is that in Geneva the Communists have agreed to discuss a cease-fire in advance of a political settlement. In Hanoi, on the other hand, the situation (discussed in the following...

that the treaty of friendship and co-operation, signed at Ankara in February, 1953, between Greece, Turkey and Yugo- slavia, should be turned into a military alliance. There is...

German rearmament has been classed with teetotalism and pacifism by the national executive of the Labour Party. S° Bevanites and others opposed to the party line on this great...

face on it, but there was no disguising the fact that the National Coal Board's report for 1953 was disappointing, to say the least. Fro" duction dropped, for the first time...

his blessing to 120,000 people gathered at Wembley Stadium last Saturday. He, with the Moderator of the Free Church Council, the Lord Mayor of London and other eminent people...

The foreigner who comes to labour in our midst must not forget his labour permit—not even if he is one of the world's greatest composers come to be honoured by the Royal...

HO'S up ? " It is the most flattering question that can be asked at Westminster. Towards the end of the debate on members' pay on Monday the magnet of a name on the ticker began...

argument that foreigners should keep out of American politics and leave Americans to sort out their own mistakes ? In every crisis of their foreign policy in the past thirteen...

room in my house (which is a long way from any other house) an extension to the telephone. When people rang me up, this instrument remained silent. The Post Office returned,...

the "emonstration ' ; I turned off the road and parked the car in the farmyard. I had known this farm since boyhood. In three Years Mr. A, its present owner, has transformed its...

'Peterborough,' commenting in the Daily Telegraph on Lord Beaverbrook's 75th birthday, quoted from his newly published book, Don't Trust to Luck, three rules which Lord B...

I L AST Sunday a great many people in Rome became suddenly and inexplicably convinced that the world was going to end at midnight on Monday; the Vatican had to issue a statement...

Captain Martingale, my intensely unreliable racing corres- pondent, advises me in his usual ambiguous jargon that Valerullah may be there or thereabouts on Wednesday.

In the first part of this article, published in last week's Spectator, a parallel was drawn between the effects of some of the present-day forms of physical treatment of mental...

By JANE MEIKLEJOHN THE . police operation 'Anvil,' carried out against the Mau Mau in Nairobi during the week-end of April 25th, was not merely the latest in a series of...

By JENNY NICHOLSON Ro HRISTIAN DEMOCRAT statisticians claim that l l i l They think that at the next election—which may happen anY time after May next year and in any case not...

bY SIR CARLETON ALLEN, Q.C. T 0 most mortals words are given, as the cynic has said, in order to conceal their thoughts. To legislators they , are given for a nobler...

The Snow Maiden. (Sadler's Wells.) RimsKY - KoRSAKov'S Snow Maiden has been restored to the Sadler's Wells repertory with an excellent cast. Elsie Morison avoids as far as...

believe in Lopalchin's peasant origin. There is better work in the small parts: Robert Eddison's wonderfully gormless Epikhodov, Pauline Jameson's Varya, Chekhov's manag- ing...

,1 V14EN we go to see a glamorous star we expect nowadays to find her where we left her, playing more or less exactly the same role in more or less exactly the same picture and...

SEVERAL Italian sculptors have achieved reputations since the war which have made them potent forces beyond their own fron- tiers. Post-war Italian painting is less well known...

On presenting petitions praying that the House would not sanction the severance of publics schools from the Church of Scotland, the Duke of Buccleuch called attention to the...

END OF SEGREGATION SIR, -- Mr. Brogan's article The End of Segre- gation ' must interest many who like myself knew the Deep South before the First World War, when the colour...

SIR.-- Many in the crofting counties and country districts of Scotland must have been cheered by Sir Compton Mackenzie's ' Side- light ' in the Spectator of May 14th. Principal...

has helped many undeveloped countries in general, and disabled veterans in particular, by the technical advice of its medical consultants in the field of rehabilita- tion. The...

SIR,--Rather behind-hand in my thorough reading of your - columns I came across a passage today in the issue of April 30th for which I have waited all my life to see in print....

