T HE publication on Sunday of Grivas's diaries has performed one service; it has cleared away what re- mained of the Cypriot fog. There can no longer be doubt, except in the...

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the greatest misery and human suffering, it is hard not to be struck by the difference between this harsh reality and the blithe words of Western statesmen, which in the light...

r r HE end of the Suez conference has brought little enlighten- 1 ment as to the future course of events in the Middle East. The five-man committee, headed by the Australian...

new clues have been given to the riddle that perpetually confronts politicians—the question, 'How do we get people to vote for us?' They come from the United States; but they...

in con- nection with the Shaw centenary that, in a Spectator com- petition twenty-six years ago, GBS was chosen as the man with the best brain in Great Britain. The competition...

THE MOST REMARKABLE piece of double-think I have seen re- cently is in the current issue of Fact, which styles itself a monthly Socialist digest. The strike in the motor...

one of the most controversial scientific figures of his day. His great compendia, The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Male and The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Female, were...

Redmond —he was born on September 1, 1856—likely to be widely celebrated : indeed, his name is almost forgotten here. Yet how very near he was to going down to history as the...

BY D. W. BROGAN San Francisco, August 24 OLICE RAID BURLESQUE SHOW,' SO runs the first headline in today's Oakland Tribune, the important newspaper published by Senator...

that The Times tends to reseive for them its longest and most lugubrious jeremiads. This Monday we were subjected to 'Escapers' Club,' whose design was to show that those who do...

stopped the showing of Blackboard Jungle at the Venice film festival. It was not a true picture, she complained, of the American way of life: certainly not of Life's way. This...

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS F EW groups in postwar England are deserving of higher praise than the Bow Group. The young men and women of this group, all recent university graduates...

• / AST night—at a period in the evening, I may perhaps point • out, when my opposite numbers in the professions, the civil service, industry, commerce, and what-have-you, might...

T HIS week I had my fiftieth birthday. I had felt it coming on for some time. Standing nude in the bath- room two months ago, I suddenly realised I could not see my toes any...

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a first-class compart- meat, conscious of the third-class season tickets in their wallets. The train began to move. 'The others are crowded tonight,' said Purbright. 'At my...

SIR,—One can sympathise with Patrick Rodger in his lament over party lines in the Church. But, as Principal of an evangelical theological college, I do not think that the...

SIR,—As a layman I hesitate to criticise the views of two illustrious Roman converts, but I cannot help asking myself why the acceptance of the Virgin as Co-Redemptress, so...

SIR,—Mr. Tom Scott ought to accuse Robert Burns and Robert Louis Stevenson, not my humble self, for the bruiting about of the term 'Lallans' of which he complains. In the...

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SK—While I am most gratified that you should have seen fit to include a review of my book, Close of a Dynasty, in the Spectator of August 17, I feel justified in making to you...

Forgotten Men R. B. Thompson Deification and Clarification W. H. C. Frend, if. S. Williamson 'Close of a Dynasty' Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Pridham Against Churchmanship Rev....

young justified in imposing his own opinions on them? Any parent of young children knows how unquestioning and pathetically implicit is their faith in his every word, and for...

The Edinburgh Festival ROYAL attendance apart, the tenth Festival has begun with no special flourishes; the ruling committee, of course, must strain every nerve to find...

Two varieties of one-upmanship have been prominent in the general critical response to the Hamburg Opera Company's production (the first on the stage in Britain) of Stravinsky's...

THE two ballet companies now on view in London reveal many intriguing things to the observer who is not committed to a belief that dancers of only one nation can perform ballet...

'TM BAD SEED. (Warner.) As a novel and play The Bad Seed was first- class melodrama, no more probable, no less worthy than The Castle of Otranto or Witness for the Prosecution....

Sonar: weeks ago I asked a Member of the BBC's drama department, who was -complain- ing about the chronic shortage of plays suitable for television, whether they had considered...

The Road to Airstrip One 0 RWELL is one of those writers you can never. quite get away from. I do not just mean that the stream of books and articles about him shows no signs...

THE, quatercentenary of the death of Ignatius of Loyola on July 31, 1566, is commemorated by two works of pietas from the pens of members of the Society which he founded. Fr....

THE NEW OUTLINE OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE. Edited by Alan Pryce-Jones. (Gollancz, 18s.) IT would take a Schopenhauer, the last, so I have always been assured, of the serious...

Deutsch, Ss, 6d.) Elizabeth Jennings, oddly enough, writes a kind of poetry which is more often seen in France. The first thing that strikes me about her work, when 1 read it in...

THE older English visitor to Italy spent a good deal of time trying to feel his way back into the life of the past. Towards the present he was at best patronising. But for the...

to time as editor of The •Gramophone I used to make attempts to secure for serial publication a history of the machine or instrument—call it which you please—that within these...

He makes the most, for instance, of Ludendorff's saying that August 8, 1918, was the black day of the German Army; but, for General Fuller himself, 'unquestionably, April 6th,...

THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE BOAT. By William J. Keating with Richard Carter. (Gollancz, 16s.) WHEN the American Bar Association has its mammoth meeting in London next year we shall...

LIFE IN BRITAIN. By J. D. Scott. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s.) MR. Scorr has had the excellent idea of compiling a volume on British Life which would serve as a guide to the...

THERE being nothing new under either the sun or the grey skies of Britain, travel books now have meaning only when showing the reaction between narrator and material narrated....

Paris by an American the police should not be referred to consistently as 'cops,' nor should it startle us when one of the characters says, 'If a sonofabitch raped your dame...

Wasps are a great nuisance to everyone with a garden or an open kitchen window at this time of the year and particularly this season, for they are being driven out of their...

movement of cattle have resulted in agri- cultural shows and sheep-dog trials in our part of the country being cancelled. The local markets are affected, too, and this, added to...

Kt-Kt 8!, threat R-B 3. 1 ... B-B 7; 2 R-B S. 1 . . . Kt-Kt 6; 2 THE TEAM TOURNAMENT THE biennial international -team tournament opens today in Moscow: I have not seen the...

the end of the letter which follows and deals with a reader's experiences while keeping ducks. Although I have heard many accounts of how rats take away eggs I cannot imagine...

Wax Amats was born in the same year as Shakespeare, and he landed (by accident) in Japan in 1600. He was a great success there, built ships for the Shogun and rose high in his...

whose list of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict (see 'A Spectator's Notebook'). For this competition only one entry per...

ACROSS 1 What to do with the manuscript of an old sermon? (6) 4 The red standard (8). 9 Swiss china? (6) 10 Funny, but the landing-stage is in a 3 bad way (8). 5 12 Mixed tins...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 339 Report by R. J. P. Hewison delights after Competitors were asked to prescribe the desiderata for certain holiday the model of the classic...

. B Y NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IE the next Labour Government attempts to plan and direct the national economy, industry by industry, it will have to pass a vote of thanks to Mr....

By CUSTOS THE British investor is once again showing his proverbial calm in a crisis by doing nething on the Stock Exchange. Indeed, he is even taking his holidays in appalling...

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