debates on the, United Nations Charter in both Houses of Parliament on Wesdnesday and Thursday were dominated by the menace of the atomic bomb. Mr. Attlee put the position...

It would be a grim tragedy for China if the conclusion of the long war with Japan were followed by a civil war between the Chungking Government and the Yenan Communist...

Two announcements were made last Tuesday which are of good augury for political progress in India. Lord Wavell is to vis:t London for consultations with the Government, and...

In the debate on the Address on Tuesday Mr. Lyttelton put some pointed questions about Government policy on trade and finance, which Mr. Dalton answered with less detail than...

The public' should not be surprised or too much distressed if at the time when such industries as mining and housing are crying out for labour a certain number of men and women...

The Palestinian probhm, said the New York Herald - Tribune last Saturday, is a problem for the United Nations. If that is so, the United Nations will have to realise that it is...

The reorganisation of the mining industry, so long overdue, is in the forefront of the Government's programme of action, and, of course, it will take shape under some form of...

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, on whom rests the major responsibility for justifying the Government's housing policy, has begun to ginger up the local authorities. He has issued a circular...

the three weeks since Parliament assembled than the unexpected spirit of unity and co-operation that has pervaded the discussions. Part of that was the inevitable effect of the...

It is stated, I see, that President Roosevelt had cherished ths 4 idea of starting a new daily paper which would have no leading articles, his view being that if the reader had...

of townees." I am not in fact quoting this sentence ; I have manufactured it ; not because I like the look of it—I don't—but to provide a text for a discussion of two words...

as science,—nothing to compare, for instance, with the Royal Society at Burlington House and the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street. But the lack is being in large measure...

is unanimous: it is going to be singularly interesting. Also there is no doubt that it contains ability above the average ; the quality of the opening speeches, particularly the...

signs of divergence within the Labour Party. That was most evident on Vonday, when Mr. Bevin's statement on foreign policy manifestly disappointed some of the young crusaders of...

that, in the matter of clothing coupons, where the late Government chastised us with whips the present one is substituting scorpions causes alarm and depression. Twenty-four...

By MARY AGNES HAMILTON N OT all Mr. Attlee's appointments have pleased everybody. There is, however, one which has come very near doing that— the selection of Elleti Wilkinson...

By A. E. FOOT (Headmaster of the Doon School, Dehra Dun) M ANY English schoolmasters who meet me after my absence of ten years in charge of a Public School for Indian boys...

By PROFESSOR HERBERT DINGLE T WO fallacies are conspicuous in the prevailing reaction to the event at Hiroshima. The first is that what has been discovered is simply or...

By SIR RONALD DAVISON T HERE is no need to mince words about the breakdown of British holiday-making in this first summer of peace or partial peace. The whole affair has been...

By THE BISHOP OF GIBRALTAR A NYONE who has visited Malta is familiar with the tall spire of St. Paul's English Cathedral in Valetta. It is a beacon for every ship approaching...

gained from the difficult study of Greek and Latin, which would not equally be gained by careful application to the literature and language of France, Italy or Germany, is a...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been reading, belatedly perhaps, Lord Berners's second volume of autobiography. In this volume he Passes on from his first childhood, and introduces...

that it was due merely to the realisation on the part of the masters that it is easier to run a large school on the basis of athletics than on the basis of intellectualism....

any clarity, or even truth, the nature of the profit and pleasure which I have derived. One is bound in honesty to discount the very large proportion of vanity which enters into...

with, Lord Berners's book is that so few masters in my experience ever seemed to realise that the main profit and enjoyment which we could derive from a study of Greek and Latin...

ballets which have not been seen in London for a long time, these are The Wanderer and The Quest. In both the choreography is by Frederick Ashton, and the former met with a...

" Johnny Frenchman." At the Leicester Square Theatre. HERE is a film which combines conventional sentiment, topical propaganda and authentic settings without quite making the...

THIS being closed season for the galleries, a trip down Bond Street discloses no catalogued exhibition and no one-man shows. Starting as near the top as the highwater mark of...

I brought you a bouquet plucked from a meadow, The ravished meadow of the world's dying heart. By the river Dis I, a pale wanderer, Remembering the streams of an earthly Spring,...

Ste,—Since I was present throughout the counting and transfer of votes at the Cambridge University Election, may I reassure Mr. F. C. Frank on two points? First, his surmises...