Once more the time-lag, that terrible spectre in humanitarian reforms, is painfully in evidence, and, with this mutilation of the provisions against oil pollution, we are faced...

Belong to us. He was brave the Australian Farmer, who fell there in nineteen forty-one With an oath that lashed the rock. Every pass Has to be defended once, and Leonidas

and clues, Glossing murders. Pages bend. A chapter straggles, followed by The hypnotised and prancing eye To the revealing end.

Indubitably this maggot's a fly fellow; Only a narrow cousin to the worm Who knows nothing of a phoenix birth, Does not spread fancy wings and go Or multiply his kind upon our...

the thing away), But guesses much from what he knows in part. Knowledge of madness suffers a delay: When the mind rots, no introspective art Gives it a check upon its own decay.

close our long circuit by dark, this still brick angled coil of the inmost core of the many-membered body's mortared frame, harbour for swallows, and a city's guard. We at the...

MYXOMATOSIS is again reported a little farther north than it once was, but so far it has not made a rapid advance as it may do in hotter weather. The rabbit population in my...

asks me what he can do about it. Weeds can be dug out at any season and there is no other satisfactory way for things such as dandelion, but providing the soil is not sour — and...

Two friends wrote to give me information regarding the iticubation period of hedge sparrows which is normally twelve to thirteen days, but may extend a day or two above this. By...

The Cable and Wireless EFM service provides for the transmission of certain set phrases, e.g. I am fit and well," "I have been commissioned," "Twins born," etc., by code numbers...

An amusing Story of the making of a robin's nest comes from Archdeacon G. H. Marten of the Homes of St. Barnabas, Lingfield, Surrey, who writes: "About ten days ago my very...

The poems of Burns have recently been 'translated' into English for the benefit of the benighted Sassenach. Competitors are asked to comment on this event in a poem of three...

W HEN in 1863 the news of the intended cession to Greece of the Ionian Islands was received in Corfu a deputation of citizens proceeded to the house of the Lord High...

In the pages which follow, the Scottish scene is surveyed. The main object has been to bring all the salient features into focus in such a way as to present the reader not with...

been freely bandied about in Scotland these last twenty-five years but, . so far as people knowledgeable on economic questions are concerned, there has been perhaps only one of...

S COTLAND'S motiern manufacturing industry was founded upon coal and is still largely dependent on coal. From the early nineteenth century . until 1913 expansion was continuous,...

By F. S. TAYLOR T HE Scots are alleged to possess a gift for financial management and although today the scope of their operations is dwarfed by the • mammoth institutions whose...

By A CORRESPONDENT T HANKS largely to the passionate insistence of the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. Tbm Johnston, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board was set...

It is an old story, but, as many of our visitors do not appear to have heard it, it may be worth telling again. By an accident of geology the Middle Ages persisted in the High-...

By ROBERT URQUHART I T is possibly true to say that Scotland's two great sister industries of agriculture and forestry are living a more harmonious family life than they did,...

good, modernly equipped vessels. Young people must again be encouraged to, enter the industry. Thus shall Scotland again provide in fullest measure the peacetime harvest of the...

By MORRIS LINDEN A T the end of the last war Scotland was faced with an enormous re-housing problem. In a pre-war survey, the Scottish figure for overcrowding was given as 22.6...

By DEWAR GIBB Behind such a movement there are two main forces, the sentimental and the practical. Let the En g lish reader ima g ine a movement to unite En g land and the...

By ALASTAIR HETHERINGTON T HE case against Scottish home rule is, in short, thl l other things are more urgent. A Scottish Parliament , pleasant as it would be, is not the...

By DR. DOUGLAS M. McINTOSH The pattern of Scottish education, designed by John Knox in the sixteenth century, was largely devised for the benefit of the able child. Most of the...

By WILFRED TAYLOR A BOUT a year ago, while lolling in an armchair as 0 a guest in a private railway coach on a track inspect journey between Edinburgh and Berwick, I sugges te l...

