It is significant that M. Gromyko, who was presiding by rotation at the Conference of Foreign Ministers' Deputies in Paris on Wednesday, should have adjourned the meeting after...

T H(' examination of General MacArthur before the Senate 4rmed Services and Foreign Relations Corn- ,...- . mittees has done precisely nothing to commend . his case for an...

The Government of Dr. Mossadaq is beginning to discover some of the difficulties which lie in its path of nationalising the oil industry. It is anxious to proceed with the...

• The Security Council has called on Syria and Israel to bring to an end the fighting which has been going on in the demili- tarised zone on the borders of the two countries. As...

When the Prime Minister said at the week-end that the pro- posed charges for teeth and spectacles under the health scheme raised no question of principle he was speaking the...

That the limited success secured by the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, led by the former associate of Hitler, Otto Remer, in the Lower Saxony elections this week should have...

It has already been sufficiently firmly established that the Council of Europe should not try to run before it can walk. If it had not been, then the quiet way in which the...

In Tuesday's debate on the second reading of the Finance Bill the Chancellor of the Exchequer baldly described Clause 32 of that Bill as a measure directed towards stopping the...

Congregational Union at its meetings in London this week publicity has been given in particular to the demand by the Secretary of the Union, Dr. Leslie Cooke, for what he called...

p ARLIAMENT has approached the Whitsuntide recess' floodlit without and riven by discord within. To be exact. one is thinking of the House of Commons, for the House of Lords...

HE Korean War is being prosecuted at Washington and Westminster, and in a less degree at Lake Success, as well as around the 38th Parallel. Around the Parallel, Indeed, there is...

died in 1688 (which would have been surprising, since it was a good many years before he was born) has not gone entirely unnoticed. How this singular statement emanated from my...

down-hearted?" seems to have dropped, temporarily at least, out of the English- man's vocabulary. But it has not necessarily become irrelevant. An observant and experienced...

has postponed—if not cancelled—his visit to the United States. The reason he has given, the precarious condition of the Government here and the possibility of its fall, is...

mood on Wednesday. After he had answered a number of interroga- tions on Festival of Britain food prices, Mr. Eden's question whether some other Minister than the Foreign...

it want a part of Dartmoor. The response is certain. Yes, of course, a training-ground is essen-' tial ; no one would question that ; but with the whole of the United Kingdom...

that the Bible exists for entertainment)? There may be a stronger candidate than the seventh chapter of Proverbs, but if so I shall

Lords last week on the Fraudulent Mediums Bill was reported in the Press as adequately as present conditions permit, which does not mean adequately in any normal - sense. The...

By ROBERT WA1THMAN Washington HE Defence is now putting its case ; and any estimate of the chances of conviction or acquittal can be no ntore than a guess. What is beyond much...

li) DEREK HUDSON I S it not surprising, in this year of exhibitions, that so little attention seems to have been paid to what Mr. Stephen Potter might term Visitorship? I mean...

By ERNST FRIEDLAENDER Hamburg A PIM.. 1951, will stand out as an epoch-making month in the history of post-war German legislation. The highly controversial'...

By PETER KING T EN years ago, on May 15th. 1941, the first successful flight of a jet-propelled aircraft was made from Cranwell Aerodrome. The aircraft was known as the E28/39...

'By ANGELA LEGG I T is a little over a year since Siam recognised the Bao Dai regime in Vietnam and set her face towards the West. It was a bold moVe for a small Asian Power,...

Englishman in Exile By J. B. BROADBENT (University of Edinburgh) T HE exiled Scot is a bit of a bore, but we hear less of the exiled Englishman. Nowhere can be home to the Scot...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T has been remarked that the opinion of a person visiting a place for the first time is often of more value than that of the oldest inhabitant. The latter...

THEATRE "Three Sisters." By Anton Chekhov. (Aldwych.) WHAT at first seemed "so casual, inconclusive, and occupied with trifles" reveals itself in the light of understanding as...

Markova and Dolin Festival Ballet Company. (Stoll Theatre.) MARKOVA and Dolin have returned to the Stoll Theatre with their Festival Ballet for a season planned to last a couple...

THE amount of suspense in The Scarf is not great because there is really never any doubt that the unfortunate hero (Mr. John Ireland) has not committed the crime for which he...

