T HE Labour Party's motion of censure in the House of Commons last Monday could have been the largest single contribution which _that Party has yet made to the frustration of a...

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Four things have happened in the past twelve months to change the rather severe view which the Government was, rightly, taking of the high cost of supporting home agriculture....

were deprived of their new enter- tainment. It was reasonable enough to support, as the Spectator did, the idea that there should be an alternative to the BBC, provided that its...

can only settle its problems by top-level talks. Next Thursday representatives from the Cotton Board will travel to London for discussions with the Prime Minister, the...

responsibility for what were bound, retrospectively, to become errors, has been striking. He now threatens the Hungarian people with all the rigours of the Khruschev regime.

left Peking on Sunday for Tibet. Both, are under twenty years of age; not much is known about the Panchen Lama, but the Dalai Lama is a serious, idealistic and intelligent...

understand the conflict which has broken out in Southern Viet Nam between the Prime Minister, M. Ngo Dinh Diem, and what are called `the sects' without taking some account of...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE Y ES, yes, everyone knows it. The majority in favour of withdrawing the Whip from Mr. Aneurin Bevan was only twenty-nine, and that which defeated the amend-...

THE CHISWICK AND BRENTFORD borough council has set up a sub-committee to go into the proposal that a penny should be put on the rates in order to guarantee the local theatre,...

pelled from the Parliamentary Labour Party by the majority vote of Labour MPs. This is being done because Mr. Bevan flouts the majority decisions of the Parliamentary Labour...

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letter to the editor of this journal is published on another page. I applaud the American Postmaster General's impounding of a translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata on the...

the subject of compulsory fluoridation of water supplies; and from the welter of technicalities emerges the—to me— disconcerting revelation that I can be subjected to a medical...

By LORD RAILSHAM W HEN Bagehot wrote about the Constitution a century ago he defended the House of Lords on the ground that those who inherited large landed estates afforded the...

By SIR RICHARD ACLAND I N recent times the powers of organisations and of their controllers have increased and the stature of the individual member has diminished. Naturally the...

By D. W. BROGAN I REMEMBER asking a Frenchman who had escaped from occupied France what various eminent Frenchmen involved in the catastrophe were doing. 'They are preparing...

Saigon I ' F I were going to commit suicide,' said the Chaomuong, 'the means 1 should choose as the most comfortable and the most certain, although rather expensive, would be...

By JOHN BETJEISiAN M AUNDY Thursday will be the lust day for having a meal in the Holborn Restaurant on the corner of Kingsway. It was more the sort of place to which Lupin...

mouth told me that he always carried a lemon in his pocket day and night as a cure for rheumatics. He said it was extra- ordinary how it relieved him, and showed me a peculiarly...

vegetable garden this means such things as summer carrots, spinach, lettuce, brussels sprouts and summer cabbage. The last two should be sown in a seedbed for transplanting...

him to be one) presses upon me the theory that since every- thing emerged from the water, all creatures can swim. I wonder if this will give a great deal of confidence to a...

VEX NOT HIS GHOST I F Orde Wingate had been hanged for murder, and if Mr. Leonard Mosley had written a play about him, the Lord Chamberlain would not have granted the play a...

She could not bear the whistle and the slap, The fustian prospect of a farmer's lap. Her father moped. Her sisters swore. She cried. Dreamed of the Prince, neglected all her...

were offered to boys and girls at school in the United Kingdom or Eire for (a) a story, (b) an essay, or (c) a sonnet. The winning story was published last week. By K. E....

objective in his article on this current problem. His main thesis that, in his own words, 'the answer to evil of any kind is not concealment, evasion, but knowledge and edu-...

Could Britain Fight ? Professor Norman Gibbs The Censorship Plot H. G. Mu/lens J. Cotton, E. D. Merralls Sheila Prior-Palmer Underpaid Professions D. Burridge, H. Mills...

now writing in defence of horror comics but against the Bill which proposes to ban them. Perhaps in the interval he has actually seen a horror comic! However we are now on...

SIR,—While—in common with the vast majority of your readers, I imagine—I must applaud the action recently taken by the Postmaster General of the USA in impound- ing a...

Cary's article, 'The Censorship Plot,' but he is surely letting his imagination run away with him when he describes the Bill to outlaw horror comics as simply the first move in...

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a gloomy picture of the prospects of future shopping facilities in the centre of the City of London. Its rebuilding may of course result in fewer shops than in the past—one...

unique feature of their plight. Their troubles are not merely the result of rising living costs, but are mainly caused by the temporary disappearance of promotion prospects. A...

