T HE measure introduced by Mr. Dalton on Tuesday was essen- tially an interim Budget. No adequate assessment of post-war conditions is possible yet, and though the Chancellor...

Miss Wilkinson, the Minister for Education, with the Govern- ment's overwhelming majority at her back, on October t8th rejected the Prayer, based on every consideration of...

T HE Anglo-American financial discussions in Washington keep "running into difficulties," as Lord Halifax said to the. Press last Saturday ; by this week, however, there...

The domination of the debate on demobilisation in the House of Commons on Monday by Mr. Churchill was overwhelming. The Minister of Labour was quite unequal to dealing with the...

Hungary has provided yet another example of the growing diffi- culty of Allied collaboration. Great Britain and the United States have now formally protested against the...

When, on October loth, Colonel Peron was forced to resign by an ultimatum from the commander of the Campo del Mayo garrison, considerable satisfaction was felt in the United...

r HE results of the French elections this week have been awaited I with more than usual interest in this country. They, and their consequences, will decide the future of France...

It is not surprising that the Lord Chancellor's picture of an ideal bench of magistrates consisting of two members of the Right in politics and two of the Left, with a chairman...

T HERE are the makings of an early clash between the Govern- ment and the House of Lords in the insistence by the former on maintaining what are known as "transitional powers...

provoked by the project which threatened to deface the beautiful view of Durham Cathedral by a gigantic power-station. My readers will remember that Bishop Williams' "half...

on Monday that Norman Baillie-Stewart had appeared that morning at Bow Street before "Sir Bertrand Russell." The association of ideas is intelli- gible and Sir Bertrand Watson...

justifiably tendentious question to the President of the Board of Trade last week, asked how much paper had been made available for the publication of Your M.P. and English...

may not still deserve its reputa- tion as the best club in London, but this week's changes have unquestionably made it the club with the cheapest food. Announce- ments of the...

which has established a commanding hold on British sympathy and admiration, is more or less in the melting-pot. An old resident of the island makes a suggestion which seems...

peerage (for I believe all seven new members of the Upper House have sons to succeed them) is interesting. In the selection of, among others, Sir Edward Evans, of the 'Broke,'...

By SHIELA GRANT DUFF Prague, October, 1945 T HE question is not so much whether, as how far, Czecho- slovakia is under Soviet influence. That it is under such in- fluence...

By GERALD GARDINER In 0 talk casually of mass population-movements is easy ; to see mass population-movements in operation (as I have done in the last seven months as an...

By OSCAR R. HOBSON "T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer has decided to reduce the rate of interest on Treasury Deposit Receipts from r* per cent, per annum to 1 per cent." "The...

By E. ASHWORTH UNDERWOOD URELY the chapel of Wycombe Abbey must have seen one of the strangest events in its history a few days ago, when an American corporal was tried for...

By D. W. BROGAN W ITH the exception of three dreary weeks in a convoy, all my journeys to and from America since the war have been made by air. So the decision to return by one...

which, owing to his own subtle manoeuvring and the incompetence of the judge and jury, was not made apparent during his trial? He was not accused of personal dishonesty,...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T is strange indeed that Pierre Laval, having for a quarter of a century infected French politics with the poisons of his own putrescence, should have...

passed by the Paris newspapers upon the confusion which arose. "Lava!," writes Libiration, "has been condemned to death ; and France feels ashamed. It was not Laval alone who...

dissolves we can well discern the shape of the cuttle-fish. It was a horrible sight to see Pierre Laval • moving from group to group in the Paris Chamber of Deputies ; •...

errors in political foresight ; they constituted definite acts conceived with the dual purpose of destroying the Republican constitution and using his resultant dictatorship for...

-King Oedipus " and "The Critic." At the New Theatre. AN extraordinary outburst in the London Press of what Matthew Arnold would have called " provincialism " has greeted the...

Sweden are anxious to know more about what 13 happening in world affairs and particularly the British view on the subject. Unfortunately the blocking of currency in most of the...

I watched the setting sun Paint Time upon the lake, Stone silver bronze and gold, As an alchemist in dread Whose life is centred on This hour might see it break, The elixir turn...

"The Seventh Veil." At the Leicester Square. • The Road to Utopia." At the Carlton. — " Indiscretion." At the Warner. The Seventh Veil is an event in the development of the...

