I T is perhaps natural that the French should have less pro- nounced objections to the American draft treaty with Japan than the British. It is not just that Mr. Dulles's visit...

Among the mass of possibilities surrounding the disappearance of the two Foreign Office officials is the possibility that the incident is of no great importance. Mr. Burgess was...

No country with an active and powerful Communist party— and France is the most obvious analogy—can afford to ignore the lessons which were propounded in the first round of the...

The capture by the 8th Army of an important enemy supply base in the Chorwon area has been the main feature of recent operations in Korea. All along the front—which was visited...

In the last few days British and Persians have been moving slightly nearer to each other—geographically, if not in sentiment. Thus four directors of the Anglo-Iranian Oil...

The new electoral law imposes on next week's general election in France an appearance of tidiness which has not been usual in the past. In order to take advantage of the...

The long letter by Tshekedi Khama to which The Times did well to give considerable space last Friday put the writer's case against the sentence of banishment passed on him ably...

" There will be some further price increases," said Sir Hartley Shawcross last Saturday—and then, stepping straight from firm ground into a quicksand, " Not very great., I...

T HE House of Commons has at last been shaken out of its torpor. Two all-night sittings in a week, each prolonged beyond the time for the next day's sitting to begin and the...

Mr. Ernest Davies, the British member of the Council of Deputies in Paris, indulged in a little unexpected candour when he told the Anglo-American Press Association in that city...

T HE statement made by the Colonial Secretary in the House of Commons on Wednesday on discussions and proposals regarding the three territories of Southern Rhodesia, Northern...

history. certainly of Anglo-American history, for by her marriage with John Rolfe, one of the very earliest British colonists. she —daughter of a Red Indian chief—forged what...

interesting. Courts, no doubt, vary to some extent according to the personality of the magistrate, but there is no very great difference between them. In most, as in the one I...

Forster gave at the Aldeburgh Festival from a novel that was begun and never finished—and is destined not to be finished, because, as Mr. Forster said, "it went wrong." So do...

of Joseph Chamberlain has a certain relevance today. When Chamberlain visited South Africa in 1903, just after the end of the war, he attended a great Indaba of Bechuana chiefs...

exalted is in question than a village match. And a game won without a single run, as distinct from extras, being scored has its points. The game in question was played one day...

the King's doctors is to some extent counterbalanced by .the insis- tence laid on the essential necessity for a prolonged convalescence. Not, of course, that • there is any...

By EDWARD CRANKSHAW L ENIN and Stalin have made it clear that the Communist Party has no moral objection to wars of aggression. Lenin scoffed at the distinction between...

By THE BISHOP OF LONDON D R. THOMAS BRAY was a man of large ideas. He was happily also a singularly tenacious person. He believed in education, and particularly in...

By AN ARCHITECT'S WIFE W E were married in the middle of the blitz. During that noisy 1940 autumn I had lain night after night in a Bloomsbury cellar, praying that a miracle...

R C. P. I IlL6LKALD* I T will seem to most people only just that five years after the end of the war the Allied Powers should at last be ready to accord terms of peace to Japan...

lily HONOR CROOME S OCIOLOGISTS must be a self-denying race. They have carried out field-work in factories and in slums, in shops and in offices, in schools and railway termini...

British Students' Dilemma By B. R. WILSON (University College, Leicester) F OR over two years now the British National Union of Students, with its membership of over 100,000...

THE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I F fiscal conditions permitted. I should in every two months spend one long week-end abroad. The suddenness of such displacement, the actual jog and jerk of...

CINEMA Ace en the Hole." (Plaza.) - My Forbidden Past." (London Pavilion.)--“ Show Boat." (Empire, Sunday.) 'MR. BILLY WILDER, who directed Sunset Boulevard and Lost Weekend,...

Eleventh Antique Dealers' Fair. (Grosvenor House.) FOR those who enjoy peering into the corners of an antique shop, this display, which is on view until June 21st, is almost a...

THIS week has brought performances of two forty-year-old works that belong each to a different side of the " great divide " which was forming in the arts during the opening...

Before leaving the subject of pamphlets and books relating to the natural scene and its influence on our social life; I bust mention a booklet put out by the Earl of Darnley...

