The Bevanite menace must still, of course, be the main preoccupation both of the Socialists and of the public at large. Even with Mr. Bevan on their Parliamentary executive com-...

Whoever rules in Cairo or Khartoum the distribution of the waters of the Nile is the one question about which they cannot afford to disagree. The news that the Governments of...

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is soon to feel the edge of the pruning-knife. In his angry speech at the Congress of the All-Union Communist Par, Mr. Nikita Khrushchev...

Until the present Government took office it was compara- tively easy to see the reason why the United Kingdom was not directly associated with the Pacific Defence Pact between...

On the Korean front a limited Communist offensive appears to have been in progress for some days. When it started, General Van Fleet's headquarters spoke of determined attacks...

It is clear that the British Government's attitude to the question of Persian oil has hardened as a result of the exchange of Notes that has followed the proposals made by Mr....

Since the public spectacle is something that television can handle really well, the deadlock in the dispute between sports- promoters and the B.B.C. has been a source of growing...

F ROM the depths of Morecambe and the heights of Scar- borough members have scrambled back this week to the plane of the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Bill. The reassembly...

There is no mistaking the sustained note of optimism in the pronouncements on Malaya of General Sir Gerald Templer, the High Commissioner. His latest broadcast to Australia...

T HE Seventh Assembly of the United Nations, which opened in New York this week, may be critical for the future of the Organisation. Its best asset is its President. No...

of Baldwin in last Sunday's Sunday Times makes fascinating reading. Bit by bit the whole Abdication story is being pieced together, though Mr. Churchill, who saw as much of what...

M.A., Ph.D., M.Ped., LL.B., F.I.L.A., F.R.Econ.S., because it almost looks as though he had been denuded of degrees. On a letter-head dated towards the end of July he was M.A.,...

interest in two announcements that happened to come to my notice on the same day this week. One is addressed to Tall Men, and comes from a lady who has already founded the...

ing, and raises interesting questions. To ask for £250,000 and get less than £1,000 is in fact not merely failure; it is debacle. And why ? Shaw had devotees in abundance....

the Third Reading of its Bill reversing the decision of the Labour Government that licensed houses in the New Towns should be publicly-owned. State ownership has never had a...

By The Rt. Hon. HUGH GAITSKELL, M.P. T HE Morecambe Conference and the present situation within the Labour Party illustrate vividly two major problems of modern democracy. The...

By D. W. BROGAN G ENERAL EISENHOWER has come into Wisconsin and has gone, recommending the people of that State to send back to the Senate Joe McCarthy who once described...

By LORD HINCHINGBROOKE, M.P. 44 ERTAINLY, gentlemen, it ought to be the happi- ness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...

As has been indicated already in the Spectator, the number of papers (over 560) received on the two subjects which may broadly be described as " My message to the man in the pew...

By JOHN LULLS (Headmaster of Bradfield) H E came into my study one afternoon just ten years ago, a young Sub-Lieutenant in the Wavy Navy. His ship had put into Harwich and he...

Oriel College, Oxford, for his description of an international comp in the north of Greece.

Pythian Pilgrimage By PETERBISHOP (Pembroke Co!lege, Oxford) T HE rusty biscuit-tin contained cures and antidotes for dysentery, malaria, snake-bites and every tropical disease...

By HAROLD NICOLSON A F TER all, why shouldn't I ? Several people have written to me regarding the word "doriphore," asking me to explain more exactly what I mean by this...

THEATRE THE Americans of today who settle in Paris, France; may be up to all the tricks of Gracious Living (that toothsome speciality of the Cunard Company's copy-writers),...

Limelight. (Odeon.)—The Turning Point. (Plaza.) MR. CHARLES CHAPLIN * has recaptured in Limelight the magic that seemed to be slipping from his grasp in Monsieur Verdoux, and...

LIKE all those, I suppose, who for one reason or another can go to the theatre only about once every two years, I must unconsciously have formed a naively glamorous idea of the...

to fight all the way. Others seem to start with everything. With what prodigious gifts is Sir Frank Brangwyn endowed ; how easily he strides the problems of composition, of...

his Presidential skin, and before many weeks he will soar into the heaven of his ambition—a full- blown, gorgeous, purple Emperor. The Vestiges of Creation can show no more...

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SIR,—II appears likely that General Eisenhower will win the election next month by a not inconsiderable margin of electoral and popular votes, and it seems probable that his...

SIR,—Mr. John Benn's article in your September 26th issue raised several important issues. Unfortunately it is true that business-men overseas are not at present being made...

Stn,—It was with dismay that I read in one of your recent issues that it was intended to close Westminster Abbey for a period of six months prior to the Coronation in order...

SIR,—A wcek or so ago Strix referred to the latest theory on the much disputed authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Perhaps he might be interested in a yet later theory of my...

