T HE Government's declaration of policy regarding the future of the B.B.C. does not inspire confidence. The case for an imme- diate enquiry into the whole future of broadcasting...

The search for another compromise formula to fit the diametri- cally opposing requirements of Russia and the Rest continues, this time in the field of atomic control. The point...

The general 'strike which paralysed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Corn-. pany's fields in the Khuzistan province of Persia on Sunday was so sudden that explanations have mostly begun...

The Conference of Foreign Ministers.ended on Friday in time to give its participants a fortnight's respite (so far as a return to their normal departmental duties constitutes...

The tangled story of Mihailovitch has been hard for English readers to unravel, though controversy about the condemned leader's vices and virtues have been almost as acute in...

The principal argument for a five-day week in industry is that, through the beneficial influence of increased leisure, a larger total output can be produced in a shorter time....

I F it were possible to be sickened with talk of such delectable possibilities as a tank full of petrol, a tobacconist's visible shelves crowded with cigarettes or a larder...

T N view of the stir caused by Mr. Morrison's completely uncalled- for for injection of the question of an inquiry on the state of the Press into a discussion on an inquiry on...

just announced, had a double literary personality. He was known first and foremost as an assiduous, enthusiastic and not completely discriminating biographer of Woodrow Wilson....

is published in ten days' time, will provide perhaps unexpected fuel for the fires the anti-Franco brigade in this country are trying to kindle. Lord Ternplewood as Ambassador...

at to, Downing Street on Wednesday at Mrs. Attlee's invitation to hear something of the work of the Y.W.C.A. came away considerably chastened after listening to two speeches...

mensurate with the measure of his bounty. An increase of 5o per cent. on the basic ration was less than was commonly expected, or might reasonably have been hoped for. The other...

Russian control is highly unsatisfactory: Some time ago a question about the whereabouts of a most important and valuable collection of coins in the Kaiser Friedrichs Museum in...

have this week, the announcements inserted in The Times after a Royal Garden Party that Lord and Lady X, or Sir Pompey and Lady Y, or Mr. and Mrs. Climber, " were unavoidably...

under one year." Mr. John Strachey in the House of Commons. Rather disturbingly

By A. C. M. SPEARMAN, M.P. T HE Socialists won many votes at last year's elections by attri- buting to the Conservatives the responsibility for unemplOyment in the pre-war...

By M. J. BONN T HE Paris Conference, though inconclusive, has outlined the future map of Europe fairly clearly. Russia, having renounced Western Poland and the major part of...

By BRIGADIER F. L. BRAYNE T HE plans for the post-war development of India so far pub- lished by the Central Government and provincial governments have not excited enthusiasm...

By E. ASHWORTH UNDERWO9D T HE announcement of the result of tests on the new anti-malaria drug, " paludrine," prompts some assessment of the part which this disease has played...

By PETER FLEMING F ROM these crowded pages* you can still ascertain Hitler's tele- phone number, though both his marriage and his death are recorded. You can still search (but...

By HAROLD NICOLSON A GREEK gentleman who had not. visited London since 1940 remarked to me this week that what struck him most on return- ing to England was the kindliness and...

" Courage of Lassie " and " Bikini—The Atom Island." At the Empire.—"Laurel and Hardy." At the Cameo.—"United Harvest." General Release. LASSIE, as you must know by this time,...

MR. MERVYN PEAXE typifies the tendency among some of the younger artists to cast their net widely in different waters. He started as a painter, turned—partly for practical...

A LOVELY summer day enhanced the pleasure of all music-lovers who went to Glyndeboume last Friday afternoon for the reopening of Mr. Christie's delightful opera house to hear...

Sin,—The Headmaster of Northallerton Grammar School, writing on "Education and Politics" in The Spectator of July 12th, admirably describes the working of the present scheme for...

THE EDITOR A LIVING IN THE CHURCH Snt,—Any corporation, institution or business concern - which aims at recruiting capable employees must promise them, first, a living wage...

