ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6647 FRIDAY, NOV EMBER 18, 1955 PRICE la.

T HE record of the present Government in foreign affairs was a good one up to the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill. Since April, however, the fact that the pilot has ben...

T HE Daily Herald's Parliamentary Correspondent claimed that Members on both sides of the House applauded Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Lipton's decision to withdraw his charge that...

T HE National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment got off to a rousing start last week with a successful meeting at Central Hall. Westminster. Almost simultaneously...

By our Industrial Correspondent W AGE disputes these days tend to grow more and more like professional boxing matches; for long periods the con- testants are locked together in...

From our German Correspondent M R. MOLOTOV has once again been kind to the Germans. By his straightforward exposition of the aims of Soviet policy in Europe he has spared the...

T HIS week has seen Geneva grinding to its close with very little hope on any side that anything very substantial would be achieVed. All that was achieved in fact was some sharp...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE day after I saw the veteran cars arrive on the front at Brighton I saw pictures of the veteran statesman arriving back in London. I frankly admit that I...

Children's Fund) Christmas cards the other week I said that `the sale of one box of ten cards means, for example, that fifty children can have milk every day for a week.' A box...

I WAS DELIGHTED to see Admiral Sir William James raising the question of censorship under the Official Secrets Act in The Times the other day. Nothing is more infuriating than...

the conference has produced nothing but a dismal draining away of the Geneva Spirit. The Mail, with a different story, suggested that Mr. Molotov had drowned the Geneva Spirit...

results of the survey conducted by the hardware retailers, which have been published this week in the Hard- ware Trade Journal. Of the retailers in the transmitting area, nearly...

circulating recently about the tyre monopoly. The accusa- tion that the Monopolies Commission Report on the tyre ring was being held up at the request of the ringers themselves...

monastery beside the River Nene. On this site stands Peter- borough Cathedral, one of the finest mediwval churches of the West, and the thirteenth centenary has been chosen as...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE / N early September, before Mr. Eisenhower fell ill, the Democratic nomination for President was an honour which almost any prudent politician would have...

Stuart. I was glad of the chance of reading it in book form. When I saw it in Edinburgh at the Festival last year, with Catherine Lacey in the title role, I was struck by the...

This malefactor dies how many times a day. With warders in fair play With dominoes or rummy, draughts or whist. Let's hope they give the rope the proper twist! The brute who...

BY LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY Nicosia, November. I N dealing with the immediate problems in Cyprus it is of importance not to exaggerate the gravity of events in the island....

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS T HE 'ifs' of history always have their fascination. It is sadly obvious that gigantic modern wars bring not merely material, but, even more, moral...

BY COMPTON MACKENZIE I F I were offered my life over again I would reject the offer for many reasons, and among them not the least cogent would be the prospect of having to pass...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN F EW things are more delightful than peculiar public positions, The City Remembrancer, for instance—what does he have to remember? I rang him up to ask. He was...

The Little Christmas Trees W HEN I was a boy 1 believed in misers, I mean I believed that there existed people, like Scrooge, who hoarded money and spent much of their...

in medical circles, where they stimulate by their unorthodoxy; but when the same dish is ragged out for laymen it is neces- sary to• point out that a large pinch of salt makes...

my letter on this subject. I am not con- cerned at the moment with /the moral issues involved, great as these are, but with the in- justice of the Chancellor's present...

S111,--1 am not astonished that Mr. Henry Fairlie should disagree with the sentiments expressed in the letter which appeared in the Daily Express on the subject of Princess Mar-...

Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punish- ment should base its case primarily on the simple moral proposition that judicial killing is evil, and indefensible unless proof of...

Jamming Conunander Sir Stephen King-Hall Sir Angus Watson L. A. Jackson Dr. Philip H. Sutton Lindsay Anderson Robert Kee H. A. J. Deans Mr. Butler's Budget Capital Punishment...

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to a letter sent recently to the Dal& Express by twelve signatories. Since the meaning of the only words which he quotes from this letter does not support the deduction which he...

must ask you to grant me a little space to reply to the questions and criticisms of Mr. Vaughan Wilkes. First, a nettoyage de la situation verbale. By 'Church' I do indeed wish...

Theatre SUMMERTIME. By Ugo Betti. (Apollo.)-- Komuso. By Robert Nichols. (Arts.)— SUSPECT. By Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. (Royal Court.) I SUPPOSE it is trite by this...

JOSEPHINE AND MEN. (Plaza. )— Las CLAN- DESTINES. (Marble Arch Pavilion.) IN the vicarious life of the films the things which make people cry could probably be numbered; on how...

