During the past week verbal opposition to Senator McCarthy has reached such a pitch that the impression seems to be growing up that he is about to be defeated '—whatever that...

The Council of Ministers—" the principal instrument of government "—will consist of eight official members (including the Governor), two nominated European members, and six u...

will not take much to cause a deterioration in law and order both in the North and South Sudan." This was a clear, if it was not a reassuring, appraisal. Nobody can afford to...

A recent judgement against a hospital matron and manage- ment committee once again calls attention to the increasing flow of medical litigation since the passing of the Free...

mentary battle for the European Defence Community has begun in Paris. The fate of the one may directly affect the progress L of the other; for those in France who oppose the...

Policy or to interfere with such excess of misplaced zeal in the Management of BOAC. Since they have not the wit to see for themselves that line which they must not cross, it is...

The trouble at the,Tate, and in the columns of the Spectator, Was fast and furious while it lasted. Now that the report of the trustees is out, as a. White Paper, it should be...

It is over twenty years since J. B. Atkins, who died on Tues- day at the age of 82, left the Spectator, but the charm of the m an remains a vivid memory, in the minds of many...

T HE Prime Minister once reminded the House how Haldane, when he was sent to the War Office in 1905, went off to think for two years before launching the reforms which made him...

It is impossible to overstress the importance of this basic assumption. It is crucial for diplomacy, for strategy, and, for that matter, for responsible Press comment. Loose...

I N Paris, whither I was flown on Sunday in a twin-engined Marcel d'Assaut of the French Naval Aviation (" the members of the Rotary Club of Hemel Hempstead welcome 1011 ," said...

BBC is about to r ing into being an imaginary family who will enact on tele- l'_ " ''sion a domestic saga on the lines of Mrs. Dale's, I was at first conscious of a slight...

confronted by a notice which said " No Trespassers." They pressed on regardless until they came to a sort of deserted timberyard, for whose protection the arts of psychological...

In a note last week about authors and libraries my hand- writing was responsible for The Author appearing as The Centaur, a mythical periodical. I am sorry about this.

three-year-old Alsatian, which is acting in a film. Its name is Satan, and it is, he believes, the only descendant of Crumstone Psyche, a sound actress in her day, who, during...

It is well over a year since the Secretary of State for Scotland appointed a committee of sensible and experienced persons to look into various problems affecting red deer in...

The Spectator from time to time invites writers to reply to criticisms of their work. Mr. Charles Morgan here reviews the reviews of The Burning Glass, his play now running in...

BY JENNY NICHOLSON Rome IS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII still lies gravely ill in the Vatican Palace, and devils have been brandishing their tridents in the streets of Rome. While...

special development area some distance from the town proper. These men, and their wives, are pre- - pared to grapple with the inconveniences of a high annual rainfall, and to...

ART WE have a Phenomenon too; all the prodigies are not on the other side of the Channel. The first astonishment has lapsed; the Passage of fifty years, with the forgiveness of...

I Am a Camera. By John van Druten. (New.) —Othello. By William Shakespeare. (Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon- Avon.) BERLIN before Hitler has become a legend: shady cabarets,...

a Highland mental home could so move and delight a play-hardened audience in the capital of Scotland, but it undoubtedly succeeded in doing so. The counterfeit presentation of...

less from the screen than from the Theatre Guild type of musical. Sets are deliberately stylised— something after the manner of a UPA cartoon—with flat, monochrome back- grounds...

Hall on March 12th. There was a large percentage of his compatriots in the audi- ence, for Furtwltngler has something for Germans which no other conductor has; and this became...

by which crop yields are reduced every year by weed seeds that are conveyed by a variety of agents from hedgerows and roadside verges on to farm land ? Does she realise that...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Richards, states flatly that " selective weedkillers have been used all over the country on fields with only beneficial effects," when naturalists,...

of statements which may give your readers a misleading impression of the position of the so-called independent producer, and of British film producers generally, which I should...

SIR,—It would summarise the discussion in the Purity Drive in respect of books if I were to suggest that Milton's Areopagitica were made compulsory as a text book in all...

BILLY GRAHAM fila,—Thank you for John Betjernan's magni- ficent ruminations on Billy Graham and the Greater London Crusade. His commonsense and warm insight are inspired and...

SIR,—I was amused to find a member of my own University admitting his ignorance of Welsh literature, betraying his ignorance of Welsh life and yet prepared to honour us with his...

S IR Mr. Beloff's point is a serious one with which space permitting, I should have dealt. A Kremlin quarrel might indeed start, not .ndeed a civil war or.revolution, but a...

Graham ! A few weeks ago some airmen in my RAF Christian Fellowship asked me to organise a Party to go to Harringay. We went by motor coach last Wednesday. Despite the tiring...

public con- troversy with Dr. Leavis, in criticism of certain aspects of his criticism, I should like to add my name to those (no doubt numerous) who have written urging that...

means, never large, have been so cruelly reduced by the inflated cost of living that they may now rightly be called the new poor. be occupied by old people able and willing to...

SIR,--Thc device of answering chosen snippets from an article in one journal in the columns of another is new to me. Messrs. Peterson and Bartlett's points, such as they arc,...

the Authorised Version in our churches and as "an instrument Of evangelisation." If. we admit that the archaic English of the Authorised Version can blur the message when it is...

Sus,—In your paragraph on Howsham Hall, which is in danger of being pulled down, you refer to the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act, 1953. The classes of build- ings...

the side of Dr. Snow's 'guess ' with which he ended his admirable article last week-- namely, that our horror and fear of atomic weapons will prove our most powerful pro-...

Not everyone is inwardly urged to spend his leisure fishing or tramping the roads in late winter and early spring. There are people resigned to sitting by the fire and waiting...

SIR,—In my article ' John Bull's Other Island ' you have me talking about the availability of Irish ports for " the natives of the Atlantic nations." What I wrote was " the...

he had an anxious look, for he was on his way to see the vet. about a post-mortem on a cow —the second animal he has lost in about two weeks. He mumbled about a complaint called...

aircraft recognition lecture, a new type of aircraft. The lecture was to cover such features as history, performance and characteristics, What' a wealth of aeronautical jargon...

0 sea Summer Cruises give the perfect holidayl This year the "ARCADIA" and the" CHUSAN" will be cruising to the Mediterranean, Atlantic Islands and Northern Ports, from May to...

of Technology, conforms to a somewhat similar pattern. It is ill served by an exaggerated panegyric in the English publisher's blurb : "of immense importance ... unique ... a...

marries a Norwegian called Nora, invents an inflatable bathing-costume, which makes him a 'tycoon,' gels mixed up, rather implausibly, with a communist plot, and ends up as a...

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD N e. 774 The Great Powers and the German Question TERENCE PRITTIE ' The Problem of Egypt COLONEL J. B. SLADE-BAKER The Greatness of Albert Einstein J....

a ma boutonniere. Like many other writers whom France has been late to acknowledge, Gide believed, despite conventions, in the individual, the honest recognition and...

be disturbed by the latest report. The rise in the railroad's operating expenses in 1953 more than offset the increase in the gross receipts, so that the net income was slightly...

company. The signifi- cance of this move has been keenly appreci- ated by the investing public. The New York Stock Exchange makes more demands on listed companies in the...

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applications from suitably qualified can- didates for appointment as Area Youth Officers. Five such officers are required for various parts of the West Riding with probable...