T HE emblematic Anierican eagle has only one head, not two, and President Truman is well on the way to proving that the symbol is not an empty one. A curious sense of restraint...

that if Australian and New Zealand fears of a revived and militaristic Japan were to be set at rest, the Japanese treaty which the Americans are so earnestly seeking would have...

The Persians are undoubtedly right in maintaining that the idea of nationalising their oil industry owed little or nothing to Communist inspiration. On the other hand the unrest...

The battle joined over the South African Representation of Non-Europeans Bill may or may not be long, but it will certainly be bitter. Any hope that the Bill might be declared...

The humiliating and discreditable proceedings of the Foreign Ministers' deputies in Paris are, to all appearance, as far from any conclusion as ever. They could have been...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has never tried to conceal that both the difficulties of his present task and the uncertainties of his future policy have been accentuated by the...

The Ministry of Fuel and Power has lost no time in announc- ing the increase in the price of coal due to the recently announced rise in rail freight charges. The Railway...

T HE House of Commons will not look again on the like of Ernest Bevin. He was an original. There was an elemental force and directness about him. In health he had " the bulk and...

The only consolation that can be found in the strange ending of the trial of seven dockers for conspiring to induce their fellow-workers to absent themselves from work lies in...

The Durham County Council has only itself to blame if its peculiar ideas about local government are now receiving more attention than they have ever attracted in the past. The...

T HE great merit of the Report of the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gambling is that it first of all assembles all the essential facts and figures relevant to its...

T O have known Ernest Bevin was to have known a great man. Agree or disagree with him, you could not doubt that. He was at his greatest, I think, as a leader of labour ; in that...

good reason that perhaps the nearest to actual communica- tion is between the hounds in a pack, and reference is specially made to the tutelage given to a " new entry," a puppy....

Festival of Christian Arts then being held at Reading. Organised by the Reading Christian Council (representing almost all the churches in the town) it was a pioneer venture,...

of Windsor should have written his memoirs, which were published in America on Monday and reviewed by Robert Sherwood in the Daily Express. But it is a great pity. The...

must greater sympathy be extended than to the Prime Minister. He suffers a deep personal loss, for it is a matter of common know- ledge that no one in the Cabinet stood closer...

F 4 RNEST BEVIN was of the company of great Englishmen. as truly representative of the character of the race as, shall we say, Dr. Johnson or Winston Churchill. He was born...

By C. P. FITZGERALD Canberra C HILDREN 'used to believe that the inhabitants of the Antipodes walked on their heads ; had they been taught that Australians. in the pre-war...

of a new Australian foreign policy.)

By RONALD W. CLARK T HE decision taken by the Ramblers' Ass,ociation earlier this month to convene a conference at which the increasing number of " mountaineering " accidents in...

By CANON R. W. STOPFORD D URING the last war it fell to the lot of many thousands of service-men to spend some days in Freetown Harbour, as I did, enduring the torture of a...

of all universities and university cvliego in Britain. There is no limitation as to subject, and they should be ()hour 1,400 words in length.1

To Go On Pilgrimages By STEWART SANDERSON (University of Edinburgh) / N the spring a young man's fancy . . . And yet it is not thoughts of love to which one turns ; not, at any...

By HAROLD NICOLSON E VEN though ten whole days have passed since I was enumerated, I am still stunned by that census form. Certain questions continue to circle like hawks in my...

situations in the social complex more truly night- marish than that of the family clinging by the fingernails to the scrubbed battlements of lower middle-class respectability....

“Teresa." (Empire.)--“Tom Brown's Schooldays." (Gaumont.) ---“Circle of Danger." (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE story of Teresa is not a particularly original one, dealing as it...

THEATRE a Captain Brassbound's Conversion." By George Bernard Shaw. (Old Vic.) THIS production had, on the first night, an air of uncertainty about it. The play, which is not a...

with the local farmers, I hear a chorus of woe. One tells me that the high wind a few nights ago lifted and capsized a house containing day-old chicks. Twenty pounds went west...

The laying down of a new asparagus bed has been the pride of the week, for this is one of those long-term plans come to action, and great care has to be taken in every detail. I...

THAT Sadler's Wells should have put on Janacek's Katya Kabanova is a triumph of initiative over routine. The virtues of this opera are entirely musical ; its disadvantages many...

THE British Museum' has brought out a really splendid show of Turner water-colours and backed them up with some of the choicest things by his contemporaries. If Agnew's recent...

