The statement issued by the Trades Union Congress to the effect that it was willing to work amicably with the Government gave a reassurance to the country that must be very...

T HE situation which the new Chancellor of - the Exchequer faces has deteriorated through almost three months of neglect. The problems of stopping the rapid worsening of the...

The State of Israel is facing a triple crisis : political, economic and international. Each is so serious that it might cause some- thing like panic in a State less firmly...

Pronouncements on the intimate details of marital relations would seem better left to persons with personal experience of such processes. That is sufficient reason why the Pope,...

Although the Egyptians pretend that there can be no difference between Conservative and Labour foreign policies, the change of Government in Britain obviously provides an...

The attitude of most Germans in the Soviet Zone, and of most Socialists in West Germany, to the question of all-German elections is that it is worth while to take almost any...

It will be interesting to learn how many Welshmen are pleased to learn that Welsh Affairs will be the special concern, in the new Government, of a Scottish lawyer who sits for...

I NTEREST itithe formation of the new Government has already largely overshadowed interest in the result of the election. Yet the result is all-important, for the narrowness of...

Guardian enunciated on Monday when it observed, in con- nection with the new Cabinet appointments, that " the Colonial Office does not seem, to offer in itself muck_scope for...

HE contest for the Speakership made an inauspicious opening for the new Parliament, though the figures suggest that the Labour Party by no means voted solid for Major Milner....

that ancient and attractive town, Malmesbury, a day or two ago, I found a printed document calculated to appeal to all those—and they ate very many—whom the vagaries of minor...

prophets would stand arraigned. They do, I myself among them. My prediction was a Conservative majority of 50. All I can say for that is that it was lower than any other I...

quarters. The Conservatives having made it perfectly clear in their Election manifesto that they intended to denationalise road haulage, the Road Haulage Association has...

close of each of the lecture courses for well-known Germans at Wilton Park the Government gives an informal but very agreeable reception at the house where Mr. Bevin used to...

By WILSON HARRIS I N declining a post in Mr. Churchill's Administration Mr. Clement Davies took what must have been for him a hard decision, but on a short view it was no doubt...

By L P. KIRWAN HE emergence of Turkey into the orbit of the Great Powers, as an applicant for admission into the North Atlantic Treaty organisation, and as an ally of unusual...

I T mi g ht be thou g ht that politics and school examinations had nothin g to do with each other. Appar e ntly this is an error. For so m e months Conservatives have been...

By CLELAND SCOTT FRICA has been billed as the continent of tomorrow's troubles. If you are a pessimist this may be so, though Mr. Griffith's determination to let the various...

By J. R. GLORNEY BOLTON T HE other evening the Bishop went to the village on the steep hill and confirmed eleven young people. Though he wore cope and mitre and stood before an...

Through the Fire By RICHARD D. GREENFIELD (Selwyn College, Cambridge) S AMMY was an Indian. He was an old man, but he had never been to India, for he was born in Malaya and...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the midst of our other preoccupations United Nations Day passed unperceived ; yet even if it had coincided with a lull in our misfortunes, it could...

"The Blue Veil." (Odeon, Marble Arch.) "No Peace Among the Olives." (La Continentale.) " David and Bathsheba." (Leicester Square.) WHEREAS women with their thirsty and flexible...

THEATRE WHEN Mr. Emlyn Williams strode off the Hammersmith stage, a dapper and cravated figure, whose spade-shaped beard, trimly flowing grey curls and air of pomp lent him an...

A LARGE portion of the week's news has consisted of the doings with, by, and about M. Kossuth, and of reports of his remark- able English eloquence. Further speeches have been...

BLINDED, during the last.century, by the dazzling achievements of Paris, we have remained, as a nation, woefully unaware of those other movements in painting that have gripped:...

PHILOSOPHY still travels far, Embracing earth and perished star. Within the thought, the cell, the grain, Resides the universal brain. This is a time when words are things Not...

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

CovErrr GAItDEN continues to offer Italian opera with guest singers from anywhere but Italy. These presumably are being kept for Wozzeck. In spite of this, Franco Capuana's...

Set by Lewis Petrie How often, when stung by some irritation or petty injustice of daily life, have we not exclaimed, "There ought to be a law about it !" Even without tackling...

Report by Derek Hudson A prize of 1'5 was o f fered for a short poem written as prose and modelled on some lines about a harpist attributed to Laurence McKinney. The subject...

