lay December 14 1974 _ Saturday Review: The ).270 man who was eight pence ^ ^ ** TIMES Bulldog Drummond, p6 Britain plans big Mr Sithole Children Bill contains wide-ranging reforms doubtful on adoption, fostering and new rights on Rhodesia By Fat Healy cern over three related issues: authority will be able to assume oul his childhood must be taken increase m Social Services Cu (respondent ihe cases of dispute between parental rights. After five years inll* account. Children will be able to have foster and natural parent*; the tlie foster-parents will be able The principle extends existing settlement separate legal representation Maria Colwell case; and the m apply tor adoption without taw by ensuring (hot ihe welfare From Michael Knipv from their parents in care pro¬ knowledge that thousands of four of the natural parents re¬ of children is taken into accounr Salisbury, Dec 13 ceedings and have their own children linger in Sons-icrro moving the child. in ihe long term as well as in wishes taken into account in care because their parents In care proceedings the- Bill trade with Saudis Rhodesia's two African the immediate situation. refuse to relinquish them for leaders, Mr Joshua Nkomo adoption cases under the will give the courts discretion to is to be a big increase in Government's new Children adoption. order separate representation of It also lays down dial the to increase their holdings of cur¬ and the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, courts and adoption agencies Bill, published yesterday. The The Bill will create a new- children where there is u clear free after 10 years in detention, must, as far as practicable, n‘s trade with Saudi Arabia rency in Britain and to extend their gave their liis.1 press interviews Bill, which was introduced in legal status of ”custodianship", conflict nf interests beitvcrn the the Lords Iasi night, is expec¬ under which foster-parents will child and his or her parents. ascertain the wishc.s and feelings ;jl reducing this country's oil here today and displayed some- of tire child and give due con¬ investments. A joint working party ilung of their differences in ted io lake effect in January, lie able to apply for legal Separate representation will 1976. sideration in thorn. Although in pobtical temperament. custody after they have been he mandatory iu unopposed . the Chancellor told MPs would meet in Riyadh in February It proposes wide-ranging Mime custody co>e.s that has been Mr Nkomo. aged 57. the burly curing for a child iur one year. Upplii.iiion> li> remove a care day within hours of his return reforms on the law relating m The provision will enable or supervision order involving the practice for some time, _ it to draw up a medium-term pro¬ leader of the Zimbabwe African adoption and fostering and People’s Union (?.apu) jovially foster parents to take decisions .i child who has been ill treated will be the first time the prin¬ Riyadh. The Saudis intended gramme for increasing trade. follows closely the private mem¬ about the child's future, fur or riL-glecLed. In tin* Maria Col¬ ciple has been written into law*. refused to answer political ber's measure introduced by l>r questions. Mr Sithole, aged 54, example, what kind of education well case ihe application by her The Bill will introduce a Owen, now Minister of State national adoption service, which the youthful-looking head of the fnr Health, who will be respons¬ he might have, v.ithuur having mother to have -i care order Zimbabwe African National ible for the Bill in the Com¬ to consulr the natural parents. revoked was luil opposed- will require local authorities to aiey move to boost City morale Union (Zaiiui, sjtelled nut a few- mons. ISckili measures v.ould give Relatives will be aide to apply The courts will not be given establish and maintain local ser¬ realistic home truths regarding effect to the recommendations for custodianship after three special guidance on when (heir vices. Bui Dr Owen emphasized Noyes crease holdings of currency in bridge, and Chancellor nt hopes for the future. of the Houghton report on ihe months. discretion should he lined, ihat the provisions would be ■nrary Corvcsjiondcnt Britain and to develop and in¬ Queen's IJ nivej-sirv. Cel fust, to Hs bad “ very strong reser¬ adoption of children. Natural parents will no longer although (he rules of court will implemented gradually. crease investment here in -iter visit Saudi Arabia witliln the vations”, about the prospect or The new Bill gives new rights be able to remove a child from he changed in ihe light of the The Bill is expected in raise many spheres. next Tew weeks. a constitutional settlement. Was foster-parents at will once the Bill and the guiding principle i hours of his return to children, foster-parents, local public expenditure on aduptiuu The Chancellor told the He would be discussing the nor lire fact rhar he hud been child has been in care for 12 for adoption cases will be taken apparently MjJcessiuJ authorities and adoptive and allied child services fruni House that to assist in the development oF university cdu freed a hopeful sign ? “ 1 was mnnili* nr more. After that time into account. Thai principle Saudi Arabia, ihe parents aud contains measures about £2.Sni in about I4m a development of closer econom¬ out uf detention 10 years ago the natural parents must give 28 states that full account uf the or nt‘ the Exchequer cation. to dimini-.it gradually ihe ic and industrial cooperation days’ notice of their intent. need in safeguard and pro mole j ear. v mured swiftly to Urged by Mr Carr, the but the position didn’t change ”, rights of natural parents. It .has between the two countries it shadow Chancellor, io explain Mr Sithole said calmly. After throe years the ioial tile weKarc of the child tlii'uugh¬ Leading article, page 13 le sagging morale of been inspired hy public con¬ was agreed to set up a joint reports that Saudi Arabia “ We cannot reach an accom¬ i and io raise coni:- working party of officials. The would in future expect oil pay¬ modation with the Rhodesian in sterling on ihe aim of this committee, which Government because the Rho¬ change markets, ments to he made in dollars, would be holding its first the Chancellor said that Saudi desian Government, is deter¬ statement to the meeting in Riyadh in Feb¬ ministers were as surprised mined on minority rule. Until Stonehouse case link s Mr Hejley said ibai ruary. would be to produce a and dismayed as he was by the it changes its position I cannot Lhe condilions of the medium-term programme fur reports that cotupauies were see how we can reach an accom¬ at reached in Riyadh increasing trade. selling sterling to meet tux and modation." with4concrete coffin’ t til civ would he" big While not specifying Lite royalty payments in dollars. His 10 years in detention were t in British trade v.itn particular spheres in which He had been assured that "hell itself”, he said, but his Dv Michael Horsnell Mulluy, Labuur MP lor Ealing ratlin, aimed at reduc- this decision w as purely to conviction of the justness of his North, and a former Parliamcn- trade and investment would be The Foreign Office vcsierduv size of the oil deficit simplify matters. The arrange¬ cause aud his religious faith bud increased. Mr Healey said it asked Miami police bcuicliing larj Privaie Secretary to Mr Britain now had to ments by which American com¬ kept him going. Monehouse. was desirable that funds of the for Mr John Stunehoiisc. ihu panies paid for their oil duties oil producers should be in¬ Had the loss of (its fieeduiu missing British MI’ and former The Foi vigil Office will not with some sterling went back jig of the friendly and vested not only in monetary for a decade been worth it? Minister, for j special report of confirm ih.n they have been in for many years. Yes. because if people we re to live nature of the instruments but also in produc¬ their investigations into u Mati.i- uuich with (he Federal Bureau The difficulty this week, the demonstrate their belief in their ,Ir Healey said that tive enterprises. style “ concrete uvuiv«ut ’’ i.f Investigation, hui there is own cause they had to suffer. trabian ministers had He assured the House that Chancellor explained, arose known Tu have co mail wd j body. now known to have been regular themselves in favour the Government would make from the accident that Aramco Asked if he felt bitterness, he A slab of concrete was taken contact with the Miami police, iple of his plans, to be certain that industries of stra was not given notice of this said he was not by nature a giving .substance iu suspicions of j by the International regie or economic importance decision by Saudi Arabia until bitrer man. Wfear had he missed io a beach in Miami close to the point where Mi Stonehouse growing diplomatic concern y Fund, for recycling did not fall under foreign con¬ it had already bought sterling most? Free association with disappeared, bur it was broken .ibiiur Mr Sionehouse’s fate. is iruu investment in trol. to make the oil payments. The other human beings and listen¬ Mr Mutiny *aid.- “The result was that it -had to un¬ ing to the radio for the first up and the body it encased t. As an indication of the removed before police could Foreign Office had given the iced great emphasis on closer liuks now being forged. load sterling in a burry and time in 10 years today was impression nf having treated the this was what bad led to the “ marvellous examine it. ranees that it was the Air Healey said he had case in an insouciant manner, flurry earlier in the week- The Foreign Office is remain¬ i of the Saudis hoc arranged for Lord Ashby, Mas¬ Mr Sithole complained a little hut I have been shown evidence ing discreet about its activities main win but to in¬ ter of Clare College, Cam¬ parliamentary report, page 5 over the suddenness uf bis uf their tjuite remarkable acti¬ concerning Mr Stonehouse hut release and the speed with vities since Mr Sionehouse dis¬ it is now known to be intensify¬ which he was rushed into the appeared. Lusaka discussions. “We didn't ing its inrerest in Miami as “Cut now it will he prudent know what it was all about to fears grow tiiar he has been tu go buck to the Foreign Office detail price index goes up 1.8% start with. We were just murdered. Sir Peter Rams both am. British and I warn their views on the get uf an inflation rate down to approached at Que Que prison statements made by the Lauder¬ • Jay closely in line with the Conser¬ Ambassador in Washington, is 10 per cent by the end of next and told we were wanted by the dale police. 1 believe there is . zs Editor vative estimate in October which in close much with Mr D. \V. M. offended Mr Healey so much. year and into single figures in Presidents meeting in Lusaka. a prim it facie case to make So there it was. We had just to Pieroiti, Eritish consul in icent moderation of in- Now, as then, too much should 1976 appears at present to be at, certain that the body in the go there. Aod when we got Miami, who is in daily contact ;as stopped, at least for not be made of changes over or indeed beyond, the limits of concrete overcoat ivns rbai of there we found what it was all with local police. tent. The general index- three months, which can easily optimism. It may in fact turn John Stonehouse. about. It was indeed incredible.*’ Part of the concrete coffin prices rose 1.8 per cent exaggerate the significance of out that the inflation rate will He made enemies aiid hence ff some emissaries from was left behind on the beach mher, after the sharp small deviations from the under¬ continue dose to. the present'IS I believe that while it was, and Zambia had not been present and the rest removed tu a ware¬ ;ent jump in October. lying trend. But there are no per cent for some months, pro¬ Mill is, a hypoihesifc that tlie when they were collected from house in the Lauderdale Lakes ra the first monthly in- major abnormal influences to be vided there are no new big dis¬ Mafia would want to get rid of prison, he said, he and his com¬ district of Fort Lauderdale, 2U of more than 11 per discounted over the past three turbances to present conditions. him, there are some fuels now panions would have suspected miles from where Mr Stone- ce the huge 3.4 per cent months. The rise in-prices in Novem- which enhance the possibility.” they were being kidnapped. house disappeared. t April caused by Mr The next six months will feel ber-„-,er is ascribed by the Depart- Mrs Stonehouse lias said “ Frankly, we did not. like the j spring Budget the effects of the easing of price mentlent of Employment, which_ Police, whu had been tipped threats have been made against soeed with which it happened. ■ ?s. controls in both public and collects the statistics, to “ higher off abour ii suspicious odour her husband’s life bat denies We were quire unprepared for best general measure of private sectors announced in_the_ prices for domestic coal and coming from the warehouse, left ihaf there have been any it.” md of inflation is the November Budget, as well as of coke, sugar,- milk, second-hand after a man explained that ii reccutly. The most recent After so many years in deten¬ over six months in the the seasonally adverse period for cars, clothing and many other came from “ human waste and known threats were made in tion, he explained, he and his ndex of all items except garbage ” which had been near 1972 when Mr Stonehouse. tem¬ food prices, which runs from goods and services”. companions were still looking iily sensitive food prices, The Budget measures an¬ the slab, and that he had bought porarily relinquishing a prom is- November to May. upon Lhe issues in an abstract nounced on November 12 will the slab for concrete testing. ing ministerial career for a busi¬ •sed as an annual rate of The National Institute of manner when they .were not have affected the November But early next morning the ness one. In-incbed the British e, this index of inflation Economic and Social Research suddenly hurtled iuto practical J a Peak of over 22 per Index, which measured prices man was seen breaking it up Bangladesh Trust, which was re¬ recently forecast that inflation negotiations. ‘ the six months to June, over the next 12 months might on November 12. The increase with a pneumatic drill and when named in March ilie London Mr Sithole said the effective¬ ± to 14J per cent in the accelerate “into the 20-25 per io VAT on petrol and the easing police arrived he, and another Capital Group, and became a ness of the ceasefire between Dtbs to October and has ceot rauge,” impelled mainly by of the price code will begin to man. fled. public company with a number the guerrillas and the Rhodes¬ ien again to just over 13 a general disregard of the social be reflected in the index for Police emphasize there is still of subsidiaries. ian defence^ forces would de¬ it contract. In addition some .rise prices in the present month, to no direct evidence to connect Insurance explained: Life in¬ pend on various conditions. He in import prices, as sterling be published in mid-January. the crime with Mr Stonehouse s surance policies on Mr Stone- six-month change has had no idea when the proposed The scheme of threshold pay¬ disappearance but die Foreign house were arranged by Mrs y been affected by the falls, and the improvement iu constitutional conference would ments under Phase Three of Kir Office, who waul them io Stonehouse after his cur was standstill of prices in allowed price-cost margins be held, and first he and the Heath's counter-inflation pro¬ expedite tbeir investigations, are wrecked by a bomb ai London . caused by the 2 per cenr would be pushing prices up. other African leaders had to gramme came officially to an expecting a report by Monday. airport and another bomb was l value-added tax ail¬ But other forecasters, not only assess the opinions of the monetarists, believe that there end with the publication of the found at Naafi headquarters 'd in Mr Healey’s Juli¬ people. The theory that Mr Stone- es. will be a cyclical fall in the in¬ index for October a mouth ago. In the early years of their house, a former Minister of near the family home, she told Had the scheme still been in tbree-monih change is flation rate in the first half of political struggle Mr Sithole Aviation and Postmaster ihe Press Association last operation, the November index night. such as the Chancellor next year. They expect this to and Mr Nkomo were allies. Mr General, who developed con¬ would have released another She declined to disclose rhe E used to calculate his be caused by the impact of Nkomo was the charismatic Mr Justice Caulfield at a cottage at Scarcroft, siderable business interests in lus estimate of an 81 per world and domestic recession two threshold payments worth leader of the African nationa¬ the past three years, was amount of the policies, although nflarion rate before the aud by the slower growth in the 40p a week each for eligible lists and Mr Sithole his more near Leeds, yesterday during a visit by the court murdered by the Mafia was first tiicre have been reports that 1 election, the annual rate money supply. workers. put forward by Mr William they totalled C120.0UU. Table, page 17 Continued on page 4, co! 5 in a murder trial (report, page 3). arion is now 21.2 per cent. Even so, the Chancellor’s tar¬ Jewish complaint about On other pages Leader page, 13 . •V'-V.. Z V> *s.W£.W-: idequacies alleged as Letters: On the freedom oF the ‘Times’ advertisement advert ser. from Sir Michael Hailow and others: on govern¬ By a Staff Reporter in Britain ; to build more homes, en die in blaze ment policy towards industry, Tbe Board of Deputies of to improve social services, to used extinguishers which all from Sir Joseph Lockwood ; on British Jews has referred an help pensioners ? Shouldn’t dons than fire precautions remarriage of divorcees from the Britain come first ? *’ &adequate and that many worked properly. Dean of Norwich. advertisement published in The The board said: “The Board uishers did uot work were The hostel owners said they Leading articles : Advertising Times on Wednesday to the of Deputies of British Jews yesterday by some resl- had bought the building last freedom ; *The Children’s Bill. Race Relatious Board' and the Attorney General. The board utterly repudiates the scurri¬ of a west London hostel vear and applied for a fire Features, pages 6-12 says the advertisemenr, attack¬ lous suggestion that in contri¬ a fire iu which_ seven "certificate. Work was iu pro¬ BEFORE Marcel Berlins on why the law ing contributions’ to, Israel by buting to charitable causes in including a fireman. gress to meet GLC recommenda¬ must adapt to meet the needs of British Jews, was “scurrilous ” Israel the Jewish community is But the manager said he tions PaSe 2 h changed society ; Sportsvicw. Furniture record: A Louis XVI and an affront to the Jewish less than loyal to Britain.” ormolu-mounted ebony bureau Brian James on a 40-year-old record Out could go tills seasou ; community. The advertisement would YOU TAKE DECISIONS, plat and cartonnier were sold George Hutchinson asks, where The full-page advertisement, have tbe unqualified approval singer hope on energy crisis at Sotheby’s yesterday for have ail the inspiring leaders placed by tbe “ Committee for of those who sought to sow tbe e end of the Naro totur- crisis were nor contradictory' a°d £240,000, en auction record gone ? could be reconciled. After talks Justice in the Middle East ”, had seeds of racial batred. “The TAKE ADVICE 1 council meeting in price for any furniture. They Clive Barnes on American arts im¬ T tines has performed a dis¬ with the Creek and Turkish bad originally belonged to tbe been rejected by The Guardian. als yesterday. Dr Henry perilled in an economic wasteland. which said yesterday: “ We fell service to its readers, who ex¬ foreign ministers the Secretary Due de ChoiseuJ, who had been The travel column looks at a pect from it a high standard of iger contended that the of State also was optimistic that it was encouraging racial Louis X\Ts Prime Minister. sumptuous escape tu Jamaica and iournalistic ethics.” progress on Cyprus was possible They . were sold with _ other goif in the Iberian sun. hatred.” aches of France and the There was an Arab campaign d States to the energy Page 4 items from the collection of It spoke of British Jews Sport, pages 15 and 16 making untaxed charitable dona¬ io discredit the Jewish com¬ the late Lady Baillie. Football: Norman Fox previews munity and make them the ":?f [■;}.' Esp^oafly uiKeriiti^iu ■' Sale room, page 14 today’s league and FA Cup pro¬ tions of millions of pounds to Israel, and said iu part: “Isn’t scapegoat for (he economic and '•'yourself letrol price rise likely grammes ; Rugby Union : England social ills of Britain. area trial prospects ; Athletics: Britain more important ? CGTDp|0XiticSof^Ct]B3QBn^&i^JOTj^£C";'.^' could rise by lp a io introduce a simplified primus Littlejohn remand : A Birming¬ Nell Allen compares existing Shouldn’t British money remain Leading article, page 13 c iiv system from January 1. This ham magistrate yesterday world records ; Squash rackets : ' industrial '51 - ause of a decision by ^crea5e is on Iop 0f rises io remanded Mr Kenneth Little¬ British amateur championships; y yoirr concern is a^jraatfi^U-r, ’% ;* f - f the Organization for petrol costs being considered by john, tbe Dublin jail escaper, Racing : Ascot, Nottingham and in custody for a week_2 Canerirk Bridge programme and Mr Richardson . disposalor;: Exporting Countries the Price Commission Page 17 prospects. Red Cross visit Money matters: Statements on ■ You shauld-^0o^tisy top salaries in the public service Arts. Page 9 Sheridan Mur ley talks to radio to Emperor k to be next of proft^sion^^qtf'fex^eablejajid^^ m for building societies and on the upratmg of MP’s producer John Tydeman; John societies’ net receipts also expected to prove a good salaries will be made in the Pcrcival review, three ballets by Haile Selassie US ambassador’ nher were £i7Sm. only month.. The public’s n«d for Commons next week 3 Frederick Ashton ; Leonard Buck- Addis Ababa, Dec 13.—Alt From Fred Emery- •-; The than Sober, .he b«. secure investment u belmved to ley on a new television situation Wash ington. Dec 13 Trek begins: The Scout Asso¬ comedy series. International Red Cross deleg¬ Mr Elliot Richardson is to he . can offer-ydu^?^;^ ^ tis year. December is be the reason. Page 17 ciation has started its move ation announced'■ here today Obituary, page 14 ihe next United States Ambas¬ from its long-established head¬ that it had visited former Eip- quarters at 25 Buckingham Sir Edward Maufe. sador-to Britain, according tu peror -Haile • Selassie at the informed sources. al workers urged to accept 19% Palace Road 3 Business News, pages 17-21 Stock market: - Both gilts and Grand Palace where he is The- former Ottornev General lowest paidi .....staff PC a niininmnlminimum Washington: United States if.** of 220,000 ko> equities improved yesterday. FT detained. who resigned rather than obey wage of £30 a week, m line Senate vote to limit debate im¬ index gained 2.2 to 132.2. ary workers last The statement gave no Mr Nixon’s order to dismiss with the TUC target, and add proves chances of trade reform Professor Archibald Cox, the mended their meni¬ Finance Bill. Oliver Stanley dis¬ deiails of the health uf the rfillni a vear to the wage ou«- Bill beating deadline to become cusses die cost of giving and John al a 19 per cent Einpei'ur, who is 82. It said the first Watergate special prose¬ Page 3 Drummond examines the detailed , would bring the law _* four members were allowed to cutor, is said tu have conveyed implications of the proposed new j his acceptance of (be post iu Athens setback: Greece’s new¬ rules fur life assurance policies, talk in private to any dctiinees President Ford. BLMClprices increase found unity strained by the dis¬ investor’s Week : A detached look they wished und had visited closure tiiat Mr Kararaaniis at discount stores; Francis some 20Q of them in addition . i At- rhe same time came news of intends to make himself presi Kinsman on a world without to the Emperor. They had *P|! aild * £50ni aid offer front the dent 5 economists. made recommendations to ihe 4The Times’ ruling council.—Reuter. Because of industrial action bv Home News 2, 3 Engagements 14 Services 14 the National Graphical Associa¬ trucks and buses. European News 4 Features 6-12 Sport, 15. 16 tion The Times, in common with Overseas News 4, 5 Gardening 11 TV & Radio 8 other national newspapers, was 20 Princess’s visit Arts 9 Law Report Theatres, etc able to publish only one edition md off to bad start Letters 13 8, 9, 14 Princes'? Anne and Captain Bridge yesterday. We apologize to Business 17-21 Obituary 14 Travel to Mark Phillips will visit Australia Chess Parliament 5 25 Years Ago 14 next April, Buck!ogham Palace readers for the lack of late news isaa sys Court Sale Room 14 Weather 2 announced yesterday. They are and fur the duplication of some Chartered Surveyors risr Australia at Perth against Australia. pgge JS Crossword Science 16 Wins 3 going to Adelaide and will Arts reviews ■ which had They were all out attend the International Equest¬ appeared the previous day. rian Expo 197S. London papers siopprd, page 2
J THE TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 HOME NEWS Littlejohn movements Extravagant councils Users to joP1 known to police, Post Office;^ ‘compete for staff’ Saturday j By a Staff Reporter would cause economies in those Extravagance by local amho_- arras. solicitor suggests There seemed to be an over¬ tides, especially about staffing, lap of responsibilities and mail talks ? From Arthur Osman Scroggs told the magistrate that was criticized by the National Chamber of Trade yesterday in functions, .with, two or .more By Our Business News Stal Birmingham the circumstances “most be the evidence to the Layfield com- people doing jobs previously The Post Office has rev Police in Britain knew that most nmisnai ever to come Kenneth Littlejohn, the self' before you.* When arrested Mr mittee of inquiry into local <*°iie.ior,y onf*£* ... its decision to debar the Seldom had there been as office Users’ National Cc styled British spy, had made a Littlejohn was not wanted in government spending. The response, supported by niuch criticism of the rating from discussions with the u visit to his wife and children in this country for any offence. press comments, or “a great burden earned by commercial on the abolition of Sat> Devon, a solicitor said in a “There was no warrant against many”' of the 800 local undertakings as in tbepast two deliveries. Lord Peddie, . Birmingham court yesterday. him for any offence whatsoever. chambers of trade and com- three years. Rate increases nan of the council, comme Mr Littlejohn, aged 33, was what is alleged is that this merce had shown that “ extra- of up to 6w per cent bad been the decision yesterday, arrested by West Midlands escaped from a prison outside vagance ha* been the keynote recorded. Many small businesses thought tripartite discus police in Birmingham on Wed- the jurisdiction of this court* in local authority spending feared that they would be forced may start within a fortnigl nesaay, nine months after he The magistrate pointed out before and since reorganize- to close. Last month it was disc escaped from Mountjoy prison, that Mr Littlejohn was before 1 tion ”, the chamber reported. The chamber called on central that the Post Office had re Dublin, where he was serving 20 the court under the 1965 Act An 'aspect that had attracted Government to take oyer the jo allow the users’ coum _vears for his part in a £67,000 and said the procedure was far almost universal criticism was cost of education, police and take part, as it considers peak robbery. At yesterday’s from unknown. But it was the way - local authorities other services from local autho- discussions to be on iudu brief bearing, in which he said unusual to have somebody who seemed “to be competing for rides. relations, where oi nothing, Mr John Mill ward, the had been serving a sentence, . staff, paying higher-than-ever It rejected the idea of a sales interests should have no ti stipendiary magistrate, re- “Most of those who are sent salaries and expanding depart- tax. The council's annannualual rep rr.anded him in custody until back are wanted for trial* he meats", although it had been The chamber also opposed a published bybv the Static next Friday. added. claimed that reorganization poll tax. Office at 39p. No police evidence was called. Mr Scroggs continued: “So It is expected that nest week far as the application for bail is evidence will be heard about an concerned, you have to be satis- application for his return to Ire- fied that if this man is allowed land. He appeared on a charge his liberty today he would return Working party will watch over HS146 under the Backing of Warrants to this court when required to (Republic Of Ireland) Act, 1965, do so.” Mr Littlejohn had never By Arthur Reed the project ticking over, at a ing party established yest< under which people wanted in previously absconded and had Air Correspondent higher level than is envisaged will report back well befor the republic can be charged in a permanent address in Bfrming- A umrlrinp nairMr r-onr*. by the Government. corporation comes into bei a British court and sent back. bam known to the police. semative^of In The feelios in the * His solicitor, Mr Kenneth On the question of sureties, management and workers was Sareffor^tt JJL jjJJ £ to nmke i2dustry.1S r{?at lbe chanc Scroggs, of Totnes, Devon said Scroggs said that his client set up yesterday to study the the project being revived that Mr Littlejohn^s arrest had owned property in Torquay future of the Hawker Siddeley hS tooStoo£ aS extremely small while the c been in circumstances “bizarre valued at £15,000. The magi- HS 146 airliner project. It Skt *3* finaa.ces continue n in the extreme". He continued - strate pointed out that he had flowed a mwtingin London wouSTnorindiyTw carried out severe strain, “ Only last weekend, with the just granted legal aid and said: between Mr Wedgwood Benn, routine in the Hawker There is no enthusiast knowledge of the police, accord- « you now tell me he is worth Secretary of State for Industry, cjddeie- nroiect office. Hawker Siddeley for reestal mg to my instructions, be went £15,000” Mr Scroggs said that Sir Arnold Hall, chairman of iff1!* draTAere is no ing the project. The com to Torquay, saw bis wife and Mr Littlejohn’s wife was living Hawker Siddeley, and leaders of ouertfon^of Gorernmeut indicated to the Goverame took Christmas presents for £□ the house. the aircraft industry unions. over the entire bill of Jufr that they wished to • their children and then took Outside the court, Mr Scroggs It will keep the market for up to £150m for funding re- draw on the grounds that 3 them out for a day I_- “ _■_SiUQsaid thatULCU. Mr1VU LittlejohnWIUCJUUU haduau the HS 146 under constant search and development of the tion vl^as sending costs ®t After the hearug a senior been ^ working in review and could recommend to HS 146, which is a 70 to 100 seat control, while airlines had police officer said : “ I shall say Birniinghain since MardlAfter the Government when it con- airliner powered by four Ameri- their inclination to buy nothing about what was said in hThadwSkedS riders the time aonrooriate for ran ensues. aircraft as they grappled court. It is a very delicate poa- BelfastTcaught a ferry to Fireman Anthony Stewart, injuredid whenwen the hostel roof collapsed, being taken to an ambulance,ambulance. ^t^rojax^^^rev^i*^ proiect to be revived. f°r CflTijfTheHS146tTTs1f«^ is being kept “00 fuel costs. non as far as we are concerned, sSSSer, thS hiked to Binn- with the whole thing being sub- Z Mr Healey, Chancellor of the ice ” against the setting up of A statement after yesteri judice ” VVest police tel for about 200 members of fire certificate. But because we Exchequer, will see represents- the national aerospace corpora- meeting ar the Departmezi . Grand Metropolitan’s hotels’ value our staff and are anxious rives of the aviation unions on tion, which will run the Industry said: “ The m*;\ S *d‘ - ^ “sreffiffsrsL.Mfuttlejohn has maintainedmatataihad Seven found 5staff.Qux. Somesome orof memthem complained 10to provide memthem wimwith every Tuesdav, when they will press nationalized industry planned by agreed that studies wouliwouli!J' yesterday that fire precautions protection we asked for the him to*authorize funds to keep the Government. But the work- madem,f ^ 1 j>yBy Paulr
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nbarrassing timing Law chief JpPj}) til9 (j Scouts’ trek In brief ^debate on rejects from No 25 Cattle protest bill qf rights would have cost £150,000 Demonstrations by farmers at ising MPs’ salaries Holyhead protesting against proposal pleased BP Irish cattle imports cost North •id Wood venient in die context of die By Our Legal Correspondent By Philip Howard (Vales police authority £150,000 it Editor economic debate in which the it was disclosed yesrerday. The Scout Association is Government':: business Chancellor, with Mr Foot in sup¬ Mr Archer, Solicitor General, Mr Philip Myers, chief con¬ moving this weekend from the ;rs find themselves In the port, are expected to remind the has disagreed with the pro¬ stable, told the authority ax bouse beside Buckingham poaiiion that ncit trade unions of the cardinal im¬ posal of Lord Justice Scans an Colwyn Bay rhat the sura in¬ iey will be freed with the portance of observing the terms Palace that has been its national earlier this week that Britain headquarters pretty well since volved the "cost of food, travel¬ •' reading of the Finance of the social contract. ling and overtime. i Tuesday and an eco- Because the Opposition should have a Bill of Rights, Baden-Powell bared his knees debare on Wednesday wanted a debate on the economy limiting the sovereignty of and started boys scouting ’ parallel with a state- before the Christmas recess, Parliament. The rest of tbe lease on 25 Nationalist link Uie Prime Minister on Buckingham Palace Road, MPs of the Scottish National with a motion on which the A Bill of Rights might have tries in ihe public service known to Scouts at the rourd and Plaid Cymru parries, who House will divide, the promised saved the country from having aiher statement from Mr earth’s imagined corners as “ 25 together outnumber tbe Liberals two-day debate on defence has the Industrial Relations Act in BP Road ”, so neatly combining by one in the Commons, are id Lord President of the now been cut to one day, on 19/1, Mr Archer said at a ' I. asking the Boyle com- Monday. tbe initials of the founding consider an alliance to estab¬ tr? report on the uprating Fabian Society meeting in Old¬ father of the movement with the lish themselves as the third The unexpired portion of the ham, Lancashire, last night. address, has been sold to the ’ salaries. debate will now come in Janu¬ “Bur Parliamentary debate is political force. Mr Donald Grosvenor Estates. Yesterday Stewart, Scottish National MP ie economic debate Mr ary. when Mr Mason, Secretary more responsive to changing Chancellor of the Ex- of State for Defence, has com¬ the Scouts were moving out in a for tbe Western Isles, said in needs and expectations than any combination of trek and jam¬ Cardiff yesterday. i f. will be strongly dial- pleted his discussions in Nato written text. To enshrine for all j fit . by the Conservatives on about the proposed defence boree that would have gratified future generations our own their patriarch. J'ff(fectual working of the cuts. cherished ideas is to deny our Damages for scars Tbe main administrative de¬ ' [contract. Chapter and A further embarrassment is children the right to disagree Damages of £1,800 against the partments are moving iuto tem¬ vill he quoted to show in store for the Government in with us.” Inner London Education Author¬ porary accommodation at The e contract has already a day when Mrs on both sides ity were awarded in tbe h^gh Tbe issue was whether in tbe Baden-Powell international eached and is now under are sombrely conscious of a Court yesterday to Patrick last resort.the British preferred hostel in South Kensington, ■ral threat from some recession in 1975. The Cabinet to commit their liberty to Noonan, aged 18, of Northfields. has to reach a decision on where a permanent extensi«»n judges or politicians. Although for them will be ready iu about Ealing, whose face was scarred . ich a debating environ- whether to go ahead with the it remained important to pro¬ 18 months. by sulphuric acid in an un- new parliamentary building will clearly need ail die tect individual liberty, the law The Duchess of Kent inspecting Catering Corps staff at Aldershot Headquarters departments Ubelled beaker, squirted by Minister's adroitness to scheme, opposite Big Ben today also had the more posi¬ another bay at a school iu North further large increases tower. dealing with Cub Scout. Scon: tive function of intervening in and Venture Scour training arc Kensington. for the heads of the Tbe latest estimate is that the daily life as the champion of moving to Chingford, on ihe [ized industries, civil scheme would cost about £30m, those who lacked economic edge of Epping Forest. Records Casino man remanded judges, and others, and it is scarcely conceivable power. of leader appointments and Mr John Tsis^i'ides, owner of hort will probably have Jury visit death scene cottage til at there would be much ** Most of them have no Scout group registrations arc the Carlton Casino at Torquay, . or task in announcing public support for it at a time greater confidence in judges moving into uew offices at Lanc¬ was remanded in custody for rd Eoyfc of Hondsworth From Our Correspondent Wei her by road at Scar croft, Tom Anderson, aged 70, a when belts arc being lightened. than in politicians ”, he said. ing. Sussex. And the manage¬ a week by Torbay magistrates Leeds i ar catcher, of Harebill Lane. • invited to carry out u Meanwhile, the customary “ Law is not merely a brake where Miss Dai>y Morris, aged ment of the 10 national Scuui yesterday,"accused of conspiracy irJy review of MPs’ December White Paper on on governments. It is an active A jury of nine men and two 80, was found dead la&l Easter Leeds, has pleaded not guilty camp sites will be run from a to defeat the course of justice. ; and tactically it will public expenditure, which will process. We must beware of women yesterday travelled six Mr Justice Caulfield and court to murder. It is alleged that, lie small department temporarily cult for backbenchers to show the cuts in government persuading ourselves that free¬ miles to a ramshackle cottage officials waited outside. A strangled Miss Morris because situated near Addington, to an increase in top spending, has been postponed where a woman is alleged to Dearer sugarbeet plea dom can be embalmed. It can¬ typist from the prosecution she refused to move from the Surrey. while supporting tUeir until the new year. not be preserved by any insti¬ have been strangled. solicitor’s office lay down in a The upheaval is part of the A price rise of a third on cottage and sell him the land. sugarbeet crops is to be sought t claim. No time is ever felicitous for tution unless that institution has The jury, from Leeds Crown corner in tbe jiosition in which movement's policy of being pre¬ The trial continues on Mon¬ next year, the National Farmers’ iy event, die two state- ministers and politicians to look muscle power deriving from Court, filed into dm tiny VeJeta the body is said to have been pared to make tbe most rational ie.\t week will be incon¬ after their own pay. human vigilance and concern.” Cottage, on the main Leeds to found. day. use of its resources Union said yesterday. Tory plan to ions value independence With these powerful speakers emphasize 16". with 3\" tweeter) the best stereo . irbitration service reproduction is normally obtained by placing them 6-12 feet apart, angled k nond Ferman lorry drivers’ dispute, the action EEC benefits Teak woodgrain finish towards the centre ol Ihe listening area. ... Staff involving Independent Televi¬ By Our Political Staff cabinet with contrasting Ev-perimenl and you wll quickly find Ihe es just published show sion News journalists, the print Tbe Conservatives are to black and silver colour • plovers and trade unions workers’ dispute at the Statio¬ strive to persuade Britain to control panels anci best position in your particular room. reasingly turning to the nery Office, strikes at Hoover in stay in the EEC. Mr Heath, removable transparent lid. i set up independent Scotland and Vickers in Barrow, Leader of the Opposition, the ending of the recent bakers’ promised that in a speech yes¬ The speakers, too, have a ition and Arbitration rich teak veneer. for help in settling strike and, perhaps the greatest terday to Bexley Borough . al disputes, triumph, getting work started ar Luncheon Club. the Seaforth grain terminal, service has completed “ We shall launch a campaign Liverpool, after two years of norths’ work and has to remind tbe British public of inter-union bickering. ith more than 400 cases the advantages of Community The debit side includes the iliation and more than membership and the very real National Graphical Association’s cases of individuals dangers if Britain were to with¬ dispute with Fleet Street news¬ lg against dismissal, two- draw ”, he said. “ As part of paper proprietors and that >f which were resolved this campaign we shall organize ■ between the National Union of recourse to an indus- a series of conferences in our Journalists and provincial news¬ , ribtmal. The service big cities”. papers. In both cases the parties d arbitrators in more Tbe first will be held in York¬ wem to tbe service but returned instances. shire at the end of January. without a settlement. “ We have ptember the service con- no magic formula”, Mr Morti¬ “ Through tbe auspices of tbe in 101 disputes, in mer commented. Conservative Group for Europe • the figure rose to 155 He is aware that to some we shall launch an extensive t month it was 184. It is observers some of tbe information-gathering exercise :ant that so far unions successes will look in economic in order to collect further evid¬ Dre willing to approach terms like failure. The Scottish ence about the- real effects and . -vice than employers. Mr road haulage strike, for consequences of staying in or Mortimer, its chairman, example, was resolved when the leaving the Community”, Mr tes its popularity to an men received their full claim, Heath said. aess of the independence £40 for 40 hours, a settlement “ The real argument today for service from government that employers claim will greatly continued British membership om an incomes policy, add to prices. is that we in Britain need all ere is a long tradition of “ You must not think that the the international help and sup¬ ation going back in this CAS is responsible for the terms port we can get.” y to at least 1896”, he of settlements ; we do not mind “ Employers and trade if it is £30 or £40 or anything feel that this is better else- Our first responsibility is WHS ■y an independent service to try to secure a settlement”, Couple for trial • a government depart- Mr Mortimer said- “We take because if you are inside account of and pay regard to on baby charge rtment you are inflexibly the contents of tbe social con- j A couple accused over the government policy.” tract, but we are not the inter¬ taking of Stephen Robinson, ees the role of the service preters of tbe social contract.” ; aged seven weeks, from a ilitating settlements be- Although he will admit to “ a mother and baby home at eraployers and unions and “ little nudging ” by the CAS to Borroivash, near Derby, were jh he is reluctant to say achieve a settlement, Mr Morti¬ yesterday committed on bail by Amplifier This gives a big 15 mer is adamant that the service o many words be judges Derby magistrates for trial at watts per channel speech mi ■sr quarter’s work a suc- does not apply pressure on Nottingham Crown Court. and music rating at less than Ibour seven out of 10 of parties to a dispute to settle Alan Whitfield, aged 25, of ises dealt with by the oo particular terms. The excep- ! Tamworth Road, Long. Eaton, 1^ harmonic distortion. .* resulted in a settlement, tion is in cases of arbitration ! is charged with detaining the ■BSP mg the more notable where the arbitrator is not a baby by fraud with intent to ses have been the Scottish member of the service. deprive his mother of his possession. His wife, Paulette, aged 24 is charged with taking Model 2459 £135-55 Tears stopped the baby away by force with ither ‘ refused intent to deprive his mother of (incVAT) [,000 offer father’s plan possession. eturn child ’ to snatch baby Cypriots allowed • umuel Leduc, a Canadian A husband broke into bis . y agent, flew the Atlan- wife’s flat in Cowes, Isle of offer Mrs Joyce Miron Wight, at 3 am, pointed a loaded to stay Record Player Advanced 0 from her wealthy gun at her and her mother and The 40 Cypriot refugee fami¬ Garra/d 6-300 automatic/ ged husband in return snatebed his son, aged 17 lies who, Haringey Council in manual deck, with magnetic sr son David, aged two, months, from his cot, magis¬ north London said, faced evic¬ stereo cartridge with :rales at Leeds were told trates at Newport were told tion yesterday because of unpaid diamond stylus. day. Mrs Miron refused. yesterday. He set off in a taxi hotel bills, have been allowed io a local airfield where, for Leduc, of Levesques to stay in the hotels. £500, he had arranged for a The council has protested to Montreal, admitted private aircraft to fly to Ger- K—input Selector Buttons eoing Mrs Miron, aged the Prime Minister about White¬ many. W] These enable you to select hat the boy would be hall delays over their claim for But the baby constantly called PJ automatically the radio by force. The _ magis- special cash help. r waveband you require-VHF, remanded him in cas¬ for bis mother, and the father tor a week for reports to realized he could not follow his Medium. Long or Short. plan. Yesterday Herbert Heib, Bass and Treble Both these vhether a custodia-I sen- , Ferry charges up aged 37, a German welder, wept should be imposed. Bo controls have a very wide range. as Miss Marjorie White, for the High season cross-channel . Stereo Radio Light s3 guilty to using threat- I | fares on British Rail Sealink So-irom all kinds of programme Off-On Switch behaviour likely to cause \ defence, related how husband material—you can always adjust Illuminates automatic-all.' and wife separated last Septem¬ ferry services are to go up next and Vbiume ich of the peace. ihe graduated scales to gel when a stereo programme ber and the wife went to live year, but car rates on all routes is being received. Ian Stamp, for the prose- with her mother in Queens from Dover, Folkestone and the most pleasing reproduction 1, said that in September Harwich in the low season, Road. Cowes. possible. __ □porary court order was j Miss White said that _ when ! from January 10 May 23 . regarding the boy and i and September onwards, will Shape You may have Automatic Frequency Herr Heib changed his nund he irother Steven, aged six, I I stay largely unchanged. 8alance As you know the balance noticed thal on some Control To keep VHF went to a house in Ryde, where be condition did not spe- between the speakers is critical to stereo systems, the boss stations continuously tine- the police found him and the good stereo reproduction. and treble response c^n Tape This button aistody. A later order was baby. Herr Heib was ^alleged tuned, press the AFC button. in favour of Mrs Miron i often seen / dimme* l P»ovides tor playback to Have told the police: I only Latest wills This sensitive HMV control enables sr her husband, who is in I took the gun to fnghten them. Latest estates include fnet. before you to adjust the set to attain this at low volume Press from a tape recorder ia. In September the duty paid ; further duty may be perfect balance. the HMV Shape but tor i <» tape monitoring with boy was unlawfully taken Herr Heib was given a two ; payable on some estates! : Gram Press this . . years’ conditional discharge for and this eflecl will be u '3-head recorder. - school in Leeds and i ffyng, Mr Leonard Harold Robert, tor all records, mono possessing a firearm and 174 counteracted. ounrry. of Sandwich, sculptor and former or stereo. rounds of ammunition without stockbroker (duty paid, £36^69) Stamp said that _ Mrs Mono Press this for mono radio or a certificate and was fined £100 £144,733 Tuning A rotary control giving n met Mr Led-uc in a together with the Gram button lor for carrying a gun when ne 1 Dean, Mr Henry, of Bearsted. fine-tuning on all wavebands. a hotel. He at first offered j mono records. entered a flat as.a trespasser. Kent (duty paid, £27,124) £87,578 money if the boy should 1 His taxi driver, Derek i Owen, Mr Robert Charles Dorsett, n to his father in Canada Charles, of Albert Street, Cowes, of Ellesmere, Salop (doty paid Aeries niicita; is/.’rt :cJ i- -ti.:.'; ! i .V rl..j i ■- j■ '• ■■ •-V a Christmas reunion. He Socket! iiCs did CaiTi Al." *■ l-.'-i.. :. l— •- IV !», was fined £20 for wilfully £24,3281.£215,871 threatened that other peo- I uo.Dili. Sd.r - .; >e. i.t-'v obstructing the police by saying pick, Mr Thomas Raymond, of DnHWkJOS Lopw. r. . ■ i-nr pl-^py to Jr ; 1- ..{-->•• ‘ ■ *ould come to England at j he bad put father and baby on , Deeping St Nicholas. Lincolnshire husband’s instigation and ; a ferry boat for Portsmouth. I (duty paid, £16,2861 .. £146,453 HMV the child by force. For further details visit your local dealer. pul quality firs! ailing pressures ’ on mother of eight HHV a A* r»fl olmairarimwt at EM RaeMds LM.
