N spite of the fact—or perhaps even because of the fact— that they are three to one, and in spite of the fact that they have a policy for Germany, and Mr. Molotov has none, the...

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It is still encouraging that any Egyptian leader should publicly commit himself to the view that " the first enemy is poverty." But General Neguib, who repeated this thesis at...

Neither the recent speech of General Valino, Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco, nor the antics of students in front of the British Embassy in Madrid are likely to improve...

This has been an extraordinary week, at any rate up to the time of writing, in that the many industrial disputes now in progress have been edged off the main news pages. But...

Communist. It is not Mr. Nehru's repeated assertions of his desire to keep India out, of trouble that the West finds difficult to understand it is the contradiction between his...

Britain is a civilised country and it is right that the very highest standards of conduct should be set for its Army, even in the most difficult of circumstances, such as those...

HE House of Commons is rather like an erratic asdic screen. At times it gives a vivid image of what is .happening in the world outside, but occasionally it seems quite sullen...

The statement just issued by the French episcopate on the future of the worker-priests continues the process of toning down this bold experiment—a process which has been going...

of the Tate Gallery together with the letter from its Director published on another Page. help to clear up matters which have been under dis- cussion in these columns durifig...

T HE past fortnight has seen the publication of two major statements on world trade--the official communique., issued at the close of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers' meeting...

I N the current issue of the Anglo-Soviet Journal thirteen members of two ' cultural delegations' who visited the USSR last autumn record their impressions of what they W. Their...

A friend of mine, a retired officer of the Indian Cavalry, was reading aloud to his six-year-old son Russell's eye-witness account of the charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade at...

e rhutchers iLest this chivalrous appreciation should convey a misleading in Pression of our late enemies, it is worth recalling one of the punishments that did come the...

The Spectator offers three prizes, each of books to the value of eight guineas, for articles to be written by boys and girls in schools in the United Kingdom. Entries should be...

the last war—The Zar in France and Flanders, 1939-40, by Major H. F. ' 11 ;s —was published on Monday. It will be reviewed at length elsewhere in these pages; but I think one...

If you write a cheque in a restaurant on a form provided by the management and omit to fill in the branch of your bank at which you have an . account, the cheque (or so a waiter...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the Spectator of last week Strix was sharp with us for using stock epithets to define the virtues or vices of other nations. He described as " cow-pocked...

Africans Look at Britain By THOMAS HODGKIN I F one had asked an intelligent Israelite at the time of the Exodus what he thought of Egypt's prospects of survival, he would...

By MICHAEL GEDGE T HOSE who have to do with young Christians between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four in England at present would probably agree that enthusiasm, devotion,...

film industry, for there is only one new film this week, The Love Lottery, starring David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon and Herbert Lom. It is a product of Ealing Studios,...

By Ian Hay. (St. Martin's.) THE curtain goes up, an unknown man is seen tryin g to 'phone the police from some- One else's house, he is surprised by the arrival of an unseen...

BALLET Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas. (Stoll.) THE theme of John Taras 's Piege de Lumiere a s an extremely interesting one, and the ballet is the weightiest work which the...

OF all the year's mixed exhibitions I ap- proach that of the Young Contemporaries with the least misgiving. It is by no means that the standard at the RBA Galleries in Suffolk...

of poet at work today —what lie calls the Neo-Symbolist and the Metaphysical. He finds neither adequate to this time and asks " . .. is there no third way open to English poetry...

SIR,-- 1 wish to thank you very warmly for your leading article " The Big Truth," which appeared in your journal for November 27th last. Through this article you have done a...

SIR, —As last week's new great poet, I was very glad to see that letter from a Doctor Sitwell telling Mr. Anthony Hartley that it's okay for great poets to copy bits out of dead...

size of our Grant-in-aid, by the Munificence of private benefactions. It was not my concern to allocate purchases amongst these benefactions, and accordingly I used a quiet...

belonged to Mr. Courtauld at the time of his death or had come into public ownership through his generosity." But until three weeks ago I was Unaware that its scope was to...

