If anything could arouse British opinion to a full realisation of the vast issues of policy now impending in the Far East it should be the letter which the Japanese Prime...

The process of assessing just how much was achieved in the course of the visit by Mr. Churchill and Mr. „Eden to the United States is likely to go on for a long time. The main...

I T is satisfactory that General Eisenhower should have stated in language unmistakably plain his conviction that Great Britain, having regard to her responsibilities as a...

As the United Nations Assembly draws towards a close it is taking definite decisions on a variety of subjects. The most important is disarmament, and has resulted in Russia's...

If the first public utterance of Sir Godfrey Huggins, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, since his arrival in London is any criterion the prospects of the impending talks...

Britain is being made to play the part of the Opposition in a singularly dirty Persian General Election. Dr. Moussadek is a shrewd, but not a scrupulous, politician, and Britain...

The announcements made by the Minister of Housing and Local Government on Tuesday are welcome evidence of the vigour with which Ministers are setting about the tasks con-...

S TATEMENTS following meetings of Commonwealth Ministers area seldom as firm and positive as that which- 1 1Oppeared on Monday, after the talks on the future of the sterling...

bright boys to Cambridge. I make no objection to that if it is so. But the remarkable success of M.G.S. boys this year, as so often before, in the matter of entrance...

of New York sitting up in bed in blue pyjamas. That ought to -soften Dr. Moussadek's heart. -.. A case for a double. bed ? lows

interesting question, and it is raised afresh in the Fiftieth Anniversary Number of the Times Literary Supplement pre- sented to guests at the very agreeable party given by the...

considering it "absurd that someone elected to look after the interests of Shoreditch, for example, should manage the affairs of Central Africa" he should take advantage of his...

its front page to a - photograph of tome feminine person, under the heading "Brainy redhead is toast of Oxford." More newsprint for the news the papers have no room to give ?...

A DEPLORABLE amount of nonsense continues to be written about the King's stay at Botha House during his visit to South Africa. The Observer, having suggested that the King of...

round twice on -an icy road near Madison, Wisconsin." Daily Telegraph. But what is a double turn to a Presidential candidate ?

abnormally interesting, is, I understand, reviewed else- where in this issue, but that is no reason for not referring here to one singularly significant and pertinent passage....

DV SIR PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS p ERHAPS the most important effect of the British impact on India has been the introduction of the parliamentary system. Democratic procedure on a...

By D. W. BROGAN ONSIEUR EDGAR FAURE has been allowed by the French National Assembly to form a Government. It is impossible to put it more strongly than that. For although the...

By DAVID THOMSON I T seems a far cry, in 1952, from the days of the Barlow and Clapham Committees which urged great increases in the " output " of graduates_ from the...

T HE Egyptian Government's intention in abrogating the Anglo-American Treaty of 1936, and the Sudan Con- dominium Convention of 1899, was partly to establish Egyptian...

':ty J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. T HIRTY-TWO years ago, almost to the hour, and perhaps to the very minute, I was walking across Leicester Square for the first time, holding my...

Displaced Person By W. WATTS (Queens' College, Cambridge.) I FIRST noticed her as she walked slowly along the platform, clutching tightly an odd collection of bags and...

SOLITARY 'CONFINEMENT DIOGENES in his tub ! Well, it was his own choice. The cynic's habitat was the analogue of the cynic's soul. But put a tiger in a tub, press it down on...

All nature is enamoured of the ring—. Think : the horizon, and the sun, The halo of the moon, the moon, And all the waters dotted by the rain, Ponds, pools, and puddles, and...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the Figaro the other day I read a short article, or chronique, by M. Georges Duhamel, of the French Academy. I always admire the skill and dignity with...

The Wild North. (Empire.)—Tomorrow is Another Day. Painting the Clouds with Sunshine. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) I TAKE off my ear-muffs to Mr. Stewart Granger. In The Wild North he...

MUSIC " AN excellent aberratio mentalis partialis, second species ! highly cultivated ! " cries the Doctor as he watches Wozzeck sinking further down the slope to madness. And...

wondering what was causing them to tumble about; but nothing more happened, • 1 thought of a hedgehog, a mole or a vole, but it turned out to be none of these. As I went forward...

A visit to the limestone cliffs enables me to overlook most of the country round about. The fields are heavy and dead at the moment, but soon work will begin again. Tractors...

WHEN the. State sets out to subsidise art, it can apply its benevolence to the production of artists, the production of work by artists and the exhibition of such work to the...

It only needed the remark that the old lady had been over ninety- five when she died to begin a discussion on old age. A man whose grandmother or great-grandmother had reached a...

We have yet to see grey squirrels in our woods. If they are coming, they are slower in their advance than was once feared. The reds have it to themselves here, although I expect...

The Loving Elms. By Patrick Cargill. (Embassy.) ALTHOUGH I am by no means exacting in the matter of whodunnits, I did for a moment imagine at this one that we were being...

of the most delightful colour and beauty factors in any flower garden. If you are fortunate enough to own a greenhouse where a fifty-five-degrees temperature can be-maintained,...