:11 Lynch, a widow, ribjg borough Terae, °PadSSgtSS, th eight children, child 's £18>50 per pleaded guilty. They were dal security bene- sUPP^rtlierself and the given a conditional discharge 0 a week. Maryle- week H 5 h£? famiiv. That is for six months, rates’ court was per w^k for one Mr Goldstone told Mrs iy, Mr Peter Gold- under u-.so Pe Lynch: “The pressures placed If you care about hi-fi quality uigistrate, referred human hmng^ ^ ^ report5 ?n you must have been appall-
35 ” piessures be serat Sd^Soa^ScSi^ mThe Department of. Health li, and a daughter HejJth .^. S° j ^nr Jn and Social Security said later ■e accused of steal- and auaea ■ auicklv as that the average minimum pay- take great care about the small print. .S»Sed« £35 from —™ for a family like Mrs : tbe girl worked. Pos Sn sufficient money Lynch’s would be about £30 laid ^ ThK°iTie?- *Mra Lynchand her daughter and bousing costs. j 4 THE TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 WEST EUROPE. OVERSEAS, US Senate vote improves chance New missile tested id. of trade reform Bill ill 1 by Russians j' beating deadline to become law in Pacific 'A dislocation.-The Administration From Frank Vogl sumer protection and company Washington, Dec 13.—'II has also left senators in no taxation. Soviet Union has fired its nt US Economics Correspondent doubt that failure to pass the The debate nest week will SS16 missile some 6,000 mil Washington, Dec 13 Bill could have most severe con¬ suffer delays, despite today’s into the Pacific in a test for ti sequences for detente. The Senate today voted 71 to vote, because of procedural first time, the United Scat - ‘ It is widely appreciated id 19 to impose a time limit on adjustments over whether Department of Defence a Washington that the prospects debate on the Trade Reform many of the amendments are nounced today. SilL This action1 greatly im¬ for detente hinge -to. a &*ear ex¬ germaiue or not to the Trade A spokesman said that ft proves the chances of the tent on .the degree to which Bill itself. of the solid-fa el ' SS16s—t measure becoming law. Soviet-American trade is allowed Behind the scenes intensive lightest of four new Sovi The Bill, introduced almost lobbying is going on, led by the -to develop. missies—landed in the Pad] two years ago and seen by the White House for the Bill and The administration has' re¬ last night about four hoc Administration as one of the by the powerful AFL-CIO trade fused to state if specific num¬ bers of emigration permits have apart. most important pieces of legis¬ union organization against it. He indicated that they cam lation to come before Congress Even if the Senate votes in been given in written Soviet as¬ surances regarding the easing of single warheads. The SS16 for years, will be killed if it favour by next Thursday—the the only one of the new Sovj failsto get through both Houses earliest possible day according -restrictions on emigration* but 'Senator Jackson today repeated missiles which has not be before the end of this session. to many observers—the con-, observed carrying multiple inc Congressional leaders hope to ference of both houses of the .that he is confident that the total will be at least 60,000 a pendently targeted . warhea end the session next Friday. Congress could well be pro¬ l MIRVS). Because of the time pressures tracted. year. Meanwhile, the. AFL-CIO at¬ Mr James Schlesinger, t it is still an open question The House of Representatives tack on the Bill is gaining.mo¬ American Secretary of Defeat whether the measure will reach has still not approved the mentum, led by Senator Hartke and other department officii the statute book. amendment proposed by of Indiana. The senator spoke have predicted that the Russia The Bill could improve signi¬ Senator Henry Jackson that for almost an hour against the will begin deploying some ficantly the prospects for East- directly ties the granting of cloture 'motion today and he their new missiles early ne West detente, ease emigration loans and most-favoured-nation has proposed six amendments year. restrictions on Soviet citizens trade status ro the Russians to that are all clearly designed to The nuclear arms Ihnitatii and open the way for multi¬ Soviet assurances on the easing agreement, while putintg a ce lateral trade liberalization delay Senate action. of emigration restrictions. Senator Hartke maintained ing on he number of stratef negotiations. It has still to get Mr Robert Byrd, acting that liberalizing trade now nuclear “ delivery svstems " ai through the Senate and must Democratic leader in the Senate, would lead to increased United on launching missiles, pennj Iranian students, wearing masks to avoid identification, give the clenched fist salute during an then be dealt with by a con¬ today said be would propose both countries to raodernj ference of both Houses before States unemployment and .to that the session continue beyond American companies devoting their missile forces. anti-Govemment demonstration at the Iranian Embassy in Rome yesterday. Four students were returning to each House for a next Friday if the Bill has not even more of their investment The relatively high level final vote. been dealt with adequately. Bat taken to a police station for identity checks. funds to foreign, rather than missiles permitted under ti Today’s vote was on a so- it is uncertain at this late date to domestic, expansion. The strategic arms limitation tal called closure motion to restrict if even this influential senator senator bluntly stated the AFL- (Salt) agreement, coupled wi debate to a maximum of one will come out in the end for the CIO’s case by insisting that the the Soviet Union’s advantage Lisbon hour for each senator. Bill. effect of the Bill would be to size has increased the possibQi Dr Kissinger hopeful after Nato The result does not reflect Senator Byrd has tabled an strengthen the economies of that the Americans may decL the degree of support for the amendment himself, tailing for communist and other foreign to develop a new weapon whii businessmen Bill itself. Many senators, who the imposition of a $300m countries at the expense of the coand be launched from enfr talks on oil prices and Cyprus oppose the Bill, voted in favour (£130m) ceiling on the volume American worker. aircraft or from some lai of closure to avoid bringing the of subsidized credits that tne Today was only the eighteetb vehicle.—AP. From Roger Berrhoud have been deeply impressed by Western world needed a sub¬ accused Senate into disrepute for fail¬ Export-Import Bank can grant time that the senate has voted Moscow, Dec 13.—The Sovi Brussels, Dec 13 their unwonted foray into eco¬ stantial degree of American ing to act efficiently. Some of for Soviet-American trade. for a cloture motion and it was Union today announced ti nomic waters. reflation. Closer economic coo¬ those who voted against did so President Ford stated earlier successful conclusion of misti The approaches of France one of the few times that such At his press conference. Dr peration was needed. of6 sabotage’ because they believe in unre¬ this week that the Bill was the a procedural motion has gained tests in the Pacific Ocean. Ta and the United States to the Kissinger said chat decisive The Foreign Secretary also stricted debate. most important now before Con¬ the necessary two-thirds sup¬ said the tests, which begi energy crisis were not contra¬ From Jose Sbercliff action was now needed n> was hopeful on Cyprus, after A host of amendments have gress. The Administration main¬ port on the first ballot. yesterday and were due to u dictory and could be recon¬ Lisbon, Dec 13 maintain economic and polit¬ seeing Mr Esenbel, the Turkish been introduced in an attempt tains that getting negotiations The vote, according ro one ex¬ 18 days, had beea completed ai ciled, Dr Henry Kissinger said ical stability. The United minister, and Mr Bitsios, his The Portuguese Government to kill the Bill through shortage started on the liberalization of perienced observer, means that the area would be open to a at the end of the Nato Minis¬ States Administration was pre¬ Greek colleague, who spoke to has arrested four directors of of time. Some deal with such international trade is vital at “ the Senate has finally decided and sea traffic from tomorrow.- terial Council in Brussels today pared to discuss its long-term each other remarkably cor¬ the country’s biggest tourism matters as car insurance, con¬ rhis time of serious economic to get down to business.” UPI. and on the eve of the meeting intentions in the economic dially in the council. Mr Cal¬ enterprise, Torralta, and two between President Ford and field with its partners before laghan thought the inter-com¬ directors of the Banco Inter, President Giscard d’Estaing in making any irrevocable deci¬ munal talks could be resumed continental Portugues. Other Martinique. sions. fairly quickly directors of these organizations and of the Credito Predial and Makarios acceptance of 13 charged over fraud The American Secretary of This morning Mr Callaghan Alluding to President Dis¬ Sodedad Financeira are on die State said he was “ not pessi¬ card's cadi for a conference be¬ discussed the Middle East, wanted list. The public have mistic—quite the contrary ” energy and Cyprus over break¬ tween energy consumers and been asked to help in their changed situation on US celebrities about a solution of the Middle fast with Dr Kissinger. On the producers. Dr Kissinger said capture. East conflict. wav to Nato headquarters, his From Henry Kamm of progress towards allowing Los Angeles, Dec 13.—Thir¬ Bob Dylan, tbe singer, and tt he saw no contradiction be¬ They are accused, among After several meetings with official Rolls-Royce was in¬ them to go home. teen people were charged yes¬ chairman of the First Nation tween consumer cooperation other things, of large-scale Nicosia, Dec 13 the Greek and Turkish foreign and a consumer-producer dia¬ volved in a minor accident Archbishop Makarios’s im¬ terday in connexion with a City Bank, Mr Walter. Wrisro illegal monetary transactions, President Makarios has been The indictment charged ti ministers, he was also more logue. The first was indeed a with a private car driven by a pressions of tiie new realities fraudulent oil-drilling scheme which are officially described described by a highly placed hopeful than before that vprerequisdte of the second. He woman. He was not injured followed his meetings in Athens, in which scores of famous company with promising inve as “serious acts of economic source as sobered and saddened progress on Cyprus was pos¬ thought there was agreement but the woman was briefly just before coming here, with Americans lost millions of tors that they' would be able ■ sabotage harmful to the Portu by the Cyprus he fonnd on his sible, and could become vis¬ on the desirable sequence of detained in hospital, where she Mr Constantine Karamanlis, tbe dollars. write off income tax by depr - guese people”. return from exile last Saturday, ible; but he feared that if moves, but was not sure received some flowers from Mr Greek Prime Minister, and Mr A federal grand jury indicted ciating their investment over Among those arrested is and convinced oE the urgent Congress continued its cut-off whether there was agreement Callaghan. Glafkos Clerides, acting Presi¬ 13 officers of the bankrupt few years with the possibility < Admiral Sarmento Rodrigues, need to begin negotiations for a of military aid to Turkey, on what constituted consumer In a more than usually unre¬ dent of Cyprus during the arch¬ Hom^S take Production Com¬ large profits in the futur* the Torralta chairman. He is a political settlement between the Instead they lost their fovea progress would be unlikely. cooperation. vealing communique, the bishop’s exile and negotiator for pany of Oklahoma who were former Minister of Colonies and Greek and Turkish Cypriot alleged to have defrauded the meats. The aid was not given as a Whereas Dr Kissinger ministers noted the uneven the Greek Cypriot community. Governor of Mozambique. communities. celebrities of more than $100m Among those indicted w; favour to Turkey but for the repeated his view that the progress towards detente in A source close to the discus¬ Torralta's activities include (£43m). Robert Trippet, aged 58, ti. common defence of the West. present price of oil was too the various sets of East-West Tbe Archbishop, whose atti¬ sions described them as an running tourist hotels, golf Among those who invested in president of the company. high and should be reduced, talks; reiterated the impor¬ tude toward Turkey and the effort by - Mr Karamanlis and The sixrmonthly meeting of courses, holiday villages com¬ the company were the Holly¬ The charges in the 39-cou: Mr CaMaghan, the Foreign tance to die security and viabi¬ Turkish Cypriots has been un¬ Mr Clerides to impress upon the 15 foreign ministers of the plete with sports centres and wood stars Liza Minelli and indictment included conspirac Secretary, thought the problem lity of West Berlin of the four- bending for 14 years of national President Makarios the need to alliance was unusual for being entertainments such as casinos. Walter Matthau, Jack Benny, fraud in the sale of securilie. was more to prevent prices power agreement; and under¬ Independence, was described by adjust his attitude to corres¬ devoted almost entirely to a An offidal statement said the comedian, the singers mail fraud and aiding an going up further. lined the potentially dangerous the source as ready to meet tbe pond to the post-war power re¬ “restricted” discussion on the that its management was to Barbra Streisand and Andy assisting in the preparation i economic situation and its In the economic debate, Mr consequences for the security blame for failure- to pay its Turks with a dear understand¬ lationship On the island. ing of how greatly the situation Williams, Senator Jacob Javits, false income., tax retuniy dangers for the alliance. The CaHaghan is understood to of alliance members of the workers, suppliers • or firms At the end of the Athens has shifted m their favour since ministers generally seem to have told Dr Kissinger that the Middle East situation. employed on contract. Tor¬ meeting. Archbishop Makarios the Turkish invasion last ralta, it added, was behind¬ was described by tbe source as summer. hand in paying some £2m worth “ready to swallow the bitter 10-year drugs Russians arrest of holiday vouchers and £L5m Archbishop : Makarios has pill ”, but demanded two weeks Soviet backing Mr Kirk apologizes to worth of holiday flat rentals. toured a number of the camps in Cyprus before signing the sentence on organizer The bank is charged with in which more than 100,000 terms of reference for the for Oslo’s illegally exporting nearly Greeks, driven from their homes negotiations that Mr Clerides British engineer of art displays German for ‘hate’ gibe £700,000 in the Turkish-occupied north, has demanded as a condition The first legal national con¬ have been living for nearly five Lagos, Dec 13-—-Lawrence Moscow, Dec 13.—The KG ' fisheries policy From George Clark had been done before die en¬ before he would undertake to gress of the Potruguese Socialist months. He has become increas¬ Arthur Graves, aged 30, a (secret' police) today From Our Correspondent Political Correspondent largement of the Community, resume his negotiating role.— Party opened in Lisbon today. It ingly dejected over the absence New York Times News Service. British aircraft engineer, was Alexander Glazer, a Jewish a Luxembourg, Dec 13 and new factors needed to be Oslo, Dec 13 had been a clandestine organi¬ today sentenced to 10 years’ collector, aged 40, who has be« .. . After a stormy incident early considered. The Soviet Union supports zation until the revolution of imprisonment on charges relat¬ active in organizing displays 4.': today during a protracted sitting Herr Fellermaier, who was Norway’s policy of declaring April 25 gave it legality. ing to drug offences. The sen¬ nonconformist art. of the European Parliament, Mr sitting next to Herr Seefeld, pro¬ non-trawling zones off the coast Dr Mario Soares, the Foreign tences, with hard labour, will Friends said he was detauic. Peter Kirk, leader of the Con¬ tested at repeated Conservative Argentina quotes Portugal of northern Norway. Mr Minister and general secretary run concurrently. after a scuffle with half ' ! • servative group, apologized to attempts to delay the adoption Alexander Isjkov, the Soviet of the party, said in a speech The offences were alleged to dozen plainclothes and us Herr Ludwig Fellermaier, vice- of the report. Minister of Fisheries, said that from the congress would have been committed at Lagos formed-police outside his flat. chairman of the socialist group, as example to Britain today. Mr Kirk, intervening, said the emerge “the definition .of a co¬ international airport after Mr Mc-Qazer said last night tW 3Q ‘ 2 for accusing him of conducting Meanwhile, the threat of a report should be referred back herent political line, approval New York, Dec 13.—Argen¬ Argentina, he said, favoured Graves had completed an tbe KGB had questioned Irijf a “hate campaign” against the Government crisis was removed because there were proposals in of our programme, and a decla¬ tina today called on Britain to self-determination of the native assignment with a local air earlier in die day about allege Conservatives. today by a change of policy by it which should be considered by ration of principles and follow Portugal’s example of populations of colonial terri¬ charter company. speculation for money in aid the Agrarian Party, which is the Tempers flared when Herr the economic committee. He statutes ’ decolonization and to hand back tories, “ except in very special The magistrate rejected a Soviet literature. They had tol centre party. The issue was the Horst Seefeld, German socialist said: “ If Herr Felleraier can Dr Soares added that the the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) situations, as in the one of the plea for deportation instead of him he was being interrogate .... Government’s proposal to buy on the Regional Policy and distract his mind from die hate party’s political charter showed to Argentine control. Falkland Islands, where the imprisonment and said the law as a possible witness in the cas... back half the 50 per cdnt share Transport Committee, moved die campaign which he is pursuing did not provide for any punish¬ of another man. He added th:. . “absolute fidelity” to the pro¬ Sehor Fernando Fernandez original Argentine population which Alcan, the Canadian adoption of a report urging the against my group and concen¬ ment other than a minimum police had searched his fla... gramme of the Armed Forces Escalante, a senior official of die was exiled and replaced by a aluminium company, has in the EEC Commission to draw up a trate on die proper proceedings of 10 years’ imprisonment. confiscating books by Alexandi . Movement, until the elections Foreign Ministry in Buenos population brought there by the Norwegian aluminium firm common policy on sea transport of the European Parliament, Mr Graves pleaded not guilty Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Naboko'. : next March. It stood for close Aires, told the United Nations colonialist power ”. • Ordal og Sunndal Verk. covering shipping clauses in then I think we might be able when he first appeared on and George Orwell. alliance with the Armed Forces General Assembly that his coun¬ trade agreements, conditions to get a reasonable solution.” The islands, some 500 miles August 28. The police told the The Moscow ' news pa pt. ' Until this afternoon the left- Movement, which was the chief try. expected “ a dear and and pay of seafarers, sabotage, The motion for a reference off the Argentine coast, with a court he had tried to smuggle Vechernyaua Moskoa accuse '* wing socialist group and the guarantor of democracy in Por¬ prompt reaction from Great population of about 2,000, were non-socialist parties were united competition and flags of conven¬ back resulted in a tie, 16 votes tugal, solidarity with the coali¬ Indian hemp in a torch when Mr Glazier yesterday of doin., Britain ... similar to the change “ wrenched from Argentina ” in ience. to 16, so the debate continued. he was about to board a flight the speculating himself. in opposing the proposal. Then tion parties of the provisional of policy seen in Portugal 1833.—Reuter. the Agarians decided to allow Mr Tom Norm an ton, MP for At the conclusion the report was Government, and freedom to for London.—Reuter. Mr Glazer was release. ;"•- a free vote For their members Cheadle, moving the reference put to the vote and die Con¬ criticize government policy tonight after being held am' ^ which will give the Government back of the report, said much of servatives, joined by Danish MPs when necessary. questioned for three hours. . a majority. the work on which it was based defeated it by 22 votes to 17. American aid, page 5 In the autumn of this yea,.- be helped to organize two opec.- . Rhodesia detention ‘terrible air displays of noncouformis ~ Continued from page 1 detention camp near the art in Moscow. A bulldoze*. read mostiy economics which knocked over exhibits in tbi- Italian soldiers meet openly Maltese parliament votes Mozambique border were tbe he enjoyed. intensely intellectual lieu¬ first, but the second was aDowei.... worst of his detention, he said. He responded again with tenant. They split when Mr For three of those years he was to continue.—UPI and Ageno: Sithcde grew impatient with Mr amazement and loud laughter France Presse. . - to demand reforms for a republic allowed no visitors at alL “ it when he was asked if he had 'rom Our Correspondent against fascist tendencies in the From Oar Correspondent lyrical about the passing of the Nkomo’s mare moderate was a terrible time. There were attempted to escape. “Escape ! lome, Dec 13 Army. Valletta, Dec 13 Bill this morning. approach. only three of us living in the Escape to where? How could camp all by ourselves.” Following the example of dis- Unlike the police, whose Dr Anton Burtigieg, the The _ same tensions would 1 escape from my country ? I Renoir stolen in The main changes in the con¬ Tbe six-man police support on tented policemen, Italian growing demands for demili¬ Maltese Minister of Justice, who seem likely to apply today but was born here, I live here and stitution concern the Head of unit guarding them were in¬ oldiers have risked punish- tarization and their own trade had steered through the Bill clearly tbe two men and their Til die here.” State. The first President, Sir structed not to talk to the New York nent to meet openly for the union are mainly apolitical, the changing the island from a Anthony Mamo, who has been supporters are determined to Did he worry about being a soldiers, who describe _ them¬ Erisoners, now, he said, he was New York, Dec 13.—A smal: Irst time and demand better monarchy to a republic, turned Governor-General since 1971, present a united front from now forgotten man, as Mr lau Smith, Renoir painting was stolen fron selves as “ proletarians in uni¬ onwards. aving to learn to speak again. the Prime Minister, once sug¬ reatment- and embraced Mr Mintoff, the will be sworn in tonight, safe¬ the Brooklyn Museum, am- Some 200 uniformed men of form ” appear closely linked to Did he ever give up hope? gested that he was? “For- Prime Minister, jn the House of guards against pressures (in¬ Mr Nkomo is a Chur chilli an police immediately began I rarious ranks gathered in a extreme left-wing groups. “ Me I ” Mr Nkomo bellowed gotten man ! Me ! How could Representatives last night amid cluding spiritual) at elections igure with twinkling eyes and search of the building, th« tome cinema this week to hear Meanwhile, Italian journalists with incredulous amusement. I be forgotten with my big size ? cheers after the Bill had been and human rights, including a_ hearty and ready laogh- authorities reported. peakers demand the right to went on a 48-hour strike today “ Give up hope!, No. Never.” I've been in Zimbabwe all the passed by 49 votes to six. compensation for confiscation of The five years he spent in The painting—entitled "Stir ssociate democratically and after newspaper proprietors He grew a few vegetables, he time- All ray people knew The Leader of the Opposition, private property. Camp Five at Gonakudzingwa Life with Blue Cup ” and valuec. iut an end to the “ absolute refused to meet their demands said, did a little carpentry and where I was.” Dr Borg Olivier, who had lower of the military bier- for higher pay and the right to During die week’s debate on at some $50,000 (£20,800)—wa;.; allowed his Nationalist Party a found to be missing yesterday irchies ”, it was reported today. have a say in senior staff the Bill Mr Mintoff assured the They called for the abolition appointments and policy. The free vote, voted against the Bill. House that he had told the from tbe fifth floor of the six There are 29 Labour members Terrorist ring storey museum by a security if the Fascist-inspired military stoppage will be followed by Queen that the change was in and 26 Nationalists. Lebanon complains to UN egulations and military tn- two more 24-hour strikes next no way meant Co be disrespectful guard just before dosing time Labour newspapers waxed in Gaza strip lunals, and the right to guard week. to her or to the Royal Family. -Reuter- headed by judge over Israel air raid From Our Correspondent From Our Correspondent reporters that one Israel air¬ Greek airline’s Beirut, Dec 13 Cote d’Azur Tel Aviv, Dec 13 craft was shot down and another Basques go on hunger strike Lebanon today lodged a com¬ Militai^r headquarters in Tel damaged during yesterday’s air plaint with the United Nations flights switched ignores From Harry Debelius state of affairs in the country. automatic weapons to break up Aviv said today that an AJ raid- Britons bound for Christmas-.1, Security Council over Israel’s Madrid, Dec 13 One of the lawyers said he demonstrations in at least two Fatah terrorist ring based in Beirut Dec 13.—A bomb ex- air raid on a refugee camp in in Greece on Olympic Airways energy crisis A group of nine young lawyers expected to bring up questions towns, Hernani and Tolosa. the Gaza strip and headed by a ploded today at the offices of a Beirut suburb yesterday. The aircraft were being switched to: From Our Own Correspondent in the Basque city of San Sebas¬ about people believed to be in The sources claimed that to judge has been smashed. tne independent weekly maga¬ other flights yesterday after thr Government said one woman ■ tian have joined a political the custody of police whom they their knowledge, between 400 Twenty-five suspects were zine AI Diyar located in a 12- Paris, Dec 13 was killed and 10 people were Greek national airline halted prisoners’ hunger strike for have not been able to find for and 500 people were arrested arrested. storey building which also There is no sign of the energy injured in the raid. services in a dispute with its. amnesty, it was learnt here some time. during the “ day of struggle The commander of the ter¬ houses the Jordanian Embassy. Government. crisis this Christmas on the C6te Basque opposition sources Official reports are incomplete, Mr Philip Tekla, the Foreign The motive of the attack d’Azur. The principal shop¬ today. . . rorists was identified as Munster, said Lebanon had Most of the passengers from They announced their decision claimed that police shot and but they say that 76 were takeu Khaled al-Kadra, a judge in against the magazine was no? Britain, about 250 a day, had keepers in Nice and Cannes secured further Arab support last night after a meeting of the wounded six people, including a into custody in the province of Khan Yum. His lieutenants immediately known.—UPL been given seats on British Air¬ have decided to have all the in adopting suitable measures San Sebastian Bar Assoaaoon five-year-old child and four Vizcaya, in Gaza, Rafah Yunis and Cairo, Dec 13.—Egypt intro¬ public illuminations for Christ¬ for repelling Israel attacks but ways flights and few had suf¬ at which the members voted women, during demonstrations Khan Yunis, also were seized, duced a new condition today for fered inconvenience, said Mr mas and new year switched on The one-day protest was the gave no further details. almost unanimously to draw up connected with the general biggest demonstration of politi¬ according to the announce¬ f peaceful settlement in the Christos Economides, the air-, exactly as in the past. Palestine guerrillas In the Middle East in what appeared a petition for amnesty. Basque strike of 200,000 workers in the cal solidarity in the Basque ment. line’s sales manager in Britain. » But in Paris, under the eye southern coastal part of to be a hardening of Cairo’s political prisoners in 10 Spanish Basque country on Wednesday. country in the - history of Gen¬ Documents impounded in¬ of the French Government, not Lebanon today opened fire on political stance. prisons have been on hunger The sources identified the child eral Franco’s 35-year-old regime. cluded lists of recruits and even the Champs Elysees will Israel aircraft and helicopters Mr Ismail Fab mi, the Foreign strike since late last month in as Jesus Maria Iraza Garmendia, To die surprise , of some politi¬ orders for operations. It was as they flew over the area with¬ Mr Saxbe named be illuminated. Minister, said: “ In any peace the demand for amnesty for all who was shot in the town of cal observers, the Communist believed that tiie group was out dropping any bombs. Some towns, like Toulouse, settlement, Israel must freeze political prisoners in Spain. • Tolosa. The women were shot in Party did not take an active responsible for a series of ter¬ have derided to restrict the Yaasir Arafat, head of its present population and envoy to India p Bectivar and a man was injured part in the show of strength, rorist acts, including the bomb¬ In the other main Basque city the Palestine liberation Organi- pledge not to increase the num¬ Washington, Dec 13.—Presi-^ period seasonal lighting is to be in Hernani. Only the Hernani which was supported largely by ing of an Israel bus in Rishon of Bilbao 132 lawyers signed a ration, conferred with President ber of its immigrants for the dent Ford today nominated Mr allowed. In Bordeaux there will shooting has been reported in other left-wing organizations, Le 'Zion 10 months ago. The request for an urgent meeting of Suleiman Franjieh thic after¬ next 50 years.” This was the Saxbe, the Attorney General, to ^ be no illuminations. In Brest the Madrid newspapers. the Basque separatist organiza¬ Gaza strip itself, once a hotbed noon. their Bar -Association to discuss first tune' that Egypt had ex¬ be Ambassador to India. He will - * the wattage of the electric bulbs The underground sources of guerrilla activity, has been the matter of political prisoners tion (ETA) and the Socialist Mr Arafat declined to say pressed such tough conditions used for the illuminations has quiet for some time. succeed Mr Daniel Moyflib&n, ; ’ as well as the present judiqal said that police opened fir? with Party. yfcat they di?cu#e0 but hp tpld for a peace settlement.—AP. been reduced by half. who has resigned. ■ . 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MISCELLANEOUS jnjjN >nv ALTOS, esidency f ,, Arabia: prospects of more trade FINANCIAL Tel.: Nottingham *0*0a> 73901 1*63172 ■’ Mario Modiano House of Commons exchange markets this morning. producers In order to finance a MR HEALEY, Chancellor of the MR THORPE 'North Devon, L) non-oil deficit. We have con- SOUTHEND-ON-SEA D-fe MUjg* s, Dec 13 Placed il December Ep.6m Exchequer (Leeds. East, Lab), in —The Aramco suggestion can now tinned the arrangement in order B1IU Due 38 February at U.S. 16. ALFA ROMEO FOR • disclosure that Mr Con- n statement on his recent visit to be denied but it would have been to finance the oil deficit, from No other Mils in Issue. CHRISTMAS ne Karamanlis, the Prime Saudi Arabia, said there was posi¬ helpful, and would be In the which nearly all countries are WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY future. If denials could be more suffering. The sooner we can dis- nOUNCII. HILLS_ • ter, proposes to become tive (merest m the development Placed it December 1974 17m Hexagon are having n prompt than on tin's occasion, when pense with the need for this type an Airs weekend *• 14-19 eot. with broad executive of closer economic and industrial Bills Doe lU March »» ll-N'W- No cooperation between the Kingdom we had to wait some days for the of borrowing the better. other bills in lesus. Decent bar. s under the new constiru- Chancellor's return before the But one of the advantages of Why not cores along and of Saudi Arabia and the United drive on* at ' has suddenly given the Kingdom. It was agreed that a position was put right. the agreement 1 reached in republic its first teething EDUCATIONAL committee ot officials from the Is it not time for a meenne Riyadh is the prospect of big 26 North HU1. es. two countries should meet in between the ministers of oil increases in British trade with Htgbgats. N.6 secrecy with which the Riyadh in February to discuss in importing and exporting Saudi, which will reduce die size Trt.j 01-348 6151. nmenc has shrouded its deiafi plans for Increasing coopera¬ countries ? of the deficit requiring to be WOL5EY HALL for a draft constitution, tion and the means by wtiichi they MR HEALEY—It would always financed. _ The Oxford Correspondence should be Implemented—including be helpful If rumours did not MR LAMONT (Kingston upon Collette offers individual in¬ DATSUN 240 KGT ready set off sharp critic- struction tram Qualified tutors the possibility of a joint commis¬ spread. Ir was fortunate that l Thames. Cl—The increase in tn- Dost (or. G.C.E.. DEGREE. (AUTOMATIC) om the Opposition. It was sion- The discussions were happened to be in Saudi at the trade is welcome. British exporters GATE WAV, PROFESSIONAL ired by Mr Spyros Theo- BUSINESS AND LTJSUSE friendly and constructive. rime this happened because I was have been slow in getting Into COURSES- _ COMPANY EXECUTIVE’S . a leading deputy of Mr MR- CARR, Opposition spokes¬ able to obtain an assurance about the new market in the Middle Free Praspociua ITom The Principal. W. M. M. Milligan. CAR lanlis's party, as one of man on the Treasury tSutton, Car-. The increase in SaoUi investment East. The Japanese have increased M.B.eT T.D.. M-A.. Dept. First registered 5ap*. '73. asons why he resigned his shaltan Cl.