• HE South African Parliament, sitting in its self- appointed capacity as the High Court of the land, has now given the judgement which it was expected to give. The Court was...

Judgements on the case of Alfred Krupp must be based on four facts. The first is that the mitigation of his original sentence was thework of the American High Commissioner in...

Bulletins about the nation's economic health come from many sources and often give contradictory evidence. The latest bulletin comes from what ought to be the best source— the...

The agenda for the Labour Party's annual conference at Morecambe at the end of September foreshadows a certain liveliness at the conference itself. The long list of motions...

The oil industry is necessarily one of extreme complexity. Now the United States Federal Trade Commission's report has been published, which suggests that, in its international...

The dispute between Durham County Council and the pro- fessions over the principle of the closed shop was, it was hoped, settled once and for all as a result of a decision in...

C AN the Soviet Government show itself, in regard to any European question, constructive and co-operative ? \ It is necessary to try to believe that possible; it is very...

Games did achieve something definite. At any rate they inspired enlightened comments in papers of different countries. Two that reached me come from very well-known journals—...

course at Christ's College, Cambridge. But surely dockers are more familiar with Cahn. JANUS

was long. Sir Frederic Kenyon and Dr. Albert Mansbridge were both concerned with education, and most valuably, in different ways—Sir Frederic (it is odd to read that he was...

T HE News Chronicle has started an important hare, and I hope it will keep it running for some time. It appears that all over the country landlords who are owners of rent-...

priies amounting to £3,000 for the best painting of " a game of Association football in England, or any scene directly connected with it " (the referee being mobbed, for example...

were going, as they have never done hitherto, to charge passengers for their bus journey to and from the airports some- one commented succinctly " What a dirty trick." That...

with some observations on the prune. Thinking at first that they were appreciative, I was about to embark on a eulogy of the Scotsman. However, they are at least non-committal,...

By ERNST FRIEDLAENDER W HEN Dr. Adenauer returns to Bonn in the next few weeks from his vacation in Switzerland, the Saar problem will be one of his outstanding worries. This...

By NEVILLE CARDUS B Y force of enthusiastic character and a skill of the sort which everybody can understand at sight, W. S. Surridge has inspired an excellent Surrey cricket...

By RICHARD CHANCELLOR HE announcement of far-reaching changes in the organi- sation of the Russian Communist Party is another step towards the re-emergence of traditional...

13) DEREK HUDSON 0 NE might imagine an unscrupulous schoolmaster setting a mischievous question : " Write short notes on September 8th, 1752." From a bright boy he might get an...

free man. I used to get up when I liked, make coffee and toast in my room, walk out to shop and meet my friends, most of whom were as independent as myself. What work I had to...

Strenuous Liberty By NEMONE LETHBRIDGE (Somerville College, Oxford). - a la A nouilh — hungry, workless, without money for my bus- fare VERY much wanted to be broke: not with...

By HAROLD NICOLSON GIFTED newspaper-proprietor told me that there were three subjects only that could always be counted upon to arouse the interest of the Great British Public....

Just for You. (Plaza.) Histoire d'Amour. (Cameo-Polytechnic.) MR. BING CROSBY, rather thinner than usual and with greying temples, is, in Just for You, a smash-hit show-producer...

THE orchestral concert at Glyndebourne on Saturday rewarded pilgrims, and they were numerous,' with an unusual programme, in fact with the music that is generally heard only by...

THEATRE Affairs of State. By Louis Verneuil. (Cambridge.) THE success of this American comedy may be counted among the oddities of the theatrical year. The plot, when it...

MR. CHARLES MORGAN'S play The River Line, with which the dramatic side of the Festival opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, is full of interest, but in my opinion it succeeds as...

MUSIC WITH only a single new work (Frank Martin's violin concerto), and no unknown quantities among the performers to excite the enormous interest aroused last year by the New...

Set by Richard Usborni A recent announcement under " Public Appointments " in " The Times " contained the following : " Posts am, in various Government Departments and cover a...

Report by Ronald Lambton A prize of £5 was offered for a contemporary reference to a hitherto unknown pet belonging to Gibbon, Sir Thomas Browne, Lord Chester- field or Blake....

WHAT THE CHURCH WANTS Sir,—You have been wisely asking what the Church wants. If you will allow me, I will briefly explain to you. (a) A better selection of Sunday Lessons, or...

Sta,—Since our language has at least 155 different expressions for being drunk, there should be no difficulty in unearthing " a whole spectrum of adjectives, ranging from white...

word " Wahn" Mr. Harold Nicolson cannot go far wrong if he sticks to " frenzy," appropriately qualified. But he undoubtedly needs a new word to describe his feelings when he is...

the Spectator of August 15th, speaks of the visitors of the Ministry of National Insurance, who call at the homes of persons claiming sickness benefit as " health visitors."...

knows only two words for mental deficiency. Meredith in Chap. 34 of Rhoda Fleming, "Father and Son," brought another Latin word into English literature. Horace's "Cerritus fuit"...

