It was to be expected that the Daily Worker would represent the invitation as an insult, for the Daily Worker is not interested in economic recovery within the present political...

The most important point in the Commons debate on the -.Budget proposals came right at the end, in the Chancellor's reply, and, as a most regrettable consequence, was never...

Thanks no doubt to a rigorous censorship, relatively little is known about the precise military situation in Indo-China. Paris is full of rumours, and they are of a nature to...

Quite apart from the importance of the proposals General Templer put before the Legislative Council at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, the evidence his statement provided of the...

The Prime Minister of Egypt has to fight simultaneously on many fronts. He has never believed, as his predecessor, All Maher Pasha, for a time hoped, that co-operation with the...

of the World Bank hanging around an unduly long time in Tehran because their presence there was helpful to him politically. But no doubt, also, Dr. Moussadek at first genuinely...

* * * It was astonishing • to discover what a flagitious affair the Budget had turned into between Mr. Attlee's stumbling doubts and Mr. Douglas Jay's appearance at the box on...

The history of the British air forces since the war has been dominated by the decision to sacrifice quantity to quality. The old war-time forces were run down, on the theory...

The benefits which the professional classes will receive under the 1952 Budget proposals must appear to many doctors to be only a partial answer to a question that they have...

T HE chief difficulty in dealing with Russia is the impos- sibility of knowing whether any proposal emanating from Moscow is seriously meant, or represents no more than an...

the past week that the new burden telephone subscribers are to have laid on them has gone almost unnoticed. Take the London area. After July 1st private subscribers are to pay a...

Lindsay of Birker is unorthodox. Not every don at Oxford and Cam- bridge is orthodox; far from it; but Heads of Houses usually are. Lord Lindsay decidedly was not. Nor was his...

inflict on Soviet diplomatists in London in retaliation for the pinpricks the Soviet Government inflicts on our diplomatists in Moscow really do us great credit. To show that...

I HAVE rarely heard anything more brilliant of its kind than the Daniel Stevenson Lecture which Dr. J. B. Conant, the President of Harvard, delivered in London on Monday. The...

referred to the News Chronicle Gallup poll in his winding-up speech on Monday, for the results of the enquiry into the com- mon man's reaction to the Budget are striking. Of...

Butler in the same debate, made what is, superficially at any rate, a good point, in mentioning that the taxes paid on tobacco and intoxicants—the taxes alone—amounted to £986...

quoted Dr. Adenauer's views on the recent Soviet Note on a treaty with Germany. On the same day the B.B.C. News Bulletin spoke, according to its invariable habit, of Herr...

all appearance the Central Colleges at Leeds are to be housed in a building looking like nothing as much as an up-to-date textile factory. It may be that the building will be...

By D. R. GILLIE - 0 NE of the few healthy symptoms of the French Parliamentary system at the present moment is that it continues to throw to the top new men.. Neither M. Edgar...

T HE Indian business-world today is in a state of profound alarm, not because of the recent Communist successes in the elections in some areas of South India or the grave...

By D. W. BROGAN OR the student of politics the last weeks have been full of interest; the rift in the Labour lute now is no mere matter of speculation, and the impact of the...

By THE REV. MERVYN STOCKWOOD T HE empirical approach to Prayer Book revision sug- gested in the report of the Church Assembly Commission on Church and State may provide a part...

By WINIFRED WHALLEY D EMOCRATS believe in differences of opinion. But in every generation there are subjects on- which it is positively indecent to take the unfashionable view-...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEll, M.P. A N athletics meeting is the most bewilderingly delightful sport I know. At cricket or football or racing your attention, when it is attracted at...

By HAROLD NICOLSON MONG the varied feelings aroused in us by the master- pieces of art or nature is the feeling of surprise. We believe that we remember perfectly some admired...

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farce, which Mr. Alec Chines and the Arts Theatre have chosen to succeed Mr. Fry's The Firstborn in their season at the Winter Garden, turns out to be an elaborate setting,...

