Now that Gerenal Eisenhower has at last asked to be relieved of his duties at S.H.A.P.E. in order to go home and stand for the Republican nomination, and now that he has been...

• creating a good impression than with getting to the root of a . very difficult question of costs -and prices. • Beyond the immediate instruction to do nothing for an •...

The resolution of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers calling for a reduction itt the rearmament programme should be considered in the context of the other...

The battle in the South African House of Assembly between defenders and defiers of the Union Constitution is now joined, and it is difficult to foresee where what is so ill...

General Templer could not be expected to transform the Malayan situation in a few weeks, though that has not prevented snap judgements being passed on his regime when it is...

The failure to reach an agreement in Cairo on a basis for future Anglo-Egyptian negotiations is a matter for deep regret. It gives an opportunity for the Wafd to recover its...

T WO psychological moves of considerable interest and potential importance have been made in the past week. One is the assembly of an economic conference in Moscow, the other...

some attention in the correspondence columns of the Spectator, has also, I see, been receiving some attention in the House of Commons. To a question by Mr. TOm Driberg, who...

T HE House of Commons reassembles next week, and the public will have the opportunity of observing how far the organised obstruction which disfigured discussion on the Finance...

of solicitous and well-intentioned mentors that there was a reference in this column last week to the equipment of horses in the royal carriages with bearing-reigns. Now I...

document. Everyone travelling into London (or other great cites) by rail or road must have been struck by the fact that it is predominantly on small houses occupied to all...

the purposes of Lord Alexander's visit to General Eisenhower on Tuesday was to press on him the claims of Lord Montgomery to succession as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied...

pilgrim met the Plague, and asked: 'Where are you going ? ' The Plague replied: 'I am going to Bagdad to kill five thou- sand people.' A few days later the pilgrim met the...

By PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P. * M R. MALIK, the Soviet delegate in the new Disarma- ment Commission in New York, has accused the United Nations of using germ warfare in the Korean...

By PHILIP LEWIS * Y OU may well ask : "Why the public schools ? " The fact remains, industry is out in a big way to appeal to public-school leavers—which is not only of...

By MARGHANITA LASKI N OW that the television feature "What's My Line ? " has finished its nine-months run, it is interesting to speculate on the reasons for its astonishing...

By RANJEE SHAHANI 1 - HAVE been in India now for some eighteen months, and mixed with all sorts and conditions of people. One of the many truths borne in on me in that time is...

By R. M. BARCLAY LLOYD Luansha, April. HATEVER the outcome of next week's London talks on Closer Association in Central Africa, the proposals for the creation of a British...

The older I become, the more I feel The beauty of the visual world. Apart From far-sought landscapes and the painter's art, I so much prize what common sights reveal. The sky's...

Portrait of a Lock-keeper By N. B. W. WIDLAKE (Clare College, Cambridge.) H E had been tramping along the tow-path when he saw that the lock-cottage was vacant. Lock-keeper ,...

By HAROLD NICOLSON M ONSIEUR ANDRE SIEGFRIED is by nature a political economist. When he strays from the asphalt path of the trade-cycle and the theory of distribution, he is...

THEATRE London Laughs. (Adelphi.) To wish to see at first hand those whom he or she admires from a distance seems to be a strong and natural instinct It the human animal. The...

for this play that its rigours are as physically exciting as they are ; for, at the rare moments when ideas peeped through, I was close to fury. A distressing Jack Harkaway...

With a Song in My Heart. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—So Little Time. (Rialto.)—On Moonlight Bay. (Warner.) ONE of the most curious of American phenomena is the way in which living...

GEOFFREY CLARKE is twenty-eight, a post-graduate student at the Royal College of Art. His name has appeared several times in these columns, and, for his years, he has already...

Easter comes early this year; yet with a fair average allowance of verdure and early flowers, though hitherto it cannot be said, with Chaucer, that the sweet showers of April...

MAHLER's " Resurrection " Symphony at the Festival Hall on April 9th won the kind of reception traditionally reserved for a new work. It was not a very large audience, but there...

Set by Guy Innes A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a translation of the following two stanzas from Edmond Rostand's poem "La Princesse Lointaine " : C'est...

Report by Lewis Petrie A prize of £5 was offered for christening three first days of the month other than 1st January, April and May. At the risk of seeming pedantic, may I...