March 20, 1830 A MAN who wants to get rid of his wife must go to Doctors' Commons to satisfy the civil law; he must go to Westminster to satisfy the common law; time was when...

has drawip some red herrings across the trail. His argu- ments are the result of false reasoning, but at first sight they might appear plausible enough. May I, therefore, please...

March 11, has stated all his facts correctly. 1. In comparing the cashiering capabilities of the girl of twenty-three years and the man of forty, perhaps the man was a chief...

SIR,—In his interesting review of The Social Foundations of Wage Policy Mr. Brian Inglis is unfortunate in his choice of the pro- fessional league footballer as representative...

THEATRE The Lesson. By Eugene lonesco.—Saerifice to the Wind. By Andrd Obey. (Arts.) Tim double programme at the Arts should appeal to the metaphysically minded theatre- goer....

BY an instructive chance, two European 'realists' are showing together in London : at the Leicester Galleries, Renato Guttuso, best known of Italian post-war painters; at...

a secondary figure 'only there to show to what length Antonio will go to secure Bassanio's happiness.' Sunday's TV 'Merchant' stuck to the actor-manager tradi- tion, with...

De- sire of Monsieur Bard. (Curzon.) SPENCER iritscy has appeared on our screens for such a long time we are apt to take his talents for granted. We know that he will never give...

Ir is permissible for a television critic writing his first piece to talk about more general topics than the particular programmes he has been watching, and I want to start my...

By MARTIN TURNELL F RANCOIS MAURIAC observes in one of his critical essays that, of all French writers, Racine is the least accessible to foreigners. 'His realm,' he writes, 'is...

The Prospects for Communist China. By W. W. Rostow. (Chap- man and Hail, 40s.) Tuts is less a diagnosis and prognosis, as it claims to be, than a study in wishful thinking, and...

regard as almost superhuman.' Mrs. Trowel!, who directs the School of Art at Makerere College, Uganda, has no such preconceptions. She writes, simply and intelligibly about...

The Greek Myths. By Robert Graves. (Penguin Books: two volumes, 3s. 6d. each.) ROBERT GRAVES'S complete Greek mythology is a most admirable and important work. It deserves the...

Satehmo: My Life in New Orleans. By Louis Armstrong. (Peter Davies, 12s. 6d.) LOUIS ARMSTRONG is on of the last and incomparably the best- known of the great negro musicians of...

Moths. By E. B. Ford. (Collins New Naturalist Series, 35s.) THERE is a book to be written about a cult of sinister fellows whose delight it is to lurk in lime groves at dusk in...

10s. 6d.) A Dying Fall. By Henry Wade. (Constable, 10s. 6d.) 'IT is DIFFICULT,' announces Sir Jon Nappleby in Murder in Pastiche, `to solve a case without a thorough knowledge...

No Joy of Africa. By W. R. Loader. (Cape, 12s. 6d.) THE ichabod situation is both enticing and dangerous. Splendour and decay; the wreck of empire; nostalgia and queasiness :...

MR. TURNER'S translation, a sound, colloquial one, is of Part I of Barclay's Euphormionis Lusinini Satyllcon, first published in Paris in 1603. In its time, this was a book of...

an introduction by Edward H. Weatherly. (Geoffrey Cumber- lege, 23s.) THIS correspondence between the editor of the Whig political weekly, The North Briton, and his friend and...

open to the Public, a companion volume to the English collection also published by Country Life, is well timed and will be especially appreciated by the growing body of...

36s.) 'GissiNo's reputation is at the mercy not only of critics but also of publishers,' writes Dr. Donnelly, and her work should be mentioned first as a well-considered plea...

STOS By CU As my colleague anticipated on March 4, the equity market has again tested its recent low point of 177 on the index. On Tuesday of this week—the last day of the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT • • It is now clear that by March 7 specula- tive investment in. Wall Street had over- reached itself. The stock market had been rising throughout 1954...

The usual prize was offered for a sonnet containing the following lines (not necessarily consecutively or in this order): To unknown lands across the uncertain sea As Goya would...

similar form of Paul Fleming's sonnet Auf eine Hochzeit : Was tun denn wir, dasz wir die saszen Jahre, Der Jugend Lenz, so lassen Fusz f fir Fusz Voriibergehn? Soil uns denn der...

ACROSS 1 Suitable blossom for Lord Mackin- tosh's buttonhole? (6). 4 'Some heart once-with celestial fire' (Gray) (8). 8 Praised a change in Heaven (8). 10 'What-home-spuns...