RUSSIAN DANCERS le the verve, energy and technical precision of today's ballet, in any country, matched the dynamism and exuberance of the Moscow State Folk-Dance Company, now...

I'm all in favour of large slabs of entertainment and equally large slabs of instruction, from either the Old Firm or the New Boys; what the constant viewer-listener is too...

SPENCER GORE IN the age of romanticism to which, after a century and a half, we still belong, an artist's early work is liable to be regarded with especial favour;...

(RECORDING COMPANIES: A, Argo; C, Colum- bia; 'Cap, Capitol; D, Decca; H, HMV; LI, London International; 01., Oi5eau-Lyre; T. Telefunken; V, Vox.) OPERA RECENT revivals • of...

NOVEMBER 20, 1830 AFTER an existence of nearly three years, dur- ing which it was chiefly supported by the plans or the forbearance of its enemies. the WELLINGTON Ministry is...

PLAQUES FOR BRITAIN Raymond Postgate SOO& WINE FOR CHRISTMAS Ian Peebles THE PLEASURES OF SMOKING Alfred Dunhill NAUSEA Aloysius Pepper Pleasures of the Table BY ANDRE SIMON...

'Indeed [Miss Trotter] generally sacri- ficed an ox to hospitality every autumn, which, according to a system of her own, she ate regularly from nose to tail; and as she...

BY RAYMOND POSTOATE T HE simplest, if not always the ideal, way of travelling on the Continent is to drive by plaques. In France, especially, I used to go slowly down the...

BY IAN PEEBLES T HE French have a saying that 'Every meal is a banquet with wine.' As it con- cerns a national industry there may be some element of propaganda in it, but this...

'Brew ten. gallons of Strong Ale-wort; when 'tis cool, work it with Yeast, and add as many fresh Red Poppies as the Wort will conveniently wet, so that you may stir it daily :...

. . while no one quite knows what happened to the 100 tons of lupin seeds that arrived in Glasgow from Egypt in 1851. But the suspicion is that they were finally consumed in...

drinking soda water, under the idea that it diminishes their chance of seeing grandchildren around their hearth.' A Manual of Diet In Health and Disease by Thomas King...

BY ALFRED H. DUN1JR L XCEPT for a small minority of men who must almost be called connois- seurs, the practice of smoking, which has never been more popular, is rapidly becom-...

BY Aixmaus PEPPER AVE you ever soaked a pound of nourishing oatmeal in salt water for nine days and then boiled and served piping hot? Well, don't. The result is porridge. But...

At last we can look at the melted moon: . The grass is cool like olives : the cicadas Are almost tender. 'Here at least is peace,' We are trusting, 'after the day's hot...

Church Going Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church : matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawling of...

A glut of heroes makes a legend dull. All's not believed where all is true and good, All rescued in the tiny interval Between the dragon's jaws. Once understood, The moral laws...

The kings, the saints, the martyrs, painted glass, Smashing the sunshine into brilliant stains. The light, transmuted, dyed, is left to pass Into the aisles, but wind and Autumn...

The Art of Mr. Alfred Duggan By EVELYN WAUGH I N the game of 'Horse Racing' played in passenger ships there is always one runner who remains at the starting post while the...

BY KINGSLEY AMIS I N common with most art-forms at any given stage of their development, jazz today stands at the crossroads. I can' not help knowing that if it stays there in...

BY PETER QUENNELL E IGHTY-EIGHT years before the birth of Christ, a noise like the hoarse blaring of a brazen war-trumpet is said to have resounded across Central Italy. It pro-...

By J. D. SCOTT T HERE came into my hands recently a pamphlet* which has started off in my mind a train of speculation. It is a pamphlet about the modern novel, but it is not...

ZOLA. By Armand Lanoux. Translated by Mary Glasgow. (Staples, 16s.) THERE is often an unexplained factor behind changes on the literary stock market. It is easy to see why...

THE RAKE'S PROGRESS. By Ronald Searle. (Perpetua, 15s.) THE LOVERS' TRAVELOGUE. By Raymond Peynet. (Perpetua, 7s. 6d.) THERE is a single, lonely fault about the books of Mr....

THE CAPEL LETTERS. Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey. (Jonathan Cape, 18s.) EVEN the most obtuse reader of War and Peace may be expected to close that long novel aware that...

DON'T CALL ME MADAM. By Ethel Merman. (W. H. Allen, 16s.) LUCKY STAR. The A utobiography of Margaret Lockwood. (Odhams, 12s. 6d.) As the tone of Time and Life grows increasingly...