—Have there been any in this country. their exports four-fold in the last AJ2. Watery Kail. Oxford. 0X2 Concerning a meeting. If tbe year. Can he see that this is 6PR. Tel. 0865 StSXl. Metallic blue. Regularly ser¬ oday. At the same time new developments in the way in viced. 18.000 miles. 38-38 interim committee of the GVfF treated as a matter of urgency ? rounded ISM. ’anayoris Kaoeilopouios, which Saucu Arabia Is going to m.g.Di pat her money into this country* adopts the plan for recycling. MR HEALEY—I agree with brmer Prime Minister, m Accredited Uy C.A.C.C. £1.500 either in manner or term ? which I proposed and on which much of what he says, although 01-834 4602 a confidential briefing Could he say something about its own staff have been working, we have maintained oar share or Mr Karamanlis about his die concern caused while he was this will be the bcr.t way of start- Saudi trade in the last year. On ,-utionaJ proposals, de- away by the decision ot Saudi fag tliis type of dialogue. Both tbe other hand, we have not Arabia following one by Kuwait the producers and consumers increased it. which, with our OXFORD AND COUNTY CHIPSTEAD his offer to be nomiDated OF KENSINGTON .1 president. tint they would in future expect recognize a common interest in experience in the Middle East, SECRETARIAL COLLEGE to have payment for oil entirely establishing a secure location Tor we should have been expected to 34 St. Giles. Oxford. Tel. for your tentative Government &S966- In dollars ? This has caused part of the pctro-dollar surpluses do. NEW MERCEDES-BENZ s confirmed that Mr grave disturbance to confidence. and a location from which they Many British companies are Resldomlal Flats (or Students NEW ALFA ROMEO Comprehensive secretarial NEK BMW anlis's intention had MR HEALEY said he had can recycle from countries which achieving great success io their NEW LANCIA mining. Including languages been to head a “ moder- 1 arranged for Lord Ashhy to visit for the' rime being will have oil efforts ro export to Saudi, but Ses them all al Courses 36 weeks. Prospectus 3aullist ” presidential re- j Saudi Arabia Jn a few weeks tn deficits. many companies are not making CHIPSTEAD OF KENSINGTON Thar he had sought to : discuss with them the development On the general question of dis- me efforts they should. I hope 142 Holland Place Ave.. W.21. ■ a different impression of university education in Saudi cnwinns between producers and the establishment of an inter- ST. JAMES'S Memorial College, Arabia, which was something on consumers, there are differences governmental framework for New courses Jan./April. 4 Tei. 01-727 0611 ie to his concern not to Weltierbv r.dnv. SW8 vfx 3860. which they wished to have the nf opinion between the United encouraging and monitoring THE TRUMAN & KNIGHTLEY Edu¬ ice voters by leaving all cational l rail. Publishers of closest cooperation with the United States Government and some trade between our countries may ■■ Schools ■■ Illustrated guide nstitutional options open Kingdom. They wished the two European governments on how he of some assistance. CZ.UV •• Scholarships at Soys1 he plebiscite. this should be achieved. MR ATTKEK iThaner East. Ci— Public schools -- ki. *■ schol¬ Well-wishers and protesters greet President Giscard tTEstaing in governments to draw up a general arship* at Dirts’ School* •• TOP. 1974 TRIUMPH STAG . ie sources said that now Guadeloupe on his way to meet President Ford. agreement on coupcratiun In educa¬ MR LEE WILLIAMS (Havering, To some of us who have visited - Direcinrv of Catholic Schools and Coiloges " R2p. Also avail¬ Automatic ie question of the mon- tion. Hornchurch, Lab).—On the ques- die Middle East in recent months, able. ” Grant* for Hlaher Educa¬ bad been resolved, Mr Regarding Investment (he con¬ titm of recycling of petro dollars, his statement lias the air of sound- tion •• £1.82. Full Ite! on Hard lop and soft top, Sun- reqtiesl 78 NolURQ HU I Gats. dym glass, laminated screen, anlis was heading to- tinued), the Saudi ministers mado Dr Kissinger's proposals for mg a bit like loo little and too London Wll *L>. 01-737 1243. rhT OECD late. Mr Healey Is the first FRYERNING Sr-crctartal College. head restraints, mushed tn a constitution providing Ford^ hones of Petroleum Exporting Coun- it clear that they intend not only arrangement through the OECD to maintain but increase holdings British minister to have visited Wadhunl. Sunn. Residential' wfuie with blue trim. 1 owner. form of presidential re wivfd- Pies (Opecj for renewed price lias much to commend it. day Nest course 13 Jan.—Wad- £3.230. Jarvis Motors. Reading or currency in this country and - hurst 2660. ■07341 85242. The president tvould vll enams rill increases have emphasized the to det'dop investment in many ftSTSMS vital executive role, the O need—seen here now as abso- spheres. DOMESTIC SITUATIONS unent would take over a „ _ _ lute for the consuming coun- The Saudi ministers I met were mZrSe”37rfzzr/y’JZ SSn >f Parliament’s legislative WIFIi F ranee tries—■» concert their policies as surprised and dismayed as 1 was before agreeing to meet the by the reports which reached the and Parliament would STSyhSSaFsi stwjrjjsuris BELGRAVIA ASTON MARTIN DBS V8 in its powers of control, From Fred Emery producers. capital on Wednesday that com¬ much of confrontation rather than °L,J!S,,!n°5..se}urn r^5ifonv’ard panies were selling sterling to meet dialogue between producers and worth more than La.000m. Require experienced nanny lo not of harassment, look after baby from birth, mid- 1971. maroon, manual, stereo/ Washington, Dec 13 The White House is not cx- tax and royally payments in dollars. consumers We welcome the fact that this vanellopouios, in a state- March, indefinite period. No radio. 30.000 miles, rag. no. President Ford is hoping to Rf®*1’"* **.e Fren.ch to embrace I was told that this decision was Providing the IMF facility Js Intergovernmental programme other children. Own silting DPX IL. Immaculate condition. said he had had second end the de Gaulle-Pompidou era the American view with open purely in order to simplify matters. launched in January, it should be has been set up. Will he imple- room and television. Full Ume ts about assuming the of friction with the United enthus.asm. But^there will be The arrangements b; which Ameri¬ possible to reach agreement on a menr a crash programme to re¬ dally help. ,..if interim president after can companies pay some sterling plan for a common trust fund of structure such things as the States when he meets President ^Wointment rf France dots Ring 01-235 6785 Phone during office hours ' ramanJis had given him for their oil dates bark for many the type which Dr Kissinger has Department of Trade’s overseas ■ Giscard d’Estaing on Se DOt no!1 accede the br0?d 01-283 3764 *>nrial information about years. The important thing is that adumbrated. I suspecc it will be projects group and other institu- some time before detailed agree- tions connected with exports to nsdtudonal structure he j they do plan to maintain and in¬ crease their investment in this ment can be reached oo that pro- the Middle East r\ ;ed, as well as about “ his rnS “ES *“hl,,fit0n lomPr: ners in die European Com- ROLLS-ROYCE & BENTLEY row morning, unaccompanied munitv. country. posal. MR HEALEY—We have more SUPERIOR COUPLE “• il future aspirations", MR HORDERN (Horsham and than maintained our share of trade The difficulties arose this week _ for country house. -50 miles rheotokis, a member for frot^disSo^n her bfek^d Ano*ermai° wJl be from the accident that Aramco was Crawley. C)—Whatever method with Saudi Arabia and Mr Aitken s Dublin. Impeccable references if the ruling New Demo- neck, eauied l» the role of gold in the future not given notice of this decision might be selected—whether the complaint is not justifiable. required. Separate accommoda¬ 1ST CLASS until they had already bought ster¬ Kissinger or the Healey proposals Now, with the inability of the tion and good salary. Must be Party, io a lener to the and*' not by he? recent freast international monetary fully experienced. Bentley S3. *64. silver/grey nt of Parliament, an- ling for the purpose of paying for _it seems as if the- country will private banking system to receive saloon. 67.000 mile). AU operation. system. these sureties. This resulted io be hardened with 'ever-increasing much more short-term money . UNIVERSAL AUNTS LTD.. e»tras lncl. Perfect condition d he was resigning his 3t> WALPOLE STREET. Inside and oat. Owner going White House officials suggest Forte de France, Martinique, them unloading the sterling In a debt expressed in foreign curren- becoming demonstrated, the scope LONDON. S.W.3. cause of his party’s atti¬ TEL: 01-730 9834 abroad, most mu my beautiful it is time to give subsrance to Dec 13.—President Giscard hurry when they got the informa¬ des. Are not farther measures for more comprehensive agree- car. ring the plebiscite, which required, considering the trade meuts with, the oil producing the change of tone detected d’Estaing concluded his visit to tion and that was what led to tba £2.750 l at odds with the party’s Gurry earlier in the week. figures announced yesterday, to countries, both on trade and fin- hip. Mr Karamanlis had Tbe knowledge that the Saudi put our house in order? ance, is opening. I can assure “TOg D,?oLrOMA& *A58!& Call 328 3818. any time MR HEALEY — Concerning Mr Aitken that the Government 1 his party to observe important fields of oil diplo- Guadeloupe?vrby todayFrch and flew to°f Government intends to increase its holdings in this country rather than debt, it was the last government intend to maintain the programme to help look after their 2 bays neutrality during the iaged 3 and li. There for min. macy and international mone- Martinique for his meeting with reduce them has already* led to an -which started borrowing money of visits of the nature 1 have 1 year. Write giving full oeraonal 1935 ROLLS-ROYCE 20-2S ite. Mr Theotolds, a details and iniephone no. to tary policy. Mr Ford.—UP1. on a large scale from the oQ just carried out. One owner for 17 years improvement in sterling on ,the Gordon. 68 Hornsey Lane. Lon¬ Foreign Minister, is a don. N.6. An excellent example of i*ork- t royalist. manshlp: black with brown her reason for his action leather Interior, newly refur- NANNY/MOTHER-5 HELP required btshed. very well maintained. ; Prime Minister's failure lor baby and 2 young children in M.O.T. American aid for Lisbon lovely house near Holland Park. . ify, in the statement of Select committee will consider impact Offers around £5.250 From Our Own Correspondent Own room. T.V., etc. Good vernmenfs policy, his in- government's high priorities in wages.—Please telephone 737 Washington, Dec 13 finance and the economy. It 3798. CLIVE GUNNER s concerning the new con- The While House. mentioned particularly needs in of wealth tax on works of art West Lies. Hants. .n and the political system In an explicitly stated housing, agriculture, transport¬ Had the Minister not y« accep¬ that objects of-all kinds of artistic REBECCA J9). and Penny I7» Phone Lias 3106 Id establish. “ demonstration of United MR NEAVE (Abingdon, C) need bright young nanny/ States support and confidence ation, public administration, moved that the House should note ted the threat this tax posed to value should be excluded from toe Opposition, which had se vfwrwri. “as education and health. with alarm the threat posed to the Britain's heritage and tbe liveli¬ application of the tax. The select BENTLEYtaiLET 44’,-lltre a-III. _ saloon . in Portugal’s future”, the first Clarke. d Mr Karamanlis during hood of British artists ? Did be committee on the wealth tax had Tbe statement proclaimed the arts by the proposed capital' trans¬ selection campaign to dis- economic assistance agreement fer and wealth taxes and call on care or was it that his political now been set up with 21 members IKd wvmgtt . his ..constitutional plans, between the two countries since programme was intended “ as the Government to exempt works muscle was not enough ? of all parties in toe House. the overthrow of the old regime ’ft ***»•.■ laiizu that he would never an earnest of United States ot art from such taxes to avoid MR ST TOHN-STEVAS (Chelms¬ In the Green Paper on the tax ’ ran 54 per cent of the vote was announced jointly today. Government support for their dispersal or sale abroad. ford, C). Opposition spokesman on the Government had expressed “"ad told the people he was The United States offered to Portugal in its effort to con¬ He said people who owned the arts, said this was tbe greatest their determination to protect the BRAND NEW unregistered latest works of art were not all rich. national heritage. They were sym¬ Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow at • •; at exceptional executive begin at once a programme struct a free and democratic crisis the arts in Britain had faced showroom price. No premium.— He hoped good sense would pre¬ since the war. pathetic to easing toe difficulties Phone i office i 486 3867 i home) -1 if elected. addressed to tie Portuguese society ". REQUIRED ••35 3953 vail and that no government would There were three threats : that that toe tax proposals might cause, be so philistine and retrograde to although toe variety of objects in the work of the Arts Council over 1957, SI BENTLEY. £900 O.N.O. cause the dispersal of -the great historic houses affected would re¬ ABUNDONI • .uuk ■tldU>B-hee purs. Body danuied n-s rear. Auto. a quarter of a century would he Loo-Daniunh Nannies.. Gardeners. quire different solutions. This P.a.s.—Tanners Molars. 01-928 art collection*. destroyed ; that historic houses Chauffeurs. Cl Brtiaui. abroad. 6589. The nation spent £1,500m on would be threatened by tbe pro¬ would be one of the main tasks of Irnwh Aqv Hlnrsham I »• Wit. In brief the committee. LADY 37. seeks accommodation in ioviet view of the country’s gambling and huge sums on food posed wealth ana capital transfer return Tor help. Highest and drink. They were io danger The Green Paper had said that reterences. Box 0126 M. the • ROLLS-ROYCE 2 taxes; that great collections of Times of getting their values wrong and pictures and other works of art arrangements might be made Lo MALE COOK, 40. available mid-Dec. • SILVER SHADOW • icial process in action of losing the private collector alto¬ take works of art into public until early Jan. Will travel. 01- would be lost to this country if 778 5715.__ 2 N Registration. August. • gether and making it impossible to the taxation proposals were imple¬ ownership in satisfaction of wealth Moscow Jew to build up new collections io the 0 *74. 2,500 miles onlv. • mented. tax liabilities. These would be allo¬ MOTOR CARS future. The wealth tax would cated to public collections where • Blue, beige interior. • face firing squad amount to a fine on the collector. MR HUGH JENKINS, Under¬ they would be constantly available • Latest specifications. s ise against Dr Shtern 1973 MERCEDES-BENZ 350SL MR FAULDS (Warley, East, secretary for Education and to viewing by the public. 2 £13,000 2 these products were brought to Moscow, Dec 13.—A Soviet Science (Wandsworth, Putney, Coupe. OoPlanding condition. 5 WALSALL 22787 0 allowing is an unsolicited Lab) said those MPs who loved The intention was that the trans¬ Metallic Silver, black leather Inte¬ 0 EVENINGS • from the Soviet news Dr Sbrern’s home. Mr Guzhva Jew, who received permission tbe ares were engaged hi two Lab) said tbe wealth tax was not rior. Aula.. Bosch Bamhirg replied "that this had been wit¬ proposed to begin until a figure fer from estate duty to capital Stereo, radio recording and ■‘os- i Novosti on the trial of to emigrate to Israel after re¬ battles. The first was to persuade transfer tax would make no differ¬ serte playback, electric sliding OHMfHmHHWft nessed by neighbours as well as tiring as director of a Moscow the Chancellor to zero rate for the of £100,000 was reached and at roof, alloy wheel*, one owner khml Shtern which opened by some of his friends, who some¬ that level it began at the rate of 1 ence to the position of works of Grnulne reason for sale. 41.000 SITUATIONS WANTED store, has been sentenced to purposes of VAT the work of all art. In some respects there might miles. £3.100 considered. 07 s- ie Ukrainian town of times accompanied him to Dr creative people. The second figbt per cent. 574 219 eves. death by firing squad on be a minor advantage. THINKING OF EXPANDING In the sa on Wednesday. The Sbrern’s home and helped him was over the wealth tax on works The Government could not go so Far East 7 Young British wwcu- tp of this report cannot deliver poultry, eggs and vege¬ charges of takiDg bribes, his of art. far as to meet the suggestion made The debate was adjourned. iKc with several years' experi¬ tables. wife said today. RANGE ROVORS at Curzon. ence in Marketing and Manage¬ l ecked because IVextern Triumph Stans at Curzon. ment In Fur East seeks lob In After Mrs Guzhva was signed Mrs Sofia Leviev told Jaguar/Delmlcrs at Cunon. Hongkong. Box 3505 D. The Times pendents have been ex- Rover 2300 and SSOO at Cnnon. ENERGETIC, well-groomed, marnod out of the hospital, she had to be Western correspondents that New and used Range Rovers lady, uxperloncen organizer, lec¬ 1 from the courtroom. We urgently rnoulred. 01-328 6S49. turer and hostess willing lo examined at the Kier endocrinolo¬ the Supreme Court of the Rus¬ 01-046 0879 I eves. 1. h the report because it gical research institute and by a Directive on travel short periods. Based north¬ sian Federation passed the sen¬ Pickets case: TUCto west. seeks, preferably part-time, tes how closed Soviet commission of medical and labour occupation Highest references.— tence on her 57-year-old bus- Box 2506 D. The Tlmrs. are conducted. Dr Shtern, 196a FERRARI GT, 3 + 2. Mela life experts to draw up the papers for I would LIKE & job in Vernier band Mikfaafi on Sunday after bine, black. 40,000 mile*. Fantas- , has been in prison await- a pension additives now. Can you help me 7—079 MCn^COndlUon. £5.350.—0963 an 11-week trial. 156 218- al since May. The prosecutor said that before give general views Dr Shtern signed an order for Boris Antonov such an examination, he again ing party on the extent of van¬ FLAT SHARING DR GLYN (Windsor and Maiden¬ in feeding VOLVO 14SE Estate. 1973. M.'Gold. sa, Dec lit demanded a bribe, and this time, Hongkong officer fined head, C) calling attention to the dalism and on measures which cloth seals. S/roof. 52.000 m. received 150 roubles from Mr could be taken to prevent iL £1.850 ono.—01-657 1075. DULWICH. Top floor ot family trial of Dr Mikhail Shtern Hongkong, Dec 13.—John enforcement of the law and the Guzhva. proper sentences lor any breach, This would, she hoped, enable the hnuve, furnished. tp>< Inui bed- iened here. He is accused of Neil Douglas Hamilton, a stuffs all ling room. kitchen ■ diner. ing and extorting bribes. Another witness, Mrs Anna moved : Home Office to offer useful ad¬ FIAT ECONOMY. 126. 127. 128. £19.00 p.w. Inc.—274 5^14. Overchuk, told the court that her senior British officer of the “ That this House expresses its vice to people and organizations European Parliament Choice of colours. Special terms, Grigory Krivoruchko, the immediate delivery.—Normans, SW17. uooni for 3 in very nice, son was treated by Dr Shtern from Anti-Corruption Commission, concern at the increasing dis¬ —for example. London Transport Luxembourg 01-622 0042. prosecutor, yesterday read February to the end of July of —whose property was most at risk. house. C.H.. r.V.. 2 mins. rube. he indictment, which sua was today fined $HK 10,000 regard for the observance of law, Parliament considered a motion £14 p.W. 673 6109 eves. last year. For this service. Dr of which the so-called Windsor Tbe Windsor Free Pop Festival NIGERIAN AUTHOR Urgently wants Jr Shtern, tn charge of the (€900) foe accepting an interest- room ,n house or flat. N. London. Shtern extorted money from Mrs Free Pop Festival is but one was held this year as in two pre¬ by the Agriculture Committee on SILVER OINO 346 G.T.. 1973. red sa regional endocrinological free loan of £2,000 from a a Commission proposal for a leather Interior. radio/B track 348 H305 ■ eves, i. Overchuk and her husband to buy example; regards the present vious years without the permis¬ ume: 28.000 miles; £2.700. 235 MALE REQ'O share luxury S.W.3 Lsary. used bis office for Chinese policeman. directive about additives to feed¬ 4403. flat, own room. c.h. water, rales. " foreign-made ” medicines. escalation of acts of vandalism, sion of the Crown Estates Com-. g money. ing stuffs. £30 Incl. 262 2530. alt. 7. He first took 25 roubles for an violent crime, hi-jacking and missioners. She did ■,ri in am1 HARLEY ST.—41h mala, mid 20», was said to have forced iojectipn of Susrinoa-250 (the price terrorism as a threat to our way way condone the illegality of whai wR SCOTT-HOPKINS (UK, West LEX FOR JACUARS. 01-902 8727 own room, nice one, £16.—580 ts to pay him a high fee for ley tor Daimler*. 01-902 3787 197g. of one ampoule is 1 rouble 45 6,000 Vietnam deaths nf Ufe ; and calls upon the Gov- was involved. She could assure Derbyshire, C) said tbe Conserv¬ for Triumphs. 01-902 R7R7 SWB. Luxury house. 3rd men. own tent, though medical service kopeks), and then filled out a emrnenr to take all necessary the House that important lessons atives backed the motion support¬ Lex for Rover*. 01-902 B707 en free of charge in the Saigon, Dec 13—A battle ing the Commission proposal in rL«XJ6. beButlful condition, low wilSlMvF&flSffr.Am. prescription for Mrs Overchuk for measures, such as- increasing the bad been learnt by the police. 0l 9->n'’2917 r’ e3-5'50- ti.L.M. comfortable c.h. bungalow. Local : Union. Dr Shtern is also eight ampoules, which he took . involving thousands of commu¬ size of the police force and special Home Office and local authorities almost every respect, but further amt nines. 902 25o4. J‘ „.5.EG- *^AE1Bd. slorco; h.p. facilities or chemist’s shop. provincial capital came at the terrorism and other crimes, to Tbe need to devise more accept¬ P.X. considered. £4.999._Tel. actions as the extomon or They bad therefore tabled tner Blundell. 051-929 2706. RENTALS Tbe ampoules obtained in mis | end of a week in which the restore the rule of law." able arrangements for the future EUROCARS I LONDON) LTD. Firm and swindling, under wav were sold by Dr Shtern to Mrs He said he was not against pop amendments to make that possible. registered Nov. 1973. Citroen SM Saigon Command said more wherever a pop festival might ROOMS/BOARD in London homes a 1G8 and 143 of the criminal Anna Matvienko, the mother of festivals but the festivals must There was, for instance, a sub¬ E.F.I.. finished In Or de simalne of the Ukrainian Soviet than 6,000 people had been occur was receiving consideration with carmnl Jersey Ini prior. Fined Beds-ln-Homea. 01-637 5250/1. his under-age patient, V. Lesovoy. be properly organized, be legal from toe local authorities in toe stance in use in England called air conditioning, tinted glass all AVAILABLE NOW. duality Flats/ i&t Republics. . killed on both sides. and not interfere with the peace maximln which was harmless, SO round. Recorded mileage 4.000. Houses to let.—LAL. 937 7B84. She told the court that she paid area. Price £5.650. Eurocars (Londoni HAMPSTEAD Regent’s Park. Now the opening day or the tna<* Dr Shtern 25 roubles tor a box and quiet of the lives of other far as was known. They' sought to Ltd. Tel. 262 2738/9. Wo aLso luxury famished houses. £90 ourt heard the evidence of of Sustinon, and she put the money citizens. Without SO much as Many MPs had strong feeling ensure that such substances were have a wide variety of models io o.w.—W.L.E.. 459 6074. on the Shrewsbury pickets. The choose from. AMERICAN executive nie-is lut ury 10 witnesses. Mr Semjon in an open desk drawer In front- Jail patiente improved5 anyone’s leave the Great Park at oot prohibited, but subjected to ALL ROVERS and Land-Rovers furnished flat or house up lo 'a. an inhabitant of Viomfsa. of him. Dr Shtern later twice sold Windsor was used in 1972, 1973 decision of the courts must be scientific tests before final deri¬ — Cavendish Motors, s-lOO p w. Usual fees required. • accepted and respected. It must 01-4*9 0044. Philips Kay & Lewis. 629 RM1. tbe court that his wife was this medicine to Mrs Matvienko Johannesburg, Dec 13.—The and 1974 for a festival which was sions were-made. R/ROVER. STAG. Daimler. XJ6. looking mi a turn, fiat /house 7 ly ill in October 1971.due to for 30 roubles each time. condition of Mr Bram Fischer, illegal. be recognized that every citizen SGR S CARAS CIA MUGNOZZA, Colour choice 0942 67476. W.N. Douglas Mrlnnes offers a wide tperation taypo-oreosis- .we or body of citizens had the right (RECEDES BENZ 220, J rag., up selection IP most areas, long/ Mr Nikolai Bezkursky, the the imprisoned former Commun¬ MR BRITTAN (Cleveland and Vice-President of the Commission, lo AO mpg. 05.000 miles. Auto¬ short lerm. Z3O-E10O O.w. 684 ht her to the endocrinological to petition for clemency on behalf matic. vofue £3.350. swop for 6641 father of another of Dr Shtern 6 ist Party leader who is in a said the Commission could not RESPONSIBLE YOUNG LADY seeks isary. There Dr Shtern Whitby, C) said that to respond to of a convicted person. The Home »**»"’* 01-670 4282. patients, told the court that, after Pretoria hospital with cancer, political pressures and release the agree to the amendments because FERRARI Dlno Coudo—1 owner. dean s'c flat, preferably in SL tied the patient and pronuseo examining his son. Dr Shtern said : Secretary must always be ready so far no safe method had been 1972 metallic blue/black interior. John's wood. Swiss Collage area. Shrewsbury pickets prematurely Radio, stereo cartridge player. Pay £30- p.w.—Please phone 289 re her, but demanded a high was stated today to have im¬ to receive and consider represen¬ ** Treatment for your son will cost would knock another nail in the found to assess the extent to which 38-50Q miles. Zlehart nisioroorefl. 2135. Flat S5. a lot.” Dr Shtern said he was ready proved. He is 66. tations for toe exercise of toe £3.750 O.n.D. 051 724 1589. EXierfSIVb RANGE Flats/Houses coffin of the rule of law. The only some additives might or might not CITROEN. Special Offers on all Guzhva went home straight royal prerogative of mercy. wanted and to 1st. Long/short to sell the required medicine If Mr protection for everybody was to be dangerous. models. Also personal export term.—L.A.L., 957 7P8A. returned and gave or Bezkursky would pay for it. atnnnM). Continental Car Centra. tip-top luxury ram. service suites bave a government of law above The Home Secretary had said An amendment removing hor¬ _ 01-959 8821/2/3. In Kensington. Colour TV, etc. 0 50 roubles. The doctor took 25 roubles and Wilson-Whitlam talks the government of men. that he could not usurp the func¬ monal and anti-hormonal sub¬ *. C SMITH otter a large selection Long or short lets. £70-£no p.w. i prosecutor said that after later three kilos of fish tions of the courts and should re¬ stances from toe prohibited list of new and used Mercedes-Benz Ind.K.P.. 370 4044. Mr Wilson will have talks with MR BRYAN DAVIES (Enfield, cars Tor immediate delivery.—Tel, CHISWICK. Beautifully rum. flat tn Dr Shtern put Mr Guzhva s Today a succession of witnesses commend interference with sen¬ of the proposed directive was 01-77R 3252. rpRlflenUal area. 2 double bed¬ ’ rife in the inpatient hospital give similar evidence. One of Mr Gough Whitiam, Prime Mini¬ North, Lab) sold if the TUC was tences passed by the courts only carried by eight votes to seven, a QUICK SALE, qolng abroad. N reg. rooms. 2 recept., k. and b., c.h. able to identify that failure to Ford Capri C>hla Roman 2. 20t» Suit m c. with older children msband went over to see her Ehem. Mr P. Mallshcvsky. said his ster of Australia, at 10 Downing on toe basis of considerations > majority for the Conservatives of automatic. 600 miles, stardust, only £35 p.w. charch Bros.. 01* exercise clemency might cause a aunroof. radio, merco.C2.05P. « every day and frequently child was treated by Dr Shtern, Street, next Thursday and Fri¬ which toe courts had not been able one. More MPs arrived and tbe 439 0581 ■'?. Dr Sbiern in the dispensary who gave him drugs worth fi degree of disrespect for the law to take into account- That view Tel, 937 9992 dag 5R4 H0i2 MARBLE ARCH. W. 1. FumiBhed day. Mr and Mrs Whitiam will amendment to add the products to even In OS lares s c fiat. 3 rooms, k. & u. among trade unionists, then it was CITROEN G.S. 1220 Club: 36.000 ids. , . roubles 16 kopeks. ‘ ICOuWget still stood. a list requiring tests to be carried 4 '5 girls only. £40 p.w, DOS be guests of the Prime Minister right and proper for the TUC to mites: rust-proofed: Cl.050. 228B. e doctor called Mr together 19 roubles and fumbled , out was rejected by nine votes to at dinner on Thursday. , make such representations. The Prime Minister’s meeting 01-359 6813. SHORT Urt from 14Ut Dec. 3 to his office and said that for more in my pockets ”, he said eight. The report as amended was roams, k. & b.. s/c flai. N.W.l. with toe TUC certainly did not £32 p.w. Tel. 01-267 4840 before ■as taking an active P»rt “Shtern then said : ‘ Put on the i MR FOWLER (Sutton Coldfield, bave the grave constitutional im- ! agreed to. ;»ig his wife though he had desk what you have lUjw ^ i C) said he thought it was right that plications that some MPs seemed . SGR VETRONE (Italy, C-D) FULHAM S/c C.H. flat extremely ng to do with tills at all. • 1931 PACKARD • mv last five-rouble note. Help for the hungry I police should investigate com¬ to suppose. Its purpose would be successfully moved a report agree¬ l.f! SrJ’sffiu* cl “ rw|UJreo- tbe prosecutor. Mr Guznvd s "V point, when the public , plaints against them from the pub¬ to receive the views of toe TUC on ing to a Commission proposal for *wviced lux. was looked after hy omer nr^ecutor gave the official price ; Geneva, Dec 13.—-A worldwide S STRAIGHT 8 LIMOUSINE | flat. Bedroom, lounge, t. x, h’ lic, but more police forces should various general matters arising an import tariff quota for frozen 5:*1" C-I*;’*'- Short lets avail' irs in the hospital- Dr Shtern appeal for funds to provide help S Appeared in many films, lea- O consider following the example of from toe case, but at the same beef and veal. Tbe motion rook Alao Kensington. Highly wSSSSw mied to extort money and for millions of children m tured In The Great Gatsby. # mendod. London Hate. 373 5002 Scotland Yard in setting up a time it was well understood that account of undertakings under toe from Mr Guzhva, who Threatened with starvation was • Actual car In Duckhama Oil f going abroad 7 — ReeponubTe separate complaints branch any advice on the exercise of the Gate but said that toe Council urof. American -SwMtefi”'1gm*ple' ved that it was this doctor launched today by the United divorced from normal police duties. royal prerogative oF mercy in in¬ • ad. on T.V. R.K.D. Grey/ • was really curing his wife, T’lridSceriven b?thT$£e£. should Implement protective • twigs exterior, red coach • Nations Children's Fund. DR SHIRLEY SUMMER SKILL, dividual cases remained toe sole measures under Gan If tbe im¬ • lined. Immaculate condition. Q r such “service”, the bus- responsibility of the Home paid money to Dr snreni Under-Sccretaiy, Home Office ports caused or threatened dis¬ • £6.000 2 Secretary. turbance of the Community market. • tarty and brought duCM. (Halifax, Lab) said there was 0 or exchange Silver Shadow. # reason to think that damage to Parliament approved an emerg¬ tens, buner. onions, garlic, ance with the law. During an Turkish rail crash The general remit of toe meet¬ • phone 01-675 3194 now. • DEVONSHIRE «?.'ViTftJK property was a fashionable ency motion calling on toe Council lounge, kit. & hath., nicely drear! other products, worth a total interval Dr Shtern a^ogizcd to Ankara, Dec 13.—A goods ing was that various general mat¬ offence among certain groups 01 ters arising from the case-would to make available a further 5,000 JS, m ■0 roubles. . Mr Krivoruchko in the train crashed into the Istanbul- young people. be discussed. tonnes of cereals for refugees in WANTED DBJ:i}£irrFUlv5y?LSEA maisonette, Shtem’s defence counsel. Mr of his own lawyer. ‘1 did not with 'are; roof terrace, luxury riu Baghdad express near Kayseri, The Home Office Standing Com¬ Cyprus d Akselbani, who bad come know the law ". he said. The motion wax agreed to. tings and furnishings. 3 berte central Turkey, early today. mittee on Crime Prevention was Parliament adjourned until etc £80 p w. Garef. 355 0906? i Moscow, asked Mr Guzhva The trial continues. MORGANS. All models required. *er anyone had seen how Seven, people were Idlled- considering the report of a work¬ House adjourned, 430 pm. January 13-17. C.L.U. 01-959 3917. (continued on page 24} SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 THE TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW
Gerard Fairlie today (far left) A gallery of Drummonds. and with Sapper, Bulldog ‘ Bottom row, left to right. Drummond’s creator, 40 Gerald du Manner, who years ago. created the role for the stage : The Carlyle Blackwell in the first and most faithful film adaptation (1922), here in disguise; Ronald Colman in man who was Bulldog, Drummond Strikes Back (1934) with Georges Bulldog Regas Below; two shots from Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)—John Howard Drummond as Drummond with John Barrymore and Reginald Denny, the gagged sidekick Algy, with villain 2. Carrol Naish ; and in yet another version from the same year, Warren Tute meets Gerard Fairlie, the man Bulldog Drummond Escapes, Ray Milland as the bero with behind a legend. Porter Hall and Heather Aug
* His best friend would not have called him good looking, but be was the fortunate possessor of that cheerful type of ugliness which inspires immediate confidence in its owner. His mouth was not small ... in fact, to be strictly accurate, only his eyes redeemed his face from being what is known in the vernacular as the Frozen Limit.’ Thus was
Bulldog Drummond described by Sapper, his creator.
Drummond, perhaps more than any other fictional hero, symbolized the upper class, ex-officer world of the 20s and
30s. In fact Sapper based Drummond on Gerard Fairlie who now lives in an inland town in Malta, with the complete works of his friend P. G. Wodehouse lining his shelves as well as the 43 books he has written himself.
