• went unheeded. He showed that the moment had been reached when the use of force could up longer be postponed. What he did not show was that the force used was the minimum...

The statement issued after the week-end meeting of the six Powers taking part in the European army plan shows how the misapprehensions surrounding the scheme are dropping away....

It may be assumed that the strong warnings given both to Communist China and to Soviet Russia regarding action in South East Asia at the United Nations meeting this week are in...

It would be a mistake to d:sregard as unimportant, or to dismiss as altogether unreasonable, Germany's reaction to what she regards as French encroachments in the Saar. What has...

than the debate initiated by the representative of Nationalist China in the political committee of the United Nations last Saturday on alleged violations of the Sino-Soviet...

The State and Church issue in one form or another is nearly as old as the Church and the State in this country, but the problem tends to be a little different in every age....

The direction of labour to specific industries was one of the harshest civil measures made necessary by the war and, short of war, nobody wants it back. The Notification of...

A SQUITH once playfully remarked that the Lloyd George Coalition staggered from crisis to crisis. He could have said that with complete truth of any Government we have had since...

The Flats Sub-Committee of the Central Housing Advisory Committee, whose report, Living in Flats, was published on Thursday, is at last saying something which the general public...

T HE chill that settled on the House of Commons on Tuesday as the Chancellor of the Exchequer worked through his second list of measures to cope with the financial crisis was...

can have any illusion about the effect the reduction of the tourist allowance to £25—for the whole year—will have. It must virtually ban Britons from holidays in those...

form boys, one in the London region, one in Yorkshire, have been good enough to send me details of their school day. There is no space to reproduce them in full here, but there...

far as to call it friend, the Academie Internationale, has raised its half-forgotten head again, this time in a severely Anglo- Saxon guise as the International Academy, with,...

of his choice as Governor-General of Canada once it was decided by the Canadian Government that the post should be held by a Canadian. Mr. Massey may fairly be regarded as the...

T HE appointment of Lord Alexander as Minister of Defence seems likely to cause some party controversy, in spite of the obvious qualifications of the late Governor-General of...

And much more respectable people too. JANUS

T HE relationship between France and French North Africa is a far more intimate one than has. ever existed between Britain and any Mohammedan territories. In French North Africa...

By KENNETH TYNAN N 0 new plays by Robert Sherwood, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller or William Saroyan; and two smudges, both quickly erased, by Elmer Rice and Maxwell...

By DINGLE FOOT I T is over 40 years since the House of Lords dismissed the defendant's appeal in the case of H,,/ton v. Jones. "A person charged with libel," said Lord...

By HAMILTON KERR, M P. T HERE is a stir on the floor of the Bundestag, the Lower House of the German Federal Assembly in Bonn, as members stream back to their seats from the...

By ROBERT WOODALL I N a recently published report Our Dumb Friends' League deplored the decline in the agricultural horse-population of Britain. No doubt many people who either...

By HAROLD NICOLSON / T is recommendable, if one wishes to obtain full benefit from travel, to make experiments, not in space only, but also in time. There is a great difference...

THEATRE Sunset in Knightsbridge. By Ireland Wood. (Westminster.) IT was rather like coming from the clear night into a stuffy room where a lot of people sit around yawning...

Quo Vadis. (Carlton and Ritz.)—Home at Seven. (London Pavilion.)—Golden Girl. (Leicester Square.) Quo Vadis is certainly colossal ; not only as a spectacle but also as a bore....

THE landscape seems to be taking on a new, utilitarian shape says an editorial in the Eastern Daily Press forwarded by a correspondent in Norfolk. In my part of the world, as 1...

THE whole production of Wozzeck does Covent Garden much credit. Dr. Kleiber never forgets the composer's injunction that this is " eine Piano-Oper except for the explosions,"...

Loss of a ferret has been a minor tragedy for H. He must buy another at a time when prices are high. I met him in the lane when he was going for the third or fourth time to try...

GREY seals bob their heads out of the sea, Stare with moon faces as the boat swims by Round heads, round eyes ; A dignified surprise, No effort to communicate with us, No...

When the dog saw me he veered off across the field. I was puzzled at his behaviour, but when I went on I discovered a flock of sheep crowding in a corner. So many frightened...

If you possess cloches put down a few in rows over ground where you intend growing parsnips, broad beans and peas in the coming month. Beans and peas can be advanced by sowing...

Because it is one of the few birds seeming to show a disregard for its own comfort, standing in a bleak place by the hour to catch a small fish, the heron always strikes me as...

Set by N. Hodgson In her Benefits Forgot Miss G. B. Stern writes that she found the following entry in one of her rough notebooks, but is quite unable to attach any meaning to...

Report by Marghanita Laski A prize was offered for potentially immortal quotations of not more than one and a half lines in length, together with the name of the original work...

