The " hang - over " wind - up of i a Parliamentary session is never very exciting, and in spite of the important debate on transport on Wednesday, interest is inevitably centred...

The keynotes of the Conservative conference seem to have been more houses, less Communism, more rearmament, no steel nationalisation. A feature of the conference was the...

no sign of one. Meanwhile papers like the Spectator, which the points at issue in no way concern, while the whole affair involves them in heavy financial loss and , almost...

Korean War and Peace The determined drive, the air and sea predominance and the large reserves of the United Nations forces do not leave the final issue, after the capture of...

N OTHING more momentous has been discussed by the United Nations in its short and chequered history than Mr. Dean Acheson's proposals, under debate . at Lake Success this week,...

A military disaster in a remote and unpopular colonial war usually has more serious repercussions in the mother country than on the spot ; scapegoats are looked for as eagerly...

It must have been most distasteful to the British Broad- casting, Corporation to find its internal affairs figuring prom- inently in its own news bulletins twice in two weeks....

embroil myself, but one outcome of it seems a welcome contribution to the gaiety of nations. Mr. Cal- laghan declined to debate with Mr. Blackburn, so Mr. Black- burn has...

a number of what are reckoned cultured persons gave a list of the English classics they have never -read. . Some weeks ago I acquired (comparatively honestly) a copy of the...

singularly strong one, to enquire unto the claim of the Welsh non-medical practitioner, Mr. Rees Evans, to have discovered a successful treatment for cancer must be counted...

I WAS reading during last week-end the recollections of Baron von Weiszacker, which have just been published in Germany, and was deep in them when (turning from book to...

Churchill slipped on to rather dangerous ground. " Even the six votes of their (The Government's) majority," he said, " would not be theirs—on the contrary there would be six...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. T HE case for further dollar aid to Britain must look very - "Strong in Whitehall ; and no doubt in the light of the new rearmament drive it is...

R concerning ranching announcements in the daily Press conceing ranching developments in Bechuanaland Protectorate may display that large but little-known Protectorate in a...

By WILSON HARRIS T HE opening of the new House of Commons by the King on Thursday begins another chapter in the long history of Parliament. The last chapter, which Mr. Hitler's...

has been called forth by the newly-promulgated scheme for establishing a Roman Catholic Episcopacy throughout England. . . . . . . . . But we believe that Popery cannot live in...

other day Mr. A. J. Cummings printed an important story about food. I have mislaid my copy of the newspaper and I trust he will forgive me if I do not quote him textually. The...

letter more closely he would have seen that I was writing of the purely rural parishes, which inci- dentally vastly outnumber the rest. Of course the problem is different in the...

SIR,—I should like to support the appeal of the Vicar of Crosthwaite that the Newlands Valley School should be retained. He has formu- lated all the arguments in favour of this...

Sin,—Since 1935, when I first saw a blue moon in the Delhi area of North India, I have been pursuing this fascinating subject and, previous to the recent phenomenon which...

SIR, —Owing to absence overseas I have only just seen the review of my book in your issue for September 29th. I am pazticularly grateful to your reviewer, and not least that he...

PELOTA SIR,—The amusing article by Richard Usborne on pelota gives a faulty picture of the celebrated game. I would like to point out that a match where seats are sold is a...

Sin,—My husband and I have just returned to England after driving through a good part, of Normandy and Picardy, and were much im- pressed by the abundance of well-kept woods in...

CINEMA " A Life of her Own." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)--" Let's Dance." (Carlton.) In A Life of'Her Own Miss Lana Turner is told by Mr. Louis Caihern that she cannot find happiness...

THE later concerts of the Leeds Festival improved in quality. On October 5th the Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli gave an exceptionally fine performance of Debussy's...

Caen now vanished, and the Long Mile at Edinburgh, is an embodiment in masonry of a civilisation whose values are being assailed today from within and without. Reach- ing here...

Scotland, I have got back to an Indian summer (either St. Martin's or St. Luke's ; I am never sure which comes first). I find that my neighbour on the hill-top across the valley...

I write this week from St. Andrews, having travelled up through the October weather from the South, leaving the grape-gathering and the warm wet hop-gardens, where much of the...

IN contemporary English literature there is no one more respected than Mr. Blunden for that combination of the loving scholar, of the local and national patriot, and of the true...

The Real Roosevelt ? Roosevelt in Retrospect : A Profile in History. By John Gunther. (Hamish Hamilton. 255.) THE personality of Franklin D. Roosevelt was most bitterly debated...

Francis Tuker. (Cassell. 25s.) IMPARTIAL historians have still toTrelate the full story of all the events which preceded and immediately followed the partition of India. This...

Repair the Ruins. Reflections on Education from the Christian stand- point. By. H. Blamires. (Geoffrey Bles. 123. 6d.) MR. BLAMIRES has been impelled by his experience as a...

Deadly Miss Ashley. By Stephen Ransome. (Gollancz. ns.) The Long Escape. By David Dodge. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) THESE three books could probably only have been written by...