No. 6613 FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955 PRICE 7d.

T HE unanswerable objection to the State Department's publication of the Yalta papers has already been put by Sir Winston Churchill : it imposes on all future con- ' ierences...

AUSTRALIAN ABANDON T HE damage which the fresh restrictions on imports into Australia will do to the British export trade is not the most serious aspect of the Australian...

Court in the Pakistan constitutional case has some curious effects. Last October the Governor-General dissolved the Constituent Assembly which had existed for seven years...

Paris Agreements for a time appeared to depend not on the needs 'of Western defence. or even on the views of the French legislature, but on the whims of M. Pierre Poujude. It...

Our Kenya Correspondent writes : TN up-country Kenya, where men are divided by the blood- 'shed and bitterness of Mau Mau, they have a catch-phrase for Mombasa—`Sea level and...

towards Mr. Harold Stassen's appointment as Minister for Disarmament, and Sir Winston Churchill has been emphati- cally right to refuse to follow the American example. The ob-...

Bank Employees remains dissatisfied. The increases, it considers, are inadequate, and—more hurtful to its pride—nothing has been done to give it recognition, so that it can...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE voting in the National'Executive Committee of the Labour Party this week has produced the most naked division of power within one party which could be...

BY BRIAN INGLIS HE Government has appointed a committee 'to estimate. on a long-term basis, and with due regard to all relevant considerations, the number of medical...

ON THE BACK of Mr. Wendell Phillips's book, Qataban and Sheba (published by Gollancz at El Is.), there are warm words of commendation from Sir Ronald Storrs, Admiral Byrd and...

of the Third Pro- gramme, in the last month has allowed iconoclastic attacks on two of the economists' most sacred of cows, thereby still further reducing the size of that once...

town of Hatfield to take part in what was described as a Tory brains trust. The Evening Standard reported that 'people came out in hundreds' for this spectacle 'in, contrast to...

even to its fashion page. Last week Miss Anne Scott-James announced on her page that Mr. William Douglas Home, the playwright, was one of Britain's best-dressed men. Miss...

of Commons was debating a proposal to abolish the stamp duty on newspapers; and Sir Bulwer Lytton, who sup- ported the motion, reminded the Government of the fate of that duty's...

unearthed yet another scandal about President Roosevelt. It has discovered that the President in 1942 advised that radio operators in merchant ships should not be dis- charged...

BY J. E. M. ARDEN official statements are to be believed, the greatest danger the Soviet State has always come from the Ministry specially charged with guarding state security....

I N 1869 the third Marquess of Salisbury, who could not be accused of reckless radicalism, considered that the House of Lords should be reformed. In 1933 the fourth Marquess...

BY RUTH MORRAH I N a recent broadcast Mr. John Watson, the eminent juvenile court magistrate, appealed for the abolition of the criminal jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. Mr....

A L THOUGH the Government' has given a twelve months' reprieve to seven of the BBC services to Western Europe, the threat of execution still hangs over these services. It is not...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN M [SS EVIE HONE, the stained-glass artist, known 'over here for east windows of Eton Chapel and St. Michael's, Highgate, died while at Mass last week at...

shortly be time to lime sulphur spray fruit trees. To winter wash and then neglect the buds and blossom is to spoil the chances of a good crop.

Writing about pigs that swim, a friend sends me a cutting from the Berwick Journal describing the adventures of a pig that fell into the river at Tweedmouth—it died from shock...

Valentine's Day. but I was interested to have a bit of weather lore concerning this day in a letter from a lady who lives in Manchester. I have always wondered about the rain...

three weeks from the season.

T HE British have a pronounced weakness for public figures who resign the offices or positions which they hold, and I am sure that Alderman Richard Bland will long enjoy a...

issue of March 18? He suggests that if General Wingate had been alive he would. have been able to collect substantial damages for libel from the publication of Leopard Mosley's...

seem to lay all the blame for the present tension on the borders between Israel and the Arab countries on Egypt, who, in your opinion, has reserved herself the right to treat...

press of the 'greatness' and ',brilliance' of Mr. Aneurin Bevan that the public is thought- lessly beginning to invest him with these qualities, just as, through much...

