T HE Soviet initiative in world affairs, which has been for some time now the most striking feature of the international scene, is shortly to reach its climax in the visit of...

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will be more decisive for the future of Britain than the one which Mr. Macmillan will introduce next Tuesday. Nothing less than our position as a world power depends on it, for...

T Itn Algerian situation is going from bad to worse. The demand by the Governor-General, M. Lacoste, for 100,000 more troops shows the deterioration which has taken place since...

Irish supplement, with articles by C. S. ANDREWS, ERSKINE B. CHILDERS, J. P. DIGBY, GEORGE HETkiERINGTON, THOMAS HOGAN, VALENTIN IREMONGER, SEAMUS KELLY, BENEDICT KIELY, PATRICK...

By a Correspondent Bonn I N almost any other week, the indiscretions of M. Mollet and General Gruenther would have thrown West Germany into a frenzy of political activity. As it...

nFFENDED, presumably, by Mr. Dulles's announcement V last week that he could see no immediate emergency in the Middle East, the Egyptians have been quick to provide one, with a...

MISS KELLY . . . drank cocktails while acting charades. . . . Daily Mail, April 10. Daily Sketch, April 10. Daily Mirror, April 10. GRACE DRANK beer and sat on the fl oor. . ....

By HENRY FAIRLIE griOMMON Ground and. Emerging Conflicts between the British Parties.' Such is the promising title of an article in the current issue of the Political Quarterly...

IN THESE DAYS we are being visited by many accomplices in Stalin's crimes who have fallen over themselves to confess that their failure to resist him was due to cowardice. It...

blurbs be described as the daughter of Mrs. Gerald Legge's grandmother, is by no means the kind of lady to hide her twinkle under a bushel. She has already advertised a book of...

Course in Leadership Training and Effective Speaking, which has thrown open its doors in London. The course is based on the late Dale Carnegie's best-selling book. How to Win...

confusing. An honorary committee was set up to sponsor an exhibition of works by the late Nicolas de Stael at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and on this committee sat, among...

Russian revolution by a document published in the April number of International Affairs by Dr. George Katkov, lec- turer in Russian studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford. This...

BY HARRY DOUGLASS• W E live today in an age of Governmental appeals: appeals for productivity, appeals for restraint, appeals to have regard for the evils of inflation, appeals...

By S. E. FINER* E have been told so recently, so often, so authoritatively that the Cabinet is an autocracy, the two great parties 'monolithic,' and the independent expression...

BY D. W. BROGAN I N discussing what is the most dramatic, if not most important section of his Memoirs,* the removal of General MacArthur, Mr. Truman recalls a story of Lincoln...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN H IDDEN away in one of the dullest parts of The Times I saw the news that the Record Office Museum was to be closed until further notice. This museum of letters...

0 NE night in April, 1941, Slavomir Rawicz, a Polish cavalry officer aged twenty-five, escaped from a Russian prison camp in north-eastern Siberia. Six other men were with him....

the Prime Minister which culmi- nated in last week's first leader. For some time now not a week has gone past without it carry- ing every possible criticism and innuendo. This...

more than one Prime Minis- ter have been animated by personal feelings or by spite because of favours which did not come. Can we be assured that attacks on Sir Anthony Eden in...

Distortion with a Difference J. E. M. Arden The Lost Leader Lord Birkenhead, Martin Lindsay, MP, IV. S. Howard An Arrestml Bureaucracy J. M. L. North Judas's Service Rt. Rev. H....

SIR,—The Rev. J. K. Nettlefold is too caustic in his comments on Mr. Hollis's most interest- ing article. One is not necessarily a funda- mentalist if one takes the Fourth...

Sta,—May I refer to the unsigned article in your issue of April 6 called 'The Lost Leader'? I am, of course, familiar with the convention that leading political articles are...

MP, for having summed up so concisely the reasons for the continued monopoly of the State- managed pubs in Carlisle. The only reason which the Conservative Administration can...

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S1R,—Your contributor, Robert Hancock, by implication, lays a charge of corruption and favouritism against members of this Associa- tion working for the BBC and in Independent...

Kiss Me Cressida TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. By William Shake- speare. (Old Vic.)—THE POWER AND THE GLORY. By Graham Greene. Adapted by Denis Cannan and Pierre Bost. (Phoenix.) IT...

inquiry (March 23), I am glad to assure him that I am alive—and still writing. Last week I celebrated my sixty-eighth birth- day with a meal of Severn elvers which should...

SIR,—In Mr. Charles Curran's article of last week he refers to a 'recent' book by Professor Arthur Lewis as The Economics of Industrial Development; the title of the work to...

ON the afternoon of Easter Saturday, the long- suffering pigeons in Trafalgar Square were treated to a wealth of speech-making at a Three Nations Rally in protest against the...

(Lyric, Hammersmith.) MELVILLE'S tale of Billy Budd, his impress- ment into the Royal Navy in 1798, and what followed, has been dramatised before, as well as having formed the...