A prize was offered for an extract from an ode to an inflationary spiral. It is said to be impossible to describe a spiral staircase without having recourse to gesticulation. I...

there stood a statue of an Englishman holding a weird object. All you could read of the inscription on the plaque was " Hail to thee, blithe Praddle, For without thy...

SIR,—May I comment very briefly on Janus's remarks about St. Peter's tomb in your issue of December 28th ? A good deal vf loose information has been published on this subject,...

SIR,—May I be permitted to raise a point of fact in connection with your note on " The Palestine Legacy," which appeared in your issue of January 18th. You refer to the "...

SIR,—In his commendably short letter " A Landlord " has contrived to introduce quite a number of factual errors, evidently due to an acquain- tance with the Rents Acts which is,...

SIR,—Mr. Hobbs does well to point out some of the fine tunes in Congregational Praise. I could add some more: Thornburv, Abbot's Leigh, Traveller, Vulpius—tbe list might be...

Education Costs SIR,—It seems to me that there is a possible alternative to some of the proposed education cuts which are causing such an uproar in certain quarters. Why should...

SIR,—Is it not probable that Coleridge's lines, quoted in your issue of January 18th, are a somewhat free translation of Talleyrand's supposed Recette pour le cafe ? - Noir...

Snt,—In a kind notice of my book, Oxford: University and City, your reviewer says there is no picture of Keble. Actually there are pictures of every college in the university...

Sat,-1 am delighted that Janus should point out that the first and only Creed of the early Christian Church was " Jesus is the Lord." Have not we of the Church of England made...

SIR, —It was interesting to read Janus's comment on a sixth-form school- , boy's life. It is impossible to draw any sound conclusions from an • account of one day spent by one...

S1R,-1, offered Dr. Mahoney-Jones three figures; a reliable figure twenty years old, showing a large excess of marriageable women; an unreliable figure two years old, showing a...

Stn,—Rather than animadvert upon the Southall candle case, Janus might well have asked for more light to be thrown upon this curious affair. For example, it appears to have been...

Grand Inquest The Struggle for Europe. By Chester Wilmot. (Collins. 25s.) CHESTER Witmor in his Struggle for Europe has produced a masterly book which places the main events...

Monckton Milnes : The Flight of Youth, 1851-1855. By James Pope- Hennessy. (Constable. 25s.). kr is not the easiest task to criticise a book with which the critic, is as much...

A &IAN of sedate enthusiasm and of prescribed though admirable taste, perhaps a prig and certainly a dilettante, John Evelyn is one of the most problematical of English...

IF the pen is supposedly mightier than the sword, how doubly so when one is grafted on the other and the gift of language wedded to powers of action ! A thin line of Shelley...

12s. 6d.) The Dam is a brilliant " documentary " of the civil war in China in 1947. it has that quality of the blending of world history with the ordinary individual's...

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, who was killed in Korea with Ian Morrison, was a war correspondent of great distinction, and in this (as it were) demi-official history his sure sense of...

FOR the purposes of criticism," writes Dr. Leavis in his_ intro- ductory essay, scholarship, unless directed ley an intelEgcnt interest in no, t - y—without, that is, critical...

Tintoretto. By Eric Newton. (Longmans. 50s.). Tim author of this study of Tintoretto keeps a busy eye on the vast oeuvre of the painter through 214 pages. He transmits...

When That I Was. By Dorothy McCall. (Faber. 18s.) , LADIES who publish their memoirs have changed their procedure during the past thirty years. A generation ago their books...

The Rebellion of the Hanged. By B. Traven. Translated by Charles Duff. (Hale. 10s. 6d.) REVIEWERS live in constant hope of discovering an immortal master- piece, which is why...

MR. A. J. AYER has found a first-class book to introduce his new series of Pelicans on the great philosophers. Mr. Hampshire is not a Spinozist, nor has he hitherto shown much...

Bernard Shaw. By A. C. Ward. (Longman. 10s. 6d.) Tins book introduces Longman's new series of literary lives, which are pleasantly pro- duced to sell at half-a-guinea and are...

by William Clyde DeVane and Kenneth Leslie Knickerbocker. (Murray. 30s.) HAD Browning been as fine a letter-writer as the earlier romantic poets who lived or died in Italy, this...

Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury and Elgin, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles II and to King James II : 1656-1741. By the Earl of Cardigan. (Routledge & Kegan Paul. 2 Is.)*...

(John Lehmann. 18s.) 4 This is a good piece of nostalgic topography. There are so many books about Roman Rome, Mediaeval Rome, Renaissance Rome, Baroque Rome, that it is...

By CUSTOS AFTER a fresh slide markets are beginning to show some resistance. 1 doubt, however, whether one should expect prices to consoli- date on any firm line in these early...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week. February 5th, addressed Crossword. 99 Gower Street,...

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