Angels One Five. (Empire.) Saturday Island. (Odeon.)-- Boots Malone. (Tivoli.) IT has taken a long time for the Battle of Britain to be commemorated in film-form. Angels One...

by Irving Berlin. (Coliseum.) I TAKE this piece for a sort of reprisal. For several decades American audiences have manfully schooled themselves to enjoy, and here and there...

HUMOUR, which should unite, more often divides people of different nationalities, and comedy is more difficult to transplant than tragedy. There must be quite ten people capable...

As I take the tin teaspoon and stir—r The dank brew, I can only concur—r With that railway official's Apt choice of initials Which brands cup and saucer with BR—R. JOHN PETRIE.

LONDONERS still have an opportunity to catch up with the first _exhibition in this country by the 'eminent American veteran Lyonel Feininger, now in his eighty-first year. Most...

of a new first verse of the National Anthem. On the whole the entries for this competition were disappointing— not in numbers but in quality. Entries came from Canada, Kenya...

Set by R. Kennard Davis In Caliban's Guide to Letters Mr. Hilaire Belloc,, giving a specimen review of an imaginary poet, quotes " Great unaffected vampires and the moon " as...

to Sir Henry Self that " the proof of the pudding is in the eating." All, I think, of his proposals, commonly known as " modernist," for diluting the Prayer-Book, have been...

have just read with a sense of strong disagreement Professor Goodhart's unreserved vindication of President Roosevelt's foreign policy during the war, published in the Spectator...

Public Worship Sta,—I have read Sir Henry Self's article with great interest, and with much of it I find myself in full agreement. Most parish priests who attempt to explain...

of a stout stick, some poles for the garden, or even a shaft for a hammer, goes to the hazels. When the quarrymen looked after their own tools, they used to visit the copse up...

SIR, — It is perhaps relevant to recall that the De Re Metallica of "Agricola," to which Dr. Sherwood Taylor refers, was translated and edited by that very distinguished living...

reeds and grasses make such a cover for the bank of the stream that in summer it is often hard to detect the birds and animals that live along the watercourse. While 1 was by...

winter greens and brussels. sprouts. A shot put them to flight, but in a little while they were back. Many a market gardener's heart is broken by the devastation pigeons bring...

Sta,—I have just rather belatedly seen Lord Amulree's excellent article, Aid for Old People, in your issue of February 29th, and am particularly interested in his remarks on...

SIR,—The brief paragraph in your issue of the 14th, on Dr. Williams' appointment to the bishopric of Winchester, seems to strike a false note. The criticism, expressed or...

the soil does not clog. This can be done by adding sand, gravel or even cinders. Heavy, water-holding soil goes sour easily, and does not warm up as quickly as soil that is...

WE decided we had gone far enough. The rough road came up out of the hollow and went over another rocky mound. Our springs w ere in danger, and it was time to turn back because...

The Dictator Rosas has fallen before the combined force of Brazil and the Upper States of the Argentine Confederation. He is now a fugitive aboard an English man-of-war: he will...

The Mind of a Poet So Long to Learn : Chapters of an Autobiography. By John Masefield. (Heinemann. 18s.) i; ! lb read this tranquil and gracious book is like walking by an...

Building in England Down to 1540. By L. F. Salzman. (Clarendon Press. 50s.) Wilms the history of mediaeval architecture and design, at least since the days of Willis and...

THIS book begins and ends with "A Dialogue in a Bar," and every now and then there is another " Dialogue in a Bar " interspersed among the various chapters. In real life the...

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THE purpose of a reconnaissance being to provide data for the next comer, Mr. Murray's report on the party of four he led into the backblocks of Kumaon and Garhwal is a model ;...

Series. 7s. 6d.) MR. ASHLEY has written a concise, sym- pathetic and well-balanced introduction to Wilkie Collins ; it is only unfortunate that his commendable little book...

Tins first volume in a new series, " Classics of the Contemplative Life," under the general editorship of Professor Peers himself, introduces a little-known Spanish mystic of...

By CUSTOS THE City's second thoughts on Mr. Butler's Budget are proving decidedly unfavourable for markets. Whatever the arguments advanced in some quarters that the Budget is...

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