T HE community concedes workers the right to strike when their patience is exhausted; has the community an equivalent right to break a strike for the same reason? Of course it...

T HIS has been a week of journeys—journeys between Transport House and Hampstead for Mr. Baty and other members of the executive of the Associated Society of Locomotive...

K HRUSHCHEV, Bulganin and the other members of the high-powered Russian mission to Belgrade have been and seen and have not conquered. The agreement which they have reached with...

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By an American Correspondent T HE nominating conventions of the parties will not meet for more than a year to select the candidates for the Presidential campaign of 1956. But...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE I T is very unfair on any Prime Minister who has just come to office to be confronted with the sort of problem which the railway strike poses for Sir Anthony...

BY BRIAN INGLIS A HUNDRED years ago this week an Act of Parliament removed the last government-held barrier against the freedom of the press: the stamp duty. It was argued at...

'I THINK perhaps the younger generation is forgetful of tile past.'—Mr. Attlee on Television. 'INSTEAD. of blaming the younger people because they do not remember the bad days...

I T had already been announced in the press that an attempt was going to be made by the Liverpool strikers to get the men to come out in sympathy, but the Cunard authorities...

EVERYONE, I think, whatever his political persuasion, is going to regret the announcement that Lord Samuel is ceasing to lead the Liberals in the House of Lords. Lord Samuel is...

me a curious story regarding an Army exercise in which he took part. The Army still holds 'initiative tests' which Closely resemble the tredsure hunts we all took part in at...

has been a Member of Parliament for only three days and tip him as a future Minister. But I am prepared to take that risk with Mr. Geoffrey Rippon, who held Norwich South with a...

I see that a writer in Tribune seems to agree with him. He points out that while there has been an increased interest in religion there has been a decline of interest in...

redoubt- able Philidor has necessitated some alteration in the order of the Spectator; 'Country Life' will be found alongside it on

geneticist from London University, said, 'The effects of what we are doing today will not become apparent for some hundred years, and it will be about five thousand years before...

(if there are any takers at £135 per round trip) might ask concerns the health of the former Ambassador, M. Maisky. He appears to have gone into retirement since he left this...

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS T HE new MP has to decide a first question—a question which he can only decide for himself. There are at any given moment perhaps six Members of Parliament...

By T. E. UTLEY W HAT has come to be known, with some exaggera- tion, as the anti-democratic school of thought in the West ought by now to be passing from the stage of...

BY PHILIP WOODRUFF , T HE Dow Report on the use and development of land in East Africa is likely to appear shortly. It is hard to find any informed person who does not believe...

BY ROBERT SMITH (Balliol College, Oxford) NIVERSITY?' says the personnel manager. 'Oxford,' you reply. His manner brightens. A pencil is poised in his hand. 'And what did you...

BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME I DON'T want to be a bore, but this question of foreign correspondents speaking foreign languages intrigues me. You may remember that, a month or two...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN HE protest meeting in the Town Hall building at Oxford last week was packed to overflowing with hundreds of people - who wanted to save the Oxford Canal from...

Thespianitis A MATEUR theatricals are not what they were. They are, I think, no longer so called. They have ceased to be a distraction and become a sort of movement or cause....

SIR,—In his scholarly and highly interesting article, Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas describes the Roman Index as 'a pious anachronism.' Here in England, in partibus infidelittm,...

SIR,—Reading Taming of the North, by Hudson Fysh, a story of pioneering in Queens- land by immigrants from the old country and more especially a story of Alexander Kennedy, the...

SIR,—Nicholas Davenport considers that the Public Accounts Committee is a poor substi- tute for shareholders' control, and that Mini- ster-appointed public boards for...

which some of the members of the new House of Commons were educated shows that 92 of them were at Oxford com- pared to 62 at Cambridge, 9 at Glasgow, 7 at Edinburgh and 5 at...

Racial Prejudice Helen Brander The Roman Index Harold Binns Public Accounts Committee Col. H. R. Pe Th Footplate Folly J. P. Bardsley Educating MPs Algernon B. Dale Australian...

SIR.—Thank you very much for the book token received today. The other prize-winners this week are, by a remarkable coincidence, my sister and brother-in-law, and my father has...

SIR,—To condone, as your leading article in this week's Spectator appears to, the unions' 'constant complaints about being put under the management of retired generals' appears...

SIR,—Did Strix really 'christen' the fox cubs in the car coming home? He gave them names, yes, but was the Christian Church really involved? Am I being stuffy in thinking that...