AT last we have a new concert-hall. I have hitherto attended only one concert there, and this suggested that there were perhaps grounds for some of the many criticisms launched...

UNRUFFLED by all the magnetic disturbances of Festival year, sheets bellied out by the trade winds, the Royal Academy sails happily' into its 183rd summer exhibition along...

THE CANTERBURY COLONISTS OF 1851 THE founders of the Canterbury Settlement proceed steadily with their work. Their first body of colonists sailed in September last, and news of...

for a (non.: scurrilous) analysis of the mental processes which led Janus to state mendaciously last week that Charles Wesley died in 1688. Limit 200 words. Entries must be...

It was unfortunate for the newsprint-starved British Press that the news of General MacArthur's dismissal and the discovery of the Stone of Scone coincided with the reporting of...

SIR, —May I say how much I appreciate the sections of the Spectator which deal with "Reviews of the Week" and "Contemporary Arts"? It is no small compensation for having almost...

SIR,--it is indeed true, as Mr. Gold says, that " if this [the decline in the murder-rate] were arrested through a change in the punishment factor (the other factors being...

The New Feminism SIR.-I unfortunately missed Honor Croome's review of The Art of Being a Woman, but there are some points in Mrs. Henrey's letter which require further comment....

definitions of femininity and feminine functions and interests ? Fashion and make-up, cookery, sewing, knitting, romance and counting linen ? Is she as ruthless with men ? I...

Those who lament that we are far more dependent upon others for our amusements than our ancestors were might find a little consolation from the study of village-life in some of...

There is one pleasing result of spring's late start. Some flowers are now appearing at their normal time, but others, due several weeks ago. are just at their best, and so there...

UNTIL mid-May is well past the crop Is never safe. From ti. point of view therefore, unsettled weather is an advantage. So we are glad to welcome "Folkestone ladies" from our...

changes from Moment to moment. At one time the air is. full of house-martins ; then later on none are to be seen. On the ground at one time the garden seems to be full of...

SIR,—Comment on Janus—in his final paragraph in the Spectator of May 4th—is certainly not impossible ; but for my part it is comment of regret and surprise that he should so...

The other evening a friend and I ascended the steep western slope of our valley. A strange new world opens out at the top on a well- wooded uninhabited plateau, four hundred...

was much interested in Dr. Glyn- Daniel's article, Prices in France. Having just returned from a Mciforing holiday in France, I And myself in complete agreement with hint: '...

PIERRE CLOSTERMANN was a single-seater fighter pilot ; but the day of the single-seater fighter seems to be drawing to a close. The supremacy of the light, fast and handy...

A Life-Size Shakespeare Shakespeare of London. By Marchette Chute. k'Necker and War- burg. ifs.) $hakespeare Survey 4. Edited by Allardyce Nicoll. (Cambridge University Press....

THESE two books have each a contribution to make, though greatly differing in degree, to our study of the Russian problem. Neither is affected by the "visa-consciousness" which...

A GROUP of collaborators, formerly of the Haldane Society and now of the Society of Labour Lawyers, here range over the whole field of English law and offer a blue-print of the...

The Schoolmaster. By Aubrey de Selincourt. (John Lehmann. Si. 6d.) THERE are many books, often more useful than pleasurable, about the methodology of teaching. About teaching as...

William Godwin: A Study in Liberalism. Li) Da% id I ( Urn and Urnyin. us. 6d.) PEOPLE commonly think of William Godwin as a Romantic political philosopher, especially if they...

unclurit- ableness pursue the really successful, the really popular writer. Yet there is, heaven knows, nothing censurable in success and nothing inherently inartistic in the,...

THE best criticism is not written by pitsOns who dislike their subject, and Mr. Blake was not perhaps the ideal choice for a work on Barrie and the Kailyarders, both of whom he...

rhe History of Capital Punishment. By Tins long book falls into two parts some- . what carelessly mixed. One is a full and able survey of capital punishment as now inflicted in...

he wrote between the Autumn of 1947 and the summer of 1950. Most of them are concerned with the economic landmarks of that period—Bud- gets, Economic Surveys, white papers and...

By CUSTOS APART from occasional pauses for a breather, the market has continued to move into new high ground. Since Budget Day the average rise in industrial equities has been...

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