I N a recent party political broadcast Lord Hailsham ad- jured his listeners' not to 'believe that your Government . . . has tarnished its integrity or lost its ideals.' He is...

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rr HE Colonial Secretary was wise to abolish 1. the Lyttelton constitution in Kenya. The re- fusal of the African elected members to play any part in the Legislative Council,...

By RICHARD NEVER before has the term 'anti-intellectual.' been on so many lips or printed on so many unlikely pages. It began with the scientists. Called upon to explain the...

The difficulty that faces M. Gaillard is that the one cement he can employ to keep the parties together is the principle that the republic's govern- ment must be carried on. In...

Christmas Number Contributors include: KINGSLEY AM's, H. E. BATES, SIR ROBERT BOOTHBY, D. W. BROGAN, CLAUD COCKBURN, L. P. HARTLEY, HENRy FAIRLIE, Tom HoP-: KINSON, LORD...

Jr has been a week of almost unrelieved talk. Mr. Khrush- chev started it off with a lengthy tirade to the Supreme Soviet on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the...

WINDING up the debate on the Address for the Opposition, Mr. Alfred Robens began by suggest- ing that people who do not know what they are talking about ought to keep quiet. At...

I WAS REMINDED Of the fact that truly creative minds survive in Russia, even if they do not flourish, by an announcement this week more notable in its way than the technological...

the appear- ance of the English edition the novel is to be published in Italy by a Left-wing publisher, who first received the manuscript, and the Communist press there has...

Robert Fraser's speech introducing it, makes specious, though interesting, reading. The report charts the progress (if that is the word) of Independent Television during the...

over the remarriage of divorced people by marrying a clergyman and a divorced woman in his church and who is, if not the leader, at least the most vocal of the rebels on this...

1915, at Gallipoli, the Turkish troops guard- ing the Straits were commanded by Colonel Mustafa, called by his schoolteacher 'Kemal.' Ian Hamilton and Liman von Sanders are by...

was reminded—by some curious association of ideas—of a headline in the Soviet press at the time of Zinoviev's condemnation : 'For a dog the death of a dog.' Today they would...

concerts Otto Klemperer has been giving at the Festival Hall with the Philharmonic Orchestra. The series ends tonight, so I suppose the point 1 want to make is an academic one;...

England clergyman; the Reverend Bryn Thomas, over Budapest Radio, which really make the Dean of Canterbury's statement which I criticised the other day seem almost decent by...

called Back to Boo! Boot by Brent of Bin Bin, who has previously written Gentlemen at Gyang G yang. Ha! Ha! PHAROS

By B. H. LIDDELL HART M EMORTES are apt to suffer strange distortion as the years pass and men grow old. It is illuminating to trace the development of the story that Haig...

By CYRIL RAY O NCE upon a time, it was the Church that patronised the arts; once upon another time, it was the milords. In some countries, monarchs have been patrons,...

By STRIX O F the four obituary notices I have just been reading three appeared in The Times during July, 1900. The fdurth was published by the New York Times in April, 1940. The...

By JOHN BETJEMAN I T HAVE been attending the monthly meeting of Diocesan ,Advisory Committee. Designs, if you can call them such, for tablets,war memorials, inscriptions (TO THE...

By LESLIE ADRIAN A FRENCHMAN once told me that the most de- pressing sight in this country was a man hav- ing breakfast with his wife in a three-star country hotel. He had...

vile and vicious letters penned to Lord Altrincham and Mr. Muggeridge is no less absorbing than thought-provoking. Nevertheless, the conclusion may be less impres- sive and...

phrases he uses? In the third paragraph of his article on `St. Paul's and the City' he speaks of the Church in England. Therefore his remarks are for the guidance of all. As a...

SIR,—I am surprised that anyone should be sur- prised that young people are angry when there exists an octopus of an Establishment with its self- deception and...

Moon Metrics Oliver Stewart The Church and the People, Richard Whitaker, Rev. E. 0. Sutton An Anatomy of Hysteria F. R. G. Smith, Bennitt Gardiner Keeping up with the Rices...

NOVEMBER 17, 1832 list England, the political prospects, of the Tories have been blasted by their adherence to arbitrary principles of government, obstinately persisted in until...

SIR,—It was encouraging, even at this late date, to read Mr. Stuart Maclure's article on the block grant. His conclusions, that many people feel that this proposal 'could ruin...

Slit,—Canon Collins is right. Why confine the cul- tural activities within St. Paul's Cathedral to mere religious ceremonies? The management of the Albert Hall have no such...

Mr. Henry Fairlie's article of November 8 'An Anatomy of Hysteria,' that the real reason for the vile nature of a vast volume of the correspondence received by Lord Altrincham...

SIR,--A limited number of travelling grants to the United States . are to be awarded in January to young businessmen who have graduated and done their National Service. The...

forth their discontent, but there still seems be every likelihood that the Nash Terraces will "e Pulled down in the next few years. Before this d(3 es, in fact, happen, it Would...

SIR, —Through some aberration I wrote last week that Mr. Ben-Gurion would not have the Mapam in his Cabinet. This is, of course, quite untrue.— Jerusalem Yours faithfully,...

