O subject dominated more conversations about politics during the period of the last Parliament than the future of the Welfare State, yet it cannot be said that the election...

outrages in , Morocco over the last few weeks as well as the French Government's decision to reinforce their troops in Algeria calls attention to the crisis in French North...

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marriage, published last week, raises some of

actions. The Minister of the Interior, Dr. Dtinges, sought to justify the Nationalists' behaviour in attempting to pack the Senate by 'referring to the creation of peers in 1713...

Sketch to pull the real scare story of the election. In huge headlines it told its readers that, were Attlee put in, the kingdom of Bevan would be nigh, and accompanied this...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE AVE us from our friends.' This was the Labour Party reaction to the last-minute gimmick which was thought up by the political boffins of the Daily Mirror. For...

I DREW attention a fortnight ago to the odd collection of indi- viduals whom the News Chronicle invited to contribute to its election series, 'Off the Party Line.' Mr. Kingsley...

sen- tence of death for no fewer than seven years. It can be argued of course that the delay is his own fault. A brilliant prison-cell lawyer, he has taken advantage of every...

issue, it may be mentioned that the Irish, Censorship Board have given yet another proof of their prowess in their last list of banned publications, which include Nine Novels...

party differences, but he broke his offvn magnificent record with ease when he made his conciliatory contribu- tion to the grammar school-comprehensive school controversy. `We...

that science fiction would take the place of the detective story as relaxing reading for tired business men and intellectuals. But it was not until I heard of the Science...

MR. R. A. BUTLER : `The only thing I have not been able to do is reduce the price of beer, and that I would like to ao before I die because I would like to think it would be on...

By NORMAN ST. JOHN-STEVAS T HE censorship debate has now raged for over a year. and amidst the denunciations of 'horror comics' and pleas for more 'obscenity' an occasional...

as the Wars of the Roses began shortly before noon 500 years ago last Sunday in the streets and gardens of St. Albans. Historians might find it hard to agree how many wars there...

BY MICHAEL CROWDER (Hertford College, Oxford) M R. STRYDOM'S appointment last year as successor to Dr. Malan, and the recent implementation of the law of 1945 for further...

By FRANK LITTLER V ' EINTE, colorados! Veinte, colorados!' It was midnight in the Fronton Novedades, Barcelona's major pelota court. The shout came from a white-coated book-...

runnin' with damp,' I heard the gossip say, 'but when they opened the cupboards the mould and cobwebs wafted about like ghosts. Nobody wouldn't've kept a dog in it, an' that...

gardener is when the cabbage, onion or carrot flies attack his young plants. Infected plants should be put on the bonfire immed- iately. BHC (benzine hexachloride) dust is...

hazel, thorn and holly, my attention was drawn to a nest from which protruded a wisp of a tail. It looked like the tail of a vole. It could have been the tail of a weasel. The...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN cancelled all my engagements and gave myself a Church for rebuilding it. It consists of three old streets which wind to the waterside, with narrow alleys...

HAVE before me as I write . . .' The old formula is 1 obsolete, Equally serviceable to the narrator of actual or of imagined events. it stood generations of writers in good...

SIR, — Mr. Richard Feilden may well describe the present dissension within the Labpur Party as 'pathetic,' but he should not call the empiri- cism of the Right-Wing Socialists...

The Future of Germany Frank M. Fowler Labour Party in Travail Roy Hazed Mr. Gladstone R. F. [Wiley, F. C. Tippetts A Mayor's Nest Robert Nott Ring Around the Words W. L....

Gladstone in 1896. It was when he arrived at Brighton to address a great, Liberal meeting in the Metropole Hotel. There was very little cheering, the crowd holding him, as it...

SIR, — Strix has got this wrong. As a very minor municipal gent. (who is unlikely ever to be accompanied by a mace-bearer) I have a good deal of sympathy with the nine Mayors of...

during the last seventy years, and can add a few touches to the Provost of Worcester's portrait of the GOM. On one occasion he was upstairs packing his bag, when Mrs....

