The Colonial Secretary leaves for Malaya on Monday to study at first hand a situation which, through rapidly mounting Communist terrorist activity, is rapidly becoming more...

T HE Government's determination not to be jockeyed out of the Suez Canal Zone has been backed up with deeds ; reinforcements for the garrison continue to arrive ; labour' is...

The American Senator who asked, at this week's joint session of delegates from the United States Congress and the Council of Europe, what he and his colleagues were required to...

of the case against the Yorkshire Electricity Board at Leeds Assizes last week will no doubt be the subject of an early statement in the House of Commons, and almost certainly...

The Government's decision to extend the B.B.C.'s charter and licence for a short period after the existing expiry date, Decem- ber 31st, comes just in time to enable Parliament...

The excitement and uncertainty which attended Tuesday's vote of confidence in the Pleven Government and the powerful speech with which the French Prime Minister himself asked...

With his impending visit to Malaya and his successive declarations of policy on the advance of colonies towards self- government, an intensive drive for the development of...

At the annual dinner of the British Olympic Association this week the Duke of Edinburgh expressed his confidence that Great Britain Would make a good showing in next year's...

Those daily newspapers which, drawing upon information supplied by an active imagination, recently forecast cuts in imports of tobacco, petrol, films and wine, now have the dual...

T HE House of Commons has behaved like the House of Commons in the debate on foreign affairs, and it has not . always been doing that of late. There has been a welcome escape...

B Y his two speeches in the House of Commons this week Mr. Eden has demonstrated, certainly not before it was time, that foreign affairs are being handled with a new vigour and...

though one or two of them sometimes write as though they were. But everyone, however sober, must be concerned with the question of the cure of alcoholism, particularly since...

figures in my recent paragraph .regarding numbers at Cambridge this term. The addition of 1,038 from the women's colleges brings the total university population, not the total...

trained. Details have just reached me of the tact with which something between a diplomatic incident and an international crisis (if a slight hyperbole may be permitted) in...

to football has more than a passing interest. The story is told by the New York Herald-Tribune of last Monday, under the heading SWARTHMORE WINS GRID CLASH WITH SPORTSMANSHIP...

of Dickens' works comparable to those offered by Mr. Emlyn Williams at the Criterion is so hard to believe as to be virtually incredible. For Emlyn Williams, after all, is one...

book on Charles I, I came on a passage which at the present moment is neither uninteresting nor irrelevant. It deals with one of Henrietta Maria's ill-fated accouchements. "...

T HE Rommel film is apparently to be shown in Germany in spite of the - American authorities there, who have no power to stop it, but wish they had. There would seem to be...

By SIR ROBERT HYDE* S . IR JOHN ANDERSON, chairman of the Port of London Authority, is quoted as having said recently that a modem and efficient grain-elevator was lying idle in...

I N the press of news in the past few weeks, most of it bad, the English Press has not paid enough attention to an ominous article in The Glasgow Evening News foretelling, in...

By PROFESSOR R. E. TUNBRIDGE* I MPROVED sanitation, the development of preventive medicine and the advances in chemotherapy during the past fifty years have so increased the...

By HARRY FRANKLIN Nicosia. C YPRUS, geographically Middle East, politically a British Crown Colony, is in spirit Greek. The island is inevitably closely bound up with Middle...

Student Election UPERFICIALLY, General and Rectorial Elections have much in common. There is the, preparatory softening-up process. Loud-speaker vans cruise round the...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been reading this week an interesting and suggestive book recently published by the firm of F. A. Herbig in Berlin. It is called Ein_Leben fur den...

THEATRE I WAS in some doubt, when the curtain fell, as to whether I should surrender to rage or compromise on boredom. I knew before I entered the theatre that it would take a...

"Another Man's Poison." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.)-- "Scrooge." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)--" Encore." (Plaza.) IN Another Man's Poison, Miss Bette Davis's first English...

Hall last week. On Wednesday Basil Cameron conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the recently revised version of Edmund Rubbra's Symphony No. 2, originally composed in...

George the Third died on Tuesday, in the old German palace of his race. To the manes of Ernest King of Hanover the Spectator has little apology to make for misrepresentations...

prize of L5, which may be divided, is offered for a translation of this sonnet by Joachim du Bellay. The form of the original must be kept, but substitutes from any landscape...

Report by Lewis' Petrie A prize of L5 was offered for Private Persons' Bills for putting down irritations and petty injustices of daily life. Daily life—to judge from the way...

Six—Mr. Holland's letter raises points which are of great interest to' teachers (university entrance, sixth-form time-tables, alternative ordinary subjects, &c.), but I suspect...

Sut,—Mr. Noel-Baker seeks to show that, despite some differences, there is a natural affinity between Liberals and Socialists. He argues that in the sphere of social reform "...

