The more conservative of the settlers in Kenya are finding it hard to adapt their ways of thought to circumstances which for them are changing with bewildering speed. The uproar...

next cry of despair. The second is that its unprepossessing au „,thor stands firmly on legality and is not simply to be wished the political scene. The third is that President...

that it would be best for the country to formulate a scheme giving aviation the fullest powers to develop, large advances might be made. Instead Labour, lacking aeronautical...

Radicals, Socialists and at least some Communists is based. It now looks as if Moscow has said " No," and M. Duclos has taken advantage of the decision to liquidate a powerful...

The attempted assassination of the Sultan of Morocco le a mosque at Marrakesh emphasises the mounting unrest in the protectorate. This is the second attempt on the Sultan's life...

. Revolutionary Council these events were impressive. In their comic-opera aspect also they were striking. to say the least. ut this is nothing to be amused about. The cold fact...

At the Inter-American Conference in Caracas Mr. DulV i gave the Guatemalan Foreign Minister a masterly wigging 4 11 only word. for it) on the subject of international Communisrg...

over five years p in thou the National Film Finance Corporation while taking "e 0 millions in Entertainments Duty from it during the same period will never get the industry off...

T IME played a curious trick on the House of Commons this week. Mr. Herbert Morrison had been rummaging in the archives on Monday to find a Conservative witness to the value of...

of T he Manchester City Council has been havi Moor a good deal not o clean fun at the expense of Henry e's bronze e e re, Draped Torso.' In the course of the discussion of a Art...

The Viet Minh is the so-called national liberation movement of Indo-China. It is led by Ho Chi Minh, who was for a short time, at the end of the Japanese war, head of the...

before th ri jg them to London began, long ago, to take some of C e Xeitement out of first nights. Curiosity and suspense were i nevitably lessened when, all over the audience,...

Civil Service Selection Boards consist of a chairman, an observer and a psychologist; for the benefit of the latter each candidate is required, at one stage of i the...

As we hacked home I realised that my first memories of this country road, with its inconsequent twists and its variable diameter, had been acquired from the back of a pony; and...

I ASKED a man who was in a position to know the answer what were the chief differences between the Antipodean tour carried out 27 years ago by the Duke and Duchess of ork and...

to the author. The project—which in a different form operates in all three Scaffdinavian countries—has been thoroughly mulled over, though in an unco-ordinated way, by most of...

When the foregoing anecdote was related to Colonel Bernard Fergusson, he reminded me of Field Marshal Lord Wavell's story of the officer commanding a cavalry regiment who con-...

By JOHN BETJEMAN E VERY night the Harringay arena is packed; every night throngs of converts—mostly young people—crowd up at the end of the service to the bare space below the...

By C. P. SNOW R EADING EADING Mr. Gordon Dean's Report on the Atoms, one cannot suppress a sense of the traps, moral and material, in which we are all existing. Mr. Dean's book...

PICTURE of the Soviet Union's ` monolithic' strength, slab, chinkless, and unassailable, is a favourite theme f of Soviet propaganda. Nothing could be farther from the truth....

113 ' DENIS IRELAND T' the beginning of this century George Bernard Shaw wrote a play about Ireland under the typically patronis- ing, Anglo-Irish title of John Bull's Other...

THE battle of the batons,' as one evening paper described it, presents an unusual facet of the perennial problem of musical free trade versus protectionism. Three foreign...

THEATRE Blood Wedding. By Federico Garcia Lorca. (Arts.)-1 Capture the Castle. By Dodie Smith. (Aldwych.) A MARRIED man carries off the bride at a peasant wedding in the high...

Rio'lobe who has directed this fairy_ tale in , 10 Worldly a manner that no one can fail to Delieve every word of it. For all that it Weaves a spell of enchantment, a magic In...

BY now everyone must have heard of the grey squirrel, the most advertised animal in the country next to the rabbit and one of the greatest nuisances to farmers and foresters...

—a Graham and her Company. (Saville T heatre.) —a Graham and her Company. (Saville T heatre.) g WE gli v ER great the impact of the first of Martha Graham—and when I e last week...

We have two walnut trees in the cottage garden, and although they do not bear a heavy crop they have a fair number of huts on them in the season. For some reason no one ever...

Could I milk ? I was asked by a friend. I had to say that once the accomplishment had been mine, but for many years I had not tried my hand, and I doubted whether I was now much...

a garden is often neglected. This is a good time to top dress with manure and so improve the condition of roses and flowering shrubs. A similar treatment will help the...

from the seaward mountain through the pall, Now fires are lit and the smug curtains drawn, Shock-headed clusters warm the dripping wall. A brazier or the perforated tin DONALD...

pause, sit lazy on your lip, Or dawdle near that fence, lean, watchful, spare— Then into love like heavy hitting fights With lurching limbs they hurtle through the air. These...

who know the swift profusion of night and day : the misty revolving moon and the lucid sun parade the varied backcloth of the sky. Their thinking ranges the wheeling galaxies,...

