The question of who shall order the first atomic bomb to be dropped by the North Atlantic Treaty forces should it ever be deemed proper and necessary for them to drop one is not...

LL the great American presidents from George Washington downwards have been violently and intemperately assailed by their political opponents. Such is the price of leadership...

It is perhaps too much to claim that Dr. Edith Summerskill's party political broadcast last Saturday broke the record for cliches, but there can have been few political speeches...

The question of Cyprus has two distinct aspects which ought, not to be confused: it is a painful quarrel between Britain and Greece, and it is a dispute about the application of...

to the County Courts was the logical corollary t 0 , 1 , 1 0 proposal, announced in the Queen's Speech, to enlarge ' es County Court jurisdiction. But, important as these chant...

There is a lesson in the spectacle of the Russian courtship of Yugoslavia, for it is the result not of Yugoslav weakness, vacillation or appeasement but directly of Yugoslav...

The case of the imprisoned airmen constituted a Chinese provocation at the very moment that the world was listening, with varying degrees of perception, to a more moderate but...

The activities of the British Empire Society for the Blind, a voluntary organisation which is concerned with the prevent t,ion and cure of blindness and with furthering the...

Wi kiritits of Parliament are excusably sensitive about the re- &wing of the boundaries of their constituencies. They do not 4 ,V e to share the remarkable ill luck of Mr. Ralph...

W RITING last week ' In Defence of the Unions,' Sir Vincent Tewson was sceptical about the contributions of the economists, journalists, and sociologists to our series on trade...

dish they were b egun o ff ered was strong meat, the play ' (I read) had hardly. t he before protests reached the BBC in such numbers that Le e lines were jammed. They protested...

never caught on in of '" ,!_ t . being virtually unknown throughout the greater part ta 'Bat rugged country. This state of affairs (of whose advan - a i, ges the briefest...

says on the cover of Lawrence l'Imposteur; for that — although Mr. Richard Aldington writes in his introduction ' Cette biographie porte en sous-titre " La legende et l'homnze"...

VERY age has produced one or two writers who let the falcons of their fancy prey at the future. But the future, though it moves like the heron slowly and With a doleful air,...

Members of Parliament have a right to criticise the official cocktail parties given by the heads of HM diplomatic missions in foreign countries, as they have a right to...

A young school - mistress, in charge of a particularly tough and unruly mixed-class of teen - agers at a secondary school, was sent for in the middle of a lesson by the...

opponents—theologians, political reactionaries, anti- rationalist romantics—than by the failure of the French revolution, which somewhat undermined the prestige of the...

By ISAIAH BERLIN d EALISM ' normally means the correct perception of the characteristics of events or facts or persons without the distortions produced by feelings like hope or...

in which the experts had so fervently believed, whic h they had so constantly anticipated. The French RevolutiaP certainly did not produce the results which its maKers seems so...

of ideas. On the Contrary, unless one is blinded by some over-simple explanation of human affairs, psychological or anthropological or biological, Or economic (or by some...

By ROGER LLOYD T HE often heard opinion that in Britain railways are finished and that. their tracks had better be turned into motor roads is not shared by the British Transport...

By A CORRESPONDENT Q UITE recently, in dealing with,a prisoner charged with a homosexual offence, Lord 4stice Finnemore said that a prison specially founded for this type of...

By J. D. SCOTT I N the last Olympic Games only one gold medal was won for Britain by purely human means—a horse having played a part in winning the other one. This solitary...

to recognise again the merits of the Victorian grand Classic manner. The Professor was hammering away at Georgian and ' Regency ' long before those styles became fashionable....

rights. This shows how unpopular poetry has become. Tennyson was able to build himself a country house at Aldworth in Surrey out of the proceeds of poetry and to live like the...

T HERE exists a widely spread belief that the lawyers in Parliament never draw attention to any ambiguity in the drafting of a Bill so that when it becomes an Act the...

WELFARE CHILDREN SIR, I find Miss Glatlys Kendon's outburst somewhat difficult to understand. I am not sure who is the principal object of her attack. At one time it seems to be...

misleading, to make general statements about the social habits or the mental attitudes of children from various kinds of home; but where their emotional capacities are concerned...