By SIRHECTOR HETHERINGTON T HE four Scottish universities have come through . the same post-war experience as their southern sisters— emergency, improvisation and gradual...

T HE ink will barely be dry on this page before I set off on my annual visit of Scottish Hotels. Clearly I cannot have any 'cut and dried' programme for, besides hotels on my...

By MORAY McLAREN 5 a tolerable run, on the grounds that he preferred varied and 41 1 ,.teresting work in his own country, such a state of affairs means at Scotland continues to...

Looking at Arithmetic hY PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON HE trouble with a great deal of the teaching of arithmetic to young children is that clever people do it: people who are very...

Several overseas readers have written to the Spectator to ask if books, which they had difficulty in obtaining, could be sent to them. The Spectator will gladly arrange for...

By DE SMO ND GRA YES (Christ Church, Oxford) E VENSONG was over. At the door, the Rector stc shaking hands with the people as they left. "Good-night! "he said to me. "I'm coming...

By REX WARNER ILONE is too distinguished a writer to be treated with anything but respect; and so, before complaining of a kind of vagueness and imprecision which seem to mark...

215.)„„ f, THERE are some books, lying on the borderland between scholars% n. and entertainment, which expert and layman alike can enjoy wit,,, 11 10 Li sort of vicarious...

Katherine Mansfield. By Antony Alpers. (Jonathan Cape. 21s.) I , IT is with some misgiving that we read a biography by a wr ite r . who claims that he felt a special mission to...

War at Sea, Vol. I. By Captain S. W. Roskill, R.N. (H.M.S.O. 42s,) op % E . experiences of the last war," writes Captain Roskill in his 4. 1 41 , 11 8 pages, "appear to...

The Scottish Economy, By Members of the Staff of Glasgow Wive sity. Edited by A. Caimcross. (C.U.P. 30s.) THIS is essentially a superior statistical handbook. Not manY its...

The Adventures of John Wetherell. Edited by C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 18s.) LOOKING back from the disappointments of middle-age on the adventures of his youth, John...

Burma under the Japanese. By Thakin Nu. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) THESE two books will appeal to very different groups of readers. The narrative of Thakin Nu, the present Prime...

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time. By Tommy Armour' (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.) This is Golf. By Louis T. Stanley. (W. H. Allen. 16s.) To judge from the publishers'...

The Vengeance of the Gods. By Rex Warner. Illustrated by Susan Einzig. (MacGibbon and Kee. 12s. 6d.) To the 'experienced reader, especially perhaps to one who has n° Greek,...

13howanf Junction. By John Masters. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) Bhowani Junction is so ambitious a novel that I doubt if anyone but a practising novelist will realise how big a...

Thomas 'Voting, Natural Philosopher, 1773- 1829: A Biography. By the late Alexander Wood, completed by Frank Oldham. (C.U.P. 30s.) THE late Dr. Wood of Emmanuel College,...

and more, for in dealing with the various aspects of French life and literature in the seventeenth century it probes into the historical roots of French society in a way which...

are really fragments from her life—all both concerned with children. As narratives they are contrasted: the first all sunn,Y domestic intimacy, the second booming Witll the...

the complement to Coulton, and this book's merit is to recall that Gas- quet's life was important in many different ways. From his letters and diaries, and from his unfinished...

Information. (H. M.S.O. 10s.) Tms book within its own field rivals and in part replaces Whitaker as, a source of sternly factual information. It is the fifth edition of a book...

last that a bull market, however strong, is vulnerable to bad political news. The gilt- edged market was chiefly affected and the unduly steep fall in the undated stocks...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE great industrial problem of "manage- ment and men," which has never yet been solved in a satisfactorily democratic way, crops up again with the new...

Two prizes are awarded each week - a copy of the De Luxe edition of Chambers's Twentieth Cen- tury Dictionary and a book token for one guinea. These will be awarded to the...

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