SIR,—i was very pleased to read that in the opinion of the Chairman of the Advisory Council I was in error, both in thinking that the Council demanded compulsory Welsh and in...

the recommendations of the Central Advisory Committee for Education in Wales, but nevertheless he voices a very real fear of English-speaking Welshmen and Englishmen domiciled...

publishing real works art by the present temporary attitude towards thep d ublication of unclean literature. ;, ° , ner allY they can be trusted to ise d iscretio n in this...

the Edifo r THE PURITY DRIVE At — Definitions of pornography or obscenity apt to obscure whatever issue they are Jr eant to clarify, but you would probably iree that nothing...

of questions which appear to be addressed to me, may I be allowed to answer them ? Contributor is ready to assume that respon- sibility. I do not know " what the retention of...

Sta,—Sir Compton Mackenzie is, as I expected him to be, kind and courteous, but we are still at cross purposes. The difficulty is that each regards himself as the defender of...

SIR,—I must again thank Miss Laura Deane for a chivalrous and very witty letter. I appre- ciate Mr. Kingsley Amis's candour. I am enthusiastic about his first novel, Lucky Jim,...

There are many of us, admirers of all these good ladies, who would be prepared to place the poetical works of L. E. L. and Ella Wheeler Wilcox almost precisely upon a level with...

Poodle Lain Hamilton raises a parenthetical doubt if Morley himself wrote the formula confirming the King's readiness to create new peers or was provided with it. Morley's...

SIR, --Having returned recently from a short but exhaustive tour of Malaya, 1 hope 1 may add a few comments on the Templer-Purcell controversy. Mr. Carnell, in your issue of...

Readers were asked for a letter of protest by any one of the following, addressed to a journal of his day, guilty Of publishing an unfavourable review of one of his works:...

Advertisements for giving up smoking usually recommend some "harmless, soothing and completely reliable substitute, manu- factured only by Ltd." For the usual prize of...

supposing .at God calls its members to the Church's for God's category is the single linnividual.' The implications of his letter are, r a e ed, serious, for while it is true...

S lit : — Two simple facts seem to have been canoed so far from this correspondence. (1) T h e churches mainly want young men for raining ine immediately their education and...

T. DAVID'S day was celebrated in the House of Commons with the glad news that passports are to be retained as a binding medicine for travellers and that thereby another threat...

Taking to the Rocks By ELIZABETH COXHEAD the older generation arises, I believe, from a confusion of thought. To them the British mountain holiday was prepara• tion for the...

he i was making for, but he countered that he was on a fig holiday. Puzzled, I drove on. The roads were suddenly wet. We were catching up a storm. A windcheater and jeans;...

My Sister's Sister By KATHLEEN TILLOTSON Y Sister's Sister,' Dorothy Wordsworth called her, introducing Sara in a letter to Lady Beaumont in 1804; a loving term for a loving...

TREVELYAN, in the Clark lectures given at Cambridge in 1953, .... 811 OWS us something which, though it is evident in the writing of L. M. Forster, for example, and otherS, has...

These essays are for those already conversant with their subject, who wish to go over 'the familiar around with still another trusty guide. Of the essays devoted to Britten two...

The Development of the Papacy. By H. Burn-murdoch. (Faber & Faber. 42s.) Tx's book, of which the title is more apt than a reader of the Preface might guess, is " an attempt to...

Icebound Summer. By Sally Carrighar. (Michael Joseph. 15s.) DEAN INGE once said something to the effect that it's difficult to imagine in what form animals would perceive the...

The Christian Hope. By J. E. Fison. (Longmans. 21s.) AMONG the we difficult clauses in the Christian creed are those concerned with what theologians call eschatology—the...

Crete. By D. M. Davin. (Oxford University Press. 30s.) FOR the New Zealand Division the defence of Crete was the second episode of World War H, undertaken at short notice—indeed...

In Love. By Alfred Hayes. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) THE atmosphere of Mr..Hayes's book is that of an aquarium ; a stuffy Still aquarium seen somehow at the end of an illness, on the...

publication of Charlotte Mew's col- lected poems with a memoir by Alida Monro brings a whiff of Georgian air into an era that has almost forgotten that vague fragrance. Miss...

by Ch. W. Stewart. (Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.) FROM the time of Alexander Pope till after Byron wearied, a steady flow of Oriental tales was kept up in Paris and London. Some...

English Historical Documents, Vol. VIII: 1660-1714. Edited by Andrew Browning. (Eyre & Spottiswoode. 80s.) THE golden opinions won by the first volume to appear in this series...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE welfare and instruction of the small investor are my constant preoccupation. I am therefore keenly interested wheii 'Sir Edward Wilshaw, the Governor...

By CUSTOS A FEATURE of the generally firm markets on the Stock Exchange this week has been the ebullience of oil shares under the lead of ANGLO-IRANIAN and BURMAH OIL. The...

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