SIR, —The stereotyped objection to the P.R. System is that it is too complicated for average voters and candidates, the results being arrived at by a "process suitable as task...

threat of the atomic bomb the only hope for mankind lies in an international brotherhood of scientific men with a common ethical standard, who must be given their proper place...

SIn,—When the world learned recently of the use of the atomic bomb, there came forcibly into my mind a little poem written by Sir Ronald Ross on August 21st, 5897, the day on...

SIR, —It is not surprising that Brigadier Kennedy Cooke found " little real anti-Italian feeling" in Eritrea at the time of which he is speaking. With Rommel in Egypt and the...

THE CHURCH IN GERMANY Sin,—Apropos of the letter of an English chaplain in Berlin, sent to you last week by the Bishop of Chichester, it would be interesting to know if the...

The Spectator to Westminster much to the gratification of his many readers. But it will also have served, unless I am greatly mistaken, as a complete demonstration of the utter...

that those syho draw their knowledge of India from missionary literature - would be the people to ask questions like "Do you allow the boys to bring their wives with them to...

Sta,—Those of us who do not happen to remember it are much indebted to Mr. Arnold Hyde for acquainting them with Dr. Benjamin Jowett's characteristically pithy comment fourteen...

problem of rebuilding at home and abroad takes first place in our thoughts and in our work. -It is, perhaps, scarcely realised how significant a contribution to the relief and...

Snt,—In your last editorial "The Pattern of Europe," you write about the "full and unfettered elections on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot," which according to...

• SIR, 7 4 was interested in Mr. Foots article in your issue of August xoth. Mr. Foot has .recently returned to this- country after so years as head- master of an Indian Public...

STR,—I feel sure readers of The Spectator will be interested and pleased to be this year again acquainted with this subject. At a recent meeting of the council of the Queen's...

" WHEN in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another ... a decent respect to the...

Tasks for the British Commonwealth Imperial Commonwealth. By Lord Elton. (Collins. 21s.) PUBLISHERS presumably know their business. With limited paper and a bountiful market,...

A Forgotten Genius Sewell of St. Columba's and Hadley. By Lionel James. 4Faber and Faber. 21s. net.) THE reduction of men usually regarded as of great stature to much more...

The National Trust. Edited by James Lees-Milne. (Batsford. 12s. 6d.) THE best service to render to this most fascinating volume is simply to describe its contents. Published to...

EQUIPPED with first-hand knowledge extending over a quarter of a century, our last Minister at Bangkok here gives with admirable lucidity a bird's-eye view of Siam and its...

THIS most important book is one of the first serious attempts to discuss the most recent thinking on Time by the physicists and relate it to the ideas of Time held by...

Goon in the Block. By Eric Williams. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) Dog's Life. By Gordon Boshell. (Seeker and Warburg. 6s.) The Carden. By L. A. G. Strong. (Methuen. 6s.) 'Mirage. By P. P....

IA Book Token for one goatee will be awarded to the sender of the first correct colourist. of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, September 4th....

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MR. HARRIS—the nom de guerre chosen by the author—has produced a fresh variation on a-far from original theme. For some years we have been spared narratives, authentic,...

PUBLISHED by Longmans in Calcutta, this miscellany has the two- fold purpose of increasing the supply of good reading available in India, and of increasing the opportunities for...

WE are going to hear a deal about the formation of so-called National Parks. The places officially put in the first class are the Lake District, Snowdonia, Dartmoor, the Peak...

Here are some nesting oddities—from North Ireland. In one garden a blackbird built in a creeper on the wall and a wren built in the outside of the blackbird's nest. Near by a...

to be sent overseas. This will enable copies of The Spectator to be forwarded to friends of our readers, both civilians and those in the Forces, in any part of the world, except...

Fifth Solomonic Wonder, the way of a seed in the earth, has reached me in corroboration of an example, given here many weeks ago, of die beneficial effects of carrying seed in...

How greatly we neglect our suppliers of fresh water fish in ordinary times is suggested by war-time experiences in the Lakes. In one year a volunteer force of anglers, so to...

How invariably wild plants say " Thank you " for inclusion in a garden! A few harebells transplanted—into a heatherbed—are perhaps three times as floriferous as those twenty...

A. C. COSSOR CONTRIBUTION TO RADIOLOCATION HE seventh ordinary general meeting of A. C. Cossor, Limited, was held n August 22nd in London. Mr. T. A. Macauley (the chairman) said...