: On Adlai Stevenson PAUL BAREAU East-West Trade BERNARD DARWIN: A Cambridge Childhood

The Russians are taking their time about replying to the Western invitation to a Foreign Ministers' meeting on Germany —presumably for the same reason that President Eisenhower...

One question, then, has been partially answered by Mr. Eden's return, but it is immediately swallowed up by the bigger one of the Prime Minister's health. It is on this that...

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General Erskine's recent operations against Mau Mau have been successful, but the rebels are still active. In that sad conflagration the flames are stamped out at one point only...

The East German Communist rdgime has been in so much trouble lately that disgrace had to fall on somebody. Max Fechner, Minister of Justice, a former Social Democrat and one of...

Our Rome Correspondent writes: The failure of Signor De Gasperi to hold his short-lived Cabinet together only serves to underline the essential hope- lessness of his position....

The Minister of Transport did not exaggerate when he announced on Tuesday during the debate on road safety that the time has come for a revolutionary approach. During the first...

political problem can ever be solved now encloses the future of Indo-China. Unless it can be broken, the minor but brilliant offensive now being launched by loyalist...

of fighting was reported to Parliament on Monday. "I know,' said Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, "that this news will be received with heartfelt thanks in all quarters of the House." So it...

T HE United Nations troops who threw their hats in the air at the news of the signing of the armistice in Korea had a clearer view of the situation than anybody else in the...

A LTHOUGH theoretically there is such a thing as Total War, in which sll the citizens of all the belligerents are exposed to roughly equal dangers and sacrifices, you have only...

the vexed question of commercial" television and to most of the problems which beset the human race. Whether the bishops, and the vice-chancellors ot Universities, Who...

after study- ing the subject for three years, has now recommended that the police should be relieved of is long and varied. The supervision of sheep-dipping, the washing of...

I suppose, fairly lucky for the lady that her predicament was discovered half an hour before we reached the terminus. She had gone to the toilet in a third-class carriage, the...

What immortal longings, what deep cultural hunger, what upsurge of pride in our maritime tradition, what wild hope impelled one of my compatriots to paint in foot-high letters...

By ERNST FMEDLAENDER Hamburg * Ernst Friedlaender, a well-known broadcaster and former editor 4116 "Die Zeit" writes regularly for the " Spectator " from Germany. T HE second...

BY THOMAS HODGKIN HERE is a hymn, much sung in the National Church of Nigeria and the Cameroons, which begins : "Trumpets of freedom sound in Africa, Everywhere there must be...

By PAULBAREAU T HE problem of trade between Great Britain and the Communist countries can be relied upon to become more acate in the months to come. This will be due in the...

A MODEST Italian engineer, whose name—D'Ascanio_ means nothing to the motor-scooterist in the Italian street, has caused a social revolution by creating the post-war...

(Piranesi, Careen, Plate VI) Seeing his stale vocabulary build The same decor—observe this" gloomy vault "— We tire of this good fellow, highly skilled No doubt, but...

Bedmakers By T. G. KIRKBIUDE (Magdalene College, Cambridge) I N the morning as I lie in bed I can see out of the corner of my eye the garden reflected in my dressing-table...

ART Australian Painting. THE painting of young countries often shows certain similarities. It is always romantic, never classic. It is naïve, untutored, journeyman stuff at...

Dangerous Crossing. Powder River. (Leicester Square.) Dangerous Crossing is a version of the famous story in which a young wife, on returning to her hotel bedroom, discovers...

American National Ballet Theatre. (Covent Garden.)—Festival Ballet. (Royal Festival Hall.) I ALWAYS look forward immensely to the visits of America's Ballet Theatre, but up to...

THE first night of the Proms. was televised, which meant for the Albert Hall audience a lot of very bright lights, which noticeably raised the temperature of the hall, and the...

Tobias and the Angel. By James Bridie. (Arts.) THE little Arts Theatre, to which the London playgoer in search of intelligent diversion owes a great deal, has been off-colour...

A HOLLYWOOD story of a timid, lonely orphan who attaches herself to a French travelling carnival, falls hopelessly in love with the dashing conjuror and is befriended by the toy...

I am fond of fish and particularly I enjoy eating fish of my own catching. These are usually trout, perch and pike. Trout must be done in butter, covered with greaseproof paper...

Once in a meadow, under a strong sun I played, high on the slope of buttercups; Unarmed sentinel, waiting to give word When enemy horsemen rounded the wood, And then, fierce...

A potting shed is a place of great interest to me and the one at the cottage is an old one, full of things put on one side by gardeners who have gone. Under the slates and along...

THE quarry floor is almost overgrown with fine grass and the place Is a suntrap with the rock walls becoming hot in the afternoon. I sat there watching men `working in the...

Denham. (Vaudeville.) WHEN a lesser amateur society puts on a play of merit and fails, criticism is moderated by the artistic integrity of the attempt. But when the theatrical...

