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O N Monday the FOreign Secretary treated the residents of 011erton (Notts) to a succinct summary of the Government's rationalisations of its Cyprus policy ' ith one of his...

HE Moscow journey has brought about no real surprises. I The lessening of tension continues, has even been in- creased, but the major problems still await solutions and will...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE LAS. the Establishment is in danger of becciming a pejorative instead of an analytical concept. It is being used by all sorts and conditions of people, usually...

0 NCE again colonial problems absorbed most attention : for at home, the temptation was to forget about automation, wage demands and restrictive prac- tices (though they were...

buy a bayonet plug so that he could connect his electric razor with the light socket. He found, however, that with the bayonet plug he was compelled to buy an ordinary two-prong...

his taste for London life between coming down from Oxford and being whisked away by Lord Milner into the Kindergarten. This was the period, at the turn of the century, of his...

I Q. JOHN SPARROW has been putting on a most unusual Pe rformance in the Listener. In Support of his scarcely original and often refuted thesis that the abolitionist case is...

;41(3unded rather grander, to be sure, but what's in a name? It as in no fever of anticipation that I settled my party in their t ' h e ats and sought ice-cream for the younger...

22: 'Mr. Marshall is on his way to New Delhi for talks with Mr. Nehru. They are to discuss the break- down of the London negotiations on Singapore's demand for independence....

of Max originals which grace one of the walls in 99 Gower Street, and the sad news of their author's death last week sent me to them again with an even more affectionate eye....

the following strange passage from the Sunday Times report of the Lancashire and Yorkshire match at Leeds: Warner . . . struck the last [ball] so firmly back at the bowler that...

which will be held Apr. 28 at 1 p.m. at Wampanoag Country Club, will have as its speaker Miss Elizabeth L. Knox, of Kenyon St. 'Behind a Council Woman's Skirts' will be the...

Life Time's Fool But thought's the slave of Life, and LIFE TIME'S fool; And TIME, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. . . . Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene...

p UT yourself in the place of the unfortunate Baranes, gossip writer in the near-Communist newspaper Liberation by day and an informant with the anti- Communist section of the...

BY C. A. OAKLEY S COTS have always been going abroad. Without discussing what happened very long ago or even asking controversial questions about Roman emperors and Irish saints...

BY J. GRIMOND. MP F ROM the politician's point of view politics in Scotland are in the doldrums. There are few Scottish MPs who l i could run for high office outside Scotland....

BY ALASTAIR HETHERINGTON Yet how many of us expatriates would go back to work in Scotland if we had the chance? It is hard to tell. It depends so much on the kind of work one...

By HAM1SH HENDERSON U NL1KE the peasantry of most other European nations, the Scots countryfolk do not decorate and paint their homes much. The interior of an old-style Highland...

By A. C. MACKENZIE I CAME into Gairloch first many years ago, by night. The Glasgow steamer, Chevalier or Clansman, had dropped us, I suppose, at Shieldaig : at seven years of...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN VANDALS AT WORK Until last week, there stood in Friar Lane, Nottingham. th Collin almshouses, most beautiful . group surviving in large commercial city. They...

MAY 28, 1831 MAY 28, 1831 Two men were hanged on Wednesday; one for sheep-stealing, the other for stealing in a dwelling house. . . . The execution of these men for crimes...

imagina- tion and his defeat at the lag election has undoubtedly stimulated it. But his hatred of the obstinate proletarians who bloaked his path to Westminster begins to colour...

SIR,-1 was much interested in Lord Beveridge's letter about my review of Beatrice Webb's Diary, 1924-32, and in view of his own long personal knowledge of the Webbs would not...

published an article on bank staffs and the `Salary Squeeze,' and from time to time- in the past you have devoted space to the financial problems of teachers and civil servants....

erroneous assertion that Wilson and Bowe r wrote nothing from their last camp 10 Antarctic, all the writing being done by Sc, ° w ', even to Wilson's wife and Bowers's mo e ,,...

SIR,—Mr. C. LI. Griffiths defends 'hazing' Cranwell, including the drilling of juniors I the nude in the open with snow on the groan after lights out and making them jump 611...

Frogmania Admiral Sir William James The Webbs • Robert Blake Wards of the State Raymond Fletcher The Salary Squeeze Miss M. G. G. Gregory Wilson and Bowers Hugh P. .Rantage...

ten years in prison for the 01 possessing a home-made bomb. He wits r_ informed by his judge that, had he been Al months older, he would have received ihe house sentence....

Stk.—The defaming of eminent Victorians and their American contemporaries has long been a blood sport, safer and perhhps more lucra- tive than big-game . hunting: but may an old...

