The pathetic illusion that anyone who doubts or qialifies the absolute dominance and rectitude of Russian policy can now survive unmolested in the East European satellite...

/ T is not surprising that Dr. Malan should view British colonial policy with concern. His policy is to keep the . &lean native down ; British policy, to which both political...

Nobody need be surprised at the fact that France has been precipitated into a political crisis on the subject of electoral reform. This particular threat has been hanging over...

his will to 'quit Morocco, where his g.rptest interests lie. Duty first called him to Indo-China ; now the summons is to the defence of Europe. He may still hope not to have to...

• Since the middle of December public exchanges between the Western Powers and the Soviet Government have been carried on at two levels. There is the comparatively high level of...

There will be widespread regret in this country if, as the result of internal difficulties following the Parliamentary defeat on Wednesday night the visit of the Prime Minister...

The trade agreement betWeen India . and Pakistan is of the best omen both in itself and in the bearing it may be hoped it will have on the solution of other and even more...

The many weeks of delay which preceded the publication of the Government's defence proposals, including the recall of reservists for training, were said to have been devoted to...

T HE Government continues to lose ground in the country. The latest Gallup poll attests the fact ; other evidence confirms it. In an immediate election the Conservatives would,...

Last week's agreement on railway wages does not take on a more attractive aspect as its implications and consequences become plainer. The Railway Executive decided to give way....

F AR better an American Admiral than an Anglo-American dispute. That being accepted, the question of the Admiral —the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic—can be dis- cussed with...

of Britain brings certain assurances. These welcome aliens will not, it seems, be completely unguided. Messrs. Collins will be publishing later this month for the Festival...

rescued the Prime Minister from hostile questions on Monday by giving notice that he would raise the question of the appointment of an Atlantic Admiral on the adjournment, a...

and a maximum of 50 days in that year. It will be a highly academic coach, for no one but members of the two universities may travel in it. These at least will be spared the...

telecon " as, among other vices, a hybrid, quote a number of similar hybrids (like parasol) I would rejoin that that doesn't improve matters at all. However, one thing does, and...

F ROM someone who enjoys unusual facilities for studying Eastern Germany I have learned a great deal that is extremely interesting about conditions there. He confirms the common...

gets blame for some offences it has not committed and credit for some virtues it does not•possess. In which category to place the legend that the Gold Coast leader, Kwam'...

planted and domesticated elsewhere? That has never, I think. been quite successfully achieved, for antiquity is an essential ingredient of it, even the newest foundations at the...

By MAX BELOFF T HE announcement from Moscow on February 10th that certain properties in Dairen (Dalny) and in Manchuria, as well as the buildings of the former military...

By EDWARD HODGKIN T HE inhabitants of this, island will probably not be surprised, though they ought to be pleased, to learn that English is well on the way to becoming a...

By SIR EVELYN WRENCH R. MALAN, the Prime Minister of the Union ,of South Africa, in his interview with the Burger in Cape Town last week, raised issues of the utmost importance...

F ROM the moment when one first plans a trip to Berlin one is in a curiously strange world. The very rules for getting there are Gilbertian, except that it is the undercurrent,...

By R. H. GIBBON T HE organ-blower will soon be an extinct species, for the electric blower will have taken his place. He has failed of conspicuity, beaten hands-down by the...

The Well-Rounded Man S student in an American university, or institution for higher learning, I have often pitied my benighted brethren in the British Isles. For there, we...

LORD JOHN RUSSELL has failed to work the political machine to good purpose, but he has shown that he can bring it to a dead stop: he has broken up his oft Cabinet, apparently...

By HAROLD NICOLSON S OME years ago I read a story by Sir John Squire dealing with the adventures of an unsuccessful poet employed in the obituary department of a newspaper....

THE performance of Bruckner's seventh symphony by the Philhar- monic Orchestra under Furtvvangler on February 22my gave the London public one of their rare opportunities to...

BALLET Sleeping Beauty was danced by the first company with a fresh- ness one would hardly have believed possible so soon after the rigours of their strenuous tour ; and...