Night was coming down over the marsh. Three or four gulls passed silently above me and far away a bird rose by a clump of dead trees and perched on a branch of one of them, so...

Black currants have cropped well in this district but our own crop was small because the rather old bushes were too ruthlessly pruned last summer. Correct pruning is the removal...

Report by D. R. Peddy The usual prize was offered for an extract from a love scene in a play set against the background of one of the following : the United Nations...

Set by Edward Blishen An anthology of cricket verse has recently been published. But why should all the songs be sung of outdoor games and the humbler thrills of the parlour be...

TURKEY.—The Sublime Porte has protested against the Russian occupa- tion of Moldavia and Wallachia, in a very able state paper, issued on the 14th July from the Foreign Office...

A Cambridge Childhood By BERNARD DARWIN I HAVE deliberately stolen the second title of my cousin Gwen Raverat's enchanting book, Period Piece, which everyone has been reading....

written as they obviously were, yet, as in a Test Match, the first to bat had a decided advantage, with the result that the reply became almost an apologia. Perhaps it was...

SIR,—In Miss Sylva Norman's most friendly review of my book, Norman Douglas: A Pictorial Record, she comments on the fact that I give Norman Douglas's birthplace as Austria,...

preparatory sehools—" something of great value which could never be .replaced "—as an act of folly; yet he appears to regard their demise, through . economic causes, with...

facilities, where do the Labour Party suggest that uniformity should stop ? What effect do they think the measures they suggest will have qn the ambitious, the more gifted and...

SIR,—Mr. Gilbert Longden's reference to the advertising profession's code of ethics for users of competitive television, particularly stringent where children's programmes are...

Privilege in Education SIR;—This letter comes from someone who was expensively educated and did not like it. Privileged adolescents get better physical accom- modation for...

SIR, — No one' with any interest in Comparative Religion would minimise the very great contribution made by the teaching of Gautama, the Buddha. One of the first steps in that...

SIR,—! am, I fear, rather late in Writing to reply to C. J. Alport's letter on the Way of Michael Scott, which appeared in your issue of June 19th. Nevertheless I should not...

letter in your last issue states that both political parties in England • are pledged to reject the policy of self-government for the Africans. If this means a policy which...

some time both felt deeply and read fairly extensively on this subject, and I cannot help feeling that Mr. Lane Poole's letter may be dangerously misleading. He ignores...

Sitt,—Re your comments on the Press Council and the Daily Mirror, you will have noticed that the Daily Mirror did have something to say, on Thursday. One of its remarks was :...

SIR,—Men and women throughout Britain and the Commonwealth are stirring to the powerful vision of a New Elizabethan Age. Her Majesty the Queen, in her address to Ex-Servicemen...

The New Machiavelli By JENNY NASMYTH T HE trouble with the Western democracies is that they are truly democratic. The people choose their rulers; and because the rulers have to...

Coleridge. The Clark Lectures, 1951-52. By Humphry House. (Rupert Hart-Davis. 8s. 6d.) IT is difficult to form a comprehensive view of Coleridge. If we can mentally reconcile...

French Politics: the First Years of the Fourth Republic, By Dorothy Pickles. (Royal Institute of International Affairs. 25s.) Introduction to French Local Government. By Brian...

A REVIEWER should admit at least some of his limitations or conditions. I am attempting to discuss two books both dealing with the monastic life and I am not a Roman Catholic....

THIS is an honest, graphic, illuminating account of active service in Malaya. The author, a regular soldier, commanded a company in the 1st Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment ; I...

TFIE basking sharks of Britain are monstrous fish. They are mon- strous in the sense that competent biologists have observed specimens up to thirty feet in length, and they are...

Roman Gaul. By Olwen Brogan. (Bell. 21s.) ThE first Roman colony outside Italy was established at Narbonne in 118 B.C. and by the beginning of our era the ruthless military...

So Late Into the Night. Fifty Lyrics by Sydney Goodsir Smith. (Peter Russell. 8s. 6d.) " MODERN poetry," remarked Coleridge, " is characterised by the poet's anxiety to be...

The Navy in the War of William III, 1689-1697. BY John Ehrman. (Cambridge University PreSs. 63s.) The Navy in the War of William III, 1689-1697. BY John Ehrman. (Cambridge...

Mr. Twining and the God Pan. By Timothy Angus Jones. (James Barrie. 12s. 6d.) THE Innocent Abroad is the Bedser of the English novel. His two most recent performances make it...

By CUSTOS THE signing of the truce in Korea has hardly been a factor in stock markets this week. Commodity prices have already fallen so far in anticipation of a spell of real...

Spain Resurgent. By Sir Robert Hodgson. (Hutchinson. 21s.) THIS book, although it is the story of General Franco's coup d'etat in 1936 and his assump- tion of total power, is,...

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