Gladys Kendon was intended to he taken seriously. I must say I read it with a feeling of dismay that a weekly periodical that is supposed to have as one at least of its...

much truth in what she says and her commetlt is timely. I would, however, remind her that in our country live many youngsters who do not suffer from the protection of the...

and by a teacher who sees them occasionally. As for their lack of response in spiritual matters, may this not be due to natural reticence with a stranger rather than to...

and where demands made on the teachers are excessive. Material welfare is good but it is not enough, I have taught in an elementary school and am now a farmer concerned only...

S1R,—Mr. Davy may be quite right in suggesting that the secondary effects of atomic warfare are a really new factor, but the subject is so much shrouded in witch- doctors'...

SIR,—May I please ask Dr. Ritchie the following questions ? Why can no value be discovered in a situation unless it is seen against a background to which it is related ? Why...

SIR,—While fully agreeing with Graham Hutton's argument, in your issue of December 3, under the title ' More Skilled Manage- ment,' that in order to near Mr. Butler's target of...

SIR,—It is good to find Mr. John Betjeman defending the fine old 'buildings of England, but sad to find him among the demolishers of its language. Has he noticed the decline of...

SIR,—My attention has been drawn to Mr, John Betjeman's paragraph ' Naked and Ashamed ' in your issue of November 26. I entirely agree with hint in his horror of., custard tea...

Sig,—'Your correspondent ' Engineer' writes in reply to my article on ' Clean Air' point- ing out how expensive the suggestions that I made may prove to be in practice. I have...

Carrington V.C. (Warner.)—One Good Turn. (Odeon.)—Phffft. (Leicester Square.) Carrington V.C. is a near-faithful reproduc- tion of the play of that name by Campbell and Dorothy...

Never Get Out. By Giles Cooper. (Arts.) A aouri-up of theatrical odds and ends usually produces rather a job lot of enter- tainments, and this time is no exception. At the Old...

and producer respectively of 1984, deserve our congratulations and thanks. Looking over the book again before the Performance on Sunday I was shaking my head in a happily gloomy...

ART Bronzes From Sardinia If you have never been to Sardinia you are unlikely to know much about its ancient bronzes; as a matter of fact, no one does. Which is why it was such...

birds when compared with our own 1 Crows and pigeons have wonderful sight. Pheasants can see well, but their hearing is quite uncanny. How good the vision of sheep is I have...

at this time of year. Old beds should have a lime dressing if they have not been manured, because it promotes decompo- sition of organic matter, breaks down stiff, clay soil and...

Once, long ago, when we kept a number of farmyard birds, 'we found that broody hens were a glut on the market. We had far more of them than we wanted. The mixed flock contained...

THE weather is never out of the news and because of the way forecasting is done, mistakes, when they are made, loom large. The impersonal report of the weather man is torn to...

The usual prize is offered for a translation in sonnet form of this sonnet by Ronsard: Marie, a tons les coups vous me venez reprendre Que le suit trop leger, et me dices...

A prize of £5 was offered for a motto for a Christmas cracker, in not more than six lines of verse. It was to be light, but need not be so silly as most cracker mottoes. The...

Shelleyan Aftermath By JOHN WAIN , W HEN a poet dies, he leaves behind him two distinct species of ' remains '. There are his works, serene in a life of their own, impersonal,...

Wyndham Lewis. By Hugh Kenner. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) The Demon of Progress In the Arts. By Wyndham Lewis. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) TWENTY-FOUR years ago (one instinctively clutches the...

Dead Towns and Living Men. By Sir Leonard Woolley. (Lutterworth Press. 17s. 6d.) F cavations at Ur. By Sir Leonard Woolley. (Benn. 25s.) THE Warden of New College thought that...

Quaker History The Story of Quakerism. By Elfrida Vipont. (Bannisdale Press. I 2s, 6d.) THE sense of history has been with the Quakers since the beginning. With a rare sense of...

Earthly Creatures. By Charles Jackson. (Peter Nevill. II s. 6d.) WHEN he costes to the short story, the author of The Long Weekend proves to be a little self-conscious. In an...

History of the British West Indies. By Sir Alan Burns. (George Allen and Unwin. 70s.) THE publishers make two claims for this history of the British West Indies: that it covers...

The journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, United States Army, as they made their )vay up the Missouri, down the Columbia to the Pacific and back to...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT / I AM all for using monetary weapons for the defence of the national economy but they must be used in a way that becomes a society pledged to provide...

By CUSTOS THE new Stock Exchange account, for which dealings started on Tuesday, will not end till January 4. It was the signal for a recovery in prices , which was no doubt...

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