Snt,—It is to be hoped that Lord Macmillan's account of Brougham's novel, Albert Lunel, will help to dispel the legend, still current Jo the antiquarian book trade, that a bare...

July 12th, says " Selection at eleven for these differing types of Secondary Schools presents many difficulties." The choice of i r as a dividing line was not originally made, I...

Sta,—We are quitting India because neither side wants us. Why not quit Palestine where neither side wants us? The League of Nations invited us to go there to found a National...

Sta,—I find myself in considerable disagreement with your contributor of the article " Sponsored Radio." I must explain that I have recently been released from service in the...

you permit me to state, although somewhat belatedly, that Mr. Edward Crankshaw, who so ably reviewed the recently published book, The Dark Side of the Moon, is mistaken when...

agreeable article with the above title, falls into an erros in attributing two novels to our Mr. Winston Churchill. He wrote Savrola, but not The Celebrity, which was the first...

consider only the facts. They are that we have forced more than half a million Jews into Palestine already, and now demand that another hundred thousand should be received,...

Sra,—I wonder why Mr. McClenaghan wishes to distort Mr. R. S. Hill's letter into a claim by Jews for " Christian charity." Mr. Hill's suggestion was that we, as Christians,...

Sex,—As a motorist of 47 years' standing, and as one who laid up his car when asked to by the Coalition Government; and bought another to enjoy the basic ration when received,...

Sna,—This Government is, as is indeed obvious from its actions and appearances, a Beer and Whisky Government. Mr. Dalton has informed a listening world that he " enjoys a glass...

Just before midnight the lightning began, flashing out in broad sheets up and over the sky, in a bed-making movement. The castings gradually became continuous, so that one could...

Sta,—I write once more to point out that nothing has been done to stop the wickedness and stupidity of retaining the slave labour of authentic anti-Nazis, men who consistently...

a . cuckoo striking his gong. Last evening I watched a yellowhamther while he repeated his familiar ditty about "a little bit of bread and no cheese.". He perched on a porcelain...

Six,—To avoid possible misunderstanding, I should like to make it dear that the article on " Cologne Night Life," published in your issue of June z8th, refers to conditions...

THE evening preceding the night of that abnormal storm on July 3rd which swept the south-east coast like a tornado was extraordinarily calm. A newish moon was sinking westward ;...

I got up next morning thinking to discover disaster. But the corn- field showed no signs of the struggle. The farmer will not have to cut by hand, for the wheat stands firm, in...

that whisky contributes far more to this nation's food supplies than . it takes away. If you consider last year's exports of whisky, ke example, you find that for every Li...

Two particular pests this year are the flea-beetle and the ant. I have no compunction about sprinkling a mixture of D.D.T. and derris dust on the former as he consumes my youilg...

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The Tribute to Shaw G. B. S. 90. Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work. Edited by S. Winsten. (Hutchinson. 21s.) Mx. SHAW is ninety ; he was born two years after Wilde, who...

The Merry Wives of Westminster. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) The Merry Wives of Westminster. By Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) THIS latest volume...

Dr. Johnson and Company. By Robert Lynd. (Penguin Books. ls.) Da. CAIRNS, formerly Minister of Davidson Church, Eyre Place, Edinburgh, who died in 1944, evidently loved his...

PEOPLE can no longer complain of a dearth of literature about India, and this efudite volume shows how far we have advanced, thanks to the devoted work of a generation of...

IN The Heretics Mr. Humphrey Slater has written a curiously shaped and somewhat Anieven novel which this reader for one has found exceptionally interesting. It falls into two...

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Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag. (MacDonald. 8s. 6d.) THERE is a slick facility about this book which is rather disconcerting. The late Herbert Farjeon was, of course, one of our...

and eminently civilised. Here ate articles under the best names on Art, Architecture Music, The Film (nothing on the Theatre), all illustrated with ' beautiful and well-produced...

By CUSTOS THOSE of us who expected a vigorous response in the stock markets to the American loan ratification have been proved in the event a little too optimistic. While there...