SIR,—In his attack upon my forthcoming book, Gideon Goes to War, your contributor, Strix, makes several mis-statements. The most serious of them is his charge that my bio-...

A Thousand a Minute R. E. Simms Orde Wingate Leonard Mosley, Arthur Barker Bevanism J. F. 0. Lewis Hard Lines C. Moody Egypt's Anger Y. Osman Anthropophagised M. C. N. D'Arcy A...

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pletely missed the point of 'Hard Lines' which he quoted so inaccurately in 'City and Suburban' notes on February 4. Here is the correct version : He never could remember, so...

The Truth About Our Marriage. (Cine- phone.) — El Bruto. (Continentale.) TAKEN from a Simenon story, The Truth About Our Marriage is a stern warning to all those husbands who...

THEATRE Misery Me By Dennis Cannan. (Duchess.) SHORTLY before the curtain rose on Misery Me we were told that this was to be the penultimate performance: shortly after it fell...

was one of the truly satis- fying occasions of this winter's ballet activity; a work of this scale and scope can come only from a master, and it is an illustration of that odd...

induces me to write about a curious coincidence in my family. My wife's great-great-grandfather, Joseph Gellibrand, one of the founders of the State of Victoria, was eaten by...

As he approaches his sixtieth birthday Hindemith, who has been visiting London to conduct for the BBC and the Royal Phil- harmonic Society, seems at last to be falling into...

ON Wednesday, a young lady apparently about twenty years of age, threw herself into the canal in St. James's Park. She was taken out without much damage, and conveyed in a coach...

FOUR newcomers appeared in In the News: the Countess of Birkenhead, Lady Pakenham, Mr. Randolph Churchill and Mr. George Woodcock. Most viewers, I am sure, were as prepared as I...

'A Stranger and Afraid' BY JOHN WAIN I HAVE been expecting—but not, so far, seeing—a resur- gence of interest in Housman;* if not as a poet, then at least as a case-history....

PEOPLE are certainly travelling again, and a book about what you have done is one way of trying to recover from hotel bills or pay the instalments on your hire-purchase ticket....

Philosophy and Analysis. Edited by Margaret MacDonald. (Basil Blackwell, 30s.) THE idea of analysing our questions instead of assuming that they all have answers was known in...

Clifton Lodge. By Ethel Thomson. (Hutchinson, 15s.) Memories and Reflections. By J. H. Badley. (Allen & Unwin, 25s.) THESE two autobiographies present strongly contrasted...

Verse in Translation. By H. A. Siepmann. (Batchworth, 25s.) MR. SIEPMANN has chosen a hundred poems in French, German , and Latin, and presents English versions of them together...

March or Die. By Howard Swiggett. (Museum Press, 16s.) 'Twix - r Hell and Allah,' Desert Carrion,' Legion of the Lost,' 'Hounds of France.' Everyone can identify the background...

emerging powerfully from background music of poverty. He writes about an Italian family, all but one of whom are un- employed, using a younger son as the narrator. Elder brother...

Fertility from Town Wastes. By .T. C. Wylie. (Faber, 25s.) IT has been said that the face of the earth is a graveyard because to the earth each living thing restores when it...

that there are not references to the plates in the text. It contains a short but full study of Mantegna as a painter, as a man, and of his work, followed by a full catalogue of...

THE intention of this new series. The Story of . . , is to relate the histories of selected countries 'for the general reader and for the younger generation. If Major McElwee's,...

By CUSTOS THE stock markets this week have had to contend with a variety of unsettling news— the rumours of an early election, a nervous Wall Street and the import cuts in...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT BEFORE long Mr. Butler will probably de- clare that his medicine of dear money is effecting a cure and that the dose can be reduced. (Whether or no it...

ACROSS 1 Assortel tails up! (6). 4 For a sundae, as thz grealy child might say (3-5). 10 The old prophet has a distinctive air about him (7). 11 Nearly everybody's ready to...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 264 Report by D. R. Peddy Following the recent suspension of a Hull swhoolboy for criticising one of his head. master's speeches in a letter to the...

Dean Swift suggested a tax on female beauty, to be assessed by the payers them- selves. This he thought certain to be profit- able, and cheerfully paid. Competitors are asked to...