The East-West Problem Sot,—The Society of Friends enjoys a well-earned reputation for sincerity and scrupulous regard for the truth which carries with it a special...

many of your readers must deplore as I do the choice of subject for competition in your last issue, on the grounds of its being in really bad taste. Not a few, I dare say, would...

is worth a good deal of theorising, I venture to write as a wife and mother of firm Christian principles and practice who, though in the hands of a skilful gynaecologist, has...

Nicolson's Marginal Comment of November 2nd that " the only hope of peace is the armed pre- ponderance of our own coalition." This is surely a repetition of " Be so strong as to...

to call for an answer from me, reluctant as I am to trouble you further: (i) " Who started this unprecedented regulation ? " The Secondary Schools Examinations Council...

own and the Pope's defence, it becomes easier to attempt a summary of this mutter. Plain speaking is necessary. The Pope, well aware of the facts, was dealing primarily with...

SIR,—A nearly related species to Sweet William is the old-fashioned Agrostemma Coronaria. or " Bioody William." Li it not more likely that is the plant named after the Duke of...

SIR,—Your correspondents have given interesting particulars of longevity and of spans covering two generations. My letter, however, was con- cerned only with spans within a...

SIR, —The purely selfish and narrow attitude of most of those contributing an opinion on this nationally important subject is surprising. None seems to recognise that the...

Sta,—Mr. W. R. Cummings takes me to task for calling the Methodists' secession "still a recent calamity " and for declaring that " those who try to bring them back are doing...

does not appear to have been " translated." A transcription of it, how- ever, was published last year by the Pipe Roll Society. There is no mention of yew trees in the entry...

my book, After All, there has crept a typing or printing error which makes me say that " for five years 1 had not slept between blankets." What I wrote was sheets. To the...

SIR,—I would allow George Brinsmead almost all his epithets in Gaucho Elections, but not " high-pommelled " to his gaucho's saddle. The Argentine recado (in contrast to the...

SIR,—It certainly does appear as though Mr. Gardner, suddenly looming up in the deep field, had caught me on the boundary. The question is whether even he did not have one foot...

For how many home-growers is not the prohibition of imported fresh fruits a lifebelt against a sea of troubles ! I am reminded of a Hereford- shire farm of interacting cora,...

Having been laid up, I gingerly took a few steps along the paving above the garden—to see April in the lap of November, grape hyacinth, scilla, crocus, snowdrop and even...

Few are the countries exempt from the world-phenomenon of the disparity between population and food-supply, the Malthusian dilemma. How many have refrained from violating the...

In reply to my note on a weasel and its young, Commander Phipps Hornby sends me his tale of a personal encounter. Wheeling his bicycle uphill in Scotland, he met two young...

Agriculture sends me Wild Mammals and the Land as a sequel to Wild Birds and the Land. It has a well-designed cover, is full of striking photographs, and is written by a...

Eccentric's Progress The Nun of Lebanon. By Ian Bruce. (Collins. 21s.) " Nor having seen the lady until late in her life, when she was fired with spiritual ambition, I can...

THIS book is of the greatest imaginable interest for everyone who takes delight in reading about the British infantry soldier, as well as for the military historian. Among all...

present age that such difficult works as Toynbee's Study. of History and Spengler's Decline of the West should have attained something like popular success. When contemporary...

THE name of Professor Pribram and the, charm of his personality as described in the translator's preface to this book are certain to arouse high 'hopes in students of modern...

Collected Poems. By Marianne Moore. (Faber. 12s. 6d.) MARIANNE MOORE has a definite reputation in the United States, but she is scarcely known on this side of the. Atlantic,...

The Young Shelley: Genesis of a Radical. By Kenneth Neill Cameron. (Gollancz. 2 is.) SHELLEY, like Shaw and Shakespeare, is always news, and anyone discussing him and his...

British Trains: Past and Present. By 0. S. Nock. (Batsford. t6s.) The Great Western Railway: An Appreciation. By 0. S. Nock. (Helfer. 18s.) " Barrtsit RAILWAYS " implies the...

Tillotson. By Philip Trower. (Collins. los. 6d.) THE basic difference between " popular " novels and " classic " novels would seem to be in the author's approach to his...

Winston Churchill. By J. G. Lockhart. (Duckworth. 6s.) To cover the seventy-seven years of Mr. Churchill's life in just over twice as many pages, and to cover them adequately,...

THIS picture-book of birds aims at giving atmosphere rather than scientific detail. Like Mr. Peter Scott, who writes a foreword and was trained in ornithology by the same head-...

unusual book The Confes- sions of an Un-common Attorney, will no doubt welcome this posthumous volume of essays and papers from the same hand, with a short memoir of the author...

the contents of their B.B.C. Children's Hour Annual are, with one excep- tion, new and original work, and not, as stated in our review last week, " collected from the various...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, December 4th, addressed Crossword, 0 Gower Street,...

The winner of Crossword No. 651 is MRS. I. M. PAYN, Greystones Cottage, Llanmartin, Nr. Newport, Mon.

By CUSTOS IF any idea still lingered that investors would allow election victory enthusiasm to outweigh the obvious uncertainties of the immediate outlook it has been...