ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6686 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1956 PRICE 9d.

0 N the eve of the London conference the issues involved in the dispute over Colonel Nasser's nationalisation of the Canal have become hopelessly confused and it cannot be said...

and reputations since 1939 of Sir Anthony Eden and the trade union movement. In the fifteen years following the outbreak of war, the trade unions, like Sir Anthony, consolidated...

D R1TAIN is at last making real headway towards restor- 13 ing her international trading position. The progress of both exports and imports in July was reassuring, since it is...

The less simple-minded delegates are watching neither Truman nor Eleanor Roosevelt, but Senator Lyndon Johnson. By stopping, if only temporarily, the Stevenson bandwagon, Truman...

0 NCE again the Suez issue has overshadowed all other international news. As the Suez conference opens, it seems likely that a compromise solution will be reached which will...

umduasAcu is word for Queen's weather.—New Chronicle. SHE ASKED 'What is the Gaelic for this kind of weather?' The Provost . . . told her, 'Tha-e-mosach.'—Daily Mirror. Q....

President Nasser . . . was calm, informal, and chatty.—Daily Herald, August 13. Desperately worried, the Dictator of Egypt hummed and hawed, hesitated and evaded . . his face...

BY CHARLES CURRAN T HE Government has not had a good week. When Sir Anthony Eden made his Parliamentary statement on Suez, the critics were almost inaudible. Now there are more...

Vienna is to have its old name back. When I was in Vienna in 1951 everyone steadfastly refused to call it anything but the Schwartzenburg Platz, so that the change back is...

a let's-not-get-worked-up-over-trifles line which might have made it thoroughly unpopular; and whatever my feelings about its wisdom, I had to applaud its courage—until I saw...

to see a new face as Soviet Foreign Minister. But those who have been in contact with Mr. Shepilov have, I am told, already begun to regret Mr. Molotov, who, however hostile in...

about an impending change of Governor. Sir Andrew Cohen's great popularity there, surviving through various crises, made it particularly important that tact should be exercised...

week, in a homily on the advantages of removing the bread subsidy. `Elevenpence is the trade forecast. But at first there was talk of a shilling loaf. So the price has dropped a...

THE PARALLEL, between Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal company and Hitler's occupation of the Rhineland is, as Sir Robert Boothby said in a letter to The Times, almost...

or resentment against the Egyptians is to remind myself that it is only four years or so since they were liberated from Farouk. When I was last in Egypt the show tourist...

BY GRAHAM HUTTON N OWHERE in the world is there any dispute about the mainspring of wealth. It is productive capital equipment, and everyone wants as much of it as he can get....

By L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS T HE constitution of the Indian Republic forbids discrimination against the individual citizen on the score of religion, caste or creed. How does...

BY R. KENNARD DAVIS S OMERSET is a haunted county. Its misty blue hills, its marshlands scored with willows, its wooded combes hiding caves where early man fought hyenas for his...

S ANDWICHED as it is between the sinister haphazardness of modern Egypt and the clamorous uncertainties of Tunisia, the newly founded kingdom of Libya enjoys a unique position....

BY JOHN BETJEMAN I WAS one of the six thousand who visited Chatsworth on Bank Holiday Monday and was there until the gardens shut at six. I saw only seven pieces of litter in...

By RICHARD USBORNE W HAT a thoroughly unpleasant book Tom Brown's Schooldays is! It nestles under the gooseberry bush of being a 'classic.' and is, I suspect, hardly ever...

case Mr. Evelyn Waugh resorts to abuse in order to fortify, as he obviously believes, both it and himself. It would be interesting, however, if he would explain why both the...

a fall in their standard of living and shooting-up niggers, the majority of British voters will probably prefer to shoot-up niggers. What I cannot quite understand is why this...

SIR,—The setter of your 'Holiday Questions' is mistaken in stating that the author of the German translation of 'Jabberwocky' (Ques- tion 14) was 'probably Lewis Carroll...

Suez P. R. Lane, Ken Taylor 'Es Brillig War . . . ' Derek Hudson Deification and Clarification Hugh Ross Williamson, John Martin Balanced TV B. C. Sendall PEN New Poems David...

own question when he writes: 'When you make a creature a co-Redeemer with God. . . If this thought be turned into the simple Catholic phraseology that 'Both God and Our Lady can...

says it is simply untrue that £750,000 was provided in the Television Act for the support of balancing programmes. He goes on to say that the possibility of un- balance was only...

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SIR,—Few right-minded people are likely to disagree with the remarks of Mr. John Betjeman on this subject but, as an ordinary layman with no particular ecclesiological...

to pass without comment. But I cannot let pass the revolting accusation that 1 or my friends write 'Lallans.' What ate Lallans? It sounds like a cow chewing the cud. The...

.SIR, Will you kindly allow me to thank Mr. Seltman for his letter, and to say that it is an error to suppose my• criticism of the review upon the book Women in Antiquity was...

SIR,—Mr. Colin Mason. in your issue of July 13, filled most of his space in lauding the English singers working at Glyndebourne this year. Excellent. But he associates this with...

SIR,—1 am collecting material for a biography of Sir Benjamin Hall, afterwards Lord Llanovcr of Abercarn (1802-1867), and would be grateful if any of your readers in possession...

of new verse have appeared under the imprint of Messrs. Michael Joseph Ltd., and you have been kind to enough to allow me to invite your readers to submit poems for considera-...