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he " Bulldog” himself was at records for the involuntary high imposed on most of his charac¬ Hote did you get irwolved ? 1920 and the 1951 edition you that war to end all wars . . In the sense that people have better than anyone else. I te door. Erect, taU and with jump and he came up to apolo¬ ters. Like so many of bis feUow I turned to Mac in 1924 in the have in your hand is the 65th the gaps in the families . . . always expected more from me asked me to protect the gw ie expected firm handshake, gize. From then on a warm junior officers, Mac found him¬ hope of trying to write fiction. impression. But T don’t think he everything had been uprooted. in the way of physical courage name of the characters for » rdy the post-cataract glasses friendship developed, remark¬ self perpetually sbort of money I’d had five years of the Scots or anyone else would claim him IE only they could find a Bull¬ and resource of mind—yes. Like 1 was worth, always. He i jggested his 75 years. The able in that throughout our and, since he loved stories, be Guards, a rather expensive to be a great writer. He could dog Drummond to lead them, a all of us who went through the longer wanted to bear deta imous nose “ which had never association—both working and decided to try to write_ one regiment, and I’d just married never produce dialogue an actor man who understood all classes Second World War, there have abour the play, simply sayL himself for money. Taking a uite recovered from the final soda!—it was never marred by Joan. I decided I couldn't afford could speak, possibly because so of the population... . been times when Fve been very that be was leaving all that sc rude tale, not too well known, much of his characterization was ne year in the public schools any misunderstanding, let alone both the Army and Joan so, with From the patrician point of very frightened Indeed. In fact of thing to me. He finished i he amended and enlarged it eavyweights ” was, perhaps, a a single quarrel. her full support, I risked every¬ ready caricature. view ? scared stiff. I don’t chink Bull¬ by saying: “ Well, good lut and sent it to a peculiar action more bulbous and Was there much of Bulldog thing to try to make it as a -For instance he only wrote Yes, but that was how most dog. Drummond ever was. I Joe, ir’s all been fuu ”, whi ■ periodical called The Winning iehtly better illuminated, but Drummond in Sapper himself ? writer. Naturally I started to- one play entirely by himself and people thought a-t the time. If mean, as I said in that broad¬ left me speechless. The oe Post run by an even more that was the ill-fated The Way e still exhibited the humorous Mac was certainly larger than collect the obligatory clutch of they could find a bero who cast, it’s all very well but every morning he was dead. peculiar character called Robert rejection slips and then luck Out produced at the Comedy cpression of a man. whose out- life. Wherever he went his per¬ never hesitated to give all his time anything goes wrong at And he asked you to carry « Sievier, who ended up at a came into it again. Theatre in January, 1930. In with the Bulldog Drummo. iofc on life has enabled him sonality made a forceful impact time to help those in need, who home—you know, strange noises later date in front of the Lord In 1924 the International spite of a most talented cast, 'waps to find and to relish an He was loud in everything—in was a great patriot—the British downstairs in the dead of night series ? Chief Justice. Olympic Committee decided for his dialogue made the characters onic quirk in any given situa- voice, in laughter. • in his Empire was still very much —Fm expected to do something No. But he bad arurieti To the young author’s sur¬ the first time ever to hold a too unreal, too much like cari¬ about finance, afraid that on, however dire. I asked clothes and in the unconscious alive and we’d won the wac^—a .about it. And if I say “ Ir’s swagger with which be moved. prise, Sievier published his winter sports section at Chamo¬ catures. You couldn't believe in tough, fearless main unwilling mice ”, my wife always remarks would leave his widow less wi lerald Fairlie: nix. In the way things were done them. I think the stage is the While in anyone else those story, omitting only to pay for to wait for diplomats aod poli¬ “ Drummond would do some¬ off than she should be, ai ou were Bulldog Drummond, in those purely amateur days— would have been deplorable it. So Mac screwed up his most difficult medium cf ail to ticians to make up their minds thing about it.” Now I ask therefore also their rwo sot ererit you ? and how much more pleasant defects, you couldn’t dislike him courage and went to see him in write for as it’s three dimen¬ but who went all out for you ... Then some weeks later, B I was aod I am. In a sense 1 his office. Sevier, who at that they were !—a British bobsleigh sional. Mac could not manage ecame the prototype after the because he was a genuine immediate justice even if it Sapper died at very short Watt of A. P. Watt & Son (wl team was raised by a friend of it. You can get a reader “ will¬ extrovert with an immense time owned a famous racehorse proved to oe a bit rough at notice, so to speak. was also my agent) got togeth pent—which needs a word or mine in the Brigade of Guards. ingly to suspend bis disbelief” zest for life. He was full of and was a well-known gambler times, then at least part of the Yes. It was cancer of the with the Hodder-Wiiliai jtplanadon—-and I also wrote I fell for the offer of a free trip generosity. He loved people and himself, gave Mac the full in a novel or on sound radio be¬ future would be signposted. A throat and mercifully quick. brothers who controlled Hodd »ven of the Bulldog Drummond to the Alps and I didn’t even he loved his work. Every treatment. The drawers of the cause once his own imagination visit to the play or a reading of And you were collaborating and Stoughton, our publisher ooks myself after Sapper editorial desk were pulled open know what a bobsleigh looked is brought into play, half your moment he lived to the full, the book gave people an escape on another Bulldog Drummond and suggested I should carry 1 ied. The character itself was to reveal only a few coppers like. They said that all they work is done for you. But on the whether it was with men drink¬ into a world they longed for with the series of Build' composite. Sapper was 11 needed was a chap with guts play at the time ? ing and yarning, or with pretty and stamps. No cheque book stage when the curtain goes up, themselves. Bulldog Drummond Drummond books. J agreed wi ears older than I was. He spent was to hand. In short the in the middle of the five-man A comparatively new manage¬ girls, whom he adored, or characters and situation have to was a benevolent, bard headed, very considerable misgiving. lost of the first world war in “ penurious publisher ” act was bob of about my. weight and' suf¬ be absolutely real. They must be ment. O’Bryen and. Linnet, simply in writing to entertain, individual hero, the sort of Hoiv would you sum up wh ie trenches, ending up as a put over with all of Sievier’s ficiently disciplined to lean in seen in the round. wanted a play for Leslie Banks. ieutenant Colonel. The hero he which he did every day of his person no one seems to want Bulldog Drummond has doi life. immense charm. either direction instantaneously Of course there was the They commissioned Bulldog for you ? rested. Captain Hugh Drum- on receiving the order. I thought today—cnless it’s James Bond. Drummond Hits Out. As it hap¬ And he was prolific ? “ Now, young fellow ”, Sievier Gerald du Maurier production Well—the character has u mod, finished the war with the Something of a fascist ? Not really. He tended to be said, indicating the end of the 1 could cope. They rook me and which ran a year, but Gerald pened, Leslie Banks and. later, iSO and the MC. I was a Cadet I suppose so, although Pm doubtedly given me a great de a slow worker, if you judge out¬ interview, “ Fm going to let you we finished fifth. was a great actor and the actor Clive Brook both turned down r Sandhurst riU December 1918 not at all sure what that means. of most useful publicity. Drui put by the number of words into a secret which will give managers of those days usually Bulldog Drummond parrs mond has also given me the fi j I never saw active service in While there, Fairlie was Would our fashionable Marxists because they were too “ physi¬ written in a day. He was enthu¬ you more money than ever I rewrote any script they were of writing about him and ti hat we then called “ the Great cal) Robin Hood a fascist ? siastic if he thought he had could pay you for your article. offered the job of official his¬ given to suit their own particu¬ cal ” in type for them. Eventu¬ other characters, especially All far”. But I think I probably torian to the Olympiad, not only Drummond was certainly not a written a good story, but re¬ There’s a big race up north lar talents. Mac was the first ally Henry Edwards aereed to Longworth, the nearest perha —.-v- Sapper as the sort of political fascist, not a miniature mained always very critical of today. Put your shirt on So at Chamonix but at Paris in the to_ acknowledge “ the great con¬ play the part with a then un¬ sped men he had Hitler or Mussolini—just a to P. G. Wodehouse which I > his own work. Nothing reached and So, because it’s going to June of that year. The fee ? One tribution du Maurier made to known actress called Judy much enjoy. Fve done my be , visualized for Drum- hundred and fifty pounds. He good honest chap, loyal to the a publisher or an editor until win.” the play”—* euphemism for Campbell, subseouenrly to to keep the characters goin I was a heavyweight jumped at the job. From his King, who believed that British Mac was satisfied he could not On the basis of “in for a saying he rewrote it. But then become Noel Coward’s leading largely for the benefit of tl I played rugger and I ovm short story ipricing in that was -Best, as in those days improve it. Never a day passed, penny”, Mac rounded up his du Maurier himself was larger lady, playing opposite. We family he left behind him. ^__e was generally above first year, he made exactly ten k most certainly was. if he could help it, when he did friends, pooled resources and than life. He had mannerisms opened in the summer of 1937 ** A perfect short story rage at games, in contrast to pounds. Soon he was to become Sapper died in 1937 at the not sit down at his desk at nine laid on a sizable bet. The horse on the stage which contrived to at Brighton-but Mac was bv then Sapper used to say, “ is idei per himself. But between Special Correspondent of The early age of 48 but by then you o’clock and work through till won at 50 to 1 and thus Mac’s give his audience an impression far too ill to attend. This was deal to the perfect iron shot t Times for the winter sports were a well established author T imagine we could muster lunch. He allowed himself to first literary effort did make of absolute naturalness. Remem¬ a _ very moving time for me. golf. It must start with a ban section of the 1928 Olympiad, in your own right, yet mu it of the main qualities and be interrupted only for a pint him more money than be ever ber that this was 1921. What R:chr up to the last moment. which immediately creates tl this time at St Moritz. He was it ere still associated in the -cts of the character. Maybe of beer at 11. The rest of received subsequently for a was natural then would be Mac was consulted on an interest, just as the golf ball also writing regularly on sport public mind with the Bulldog fs one reason why Drum- the dey was clear for golf or short story—and he became one grotesque today. He couldn't aspects of the script .and cast¬ crisply hit away by the clu for the Bystander, and published Drummond image ? id caught the imagination of tennis or a visit tn a rugger of the highest paid writers of even have repeated his per¬ ing, and one evening in mid- Then the interest must contim his first novel Scissors Cut t post-war world in the way match. In the evening he met the twenties and thirties. formance ten years later when Mac and I were great friends. August—I remember it had in an ever-increasing trajectoi Paper. iid. bis friends and acquaintances Shortly afterwards the Great Ronald Colman did it as a That was the basis of it, and been a day full of sun and col¬ until the climax is reached, ju o did you meet ? and encouraged them to voice War began. Soon stories of life movie. Everything has its time. this was certainly known in the our—T found Mac in his as the hall flies straight ar was a Cadet at Sandhurst their opinions on all and sundry. in the trenches started to arrive But how did you come to be I remember lunching with profession, if not by the public Sussex garden where I went ro true, rising all the while. Tlu he was Chief Instructor at After all people -were his busi¬ at the Daily Mail. Norrhcliffe not only the prototype-after-the- Gerald and Mac at Ciro’s—that at large. Then, some three bring him up to date with the finish as quickly as possihl Senior Officers* School, ness. That was a lesson he sported their quality at once. He event of Bulldog Drummond but splendid restaurant-club in years before he died, Mac and news. with all the back spin you cz also to write seven of the books, peris full name was Her- taught me very early on and I published them. But, as no regu¬ Orange Street—when Gerald 1 were invited to broadcast in . We talked together for a- long use to cut out any su perfium and a number of Drummond i Cyril McNeile, but he hated learnt more from him than lar serving officer could write analysed the play’s success. “I the top BBC programme of the rime alone but not abour the words.” Christian names and every- any of the other established under his own name, he dubbed short stories yourself ? don’t attribute this solely to its rime In Town Tonight. In play. Mac opened his heart to If you analyse his sho cailed him "Mac”. We writers who so kindly took an the author Sapper. As such The short answer is that, apart entertaioment value” he said, that programme Mac admitted me that evening and told me for stories or his novels, you ca t met on the links at Nairn interest in my education. he became an instant success, from our close friendship, 1 “ Bulldog Drummond appeals to the world, though in very the first time rhar be knew he see that be faithfully follows ire X lived. I bad sliced one Horn did Sapper get started so much so that when he tried, could do some of the things Mac to the youth of rhe country lighthearted terms, that he had was dying. I said very little as his own precepts. When it cam the first tee short of the as a writer ? after the war. to write under couldn’t Undoubtedly Sapper is because in him they can recog¬ based bis Bulldog Drummond the occasion was too much for to the theatre, however, h ch on the right of the first In a most unorthodox way. He his proper name, the public in the history books as one of nize the sort of leadership they character on me. That wasn’t me. He asked, me to do several remained—as he had been whe way. Mac, playing just be- was a regular subaltern in the would have none of it. Like all the most popular story tellers badly need and aren't getting strictly true but from then on things For him when be was we First met—one of the fine: i. did the same dropping Army before the 1914 War, a successful men, Sapper en¬ of his age. The sales of nis books any more". You always have it was what the world Firmly gone, which Pm happy to have short high tiicers off anv te between my feet as l was fact which accounted for the joyed and had a high respect were enormous. Bulldog Drum¬ to remember the lost generation believed. • been able to do. He told me I that Fve ever seen. for his luck. dng for my ball. I broke all very rigid code of behaviour be mond' was first published in and the terrible slaughter of Was it difficult to live up to? understood Bulldog Drummond fi} Warren Tute. 197-
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Chess Clive Barnes/New York Notebook The Times Vintage games ghost story competition The closing date for The Trmcs/Jonthan Cape Ghost Stonr Com- 5 Bernard Shaws, the 360 games, US win, 175 draws Saving the Metropolitan Setition is January 10. The judges will be Kingsley Anus, Patnna ■trand Russells and the and also 70 losses—56.1 per cent. We live in strange times. The our best bet for the survival Ughsmith and Christopher Lee, with John Higgins of The Times Tipton Mackenzies tine latter _ Korchnoi, the defeated plaver United States, before what even of our major opera house. A and Tom Maschler from Jonathan Cape. , , i. incidentally, both keen In the recent candidates final, President Ford now blearily few days before he unex¬ Scripts, of 6,000 words or less, should be typed in double spacing ss players) have all done us has a better percentage, 61.2, and myopically sees as a reces- pectedly accepted the job (it on one side of the paper and sent to The Times Ghost Smiy Com¬ immcnse favour of showing but has played in fewer touma- sion, was very probably t])e very was -unexpected for him as well) petition, Times Newspapers Limited. PO Box 7, New Printing c a _ long life can _ be con- menu, 16, with a total of 304 richest nation the world had I was having lunch with Bliss, House Square. Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1. Pseudonyms may itiy Interesting providing the games, 115 wins, 142 draws, and known. In those1 happy days of and, while calking about this be used, though actual names and addresses should also be >d retains that essentially 47 losses. golden dollars and Fort Worth and that, he offered his opinion provided, as well as stamped, addressed envelopes if stories are thful quality of Renaissance The best performance of all is I ll?Eots, the country gave pre- that “ For the Met it is either to be returned. The prize winners will be announced before Easter. iostpt. They were not only matthat of the former world chain,Cham- I csouscious little to "the support of five minutes to midnight or it in themselves but they pion Botvinnik. He has played 1116 ans- Ir has increased, but five minutes past, and no one :eeded in passing on to us in 12 tournaments wirh 213 m comparison with the need, is can cell which ”, It was a re¬ impression of greatness in games, winning 111 drawing 77 stiU precious little. mark not made for die record, Bridge and losing only 25 (70 per American, arts are perhaps and I hope I am not breaking a ?sser lights also managed to cent). not more imperilled by the eco-' friend’s confidence, but it now eve this. For some reason nr Other good scores are Geller, noraic wasteland of the western seams extraordinarily relevant. r it is mostly from Georgia 15 tournaments, 284 games, 108 world than, say -Europe.' except Hopefully Bliss, with his canni¬ Animal ruses he Soviet Union that one wins, 118 draws and 58 losses that tie funding here is far less ness and sensibility, might be Victor Mdlo has long been the small heart from his 9A. Papa $ these Munchausen-like t59 per cent). Smyslov, 37 secure and, significantly. far able to put chat dock back. Victor Borge of bridge and no cs nf men who are in their had not the foresight to ruff his tournaments, 320 games, 101 less traditional than, certainly, But he will need financial one tells better stories of cala¬ partner’s trick and lead a nd century, and who tell of wins, 172 draws, 47 losses (58.5 in continental Europe. Britain, support. mity at the card table. Bridge trump, so be became entangled they saw Napoleon when per cent). Tal, 13 Tournaments, like the United States, is a com¬ I aim very concerned with the in the Fourth Dimension (Faber in an inextricable squeeze which were young. What Napo- 246 games, 101 wins, 108 draws,’ parative newcomer to the large- image the National Theatre is and Faber, £2.80) is the sequel you will be amused to unravel. was doing in Georgia I 37 losses (63 per cent) scaiescale funding of the performing offering to America. It appears to Bridge in the Menagerie and How often do we feel like the pt understand; perhaps he Polugaievsky, 14 tournaments artsarts.- In roostmost parts of'-Europeof Europe to be entering into financial oomaios a delightfud selection of Hog who says: “ Let me pick the wrong turning on his 262 games, 95 wins, 133 draws! suc** funding is taken for arrangements with American incidents Which ought to have my opponents and you can -at from Moscow or perhaps 34 losses (62.1 per cent) granted, just as is education.- managements that make the occurred even if there never saddle me with any partner you joined in the pursuit and Spassky, 11 tournaments 2055 | ButBu* even in Britain-thereBrirain-there does maximum use of the National were such deals. -cino nf Mannlann iincfa* __ * mi _ ■_ coom ta ho a mfirp fftlAmnf am-. like.” Is it likely that both de¬ aing of Napoleon under the games,' 79 wins 101 draws ""25 seem to be a more tolerant arti-; . Theatre name and yet the fenders will play well ? and ing leadership of Prince losses (63 per cent). Petrosian. ture towai‘ds fading for the The mixture of humans and minimum use of its expertise. animals who constitute the H No bid is truly bad if it pro?* en of Mingrelia. No, this 12 tournaments, 226 games 77 f*** Admittedly there is no It looks as though the National Griffin’s Club are normal vokes a defence that is even possibility will hardly fit in wins, 126 draws, 23 losses ’(62 J,OD8er Jennie Lee to beat the Theatre is not taking America players with their imperfec¬ worse ? ” *V the rime scheme since the per cent) ' drum and wave the sabre. Ou- seriously and is selling its A masterly piece of play . the oilier hand there does. reputation very cheap for what tions magnified—the Hideous .e—equally dashing in his My aoDetke is whenred T u,c UUMSr,_ Ktt,,u. Hog who rarely has a losing which he accidentally learned: —became famous (or in- roust briSf my aPPeaf *? he—and perhaps the it must think is an easy buck. from the Hag enables the Rab¬ js) for his quarrel with m ^ ^ statistics view looks more sanguine from Well, it isn’t. In quick succes¬ session and personifies the Gloating Winner, the Secretary bit to make five diamonds in gorin in the liter years of “64° ^n'Jinl selS n' If rNew York-^-a wary acceptance sion New York has had two Bird who knows all the laws but the next deal. ~ -• V century. games in^a°rion°af Ln^nriS productions damaging to. the reputation of the National little about card play, die Tou¬ ? nearest counterparts to tournament at Manila. I give an UtdeS muS be paid for. I am can who can only count points. * * J = » give an indeed, must be paid tor. i am Theatre. (7 4 3 fnteresring game in whidi the SocedXt America' Papa the Greek with his un¬ hich the not yet convinced that America' I understand that we are K Q J isroEurope seem to be the Argentine grandmaster Quin- takes such a liberal view. Here lucky expertise together with takes such a liberal view. Here going to have John Dexter’s £ A B 5 4 3 others who, irke the Hog, mostly •fe/SSsrDlltCh 'eSnSS-IVaSter ter^S’ ^ho be seen in action rherethere will alwavsalways be that'that'puritan ouritan staging of The Misonfhrope. AAT>S4 h q 10 9 a»- fForeestToreest was sttllstill playingDianne at HastingsHastines this year,vear. succumbs
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Sonic Lime aso Mr Michael J. a mouth-watering sentence from Good kin took the trouble to the description of Windrush. study the villa renting scene, “ In keeping with these sumptu¬ paying particular attention to ous high standards, dine to soft the type of accommodation music from either radio or cas available to those who take sette recorder in tbe indoor such holidays abroad. It was a dining room (seating 8), enjoy purely personal investigation, cocktails in the walk-in bar for he is professionally involved (with running water and all bar in legal and financial affairs. accessories, including automatic What he saw, however, con¬ icemaker), or simply relax on vinced him that a want needed the large covered patio (acces¬ to be filled. sible from the house via an He has now filled it with the entire wall of floor-toceiling, unashamedly luxurious “ Jamai¬ sliding grass doors), with its can Alternative a collection lovely lounge furniture, second of properties on that island now dining table, plus a picture post¬ being offered to those who are card view of the sea, fresh¬ financially able to indulge their water, filtered swimming pool, sybaritism. Mr Good kin believes gardens aod golf course.” that not enough of the best was The Jamaica Association of available. Villas and Apartments, is at His brochure glossily portrays 6-10 Bruton Street, London Windrush and Mount Ego, VV1X 8HN, who will supply the Pimento Hill, Hanover House details— and give you some¬ and other properties. It conjures thing to dream about. up the rigju spirits, creates the Another company offering cofreer aura of affluence. It Jamaican properties for holiday you bave the funds this is one rent is Meon Travel, whose cur¬ alternative to winter’s gloom rent brochure has details of five and the depression of Europe. villa developments and prices The lowest price I could find for mid-April to mid-October— for a holiday between now and the less-expensive summer sea¬ the middle of April was £325 son- per person. That covers your A comparison between the two return air fare and two weeks companies would be pointless in one of tbe large villas (five because the properties vary and or more bedrooms), but you tbe holidays are aimed at dif¬ have to travel as one of a group ferent types of traveller. How¬ of 11 or 12 to qualify. ever, the cost of a two week The cost rises to £395 for holiday for each of four people each of four persons staying in ranges from £251 to £287 in the one of the independent villas Meon brochure. That includes featured in the brochure. As the return flight, car hire with well as the return air fare and unlimited mileage, maid service, accommodation, it includes tbe airport taxes and an initial cost of staff salaries, for die supply of food. Automatic cars properties have their regular are an extra £8 per week. corps of retainers. It does not Mrs Jean Smith, who is in cover car rental (five-seater charge of the Meon tours de¬ automatics at £62 per week) partment, told me that this was which is essential, nor the cost the first time the company had of food or gratuities. offered villa holidays to A number of the properties Jamaica. The innovation was on offer are at the exclusive made because it is now possible Tryall Golf and Beach Club— for Meon to offer villa deals 54 villas on 3,000 acres, the linked to scheduled flights and average value of each being not have the headaches of char¬ around £100,000. Each villa has tering aircraft. its private swimming pool and Among the Meon apartments gardens and in addition to golf are some located at Sans Souci, the facilities include tennis, a property I visited two years Tryall Golf and Beach Club: Exclusive £100,000 villas on 3,000 acres offering swim mi ng, golf and tennis. riding, and scuba diving, with ago and about which I embused yachts and fishing boats avail¬ on this very page. The air-con¬ able for hire. The cost of a ditioned apartments have been villa on the Tryall estate is built around the terraces of a higher chart for one of the inde¬ tropical rock garden at the sea’s Golf in the sun pendent properties. Two weeks edge. It has two swimming in winter for each of four pools with lifts to carry one When we landed at Faro airport the Vale do Lobo course on the with courses to satisfy the most My ten-day trip, costing £125, Velha is already open and very there we went to Malaga people is between £46Q-£550, down to the pool, terraces and Portuguese Algarve. Every¬ ardent and choosy. included all the above plus cool. finally to the lovely ge* it was raining. Not the gentle wooded slojpes of Estoril, depending on the size of the the sea. Irish patter (that doesn’t make where you looked there were There is ample sun and at entrance fees to the tournament There is any number of places chosen property. A considerable number of in¬ you wet, they claim) or the large, bronzed men heaving certain times with the tempera¬ and sufficient food to take me to visit for golfing holidays and Lisbon. It is a flattering co?>— The villas are so luxurious clusive holidays are now avail¬ steady, grey drizzle associated bulky bags of clubs around. tures nudging the nineties it can through the first 36 hours. the number of operators offer¬ though you must play wel that I suggest you obtain a copy able to Jamaica from Britain, with the start of a holiday in The professionals, of course, be coo hot for anything more There is not much to do at sun¬ ing facilities, and vying with the tee. • 7 ’ •r of Mr Goodkin’s brochure, if and the island has, if anything, Britain.- Hu's was ferocious stuff, knew each other:'the amateurs than lazing around. I have been down, though you will need the one another with extras, is now Caddies are uften- a lo( only for the pleasure of looking an excess of hotel beds to be like silver daggers, bouncing only their immediate team twice to Portugal in November rest after 36 holes of Vale do legion. But perhaps the most but mine turned out to ber at the colour photographs. As filled. Since my last visit de¬ and flying up off the tarmac to mates. and February, and found the Lobo. But there is the local surprising advent of all is the assistant professional who for the evocative prose, here is velopment has begun along a soak you to the thighs even . For years I had been an climate ideal—-in the low discotheque, noisy and exhilar¬ golf cruise. me a three-and-a-half hour . stretch of coastline at Negri 1 under a raincoat unashamed golfing buff: no seventies—and the courses ating. It is cheaper to drink gin Last year the P & O line dis¬ son. to the friendly disma my partners. to the west of Montego Bay and We had flown more than 1,000 course in Britain was too far entrancing. and tonic than orange juice. covered a new untapped seam it will not he very long before miles to get away from this kind to travel, no place too obscure Portugal generally suffers iu One ruins your game—the in the holiday mine. Its first But to the ship itself. this brand new resort sets out of weather. We were promised Far me to try. But not any comparison with Spain in other your pocket. cruise on the Oriaua was iu tbe year P & O decided to r_ its attractions. At the moment sunshine. “ Might as well have more. I had discovered golf matters of expansiveness, bur By next February, unfortu¬ nature of an experiment- But one-class operation. This i THE HOLY LAND the resorts of Montego Bay and stayed at home”, grumbled one abroad and nothing else would the Algarve is a favourite spot nately, the prices will have risen so well received was it that they to the taste of many who— Ocho Rios are the main holi¬ of the passengers. We paddled do. Golf in the sun had bitten of mine, and the Vale do Lobo but it is still a good buy and decided to run two more this the first-class fare and, l day bases, with Port Antonio assured by seasoned cru>. More than a holiday—-a unique to the customs shed and the deeply and, surprisingly, it was course bolds a particular place all relevant information can be year. We sailed on the second r::perlcnoa further along the north shore rain drummed rhythmically ou still Fairly cheap. Playing the in my affections. It is long, obtained from Jim Long, tbe which left Southampton on a that the standard of food being physically and metaphori¬ game in ideal conditions abroad more than 7,000 yards, and recently appointed director of fitfe evening last September.. service was not what A vts.il iu tlic Holy Lnnd wirb cally a little away from the the roof like something from OrtcniDura promises a nctiiy one of those early American was, until recently, the preroga¬ always gives you a chance, even golf at tbe Algarve Agency, One drawback for the golfers But from the purely- rewarding experience. . Here main stream. In time Negri 1 point of view it was welr^i SOU may relive In Imagination “B” pictures set in the steamier tive of the reasonably well-off. off a long handicap. The pros¬ which is running two pro ams was that there would be no real lose scenes of long ago which will take its place in the holi¬ In fact it is now too easy to pect from any tee is magnifi¬ in January and February. golf until we docked at Barce¬ the trip: a chance to sea: stUl mean so much to us today. daymaking scheme of things, parts of tropical Africa. I ex¬ After 2.000 years or turbuiom arrange such a trip. The main cent—especially the seventh lona five days later: though places and try previous^: : his lory ihe Holy Land awalis leaving Port Antonio as a haven pected any moment to see a uni¬ If you want a change of your persona) voyage of dls- formed Sidney Greenstreet thing is to book early and thus hole where you olav across scene there are courses nearby. there was ample room to prac¬ tested hut testing courses!,' . eovsiy. for those who want to get away avoid disappointment, though three deep red gullies: the tise under tbe expert eye of company points out. for, from it all. If you have an appear as a customs officer. Penina is a stiff test of any¬ OniEN TOURS Instead we got a rather nice you are spoilt for choice of Atlantic washes tbe rocks 80 one’s game and Villamoura is Ken Adwick, the associate pro¬ benefit of golfing widows*- . opportunity, visit the cottage where to go. feet below. There is one draw¬ fessional at Woodlands Manor there is plenty to do i 17 years’ experience ul colony of Dragon Bay. or the dark little man, wearing white only a long iron from Vale do organising Holy Land lours cotton gloves, who promptly Of course you can cake your¬ back, though. The walk be¬ Lobo-There is also tennis, sail¬ GC in Kent. ashore, and even more \ assure vour cannon and enjoy¬ Goblin Hill hotel there. tween greens and tees is long, ment. confiscated, rightly, six bottles self off to the airport, book ing and horse riding when the afloat; you can simply Montego Bay is not my so take advantage of the elec¬ The golf was managed by Air Tours hv scheduled air of whisky brought in by a your flight, take a taxi and sign golf becomes too trying. catch up on al! those u; JM aarvtccs from Heathrow. D«— favourite resort, for I believe tric trolleys for hire. It is a P & O’s director of golf, Keith ■ inures March to October. greedy group of tourists, British, in at the hotel nearest the bopks, or prepare for the j : it has lost a lot of its old style. More courses are being built, Macltie, who hoped that the 375. VtsltlrIna Jerusalem. I fear. course of your choice. The splendid place to golf and you ing's revelry. It is piei feihlehjlilehem. Jcncho. Nazareth. None the less I have pleasant perhaps the most exclusive at of Galilee, etc. 8 days tram But we need not have better way is to study the back are assured of a friendly wel¬ company would promote more that you can still indulge — £1150.i0. AJAs above. Plus Dead memories of Miranda Hill, and page of The rimes or leaf come from David Vansittart, Quinta do Lago, about three cruises of this kind. One of hobby while afloat. The go Sea Scroll~ ■oils, sal) an tako. addl- would recommend that hotel, a« bothered about the rain. In 20 tlonal 'm>(■j.curs Ioas and Irlsure minutes the pools on the run¬ through Golf World and make the ebullient club secretary. miles west of Faro in a heavily the Canberra’s senior officers package holiday is no»— lime. IS15 days from C1VQ. T would Round Hill, the Royal Organ Iso a group imln. 151 way were steaming gently and ti\e choice suiting both time I stayed in a villa boasting wooded part of the province. echoed this view, adding that sophisticated deal with moi^ and go free yoursefff Caribbean and Half Moon and pocket. five double bedrooms with baths Sec in 1,605 acres on an estate, the combination of cruising and offer than you could norc ' hotels, some little way along the inside the hour it had turned SPECIAL ! I l HOLY YEAR into a beautiful evening. The Spain and Portugal are the and showers attached. There it is the joy of a Brazilian deve¬ golfing was splendid and an afford. - - IN THE HOLY LAND— coast. . were two separate terraces and loper who has attracted some idea worth the company pur¬ The Jamaica Association or air was champagne-like and nearest Mediterranean countries Travel agents will, of 1 WEEK HOME WITH l WTEK a swimming pool and along well-known names in their res¬ suing further- He was a golfing Villas and Apartments is at 6-10 there was a crispness about offering first-class golf in superb have details of the abaflR IN THE HOLY LAND—€215 everything that made Britain conditions and surroundings. with the package came a maid pective fields, Flory van Donck, sailor naturally, but neverthe¬ further information cafij Bruton Street. London W1X less his view was the right one, Ask lor Special Brochure and its problems seem further Spain has so many courses that to do the chores. You are ex¬ the Belgian professional, will obtained from the. Aw—it RHN. Meon’s brochure can be pected to make your own break¬ manage the golf; Colonel Harry I believe. obtained through any travel away than the 1,000 miles we choosing a venue is a pleasantly Agency, 61 Brompton I.'-.- ORIENT OURS < LONDON) LTD had travelled. difficult task. New courses fast and thereafter eat out or Llewellyn will supervise the After' playing the San Cugat SW3; and the P & O Pass* (Dept- T4>, 87 Regent Street asent, and tbe coronany’s do your own catering from the riding school and a a famous London. WIR BLS address is 32 "Hieh Street. There were about 150 golfers spring up like spots on a teen¬ course in Barcelona we sailed Division, Beaufort House'- Telephons: 01-734 7971/3 ager’s chin. The whole coastline local supermarket. A car is a French manager will run the to Palma, Majorca, to the Son Botolph Street, London. : Petersfield. Hamo*hire. on this trip. Ail down to play in the Algarve Agency first from tiie French border to Soto- must and one is included in club, hotels and restaurants: Vida, which has the marvellous John Carter ever pro/am tournament over grande near Gibraltar is dotted tbe overall cosL one of them the five-star Casa Racquets Club nearby. From Anthony J
SWANS ART Good Food Guide TREASURES TOURS F.och Tour is .wmvmM by an expat Guest l.rrturcr who* spmrOucd htioiHcdgcol the cowifrtei united will hiint! to liie much o9 ilurr anttfWm cufuiral and tustonw pail- Meals without meat INDIA. KASHMIR, NEPAL. SIKKIM, SRI LANKA Sit Mortimer Wluxler. our Ciiaimiait and u fomwr Director otAreharelop in India Sometimes our language is its imagine calling Sir Arnold Wein- fanatics and self-exiled Ameri¬ ables are delivered weekly and cauliflower and onion., with a girls-iivbluc die food. The n writes in our Art Treasure? Tours or India brochure. The:'jrtS!??. own worst enemy. There is stock or Sir Donald Stokes a can students of the ’60s, both used in preference to any other dipping sauce on the side) were no doubt wisely, is shorter ainonsst l/ii? ifiiMi Apccitieular the world . We bate a election of “ big vegetable nowadays inspired by direct and lours, planned In coaviliatioa wiih Sir Mortimer, ranging from 1 mmipiegs some thing particularly unsatis¬ produce ; and Mr Haxwortii has both crisp and fresh, and other at the Marshal) Street I in the north to the famous Hindu temples ul Madras and the deep south .! Fortunately, wherever any easy contact with oriental cul¬ flavours Were interesting: cara¬ quarters, and tomato sou picturesque kingdom of Nenal and die rarely wiled rtate; of S'kbrai to the factory about the word “ vege¬ put in charge of the kitchen new popular need or mode tures and religions which have way seeds in coleslaw, aniseed salad of cabbage, cauJifli ■sUndcTf Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, with Us buried ciLe- oil byppr.c . from table”—an ungainly mushiness young men who— in a Guide tlic fairyland of Kashmir to Uia erotic temple of Onssa : and from Rajasthan the taken vegetarianism as a matter green pepper and bean spr arrives in London, there is to inspector's words—“ make the in apple strudel. abode of kings " to Andhra Pradoli. a land dial breathes history. that exactly expresses haw mc-st of course for 50 generations. aud lightly poached fruit be found somewhere an avant- food taste loved”. It certainly Saints and Sinners in Ken¬ ETHIOPIA SOUTH EAST ASIA British cooks treat any root or One of the most interesting yngbourr and cream did tncbidins Bangkok. Ayudhya. Chionpnai. garde, or resident foreign com¬ Indudim Addis Ababa. Haw. Dire does not feel like starvation to sington is also very new, and a Lampoon. Pasanf. Hone Kong, Kowloon, green-leaved plant they lay their munity, that has been living in such meeting-places is Richard seem expensive at £1 after Dawm. Bahar Dar. Tismss-i Falls. Lake emerge on the far side of their vast improvement, early visitors Macau. Bali (5 days). Jogjakarta. Bum- Tana, Goodar. Lalibelj. Makale. Axiun. hands on. Outside a famous line that style for years, and can.-be Haxworth’s Manna Iu a back¬ ins at tno price tugs on i budur, Frambanan. Kola Gale. Singapore, split-pea soup, cheese and think, on the vegetarian bistro Mavtawa (Red Seal. Asmara. DEPAR¬ raided for ideas. This is cer¬ water off Regent’s Park Road. not 20 yards away. Jo ho re Baliru. DEPARTURES: Jan. Jl; of Marvell’s, the word is use¬ TURES: Jan. I* ; Feh. V ; March. 2. 23 : spinach bake, and damson that preceded it. Here too plants Feb. 7: Oct. 17. 1175. Jan. 23: Feb. 4. less to poets, and in slang is a tainly true of vegetarian cook¬ The kitchen is “ fed ” by Mr So much for specialist Ocl M : Nov. I. lb days L.Wt crumble “ with soft, chewy, oat- abound, and the dominant shade I97u. 27 days ~T^7 contemptuous or compassionate ing, and it can be amusing to Haxworth’s organic farm in tarinn places. But it woui mealy topping ” and Loseley is earth-brown. The technique of Wr hare Si -lrr Tre,wires t ours to rfl/fwitf parts of the uorld inch-dim: Eifiap*. what used to be Montgomery¬ description of a person bereLt uncover in restaurants of this cream. The best dishes, Mi- a pity to leave the subject Central and South America. Son.'t .-Unco. Middle and I-nr East. Also Safaris Jo East of most human faculties. Con¬ character the superimposed shire before that county was displaying prepared dishes that out remarking that for r C Ifrfcw ' 11 ethnic Ciuises mid OWi-ml/e Stic Cruises. Brochures maiiaHe. layers of cultural history, from Haxworth suggests, are vege¬ are heated up under the micro- trast. the respectful envy con¬ dismembered. Eggs, wholewheat tarian cottage pic (£2.101, memorable leguminous d w. F. & R- K. SWAN (HELLENIC) LTD. veyed bv the French phrase the Left Book Club nut-eaters flour, yogliouri, cream, curd' “ ‘“"h “T' ^ ' wave when ordered is a dancer- in London it is still necessa. 237 (N2) Tottenham Court Road. London W1P OAL “ gros legume ”, and then of the ’30s to the wholefood -ous -one for vegetables needing Td. 01-636 8070 C.A.A. Licence ATOL 189B cheese, fruit juices and ve3et. (?5p),h ftrikl go ro the real experts. Japi. delicate timing, and sometimes or Chinese ways with bean « vegetable casserole I'£1.20), and the originality expressed in such or the delicately-spiced, walnut, celery aod apple salad dishes as Indonesian vegetable property abroad PROPERTY ABROAD PROPERTY TO LET PROPERTY TO LET THE TIMES DIRECTORY with curd cheese (£1) ; it is not separate lentils Indira s< OF ESTATE AGENTS curry, and Polynesian stew, are the cheapest possible wav ro one of us with the other SOUTH AFRICA Of Interest to International BROMLEY. BECKENHAM. ClllSle- achieved at the expense of more or the puffy South Indian SHEFFIELD iiutTir. Putts Wood ana urplnqton. eat In London, but at £5 or so basic merits such us getting CAPE TOWN Organisations HAXTER. PAYNE & LEPPBR. for two people’s meals, one is flour pancakes with fresh lake CARAGH Available In January. 5 bed., l.h.irtfn«d Surveyors, iv Ej«i SI., the seasoning right, and stinting Settle for the world’s nnust largo luxury flat In old mansion Bronijry. ul-