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another. Moore has developed the interplay between mass and its negative, space, until neither can exist without the other; Giacometti has shrunk mass to a minimal point where...

THEATRE TIGER AT TFIE GATES. By Jean Giraudoux. (Apollo.) Tim attitude taken by a writer to a classical myth will, I suppose, depend on the literary culture in which he lives....

IT is not long since TV presented a docu- mentary on a great adventure in Borstal treat- ment—all very Anglican and Gordonstoun-ish, character-building through piety and...

DADDY LONG LEGS. (Carlton.) —BATTLE CRY. (Warner.) LIKE La Dame Aux Camelias, Daddy Long Legs is a story which each succeeding genera- tion takes out of pound, rehashes,...

THE Covent Garden revival of Les Sylphides brings Fokine's 1908 classic back into circula- tion at an appropriate moment; the peculiar discipline that it requires, and which is...

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height • And unheard what must there be loud) Which divides and unites the two Manifestations of our life and language. ROBERT CONQUEST

Sulker in corners; childhood rebegun By thinking of some chestnut gelding's name : Yet here's a snapshot, yellowing in its frame, To say my father's dead, his polo done._ It is...

has been working itself up for some time—stimulated recently by Pro- fessor Dent's witty chapter on the operas in Professor Abraham's symposium and by the touching references to...

said, shortly take up, with a view to its final adjustment, the question of copyright of books published in Germany. At present, an author has no right whatever, as a book...

One Man, One Poem BY JOHN WAIN As it happens, Gray did, as nearly as possible, do nothing else.. Mr. Ketton-Cremer's excellent book* tells the story bf his life in more detail...

IT is often difficult nowadays to separate literature from the cinema. Are the impressions we ieceive as we read already com- posed for us by the more immediate vision we have...

DIE \ ALONE. By David Howarth. (Collins, 15s.) WHERE BLEED THE. MANY. By George Dunning. (Elek, I 6s.) WHAT happens in peace-time to the ingenuity and fortitude, the...

HITLER WAS MY FRIEND. By Heinrich Hoffmann. (Burke, 16s.) NOTHING is more characteristic of Hitler than the contrast between the sinister figure of the Fuehrer and the...

THE STAENUOUS AGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (1900-1910). By Grafit C. Knight. (0.U.P., 36s.) IN 1900 there appeared a book called The Strenuous Life. Its author was Theodore...

PRAY FOR A BRAVE HEART. By Helen MacInnes. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE artist in fiction is 'something like the Mediterranean light in painting.; unless skilfully handled, rather...

BY PHILIDOR No. 1. C. MANSFIELD BLACK. 5 men. WHITE 10 play and mate in two moves; solution next week. This superb prob - lem by our finest two - move com- poser will be well...

S. Ashton. (Methuen, 18s.) • THERE can surely be no better guide to the economic life of the eighteenth century than Professor Ashton. Economic historians have the hazardous...

SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Boris Ford. (Pelican, 5s.) THIS is the second volume of what I shall insist on calling the 'Penguin History of English Literature,' and, as with the first...

BY IAN NIALL THERE is a time when it is legal to burn the heath—it varies in different parts of the country, or used to, I think—and there is a time when it must not be...

crop of peas and beans is the use of mulch. Not only does this provide food for the plants, but it helps to retain the surface moisture. Where there is a supply of lawn...

and the enemies of fishery keepers, and the bailiff remarked that among the greatest menaces to fish stocks, apart from eels, were cormorants. A drive on the long-necked birds...

pair I had observed in the morning flying round a high rock. The place where I was spending the day was a lake lying beside a path frequented by mountain walkers and climbers....

Winston Churchill with the intention of rounding ofi a versatile career by writing ballads in the Macaulay vein. Competitors Were asked to take any incident in Sir Winston's...

ACROSS Apollyon in the van—very spicy! (8). 5 'I do — here on the General,' said Cassio (6). 9 0, Romance? In real earnest (3, 5). 10 Head girl full of wisdom (6), 1 2...

following definitions—profit : What remains when the tax collectors have taken everything': 'Taxpayer : (see "Accused")'; 'Shopkeeper : A pest which should be exterminated.' For...

By CUSTOS THE three-week election account ended on Tuesday in a blaze of bullishness with the index of industrial ordinary shares about 10 per cent, higher than,it was at the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT No one in his senses could have predicted that the industrial share markets would stage a boom in the middle of a major strike. Yet there is nothing mad...