AT LEAST this can be simply said of the com- plicated and demanding exhibition ingeniously inserted into the Whitechapel Art Gallery and called 'This is Tomorrow'—that it...

A FEW days ago I was in Manchester and wished to see what kind of a show Mr. Bernstein's Granada is putting on. Mr. Bernstein is one of the white hopes of com- mercial...

The Iron Petticoat, as you can guess from the title, is a kind of latter - day Ninotchka in which the humour that sparks from the meet- ing of East and West has grown (as it...

By walls half-built to bar the creeping tide, A ruined church, a pewter-coloured sea, Salt stagnant ponds : the marram stalks are plied Beneath a wind that snaps all withering...

When a commanding chariot carved Its tracks in dust, and soldiers yawned Beneath a portico, and starved For want of fighting, this unknown Centurion led a victory That gave his...

AUGUST 20, 1831 WE have received a pamphlet by Captain WOODLEY, in answer to some observations on `his (Captain Woodley's) System of the Uni - verse.' We are unlucky in never...

BY PETER QUENNELL I AVING read Frangoisc Sagan's first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, published a couple of years ago, when it achieved in France alone a sale of a quarter of a...

DEADLINE AND DATELINE. By Rene MacColl. (Oldbourne, 15s.) MR. MACCOLL describes himself as a reporter. He tells us that he loves the life. He then proceeds to write a book that...

FROM BECKET TO LANGTON. By C. R, Cheney. (Manchester University Press, 18s.) THE forty-odd years of English history between the murder of Archbishop Thomas and Magna Carta have...

TRENDS IN 20TH CENTURY DRAMA. By Frederick LumleY. (Rockliff, 30s.) MR. LUMLEY set himself a formidable task in attempting a general assessment of the aims and achievements of...

AN EDWARDIAN Yount, By L. E. Jones. (Macmillan, 18s.) IN A Victorian Boyhood, Sir Lawrence Jones drew a vivid picture of his family and early life, ending in a blaze of glory at...

DRUM : ADVENTURE INTO THE NEW AFRICA. By Anthony Sampson. (Collins, 16s.) NATIONALISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA. By Thomas Hodgkin. (Frederick Muller, 10s. 6d.) NATIONALISM IN COLONIAL...

THE most astounding fact in this book is one which will appeal only to registered escape-addicts, for whom it is in some sense the first authorised dose. In June, 1943, when the...

PELICAN IN THE WILDERNESS. By F. Fraser Darling. (Unwin, 25s.) NINETY-NINE marks out of a hundred for an author who ha s , written a honey of a book. It is packed with the rare...

SCHUMANN AND THE ROMANTIC AGE. By Marcel Brion. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. (Collins, 21s.) M. BRION has, deliberately and rightly, adjusted Schumann into a context...

CLOSE Or A DYNASTY. By Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Pridham, KBE, CB. (Allan Wingate, 18s.) SOME time has indeed elapsed since any new book has been written about the collapse of...

READERS and writers of novels remain, it is safe and solacing to assume, unaffected by periodical surveys of the novel, its past, present and future. To them the declaration...

John Hayward (Penguin Books, 4s. 6d.) is an excellent buy for anyone either wanting to be introduced to English poetry or liking to have a selection of their favourite poems in...

21s.), is a fascinating, non-senti- mental study of Victorian childhood at all social levels, from the strict, segregated nur- sery world of brown holland and white muslin, to...

the Restoration (O.U.P., 35s.) is a detailed and documented study of an important period in the history of the British West Indies; the author has not attempted to present any...

BY CUSTOS was very nearly 40s. or 20 per cent. below its recent peak. BURMAH on. fell to 87s., which was 30s. 6d. or 26 per cent. below its recent peak. SHELL, which has not a...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE Suez crisis seems to have frightened the investor into thinking that the whole vast Western investment in the oil of the Middle East is exposed to...

watering, celery does well if the trench is soaked in a dry spell. Blanching should begin about now when the plants are twelve inches high, each plant being earthed up by hand...

'Ole X was what you'd call squire here in them days. A word from him could put you out of your cottage. He owned the first motor-car in the village. Drove it to the bottom of...

By IAN NIALL MANY times, while walking in the fields, I have been delighted with the defensive antics of a hen partridge, but the other day, crossing the estuary with two dogs...

fruit, a Glasgow reader remarks, 'Hereabouts, in market garden and allotment, straw- berries are seldom netted. It is not birds that hole these but slugs, mostly a tough black...

BY PHI LIDOR No. 63. W. A. SHINKMAN BLACK (3 men) WHITE (10 men) WHITE tO play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Morra: . B–Kt 2,...

ACROSS 28 So a ring may appear in the laundry 1 (3, 4). In France such a Scotsman may be a supporter (7). 29 We leave the silver Wye (7). S Trip among high explosive reveals a...

The usual prize was offered for either notes for a speech or an extract from a speech to be made by any one of the following distinguished visitors, or former pupils, at a...

Set by C. G. The following fourteen words (written continuously to save space) are in fact a sonnet by Jules de Ressdguier (1778-1862): 'Fort Belle, Elle Dort; Sort Frele,...