A gardener’s Christmas time over (he years, I one of a selection of screw¬ excellent. It consists of two you wish. We find that (he varieties they prepare in this Society’s annual Christmas lec¬ cations for tickets should be 3l$ered together a fairly driver blades, also a sharp aluminium handles and at the white raised lettering on black way. The seeds are coated with ture, of special interest to young made to The Secretary, Tbe SSalleelioa of spanners, pointed awl. end of each is a slightly con¬ tapes is tbe easiest; so read. a soluble inert material so that gardeners, is entitled A New Royal Horticultural Society, different. shapes and While 1 am the last person cave blade. The result is a kind The raised letters are, of course, their size is increased up to Look at the World of the Insect- Vincent Square, London SW1P b$3 other tools. We have to encourage anybody un¬ of giant sugar tongs, and it is white, whether you use the 90-fold. This makes even such, eating Plant, and is to be given 2PE, as soon as possible. *7ned to do as much of qualified to dabble with elec¬ surprising bow easy it is to lift black, hlue, zed or green tapes. small seed as petunia easy to by Dr Y. Heslap-Harrison, whose If you grew any chicory with '^h maintenance as trical matters, it is useful to rubbish wadi this tool. A word of warning. If you sow. husband is director of The Royal a view to forcing it this winter, Botanic Gardens at Kew. As well %} and thank goodness have one of those screwdriver¬ Most of us have got into die. have children going off to Whether you are sawing lift some of the roots now—say in the “ do it your- ruca-current testers. It has a habit o£ keeping a card of fuse boarding school be prepared to pelleted seeds in a seed box, or as illustrating the beauty and half a dozen—and cut off the Itls when we did. 1 was tiny element in the handle wire handy, but nowadays wish lose your Dymo marker. So in the case of hardy seeds, in a fascination of these plants. Dr leaves. Set the roots in boxes jocked when I went to which glows when the rip of the modern zing mains and fused many personal items have to be seed bed in the open, you can Heslop-Harrison will expound of sandy soil or moist peat so je new hammer and blade is placed against a live plugs it is necessary to keep a labelled at school that a Dymo space each seed so that trans¬ on the scientific work being that the top of the root is .’handles—and I was wire or electrical socket. stock of 2, 5 or 13 amp cart¬ seems to be almost essential}— planting is made unnecessary. done in the study of the extra¬ covered about six inches deep. Sitfiat I was extremely ’ Then also useful rs the ridge type fuses. as is a good supply of tape. This eliminates one check to the ordinary biology of these plants. Place the boxes in a warm dark ^Tget any at all. Manley steel tape measure Other small but useful items Many people tend to Eight shy plants and save the gardener This lecture is intended mainly place—in a cupboard under the ;Jie family ask for ideas which you pull out aud which which the family could be asked of new techniques, and it might one job. We sowed pelleted for young people up to tbe age stairs for example. If you do ‘ r ennsonasChristmas presents,p can be fixed by pressing a knob do a gardening friend a good wallflowers this year for tbe of 18, but adults may accompany not have a dark place, cover the for include one or cwo plastic Thfrrn- 5 '-^2-.^ uK. ^^-•Vfc'home tools wowould be at any pulled-out position. With turn to give him a selection of first time, well spaced out, and boxes with black polythene gar-den labels and waterproof sheeting. Keep the roots moist -wj; A spirit level, a large the old Type of tape measure ink felt pens. The ink used in pelleted seeds this Christmas. they have made excellent plants It will be held in the lecture L , U.•. essential if yiyon plan you had to hold the rape in one Once he has used them and dis-- without transplanting. We will room at the Royal Horticultural and warm and you should be ordinary ball point pens is not cutting “chicons” or blanched M'' ny paving or do any hand and the reel in the other. -,va ter proof. Even better is a covered their advantages he will, leave them in their seed bed Hall, Greycoat Street. West¬ -r-**.; gng, Useful too is a sal a ding material in about 20 For anyone who finds stoop¬ Dymo labelling machine. These I am sure, be very grateful. until March before moving minster, at 2.30 pm, on Tuesday, days. *;f;pocket “holdall ” con- ing a bore, the long handled tool come in various sizes and pro¬ Pelleted seeds are here to stay, them. These seeds come in December 31. There is no >a screw-driver handle for lifting leaves or garden duce adhesive scrip labels, on and I hope the seedsmen will “ bubble M packs on card. charge for admission, but as jeh can be slotted any rubbish into a barrow is which you can emboss any name gradually extend the range of The Royal Horticultural accommodation is limited appli¬ Roy Hay
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Drink Gardening usm&rM Entertaining drinks for the season of I Pay less sj..* •* X m Tjp.tita goodwill I A choice of sometiiiBg new method, from tbe Veneto region Jura (£3.56, 0. W. Loeb, 15 colotfr best In a decanter, it grow more or oar of the ordmoty for pre of Italy, is very dry and won Jermyn St, SW11. The Honey can be poured direct from tbe or postprandiad drinking is well a sold medal for quality in Brandy is made by a firm bottle, so Is a good present Dobies 1975 Seed Catalogue off ers even mure worth having during the season I !. (£1.25 from Ellis Son & famous for their traditional if you want the recipient to be variety cobar and value. of much entertaining. Such Vidler, 66 Warwick Square, British cordials from clover Solid MahoKuw platforms for doubling able to enjoy it immediately. A fine ran& of flower seeds, vegetable »ivUs and cube, a feature only found with top bottles can also provide useful SW1). A sparkling Montloids, honey and French brandy and (About £20.53 the case from I a wide selection of bulbs, tubers, gardening qoallty sets. gifts for those occasions when Champagne method, has the is exactly like brandified honey¬ Hatch, Mansfield, or just o ver equipment and leisure items. Individual ceramic counters with felt an extra present has to be charming floweriness of the comb—delectably good bot in £2 the bottle from Victoria Plus fall colour illustrations, flower descriptions base shaped as ones found In ancient found after shops are shut or Chenin Blanc grape -with per¬ no way cloying. Tbe Macvin, Wine.) tombs of Mesopotamia. I and cultivating hints to bdpyou plan your when the unexpected Christmas haps a tdi^Miy crisper character only 16" Gay Lussac, conker garden carefully, yet inapettovelj: Hand thrown dice cum. finished In a guest arrives. thmi is usual tat the dry spark¬ coloured and reputedly evolved This year,pay less, grow mote-ciiuose Uobies. strong dark coninlc Blaze with green vermouth is still ling Vonvnays from across the by the lady abbesses of Batimes baize base. hoc a widely known uMflf. Lone. (About £1-50 from David les Dames in tbe tenth cenrmy, Celebrating I Please send me FREE and These superb backgammon sets (size But drtrnk straight or diluted Bafllie ^ntners, 20 Sonthernhay is, as the French back label For those who can afford without obligation the 1975 open in. din. x lfL 9ln. x lVn. deep) with soda it is an excellent West, Exeter, a firm whose list says, “ enigmatique ”—slightly Tlnhipc QkpH rslalftdnp are made by a small dedicated team of everything, there is R6my Mar¬ Dobies SeedCatalogoe. highly si.1lled British craftsmen, palate deans er before fine is foil of interest.) reminiscent of the conifers of tin’s Cognac, celebrating their (No aemda or oflo^. spec lulls Inn In antique restoration, and wines. Gun din and Dolin are Anyone entertaining visitors tbe Jura forests and yet dry 'at 250th anniversary, of winch mm are offered at the special price of £29.50 * FjicHnff eadnrnn* wfl be nailrd anleauSic«lly. Inclusive. established brands in the United from Europe might offer an die end of its' full, sweetish only 2,000 bottles have been Kingdom, aJso Bodssidre from EwgMsh wine as an aperitif; flavour. It coold be an aperitif I allocated to the United King¬ Cleat Britata and Nmtban fretind. 14 day money refund, guaranteed l year Robert Jackson. Recently I tried there is nothing comic about if you were not going to serve dom (£50 the bottle. Hedges 8t against faulty workmanship, allow 7-10 a very light, pale new one these nowadays although vin¬ anything delicate with die days delivery. Butler, 153 Regent Street, Wl). irasscornerphtes r rr called VeraIp (£125 from tages vary as moch as might be first course, and it is certainly Kuae__ ittry style” regency <, ^**1 Send to Charted Fraser. 54 Julian Road. Leamin&on Wine Co, 10-11 expected from onr dimate. i curiosity for tbe person who And for people who would I West Brldgford. Nottingham. NG2 5AP. Crawford Street, Wl) and there Grape varieties vary too, mid has tried everything. Berry Bros find it simplest to send even Address. Telephone: 06Q2 860525. Dice tad Doubting Cube. Brass catches. are two from Dojamore Aram the whites are as yet more suc¬ 8c Rudd (St James’s St, SW1) a modest cheque to a merchant the house of Cbamb&y-Comoz. cessful than the ros£s, but the have Edward VTI’s Ginger for something unusual, tbe fol¬ Town Postal Code These are as different from the 32 English wines listed by Tbe Liqueur, a golden, slightly spicy lowing addresses: Ashwood Merrydown Wine Shop (Horam, drink that was supposed to have Neville, 85 Carnwath Road, ^ SAMCIELDOB1E&SON LTD . others as St Est&phe wines are ^Catalogue Mailing Dept TM5 . P.O. Box 2, Liverpool L4 lV^J from Pacdlacs, the dry is asser¬ HeathSehL Sussex, whose been evolved for the king as a Fulham, SW6, who has many DIAMOND JEWELLERY tively herby, perhaps too dry winery and. experimental vine¬ reviver after shooting parties wines from the regions of the Mid your own Reproduction neat for some people; the yard make an out of the ordi¬ (£3.75). Any of these would be Pyrenees; Bonhote Foster, 5-6 Highest CASH PRICES for sweet ” is in my opinion mis¬ nary excursion worth while for good for a between-tunes drink. Down Street, Wl, who have Lot CAMELLIAS, ono year old. tulxod. a window BOXES supplied. nUmtcd. Mantel Clock our AutiQue and Motiem Tor a. post paid. Sandhurst Nor- Window Bos Co., 883 9690. J series. Sandhurst. Ciimx-rlry, ewellny, collet necklaces. named, for it is both fruity and the specialist) are never less Hatch, Mansfield (64/65 Cow- and Dordogne wines and three Surrey. the Weal Christmas gift for (hose eftth a Bracelets. _ Rings. Pendants, refreshing, a delirious drink. than pleasantly drinkable and cross Street, EC1), who were MaiHy Champagnes, including taste for I ha unusual. Brooches Head Oxiunnenta. etc. Together, the two make a first- several offer more quality than Chnrcbiirs wine merchants, the pink for which the area is 30-nour mechanism. ALL. TRANS ACTIONS rate mixed vermouth. (Cbam- many imports. Prices from have produced Old Master famous: Stonehaven Wines, Elegant wooden case can f» stained to EXECUTED WITH COURTESV AND WITHOUT DELAY bery-Comoz from Dolamore, 16 about £1.25 to £1.88. Churchill Centenary Superior Grayshott Road. Headley Down, individual tequtremerts. Paddington Green. W2, and Old Tawny; this is a redesigned near Bordon, Hampshire, who Shops and Stores Easy fo follow instructions given. 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Herts, Cash with order. tOWi-»i 71»i SeniTCcrtnanW'ne 0730.86.3^- .LEONARD & CO*LIP?' .sevusrib^r 5l MmStrcel Urtdpo.fcCI'-r THE TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 George Hutchinson Why the law must adapt to meet the needs Where have of a changed society all our inspiring Cassandra’s punishment was to be enough to call for 'piecemeal reform national obligations in that field, but distributive justice, and there to does not adapt and adjust, it tvi. disbelieved when she correctly pro¬ of particular laws or fields of the law. she has nowassumed them, and yet make provision for society as a whole, rejected. phesied the gloomy future of her What Sir Leslie is asking is far more the system has not developed to and for those not strung enough to Sir Leslie’s argument is that i leaders gone ? society. Lord Justice Seaman has difficult. He asks of judges, the legal encompass these obligations. provide for themselves. Thus the wei- influence of law and the rule ol i;.\ day or two ago, 1 was speak¬ The two months since the elec¬ taken the risk of assuming that profession and the law teachers that Lorfl Justice Scarman believes that fare state i» challenging the relevance, continue to decline, the administr ing to a wise, mature and tion must have seemed an mantle. In bis. Hatnlyn lectures, just they change their way of thinking: a new constitutional settlement is or at least the adequacy, of the corn- authorities will become domi important businessman from eternity to Mr Heath, who was completed, he has looked hard at the “Look to die new sources and,fields needed, with a Bill of Rights and mon law’s concepts and classifications. Conrrol over their decisions wi abroad, who is a frequent visi¬ to many minds a gonner on law and the legal institutions of Eng¬ of law and endeavour to retain the entrenched provisions, which would Fault, trespass, property, even exercized by the Government i ter to London ('so much so that October 11, the day after polling land and has found them wanting. spirit of the old while abandoning take into account our international marriage, are now seen to be an not by the courts. There woul he keeps a flat here). He is —or a dead duck, as Mr John They had increasingly failed «o adjust habits of thought and action derived and internal obligations in the human insecure base for the development of no effective way for the citize fund of this country, a well- Davies might have expressed it to the sodai political and economic from a society that no longer exists ”, rights field, as well as our new a law suited to the needs of our challenge governmental or ad v, other of many years’ standing in an extension of his awful changes of the post-war world. Hie he exhorts. relationship with the European Com¬ society. strative acts. —an anxious friend now deeply phrase. But Mr Heath survives. possible consequences of this failure His thesis that English common law munity and, if devolution comes “Family life has been freed from It was not the lawyers who were not limited to the legal system, about, with the various regions. the tyranny of the husband and its created the challenges that so disturbed by the doom-laden He is alive and moderately well but would involve the very structure had failed to respond sufficiently to spirit in which he finds us as at No 17 Wilton Street and changes both withia society and ‘The constitution would be pro¬ obligations buttressed by the state: and the country faced, nor coult of society, he argued. Justice itself tected bva Supreme Court of the social security is available on the lawyers suppress them, he said, u nation. shows every determination to would be ait risk. It was not too late external to it is based on a close look United Kingdom, which would be the basis of need and as of right: the use - they will not suddenly go e “ There is no need for it", retain the Tory leadership. to reverse the trend, hut a collective at six areas of current significance; human rights, membership of the final court of appeal in constitutional of land, sea and air are controlled in “They have to be met either by he ■’uys. “Tilings are not as bad While nothing is ever certain effort of will was needed now, or it carding or by adjusting the in politics, it rather looks as if would soon be too late. European Economic Community, thu matters. the interests not of property but of -j-> a lot of people are making social security system of the welfare .The same poiuts apply to the society anxious to protect its environ¬ system. Which is it to be ?” out. Britain is not going to be he may succeed—not because Sir Leslie’s HamJyn lectures amount state, the environment, industrial internal scene. Sir Leslie argues. “ A ment: and in these developments It is too soon to tell whethei ruined unless you think and everyone wants him but for lack to the most important review of the Leslie will inherit the curse of of a truly, commanding rival. relations, and constitutional devolu¬ legal system, which offers only dis¬ there is a diminishing role for the tuik yourselves into ruin. You state of the law since that of Gerald tion to the regions. tributive justice, has been found common law, the common lawyers, sandra or whether those in the should be talking things up, not Mr Whitelaw has apparently Gardiner, later Lord Gardiner, the wanting. A law of torts, a land law, and the courts. The law is being will rise to his exhortations and ci talking them down; your great Time and again he points out how excluded himself from the com¬ Lord Chancellor, in Low Reform Now, and a family law, conceived on com¬ remaindered—but to what ? To death a new ambience for the law to national assets, all undervalued factors which led to the development ing contest (expected in Febru¬ in 1963. Many of the reforms called of a particular branch of the law mon law principles however admir¬ in a forgotten corner ? Or is there a in. The legal profession is nor ki —your oil, your coal, all your ary) on grounds of “loyalty” for instant adaptability to new c. for then have since come about, with were no longer present, or were able in substance, cannot effectively new role ? ** other assets in industry, in the to Mr Heath—though he may immeasurably changed, without a protect the general public or the Industrial relations, too, he sees as tioos. It is difficult to be optin City, your technical skills, your also have felt, with due modesty, Sir Leslie Scarman himself playing corresponding change in the approach weak, the poor, die aged and the sick. slipping away from the grasp of the that, having ignored so much el: r-??utation in education, medi¬ ihat be might prove less than a a crucial role .throngh his work as of the law or of the legal profession. “ To satisfy the conscience of the law, with the possible result that force will heed even this impassioned i cine, research.” match for Mr Wilson in what is first chairman of the 'Law Commission. Specific laws for the protection of nation the state has had to move into of power will take over from the rule 'Naive, you think V But uur likely to be a lengthy period of _ But the last decade has seen start¬ human rights might not have been empty spaces of the law, the deserts of law. His warning is the same in this Marcel Bet\ friend is not in the least naive. opposition. Nor could he be sure ling changes, and it is now -no longer necessary when Britain had no inter¬ and bill country left uncultivated by area as it is in all others: “ If the law Legal Correspan He is, on the contrary, a shrewd, of gaining enough votes to un¬ experienced and successful seat Mr Heath. Some of Mr judge of affairs. Heath's critics are Mr White- law’s, too—if only because his Me ascribes the want of repeated expressions of loyalty Wildlife national seif-confidence, the pre¬ simply emphasize his attachment vailing pessimism, to a failure to the Heath policies, his long of political leadership, not that association with their author. sanctuary in a village tie underestimates—in fact he Not unreasonably, there are understands better than most— those who ask whether anyone the various forces affecting the so closely identified with Mr churchyard economy, often external and. Heath would be likely to differ uncontrollable Nor is he criti¬ from him in the field of policy. Twelve years ago wben odd many-spatalled varieties cizing the present Government Bert used to keep the country lad/s-smodc, and lesser a as such (though he is no Social¬ From all accounts, Sir Keith ohurebyard neat enough by dines, for example, and i Joseph has also dismissed him¬ ist ). scything die gross down three of rock-roses, meadow t His regrets—for they are self : after rigorous self-exam¬ or four Cones a year during frag*, dome’s violet, mea regrets ratiter than accusations ination lie has concluded that the summer, there were plenty cwneaMM and charm* or aspersions—are centred on lie is lacking in certain politi¬ of slow-worms, or “ legless There are fewer of them cal skills. Mrs Thatcher—to her □ larger, a more extensive and lizards ” Kvicg there. Bert every year now that prolonged failure from which credit—is still willing to stand ; used, in fact, to wear Ms tall¬ “ tidier* ” have goc to w neither of the great parties can but whether the party is yet est boots end tie the bottoms which is sad because tiiev i he exonerated : in snort a lack ready to elect a woman leader, of his crouser-degs over them unusual and it is likeiv however able, remains more with ‘bd-nder-tiwime, because of country people for ‘ tr of inspiring guidance and direc¬ than doubtful. tion. stimulation and encourage¬ “ the snakes ”, although every¬ generations, after finding d ment. That leaves us with Mr one repeatedly assured him growing iwild, had trenspkn There are many who will Edward du Cann. Like die rest that slow-worms were com¬ them to beautify the grave; agree with him. of them, Mr du Cann has his pletely harmless. as veedd as to give then detractors: but he also has his There were male blue-spot¬ better chance of survival admirers. His support is said ted sdowworms in the down- Medicinally useful pL A more hopeful outlook is not, to be growing. Given that Mr land graveyard, as well as the also grew frequently in chu. 1. of course, encouraged by unjust, Enoch Powell cannot take part commoner dark brown and yards and Sir Edward :' harsh and divisive measures because he is not technically copper-backed varieties. Bert gests that the herb-women c against this or that segment of eligible, and that Sir must have murdered a few as he berately planted out many the community, such as Mrs Christopher Soames has not shaved the ground but plenty their remedies on “ t Barbara Castle’s attack on the returned to Westminster by survived under the stones, or land ”, knowing that t seif-employed, whose prospec¬ February, it may come down in the coarser’ herbage all would be safe, as well as in:-_ - tive National Insurance contri¬ to a choice between Mr Heath, round the rastde of the ffcw ing their accessibility. It butions from next spring are Mr du Cann and Mrs Thatcher. walls. He -oaUy considered it possible that an element beyond reason. Unless mitigated necessary to cut "the rough Mr James Collins during his playing career, and today—-a 60-year 44 record of allegiance ”. religious superstition credi by some concession from Mr staff ” where butterflies plants that grew in such s' Healey, perhaps during the I am determined never again abounded and bumble bees, arions with deeper signifies passage of the Finance Bill, this to buy a glass of whisky and that are so essential to our than others “ outside shabby imposition will cost the soda on a train. The other day, Sportsview . economy bred, once a year, in walls”, so that Alkanet, victims a pretty pound: but it travelling in the Southern the late autumn. cure Melancholy”; Chainon: will cost the Labour Party even Region (to Martin Mill, if you There are not os many slow- “ to dispel the troubles more, both in reputation and are interested in my destina¬ wonns now the odd graves wind”; Elecampane, “r votes. tion), I was charged 60 pence have been levelled and a bronchial troubles Htl At a stroke (as Mr Heath —12 shillings in our old number of stones removed to hound, “overcome the bite* might say) Mrs Castle has dis¬ currency: 47p for the whisky, A 40-year record that could go under make the mechamcad and more mad dogs” and Box tq mayed and alienated many self- 13p for the soda water. The frequent mowing easier, but a from which the leaves x . employed people—writers and whisky was admittedly a large few manage to survive. They “ seethed ” for purgaL artists—who are among the one, the contents of a so-called are seldom seen but they are drinks, gained extra po] natural allies of the Labour miniature bottle, and one can safe while some paints of the from growing in the chut movement. Together, she and perhaps accept the price, the Hammers this season churchyard are def t as ahdter. yard. Mr Healey (with VAT, his though it is on the steep side. Common lizards live shere in wretched inheritance from Mr But to ask 13p—more than half It is thought the yew tr_;. West Ham begin their match pose with the ball and finally centre and. whack, another The reserve trainer told me ‘If pleasing numbers and account were often planted for sen Anthony Barber) are by way of a crown—for soda, which ought with Manchester City today hit a great long pass up to goal It was, he says, a style Bor endless flies, beetles and crippling them. There can be no I hear you’ve been hanging on reasons, the most pertin to be free in any well-conducted placed fifth in the Football Hurst. Hurst—now there was meant for big grounds and lots Spiders. They bask sometimes electoral profit in that. bar, is scandalous. to the ball young Jim, HI skin being, perhaps, that they, 1 League table. If they complete a great player—would have to of space. If West Ham had had you alive when you get back ’. in statuesque poses on the other popular evergreens, B Between them, these two If Mr Richard Marsh, as the season without losing ground wait half an hour for the ball to a bigger pitch at Upton Park flints, (staying motionless in the ministers _ have taken on the “ Almost as soon as the game Bay, Rosemary for remembr • head of the railways, is intent Mr James Collins will go to bed reach him, and bv the time it they would have won the title sun with onay lfaeir eyes mov¬ c« and Holly, all symbolu.:. wrong, minority—an articulate started I had the ball and this ing as they watch intruders. on running down the catering hoarse, from cheering — and goc there he’d have a rival that year. At home was where eternal life, as well as being minority within a minority. It is services, then he is going the wake up next day a curiously whacking into him from behind. Blackpool player came rushing Their scaled bodies are per¬ they had lost it at me. I knocked the ball past a proper “dark and moura- ■ particularly disappointing and righr way about it. If, on the saddened man. No wonder he ended with a bad He began watching West Ham, fectly camouflaged against the surprising that Mrs Castle, a him and hopped out of his way. weathered walls. nature” other hand, he would like to James—Jim—Collins has a back 2 ” Yet, when all is said, he says, after pelting through Then another one came, and out It seems unlikely tl ' gay. brave spirit in whom there encourage them, he had better record of allegiance to West he had to concede that until the the _ East Loudon streets Hedgehogs find places in is much to admire, should have World Cup triumph put Moore of desperation I did it again. many unspoilt churchyards too anyone will wish to destroy 1 review some of the charges. Ham that stretches back over muddied and bruised from his Then the same thing happened yews, but the few remain! allowed herself to be landed— on a pedestal he was a player own football in the park, to where they can bund both Betwen them, Mr Ernest 60 years. As an errand boy for again. Finally, scared out of harmless creatures and i" no doubt by the Whitehall out of the ordinary, even for reach the ground just as the breeding arid hibernating nests. bureaucracy—with responsibil¬ Marples and Dr Beeching (as his father’s butcher’s shop he my wits, I whacked it upfieid relics of most of the unual ' used to deliver meat to his West Ham. gates were opened 10 minutes A pair sallied out of our lych- ity for a measure which is they were at the time) and Vic Watson popped it in gate at dusk, to demolish slugs plants, especially some of.’t. managed to eliminate a good earliest heroes—muttering a shy Collins believes that Moore from the final whistle to let the the ner. The team arid die morally offensive, politically used to over-awe everybody aod snails ht near-by gardens traditional herbs, are now-; part of our splendid railway “ good luck today ” as he handed crowds OUT. crowd went potty ... it looked great jeopardy. It would be; dangerous and quite contrary to around him. “Take the facts At about that time his class and their speed as they ran Ster own warm instincts. system. Mr Marsh should over the joint. At 19 he joined like a great dribble, and all l great pity if the last of the*, eliminate profiteering in food the ranks of those heroes when of last season ”, he argues. was instructed to compose an along the street, with bodies “ When he was playing West was doing was trying to get rid well dear of the ground, was which could so easily ~ and drink. he signed for the club for whom essay on My Greatest Hero. He of it 1 ” allowed refuge in churchyar As Mr Wilson has aptly said, a he was to play over 300 games Ham picked up 11 points from choose Syd Puddefoot, a great rapid and surprising. their first 21 games. When he Jim Collins laughed up¬ There are a few churchyards all over Britain, were to week is a long time in politics. (P: Times Newspapers Ltd, 1974 in a 15-year career. For the Iasi Hammers’ forward of the times. roariously at the vivia memory, went they saved themselves with Next day the schoolmaster in remote farming areas where annihilated by the new z>';- 20 years he has been a season then says soberly: “ Get rid of lous, but unlmow leg able an- ticket holder at Upton Park. 26 points from the last 21. That called him to the front of the harvest-mice have taken shelter says it all.” it! Remember how that used from arable hind. As they were of “ over-tidiers The year he holds most dear class: “ You bave written about to be the cry ? All the rime But it did not say it ail, not this mao Puddefoot. Every ocher gradually driven out of the in¬ was 1927, when he was wing- the crowds used to get on to the i tensively cultivated, sprayed Alison Ro!! half in the team which finished by a long chalk. “ This year boy has chosen Nelson or players who were trying to do | ;l Rli: \I)M( I the spirit’s changed”, he went Wellington. Why, Collins, and hedgefess fields it was in¬ sixth in the First Division. “ The too much. Not these days teresting co see how they took teams of 1959 and 1973 equalled on. “ With Moore gone, Taylor why ? ” “I never saw them it’s hard to find a player in : 10 [\?; H 0.W ,TO C UT YOU R Y and young Lock have come out play” Collins replied. instead to weaving sph erica1) that record” he says with the most teams who has the nerve nests in the tafl grass round •I bet he a good look ] ):\ R.A Tf'W 0,^81L' LS, HFLl’ ■ air of a man who had repeated of their shells. Lampard, Cole¬ .After years ' of occasionally man and McDoweU are all to bang on to the ball for more the inner perimeter of the old j f^E-VEN *T* Pfl OVD R Y: S O FI E vY: the argument a mil lion times seeing West Ham, West Ham than a split-second.” I under bis bed showing son^e of their original began more frequently seeing churchyard walls. A few “But they never beat it, that’s records of dormice resting in THROATS AND GET RH) *\ the point.” promise. And Bonds—now he is him. Scouts came to watch when Wc returned from delicious before gettlr^; - a great player—is showing what reminiscences to the hard honeysuckle by church porches !©>• T-H AT-DROWS YC': Todays team ? Yes they he captained East Ham Boys to it really means to set an win the Dewar Shield (the Lon¬ reality of 1974 and 197S—“ I’ve have come in recently but they back into it« ISTRJ.F.FYYuR-Y;;A.1 R'- RET 1.1 i\!G might do it. . . now they’ve got example. been waiting over 40 years to will soon vanish if the honey¬ rid of Bobby Moore.” There is a don schools championship) three years in succession, and the then see a West Ham team do better suckle is trimmed back too fr> 'rOTf! 1i yosj "< fr ,-t‘h e be lief it% .y o u ca n no rnvj lfi. , moment of silence while this “ Suddenly they've found a than we did. This lot didn’t hard. sinks in, then Jim Collins ex¬ blend. Paddon and Brooking West Ham manager, Charles Healings . . ■' ■,. ' ■.:. . Payn ter, wrote to Collins’s seem likely to be the one. But Indeed the danger to all the plains: “ I am a bit grudging are class. But it is the other now I don't know ... if they harmless wwJd creatures that ai© A\R - * d:on’x be-misled: about who I call a great player. forwards who surprise me. Rob¬ father “Send him to see me when he is 17”. can keep this enthusiasm, play¬ have sought the churchyards as Tommy Finney was. Stan son, Jennings and Gould chase safe places where they can everything. Their style is Paynter was taken literally. ing every match like a cup-tie, Matthews wasn’t. That Matthews they can become the most continue to exist, is coming Final was a myth. He did nothing impudent, very hard to rumble. On his 17tb birthday Jim Collins knocked at the manager’s front successful West Ham team of more and more cow from what until the last 20 minutes, then With most teams you can see all time. Sir Edward Salisbury calls started running past two crip¬ the moves that are likely to door. He , had not chosen his HUMIDIFIERS moment too well—West Ham “ If they do it I’D cbecr myself “ the horrors of suburban i- lead to goals. Not with this [you 10 o ca n_J a \y?C'y b u r Hi rt em p dr a t u re by up .ro 5 Rand ples. Bolton threw that final sation ”, or in < other words, away. And Moore, despite his present team. Suddenly Gould having been beaten at Barnsley hoarse once more. Be really IfeebmarcOomfortabicv health viand'alive . ’ '' V will catch a ball he shouldn’t happy for them and the club. from tire increasing. passion for 100-odd caps for England, was the previous day, and received over-tidiness. The conservation | •• -'.T* “•••' ~ - .'V another myth. reach, or Jennings will jump a a thorough kicking into the But obviously, next day, HI feel I Co m ple.fi: t h Y cp u p on- a n d ;fi rt d ouT/ho'.vtbe right type; of bit higher than anyone expects a bit sad and let down. People' of die churchyards, as far as bargain. “ What, you want to be wildlife is concerned, will be ]Humjdirierycan.-'prbrect your Health. Antiques, Fundturo., ' “ ‘ Moore the Magnificenr ’, . . . and they’ve got a goal out a footballer ? Fd never let a remember that old team and its ‘Moore’s Men the allitera¬ of tiowt.” players—Hufton, the goal¬ useless unless a few unused [hand's,- Pali it i rigs ; Plan A e tefia prevent. Static; Hecinctty.. boy of mine be daft enough I ” ' comers are left to grow more V /' j! •• tion made it sound good, but Looking back across the years roared Payn ter. And closed the keeper, Barrett the centre-half, f fry-Stuffy Air, Save Fuelpind, obviate Headaches Dry Sore1 he didn’t do enough for West or less wild. Collins believes that the West door. Watson, the greatest scorer the . Ham—not from 1967 onwards Sir Edward, as a botanist, }( ITlirbaty.and cut AVintejf. Cxdtls and Flu in Homey and Offices Ham of his day “ had a way of He soon relented and Jim club has ever had. Maybe a at any rate—to make him a few even remember me, Jim bemoans the destruction of so great player in my book.' playing that the others could Collins signed first amateur and many interesting wild or long- Iffliirnictiiiers'itti fit■qluaSte^atd. Co not fathom. We’d win the ball then professional forms for the Collins. It’s something to lose, “ He used to get every ball in defence . .. get it out to the club. He remembers one of his you know, the label ... * the naturalised plants. Various played to him out of defence, wingers. Yews and Ruffell. Pop, first games in the first team. best we’ve ever had double-flowered forms of famil¬ ABP,KU S KU'jXIST S • HARRODS, HE ALS. way out on the tpuchline where they’d whizz away and sling it' “ Somebody had been hurt and iar wrw flowers were found he was in no danger. Then he’d until recently in churchyards. across to Vic Vvatson in the then sent for me in a burry. Brian James Xhere were plenty of the [Fdr:j£ee-Of^ce:!^ | e,>^/icRe REnncR rv w Ra ?es4. Seamen say farewell to their shore berth The home from home for sailors them on outward bound vessels seaman ly skills. These educative Automation and increased stranded io the Port of London to all parts of the world”. In functions have now gone to «*,?he^Secrerarr of the Home, which was opened by the Princt : wages have reduced the Wing Commander Bill Fleming, is closing its hospitable doors. those days London was a peril¬ other institutions, except for numbers employed in the of Wales, had accommodatiui: For a century and a half the ous sea for sailors who had just nautical cookery. The Home is known to his sailor-guests as for 500 in its heyday in th* British merchant fleet from *Vinoi , can remember day* Sailors' Home and Red Ensign been paid off. The notorious the only place in London where about 150,000 before the sea¬ great days of sail. Today uv Club in Dock Street, El, has streets around the docks were you can train for your ticket as only a decade ago when a sea¬ has accommodation for 200. unO Name -...... men’s strike of 1967 to less man would stay for a fortnight been a haven between voyages infested with brothels,-, clip- a ship's cook. ' than half that number. is never more than half full.1 for seamen; for some of them joints, and cheap boarding¬ It still provides a cheap, non- and spend £400 on booze, the The charitable trust that runs Address — - Voyages take less time these local betting-shops, and the the only home in England, or houses. where many a poor sea¬ profit-making hotel and residen¬ days, and seamen are less feck¬ ir has been amalgamated wirin even on dry land, that they had. dingy local rooms that supplied the Marine Society, and there man was shipwrecked, rolled, tial club, without any denomina¬ less ; when they reach London seamen with other traditional The changed pattern of the and skinned alive. tional 'axe to grind, for seafarers. they go home to their families were enterprising and practi-1, shipping industry in the past 10 sailors’ comforts after a long cable plans to redevelop ths.- Montagu Williams, an East Bed and breakfast cost £1.70. and wait to be telephoned by voyage. He says: “This place -Tel years and inflation have created End magistrate, described it in Bedrooms are called cabins, and their companies. All seamen Home as a Marine Centre, vw Jill used to be a home. Now it has fewer rooms and modern': Such losses for ir that it can no the 1860s: “If the sailors were the ldtchen, the galley. The bar are now under contract either become a place of transit. Old longer continue. hot entirely fleeced inside the is filled with faces of every directly to a shipping company accommodation for the colour and racial idiosyncrasy seamen who have been coming type of seaman. Inflation and . The charily began as the saloons, the process was com¬ or to the British Shipping here for 20 years and more Destitute Sailors’ Asylum in pleted by bullies and fighting under the snn, but all with the Federation. So it is no longer the economic crisis hare sen;? Showrooms and Offices: feel our closure very pain¬ pered these plans, remporarii .- , 21 Napier Road, Bromley. Kent. BR2 9JA 1827. From this evolved the men when they staggered out watchful eyes of seamen spying possible for a sailor to lodge fully.” Seamen seldom stay for into the streets/’ The Home kept a landlubber ou board. Somalis at the. Home, while going down at least. When die old billet ir.<- ■ Tel: 01-464 6515 (10 lines) Telex 896501 Home ''for the reception, lodg¬ longer than a night or two now, sailors up the London River ing, and protection of all per¬ vans drawn by horses and in off a giant ranker jun in at to the docks each day in the before being flown home or Thames Haven book in; Paki¬ doses, something of value and •: sons and property of sailors, the charge of tough drivers to meet hope of making a pier-head flown across the world to honourable history will vanish - stanis book out to catch a Flight jump on an outward bound Britain‘s only Specialist Authority on Domestic, Office end improvement of their morals, ships at the docks and bring Karachi or Hongkong or some from dockland. Factory Humidification. saving them from the crimps seamen and their kit safe home to join a ship at Abu Dhabi. ship. The docks, - in any cose, other landfall to join a ship. Callers, Trade end Export enquines welcome. (two-iegged land sharks) of Lon- past the parasites and tarts. It Various changes have made have moved downstream From The Home, whose chief stone Free Nationwide Advisory Service. jb - ■■ .rlnn ;ind regularly shipping also taught navigation and other the old Home no longer viable. Stepney. was laid by Palmerston and Philip Howard Sponsored by Leading Humidifier ManufacifT^^rBaBM ; *4. THE TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 L>5 I