? I'll tell the news; here comes the general. Tomorrow—out of joint—the pity of it— Ripeness is all. Do you get the way I've twisted the meanings there ? I'd like to see Mr....

work being done by teachers as a body, and am all in favour of salaries commensurate with their exacting job, but I feel that all sides of the question should be considered when...

a single borough, particularly a small one, there would not be much the Civil Defence volunteers of that borough could do, trained or not. But there are other boroughs whose...

as regards those employed as teachers and those employed in industry which so weakens the claim of the teachers In the opinion of many who, like myself, are in favour of higher...

32 Harlington Grove, Cambridge CIVIL DEFENCE SIR,—I quite agree with your article and my only criticism is that it is largely destructive and hardly at all constructive. May I...

entirely got the feeling of the Annual Council at Buxton on the question of strike action. The impression left by the statement, otherwise correct, that Council " had decided by...

MEXICO, NEAR EAST, AFRICA, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, ETC. hPECTATHIX Boa rdincr School BY LOIS MITCHISON HEN .I was nine I did not know time from eternity, or dreams from waking....

seem to be glad to see you. Their Stewards and Hostesses are so kind and attentive, nothing is too much trouble. The Travel Agents where we bought our tickets were just as...

vii vii i ix Greece Dan to Beersheba (Israel) Entrée Joyeuse (Belgium) Eternal Triangle (Sicily) FESTIVAL CITIES Salzburg

John Arlott PAYING IN POUNDS Anadyomene (Cyprus) Old Malmsey (Madeira) Springbok Country (South Africa) Cricket and Carnivals (Malta) In The North (Sweden and Norway) Cruising...

In publishing Travel 1954 the Spectator revives a pre-war custom. These pages contain a wide variety of suggestions for holiday at home, on the continent, and .within the...

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for faces & places Scientific knowledge and technical experience built up over three- quarters of a century go into the making of Ilford photographic materials. That is just...

A FEW SERVICES OF WHICH YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE Today, more and more people are turning to Cooks, finding invaluable help in our services—help in many directions they had never...

what you save, either to extend your business tour of South Africa's commercial and industrial centres : or to add to the thrill of your holiday by visits to the Kruger National...

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The days lengthen, the weeks slip by. Time to start thinking of holidays. Do you plot and plan in detail ? Or take what comes ? Either way, there is infinite pleasure in the...

show its genuine determination to make the Commonwealth the mighty power that it could be, the energy of all the youth of Great Britiin could be directed toward an inspired act...

With its long, low lines and elegant new styling, the Riley ti litre Saloon proclaims its good breeding and your own good taste wherever it goes. Its special appeal is to the...

must be only a dream. A dream which went on and on, was full of hostile people swayed by sudden gusts of unreasoning fury and hatred far outside my control, of menace lurking...

advanced 1910—and it was co-educational. For nine- year-olds this meant that the boys in the class were far stronger than the girls,• and there was nothing we could do to stop...

and ate nut rissoles and lentil stews. Twice a week there were ' meat days ' segregated in shame and vice in a separate boarding house. Here those whose flesh was weak

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has written, " about my literary position. There are but two important writers in my own country who have troubled to take me s eriously, and when clever young men write essays...

powerful asWordsworth's, as detailed as D. H. Lawrence's. Yet, as he said himself in a note, JANUARY 29, 1954 131 It is Hardy's great achievement to have written novels on grave...

of the week. Mr. Kingsley Amis, in his first novel, Lucky Jim, has produced that rarest of rare good things: a very funny book. Jim Dixon is nearing the end of his first year...

it has involved much studious working over the letters, re-dating some of them in such a way as to confirm new findings by Professor Hyder Rollins ; episodes have h6en...

14 . A sole wriggling. (5.) 19. 13. Staff ruse (anag.). (9.) 18. Did they upset your spouse Rex 7 (9.) 20. I ant a suggestion of the past In the Part of an old earthenware...

China or Chile immediately, or else ...) then all of you should know that the quickest way between two points is BY CABLE from any of Britain's 13,000 Postal Telegraph Offices....

present the same difficulties for foreigners as Corneille and Racine, he seems to have had less attention in this country than almost any of the great French writers of the...

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