S IR.—Don't you know whether Leslie Adrian is male ° r female? Your readers—judging by their letters to you on topics of consuming interest—evidently agree to differ : and it...

Sus.--In a comment in your issue of October 18 Leslie Adrian writes that the magazine , Which? pro- duced by this Association supplying 'requested information for a fee.' This...

letter r egarding that exhibition of sadism, viz, the recent f logging of Hawkeye on Commercial TV. .MY two children also witnessed this public flog- illog when they watched...

SIR, —Mr. George Edinger is quite right to recall the fine blitz drawings of Feliks Topolski. The only reason I failed to give Topolski his due credit is that 1 think of him as...

to know that John Metcalf thinks so highly Of Alan Taylor's lectures. While doing so, may I point out that these arc Produced by Associated TeleViSion, and not by 4nother...

Arthur Rackham, RWS (18()7-1939), and should be grateful for any reminiscences of him and for the loan of any letters of his, which would be carefully copied and returned. I...

The James Dean Story. (Continen- tale.)—Time Limit. (Leicester Square Theatre.) --- Les Girls. (Empire.)—An Eye for an Eye and On the Bowery. (Cameo- Polytechnic.) nearly two...

Totem and Taboo REMINISCING on television the other night, that Moses of the movies Mr. Cecil B. deMille . (a pleasant, wily old bird whose eccentricities seem to turn out...

THE progress of European sculp- ture since 1900 is a curious affair. The public must find it hard to follow because exhibitions of modern sculpture, ideally by one artist in...

FOLLOWING up the success of their Encyclopwdia of Jazz and Midnight series, Brunswick have produced another winning idea for a twelve- inch LP series under the title of Music...

THERE is nothing for it but to you the facts. The scene n' Mademoiselle Jaire is an Easter' city as it might be imagined hY medimval Flanders (minarets and Breughelis h hats)....

total absence is one of the innumerable delights of this astonishing work of Sir Maurice Bowra*—seems endemic in most books dealing with the life of the ancient Greeks. The...

Scotland the Brave. By lain Hamilton. (Michael Joseph, 16s.) THE relationship between England and the other national areas of these islands has never been static, but there are...

The strange history of Pierre Mendes-France and the great conflict over French North Africa. By Alexander Werth. (Barrie, 30s.) IN this book Alexander Werth gives us another...

I OPENED this book with some misgivings. The title is dull and the drawing on the jacket atrocious; the illustrations look no more than ordinary—cherry blossom, a Noh play, an...

large photographs, a text translated from the German and an introduction by Lord K anross. 'The Greek sense of wholeness,' writes Lord Kinross, 'makes little distinction between...

Letters to Vernon Watkins. By Dylan Thomas. (Faber, 15s.) Tins book is justified by the astonishing unity of tthe material. Dylan Thomas wrote many letters 0 many different...

How exasperating for he Americans—the journalist-historians, the analysts, the pundits,. all the earnest inquiring Foundation-members in the rimless - glasses who would now be...

The Physics and Chemistry of Life. (Bell, 13s. 6d.) AT the turn of the century a Member. of Parliament making a speech had only to leave a classical quotation hanging in the...

Marxism and the Open Mind. By John Lewis. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 255.) CAN it be true that I am alone in finding tiresome the impertinence of these Marxists? They com- plain...

TkIE Carpenter Of Nazareth has been depicted as dreamy mystic, political agitator, social re- former and in many other ideal roles which throw more light upon the character of...

By IAN N1ALL DOES it rain more persistently because it is November and the leaves are falling faster? It seems to. The stream runs brown with all the soil scoured from its...

branches of a tree across the road and there is, perhaps, nothing very noteworthy in that, for little owls are common enough here, and yet anyone living in the district...

A friend was telling me the other day how a field- mouse in which he had taken a great interest finally met its end. The mouse lived in a crack in the stones of a wall and came...

By PHILIDOR No. 127. .1. AIZIKOVVICZ (Haifa, Israel) NV I HIE (6 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Morra: Kt-Q...

The Doctor's Signature. By Hamilton Johnston. (Gollancz, 13s. bd.) Hamilton Avenue. By Ronald Byron. (Constable, 15s.) Sharks and Little Fish. By WcIfgang Ott. (Hutchinson,...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT must have been a dream but I seemed to be at the dinner of the Institute of Directors last week when -g1+ the principal guest, the Prime Minis- ter,...

By CUSTOS THE first swallow does not make a summer and the first rally does not end a bear market. Some covering by 'bears' helped along the rise in industrial shares this week...

ACROSS 1 Violet, thy mate's a jewel (8). 5 Those chaps at the Inns of Court are decidedly countyl- (6) 9 Measure of the chiropodist's advice (8). 10 Song about a seaman from...

BOth Donne and Marlowe wrote poems beginning `Conte live with me and he my love.' For a prize of six guineas competitors were invited to bring this theme bang up to . date. WAS...

reach a position in which its axis wil l be at right angles to the path of its orbit. Co" petit ors are invited to submit their reaction.s . this idea, in prose or verse, for...