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR New Printing House Square, London, WC1X 8EZ. Telephone: 01-837 123+ E FREEDOM OF DEBATE Britain and Israel: freedom of the advertiser Consistent policy the the Anglo- Britons against their Jewish fellow- The Times From Director of accusing Britain of “ indiscriminate ” for industry is nothing in this country no doubt are anti- Israel Association attacks on Zionism, just as pre¬ shooting of people in Ulster, or of citizens. At a time of economic From Sir Joseph Lockwood _ riew with more distress Semitic, and anti-semitism is both judice against communism may Sir, That the publication of a Germany during the last war. There hardship (and at such times even a cent than a conflict an insidious and dangerous dis¬ certain advertisement in your paper the most civilized nations bare been Sir, I have read Anthony Wigranrs follow from any attacks on the can be little doubt that The Times article on electoral reform (Decem¬ this newspaper and the ease, but many pro-Arabs are not Soviet Union. Yet freedom of on December 11 would provoke quite would, rightly, nor accept such an known to seek a convenient scape¬ a flurry was clearly foreseen by you advertisement or at least such part goat), tbe advertiser insinuates that ber 6) and would whollj- agree with community, either the ann-semitic. They believe that speech is prejudiced itself if Jews’ loyalty to Britain is under¬ the central point made in the article, on balance the greater injustice strong ex-parte political state- according to your leader of today or it—they would reject it as wrong that constant changes in govern¬ rewish community, or the (December 12), “The Freedom of and untrue “ allegation of fact ”. mined by their natural concern for 15 the one the Palestinians have meats are not allowed. their brethren in Israel, which is ment policy made for party political onununity. We have a the Advertiser **. You yourself There can also be little doubt that motives have greedy damaged the suffered, and they work to put We have a rule that we never hinted in this at the' probable men¬ all or the large majority of people manifestly untrue- Imiration for the Jewish that right confidence and growth of invest¬ resent the resentment of either dacity of many of the statements in who protested about the advertise¬ For this reason, the analogy ment in British industry io the last don to British life and a Again, rhar is not our view. the Arabs or the Jews. The Times the advertisement. Others will ment which you published on drawn regarding the advertisement, decade. lection for it as well. We We would accept the ultimate has a duty, which is difficult j doubtless deal with this aspect and December 11 did so, not because of which I was a signatory, advo¬ cating the release of Soviet Jews I think these changes have also nsistently supported the strength of the analysis that enough, to try to take a balanced whether the advertisement was or they objected to "political expres¬ had a damaging effect on the was not a subtle incitement to anti¬ sion ”, nor even because it gave is a false one- This dealt with tbe existence of the state of Israel suffers the threat of des¬ view of the conflict in the Middle semitism. policy of a foreign government, not morale of management and contri¬ East; we also have a duty to “ offence ”, but for the objective buted significantly to the present truction, and not the Arab states, What seems to me dangerous in with the actions of a section of the and have admired the and that Israel is bound to allow freedom of speech to and more cogent reason that it con¬ “couldn’t care less” attitude that the advertisement is that tbe casual British community. I have seen develop during my nenrs of that nation, remain in a strong position of advertisers on both sides of the tained unfair and patently and Of course no one would expect feeling any more need to reader may be misled into thinking blatantly untrue “ allegation uf working life. defence until there is evidence dispute, whether we agree with that by “ British ” money channelled The Times only to publish adver¬ from criticizing Israel's fact”. tisements with which it agrees, but Tbe increasing complexity of that a real peace can be made. them or not. We do not always to “Zionist” Israel, HMG (ie, the Your leading article today also modern technology has greatly han to refrain from cri- succeed either in being fair to taxpayers’ money) is in some way one still has the right to be shocked We certainly also consider that- contains no reference to the sheer at the lack of discriminating judg¬ lengthened the development and the policy of France, peace is Israel’s great ultimate the Jewish or the Arab case. We involved. On this aspect I feel that testing period of new products and nation for whom we feel I, as an ex-member of Her Majesty's hypocrisy of the advertisers: ment which permitted such an interest, and that Israel’s policy, recognize the strength of feeling behind their cloak of putting advertisement to appear in its pages. it is absolutely essential that regard. on both sides and sympathize Diplomatic Service, can offer management should be able to plan particularly between the last two authoritative and reassuring infor¬ Britain first lies their guilt of Yours faithfullv, theless the action of the Middle Eastern wars, did not rather than otherwise with the supporting and defending _ Arab ahead and make the best estimates mation. While assistant and later SIDNEY BRICHTO, Chairman, they can of the market situation by of Deputies of British always take the right means to . irrupting resentment which our head of the Foreign Office Depart¬ terrorist organizations who indeed The Council of Reform and Liberal the time the product is ready to be Nreporting to the Attorney that end. own conduct sometimes provokes. ment dealing with Israel and the have been responsible, on their own Rabbis, offered to the public. Cost is, of the advertisement which The Board of Deputies recentlv How could people feel otherwise, Arab countries around her I was admission, for worse than indiscrimi¬ The Montagu Centre. course, a prime factor in this equa¬ ■■ | Zionist fund raising lent their authority to a two-page when the history has been such, engaged in the 1950s in channelling nate bombing — namely, the 109 Whitfield Street, WI. tion and unnecessary variation in «• .*m to us to be seriously and such issues are at stake ? large sums of aid to the Arab court deliberate massacre of women and taxation levels, investment develop¬ advertisement in The Times schoolchildren. Not even the ed. The only allegation attacking the treatment of Jews We also recognize that Zionism tries—£12J million a year to the From Mr G, J. Gordon ment grants and stop-go and other Arab Legion, £31 million a year to terrorist organizations themselves, Sir, Although I am quite aware that measures make such forecasting •. - to the Race Relations in the Soviet Union. We sym¬ is both a political and national nor their best friends or supporters, that the advertisement Jordan for economic development by utilizing one full page of your impossible. pathized with that advertisement movement, and that attacks on and so on. Our technical assistance' have ever suggested chat there was ' have the unqualified newspaper to display the “ adver¬ New institutions such as the and have indeed consistently Zionism which are argued on programmes channelled through our any element of military or alleged tisement ” of the “ Committee for Industrial Reorganization Corpora¬ - 1 of those who seek to supported the campaign for free¬ political grounds will neverthe¬ Middle Ease Development Division terrorist targets. Indeed in many justice in the Middle East ”, you tion need a running-in period of a seeds of racial hatred”. dom of Jewish immigration. It less seem to many Jews to be were almost exclusively directed to instances some of the victims have are not infringing any law, 1 cannot few years before they become an ' not even a direct allega- is argued that the anti-Soviet attacks on the Jewish nation as the Arab countries. Even Nuri’s been non-Jews and non-Israelis. believe that^-ou failed to appreciate effective and useful addition to the tat the advertisement advertisement, which was severe such. There is perhaps no way oil-rich Iraq benefited handsomely What an extraordinary case of the the implications of vour so doing. industrial scene. This corporation o racial hatred; if it bad in its allegations, was a political in various ways. HMG’s contribu¬ pot calling the kettle black. In other At first sight uic only words was abolished by a change of out of this difficulty. Zionism is tion to UNWRA far the Arab government just at the time when it would not have been advertisement, but that the anti- words, tiie advertisement used which have any impact are those in not only a political force, it is a refugees has run into millions of “freedom of political expression” large bold type, namely “ Shouldn’t it could have been most useful. 3. Zionist one was a racial adver¬ very important one. Yet unlike pounds since 1949 and continues. Britain Come First?” (at the top of It seems to me that our system tisement. We cannot see that the as a cloak for licence to disregard advertisement attacked communism or Western liberal¬ All the above represented the Bri¬ truth and fact. That was uot surpris¬ the advertisement) and “ Isn’t Bri¬ of adversary politics described by distinction is just. Zionist fund fund raising; it attacked ism it is a political force tish taxpayers’ money. ing. The surprise is that The Times tain More Important?” (at the Antbony Wigram as “ alternating military policies, iaclud- raising, though its purposes are identified with a particuar Against this our economic and accepted it—pot, stock and barrel. bottom). The expression io the single party government ” is a for¬ charitable, does strengthen Israel technical assistance to Israel was on smallest type is. the word “ Adver¬ midable obstacle to the working out policy of reprisals; it nationality, and with that Yours truly, generally and is intended to do a tiny, if efficient, scale and not one tisement ”. of reasonable consensus and the that British funds would nationality alone. L. GORDEN, so by those who solicit funds and penny of the British taxpayers’ Without any disrespeci to the long term policies on which die er spent at home. The London, SWI. by those who give them. An Yet in this case we do believe money went to support the 750,000 intelligence of your readers, the confidence of industry depends. does not endorse these that the Board of Deputies are December -12. Like other modern democracies, we attack on Zionist fund raising Jews who had been driven out of impression gained by a casual as indeed we do not making a mistake. By trying to Arab lands and stripped of all their reader would be that anybody who must work out our attitude as a the views of any political seems therefore to have a clear- possessions. From Mr George Fox donates money to tbe Zionist cause nation to fundamental issues like cut political objective. have the advertisement prosecu¬ :er; in this case we do not So, the casual reader can rest Sir, Your leader and Mr Simon’s is being not only unpatriotic but nationalization, industrial relations It has also been argued that it ted, they appear to be trying to and taxation to try to maintain ree with them. We accept assured—his money has not been letter (bath December 12) are both also actively preventing the building is one thing to publish an attack deny their opponents the right to : sent to Israel but to her needy commendable so far as they go, but of “ more homes ”, the improving some stability and consistency of ' re are counter arguments on a foreign government, and state their case.' What is more neighbours. do not take into account the of ** soda! services ” and the help¬ policy in these essential spheres- :an be brought, and we they have already had some Yours faithfully, following: ing of “ pensioners However, far Only then will we be able to settle another to attack a British group, down to a decent job of work and tened our letters column in this case the British Zionists. success; The Times has refused a MICHAEL HADOW, Director, The anonymous persons who worse is the fact that there is arguments. further insertion of the same The Anglo-Israel Association, caused the offending advertisement clearly a danger that many people begin to pay our way in the world. That does not seem to us a con¬ I am convinced therefore tliac our vhat we do not accept is advertisement because we judge 9 Bentinck Street, WI. to appear are not after “Justice in will associate the sentiments of the clusive difference; political the Middle East”. They will be advertisement with The Times. system of government should be should be impossible for that to do so, in the light of the December 12. debate, both in our editorial and satisfied only with their version of If the economic decline of this altered to prevent or slow down who bold the pro- advertising columns, covers both protests, would be provocative, country continues at its present rate, rapid change either by providing From Mr L. Gordon “ justice ". ian view—-which is not domestic and international con would have the prejudicial effect The advertisement about the you must surely realize that adver¬ a second chamber with real power isition—to put forward of raising an already emotional Sir, Your leading article today, tisements of this nature, with their or by a single chamber government troversies. “Freedom of the advertiser”, tried Russian Jews was not published in nts in favour of their case, Of course it is true that any issue to a more dangerous level. a Russian newspaper, nor is it prob¬ misleading statements and distor¬ elected by proportional repre¬ very hard to be fair and objective, tions, can so easily feed existing sentation. • that it might “sow the political attack can have the We do not think char it is wise of and almost succeeded. It refers, able that it was seen by any of the Yours faithfully, Russian general public. So far as hatreds and prejudices and create of prejudice. To attack secondary effect of creating pre¬ the Board of Deputies to seek to rightly, to “ freedom of political new ones. The effects of this have JOSEPH LOCKWOOD, fund raising, or to attack judice, can in that sense “sow deny to others a freedom of expression in advertising . . . free¬ T know, none of the facts in it is disputed, whereas most of the posi¬ been seen before. Flat 18, is not the same thing as the seeds” of prejudice. No speech which they have them¬ dom under law . . . offence is not in Much damage has no doubt 33 Grosvenor Square WI. itself a reason for refusing ...” It tive statements in the second one. ig Jews. Some pro-Arabs doubt that is a danger in all selves so recently exercised. eg, that regarding the demand of already been caused by the display, December 11. also refers, rightly, to “ careful con¬ sacrifice from this country, are a but, in order to mitigate such sideration of allegations of fact that calculated perversion of the truth. damage, I request you most they contain ...” (ray Italics). It would be interesting to know on earnestly to display, at your own Financing the arts THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD Granted that the advertisement as expense, another full-page “adver¬ what ground they are not to be From Mr John Letts vid Owen’s Children Bill, At present the law generally be able to provide it with the a whole was accepted by The Times considered as an invitation to racial tisement” more clearly specifying under the (proper policy of “free¬ the committee which inserted the Sir, Most of the stories appearing same benefits as the foster discrimination. was published yesterday, gives the natural parents a veto dom of political expression in adver¬ advertisement and dissociating your¬ recently about financial support fur parents, whatever they may have Tbe first of tbe advertisements •incarnation of his private on adoption right up to the tising” surely tbe tine “indiscrimi¬ self and your newspaper from its , the arts tend to concentrate on the to offer in the way. of love and was anything bur anonymous. Wbai problems of maintaining the per¬ er’s measure of last Feb- moment the process is completed. nate bombing o£ Palestinian are things coming to when a scurri¬ contents and implications. established intimacy. But there refugeesn should not have been Yours faithfully, forming arts in the style to which which was denied its A couple planning to adopt has lous advertisement can be inserted G. J. GORDON, they have become accustomed, ft is no need to suppose that the allowed. That line was not *' political in The Times under a box number ? l reading when Mr_ Heath to live with the child - and courts would assess a child’s 37A Adamson Road, NW3. may well be that the cost of con¬ expression” in any proper sense, Whence originated the money that tinuing to shoulder the huge over¬ welfare in purely material terms. iced on the previous day establish a relationship knowing and was nothing else than wrong paid for the advertisement ? Is it head cost of several national com¬ so. ; was going to the country, that at any moment their hopes Certainly they should not do and untrue “allegation of fact”— unreasonable to think chat it came From Mrs Mavis Marcuson panies of opera, ballet and theatre tr Owen is a junior health may be capriciously taken away In balancing the interests of and knowingly so. It is a fact (and out of the fabulous wealth of the Sir, The advertisement in The Times may become insupportable in the from the “Committee for Justice in 2T and launching it again by a parent whom the child may natural and would-be adoptive nothing to do with opinion) that oil-producing countries ? Dis¬ medium term. But it may be thai parents, the Bill greatly improves Israel has never been guilty of crimination against a section of this the Middle East ” has provoked me other and humbler—and cheaper— 'ovenm]ent Bill, with the hardly remember. Only if a court further to consider the plight of the the existing arrangements. It is indiscriminate or any other bombing country’s citizens is not lessened burdens are being shed already. scope and intentions, but judges that the parents are Palestinians in the refugee camps. important that the parents, as of refugees as such. You, Sir, are by being fomented by foreign Disquieting rumours abound that •ed by the parliamentary unreasonable in refusing consent, aware—indeed it has ofren been For years they depended on well as the child, should usually sources- museums and libraries are to have nen and with benefit of or if they have persistently ill- reported in The Times and other Yours faithfully. United Nations relief . while Arab have representation with legal in the current year—now—what is ive official consultations treated the child, can an adoption leading newspapers—that when GEORGE A. FOX. states enjoying large oil revenues called “ a negative growth rate ”, or, ; the bodies concerned, go ahead without their agree¬ aid in contested cases. To a great Israel has bombed or otherwise 27 Roslin Hall, spent little on their support. in terms die average citizen trill extent (it would be impossible to s all to the good. Adoption, ment. attacked Lebanon the targets were 6 Manor Road. It seems to roe a grotesque understand, an actual cut of 4.9 ng and custody were do so entirely) the danger is of never refugee camps as such, but Bournemouth. impertinence for the sponsors of per cent against a projected! increase ; much too complex matters Ir is right that natural parents making too much depend on the A1 Fatah or other terrorist bases or this advertisement to impugn the of 4.1 per cent that would be neces- motives of British Jews who seek dealt with by a private should have very substantial and calendar, and so encouraging training camps. If these groups, with From Rabbi Sidney Bricfuo aarv ro stay in the same place. There longlasting rights over their own parents to reclaim their children full knowledge of their government, to ensure decent living standards for appears to be a plan to save almost er's Bill, and last Feb- Sir, Your leader “The Freedom ot Jews in Israel rnosr of whom found s measure was already children—apart from anything after three years or five to avoid choose to have these places in or the Advertiser” misses the point. ESm from the most easily raided and else, if they have reason to some drastic diminution of their near refugee camps (for reasons of The advertisement “ Put Britain life intolerable in the countries of the most lightly defended of ail ened with damaging cour¬ their birth, at a time when the Arab sectors enjoyed by the public, fear that it will be difficult to get rights. The proposal enabling self-protection) it is surely tlieir First” was in essence an attack not ses if it was to have a own fault and responsibility. When on Zionists alone, but on the entire oil states are bringing the Western museums. e of becoming law. them back once they have been parents to free their children for economies including Britain to the You say, Sir, that the arts make taken into care, they may resist Germany m the last war had muni¬ Jewish community whose members las been widely agreed for adoption in advance will, it is tion factories In civilian areas it was present state of crisis. □o direct contribution to the balance parting with them even tem¬ hoped, spare children and foster openly and proudly give financial years that the law on their own responsibility. support to Israel’s open door policy Yours faithfully, of payments (a view which would porarily when it is in everyone's parents much uncertainty, though MAVIS MARCUSON be resisted by Sotheby’s and ion is unsatisfactory. A It would be just as factually wrong ro Jewish refugees from all pans interest that they should. But it is likely that a deep-rooted and 2.1 Ham Farm Road. Christies) and that the size of the er of highly publicized and for The Times or any' other news¬ of tbe world. The advertisement in the last resort it is the child natural reluctance to sign one’s paper to accept an advertisement, eg was an attempt to turn non-Jewish Richmond. Surrey. audience will not persuade the ssing cases recently has whose fate is most involved, and child away irrevocably will make Government of its claims io parity, yasized the need for reform the child’s own interest should it less often used than it might never mind priority (though the . the lines proposed by the Judging by your leading article museum audience has been gniuinq prevail. be. End-of-term spirit as explosively as the National Trust ^hton committee in 1972. The decision to forbid informal Cathedral appeals (December IIthe Canterbury The new Bill, like the Houghton From Mr W- J. Carpenter Turner appeal is to be in the same model From the Principal of King’s audience since the war). There is i a child is living with foster report, falls shorr of spelling this third party adoptions accords a nonsensical assumption here that its who wish to adopt it, the Sir, Yet another appeal is launched and with your connivance. Your College, London out. It provides that a court or with most informed opinion. for repairs to the fabric of a great leading article makes no mention Sir, The Michaelmas term has just should be strongly resisted—ihat it ng law rends to pay too adoption agency “shall take full With the extra responsibilities cathedral and there can be no doubt of the one million pounds for the ended. Upon its last day, at the end is easier to defe'nri the outlay of i regard to the interests of count of the need to safeguard that will fall on. adoption that" the work is urgent and neces¬ choir. 1 quote two extracts : “ Tbe of term service of the Holy £8m to enable us to go on making unsaleable motor cycles in Meriden atural parents, and too little and promote the welfare of the societies as parental bolds are sary, but I regret ro note that the appeal for more than three and a Eucharist, in tbe college chapel use of tiie child. Of course it diminished, it is right that central appeal reflects the growing ten¬ half million pounds to repair and here, well over 300 people took and Coventry than it is to spend child throughout his childhood ”, exactly rhe same sum on mai attuning ie that in the great majority and that the child’s own wishes registration should be introduced dency to link the needs of the fabric preserve the medieval stained glass communion. Tbe overwhelming with some other cause, all propa¬ and fabric of Caterbury Cathedral n majority of these were students and the museums and galleries which ses a child is most likely to should be taken into account as in England and Wales. An extra attract the tourists whose spending burden will also fall on local ganda stressing the structural short¬ and “ The very urgency of the though a good number were students ethe love and security that it far as possible, but it does nor comings of the building and omit¬ necessary repairs at Canterbury is far more vital to our current f needs in ins own family- authority social service depart¬ of theology most were not. In the balance of payments. declare in terms that this factor ting any mention of the less drama¬ raises the question of wbo should previous week the service of reading . remains so when domestic should be the paramount one. It ments. Councils are to be given tic associated matter once the bear the burden of cosr. Three and Bur new ways to afford the am the responsibility of ensuring and music for Advent, twice will uo doubt have to be found, Iems mean that the child had might be better if xt did, though brochures have been issued. a half million _ pounds is a very repeated, had been attended in the e fostered or taken into a the difference is not a crucial that adoption facilities in their Here at Winchester we have bad large sum to raise . . and quickly, our sense uf relative aggregate by more than a Thousand values being what it is. Suppose .. authority home even for one. The reform has been in the areas are adequate. At a time two appeals in recent years both To my mind this kind of presenta¬ people. when so many admonitions about laving great stress on the needs of the Treasury agreed to allow indus¬ : long periods. But there air for so long that there has tion is dishonest and does do good It has to be accepted char students the fabric—the first appeal asso¬ trial firms to direct up to 2 pei js a time, which depends been a partial reversal of sym¬ extravagance fall on local author¬ either to your paper or the estab¬ in universities are not at present ities from above it is of the ciated with the desire to enlarge the cent of their Corporation Tax bill on the age of the child and pathy among social workers in lished church. much in public favour. The anti¬ (tbe difference, incidentally, utmost importance that central funds of the Dean and Chapter and ie efforts the natural parents favour of the natural parents. In Yours truly, democratic antics of a few and the between the 50 per cent of Mr government should make full the second with the wish to endow -• made to keep up the rela- purely material terms, many the choir. W. J. CARPENTER TURNER. unrepresentative attitudes of many Barber and the 52 per cent of ship, when the bond with the parents (already in difficulties or allowance for the extra staff and You will also recall that some Brooksi de. student unions are the cause. Tbe Mr Healevl to approved spending spending that these responsibil¬ huge majority of students come to on rhe arts ? Can we be certain *r parents becomes the more they would not have needed to years ago we had the great West¬ Back Street, part with their child; will never ities will require. minster Abbey appeal again asso¬ St Cross, universities to work for a degree the money would be less well tpcnr ortant one. ciating the needs of the fabric with Winchester. while they mature in company of for rhe community in any mesminv those of tbe choir. December 11. their own age. If they came more ful sense ? and to summon the aid of a power Other European capitals have to Union general meetings less would Yours faithfully, marriage of divorcees □or themselves. found it essential to have such ring be done in their name of which, if JOHN LETTS, Chairman. There is good reason to believe roads. Motorists who bare visited no one says “ Pass the salt The they knew or thought about it, they National Heritage, n the Dean of Norwich the continent will know the ring Queen’s English Your Religious Affairs Corre- that there is growing tolerance correct form is “ Pass chee-er-salu might disapprove. Most, however, 202 Great Suffolk Street. SE1. within the Church of Enghuid to the road round Rome and the “peri- FramMrP. J. Milieu. QC please are not really interested. ident has drawn attention to the pherique” round Paris, though the in which a number of Cborch different approaches to this problem Sir, Mr Levin’s strictures on the (Outside polite society a different It may be regretted but It is also latter is perhaps a little too near pronunciation of the definite article ngland clergy are quietly exer- which are, in practice, being adopted the city centre Ear comfort. usage prevails. There, the definite true that Union general meetings, 6 Hambone Chorus ’ ig their independence by allow- within the parishes. When the on television and radio cannot be article is invariably pronounced even with a quorum of no more than Fro/ii Mr Jolm Halt after suitable inquiries, a diurch has more experience of these In the case of London, an outer .allowed to pass unchallenged. The with a short “ e ”, and followed by four per cent of the student body, different approaches, it will be pos¬ ring road is even more urgent as practice which he condemns is, in Sir. My first introduction io Bernard rc- to be married in church any one of a number of stereotyped are not always quorate. We arc said Levin's “Hambone Chorus’" and. or December 9). sible for me General Synod, with there is as yet no motorway system fact, philologically correct, as the and inappropriate adjectives chosen to suffer in this college from what is connecting tbe Channel ports with following explanation should demon¬ indeed, to Faust, was at school in let _s another approach which the agreement or the bishops and for the fact chat they begin with a sometimes described as “ the apathy 1934. Our version was: good will o£ the majority of the the Midlands and North which by¬ strate. consonant.) of King’s”. This might be no more rves attention. Christian people members of the church, to maintain passes London. If the north east Id theory, tbe definire article “Our soldiers believe that it is right that they The practice on television and than the absence of widely felt and Eating bread and jam " ild be remarried in church are the principle of life-ion^ marriage section of the road has to go through should be pronounced with a short radio is simply due to the difference burning discontent. Nearly every and to act with compassion in indi¬ or near beauty spots like Epping “e” when the next word begins between the spoken and written and continued uentlv recommended by their student 1 know—and l know very “They like it better than cites vidual cases. Forest, efforts must obviously be with a consonant, and with a long word. Broadcasters do not speak; many in this and other places— r to seek help from Free Church made to keep environmental damage “ e ” when it begins with a _ vowel. and bam.” sters. About half the 1,150 Yours faithfully, they read from prepared scripts* would not dissent from being Yours sincerely. to the minimum but this is no In practice, however, Englishmen from which the interposed words, lie, Anglican, Methodist ana ALAN WEBSTER, described as happy. They are also JOHN HALL, The Deanery, reason for scrapping the whole pro¬ are seldom sufficiently fluent to essential in ordinary speech, are rs, who were remarried by the select the apt noun in time m mostly good people. Times and man¬ 31 Epple Road, SWb Norwich. ject. absent. In order to appear spon¬ ners have changed but. I aiu sure bodist Church in one particular determine the carreer pronuncia¬ taneous, announcers naturally pro ■ were Anglicans, and of these at December 9. One cannot in tbe same breath' that drugs are little used and thai demand chat juggernauts be kept tion of its definite article when the? nouncc the definite article widi a Prom Miss E- Simpson C one-third had been recom- utter it. Accordingly, correci promiscuity is rare. ded to the Methodist Church by out of our towns and villages and1 long “ e ” as io norma] speech. The Sir, I am indebted to Mr Levin fur argue against tbe construction - of English usage requires the inter¬ jerky pause which follows, and of Looking around at tbe end of term my musical education via vour nev s 7 own vicar. In some cases the London's orbital road roads which will do just that. It is position, between the definite article which Mr Levin go unjustly com* congregation J could not help paper but whence came be bv his r also asked if he might he time die government gave a dear and its noun, of the word “ er * or lains, is essential to enable tbe reflecting how much ordinary good¬ strange intelligence regardin' wed to take part in the cere- From Mr G. A. R. Ebswortli S expression of intent to carry die “ tun **. steaer to supply the missing “ er ” ness was there. At a time of gather¬ Faust? The “Hambone Chorus" v. In the course of. a car etui ■tfr In a period when many big ing gloom in a season that should has ever been “ Our Tomrai iry T did not get any impression orbital road project through with a Since each of these words begins or “urn” and to preserve rhe ventures for die furore are being target date for completion. with a vowel, it not only gives tbe beautiful cadences of the spoken be one of hope I find this hopeful. Swallowed a Kangaroo”. asy-going permissiveness on me scrapped—first Maplm, next language. Perhaps others will tno Yours faithfully. of the Methodist Church; Yours faithfully, speaker time to grope for the ha-os the Channel Tunnet--prtjeets appropriate noun, but enables him Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, E. SIMPSON, er a serious attempt KT probe which are clearly essential should G. A. R. EBSWORTH, 2 Warboys Road, to pronounce the definite article P. J. M3TLLETT. ,| W. HACKETT, 105 Boyds Walk. to act with compassion. A nunv not be obstructed or delayed. One of King’s College London, of those who seek remairiage ui Kingston Hill, . with a long “ e ”, confident in his 9 Old Square, Dukinfield, I suggest, is the outer ring Strand. WC2. ch are deeply concerned to have Joa?roundLondon, that is the north Surrey- immunity from criticism by Mr Lincoln’s Inn, WC2. Cheshire. Levin. In polite society, Mr Levin, December 9. December 13. December 1L hristian wedding and have a aod south orbital roads. December line desire to make a fresh start 14 THE TIMES SATURDAY DECEMBER. 