COARSE FISHING. By Colin Willock. (Faber, 25s.) THE GENTLE ART OF ANGLING. By Bernard Venables. (Rein- , hardt, 15s.) THREE good books out of four is a remarkable average, par-...

COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS. (Faber and Faber, 42s.) IN spite of the recent publication in Britain of Wallace Stevens's Selected Poems (1943), his work is still...

ELGAR 0.M. By Percy Young. (Collins, 30s.) EDWARD ELOAR. By Diana McVeagh. (Dent, 18s.) ROTn authors might better have observed Miss McVeagh's closing words of her Life : 'The...

BADLY burned in a crash-landing during the blitzkrieg, William Simpson was shuttled from hospital to hospital in the bow-wave of the advancing Germans : . . . we travelled by...

THEORY OF GAMES AS A TOOL FOR 11r1E. MORAL PHILOSOPHER. By R. B. Braithwaite. (C.U.P., 6s.) I HAVE a feeling that this lecture by the Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy...

HERE IN SPAIN. By Chapman Mortimer. (Cresset, 21s.) BECAUSE Spain is different the books about it must be different also, concerned in their various ways with an unmapped...

STYLE. By F. L. Lucas. (Cassell, 18s.) English and have no unforced appreciation English, who has been nourished on the new 'I don't read to enjoy but to evaluate,' says a MR....

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU. By F. C. Green. (C.U.P., 27s. 6d.) THE author of the Confessions would have been content that in writing of his work the emphasis should be biographical....

GUNBOAT 658. By Lieutenant L. C. Reynolds, DSC, RNV II. (William Kimber, 16s.) Inus - raious. By Kenneth Poolman. (William Kimber, 16s.) THE LAUGHING Cow. 13y Jost Metzler....

THE INFANT WITH THE GLOBE. By Alarc6n. Translated by Robert Graves. (Faber, 15s.) FICTION has two favourite sorts of lovers, the suitable and th e unsuitable, or the cosy and...

R. H. WILENSKI'S Dutch Painting first appeared in 1929, when it was mainly concerned with figure painting. its scope was enlarged in a new edition in 1945, and it now appears in...

literature of motoring is enormous, and begins to challenge (in quantity) the literatures of such pastimes as cricket, sailing and archery. Whether it will also challenge them...

25s.) Gons OF THE NORTH, By Brian Branston• (Thames and Hudson, 25s.) IT is true that we know next to nothing of the Norse gods before the writing of the pros! Edda, in...

THE WHITE LADY OF THE BRANDBERG. By Henri Breuil. (Faber and Faber, £5 5s.) THIS sumptuous and very reasonably priced volume, published for the Abbe Breuil Trust by the Trianon...

suitable for both apples and pears. Use the sharpest possible knife or secateurs and always cut back to sound wood, making a clean cut that will leave no possibility of...

They were talking of poultry and Christmas When the little man joined the group, and his dejection was most evident. 'I've 'ad it,' he said, shaking his head and taking it for...

There was something scuttling among the !ayes at the foot of the wall, so I disturbed the debris with a stick. Two field mice bolted. °he went along the side of the wall and I...

BY IAN NIALL A FRIEND says that he has heard that the story that yew leaves are poisonous is a legend, and that cattle that die from eating them are not Poisoned but succumb...

BLACK, 6 mon. WHITE, 7 men. WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Allison: R—R 5, threat Q x Kt. Against 'random' moves...

in an antho - logy hunt are invited (for a prize of £.5) t° concoct a literary plain pudding by fittio together fourteen lines selected front well - known poems. The subject...

Competitors were asked for replies from Lucasta to Lovelace. Celia to Ben Jonson, one of the Virgins to Herrick, Anon to Hartley Coleridge, or Lady Clara Vere de Vere to...

ACROSS I To Join in silent confusion (6). 4 Laertes was advised to memorise " few (8). 8 The spot at which to cross the river, for the cattle (8). 10 Greasy joints (6). 12...

Solution to No 859 on page " 4) Ire winners of Crossword No. 859 are: DR. MILLER, 24 India Sficei: fidinburgh 4, and MR, Ii. SHARPY, 112 Fawnbrakc Avenue, Herne ill. SI': 24: '

By CUSTOS THE slump in the gilt-edged market has been halted, but business remains small and sentiment as changeable as the weather- cock. The recovery was largely technical—...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT W ' E mug all be grateful for the American bo om. Our exports to North America in October were a record, being 111 per cent. ° our total. Shipments to the...