RETURNING from a journey to Edinburgh which had occupied two nights in the train and a full and busy day I was again reminded of what a distinguished naturalist said to me...

sensibly sharpened in my observation of the tiny events that are always crowding the local acres. In this mood of self-welcome home I have watched the flight of the green...

Set by D. R. Peddy It was unfortunate for the newsprint-starved British Press that the neivs of General MacArthur's dismissal and the discovery (.1 the Stone of Scone coincided...

Report by J. R. Glorney Bolton A recent article in the Spectator maintained that " if a wit com- posed a letter from Queen Victoria to her Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, he...

fees offer no serious obstacle to the great demand." The enlarged middle- class, of which he speaks, within the income range of £1,000 to £2,500, may be able to save enough to...

SIR, With reference to the letter of Mr. Charles Orr, published in the Spectator of Ma"rch 16th, 1951, the statement of Dr. Schmidt is, of course, factually incorrect. What...

SIR.—I enjoy Marginal Comment. but here is Mr. Nicolson telling its that he found it rewarding to treat Mr. Rylands' anthology of Shakespeare in a way which he himself declares...

, Spa,—Mr. Stockwood is right to doubt if the public schools would welcome any move which reserves entry is the sons of the wealthier classes. Most headmasters would like to sec...

the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood's letter about the public schools ? First, Mr. Stockwood foresees trouble of two sorts for the public schools, financial and political. As for the...

SIR,—If Mr. Boyd Carpenter will examine my letter again he will s:e that what I object to (in company with the editor of the Spectator and 75 per cent. of the electors) is not...

SIR.—The Borough of Ramsgate includes some land on the coast at Ebbsfleet, which is accepted as being the place at which Hengist and Horsa first landed in this country in A.D....

SIR,—In your very interesting paragraph on the present Anglo-Egyptian negotiations, you state that " the Bevin-Sidky formula regarding that" (i.e. a satisfactory settlement of...

MR. BEARD'S ENAMELLED DAGUERREOTYPES Mr. Beard, with the aid of his artist, M. Mansion, has effected a valuable improvement in daguerreotype portraits, by combin- ing with the...

SIR,—In your review of Tire Northern Heights the author is quoted as stating that "St. Pancras was built primarily for beer traffic from Burton," This, surely, is hardly...

SIR,-1 have read with interest'Mr. van Thal's courteous and informative letter. It is quite true that a few publishers do actually produce a small number of books of literary or...

SSZ TOU have buried your novel under a heap of details which are all well done but utterly superfluous ; they hide the essentials and must be removed—an easy task." Thus Sias...

Capital Punishment The Shadow of the Gallows. By Viscount Templewood. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Loan TEMPLEWOOD, with the weight of his large authority behind him, has given us a...

MR. GARNETT has arranged this selection from T. E. Lawrence's work biographically ; letters, diaries, memoranda and so on inter- sperse passages from The Seven Pillars of Wisdom...

The Liberal Imagination. Essays on Literature and Society. By Lionel Trilling. (Seeker and Warburg. is.) THERE is a fear, common among European writers and very clearly...

THERE have been catalogues of private libraries before, on an even more elaborate scale than this. There is, for example, the vast record of the Ashley Library, in which...

The Cosmati. By Edward Hutton. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. Li is.) The Painters of Ferrara. By Benedict Nicolson. (Paul Elck. Li is.) ALTHOUGH the Cosmati worked in a far less...

AFTER a long period of comparative neglect and under-estimation, the greatness of Francois Couperin is being slowly but surely recognised. The revaluation of his talents may be...

Shadows Move Among Them. By Edgar Mittelholzer. (Peter Ncvill. ios. 6d.) I READ something the other day about the prevailing mood of Ausweglosigkeit in Germany today. That, on a...

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IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct ,,,lotion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, W s . Isl. Envelopes...

Books. r ss.) IN a series so extensive as the well-known County Books there must necessarily be variations in quality. It is surprising, none the less, to find a volume so much...

Climate in Everyday Life. By C. E. P. Brooks, (Beim. 2 t3.) MR. BROOKS has already given us a number of books on climate ; here he applies his knowledge to its practical...

By CUSTOS THESE are inflation markets with 'a ven- geance. Flying straight in the face of Mr. Gaitskcll's ostensibly disinflationary Budget the market in equity shares has...