HANS Huss is right to say, in the catalogue to the exhibition at the Arts Council of the painter Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938). that the English dp not sympathise with...

THE HARDER THEY FALL. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—THE VAGABOND KING. (Plaza.) -SAFARI. (Empire.) LOOKING diminutive beside a young giant about the same height and shape as Primo...

WHEN the distinguished SCottish composer Sir John McEwen died in 1948 he made a bequest to Glasgow University for the encouragement of Scottish chamber music. At the suggestion...

APRIL 16, 1831 JUVENILE CONVICTS. —A vessel has been fitted up at Chatham, for the reception of fou r hundred boys not exceeding fifteen years of age, who, under the old...

thing to die with all men misunderstanding- misapprehending—and to be silent for ever,' Sir Roger Casement wrote, while he lay under sentence of death for treason. He had known...

BY LORD HAILSHAM RIT1CS have not been slow to point out a certain ambivalence in the Christian attitude to temporal things. The Christian, 'Z,' as Canon Vidler* somewhat oddlY...

THE AGE OF MACKENZIE KING. By H. S. Ferns and B. 001' (Heinemann, 25s.) MR. BRUCE HUTCFIISON writes with pace and assurance, risking broad sweeps of time and territory. His is...

A LEGACY. By Sybille Bedford. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 15s.) All, all of a piece throughout. Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all...

A HISTORY OF BRITISH MOUNTAINEERING. By R. L. G. Irving. (Batsford, 25s.) EVEREST: FROM THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO THE FINAL VICTORY. By Micheline Morin. (Harrap, 12s. 6d.) ABODE or...

IN 1917 Lenin replaced Marx's thesis that industrialisation and a proletarian population can create a Socialist State, by its opposite —the theory that a State controlled by...

REFLECTIONS ON tIANGING. By Arthur Koestler. (Gollancz, 12s. 60 IT has become a routine incantation of the defenders of capita' punishment that abolitionists are emotionalists,...

IN 1953 scholars of diverse interests, but chiefly members of University College, London, met to form a Communications Research Centre. The enterprise was to promote the...

THE POCKET GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS. By David McClintock and R. S. R. Fitter. (Collins, 25s.) THE only complaint I have against this book is that it should have been published...

THIS is the first book of Sydney Tremayne's verse that I hal encountered, though he has published two previous volumes, and it is therefore impossible for me to say what stage...

VICTORIAN VINAIGRETTE. By Ursula Bloom. (Hutchinson, 165.) MEMORIES. By Ethel Barrymore. (Hulton Press, 21s.) URSULA BLOOM is a practised confectioner of books, and, fashioning...

NOWHERE during the past half-century can more literary nonse n t , s ! have been deposited than in receptacles marked The Futur e ,., 0 the Novel.' Event has invariably...

THE BLACK PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES. By Shirley Ann Grau. (Heinemann, 12s. 6d.) THE joyous reviews of The Black Prince in America last year encouraged one to expect a...

MAN IN THE BEGINNING. By William Howells. (Bell, 18s. 6d.) W. W. HoWELLS is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and editor of the American Journal of...

Lieut.-Colonel E. Parbury, of Fairfield, Tenby, offers a correction of my information on the blueing of hydrangeas. The treatment, he says, should be done at leaf If is too...

By IAN NIALL THE world of early morning is a private, quiet place and one should walk gently and tread softly, saying little,' for one's footfalls disturb the peace and the...

There are faintly hopeful signs of official the interest in preventing countryside from becoming littered with rubbish by picnic parties and trippers as it was last year and the...

At this time of year the sun warms a bank, a water-hole or a dried-up ditch, and insect life appears where there seemed to be none before. Without this awakening there would be...

BY PHILIDOR No. 45 Specially contributed by BLACK (10 men) Solution to last week's problem by Weenink: Kt–Q 4! waiting. 1 . . • B–B 2; 2 Q X Kt. 1 . . B else; 2 Kt–Kt 6. 1 ....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHEN the United Kingdom runs into a deficit on its international account, when dollar-earning colonies like Malaya leap towards independence, when...

By CU STOS IN spite of the Middle East alarms and the approach of the Budget the recovery in industrial shares has made further head- way. This may be explained by bear cover-...

Solution on April 27 Solution to No. 881 on page . 0 The winners of Crossword No. 881 are: Mss. PLAWAIR, New CoP,, , bourne, Isle of Wight, and Miss A. K. LEACH, Stream Cottage...

A prize of E5 was offered for an extract from 'The Not-so-young Visiters,' produced by a modern Daisy Ashfo i rd after hearing grown-ups discussing Messrs. Bulganin and...

Oxford Dictionary defil lei 'Sonnet' as : 'Poem of 14 lines (usu. rhY! 1 '' ing thus; pig bat cat wig jig hat rat l4; lie red sob die' bed rob or lie red die bed P I ; wed.)' A...

ACROSS I There's no real solution to this (10). 6 This isn't the cry of this bird (4). 10 Scale of knots (5). 11 Tasty dish for Scarleit O'Hara (3-2-4). 12 Retaliation begins by...