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presence together on the screen said all that anybody needs to know about the Commonwealth. Mr. Menzies wisely made it clear that there is 'superficially a mystery' in the...

a tyre manu- facturer has pointed out that anyone who had experience in marketing tyres which bore a brand name not well known to the public would quickly realise that to sell...

would like very much to get in touch with any survivors, or anybody on the rescue ship Carpathia. If any of your readers can help, I would greatly appreciate it.— Yours...

that he would support any proposal to abolish the street lamp post, even if he did not notice the traffic problem! Recently it took me an hour to go by bus from Piccadilly to...

correspondents have based the problem of eating live fish and its reputed determinism of se.x upon altogether a funda- mentally unsound premise. Some years ago, while...

and just miss a schoolboy playing below. Your readers may like to know what is to happen when the last tree is removed. The earth will be allowed to rest for a few months and...

(Duchess.) — Tln REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER. By Liam O'Brien. (New.) THIS week's theatre brings us two comedies, one of which we had already seen at the Arts. There The Diary of...

each of them. Mr. John Piper's new paintings at the Leicester Galleries arc mostly of Wales, or the strange landscape of Portland — sea-girt, littered with quarried blocks of...

YINO-TAI (Berkeley). Violent Saturday is an extremely well con- structed thriller directed by Richard Fleischer. It is the ,story of a bank robbery in a small American town,...

Stendhal's Diaries By MARTIN TURNELL T HE Syndicat d'Mitiative at Grenoble is an enterprising body which deserves its name. It has erected signs along the main routes leading...

TUE RED CARPET. By Marshall MacDuffie. (Cassell, 18s.) OUTLAW. By Voinov..(Harvill Press, 16s.) MR. MACDUFFIE is, one feels, a hundred per cent American and he has written a...

Thirty Years War as terribly as any country in history, neverthe- less survived and grew again into the powerful state which we have known. As for warnings, one may be drawn...

ONE would never guess that this book was a translation. Miss Naomi Walford has done a very fine job. It is comparatively easy to make it literal rendering of one language into...

ART BUCHWALD'S PARIS. (Chatto and Windus, 10s. 6d.) EN VOYAGE. By Emile de Harven and M. J. MacDonald. (McGibbon and Kee, 10s. 6d.) TRAVEL GUIDE TO PARIS. Ed. Dore Ogrizek....

THE GOOD SHEPHERD. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) WOMEN facing a solitary and penurious old age, living out their drab present on dreams : these occupy two of the...

IT is one of the hurts done to American reputa- tion abroad by the antics of Senator McCarthy and Mr. Scott McLeod that one can easily forget that plenty of sense has been...

50s.) CENTURIES-OLD political controversy is dreary stuff, scarcely worth reprinting, and this cdl- lected edition of Steele's newspaper. published in 1714 and 1715, is no...

(Country Life, 12s. 6d.) SHELL GUIDE TO DEVON. By Brian Watson. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) SHELL GUIDE TO DEVON. By Brian Watson. (Faber, 12s. 6d.) MR. FLETCHER'S book, the first of two...

Translated and with an introduction by J. M. Cohen. (Penguin, 5s.) NOT only is Mr. Cohen's translation of Rabelais excellent in itself, it is a translation. One cannot hope...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT dock strike was over, bought at the top of the market. Then came the public agitation agdinst dear tea and the rude remarks of the Prime Minister of...

By CUSTOS If Labour voters had studied the full 1954 report of the directors of IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES they might well have dismissed the demand for nationalisation as...

4 Part of the hosemen's costume? ( 8 ). 9 Watch dispatched by rail (6). 10 Cat ruins these hangings) (8). 12 Was this the school of Constable? (8) . 13 With this the writer...

a cookery book consisting of recipes supplied by well-known people. One compiled from recipei by fictional characters might provide more enjoyment for the mind than for the...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 273 Report by W. Norman Dixon A prize of f5 was offered for a list of ten posts in a modern Cabinet filled by heroes of Greek story, with a few words...