14 1974 Strength of the Church is in its parishes OBITUARY By Eric Treacy should-he propose not to appoint dealing with the multitude of couragement- Praise where it is SIR EDWARD MAUFE Bishop of Wakefield to a vacant parish. The Institution casuals who knock on the vicarage due puts new life inm a tired i ’ of a new vicar remains a matter door. man. .All my ministry until 1961, when t of local importance, even to those Pray for your parson that he may I became a bishop, was spent as a In fiie midst of all this, they Architect of Guildford Cathedral who are sot church people. must sustain that life of the spirit not run short of the energy of parish priest. Since I have been in die parishes of England, which is the authentication of their mind, spirit and body to do Sir Edward Maufe, RA, sive. On the -other hand- the a green mound about 50ft ■; i»« a bishop, I have been in dose quiet, devoted and sacrificial work ministry. If this were not enough, bis work. . • ttptra architect of Guildford studio for religious services and the approach from 0 and daily contact with parochial being done by men who are the church in its efforts to reor¬ Take off him as far as in yon Cathedral, who died on Thurs- which Maufe designed at rford—J 1is- a walking-way,f”- only, lies those parochial chores that clergymen. Which leads me to say s^uS£ling with poverty, whose ganize itself to meet the problems day, aged 91, may be described Broadcasting House can only steps at intervals and flar COURT need not the attention of a man of financial and manpower short¬ as a designer of churches by con- be called embarrassing in Its avenues. From these appro, •bat ft* atrBEgth of the Chureh SgSteTSe 'ShS £ ages, combines adjacent parish***, in Holy Orders. . vicrion, aiming directly at the conscious holiness, it builds up to the central t CIRCULAR of England is in its parishes. At faithfully preaching the Gospel, and adds two, three, and some¬ See that your parson gets a decent that level, the Church is con¬ ministering the Sacraments, and times four parishes to the care of holiday, if he can’t afford it, creation of a religious atmos- Maufe was born at Ilkley in with an effect of monum BUCKINGHAM PALACE siderably stronger than is generally Caring, in sickness and in health, one incumbent. Already there are arrange that the mwinn are phere. In past centuries the jgg3 and educated at Wharfe- and slightly austere simpl realized ; it is my firm belief that forthcoming. December 13: The Queen this for their parishioners. signs that these crushing pastoral desifner of churches worked to dale School and St John’s Col- thoroughly characteristic o morning received The Sultan no body of men Is contributing Resist-any pastoral reorganization Reports proliferate about deploy¬ burdens are beyond human explicit terms of reference, lege, Oxford, where he took his architect. Qabaoj bin Said of Oman. more to the stability and moral which is going to solve the ment, patronage, reorganization, strength to carry, with the result determined by the spirit of the degree of MA. He was articled Later works by Maufe in< Her Majesty also received the foundations of the nation than the Church’s problem at the expense pie appointment of bishops; that men are breaking down iu age. The idea that the archi- to William Pite and also buildings for Trinity am Ambassador of the Sultanate of parochial clergy. health. of your incumbent's health. theologians confuse die shnphddes Ensure that he is property paid. tect himself w can, so to speak, studied at the Architectural John’s colleges, Cambridge. Oman (His Excellency Mr Nassir We may change the machinery, of ^ faith by chaHengutt the The indignant reaction of the Diocesan stipends polities can be Balliol and St John’s coll Seif El Buaiy), xve may alter the externals, but tte doctrines oftheCre^sl^Tpom- clergy to a suggestion recently put the religion into the church Association. During the 1914- The Lord Goronwy-Roberts circumvented by giving a is comparatively modern, is War he served as lieutenant Oxford (of which last he w pous meandering® of the General made by a lunatic fringe that there l Parliamentary Under-Sec reran- same. The ministry of word and generous expense allowance and Maufe contributed much to the honorary Fellow), the Fes Synod have less and less relevance should be a clergy trade union a - substantial Easter offering. in the Royal Artillery in of State for Foreign and Com¬ sacrament; the prophetic, pastoral, Theatre, Cambridge, tbe to what goes on in .the parishes. speaks volumes for the spirit of And never, never say to him, “ Of realization of tins idea, which Salonika. His earlier works in¬ monwealth Affairs I was present.. and priestly functions of the undemanding service of these men must be borne in mind if his house, Oxford, the rebuildii Unshaken by all this, thousands course. Vicar, Sunday is your clude several country houses Mr R. C. Hope-Joaes (Her clergy, it is the man on the beat in, and under. Holy Orders. Per* work, with its merits and a seWarlv neo-Georgian Majesty's Ambassador Extra¬ u-bo matters. The parson going of parochial clergy carry on busy day” ! and gard ens—Xelling Hall, Nar- haps, in the privacy of their homes, Finally, the charter of the priest* defects, is to be properly of the war-damaged M: ordinary and Plenipotentiary at La abour bis work day by day in his quietly, saying their prayers, visit¬ they may allow themselves some Z-Z~n ^cas, Grissington, hood. The man of God will know Pazi and Mrs Hope-jooes had the parish is the man on whom the ing the sick, burying the dead, con¬ justified self-pity at the end of a riatsA Yorkshire; and Little Rooth- Temple and of Gray’s Inn ■ soling the bereaved, absolving the the place of sacrifice is his life. Ttie merits are those of ex¬ made him an honorary’ M honour of being received by The Church depends. And all the long and tiring day, hut, in public, In bis dally life will be seen the ing, Essex, among them ; moou- Queen. efforts of the Church must be penitents, comforting the troubled, there is no complaining, and they treme _ sensibility; and refined meets to Joseph Chamberlain of the Bench), and memo raising the money to keep their Way of the Cross, for be will know Sir Bernard Leduidge (Her directed towards the care and labour on in a spirit which is that there is no salvation without taste in the designer, coupled jn ^ crypt 0f Westminster at Tower Hill (an extensio Majesty's Ambassador Extra¬ encouragement of the man on the parishes going, meeting increased beyond praise in times when the sacrifice; that self-denial and self- with a dear of practical Abbe . ^ third Lord Ches- the earlier memorial ordinary and Plenipotentiary at demands for the church outside “ Rate for the Job ” is the theme beat. renunciation are ’ the true marks requirements. The defects can ham ar Aylesbury; Sidney Lutyens) and at Runnymedc Tel Ariv) and Lady Ledwidge bad In spite of what is said about the their parishes. Preparing young song of the working population. of priesthood. His life will be a be summed up by saying that ac St John’s at Bunting- was chief architect and an weakening of the Church's life in couples for marriage, teaching in the honour of being received by Let us praise good men whilst daily sacrifice of himself in com* adviser to the Imperial The Queen. modem times, the parish, and all their church schools, writing their they are yet with us, and let the Maufe’s Mcnapttt ford; and several buildings for pauy with the sacrifice of his look, a httle self-consoouslv Lloyds Ban5c His earlier work Graves Commission. Althi His Excellency Mr Jack that pertains to lr, is deeply parish magazines, preparing their laity take up something of the Master, who made a full, perfect, Hamilton Warren was received in embedded in the life of England, sermons: sometimes stoking the strain on their clergy. Mav I sug¬ and sufficient sacrifice, oblation. tbe “ churches was mainly in the he belonged to the old sebo farewell audience by Her Majesty The clergyman is still wanted and church boiler, cutting the church- gest a charter for the laity ? and satisfaction for tile sins of the of alterations and redeco- historical reminiscence he and took leave upoa relinquishing needed, as any bishop discovers yard grass, acting as vergers, and Remember the ministry of en¬ world. voice ”. Maufe was neverthe- Tjaion^ ^ at St Martm-in-the- always open minded, being bis appointment as High Commis¬ less, aware of risks attending Fields, All Saints’, Southamp¬ example, one of tbe judges sioner for Canada in London. the responsibility of the con- ton, and St John’s, Hackney. In gave first prize to Sir ] The Prince of Wales this morn¬ temporary church architect. He addition to the churches for Spence’s design in the com ing arrived ut Bangor, Gwynedd, Forthcoming once said that the churches of the deaf and dumb at Acton tion for Coventry Cathedr; in the Royal Train. the Gothic Revival, although he His Royal Highness visited the marriages £240,000paid f or LouisXVI and CJapham already men¬ He was elected ARA in 1 recognized the great merits of RA in 1947, and was knigj Marine Science Laboratories at Lord Binning tioned.' he designed the Wes¬ Menai Bridge and Jater took the some of them, were “ rather in 1954. He received the R and Miss P. E- Rutherford Hayles like museum specimens ”. leyan Methodist Church at Wal¬ Chair at a Meeting of The Prince The engagement is announced table and cartonnier Gold Medal for architectur of Wales' Commirtee for Wales “Our danger now”, he added, worth. His most important between Lord Binning, ouly son By Geraldine Norman 1944. Maufe was a tali, retn at University College of North pseudonyms. A Louis XVI table “is not one of dead replicas, postwar church was the rebuild¬ of the Earl and Countess of Had¬ Sale Room Correspondent a ecrire made by J. F. Leleu for ably handsome man of air Wales, Bangor. but of forms built merely in ing after bombing of St dington, and Prudence Elizabeth, French furniture and works of art Mm« \Tctoire brought £92.000 Columba’s, Pout Street, but episcopal appearance » The Prince of Wales this after- younger daughter of Mr and Mrs revolt, of stunt architecture, of n.Kin presided ar Session 1 of from one of the greatest F-Tigii«v» (estimate £60,000 to £100,000) this was not one of his happiest charming manners. In his v< Rutherford Hayles. coHecoons to be formed in the from an anonymous buyer. A building primarily *o surprise.’7 an interpretive Seminar in con¬ efforts. he was an exceedingly grac nexion with The Prince of Wales’ past half-century were sold at Louis XV mantel clock composed Both these dangers he dancer, and when he and Mr J. de £. Ashworth Sotheby’s yesterday for a total of It was in 1932 that Maufe won of Chinese porcelain figures and avoided in his own work, which wife took the floor there '^V Committee for Wales at Univer¬ and Miss J. L. Good £901,160. The collector was Lady ormolu made a record auction sity- College of North Wales, rose in quality in proportion as the competition for Guildford always a circle of admirer. Tbe engagement is announced BaBlie, who died in September. price for a clock ac £38,000 (esti¬ the requirements were definite. Cathedral Cruciform in plan, Bangor. between John, son of Dr and Mrs The most outstanding piece was a He married Gladys Prude: Squadron-Leader David mate £20,000 to £30,000) and was Good examples are tbe two with shallow transepts providing R. de B. Ashworth. Tuck House, Louis XVI library table and match¬ bought under a pseudonym by daughter of Edward Stutchbi Checketts was in attendance. Feist ed, Essex, and Jennifer, ing cartozmier, which brought an an Italian dealer. churches he designed for the for a great open space at the of the Geological Survey Royal Association in Aid of the crossing under the central KENSINGTON PALACE eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs auction record price of £240,000. Another anonymous purchaser India, and had one son. L December 13 : The Duke of E. J. D. Good, Kekerengu, Marl¬ Lady Baillie was the daughter of paid £55,000 (estimate £60,000 to Deaf and Dumb: St Saviour’s, tower, and with the roof lines Maufe, who is an experien borough, New Zealand. £80,000) far a pair of Louis XZY Gloucester was present at the Lord QueeotXHXKigh, wife of Sir East Aetna, and St Bede’s, of nave and chancel at the same interior decorator, often a* Adrian Baillie and cousin of Mr Boulle menbles d’appui. A pair Clapham. In these everything level, Guildford bears some twenty-first anniversary Lnncheou Herr B. M. Haas ted her husband iu his wi of the Modular Society at the John H«y Whitney, United States of huge Louis XVI tulipwood par¬ is considered with regard to resemblance to Liverpool, in and Miss J. M- E. Saville-Sneath quetry and white lacquer armoires Savoy Hotel today-. ambassador to the United Kingdom the needs of a congregation that it is symmetrical in side as The engagement is announced from 1956 to 1961. As a young made £28,000 (estimate £50,000 to Lieutenant-Colonel Simon Bland hetween Bruno, son of Herr and that ran see but cannot hear, well as in end view, but it car- Lady Mary Alexander, fo was in attendance. woman she bought Leeds Castle In £80,000) ; the buyer was again Frau Joseph Haas-Ruscb. of Buck- Kent, one of England’s oldest in¬ anonymous. Perhaps the most The East window is eliminated, ries the simplification of Gothic, erlv Lady of the Bedchambe YORK HOUSE hauserstr 18, Zurich, and Jennifer, habited and most beautiful casdes. astonishing price was the anony¬ artificial lights are screened with the substitution of Queen Mary and widow of ST JAMES’S PALACE daughter of Mr and Mrs R. A. Restoring and furnishing the mous £30,000 (estimate £800 to from tbe congregation so as to modelled for linear treatment, Ulick Alexander, PC, G December 13: The Duchess of Savill e-Sneath, of Heracles, castle became something of a life £1,000) for a large mother-of-pearl throw their light forward, the still farther than Sir Giles’ GCVO, CMG, OBE, died Kent, as Colonel-m-Chief, today Monaco. work. Yesterday's sale included a and ormolu toilet mirror. floor is raked as in a theatre. Scott’s building. Of concrete December 11 at the age of tuok the Army Catering Corps few of rise best pieces from the Sotheby’s had started tbe dav It would seem that in his pre- construction, it is faced with She was the youngest daugb Dr J. L. Maddi.son castle -and most of the contents of with a mixed property furniture Passing Out Parade at the Army- occupation with these practical brick and stone. The nave, of of the fifth Marquess of R Apprentices College, Aldershot. and Miss A. D. Lawrie her London house. Lowndes House, sale and bought in a set of four Miss Jane Pugh was in atten¬ The engagement is announced in Lowndes Square. Befe-avia. tapestries of the continents requirements all that the archi- seven bays, has tall two-light and her first marriage to dance. hetween John, son of Mr and Mrs The library table and cartonnier ordered by Louis XVI for George tecr had of religious feeling windows of the lancet type, and third Baron Nunbumholme \ L. H. M. Maddison, of 24 Cranley are in ebony with superb ormolu Washington at £220,000. The esti¬ and artistic taste was released the aisles are for circulation dissolved. She married Sir Ul Mews. London. SW7, and Angela, mounts. Ttiey are among the mate had been £150,000 to to operate unconsciously, and only, to the gain of seating Alexander in 1947. He died Tbe Countess of iveagh gave birth daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles £250,000. earliest pieces of Neo-Classical the result is singularly inrpres- space. The cathedral stands on 1973. to a son on Thursday in Dublin. Lawrie. of Plus Gwyfl, Pentraetb, furniture to survive. There are Christie’s sale of fine pictures Anglesey. some six or so similar pieces in ^ 501 several prices Mr Humphrey Berkeley much re¬ running well beyond expectations. grets that he was unable to attend existence, but these are probably Mr G. J. Owen-Da vies the finest in private bands. Tbe top price was £19,950 (estim¬ was Dr Francis Jackson. Tbe bless- ibe funeral of Dame Kathleen and Miss C. N. BatcheUer ate £6,000 to £8.000} for four views Manorial service fng was pronounced by the Bishop Courtney on December 11, since The engagement is announced They belonged to tbe Due de Guild of the Nineteen Cboiaeul, Louis XV’s Prime of Tuscany by Louis Gauffier, two of Whitby. Among those present be Cricket ' *=.' l!” V;-." V ' coking’s return gives West Ham England fall through [nettling else to smile about bad strokes and -*r —* nan Fox Jennings and Robson have brought inevitable relegation victims and ill has nut been a smiling the best from these players and will find the going even more 'or so ions that it was Pad don and Gould have formed a difficult because of the tight notable partnership. situation at the other end of the to brilliant catching ^ vesrcrday to hear John Th* magnetism of the match Is table- The leading clubs will feed c West Ham United m.ui- strengthened by the return to the By John Woodcock to Underwood. Arnold has been k about his team's eraerg- off their misfortune. Liverpool, having a poor tour. Underwood Ham team of Brooking in for instance, know that by heating Cricket Correspondent 'f s season as a matter uT midfield and that could possibly a good one, not least with the 13 ourselves Even this Luton at Airfield today they could Penh, Western Australia, Dec 13 bar. It amounted to a gamble be the decisive issue. At the end regain their position at the top have heard Derby Cuuiuy the winners could go to the tup It would be nice to say that In upon winning the toss and sending provided Stoke, Everton and Australia in, in tbe hope that :?£ tbc-ViS some bitter comments of the league. West Ham are filili Manchester City all lose away adversity England made a good ieir dismissal from the and Manchester Cky third, one from home—not an unreasonable fighting start Co the second Test Arnold would swing the bail about. p :n Yugoslavia, so Mr point behind Stoke City. Man¬ With Titmus having precedence sequence of results in this season match here today, but I am afraid over Underwood as the second ommenr was nice to came chester City bad intended to re¬ of such poor away records. Liver¬ call Corrigan in goal but he has they did not. After being put in spinner to Greig, England had pool have not won for eight both their “ veterans " in the side -'. 7.;VA '-i> brings a test of West hurt his back and MacRae has to matches and cannot include by Australia, in cloudy weather, they were bowled out for 208 after —Cowdrey who will be 42 on nimour and their new face the highest scoring forward Kennedy who has a groin injury, Christmas Eve and Tirmvs, who ticieocv wben they play unc in the first division. Toshack or Bocrsma will replace laying quite a promising founda¬ was 42 last munth. As things are fanebester City, the team Stoke themselves cannot be too him. Luton have nothing to lose tion. Tu complete a depressing likely to develop, Underwood will • them A—0 on tbc open- optimistic about their chances of by bringing in a new forward. day. Red path was dropped at first be missed, unless the weather be¬ jt the season. Ten of the remaining out in front because King, who has not played fur the haves in an unusual way. today they go to meet the quickly slip by Fletcher in the one over at players beaten on that senior team before. The first three people I spoke day will be representing improving Leeds side. They bope Queen's Park Rangers, danger¬ there was lime for when Australia went io—a sharp, low clianco off to ar the ground this morning were n today when the weatiicr to have Smith back in defence but ously close to tbe bottom three John Snow, Frank Tyson and older but the atmosphere even a draw would not be unwel¬ clubs, have decided that potentially Willis. Graham McKenzie. They ail ' r'". : bly warmer. Since that come on this occasion. Leeds have their best player, Bowles is also What made England's score par¬ sounded as though they would like Giles resuming at the point of the ,Ir Lyail has taken over having an unsettling effect nn the ticularly disappointing was that to have had the chance to bowl. iger of the team and compass from which they form team, who play Sheffield United at batting, if not an easy as it can be Yet the lack nf pace in the pitch the whole spirit from their attacks. Loftus Road without him. Bowles, was soon evident. The curator I be will be to strong The second placed ream. who is on the transfer list, is rele¬ out . lien.-, was appreciably less predicted ir, having been obliged lUoa without losing the Everton, may find Derby County gated to the reserves because, as difficult chan in Brisbane. The to cover overnight against a fore¬ : nature of their play. in a mood to put on one of their the manager, David Sexton, ball moved about a little, perhaps cast nf rain. Only when the bull better exhibitions after defeat in ;e taken 22 points from explained: “J think it is better its bounce was not as even as it was banged in short were Thomson s to the benefit of the Europe. Derby are. in my view, all round if we have players in usually is in Perth. But the pitch and LiJlce at ail fearsome and Hi. tbe must effective and attractive the side who want to play for through the day they bowled fewer team in the championship—on was of the easiest pace, and it was Rangers." Bowles will be on the possible, all day, to watch Thom¬ bumpers than in Brisbane. Lloyd ill said yesterday : “ It’s their day. Unfortunately those transfer list for a month but has Cowdrey turns to leave the wicket. He had moved across to get behind tbe line and was bowled piestion of experience and son bowling without fearing that and Luckhurst were nothing if not days are numbered in low figures. agreed to stay with the club if resolute. Luckhurst was abu behind his legs. Thomson’s elation shows. Grcfg Is the other batsman. e lor players like Day. at auy moment he would knock Everton, without Dobson, and there are no offers within that someone's head off. How Australia lucky- The fifth ball of Thom¬ ylor and Coleman. They Derby without Hector and Nish, time. Mr Sexton said: “It is son'* first over hit Luckhur.-.! on ad tbc ability. Now they managed to gcr England our today Nnt until Cowdrey had been Greig’s promotion to number four could cancel each other out vital we all puli together. If the knuckle. An X-ray examina¬ Test scorecard ,cd tbe experience to use though not. I suspect, in a nega¬ was by some brilliant catching— baiting fur 75 minutes, with some had been intended to take some of Bowles comes off the list things each catch was more glorious than tion after he was our showed serenity-, was Thomson ler loose the preiwure off Denness, but it ENGLAND: Flrsl Innings full and winning is bound tive way. might alter." Just another of the O- A. Lloyd, c C. Chiippall. b the last—and because of Mime nothing to haic been broken, at him. Thomson tested him at made no difference. When, in the a younger player's cuufl- Sudden inspiration excepted. many ils and huts in this strange Thomson .. Jd wretchedly bad strokes. which made a change, but it was S. IV. LUCfiMirM. c Matted. b Hia own introduction of once with a bouncer, at which next over, Greig was picked up in Luton Town must be considered season. I.uckhurst, Uoyd and Cowdrey, off the edge that he got most of Walter . ..27 Cowdrev ducked with time to the gully, failing to get on top of K. C. Cowdrey, b Thomson . . 22 the- white hope, were all out after his runs. In Lillee's fifth over he spare. ' Lloyd, meanwhile, was a shortish hall from Walker, all the A. V/. Greig. C MalkrLI- b VfClkrr 23 doing the hard work, none of them had three fours, two through the playing his game, not assertively hatsmen were gone. Greig’s arro¬ K. W. n. Flcichcr. c Rcdn-iifi. & slips, and one to fine leg. which Llllco . 1 to difficult balls. Denness played but well enough for his dismissal gance, while admirable in one way, "M. K. Dennett, c G. Chappell, b the poorest nf shots in the first could have gone almost anywhere, at 99, beautifully caught at second was hazardous in another. Lillee . . .. 2 over after tea. Greig a not much in Luckhurstis 27 there were sjx slip, low to Greg Chappell's left, Number lu for Middlesex, Titmus A. P. E. Knoll, c Xidpalh. b grossing from chips to champagne fours, the hest nf them a square Wallers ...... SI better one in the over after that. to be a surprise. came in ai number eight fur F. J. Vilnius, e RecSpalh. li Walter:, 10 ian Fox field Town, who have more points and the other—some 10 feet—be¬ After Knott and Titmus had drive off Walker. Ironically. the Greig had made a cavalier start England. He gave Knott his head C. M. Old. a C. Chappell, b I. hest I tit he made was rhe one he Ch.iapcil . . < today's second round of than any other League side and cause they have a former repaired a little oF tbc damage, by tile time Cowdrey was out. His and Knott, as he can. made it all G. G. Arnold run out . . 1 have scored 48 goals. Kettering, Wvcombc defender in Delaney who with a seventh wicket partnership was out to, a slash off the back first ball from Thomson be wafted R. G. □. Wiltlb. not oul . . C jp most of tbe non-league look a lot easier than most nf the Extras (w 3. nb 5) . . R who also have visions of joining is made captain for the day. Mead, of 64, the last four wickets fell foot which MaJk-tr caught well In away, high over the slips for four. others. England batted today, and the gully. ageis said most of the the 92 at the end of this season, tbe Wycombe centra] defender, has in 12 balls, two tn long hops and For the first time in tbe series ran her ween wickets, as though Total . . aca • things and one said it have a tie that on face value would recovered from an ankle injury one to a run our. By staying for 85 minutes. Luck- Thomsua was hooked. Cowdrey' FALL OF WICKETS: 1-J4. 2—99, hurst had done a good job. suffering the after effects of 3—110. A—123, &—132. 6—132. t— Chapman, of Stafford seem an easier task than that in and is expected to play, bui Halfway through the afternoon doing so not quite off the middle. 1974. 3—201 9—202, 10—208. Cowdrey, who. .had been keen to Brisbane. Greig. Cowdrey and who play against Hali- prospect for Wigan. They go to Bournemouth cannot include the score was 99 for one. Uoyd When Cowdrey hooked at him Knotr were exceptions. Wimbledon, unbeaten in 24 games O’Rourke, who is injured. and Cowdrey bad added 55, and bat at number three, was cheered HmaiNIl: l.llleo. It-'- i, plunged into the Cup most of the way to the wicket, again he played too soun and was It was Walters, though, who 1 hoiuun. 13— IS—-. It djj»cr. and probably a better team than The club with tbe champagne if Cowdrey had become rather hit on the chest. This was one of ok with: “ 1 don't regard bogged down, that was due partly which suggested that tbe Austral¬ broke the partnership between VsvTT/piTT“-J 3— Finance Bill: capital transfer fax Finance Bill: insurance Cooler climate for the generous New ground rules One common illusion is that cost of generosity will be tax cease to be' a spontaneous, or three thousand pounds as tax payable—£15,000 exemp¬ light of the new tax. So will for life policies capital transfer tax—the at 10 per cent of the capital open-handed affair, but will the price of taking your son in tion. Result: net tax saving of all insurance policies which transferred, with successive need to become devious. may not be so easy. £2,800. have been taken our to provide This week’s Finance Bill has paid up or where money j details of which have now slices chargeable at increasing Take the two similar cases of The primary liability to pay The principle which emerges funds to meet death duties, In given the life assurance in¬ taken out by a partial surrende been published in the Finance rates, until the top rate of 75 Mr A and Mr B, both of whom tiie tax falls upon Mr A him¬ from this example is that there some cases, the value of the dustry plenty to think about, as, or the taking of a bonus. Sill—is a tax. which applies per cent is reached at the £2m wish to take their sons into self as the donor, but if he will be advantages in giving policies will be too big, in in immense detail, it sets out - The clawback position, is di only to the very rich indeed, mark. partnership in their businesses, makes a rude noise to the capi¬ property TO one’s wife (or hus¬ others too small. to block various tax “ loop¬ ferent where policies taken oi holes **. In the main, it is what and that the rest of us can The object is, of course, to each diminishing his own tal transfer tax collector, the band) so that she (or he) Farmers and landowners will after March 26, 1974, have ru deter lifetime giving, which in estate by £30,000. Incidentally, collector is empowered to go may utilize capital transfer tax need to chink again about their one would expect after the for at least four years. N safely ignore it die past has avoided estate the basis of charge to tax is Co Mr A’s son for the tax This reliefs. tax bills on death, and benefi¬ Chancellor of the Exchequer's penally is to be imposed c Not so. It is a tax payable by duty—the so-called “ volun¬ not the amount by which the obviously is a necessary- rule, Apart from the first £15,000, ciaries under wills and trusts March Budget speech and the industrial branch policies- everyone who gives during his tary ” tax. donee’s property is increased, for otherwise one could readily transfers up to the value of may find there is a gift tax statement issued at the tune. home service policies whe' lifetime, and on his death, On the face of it, capital but the amount by which the avoid the tax by stripping one¬ £1,000 may be made in anv tax bill to pay whenever monies But there are some surprises, premiums are collected reg £15,000 or more. If inflation transfer tax is a liability which donor’s is diminished, a dis¬ self of everything and defying year by any person. Similarly, are paid out to them by their both good and bad. A number larly by an agent—or to the fir tinction which can be of great the taxman to do his worst transfers made out of a per¬ trustees. of changes may very well take surrender or taking of bom continues at the present rate, will be paid by everyone who does not spend every penny of importance, where, for in¬ Now take the case of Mr B, son’s taxable income as part of Finally, if you think of place as the Bill progresses since the start of the policy. that may represent an average his weekly wage as it comes stance, a lease is granted. who has been much better his normal living expenditure escaping' che tax by leaving through Parliament and the At one stage it looked as annual wage, or if you like, in; everyone who is interested Now Mr A gives direct to advised chan his neighbour. He are also ignored. this country and making your following represents only an there would be a clawback if outline of some of the pro¬ the cost of a weekly season in saving and providing for bis his son, which costs him some gives only half the relevant Transfers in consideration of permanent home abroad, that 15-year policy should be sl ticket. Even now, it will only retirement and for his family’s £2,800 in tax. He must report share of his business to his marriage, that is, gifts to the will take time. You remain posals. rendered after 14 years, but n buy one quite modest home.... future; everyone who recog¬ the transfer to the Inland son—£15,000 worth. happy couple by parents are liable to capital transfer tax There is a shake-up in the if it had been taken out for Moreover, the liability nizes that be bas some respon¬ Revenue within six months of No tax is chargeable, since exempt up to £2,500 a donor. for three years after you have rules for qualifying policies years in the first place. It a threshold of £15,000 is on a sibility towards his dependants. taking bis son into partnership, this is has first exempt slice. By putting one's wife in funds, left, even ’though the property where the premiums attract tax pears as if rhat objection h lifetime basis. The principle It is a tax on good-house¬ with penalties for failure to do The other £15,000 of value Mr one can double the available gifted may be situated abroad- relief. The changes will apply been overcome. is that "death” duties are to keeping, parsimony and thrift— so and interest running at 9 B gives to bis wife Mrs B. No amounts to pass down the Survival for at least three to policies issued after April 6, 1975 (or some later date) Apart from those exceptioi be chargeable during your life* all unfashionable virtues at per cent for unpaid tax in tax is chargeable, because gifts generation gap. years after emigration will the new legislation provid time, at rates rising cumulati¬ the present time. And as in all arrears. between spouses are—in life Full utilization of reliefs will henceforth be required to when the Inland Revenue will rake on the responsibility for that if (after' the policy h vely as and when each gift is tax matters, the thrifty and the What is being given is not and on death—exempt. ultimately require decisions make the journey worthwhile. been running for four year made. thoughtful will figbt back with cash, but a business as a going Then Mrs B gives the share about life-time and n death- certifying whether policies do qualify. money is taken out of the poli Once the first £15,000 new counter strategies, now concern, with premises, stocks of the business she has just rime ” gifts. All wills and codi¬ Oliver Stanley by a surrender of rights or t exemption is exhausted, the being devised. Giving will and debtors, and to find two received to her son: again no cils will need review in the The rule that any part of an annual premium in excess of 7 taking of a bonus, rhe life offj per cent of the sum assured will daw back (and pay to t does not qualify for tax relief Revenue) an amount equal Savings Ls being abolished. But a rule 16J per cent of the curre which applied only to endow¬ year’s premiums. Up to our necks in goulash after ment policies is being amended If less than the current yea and extended to whole life premiums is taken by the polk What price our policies. holder, 16} per cent of t In the past, to be qualifying, amount taken will be claw a helping of paprikanomics an endowment policy has had back and any further surrend to provide a capital sum on etc, in the same year will attr. nest-eggs now? There are those who say that if death of at least 75 per cent of further dawback until the to the total premiums payable readies 16} per cent of t **A complex of reasons, moral, of 7.6 per cent. But substantial all the economists in the world year’s premiums. social and economic, supports amounts of earlier issues are were laid end to end they would during its prospective term. Naturally premiums are high for If a loan is taken before the view that a man ought to still outstanding, including not reach a conclusion, whereas after the policy bas been n save some part of his income E3S0m of the first nine issues those at the older age levels during most parts of his life; made before 1956. there are others who argue that ocrY and, for them, the rule can act ning for four years, this *. there is no need to go that far, partially. count as a surrender for i his independence and self-re¬ Some of these issues are now purpose of clawback of i liance, his responsibilities for only yielding 11 per cent and proof being satisfied by the fact Now it is proposed to relax the 75 per cent standard by 2 relief—except where the lo his dependants, his relationship only in a few cases more than that a combination of any three bears interest which is eligii with his other citizens, his duty 31 per cent. of them will produce five dif¬ per cent for each year by winch as a member of a society whose the age of the life assured at for tax relief because the la But perhaps the most sub¬ ferent opinions. was made for a qualifying p future is pledged to economic stantial improvement to be the start of the policy exceeds progress.” In any event, the general feel¬ SS years. pose, such as bouse purchase made is by reassessing to how ing is that things have gone to The rule is being applied also the loan is for less than £25,0 That was the conclusion of much of his savings the investor This is where the propos the Royal Commission on the needs immediate access. The the dogs ever since the repeal to whole life policies, so that, Taxation of Profits and Income. in general, they will have to legislation is harsher than v price to be paid for ready en¬ of the Code of Hammurabi, expected in some quarts But saving as a virtue is not a cashment is high, but it is often which discouraged inaccurate assure a capital sum on death of modern philosophy, the Bible is not less than 75 per cent of the Clearly, an interest-free loan' made a prime consideration economic forecasting by decree¬ really a form of surrender, full of parable driving the when choosing an investment premiums which would be pay¬ ing that the offender be tied able under the policy if death was hoped, however, that, ii point home, and the message It is a point that the uncotfr id, starts early; there are numerous up in a sack together with a A were to occur at the age of 75. life office charges a comm ere children’s books in which inno¬ pedtive savings media are not dog, an ape and a serpent. This, however, does not apply rate of interest, the loan wor slow to proclaim. In a recent to term policies (so long as no be looked upon as being cent seeming stories about ants publication, the chairman of the Nowadays, of course, econo¬ and grasshoppers are loaded provision is made for any pay¬ genuine loan and not a “fror National Savings Committee, mists are rewarded with fame for a surrender. with a deeper meaning. Sir Robert Bellinger, claimed and fortune in direct propor¬ ment on total or partial Never was the need for this tion to the amount of damage surrender) if the term does not In fact, this kind of probl that “the outstanding feature will not arise if, say, a loan propaganda greater than in of the National Savings move¬ caused by the practical applica¬ run beyond the life assured’s these inflationary ages, and tion of their policies. This has 7Sth birthday. obtained from a bank agai ment is the convenience with wood If the capita] sum on death the surrender value of a poli rarely can the citizen’s social which the investor may deposit particular relevance to our pre¬ This seems hard on poli responsibility to save have been or withdraw his savings”. sent situation, since we are may be paid as a single sum or a less profitable business. about to experience the practi¬ a series of sums, the 75 per cent holders, since life offices h: The same argument pertained "... as soon as cfo/ly-birds start talking about any particular type of investment rule is to be applied to the always looked upon it as p One may take as an example in 1861. One of the original calities of what is known in the trade as the Hungarian Con¬ it is time for the professionals to unload." smallest sum payable. of their service to provide lo.- one of the most popular invest¬ supporters of the Post Office on a commercial basis to poli ments, a building society or¬ nection. The proposed rules about the dinary share account. Compar¬ Savings Bank scheme pointed “clawback” of tax reZief (for . holders fup to a high proport out that it would “bring the The theories emanating from of the surrender value and w ing the rate of annual infla¬ this dual, but somewhat passe, policies issued after March 26, Savings Bank within less than ticular type of investment at as a fruit cake, or a sociologist's the requirements of consumer, 1974) in the event of partial or out affecting the policy) e- tion and the amount of interest an hour's walk of the fireside source have already reduced cocktail parties, it is time for child who didn’t throw producer, worker, manager, received (provided the inves¬ total surrender have been clari¬ though conditions for borrow, of every working man in the the economies of four or five the professionals to unload. meringues at the cat and set the capitalist; government, academic elsewhere migbr be difficult tor did not pay tax at higher fied. kingdom other countries into a shambles. dustbins alight, or an economist and man-in-the-street, then we Nevertheless, if a policy than the basic rate), one finds However, fate clearly has in This phenomenon was first It is proposed that, if a policy that inflation has “ taken The bank now has 22 million strikingly observed in the who had more than two brass have to work out how in the been running for four years* active accounts of which some¬ store for us a stronger dose of farthings to rub together ? world we are roightly going to is surrendered during the first away ” more than the interest paprikanomics than any nation Poseidon affair, and is now four years, the life office - will with a surrender or withdrM- received every year since 1967 thing like 4{ million have clearly applicable to Kruger¬ Admittedly, John Maynard gee there from 'ere- Some parts have to deduct from the pro¬ the first loan can be taken?! balances of more than £100. has ever suffered before, so rands. You have been warned. Keynes died mightily rich, but of the system may have to be and that savers are at present at any moment we can expect ceeds and pay over to the of clawback penalty. iBut tb_. losing up to 10 per cent a year There can be few of these But I digress. Unlike other he was supposed to have lost advanced more slowly than i Revenue an amount equal to all will be a charge to higher i • who do not have a building to find ourselves right in the for the privilege j>f lending to disciplines, acquiring knowledge two fortunes and made three others and some may even have or part of the total premium tax if this would apply to a* society branch within the goulash. aard it might just as well have to be postponed indefinitely, but house buyers. So what, you may ask, does about economics in an effort to relief which normally will have render.) But before 1967 it was not modern equivalent of an understand what is going on is been the other way round. nevertheless we will end up, been allowed from the start of It is the second loan, or a t “ hour’s walk from their fire¬ one do ? no help, since every new smid¬ No, the thing we must do with with luck, with something which sequent surrender, which unusual for building society in¬ Know thine enemy for a the policy. But there is a vestment to provide a genuinely side ”, where, apart from those geon of knowledge acquired these people is to divorce them is theoretically agreeable and “ ceiling ”, designed so that the suffer a clawback. And, perh who also have investment start: but in this instance it is positive rate of return as in the a daunting task, because the represents just an admission from the future. Pm afraid we practically attainable. clawback does not exceed the rather unfairly, it is propo years 1962-1963, 1965-1966 and accounts and pay no tax, they ticket into an even more im¬ are lumbered with them for the Anyway, what is the alterna¬ that the penalty shall be. would immediately improve writings of economists are de¬ amount by which a policy- 1967-1968. servedly renowned as the very possible problem. present, since they have such tive ? The economists' method holder’s profit can be regarded curred even if, by the time their return from 4 per cent to a stranglehold on the situation is to tinker constantly with the second loan is taken, The problem of protecting source and fountain-bead of Unfortunately, economists as having been made out of the savings against inflation was 71 per cent without sacrificing that to take them away from it works (“ fine tuning ”, they call first loan has been repaid.. the ability to withdraw money boredom. According to the never realize this. Not for them tax relief. considered by the Page Com¬ the modesty of Isaac Newton too abruptly would do even more it) so that we lurch from one With tax relief at present at There is a complicated t- on demand. Guinness Book of Records, no damage. mittee on National Savings. It Jess than seven of the 10 most who described himself as only side to the other in wild over- 16i per cent, for surrender in ing up operation for calculal recommended the issue of a Building society investors But what those of us who are compensation. The volatility of themselves tend to be too boring people in the world are playing with the pebbles on the the first or second years, the the higher rate tax on the gt modest index-linked bond for in fan economists, the olive shore of the ocean of truth. No of a like and imaginative mind the machine leads to ever more maximum clawback is the full made under single premi . the small saver, on the grounds impressed by the money-on- —philosophers, visionaries, violent swings, until eventually demand facility of ordinary wreath currently being worn by self-respecting economist would 161 per cent of die premiums, policies, including equity, I that he is least able to protect Dr Midas Doppelganger of Mae dream of such a metaphor. long-range planners and techno¬ the safety-valve gives way and | subject to a ceiling of the perty and managed bat \ his capital against inflation. share accounts- Just about a half of building society accounts West University, Florida, whose Economics, moreover, like the logical forecasters—must do is the whole contraption erupts in . surrender value less 831 per where any type of loan coo The suggested scheme would work on the crypto-Malthusi¬ related disciplines of sociology to get together and devise a a cascade of steam and flying cent of the premiums. as a surrender. are for less than £250, but since model of the kind of society metal i pay only 2\ per cent a year the average bolding is in the anism of gold is generally held and psychology, though not In the third year, the claw¬ As promised, in the Ma interest but the _ value of the region of £1,000 there must be to be the most vilely written sciences at all in the pure sense we would ideally hope to see in So, in brief, it can't be long back is equivalent to 11 per 1974 Budget, the gain unde bond would rise^ _ in line a lot of fairly substantial invesr treatise in the entire history of of the word, are yet assumed to 15 years’ time. In devising it we before the economists will be cent of all premiums (with a deferred annuity with a c with the cost-of-living. The American soi-disant scholarship. be such by their practitioners. must not, of course, pay the moved over.to let somebody else ceiling of the surrender value option (the element which . figure of 2$ per cent was tors who have more on deposit slightest attention to what is than they are likely to need to As for the real truth behind Trying to be precise in an im¬ have a go. Speaking as a philoso¬ less 89 per cent of premiums) pays the original purchase p. chosen as being about the rate the future for gold, the facts precise medium has fatal results, happening at the moment which pher, visionary, long-range plan¬ and for surrender in the fourth under due old type of guai cover emergencies. would doud the issue wkh facts of interest which _ has historic¬ Yet the attractions of build¬ are found to fit an altogether as is shown by the small-scale ner and technological forecaster year the figures are 5$ per cent teed income bond) will be : ally been paid in times of stable ing society term shares, where simpler theory than Do p pel- application of their theories by and play right into the econo¬ myself, I am rather looking and 94], per cent respectively. jected to basic rate tax as « prices. a higher rate is paid in return ganger’s—namely the Kinsman sooiad scientists in their cwn mists’ hands. forward to it. The Bill provides for the as the higher rate tax. The committee considered the for a commitment to save for Dolly-Bear Hypothesis. This lives. When we have perfected our same principle (with suitable possibility of a bond with a a fixed term, have only recently states that as soon as dolly-birds I mean, have you ever met a Utopia so that it represents a Francis Kinsman modifications) to be applied John Drummoi-; nil rate of interest, since the been appreciated by significant start talking about any par- psychologist who wasn’t as nutty satisfactory compromise between where a policy is made partly mere preservation of capital numbers of investors- would be an improvement on The scope for improving in¬ the negative rates of interest vestment income is far wider u Unit trust performance that have prevailed. , Car insurance lyou can set aside a part of UNIT TRUSTS ; Medium fond (progress this year and In tbe But it was felt that negative your savings which will not be three years). Unitholders index 996.7 : Cali from December 31, 1! rates would not have been needed for the next year or 35.5 per cent. accepted if they had been fore¬ two. One of the most popular seen, and that an offer of any¬ fixed term investments in re- thing less than 21 per cent centyears has been local Breakdown service to the rescue Gartmore British Legal & General might be a commercial failure. authority loans. Henderson Capital Lloyds Life M As it was it would K only appeal As far as I am aware, only one Family Fund Nat Invs Second The rates currently offered If, however, a member has a Sebag Capital Pearl Montagu to a certain type of safety-first for terms of one to five years motor insurance policy provides serious breakdown, or what Brown Shipley HUI Samuel Seer saver.” are higher than almost any a recovery service after a break¬ appeared to be a minor break¬ Rowan Securities Stronghold Priority That judgment has been over¬ other alternative open to the down. Norman Frizzell Motor NATIONAL down proves to be rather more Piccadilly Inc/Grow Pelican taken by accelerating, inflation small saver. The minimum in¬ BREAKDOWN serious, the recovery club will Buckingham Ulster Bank Gr and a crisis of confidence in vestment is often £500 but it and General Limited administers RECOVERY" arrange to take the car and Marlborough NPI Gr Ac cum F many traditional investments. may be as low as £200. the motor insurance for 350,000 CLUB passengers home free of charge Archway Capital F Ariel Indeed, the proposal of the You can get an idea of rates policyholders with a large to the member. Or, the car can British Life Balnced Equity & Law Government to introduce next L & C Unit Trust Jessef General from advertisements in the syndicate at Lloyd’s and the be taken to the member’s local Klein wort Benson F Hambro Fund year two modesr index-linked weekend papers or from the standard comprehensive policy garage near his borne. Wickmoor Nat Scot-Units scb ernes, without in re rest, is Southern Loans Bureau, West can provide some “ breakdown ” The distance involved is im¬ Friars House M Jess el Capital seen as a matter of concern by minster City Hall, Victoria SAP Scots ha res cover on payment of an extra material. The recovery will be Hendsron Inc Assets both life offices and building Street, London, SW1. undertaken free of charge from Prolific Target Equity societies. Finance houses are usually premium of 25p. National Consolld Nat Domestic ■**;- i... ■ *-4 liii • t**,. ■ /.