SIR,—The opinions of my former pupil, Mr. Martin Southwold, are always worthy of respect ; but in the present case he may perhaps be willing to review them in the light of the...

SIR,—I was born at the end of 1874, and can just remember being presented, when a small boy, to my great-grandmother, Eleanor Frewen Turner of Cold Overntin, in this county. She...

The Popular Vote Sta,—The Socialists, notably Mr. Morgan Phillips and Mr. Anthony Crosland who used the microphone for the purpose, have lost no time in arguing the injustice...

Sta,-1 - n his interesting review of The B.B.C. , Ifyinit Book in your issue of October 26th Canon Adam Fox, a former Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, after...

Sta,—Thank you for giving the question of the part-time s employment of case-workers a thorough airing. In answer to T. A. Ratcliffe and Miss Smith:-1. While I agree with both...

slit,—I am deli g hted' to - assure Janus and those who have read his para- g raph on Cecil Torr's Small Talk at Wreyland that the second and third volumes at least are still...

SIR,—I remember the shock that I receiv e d when I saw in The Times a year or two a g o, and not in k the correspondence columns, the same g rammatical mistake as That contained...

SIR, —Mr. Cohen's review of my book on Charles Dickens needs some .correction. I wrote nothin g to su gg pst that " madmen make the best authors " or that " genius is merely a...

and died in 1901, a g ed 108 years, 4 months, and 3 weeks. She thus also spanned three centuries and beat Mr. Carter's g reat- g reat- g rand- father by a short head. Miss...

Outside Bredwardine on the Wye, where Francis Kilvert, that passionate oountry-lover, lies buried, I once saw a car run over a youn g weasel, while the fa m ily headed by the...

frost in three successive ni g hts have been catastrophic. The g arden looks dismantled room with all the best pieces removed and only litter left behind:-- " What's past and...

member of the Centr a l Regional Committee of the Britisfi Wool Marketin g Board and a discriminatin g bookseller' of Chipping Campden, that this jewel in the Cotswold crown, a...

On the wireless the other day a question was considered aato wh a t was the implication of a grey Squirrel standin g over its mate run over by a car and chittering apparently...

may be observed, with reference' to the alle g ed association of Sweet William with the Duke of Cumberland, that the name in Scotland of the common ra g wort, "Stinkin g...

A Fighting Adthiral The Life and Letters of David Earl Beatty. By Rear - Admiral W. S. Chalmers. (Hodder & Stoughton/ 2ss.) IN the Victorian and Edwardian navies the...

Masterpieces of Victorian Photography. By Helmut Gemsheim. (Phaidon Press. 2 ss.) DU1UNG the past summer a - small exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum brought home for...

Dominations and Powers. By George Santayana. (Constable. 425.) HUMAN beings, who are otherwise quite used to doing two things at once (talking and drinking ; travelling and...

The Estate of Man. By Michael Roberts. (Faber. i ss.) • TRANSCENDING the innumerable problems which face the world today is one which is the concern of all; and, which is slowly...

Milton Criticism. Edited by James Thorpe. (Routledge. 2 is.) THE history of criticism is tangled, often repetitive, confused by cross-currents, and Professor Atkins has .once...

The 'Caine' Mutiny. By Herman Wouk. (Cape/ Ica.) Rain on the Pavements. ByRoland . Camberton. (Lehmann. cos. 6d.) THE American publishing trade is better geared than our own...

Sweete Themmes. The First Anthology of the River.- By John Irwin and Jocelyn Herbert. With a Foreword by W. J. Brown. (Parrish. 17s. 6d.) fr was the late John Burns, politician...

the war, and it will be welcome not only to those who are likely to travel in Shrop- shire but also to armchair travellers who appreciate the BetjemAn approach to church...

by Mr. Murry of Constant's Adolphe ; the second, rather longer part, is Mr. Murry's commentary on the novel. By ordinary literary standards, his translation is less successful...

to Collier. By George Williamson. (Faber. 425.) THE American work of scholarship on literary subjects is beginning to acquire the impenetrability of the traditional German...

- Daughter of England. By Dorothy Margaret Stuart. (Macmillan. 2 is.) Tins is the first biography of Princess Char- lotte to appear since the publication of three books all of...

Father is an inadequate title for a sketch of pumas pere and an account of Dumps fiLs and Marie Duplessis his mistress, the Lady of. Camellias. It is by no means a serious...

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By CUSTOS THOSE who saw in -the prospect of a Con- servative victory a clear pointer to higher prices in the stock markets have so far been disappointed. Prices have not gone...