Local elections and Federal elections are different things in Germany as elsewhere, and inferences from the one to the other should be drawn with caution. In between the two...

Is I . III • e promised until savings, in which he included savings by ncividuals and firms, as well as by the Government, had been clieved. [he Chancellor has already...

The States of the Arab League claim that they are still technically at war with Israel, and that therefore any material help given to Israel is an unfriendly act to themselves....

French Union forces, reacting strongly to their recent reverses in the Thai territory, have seized the initiative to the north-west of Hanoi. Last Sunday, in a large-scale...

There is undoubtedly some significance in the fact that in the contest for the deputy-leadership of the Labour Party Mr, Bevan, who was expected to get about fifty votes, got...

Though there is evidence of the value of the Colonial Secretary's visit to Kenya in restoring some measure of confi- dence among the Europeans and the mass of Africans in the...

The third report of the Girdwood Committee shows that the ordinary three-bedroom council house completed in October, 1951, cost £1,690 in all—that is 075 more than in 1949....

The report on gipsies and other nomads issued by the County of Kent is reasonable and benevolent in tone—in con- tast to the attitude to gipsies when they first appeared in...

The Lords, who had arranged rather a quiet week for them- selves, made good one of the omissions that Mr. Crookshank noted. They debated agriculture on Tuesday. and such...

A MONTH ago, in the week when the Seventh Assembly of the United Nations opened, it was stated here that the occasion might be critical for the future of the Organisation. Since...

to me a pity. It runs: A little paragraph in the Cambridge undergraduate weekly Varsity seems to me a pity. It runs: Hard Up? Mr. Herbert Morrison asked for and was paid £2 as...

Samuel, in speaking on the Address, quoted General Eisen- hower as saying in a public speech : "One hundred and seventy-five years ago the Foundling Fathers of the American...

A NYONE who watched stands being erected in the Mall in the second week of November in preparation for a Coronation in the first week of June might veil conclude that we were a...

)f Kent on her return from her Far Eastern tour. With her foung son she has discharged a delicate, arduous and at times wen dangerous mission with courage, competence and a...

in another column) from the Countess of Mayo, about whom I asked one or two perplexed questions last week. They are now answered. I was not clear whether the Countess was the...

Lon- • don bus workers are demanding a total ban on standing passen- gers on buses. Ten minutes later I watched five buses, with a full quota of standing passengers, sail past...

had the curiosity to walk through the whole length of a long train and found one book in use. Another, who has had cause to spend some weeks in South coast hotels, and watched...

Every- cue, male or female, should have a cold bath every morning; tat, of course, goes without saying. But it is hot water, I am bld, that removes the dirt, so let us confine...

By D. R. GIME Paris. M ANY English people seem to believe that the French have discovered a secret of earthly happiness. There are two versions of this myth—one, that the...

By JAMES POPE-HENNESSY T HE name of Sir Edward Marsh, whose eightieth birth- day falls within the coming week, is not one to conjure with in the newspapers. It may never "make...

By Sir CARLETON ALLEN, Q.C. T HE crime wave is not a matter of " panic " or "sensation." It is a hard fact which cannot be explained away by faith, hope and charity. I do not...

By PROFESSOR NORMAN BENTWICH A PRINCE has fallen in Israel. Dr. Chaim Weizmann was not only the first President of the Republic of Israel, but more than any other man he was...

By The Rev. E. W. PRICE EVANS (Baptist, Pontypool) (To whom a Second Prize has been awarded.) "1 7 HAT then shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ ? "—St. Matthew, 27,...

will contain articles by Sir Henry Bashford, St. John Ervine, Peter Fleming, Tom Hopkinson, Nicholas Monsarrat, Lord Tweedsmuir, Sir Frederick Whyte; a discussion of some...

The tall chrysanthemums Are drooping now, and now The dark is like a toy Eyes have not tired of yet : And must we now forget The summer's thirsty joy And in late autumn how Eyes...

Now heavy hangs this month of autumn, dropping Out of untrammelled fingers her late sheaves. The gilded mask is fallen to the ground. Come, hooded lapidary, bring your steel...

Ex-Editorial By PETERUNWIN . (Christ Church, Oxford) T HIS week-end I am face to face with the fact that I am a has-been. To edit Oxford Tory for a term brings two months of...

By HAROLD NICOISON I HAVE been reading with respect and bewilderment the correspondence published in The Times newspaper on the subject of Mrs. Dale's diary. My respect is based...

Norma. By Vincenzo Bellini. (Royal Opera House.) BELLINI'S Norma is only revived, at least outside Italy, for a soprano (almost always an Italian by adoption, if not by birth)...

(AlchVych.) VIONICA BARE is an ageing invalid with a nice bit of money tucked may and a hubby called Teddy who is young and attentive. Teddy, earning that Monica is on the...

THEATRE 3ead Secret. By Michael Clayton Hutton. (St. James's.) 'ire dialogue is redolent of clichés and the production of a glossy tonality; yet the play has merits which...

The Thief. (London Pavilion.)—Made in Heaven. (0 Marble Arch.)---The Lion and the Horse. (Warner.) IN order to give the jaded cinema-goer something new, something different,...

at different points of the North- western counties before daybreak on Tuesday morning. The weather had been wet and sultry for some days. On both banks of the Mersey, especially...