"Faust and the.Devil." (Berkeley.) Ur to Tuesday afternoon of this week there was no doubt in my mind and, I hoped, no doubt in the minds of film-producers, that canned opera...

hunter, a fairly veracious man, said, " I once sh, --a lion with a bandaged paw in the African jungle." Explain how happened, in his own words, but not more than 250 of then:....

Report by Thea Holme A prize of £5 was offered for the views of one of the following on present-day domestic problems: Lady Bracknell, Lady Teazle, Lady Catherine de Bourgh,...

SIR.-1 have read Viscount Cecil's article three times, but I still cannot discover what he wants the Churches to do, and I would be grateful if he would be more explicit. He...

Final Examination SIR.—Ccrtain observations suggest themselves from reading Mr. Bell's article. His analysis of the troubles arising from the grammar-school entrance...

SIR,—By one of those aberrations which almost pass human understand- ins I appear, in reviewing Mr. H. G. Nicholas's book on the General Election of 1945, to have referred to...

am writing a history of the Oxford Union Society, and would be most grateful if any of .your readers who have documentary or personal information relating to this subject would...

only test of a belief in Christianity put to the Ethiopian eunuch was whether he accepted the divinity of Christ." That test is never men-' tioned in the passage referred to...

deal with Mr. K. N. Ruppert's observations on the above subject ? I.' Mr. Ruppert is, of course, right. There were no Czech troops in Cheshire in 1941, and the events described...

Sta.—Farmers have been well supplied with ammunition for their traditional grumble recently. The loudest complaint to have arisen in recent weeks is the wail which went up when...

SIR—Members of the House of Commons have recently canvassed the time-honoured custom of wearing headgear when raising points of order duripg a division. There is, however, a...

SIR—Under the slogan "Every Child its own Bed" a recent campaign in West Berlin produced three hundred beds and mattresses for the children, of families subsisting on public...

statistics can be made to prove anything, but I would suggest, with all respect, that many of Mr. D.-A. Wilson's figures prove nothing . For example, statistics are said to...

Having been down the hill to see the extent of the floods in the hop- gardens in the valley, I was relieved to find that the little tributary of the Medway (spelled Theis, but...

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FIRST heard the blackbird in full song this season on February 18th, during a stormy Sunday evening. Every year I decide that this is the must superb and serene music in...

It is an intermission in the concord of wire that has allowed a huge Puck rabbit to break through the netting sunk below the fences. He ruas discovered ambling up and down...

A VIER one of their quarrels, when they were at Spezia and D. H. Lawrence had rushed away into a little boat to get away from her, Frieda shouted after him: " Well, if you can't...

Policy for the West. By Barbara Ward. (Penguin Books. HI. 611.) IF anyone is feeling a little bewildered about the state of the world —and there are plenty of us—he could...

The Smith of Smiths Sydney Smith: A biography and a selection. By Gerald Bullett. (Michael Joseph. I 5, SYDNEY Shunt has long given me such pleasure that I picked up this book...

Roman Politics no-vso B.C. By H. H. Scullard. (Oxford Univer- sity Press. 3 03.) Die late period of the Roman Republic has been neglected by English historians. Professor...

°mar SINCLAIR has written a fascinating study of Est London in is book in the County Series. It is an area not easy to define. he story of London's growth east of Aldgate leads...

Hart. (Allen and Unwin. 1 25. 6d.) THESE twp books differ strikingly. Mrs. Hart's is not merely written from ten years' administrative experience at the Home Office ; it is also...

Goering. By Willi Frischauer. (Odhams. 12s. 6d.) THIS biography of Goering is not very much more than cheap journalese, a stringing together of what Frau Emmy and other eminent...

THE English short story has been suffering badly from self- consciousness. With few exceptions its writers have been more concerned to achieve literature and to eschew vulgarity...

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By CUSTOS WITH the Budget only five weeks off markets ire still putting up a remarkably good per- formance. Now that steel vesting is over some of the steam has gone out of...