Hardly a week passes without some event to remind us of the deficiencies of our precautionary or preventive police. This week it is a colliery explosion, by which three men have...

The Creed of the Church SIR,—May I venture to supplement the Rector of Wotton's letter in your issue of January 25th? I have placed for use in our parish church copies of The...

faith has much he would like to say in retort to Mr. Nickol. I will however confine myself to three points. 1. The Book of Common Prayer does not pretend to be an intro-...

SIR,—Janus wonders whether Manchester Grammar School sends all its brigtrt boys to Cambridge, since they have gained thirteen scholarships and two exhibitions there during the...

pointed out that the - first and only creed of the Early Church was "Jesus is the Lord." St. Peter on the day of Pentecost, in his first defence of Christianity, ended by...

successes at Cambridge, there is one mis-statement which I hope you will allow me to correct You speak of Clifton as being "mainly or entirely" a day school. In round figures,...

Stit,—We cannot tell exactly what the Commonwealth Finance Ministers meant by their references to sterling convertibility, but I think your leader, Sterling Fights Back,...

dealing with the recent Southall case, Mr. G. W. R. Thomson maintains that the Bishop qf London's approval of the candlesticks should have settled the matter. This argument...

Silt,—Having agreed to pay a rent for a house first let since 1939, a tenant can straightaway apply to a Rent Tribunal to say what a reason- able rent would be. If the Tribunal...

Si,-1d his reiterated defence of the King's stay at Botha House, Janus continues to miss the point. The point does not lie in legalistic arguments as to the-ownership of the...

Candlemas. While agreeing in the main with Mr. Thomson, I must suggest that he overstates his case when he writes: "Candles have always been used as a part of Christian worship,...

SIR,—One is grateful to your correspondent for reminding us that Calvin Coolidge "did not choose to run," not "did not choose to stand" for the Presidency in 1928. Yet, though...

SIR,—As a Congregationalist, I have been very interested in the article and subsequent correspondence which have recently appeared in your pages on the above subject. I should...

SIR, —One hesitates to challenge Professor Brogan on a question of fact, but he is surely wrcng is asserting that the French Socialists were the main 'beneficiaries of the new...

SIR,—May I suggest that, when he writes about "grizzled:squirrels," Ian Niall must surely be referring to the north country. Living on a farm in Dorset, it is my experience that...

Long Live the League! A History of the League of Nations. By F. P. Walters. (Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 2 vols. 60s.) To the...

Birds as Individuals. By Len Howard. (Collins. 10s. 6d.) WHEN Dai win landed on the manless Galapagos, a hawk perched on the muzzle of his gun. When in the opening years of...

Thornton's Temple of Flora, with Plates. Described by Geoffrey Grigson, with bibliographical notes by Handasyde Buchanan. (Collins. £8 8s. Od.) IN this age of meanness...

Pleasures of New Writing. An Anthology edited by John Lehmann. (John Lehmann. 21s.) CONSIDERING the importance of Mr. Lehmann's New Writing it should not really be surprising...

IN reviewing a recent study of Santa Teresa in these columns, Professor Peers spoke of her compelling power of capturing those not primarily interested in saints and mystics at...

Him powerful is snobbery today ? Miss Laski shows us a life ‘poisoned by it, and- the generic title of her book would seem to imply that she regretfully looks on her Wendy as a...

Cesar Franck. By Leon Vallas, translated by Hubert Foss. (Harrap. 15s.) IN a sense asar Franck represents an extraneous element in the French tradition. His music is an...

Cruelty to Children. By Dr. Eustace Chesser. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) THE problem of cruelty to children or neglect of them in the home .has been much discussed in the last five...

HERE are a lot of pretty good books and no really bad ones, and, if that isn't an encouraging beginning, I don't know what is. Keep Cool, Mr. Jones (Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) by...

GEORG BI:JCHNER is in danger of joining the company of German writers who are known abroad only through the distorting medium ot music—in this instance through Alban Berg's...

Stephen Hobhouse. (James Clarke. 12s. 6d.) MANY who lived through the first World War will recall a considerable agitation over the prison treatment of conscientious objec-...

16s.) A Boox on English popular art must be reading tinged with sadness today when almost every art described in its pages is irretrievably lost. Giants are no longer made for...

James Pope-Hennessy's book reviewed in last week's Spectator. The correct title is Monckton Milnes: Tle Flight of Youth, 1851-1885.

the Festival awards nor, considering that their average age is 43, can one say that they promise to add any future greatness to English poetry. Each in his way is accomplished,...

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By CUSTOS AFTER Mr. Butler's second instalment of measures to meet the crisis some investors may feel that the fate being prepared for them in Whitehall is little short of...