Set by Joyce Johnson - The usual prizes are offered for a human tale told by a fairy. Limit 200 words prose or fourteen lines verse. Entries must be addressed to the Spectator,...

Report by D. R. Pet* The usual prizes were offered for a testimonial to a product for curing an addiction to Football Pools, Writing to the Press, Gardening, Literary...

on the problem of the juvenile criminal. Letters of the type written by Mr. A. B. _Morley in the Spectator (November 7th) clearly reveal this need. To suggest physical...

anxiety of sentimentalists to rank the " reformation ' of the thug higher than the necessity to protect the innocent members of the community— almost always the young or the...

Crime and Punishment SIR,—The country is now about equally divided into coshables and uncoshables. The coshables are single women, old men and small shop-keepers who live in...

SIR, — One can appreciate the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood's desire to be tolerant by a "purely personal approach" to his subject, but a woolly tolerance that confuses the purely...

palliation of Mr. Bevan's use of the term "vermin." An offensive or incorrect remark, to be followed up, if circumstances seem to require it, by an apology or a plea that the...

serious as Mr. F. H. Butler's. My mental comment, "Another lick-spittle parson—what a pity spittle does not poison spittle-lickers !" I then looked at the cover of the paper...

an excellent contribution to the Spectator as the one which appears in the last issue of the Spectator by C. L. Jacques. In my opinion he has hit the nail on the head as to what...

SIR,—Your reviewer, Mr. kin Hamilton, states that "Scottish members of Parliament sit in a House which is legally the English House con- tinuing." (My italics.) Will he be so...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Stephen Martin has been misled as to the facts of the division of land in Kenya, which he rightly says should be published in the interests of...

Sta,—On reading Spectator Harvest, I agree with your reviewer; it demonstrates that the essay is not dead. But one thing strikes me Very forcibly. That the restriction of each...

SIR,—Owing to absence abroad I have only today seen your issue of October 31st. In this, under the heading "The Future of Bevanism," you say that it is difficult to see how a...

Sta,—I fully sympathise with Janus's concern that neither notice of my degrees nor of my ordination have appeared in Who's Who. The negligence shown by the Editors of that...

Sta,—Although I signed the letter you kindly printed "Iconoclast," am not an iconoclast where language is concerned, and I beg to protest at being made responsible for the use...

mentioned that I thought they were much more common in our locality than many people realised, and he laughed and said he thoroughly agreed, because he had been robbed of...

swerved to avoid the small round object on the road I saw it was a hedgehog. It was not moving, for it had been slow in getting across, and some earlier traveller had made a...

Duw a Digon was the inscription on the arch of the bell-tower adjoining the granary and leading to the barn. God and enough—an appropriate inscription, I thought. I crossed...

We are half way through the month that is best for fruit-tree plant- ing. Remember that the morello cherry does well on a north wall, that the hollow often holds frost when the...

AT week-ends when we sometimes go to the cottage, which is on the side of a hill covered by fir-trees, we never see a sparrow. Pigeons perch within a few feet of the roof;...

The-Paradox of Baldwin Stanley Baldwin. By G. M. Young. (Rupert Hart-Davis. 21s.) IN a few lines of preface to his life of Stanley Baldwin Mr. G. M. Young states the...

Robert Browning: a Portrait. By Betty Miller. (John Murray. 21s.) MRS. MILLER has written an excellent book which will be for many years the standard life of the poet. Equipped...

The first volume of his autobiography ARROW IN THE BLUE "The best thing he has written. It is a very great Pleasure to read ' ' -CYRIL CONNOLLY, SUNDAY TIMES "Deserves the...

The Holy Bible : Revised Standard Version. (Nelson. 30s.) FIFTEEN years ago decision was taken in the United States and Canada to revise the English Revised Version of the Bible...

No words can completely recapture a past performance; no illustra- tion supply more than a glimpse—and often a disappointing one—of what was once a piece of living theatre....

book, The English Middle Classes, with which Mr. Lewis and Mr. Maude made their joint bow to the public three years ago, contained a single pregnant chapter on the professions :...

ON the principle that one should set a thief to catch a thief, there might perhaps be more promising candidates for the portrayal of Napoleon Buonaparte than Sir Alan Herbert. A...

THE SPECTATOR readdrs are urged to place a firm order with their news- agent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as...

prize in a County com- petition for the best village history. The leader in the project later added to the material, and a Marnhull book was published in 1940. To celebrate the...

already as well-recorded as they are documented. It is odd therefore to find that the history of Berkeley Square and its adjoining streets has been neglected. Mr. Johnson has...

CHAPLIN 'S visit to England has dis- lodged an avalanche of books concerning his life and art. Unquestionably Mr. Payne's is the best of the bunch, a worthy tribute to a genius....

Sergei M. Eisenstein. By Marie Seton. (Bodley Head. 35s.) AFTER the Russian Revolution, Eisenstein started to make films and edit them with the idea that the joined lengths of...

In The Mink. By Anne Scott-James. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) I Jus - r don't know how much In The Mink would appeal to people who have never had anything to do with the...

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By CUSTOS APART from a fresh slide in goldmining shares, which are still under the influence of desultory selling and a virtual cessation of buying, markets are beginning to...