7 7 ft 4 F' 'ip 2 30 A 7 da Nat 30 acaA heefisHN BOY XI XX HO A Ml I Mb I I 1C "mJ IH 'xx Hi 4 WcaRftC Ih' Map va-u Both Ifkfc F'oca iomiov roiiiox lmcA Bond 1 HI HH PnMA 10 30 12 50 7 fi 8 30 LuM lutav MM OfO! bltiPa MaX'Mft 1 I Television of the State Open ng of Parliament is no new thing: the glittering assembly gathered within and without the Bar of the Houe of Lords to listen to the Speech from the Throne has been previously presented to the world What was new last week was the admission of the cameras within the precincts of the Lower Hou'e itself and it does not appear that Hon Members are uniformly satiftfied with the figure they cut This is not sur-priMng for this great occasion of pageantry is not their day Ceremonially the House of Commons would be more worih lv displayed by say the ritual of electing a Speaker The brief experience of the morning caused immediate expressions of dismay at the innovation both in the debate on the Address and some testy questions aked yesterday One complaint was that the Speaker had admtted the photographers on the arbitrary advice of a committee without consulting the Houe itself another that the blazing lights required for television would be intolerable during ordinary business The point of constitutional punctilio mav be explained away the dazzle may be overcome bv scientific improvement particulars if television has not to be combined with colour filming as appears to have been the case last Thursday But the generally dubious reception of the experiment reinforces the long-standing doubts of the wisdom of trying to televise the House of Commons at work 1 he at Tr 8 iConnnued on P4fir 5 iol-.