A Show Called Fred A Show Called Fred continues to be the most interesting thing happening on television. It is the first comedy half-hour specifically designed to make full...

Soviet estimate of English literature in New Times—the hearty praise of Desmond Stewart, a keen supporter of Sir Oswald Mosley. (He recently wrote that the blood of Jews kille4...

Square Theatre.) —THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE. (London Pavilion.)—THE RACK. (Rialto.) FOR foreign eyes, ears and understandings the flavour of a country is probably reproduced in its...

D. Bellini. (Westminster.) IT would be hard to find two such contrast shows in any theatre centre as the entert agi s . ments listed above. Subtlety against obvies1 ness; good...

DANTON once remarked of Saint-Just that what he wanted in France was a republic of Sparta, while what there should be was a 'republic of Cockayne.' Peter Ustinov's new play...

Scottish Romantic BY ANTHONY HARTLEY OST of us have in common the book we read during childhood, and I fancy that one of the farthest-flung pioneers of the school library was,...

d. A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. By Hugh MacDiarru Jr needs only Dr. David Daiches to say that there is no ne d to defend Hugh MacDiarmid's 'synthetic Scots' at this time...

III SELF AND THE DRAMAS OF HISTORY. By Reinhold Niebuhr. I (Faber and Faber, 21s.) s 12 s. 6d.) h r is k,aT with theology as the basic ingredient, take a pinch of i cq, stir in...

NOWADAYS, women explorers travel without the paraphernalia and also, perhaps, without the panache, of a Rosita Forbes or a Freya Stark. Intrigued by her husband's stories of...

SIR KENELM DIGBY. By R. T. Petersson. (Cape, 25s.) THERE have been forty books, articles and essays about Sir }.s - Digby, Mr. Petersson tells us, including four full-length...

are other books on Denmark which provide a ol r comprehensive guide to that country; others that penetrate deel o ):, into an analysis of its character. But there is none, to my...

18s.) GREATER London, with a population of nearly ei g ht and U millions, is policed—remarkably efficiently, all thin g s consider eg —by fewer than 16,000 men and women: New...

10s. 6d.) To women like myself, who at every opportunity remove their hats, their gloves, and if possible their shoes, Jac q ueline du Pas q uier's Guide to Elegance will make...

THE YEAR 1900. By Neville Penry Thomas. (Herbert Jenkins, 16s.) This is virtually a students' notebook more in chronolo g ical order than in narrative form. The style is...

CRUGER achieved immortality by ingeminating, 'I say ditto 41 4) Mr. Burke!' Opportunity for a reviewer to draw at least th °41 entary attention to himself is offered by the...

MOST books about the civil service tend to be textbooks, giving an accurate if somewhat prosaic description of the vast administrative machine, but leaving an outsider with no...

powerful nature vainly struggling for expression among circumstances which both encouraged its ambitions and thwarted them. The daughter of Napoleon's brother Jerome, ex-King of...

to beg in , philosophy and no one right sort of intro" . 10. book, But An Introduction to P hil°' sophical Analysis, by John Hospers (Routi edge and Kegan Paul, 25s.), provides...

munity and particularly with French intern Calvocoressi again had the collaboration THE year 1953 is the last in the.series to covered by Mr. Peter Calvocoressi in bi5 volumes...

from Man and the ,I t ' a " e rwate r World, by Pierre de Latil and htt ed(Jarrolds, 25s.). Copiously illus- e p u, it describes how one-man submarines b een built out of...

Pure water is . ilte best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of everything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make...

investigation, Octavio. Hill belongs to that circle of remarkable Victorian women who defied convention and created controversy simply by exercising their rights as individuals....

is correct and may be paid at your convenience.' You are . invited to compose two similar brief epistles in which unpleasant news or instructions are delicately conveyed....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT keel) made by the Chancellor to the fli.l i gn Press Association last week did not ev - „"c i t much notice, but it was the most 1 ad -4 4 1 : 48 he has...

By CUSTOS THE post-holiday feeling on the Stock Exchange was not so bullish. Tuesday was the closing day of a long account and Wall Street was reactionary. Oil shares, which...

Glut or famine seem the lot of the strawberry grower. An hour or two of sunshine ripens, a day or two of cloud produces mould. Con- tending with slugs is part of the battle....

BY IAN NIALL ONE often hears it said that this is an extravagant age, but whether it is or not, there is one thing we use with a liberality that is often astonishing, even if...

Birds with leg injuries are a not uncommon sight. I had just been reading about a pheasant that was found to have survived in a wild state with both its feet off, when I came...

There was a time when I used to go to the pool and fish for pike. The place is part of a shbot and the pool attracts a number of duck. Old W., the keeper, was a kindly fellow ....

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