China has for very many years attracted and interested Mr. Nehru. But his present visit is hardly a pilgrimage. To judge by his recent utterances—and indeed by the facts—the...

T IMRE is not the slightest indication at the time of writing that either the Minister of Labour's appeal or the more sharply worded call to order from the TUC has made any...

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T HERE can be little doubt that it was Sir Winston Churchill who most enjoyed the reassembly of Parham ment on Tuesday. The knighthood and Garter conferred on Mr. Eden made...

The emergency in Kenya has now been going on for exactly two years and the occasion was marked by a report issued by the Kenya War Council on the progress of operations against...

It was Dr. Adenauer himself who said that the Saar territory presented the perfect example of a problem demanding a supra-national' solution. Its problem is at all events one...

After a retirement of five hours on October 18 the jury in the ease of The Image and the Search failed to agree upon a verdict, and Messrs. Heinemann the publishers, and Mr....

HIS week's Cabinet changes have had the effect, no doubt particularly gratifying to the Prime Minister, of still further deepening the mystery about his own inten- tions. The...

The British contributions to the international sporting exhibition which opened at Diisseldorf this week are said to be impressive; they include the head of a red deer from '...

Royal Inniskillings Fusiliers repelled a raid on their depot by a party of armed Irishmen, losing five men wounded in the process, is a curious freak of history. How long is it...

A reader writes to report his experience of what sounds like a minor racket on the railways. On October 11 he travelled to Manchester on the 11.45 from Euston. He got to Euston...

0 F the men who have earned, or anyhow received, pro- motion in the Cabinet reshuffle perhaps the most interesting, and almost certainly the most single- minded, is Mr. Nigel...

We shall soon all be facing once more the problems- economic, aesthetic, and social—in which Christmas cards annually involve us, and I am quite sure that I am doing everybody a...

It was not at first easy (his mother told me) to deduce, front the small boy's description of it as a play about a space- man,' the type of dramatic entertainment which his...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE ESSIMISM, like misanthropy, is an essential part of the conservative mind, but Professor Michael Oakeshott's provocative article in the Spectator last week...

By JOHNARLOTT T HREE thousand, nine hundred and ninety-three--one third of all the accidental deaths in England and Wales during 1950—were caused by road accidents. Foes all...

By BERNARD FERGUSSON HE last time I went on board a troopship at Southamp- ton was as a subaltern seventeen years ago, when this same battalion sailed for Palestine. For the...

T HERE is something so touching about the attitude of borough surveyors and parks superintendents towards ` amenities' that one does not like to be unkind about it. Yet there is...

Windfall in Athens. (Cameo-Poly.)--- Bread, Love and Dreams. (Curzon, October 29th.) — We, The Women. (Cinephone.) Windfall in Athens has, it seems, hit Greece for six. For...

THEATRE This latest example of the American musical, coming to us by the courtesy of Messrs. Cole Porter and Abe Burrows, turns into a rout the retreat which had already begun...

its most experienced producer, Eric Fawcett, to the Rank Organ- isation. Not only because Rank is prepared to pay Fawcett what he is worth, but for the production facilities...

SIR,-Mr. W. G. Fiske thinks that chi Kensington Society's part in saving Holland House has been over-estimated. In my opinion, he under-estimates it, and I speak as a former...

Collages and Objects, is really an exhibition of forty years of Dada art, even though it includes artists, from Picasso to Pasmore, who would disclaim the tag. The effect is...

THE DEEPENING CRISIS Sta,—The impression is given by Lord Hailsham, in reference to the Munich settle- ment, that the nine months gained by it were to our ultimate military...

SIR,—In a world of little-buying money the serious weeklies are among the best value for a handful of pence. This is a worth jealously to be guarded. And one feels that Mr....

to hear of the Muirhead Society, recently founded in Birmingham to provide opportunities for philosophical discussion similar to those provided in London by the Aristotelian...

in last week's Spectator were revealing in more ways than one. It is comforting to know that even so polished a speaker as he has preliminary troubles of one kind or another,...

the poem that will make correspondence on the subject of movements seem a silly and idle time-waster ? It is time we stopped talking criticism, either in verse or prose, and...

SIR,—A Mithraic temple has great interest for students of Christian antiquity, because Mithraism in some of its rites and sacraments bore an outward resemblance to Christianity,...

A woodpigeon was sitting in the road. When my attention was drawn to it I walked a few yards towards the bird. It toddled away at once, but there was something odd about the...

in the company of a flight of swans. 1 was driving along a stretch of straight road when I caught sight of six swans coming diagonally across a field towards me. They were...

Foa a while I stood looking over a gate at a half-harvested field the other day. It was quite plain that the man who had planted the corn had given up the unequal struggle...

Summer is over at last. more than sixteen lines. Song of Thanksgiving of not It/seemed to me, as the mere setter of this competition, that its terms clearly called for...

England possesses a great number of Drinking Songs, but, as far as I am aware, no Eating Songs. For the usual prize of £5 competitors are invited to remedy this deficiency, in...

Autumn-sown beans should be earthed up, having been sown in a fairly sheltered situa- tion to protect the plants from wind as well as severe weather. Beck's Green Gem is a...

0 N October 6 the seventieth birthday of the Society of Authors was celebrated and I was entrusted with the job of reading several messages from eminent seniors unable to...

hundred million pounds is now bein To Park It government has no serious plans for construction of roads to By GORDON WILKINS R EAD all about it 1 I hope you did, for some of us...

By E.' ARNOT ROBERTSON W HY not wrap a man's woollen scarf—oh, so casuallY —round the shoulders of your strapless evenial, dress, by way of contrast ? Why not use rows of small...

A boy gazing in a pool Is all profound; his eyes are cool And he's as though unborn, he's gone; He's the abyss he gazes on. A man searches the pool in vain For his profundity...

BY JOHN WAIN R. ALLEN calls his book* ' primarily an account of what the history of the novel in England looks like to someone who follows the craft of fiction himself,' but in...

The Public Is Never Wrong. The Autobiography of Adolph Zukor with Dale Kramer. (Cassell. 15s.) A Tree Is A Tree. By King Vidor. (Longmans. 18s.) UNFORTUNATELY Mr....

A History of Soviet Russia. Volume Four: The Interregnum 1923-1924. By E. H. Carr. (Macmillan. 30s.) A MAJOR historical undertaking of our generation is carried one stage...

A Diary with Letters,"1931-1950. By Thomas Jones. (O.U.P. 30s.) WE all have a spurious sense of intimacy with the great. We may never have met a prime minister but we know about...

From theDanube to the Yalu. By General Mark Clark. (Harrap. 21s.) Time two books are both about Korea, but that is all they have in common. General Dean's Story, told by...

Conquest by Man: The Saga of Early Exploration and Discovery. By Paul Herrmann. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. (Hamish Hamilton. 30s.) PAUL HERRMANN set himself...

The Time of the Fire. By Marc Brandel. (Eyre & Spottiswoode. 10s.6d.) THE first novel of Mr. Jarrell, poet, is the most exciting book out of America this year. Poet needs...

By CUSTOS THE bull market did not wait for a settlement of the dock strike to resume its merry up- ward course. Fired by the confidence of the Ford Motor Company, which is...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT EVER since Mr. Butler made his resounding speech at the Blackpool Conference in which he called upon the nation `to invest in success' the big investors...

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