August 22nd calls for some comments from one who has recently spent a holiday " at the coast." I can gladden him with the information that there are three Duchesses on the...

own case among the definitions of " Wahnsinnig" in Muret-Sanders' German Dictionary, grouped and punctuated thus: Deranged, distracted, insane; demented; frantic, mad; crazy,...

-Slit,--Over and over again since I came on leave, people who know perfectly well that I live in Pakistan have asked me how I am getting on in " India." " Not India," I say. "...

Sia,—Mr. Michael. Swan's article, Max at 80, brought to mind Meredith's test of the genuine Comic Spirit, the ability " to see what is ludicrous in those we love without loving...

in your last issue there is one mistake which should be corrected. " But Gourock on the north shore.... " It is however on the south shore: this may be a typographical error. To...

Sm,—Janus, rommenting on the alleged theft by two little boys of mail-bags from a train in Portsmouth station, says it is a sobering thought that he, or anyone else, might do...

dislike of them is an essential article in the creed of the food snob. Since food and travel snobbery go together, Janus's remarks on this subject are on a level with his...

Sirt,—Mr. Ian Stephens' article on " Delkaria " is interesting; but it would be of even greater interest to learn by what right the Hindu part of that sub-continent has...

in my opinion has equal if not superior merits. That a new word h necessary for the sub-continent which once was India (without possibility of confusion) no one can doubt. Why...

Srit,—Dr. Geiringer has given us a thesis culminating in a hypothesis. Is not Mr. Pearson's " paean of triumph over death " a hypothesis ? Or Sir Thomas Browne's or Henry...

Snt,—The last word on prunes was written by Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own: "Prunes and custard," she wrote, describing dinner in hall at a women's college, " followed....

Sm,—To answer Mr. Haigh's question I quote from the introduction to Professor Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics (John Wiley & Sons. 1948): " We have decided to call the entire WA of...

Peacocks are not to be seen every day. The sight of one magnificent specimen perched on a wall with its tail draped in a graceful pose is enough to make the hurrying traveller...

of pumps, and will, in all probability, continue to do so when the rural water-schemes have been carried out, unless cost is disregarded. One cottage I know would have no other...

THE town was hardly awake. A restless woman brushed the flags before her cottage; a man came sailing downhill on a bicycle with a brace of rabbits on his handlebars and a gun...

Signs that autumn is coming are everywhere. A yellowing leaf falls from the - sycamore; the blossom crumbles on the blackberry-bush and the birds are flocking. I counted over...

taking cuttings from most things that can be propagated by this means. Carnations, pinks, pansies, violas can all be increased by cuttings, as, of course, can such things as...

The Short Story and Its Readers Darling Tom and Other Stories. By L. A. G. Strong. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) Short Stories from the New Yorker. (Gollancz. 15s.) In a stimulating...

Vol. V of Winston Churchill's war memoirs, " Closing the Ring"; Lord Raglan Thor Heyerdahl's " American Indians in the Pacific"; Professor Bonamy Dobree an important new...

The Critical Years. By General Baron Geyr von Schweppenburg, (Allan Wingate. 18s.) IT is impossible, I should hope, to put down this book without feeling that its author was and...

IN 1921 Professor Ernest Weekley issued An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English and A Concise Etymological Dictionary. Both have for many years been out of print. The...

Tins new edition of the journal of George Fox will be warmly welcomed. Is is well printed, with a scholarly preface and a valuable introduction and epilogue. Its appearance,...

Gladstone and Liberalism. By J. L. Hammond and M. R. D. Foot. (English Universities Press. 7s. 6d.) How to write a short life of Gladstone ? When he was born, George III was...

A Little Learning. By Winifred Peck. (Faber. 12s. 6d.) To be an elderly English gentlewoman is to have lived through a far longer period in the history of women's education than...

The Christian Society. By Stephen Neill. (Nisbet. 17s. 6d.) CONTEMPORARY Europe is haunted, like Pilate in the legends, by a memory. It cannot forget that it was once...

SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their news-. agent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold...

THE first two books this week are written with exceptional honesty and absence of vulgarity, which gives them, at the very least, some quality sufficient for appreciative...

The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy. By Lionel Robbins. (Macmillan. 15s.) IF the first duty of a professor is to profess then Lionel Robbins is...

14 Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened alter noon on Tuesday week, September 9th, addressed Crossword, sQ Gower Street,...

CI El la , g o mg El CI 13 e_n_ Down al CICIOREMS33 GI El in f3 El r2 vi Itl Solution on September 12 The winner of Crossword No. 691 is: Mrs. R. SUTCLIFFE, 202 Burscough...

By C USTOS WITH the help of a little optimism from Whitehall the market recovery has now gathered considerable momentum. Gilt- edged stocks are naturally in the lead, and...