SIR,—" Because we have been spending £15,000,000 a day, and have to pay heavy interest on the debt thus incurred, we are under the need to economise heavily in every possible...

Si,—It is only with due diffidence that a freshman of two weeks' standing may essay to question the published opinions of his seniors. I feel, however, that the assertion by "A...

Sta,—When Lord Kemsley assures your readers that he always puts public interest before private profit he will give them as much satisfaction as he must get himself from the...

Sta,—May I be allowed the privilege of making as brief a' reply as possible to the letters of my three critics which appeared in your columns last week? In the first place,...

A PALESTINE PLAN SIR, —Dr. G. R. Driver, at the end of a constructive and interesting article on Palestine, makes the suggestion that a home for the Jews should be sought in...

Sta,—Mr. Kempson's letter about the Belsen trials expresses a point of view which I have read and heard exprosed almost everywhere in recent weeks. It may be that this general...

Snt,—The following has never, as far as I know, appeared in the British Press. You may care to publish it as a unique tribute by an Ally to the undying heroism of the British...

Si,—In your issue of October 19th, D. M. Vaughan asks for a house or flat—with some means of electrically consuming its own refuse. When I was in the United States in 1943 I had...

seem surprisingly ill-informed, or Lancaster must be a unique school. I myself have just finished three hours' teaching on a Saturday morning, and my usual school day begins...

Holidays" in your issue of October 12th. Since I am at present at school, and hope in the future to become a teacher, I would like to state my reasons for objecting to the...

THE later harvests are proving most beneficently abundant, and the dry, warm weather befell at the chosen moment. The sun was just in time to add a good percentage of sugar to...

weather greeted me as I sat in a little south-looking verandah. Two large grasshoppers came to sun themselves on the warm concrete Boor, and two unexpected butterflies, a...

Sta,—In a recent number of The Spectator your contributor, "Janus," inveighed against the fiat issued by some of the luxury restaurants in London regarding the wearing of...

for a "sin of omission." They are unanimous in their praise of the King Penguin book, Edible Fungi (price 2s), by John Ramsbottom, who recently gave an admirable broadcast. The...

The destruction of a hedge of Lonicera Nitida (which needed inordinate attention) !eaves the question what to plant instead. Some shrub not very greedy in root is needed, for...

Sta,—Your correspondent is right about the cat-o'-nine tails, but he does not carry his correction of M. Gardner far enough. The use of the " cat " giving rise to the saying was...

SIR,—The feading article, "Mr. Bevin's Problems," in your issue dated October 12th, 1945, refers to Turkey as an Arab State. This is definitely a wrong statement. I am sure the...

ruined houses of London has astonished many. When at an earlier date I recorded this, a naval officer wrote to ask if the Buddleia was a species of Willow- herb! It is an alien...

Subscribers are reminded that notification of change of address should reach the office of The Spectator, seven clear days before the alteration is to take effect_

Shaw's " Beatrice " Beatrice Webb. By Margaret Cole. (Longrnans. 10s. 6d.) IN this portrait of what she calls "the greatest woman I have ever known," Mrs. Margaret Cole has...

I BEGAN to read this book with a feeling of pleasant excitement. Mr. Moorehead's three previous books about the war in Africa had been so good that one naturally wondered...

Man the Measure : A New Approach to History. By Erich Kahler (Cape. 30s.) Man the Measure : A New Approach to History. By Erich Kahler (Cape. 30s.) IN this grandiose volume of...

The Teachings of Sun Vat-Sen. Compiled by Professor N. Gangulee. (Sylvan Press. 10s. 6d.) SUN YAT-SEN is the Father of the Chinese Republic. At the end of the nineteenth...

THIS book has the sub-title "A Log-book of H. M. Tomlinson," and there are ships on the jacket, but it is more of philosophy than of the sea. The first half is admittedly a...

For Love Alone. By Christina Stead. (Peter Davies. 12s. 6d.) Each For All. By Yuri Nagibin. (Hutchinson. 5s.) For Love Alone is a title to scare most readers, but those who...

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Little Reviews Anthology. Edited by D. Val Baker. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 8s. 6d.) THIS is the second selection of stories, poems and criticism chosen from 21 contemporary...

BY CUSTOS CRITICAL as it is of the general principles underlying Socialist economic policy the City has little fault to find with Mr. Dalton's interim budget. From the broadest...