Sta,—(1) The Chairman of the Council of this society says that it has been so called for forty years "without dispute." We had never beard of it before its present...

SIR,—British West Africa is not only young but complex, and to a simple-minded European visitor appears to abound in a series of irre- concilable contradictions. It is therefore...

Old Deeds SIR, —May I assure your correspondent, Mr. Jones-Davies, that there is no official desire to remove deeds and similar documents from the custody of their owners, as...

SIR,—When a learned member of the House of Lords speaks on a piece of legislation affecting millions of people, only to be told he has got the wrong end of the tick (in the...

SIR,—Your review of The Florida of the Incas adheres to the belief that Florida was so named by Ponce de Leon because of its flowers- " The flowery land." Ponce de Leon...

SIR,—Janus will find that the A.A. greet with lack of appreciation suggeitions that their handbook would be improved if recast on the lines of the Michelin Guide. I was informed...

Frost probably causes baldness among fruit-bearers oftener than anything else. A method that seems both effective and cheap is that recommended by Captain Lewis of Clatterbrune,...

When one takes a walk in the early morning, the rabbit population is more obvious, even in places where few have been noticed before. Going up the road, I saw half-a-dozen in a...

SIR,—During the recent cold weather I had to go to Salisbury to meet a train which was an hour late owing to the snow. • I thought that I might find a cup of tea and a little...

OLD Dafydd has never moved with the times. He has farmed in the same place for about forty years, and I am told things are muCh the same now as when his father had it. He gets...

Because 15f their contrasting plumage, I think magpies are among the handsomest of birds at this time of year, for now they have a sheen on them that gives them the magnificent...

The Lancashire farmer was discussing horses. He had only one horse on his place, he said, but it was a grand animal, a grey Shire, twelve years old. This winter he had gone...

SIR.—Janus -asks Why do the horses in the royal carriages wear bearing-reins ? " One might as well ask why do we humans wear top-hats, morning-coats and stiff collars at...

Abercrombie on Wordsworth The Art of Wordsworth. By Lascelles Abercrombie. (Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford University Press. 10s. 6d.) LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE, poet in his own...

THIS book is wholly delightful, and ever since opening it I have becn wondering quite why. It has no illustrations, beyond a few rather nice little drawings which are used as...

Parish and Empire : Studies and Sketches. By Jack Simmons. (Collins. I8s.) LIKE several other things in history, these studies are divided into three parts,—parochial, national...

THERE ought really to be an Academy of Railway Writers, and, if there was, Mr. Hamilton Ellis would be its obvious President. Many of the other possible members have at least...

The Last Serjeant. By Serjeant A. M. Sullivan. (Macdonald. 21S.) THE ancient order of serjeants-at-law was formerly one of the highest rank of barristers. The serjeants had...

Remember and be Glad. By Cynthia Asquith. (Barrie. 16s.) THIS charming book is not of the highest value as a work of art ; it is wayward and random, with many lapses of style ;...

Tom Pym : A Portrait. By Dora Pym. (Heifer. 12s. 6d.) MRS. PYM divides this memoir of her husband into three sections. She sketches vividly his home, life and work ; then...

Tins is not so much a symposium as a post-mortem. In eight studies the music of Schumann is subjected to drastic and exhaustive analysis, pierced and probed to the bone. On...

The Walnut Trees of Altenburg. By Andre Malraux. Translated from the French by A. W. Fielding. (Lehmann. 10s. 6d.) The Little Misery. By Francois Mauriac. Translated by Gerard...

Sculpture in England : Mediaeval. By H. D. Molesworth. Sculpture in England : Renaissance to Early Nineteenth Century. By H. D. Molesworth. (Longmans, Green & Co., for the...

By Arvel B. Erickson. (Blackwell. 32s.) IN the history of nineteenth-century reform politics Sir James Graham has his place as Peel 's chief lieutenant and Home Secretary in the...

THIS is an excellent selection of writings from eighteenth-century critics, beginning with Dennis and ending with Uvedale Price, designed to show how in the eighteenth century...

by Alan Conder. (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) THE translator of poetry always attempts the impossible ; he is, in the large majority of cases, pitting his talent against genius, and,...

By CUSTOS UNDER the lead of gilt-edged, markets are continuing their slow and cautious recovery. Buying by financial institutions, principally the insurance companies, has...

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