«, anywhere on the British main¬ Most of us have a vested in¬ willing to borrow from the For chad: premium, naturally, Quadrant F Abbey General land, except that a member will ; Nat West Growth Hill Samuel Brie terest in denying the small public either for a fixed period there are limitations. Basically, have to pay any ferry or toll M & G General Target Consumer saver a fair deal. If, the capital of time or for an indefinite a poUcybolder can claim for fees which may be incurred. Slater Walker Gro National Invest value of all National Savings in¬ period with an agreed period of "... help can be sent to a stranded motorist through the cost of towing a car which any one of more than 120 depots.” The recovery service applies National Commercl M & G Trustee vestments were protected notice for withdrawals. equally to motorways, free of M & G Sec General Lloyds Bank Sec against inflation, it wouldi cost In the past savers have been has broken down foe up to 10 National Hundred Capital Priority cost, after accident or serious S & P General the exchequer an additional advised to stick to the big well- miles from tbe place where tbe breakdown. Also, a member can Intel known companies but the re¬ Nat Group Provi Friends Prov £l,000m this year. . breakdown occurred. offering insurance, but were not stranded motorist through any ask to be recovered from a Minster If this were raised by increas¬ cent problems of the biggest of National Shamrock If the car can be repaired at meeting the requirements of one of more than 120 depots. motorway after a stoppage of Allied First Tyndall Cap M ing income tax it would mean them all. United Dominions the roadside, the cost of the any kind Unicorn Trustee Trust, have placed the whole authorized insurers. But it is not a complete BIF Second an extra 3p in the £. . , one outward and return journey Tbe Automobile Association, recovery service which is If the fault proves to be CanliFe General Trustee Savings Bk Those with mortgages might sector under a cloud, 1 of the breakdown vehicle (and Jascot Sect Leads Prudential Guaranteed income bonds however, is recognized as a-n offered to members free of minor, the club says that turn¬ Unicorn “ 500 ” like to calculate what their not more than one hour’s labour authorized insurer so far as its charge. Only recoveries after an out and repair will be charged Merlin monthly repayments would be have gone right out of fashion Framlington Cap F at the roadside) will be met recovery services are con¬ accident or major breakdown to the member “ at a fair price Elect & Indust M & G Midland if the mortgage rate were 25 since the removal of tax conces-1 under tbe insurance. Carliol F sions and the well publicized j cern ed. come into this category. applicable to the time of the British Life Guard hill per cent—the lowest rate that, In the maa-n insurers think Most of the dubs, quite The view is that if a member breakdown Unicorn Capital would allow societies to infla¬ difficulties of some insurance National Security Discretionary F companies that were over-en-, that to cover breakdown under clearly, did dm have the fin¬ bas a minor breakdown which One exclusion applies to an N els tar tion-proof investors' deposits. a normal motor policy would ancial resources to ' become can be put right for the price Portfolio Growth Fortunately for taxpayers and thusiastic in their efforts to | accident within five miles of Colemco Unicorn General be to move towards giving a authorized insurers. The alter¬ of an hour or two of a mech¬ home. In this event free Clyde General Lloyds Bnk First people with mortgages there is offer the best rate. There are National Century still a few hybrid varieties avail¬ maintenance contract to these native was for_ the clubs to anic’s time,* plus a spare part, recovery will not be provided, Oceanic Growth tittle danger that investors will policyholders. But there are arrange for rheir members to this is something which the Wieler Growth F SAP Ebor Can be in a position to demand able but yields offered are now since so often the cost will be Cabot F signs that changes may be be covered by a contract of member himself can meet. This, met under a comprehensive Crescent Res better treatment. But on an in¬ much lower. Oceanic General Trades Union Any review of present savings coming. insurance with authorized naturally, has the effect of keep¬ motor policy. Mutual Secur Plus dividual level, many investors, ing down the cost of member¬ Ionian Growth F if they took a more professional opportunities is bound to be A Few years ago a number of insurers. Cars, motor cycles and three- Glen Fund Hill Samuel Cap For instance, members of ship. Target Professional attitude towards their savings, rather cheerless. There is no proprietary clubs were set up wheelers up to 30 cwt can be E Cosmopolitan Gr to offer breakdown recovery what is claimed to be the largest Nevertiieless, if a member suf¬ covered under the scheme and, Mutual • Blue Cbip * Barbican could improve their income way, with even a measure of Abacus Giants security, to achieve a return services to motorists at a lower accident/major breakdown re¬ fers from what appears to be a naturally, it is a condition that Schroder General without any greater inconveni¬ minor breakdown, but cannot Allied Growth & Inc Equltas atfer tax that will keep up with cost than membership of one covery organization in the any vehicle covered in this way ence or risk. country, the National Break¬ obtain help-ntf, perhaps, he is National D Gt Winchester M As a Start, investors should inflation this year. of the motoring organizations must be roadworthy and be in Target Thistle Emblem Fund F plus its subscription for the down Recovery Club, which is unfamiliar with tne area, or it is normal use. Allied Capital check their unproductive assets You can only try to keep your late at night—he can telephone Tyndall Canynge loss as small as possible, pray recovery service. based in Bradford, pay a sub¬ Understandably, if a car is G and A Private Portfolio _large current account bank scription of £3-30 per annum the controller on duty, who w?Il for better days and seek the Some of these had their prob¬ A; Change otter one pear offer to bid. net income reinvested. balances and unclaimed entitle¬ (or less, if they are members give the name and address of used foi rallying or competi¬ ments such as postwar credits- rather doubtful consolation that lems, with the result that there B: Change over three pears offer- to bid, net income reinvested. were a number of takeovers of the AA or RAC) and have the nearest reliable garage tions, no cover is provided. Many investors fail to take by saving you are fulfilling the security of a policy under¬ which should be able to provide Nevertheless, "at cost” terms Both taken to December 12.1974. advantage of higher yielding re¬ your duty as a responsible and amalgamations. In due course the Department of Trade written at Lloyd's. the necessary facilities. This are available to members. M : Trust valued monthly. ' placements for existing' invest¬ citizen. The recovery service is open advice is free, but the member F: Trust valued, every two weeks. • *' ments. The fourteenth issue of took an interest in these activi¬ ties and pronounced that it 24 hours a day throughout the has to pay the garage for the Statistics supplied by Money Management and Unitholder, 30 Fins - National Savings Certificates year and help can be sent to a work. Square, London EC2. - ~ : provide a return over four years Michael Bayliss considered the dubs were I U* O -V 19 IJriLb 1IME5 &A1UKDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 u° * j ^'ED BY MARGARET STONE I FINANCIAL NEWS tor's week on property sales alone Stock markets Better performance from gilts keeps Burton Group in profit There was fresh demand for e Polj/MC strategy ® The first week of the trading of tbe international leaders shares in Furness Withy The expected slide in profits Interest charges have jumped account ended with a useful moved higher yesterday. IC1 dosing down the Boulogne (136p). The shipping group has at J»ur*On Group In the year to from £2.5m to £4.5xn, reflecting factory. technical rally, which reflected (118p), Glaxo Bldgs (168p), end August takes the form of a both higher Interest rates and the more confident: cone of the Un3 ever <164p) and Bats always been regarded as high Id store on any Arab shopping list. i m Uie Pre-tax total from increased borrowings, while the Commenting on the prospects pound, and the unchanged (152p) edged forward. There £3.3m to £3.4m. Fully diluted costs of dosing down or reorg- for the current year, the group Bank of England minimum was a rally in Distillers, with Other shipping issues had a earmngs per share are down anizing unprofitable ventures states that sales in the opening lending rate. Satisfaction with the shares finally 2p up at S5p quiet session, however. r discounters fr°m lL6p to 7.4p but the final has run out at over £2.2m. Of 14 weeks are 11 per cent ahead the victory of the moderate as the selling which greeted the Trading statements lowered .dividend has been maintained that £2.2m about £lm was ab- of the same period last year and leaders of the miners’ union results faded away. Peglar Hattersley (42p), and that profitability has been Jevons Cooper (Hip). Central arket investors received a sharp reminder last week of ?c net level to give a rise sorbed in the rationalization of was tempered by the disclosure Speculative interest ' was rnational economic factors which lie behind the City's la ™e year gross equivalent the Peter Robinson chain of improving. chat retail prices had risen by shown in the building and con¬ Manufacturing (21 Ip) were a firm feature. ess. The mere suggestion that some oil groups were -p 10 6-58p a snare. shops—where there were eight The low tax charge for the 18 per cent in November. tracting shares, where the A fresh rise in oil prices by ■liged to make oil payments entirely in dollars rather 3t not been for a £3J9m closures and a number of con¬ latest year—£763,000 on the pre¬ The FT index rose by 22. to market was looking for substan¬ 152.2, to reduce the fall on the the major exporters left oil iter ling, was enough to drive down the pound, and send Eroflt on the sale of properties, versions into Top Shops—and tax profit of £3.4m, reflects the tial contracts for work in the and equities tumbling in its wake. Burton would have finished the the bulk of the remainder by fact" that the group has been week to 9.3 points, or about 6 Arab world. Favoured were shares little changed. There was some support for gold indices lost about 6 per cent, the FT index shedding year 111 “je red. For though the. the reorientation of the group's able to offset" its tax liability per cent. Recorded bargains, shares in R- Costain (72pj and [52-2—and there was some unloading of shares by Sjoup recorded a trading profit substantia) French business, on its property sale profits by at 5£84, remained low, indicat¬ Taylor Woodrow (79p)-—both shares, but turnover was well ing that the buying came mostly below recent levels. al investors, who have always been quick to fear the of E6-2m—we^ down, of course. Here Burton has shifted its estatbllshing a large tax loss on groups are active in the Middle from bear dosers, rather than Equity turnover on December sterling. Expectation of poor United Kingdom trade °? fll-lm made in the pre- emphasis towards the top end of the “ bed and breakfasting East. from institutional investors. 12 £38.4m was (1L958 bar¬ or November did, of course, do nothing to help. * —•*vious year—that— «*--*■ -profit* has been the market,-1— "***---with considerable - part of.. its holding in its quoted Motor trade and heavy mni-Amore than offset by other success so far, and rationalized - subsidiary, Montague Burton Turn over has not been heavy engineering issues gained little gains). Active stocks yesterday, factors. its manufacturing operations by Property Investments. this week, although money benefit from tfae market rally. according to Exchange Tele¬ than a decade British in return for immediate under- totals of £35.2m on Wednesday iBLMC remained unchanged at graph, were 1C I, Cons Gold¬ fangs or its successor, writing of the company’s short¬ and £38.4m on Thursday 7p, while GKN (98p), Tube fields, Lonrho, Unilever, hand Motor Corpora- term borrowings and the showed increasing selling pres¬ Investments (122p), and Bunn ah. National Westminster been one of the great promise of further cash support sure. Vickers (71p) hovered around Bank, Commercial Union, De areholder companies. after that, will'take an equity The appeal of Sears to Galliford The gilt edged market had a their overnight levels. Beers Dfd, Bats and GEC. ho bought Austin or stake in the company. It is ~ much more encouraging session rs. people who worked almost always true that in situa- n formal o-ffer from Sears October 31 taxable profits regular contact and share¬ yesterday. After opening barely like Longbridge or dons like this the extent of for housebuilding and moved up from £882,000 to holders will be kept informed. steady at overnight levels, light eople who believed in support turns out to be greater £roperty group Galliford £936,000 and while the board Late in 1973 Clifford decided buying developed and, with few Latest dividends ish- motor industry than at first suggested Estates shows that Galliford had give no figure they say the sellers in evidence, prices or ^appropriate currencies. not to go ahead with an Prev ares in the company. Guesswork now sueeests that DO reasonable alternative to volume of beer sales is well intended offer for Metal Pro¬ turned upwards from around Company Pay Year's late morning- (and par values) date total year •aue been badly dis- British’ Leyland■ ■ might need as accepting 40p in cash (or a par- ahead of last year and the ducts, which has a 27 per cem — Shon-dated stocks benefited Allied Inv (5p) lot 0.37 035 17/2 1.15 . Apart from a short- much as £200m from the Gov- Dal equity alternative}. It also group’s market snare continues stake in Clifford. 0.6 0.4 6/2 — 1.17 particularly from this move¬ KO Boardman (Sp) lot ry in the share price eminent. I would not be sur- puts a question mark against to grow. The interim dividend Burton Grp (50p) Fin 438 4.2 6.58 63 ment, rising by up to £ point - the 1968 merger of prised to see the final figure most other housebuilding and is being raised from 1.75p to Geo Ewer (lOp) Int 0.5 O.S 8/8 1.5 in some cases. Medium and _ Leyland, the shares much larger than that; in which property company balance L9j6p. Goldrei Foucard (25p) lot 1.0 1.0 31/1 3.0 sheets. Jonas Woodhead long-dated stocks rose by Grate Shipping (£1) lnt 8.94 8.0 28/1 w— 19.29 m from one low to case the Government could wen between l and i point. The Greene King (25p) Int 1.96 1.75 7/2 — 5.93 'hose who took up die want control of the company. accmllu?mtw \fnrh; rnrnrirn belief — subsequently proved Groolvlei Pty (30c) Fin 15.0$ 13.0$ 32.0$ 20.05* accelerates — correct—that the minimum Gulf & Wstn (SI) Qly 25. OS 18.0$ 1/4 104.0$ 2a«“!MS £&"Heri cou,i 6e fxerde Nasty surprise Reporting the preceding year Hardys & Hansons (25p) Fii 4.91 4.0 7/3 7.0 6.0 sales and profits at fresh peaks, lending rate would not rise, Hunslet (Hides) (25p) 2.61 2.5 30/1 2.61 2.5 contributed to the increased from Pegler Jonas Woodhead & Sons, Leeds- Initial Services (25p) lnt 13 1.25 27/1 4.68 based vehicle suspension demand for srocks- Jacksons BE (25p) lnt 3.56 1.56 __ 3.93 appeal to die Govern- any future tiridatd payments. f„S fL^Sl Additionally, the reports that Jevons Cooper ()0p) lnt Nil 2.0 — __ 2.0 Hattersley specialists, appear to have been support, is whether it All.these possibilities. then, sug- suooort if it is uTmntinne in the Saudis would continue to Marie vale Cons (80c) Fin 50.OS 45.0$ — 84.05* 62.0$* somewhat cautious in July on atrng large losses and gest that the rucks entailed in its present . contume. in Dealers on the Stock UA~Ex- ———— u —J —— invest strongly in sterling N Brit Steel (25p) Fin 131 1.05 13/2 1.86 1.08 continuing to hold the shares are directors rorm, out your change were caught by Pegler- prospects for the current year. assets was another favourable N Cbarterland (5p) 7.455 3.5$ 7.455 3.55 Pegler-Hattersley (25p) lnt 335 2.85 30/1 7.43 » that the Government, too- great. eil . „ M do of* believe «bat Hattersley yesterday. They put In the event the half-time out- factor, together with the fact such support will be available . scares gp down to a new come shows acceleration of roll gate (Rl) lm S.5S 8.5$ 2B/2 — 15.0$ chat some over selling had have tightened up “ low ” of 42p, against a 1973-74 growth with pre-tax profits Walmsley (Bury) (£1) Fin 1.49 7.6 31/1 6.71 12.6 occurred in the recent de¬ Jonas Woodhead (25p) Int 2.62 23 28/2 — 72. jJethora of new issues S*?* tnd,“S-T Th« peak of 236p. PrVtax profits in climbing 26 per cent to £L26m (Cents. ‘Excluding capital redemption. accounts spoke of a loan facility j^g ba[f yeaf t0 September 30 [against 21 per cent for the full pressed conditions. id 1972 some of the In the equity market, most - ort-term killings were ot Mm. Last month mere was feu £i.jjn to lust over £3m, year) on turnover 25 per cent the retail discounters, a reduction of a third in the pulling down earnings a share higher (17 per cent) at £152m. jnly is it difficult to amount to be advanced on cer- froin g y„ to The directors expect to beat ne of the stocks, but tain properties being financed pr<*fjtT slipped even before last year's full-time £2.35m. Moderna now Initial services Seagrams holders have in some j1S u ‘lK’ ‘ writing down metal stocks (by The interim payment is up their investments fail GalMord shareholders who £n 2,000 to £356m) as Pegler from 2.5p ro 2.62p. faced with cash likely to slow £13m Scottish cent or more, ^“Sh* at die plaang pnee of ca^ againsi pr?ice coxgds ■ e possible exception • haS bee“ % and the building slump, which _ , . , _ in second half spending drive three for two senp .issue fait its plumbers' brass-ware and Tnfpr)|Y| lo^s(lf counter-bid s little reason for any Higher first half profits and On the heels of the Distillers may feel consoled to get 40p heating accessories. Ul Having agreed some six over the discounters weeks ago to a bid from Bond turnover, but lower margins are Company announcing a cut back x year or so. ca^i now, or take scares Metal stock depreciation cost ViptfiriQ T^QFTlPt1 and some cwh of 34p a share. tfae £510,000, against a V IClOria V^aTpei Worth Holdings, worth about reported from Initial Services, in whisky production. Ameri¬ man.out is Kwik Save can-controlled Seagram Dis¬ 8.67p a share in loan stock ex¬ but the board gives a warning loated in December, S MMdofd^Sottal’1?ck^e Cred!l °L£S20’000uin£ ^ s?£!e Although the United Kingdom change, Moderna (Witney) is tillers unveils a near £13m to shareholders not to expect e equivalent of 54p, bW S?wThSe fen buvSs ?<>Ildls *** Je5 b^ore‘ The company recorded a small pro- now faced with a counter-bid investment programme in Scot¬ is then a prospective in * Duying figures would have been worse fit, the combination of very from Mountain Securities offer¬ the second half to produce a land. if 15.6. Thanks both in me uiatKet. but for a rise in profits from adverse trading conditions in ing some 6}p cash for each similar profit increase. In tbe Mr Edgar Bronfman, presi¬ / ambitious building associated company profits, Australia andthe effect of the Moderna ordinary. Conditions first half to September 30 profit dent of Distillers Corporation- and restricting the revaluation of the Australian include no reference to the increased by 18.4 per cent, from Seagrams, the United States to only 400 lines at UK problems hit McEtot m' dollar have produced a group Monopolies Commission, while £239m to £2.83m, on turnover parent of SD, says the group o 30 per cent below Apart from building, orders loss of £109,000 before tax, at present Mountain does not showing a 26 per cent gain from will be building a new £10m r nearby independent Walmsley (Bury) are still -good, bat the second against a profit of £453,000 at intend to make any offer for £17.3m to £21.8m. But the bottling plant near Glasgow Mr Albert Gubay, former chair¬ ■tax profits exploded Victoria Carpet Holdings. The the preference. figures reveal that margins have The group will extend its man of Kwik Save. _ £650,000 before the and SriaJ1 S e'friabS w SteTgSI w?jw Sir board' feelslhat current Ira ding County Bank is satisfied that slipped from 13.8 per cent to Glenlivet distillery to boost 2.7m in the year to Mountain has sufficient finan¬ 13 per cent. Interest charges production from 500,000 to two Ihiftb^2rSonr^drthele^lm MeSwlS^tiie inSrim d^dend cial resources to implement the were lower at £174,000 against million gallons of malt whisky. £181,000, and after tax of £L6m Coupled with this is a brand the fact that the of Ae ?h^fe“ eek ^ UD fr lot. Cross Gross Grove _ ami* oDir Bed. 1918/74 1972174 Die Yld 1973/7* __ _ Die Yld 1973774 Dnr Ytd 197ST4 Mr tld JTlee Cti'ge Yield Yield UjOi Law Company Price Ch tea posse % PfB DTv Yld 197X74 High Law Company High Low Company Fries CB fan pence s, pfB High lfiw Company Price Ch'ge peace % PE ana Law chou!’ Price Ch’ge pence % P/E High Low Company Price Ctr'gopencd So F* UTJSH FUNDS COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL “Crest SVchoisoo' 17 V. ~43k 3X4 1A 120 SB Kettering Mtr XT 7* Aft 90 40' Shod Cement 50 7* IS* X4 HNANCXAL T3USTS A — B Crodj BU 28 .. 25 65*4.7 149 28 Klmntier Ltd 6.7 25.8* 3-0 135 (8 HI car do Eng 70. 7.4 W.0- 4.3 MINES .. X4 2X0 H5 .. 23.1 9-3 u sea. 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London-Mancbester-Erfiiibureh stocfcirtB«dI«mf with |GUARANTE£D lUas^FEnUiqanL a selection of reoda?- IttaiMemcceana made, or home sc«) ' <&*, ^ ,fj~ Ifbeekuveby wmM Itorgn Plir-t cAtwiw hits in any of 5 differ- at ' uytimmnnninnrci ha uu c/uwow m bUTBmi |«||ULrlKEHu' FKRORALEHffi awww.n« 11“ ■ovana ™ f U9 < SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 Christmas HoSdays A COLLECTOR’S GIFT --— ( N CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY —jgydltg. pottery. textual. BEWITCHED IN TUNISIA That'S the French word for from £62. a last cbance to Sortilege- A sophisticated CRAFT SHOP V. * A. TheTlbnes Christmas Gift Guide ion* Christmas Special 19-26 French fragrance that ha* Dee. Don’t delay aak far de¬ tail* Today t powers to leavo men spoil- s?w“. bound. This warm floral mediate delivery. Came' ud Ocean ways Travel Services bouquet is available as ex- choose pew nolle. trail. perfume. Perfume da 25 Huymarknt, London. SWX C. P. HART & SONS LTD. Toilette, cologne. tele, soap 839 6055 ATOL 0X18 ABTA - .4. 5 and « London Road. BRrnSHCRApTS CENTRE and Hwfrip iiydrantfl. preaentado London. S.E.l friends, rw Tel.: 01-928 6866. SECRET 10-L pjn, Sa»T^ i COMPETITION EBISBSI Ean Noble is a beautUul THE UPSTAIRS SHOP Whof comes round ones □ year, is HERE’S HOW: fragrance for women who lava full of templing gift suggestions, and to be different. I is secret, 77ut Bedroom Boutique FttST sfudy fhe Guide eoreiuN/THEN answer the rare Inured! on is give It rather makes Christmas shopping a joy? a discreet charm. Wear It ovexy CHRISTMAS GIFTS day and awe what It does for Apulia aes. Nano crabiam You don t have to be good at nddfes efl m the advertisement in todays Guide}, you. Avails bio as Eau do and Patchwork Toilette only. Both of Biesa imu stodaoBB to answer that one-buf how good are . ? ^dS*#**" - Fra wanes* by La Gallon are EAT & SLIM you at creating riddles? L wl,,rt,re ? available at most good stzo THIS XMAS!! 22 PIMLICO ROAD. S.W.l chenUats and leading depart¬ 01-730 7502 Test your sldll, and win any one of 2. Whet Is the name of Ihe book shop in Brainier? ment stores. Iliat purchase. Untiled slack. Suffolk 1P15 &axJ (Open Saturdays) Sw.new famous-name aiim- these three super prizes for yourself for 3. hbw can yen be unique this Christmas ? Hf system- Camas written ■Jimtoe. Over Su per cent A Subscription to Christmas! MS price. SNUFF BOXES APOLLO A WHERACK □ Next use your creative skill and compose a riddle .'.lie: LYNPOOL LTD.. intcnumonul magazine of ORTLAND RD.. Wll 4LJ. r-An.9fl,,# Pif*» Sots, jade For Her aSnrrfi^ MUmies makes a Jewellery. Antiquities. Mineral 1 bottle Pol Roger white foil j£ 7al. OX-229 9985/6. cSfriroJia glfJ“iS»-Jur-r°™a Special eats. Neisulin. 3cml-pro- cious stone epos. Carvings and ■Champagne. m,***.* PubUohod monthly J^wUery^Anliouo Mnh Judd 1 boltfe Volnay red Burgundy GIFTS TO TREASURE ... Annual subscription £16 Overseas £18. U.S.A. S4S W. BARRETT A SON LTD.. 1 battle BCtd Sherry. *.. .. — Rings, Lockets. Bangles. "'rile: Apollo. Bracken House, 9 Old Bond Street, W.l. Bracelets. Barrings, Chokers. 10 Cannon St.. Loudon, E.C.A. Tel.; 01-493 1996 1 bottle Croft fine old port. -- - - - Elanni FuHm Watches. Cartier Lighters. AH manner Eat, Drink, & Be Merry I B OGARRACK □ -— of Chains. All perfect gifts In PLYING Mouse OP KANSU. Prom gold or silver from £5-£S.OOO. Superb gifts for one and 127-5 **-*- Chines® exhibition. 30 Corvanna Cigars in —--——■ Originally £25 each- For coin in Also a choice selection of Vic¬ all I presentation box. ----- torian and Antique Jewellery. Vtn Blanc, crisp, clcoant. «un price £12.50 each. Wake- dry. Vtn Rouge. pleasantly 0^32^6^JUfl St" Cro,0l£®- Balanced In classical style. C SMOKH) SALMON MOC □ ****- - - ATKINSON vtn Rose, crisp and fresh. 4a Sloano Street. SW1 88p per boitle or £10 per Vi^KjIe ride of sliced Sratdisrnoked Three Sntranlimwl win every I i*. Guide o puH^ case <7 typo or mixed i. Tnree antranls must win every day Ihe Guide a pubfahed. Oaring Faring Harvey Nichols. Pales—largo selection game, Open 6 days a week ROLLER BUNDS—hand pah Salmon minimum weight/IDS In seaiea dbledale for todo/slodo/s ajmiwliJicn,ams-aiulon. 3 days after todaystoday's dole.dale.PeslthB Pod this pheasant with brandy. Pro van- and decorated to sour t _1 ,, ertryteTHE TIMES CHB3TMAS GIFT GUDcGUIDE COMreiTIION.COWEnnON, cole. roqulrcmonw. Blind A1 Cheeses—our own Blue Stil¬ Sarndrn Lock. Chalk Farm Hr paCiC N°Gli/*-Hi. TWr*a«ClcB^iedDepc«meiitI^Mci^HeW5oSiJ,T^w Tw« ^^WJDttWincnt Now Rioting House Sq, ton In stoneware pots, variety or English and continental, "Frizes supplied by Cv HOSTESS APRON rroe delivery In London The nomss and addrestes oF FLORIANS UrrirOM Lid., B die winners w3 bs pub&ihad in "’*■ A fell length apron for Old. Knights bridge 5 Leo Rd.. Blackheath Village. IBS Cempdon Hill Road, The Tsnes.Thods^mi of ihe the modem hostess In London. 3.E.3. 01-852 0994 ■ London W8 7TH iudges is (inaliAl entries wffl elegant charcoal ging¬ fce judged cortieir Horary ham or sea spray blue DRESSED PHEASANTS gingham trimmed tilth white broderte eeglaise. Over 5.000 fine pheasants will be available through the Waist length £2.75 season. Only top quality birds With bib £3-50 at only £2.25 per lance (to Own mills El.25 Include postage and insurancei. Owe glow 90p Please apply Mr R. D. RBnmer. (p. &. p. Included) FAMILY BUTCHERS nd cheque/P.0./Access No./BorcbU’ 76 Banks Road. Card No. and colour to ; Bust Kirby. Wlrral. Cheshire UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS 051-625 5874/6331 CO 29 Tulketb Sheet, Seuthport PRS TAG ‘Mi PACK FLAT TULA BAGS 45 BEAUCHAMP PLACE. LONDON. 9vra INN TELEPHONE 01-009 0502 Fashion leweHery; lyory. Ebony. Tortoiseshell, Coral. Mother of Pearl. Bh£ chant hair. Jade. Strong, soft Isother bag in blade, yellow or brown. Ideal A Christmas Gift to delight any palate. for travelling or overnight bag. for shopping and duty frea's. Choose from our 9 varieties of mustard, Sizo isin. long x lOJIn. wide x |7}in. deep, but can bo packed flat. Recommended by Sheila the one to suit you. Stack, 14.12.73. Only CB.75 post free from The winners of the Christmas Gift Guide Competition Number 14 are : TIPI COS, , Ist! y°&™LSI Mustard Making, Colmana have opened 'he Mmlard Shoo \n Nnmrtrh. AMrljllthm Vn trariirirvn.t Ew;ii.h IB/21 Chartorhouaa Sg., E.C.1. Mr. D. Lowe, Mr. J. A. Wilson, - Mr. G. Strang. muiuMwu fliyio mosiBras. ana speculliv S' ?'l°n mustards, blended to trn cHtl ona iFrenci Bromley, Cheam, Hinchley Wood, criwtn_Salad and Sxvora. a savoury mustard relish are also are available In attractive Vtctoriarv-sfvle Kent Surrey. ^ Surrey. BOY DIRECT jUB^SAVE BBS's earthenware pots at 75p each. And for those who £"J®y SfVH1 “J?01- peck is available at 55t>° 100% REAL LEATHER FULLY LINED Send cheque, payable jo Reckltt A CoIdmo, with order to: UAU P.yc T■ Tha Musbird Shop. 3 Bridewell Alley, Norwidk NOR OZH Money refunded In 7 dgs If not SSaM^dS IOpT^T *p. P°at troB- For oram 0t ***• V31""- dcltgblwd. AUow 7-21 days for delivery. Send cheque or p.o. now Cedar Leather Prodocta, FbrTheChadren Forhfim Dining Out DC,:!. Tt, Cl run land Works. Cleve¬ land Road, London. W.4. “THE FUN WITH TEL.: 01-995 4368 MUSIC ORCHESTRA Style H434. 9';'XS’/ x_5*. With COLOURING BOOK* S?,£.ui’P®iadi"^a‘4 ,t Pniesd m Matas mnaihaieMi £A 40 inside rip poSket for children of all asas. U In Black. Brown, Tan. *■ thorotmhly recammeuded m il vjUna.Se and emortaln&ia introduction to a possible 11/e- Sjvo of mtunoal wsrirhnwmt ” ■ ri':' Tho Sniae. v-. j( *opM« of aocniatu ttru-SUad ih ’ .FT r ,. *?.; ■ . ■44*. 1 '•/' * K a ssanea^Kv NICE IRMA'S-For oxoUC cushions, bedspreads, wall hana- lugfl. smhroldarlee. from India. Aiahanlatan. N. Africa, Small • gifts from lOp.—46. Ooodge 1% V For Him Street. London. W.l. 580 6921. Dining Out SEND A FRIEND A TREE Ha Christmas. Healthy young trees ^ fe deiivornd world-wide in tune for SHIPS IN BOTTLES. Hand crafted spliafl planting. Details. Inter- A-maatod barque*. CXO each-7- THE ARMENIAN arbor uiL, Castle Hud Ingham. Hampshire, 41 Vincent St.. Eesmc C09 2BR. (0787 ) 60909. Yeovil, Somerset. RESTAURANT LA CAFETIERB hifualon coffee KAPP & PETERSON, tukei Of D» muter makes iri*sh natural coffee for a nth mac middle eastern and the Ideal gift (sea Tuesday's and Caucasian food rimes i. Chrome or gold fbush. RSST*81 >tocWsis phone ox- 20 KansjnBton Church street. DO f UtSoIi ana. umS?^37 404 tidy TOODY loom brush holder/ 061-43A 5480. pasts dUpeiwer: jdnfc. blue. Cl. white El. 20. T. T., Paddock Wood. nr. Too bridge, Kent HOME LIGHTING, for the Quest range tn the South, call Tliu Ugh an 0 centre, 69 London Road. Briuluon 6891 BS and 146/7 01-229 0346 laves). IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS, 12. A present to last: Pine txmiiure of evoro descrinuon from Dcnudlom 3SOB, King's Rd.. Chelsea; 9 cun St.. Reading. Christmas Holidays for Christmas. Jflderfui selec- to £50. NEW WAYS TRAVEL wish all thetr Clients season*) ftJS5u?^r.and a w"BSw Superb hand crafted vlirlno with Ormolu table silver direct embellishments from our workshops. vamn st.. w.l. or Finished in Saad. fTw.l. Phone «ewtmd Veneer The worts and music of Cwb PartBT Illustrated Catalogue ritb Calory Top recorded lireatlAfi Meraraiil Tfffiatrp BOp LRL2 50S4 ^lworECtmlbiSset THE SILVER CLUB TTib or iginal racorting of (T), Z Hstton Garden, ForTheHome RANCAtSES London EC. W South End The Sammy Cahn Song Boor % Showroom Croydon Thlsindnde* ■ Call MalrrESpnOTihiB 437 Ferringdoa Rd, EC1 H-6S8 0147 Fira M/nules Mora • TheTandarTlrap A TIDY BATHROOM LRU 5079 ncii NegreH? and Zambra SAVE MONEY IWTHTKE Since 1850 a tradition of TIDY-TOOW waflgiiBt In service end DISPENSER and cr«tt*n»nwihlp BRUSH HOLDER Our showrooms have a unigno range of barometers, thermo¬ £1 meters. btnaculart. teiasoopos, IneL rep] magnifiers, meteorological hi- strumesnts. compasses and photo- ,3Fw£2JB pxaptde eqtnpmejit from which ■Ml tt Wp EXTRA to choose that unusual sift. Knfc, Blur tVMIc TDp BMre) b|—««tubes fte, DAaumysde UttOmMU Fixes in jeeondi ■nthadhemapak. Send P.CUCfcqu&CMi with nsfflB and mkhva ue TJDY-TDODI T GUARAHTEED Paddock Wood, Nr.Tor*Hdga. Kant. ®TMAS DBUVHir Arpege de Laiiviii, two words to l^e heard murmured "belund e 12 months of Chnstmas a happy woman. ^ An. annual VINTAGE CHFUST- W%i subscriptionbrings masm \-Si-i 12 monthly issues OYALCHACE Eau Arpege in bottle and in atomizer 7Q plus the traditional Perfume Arpege in bottle and handbag atomizer ' Christmas Number For sheer luxury A Veil of Arpege I fortacQ orriffr; trith ynuf name 3Qd address give him Embassy Corona Cigars. you nish The MmeriLondon News to be sent, la Round efihis ChriafrnEsuAh a hj^Sut Soap Arpege Dace Emmltl Street; Loatfcm'WClN 3QJ toQ^SauMirEnjKe^GKDnBdgacRefnm^toenartie— PtreaRtl caBora welcome Enta^Carona.-.CE® luxury evetyonec^ '31 send a jnsaings card wiih your gift. First Published 178S SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 1974 THE TIMES_ FOR SALE AND WANTED FOR SALE AND WANTED SERVICES deaths DEATHS PERSONAL COLUMNS NVeCROPT HOUSE BURROWS,-—On WaLDON^n D^omhcr 1»L CARPETS EX-EXHIBITION uqmb, 1<* Kycwood un*. W jflrr 4 short Ufne.tt. borne UriJli Trl ,1 ha Home. Mount Bofllngjon RESISTA CARPETS LTD (20-S3p per sq. yd.) nor lfiiLt. S3W. Cm>. MacelOfricliJ. CheshtJv. very great cournoo. Aonra also on page 5 Si li; MAHUtal single n-ojnj r Mura ••'■toils-' «. Bum#*!-*, til* Cli4iW>il>. of Cohnowla. H'art*- Condon's leading spectelisis In . _k“1 -‘ ham. eldesl dauillilT al lljo late Large dovihlu .sBJ'fg fc laved and loving vrito of. Konnein main. Wiltons and Cards from Ideal Home/Olympia/Film Burramts and mofhw of Anne Ll.-Col. K. C. U'Pldon. D.S.C.. yrej av.»tlabic .s|??!CnS\ and Mrs Uoldon. Funeral private. HOLIDAYS AND VILLAS HOLIDAYS AND VILLAS Michael. Kunw.il wxvicr ana ANNOUNCEMENTS £1.40 .Vd u.w. Hccoqniv~d Di B-L.p a- ■ Kamils' flowers omy. Djoasc. Half n million pounds wanh priv.iir paiicm schemes. Idea! nnnmltial at Macclesfield Crrm*: £iiOO.OOO of stock. ur new carpets. - bedding umf Cnnvaleacvnep. Uang-lcnb lin'd ITALY “ TOP to TOE furniture In stock. Wide seh'C- iaAtic:us ucccplcd. o .* SKisS 'W^sssMtst. Come Journey to the Past J« hour fining service. lion. Vast shipment of epmow- All .^SuJriv* 10 J. \“ Rrochl.- nf Boukham. Surrey._ with CIT m>rrry natural coco-mailing in huiM* Sbitf. Tri. " prcaibury FRANK BOUGH ADVERTISING with Sovereign and Make It Almost half a ««?«■*"* d'l«* 355 New Kino’s R0,?d. S.W.6- Sock. Immediate delivery, or 4V23-J. _ _ __ rionce dnd tfolUtDoraJori vim OL-731 £M8 cash and ««ry. Flldna wlthta MAKE WRITING your Hobby 12 appeals on BBC 1 IV at 6.WJ Last winter. Earn money o’. '• if* . ' Uj m i oonw^lly-—on th ■ IN MEMORIAM n.m. n n Sunday- that Alitalia, Juiy's trorW days. Expert mail order ser- ■ i«J7*1. Edward Joseph DonneUv- beCHHOFEF ROBERT. CARL December. 1»J74. on behalf Of liavc made CIT Uie acKnow" SS4 Fulham Road. 8.W.6. yico. £stfjnatC9 our name articles in ewpw- i'orTTW Travel 2.000 ytw? back in done** coJfhir.fi ot tnr mgl ■ti-arcst husband of P&V1- *°'l29 CHJt. Urtier and Barrisiw at fMSKIH ST. GIL£S. 1W» noo- judged esper:5 on Jfoj; 01-736 T6S1 Bmf to Athena, birth-place of attxtBory ago" Quality, s-rw book London S>;i undunu guuuflood lauii-iiaiher o[»■ , SJSifS: Law. proudlyProudly and always remotaremem¬- proril making Housing Asspcl- days. There Isn't mo smalkat your icl^phonwt uwy wi. nmhnnv .mil lreas.1. Jfld q fa TIC- n»r min and h.innlnPSS. Western civilization. Three corner they *Jon l.kijaw .intlma- 182 Upper Richmond ftd. West oi .Jonranll-iro ‘S Anthony and Tressa. and qrano- bering our lovo and nappinres. o CHELSEA. — l-U» from £4") P-W.-> IJ. H. Ltd. Ui-vj RIVA ESTATES 0 turn, fl.iuthoaa- y.is (tloloiii.tta.'V oli"i ‘.'55. L200 K i TERRIER & DAVIH] n don's Irasi ponnjl [Ha qul vou a ft v; housv in 24 byl "" UrijUCba.lip Hlaifl (coatinusd ^1} The LOWEST RELI DISCOUNT SCHEDULED A1RF 3»d;theAB&FLIGHlSdMfett HE’S LUCKY \;;AtR TRAVEL OPERATOR'S UC (we found him) [fri> m "l cm dpru - M arte hies.t e r are just-sftme □/ thC otifcftsmJj): ACROSS 6 German city judge (5). Dave 16 - from a broken ol Europe's lujemost travel ra ex j 7 Are they of Long)ear’s bear¬ home. Then - in London - 1 “ Teeth not your owd ! ” ing ? (8). ■ —and in such a coice ? (81. S Profitable old serges ? Con¬ no job, no prospects, 'Return FARES to lisfiestinatfo 5 a girt of the Terriers sent tradicts this (S). no friends. Now in the care of from bads to POW cawp (6). U Violently foraging in a Shaftesbury Homes he has 9 Flora siring neat perform¬ strolling way ? (12)- a home, regular meals and a NEW YORK £71 NAIR ance on ice? (8). 15 Not to pronounce the Car- job-better still a future. 10 It is back to Book the First Ivies at loggerheads here (6. in Italy 16). 3). There are hundreds of other TORONTO £75 JO'BU 12 Mends _ one’s oaths some¬ 16 Crafty- way Ella dips, she's Daves - decent lads who've what (3>. an ace at the game IS). got things wrong. It’s not Accra-1 ; Los Angeles ' £t49 1? The running of apartments 17 Stick to temporary grass for your conscience we’re Athens- '-^£451 - Lusaka >;c: -£225 for our betters ? 14, 5>. a town (S). appealing to its common -AucfclanrHf?H5l -WeJI)ouf:Re;t..'£355 14 “ Rude '* way perhaps that 19 But 24’s lover would have sense - Dave the drifter could Bombay £155 ■ Safobirryrc --E1B5 Py ramus and Thishe was been too soon for Francesca acted {12). here IS). have become tomorrow's Qelh^s.£T5S; :-5eychelI«T;;:' fl&Z 15 The quick step that flutters 20 Again mutely signal tl> the criminal. This advertisement was Cages. ,^D5S‘ ^Singapbt£:.:^T26Q. the heart ? (6-6). strings (6>- Please send a donation to booked on our elective 21 Film operative In the pro¬ 22 John Baird's perjury about help us to help those in series plan (3 consecu¬ oi ;;i:? V/ORtD TXPEQiBON..... perty market 19). a greenback for fake jewelry tro tive days with a 4th day - n* >3 c rs > 10--' asri'4«,': < vJc «i J*■ ^ 23 Rumour of decibels 131. |5l. free). The phone started 24 Kipling’s legionary left ringing at S am and he DINING OUT r For1';rno're^ittii.•s.'-rin; fmvrus!Vm.'*ioW'3§; Rome for her sake 16). Solution of Puzzle So 13,S6~ received 13 replies be¬ POWER PROBLEMS ’.5^:545^^24 '.f»M 25 Soviet fighter meets artillery fore he cancelled later GBmtOSS FOR IKBifSTRV m East-some headache I 30093532103! that morning. >V7XASJ.Ua'l=e4>'v^r?;4;..;j £pr The Shaftesbury Homes and Qf.t SETS BRAND NEW- ISV If you have any property 5P0BT AND RECREATION comnlcii' with manufacturers' :Wq.crrVii'tBr a ndfce^nrpiSs ? fptrfit tf&Scty 26 Palatial French scat of Fcn- ‘Arethusa’, (Oept tu ) qo.traaicr- to let or sell. ■rjiiu'i -slijj'iTs.FiS?T]'i?hWr land bishop (6). EX STOCK FOR 27 Lav complement of a whirly- 229a Shaftesbury Avenue, IMMEDIATE DELIVERY bir’d ? (3-5). London WC2H SEP Ring 3 KVA-600 KVA m NAM6_.... 01-837 3311 h cafe ad to where sgf?.g5iaaaH3 COMMERCE IKTERUTI0KA1 1HC. ADDRESS....- and let The Times help PRINCES house. :rs-by see it (61. mn:i n ai'-J ,Kil#«>li»'»* is moo-emvs (6). you. BAGSHOT. SURREY l.lr.iimd .11 N'-W Frt' rwisrt ?C7L3-M rcl. 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