Lawrence—the first for many years—is interesting largely in a nega- tive sense. It surely reinforces the orthodox view that Lawrence, painter of princes and all the rank,...

display of the little bulb plant, Sparaqs. 1 set the bulbs in mid-winter, at the same time as I put in a new consignment-of tulips, and I had begun to accept this experiment as...

Meanwhile, I have been out book in hand, wandering in . the local woodlands and along the hedgesides, looking for orchids. My guide is the new book Wild Orchids of Britain, by...

So many reports by natural history clubs and rural societies for the preservation of this and that amenity are appearing this month that the countryman is likely to be...

There is no small indignation throughout the Kentish countryside, because the Home Office proposes to take over a farm-school set in the heart of this intimate and historical...

Report by John Clarke A prize was offered for a description of the closing stages In the trials of one of the following—Mary Queen of Scots ; Charles I Guy Fawkes ; Captain Kidd...

THE American President has returned to Washington. He appears to have been coolly received throughout his progress. Mr. Webster, who was prevented by his son's indisposition...

Set by Richard Usborne A prize of f5, which may be divided. Is offered for a ballade (three eight-line stanzas, rhyming ABABBCBC, and an envoy, rhyming BCBC) with refrain' ". ....

Leisure and Education SM,—Surely Lord Beveridge, in suggesting the segregation of classes as the reason for the low level of culture amongst the majority in England, overrates...

Sta,—Many will have enjoyed reading Making Ends Meet and will congratulate the schoolnsater upon having not only sacrificed some of his comforts for the sake of others but...

attributes the insufficiency of demand for worth-while means of spending leisure in part to segregation in our system of education. There can be no doubt that this is true, but...

Sta,—Perhaps it would be wise in these days for Persians to ponder over the following passage which occurs in the work of one of their foremost writers of modern times, and one...

the faces of many of your readers who are confronted with the real problem of " making ends meet." Ends, of course, can be placed anywhere, and all this amounted to was the...

SIR, —May I point out to Mr. P. John that the error which he ha: detected in my analysis, so far from invalidating my theory, actually' corroborates it ? It is an unwarranted...

SIR.—In the middle of the front page of The Times for Friday, June 8th. there is an advertisement issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service for a Personnel...

SIK-1 have waited a week since the publication of Dr. Somerville Hastings' article on health centres in the hope that an abler pen than mine would reply to it. While there is...

SIR,—The publication of Mrs. Trevelyan) article in your issue of June 8th must have raised feelings of gratitude - in the minds of many,Nat least of your older readers,...

year, still .doing all the household mending. my own washing and tabkwork, See., I read with interest any articles on household economy. Being a mile from the bus route, staff...

T HE SEASONS, it is safe to say, will never be the popular reading, the much-thumbed volume in hall, parlour and public house, that it once was. Yet there is so much in it...

Object All Sublime Arms of the Law. By Margery Fry. (Gollancz. us. 6d.) The main plea of this book, which is as sane as it is sincere, is for enlightened and imaginative...

ONE of Rider Haggard's best books is the autobiography that was put under seal in 1912 and published just as he had left it after his death in 1925. It is the autobiography of a...

A. H. Cherry. (Jarrolds. its.) A COPY of this book with its account of how the author, a Wall Street banker, joined the Royal Navy when the 'United States was still neutral—and...

The Letters of John Clare. hditeti by J. W. and Anne Tibble. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 305.) Green Shadows : The Life of John Clare. By June Wilson. (Hodder & Stoughton. zits.)...

Round the Bend. By Nevi! Shute. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) No Higher Mountain. ' By Anthony Armstrong. (Methuen. tos. 6d.) 110vEts, we can see now, used to have a theme on which we...

PEOPLE should not write books-that are intended primarily to be funny. Such an invention betrays an author's happiness ; and it is almost impossible to be continuously funny on...

well-illustrated articles on the work of Blair Hughes-Stanton and Edward Ardizzone by John Lewis and Charles Hennessy respec- tively. Art and Technics, who publish Image at 5s.,...

In Search of London. I3y 11. V. Morton. (Methuen. I 2S. 6d.) MR. MORTON has written seven previous volumes on London. of which he apparently is still in search. His...

By CUSTOS AFTER their recent rise markets have entered a quieter phase. Some of the bite appears to have gone out of the buying of industrial equities although prices are still...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded so the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, June 26 th . &m re...

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