Selection of Prison Officers SIR,—I have not read Joan Henry's book Who Lie In Gaol, but from correspondence in the Spectator, and other papers, it is apparent that fault has...

SIR,—It happens that the bush telegraph had been unusually active before the opening of the Looking Forward exhibition in Whitechapel. That the " hares " it promised were not...

SIR,—Last week some elfin hand turned the French abstract decorator Arp into an air raid precaution, in my article Revolt against Revolt. Yet, a few pages further on, Arp in...

SIR,—While the illuminated night-signs in Trafalgar Square are being subjected to such criticism, why not raise the question of the day-signs too ? There is a — particularly...

accident ought to be carefully worded. Your front-page commentator slipped into a regrettable phrase when he wrote, " One hundred per cent. safety on the railways may not be...

your paper appears to uphold federation because (says he) Africans have everything to gain from it and nothing as far as he can discover to lose. I think it is despicable to...

never neglects the ground round his trees. Many gardeners miss the signs of deficiency in the soil that shows in browning at the edges of leaves before they die naturally. A...

and a few friends are forming the Paris Society with the aim of studying the charm and beauty and appreciating the infinite interest of Paris. May we hope for the hospitality of...

The black cloud that crept over the wood prevented my seeing the magpies that were flitting about in- the tops of the trees; and even the pigeon went in to cover at the first...

SIR,—We have been asked to help in the provision of books to be loaned to young delinquents from their probation office. They live in areas remote from library facilities, and...

A farmer should know his friends and be sure that he is destroying only his foes when he lifts his gun or baits his trap, but sometimes the evidence of a few uprooted plants, a...

Sm,—Most people will agree with Mr. R. G. Abercrombie that harp- ing on the past is incompatible with the desire to ensure better inter- national relationships in the future;...

The most fascinating. thing about a stoat is its stance. It has the poise of a snake about to strike. One is hardly ever close enough to see whether it blinks or not, but I...

SIR,—Mr. Martin Cooper's reference to Carl Nielsen's music in the Spectator of the 12th September calls for comment. " I suspect," he writes, " that the Nielsen movement is...

I MAY yet become a bee-keeper, having helped to move two colonies in their hives. Two of us staggered through a nettle-bed and across a very uneven potato-patch to bring the...

Set by Limpet Bagpipes are being advertised in New York thus: "It's Here, It's New. Complete with blowpipe, drones, chanter, bright plaid bag and ribbons, this easy-to-play...

usual prizes were offered for a translation of Theophile de Viau's Ode—" Un corbeau devant moi croasse," in the same metre and following the same rhyme scheme. I have given...

The Fulmar. By James Fisher. (Collins. 35s.) JAMES FISHER has written a remarkable book on a remarkable bird, and I for one have found it difficult to lay aside. An oceanic bird...

Church Fathers The Fathers of the Western Church. 21s.) By Robert Payne. (Heinemann. WITHOUT the patristic writings of the first six centuries or so of our era, or had they...

Roger Lancelyn Green's " A. E. W. Mason " ; Admiral Sir William James " Generals and Admirals " by Captain John Cresswell ; and Dr. Glyn Daniel " Gods, Graves and Scholars " by...

THE career of Josip Broz is perhaps the most interesting political career of this century, the man himself a symbol of the times—a peasant boy, half-Croat, half-Slovene, who...

An Exile in Soho. By Mrs. Robert Henrey. (Dent. 16s.) To read Mrs. Henrey is to look into the heart and mind of a woman; not a woman of supreme genius or of impeccable taste, or...

My Dear Timothy. By Victor Gollancz. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) ". . . there's more enterprise In walking naked." He has strained with an almost obsessive meticulousness to analyse...

Charlie Chaplin. By Theodore Huff. (Cassell. 25s.) MR. CHARLES CHAPLIN is an enigma whose countless variations elude his chroniclers' grasps time and again. Perhaps the greatest...

IF the course of true love never did run smooth, at least it did once look as if it might. As Odysseus struggled on his way to Penelope, it was only the gods who held him back,...

Tins survey of English "weird fiction" is apparently a pioneer work in this country. Originally a Geneva Ph.D. thesis, it bears many marks of its provenance: the wearisome...

Roget by D. C. Browning. (Dent. 12s. 6d.) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Completely revised, enlarged and reset. (Cassell. 25s.) A SOUND work of reference can never...

this vivid and balanced account of the Jacobite rising of 1745, Mr. Hartmann has allowed himself a holiday from serious research. His book is based entirely on pub- lished...

impressed by the outcome of the Chancellor's funding position, but not to the point at which it is prepared to hoist Stock Exchange prices. So far as can be judged, Mr. Butler...

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