Wordsworth a considerable time ago. So say we all this week to Mr. Morrison—or is it to Mr. Stokes ? On the whole the more ebullient manifestations, up-river, are the...

When Mr. Charles E. Wilson, the American director of defence mobilisation. said in Paris that the United States Govern- ment was determined that scarce raw materials for...

Though the last results in the Australian elections are tantalisingly long in coming in, which is not surprising in a country in which the population is so scattered, the...

The figures concerning American rearmament effort which have been published in the United States during the past week are of Such a magnitude that they must give pause even to...

Both Mr. Morrison and Mr. Stokes have during the past week expressed their confidence in the ability of the United States Government to follow a sound course. Mr. Charles Wilson...

investigation in which several million television viewers have been simultaneously an audience and an unofficial jury—has reached some startling, if provisional, conclusions...

Development Corporation, the first to be produced under Lord Reith's chairmanship. has an importance which extends far beyond the fifty miscellaneous schemes, with a sanctioned...

When the British miner is called upon for a spurt in production he nearly always responds. What distinguishes the effort made in the first four months of this year, in which...

for the raw materials debate, but that could not excuse the antics of the Government and the Labour Party toward it. Making the wonderful discovery that it was designed to split...

HERE are three parties to the dispute over the fate of Persia's oil: the Persian Government, the British Govern- ment and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It is the Persian...

in the price of London morning and evening newspapers has on their sales. That it will affect them is inevitable, and whether the extra halfpenny is going to cover the loss is...

; I sup-1 pose they have been counted), including many of the most notable in the English language, lived and died a member of the, Church of England, and was buried in...

has taken a bold step. To reproduce the best of the past is to challenge dangerous comparisons with the present ; on a subject" so delicate I venture no judgement. But to glance...

when he addressed them at Ebbw Vale on Sunday evening greeted him with the singing of " Guide me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah." Comment would not be impossible. JANus.

with interest, and not entirely without admiration, for some time. What ultimate resources the Communist organ has behind it I do not profess to know. But it depends on...

is an Admirable phrase for a Conservative Albert Hall rally, but any Ministers of any Party would be l ▪ i ▪ m ▪ pets as long as they thought it suited their interests better to...

and be able in consequence to buy various things—chiefly books— which I don't feel justified in affording now. That very pregnant observation is the result of chancing on this...

The 'decision of the national daily papers, except The Times, and many others to increase their prices from next Monday draws pointed attention to the position of journals like...

By PETER FLEMING I N modern war you very seldom launch an attack unless and until you outnumber your enemy on the front or sector with which you are concerned. There have, of...

13% I DWARD HODGKIN 0 N the plans of the South Bank Exhibition you will find a dotted red line which tells you the order in which the authorities think you ought to look at the...

Ii■ II.E. RICHARDSON T HE Chinese invasion of Tibet in October, 1950, lately thrust that country into prominence ; but after a short burst of exciting but largely inaccurate...

By GLYN DANIEL D URING the recent strike of bus and Metro workers in Paris, which for a short while spread as a railway strike over most of France, a fact-finding commission...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. ,' N every Cup Final there is one moment of exquisite sadness— when the defeated team leaves the field. Ever since they won their semi-final some...

The Road By JOHN POOLS (Lincoln College, Oxford) T was our first day in Yugoslavia. The road was execrable— hardly noticeable, in fact, were it not for the little heaps of...

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

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been told that the Catholic Church regard spiritual pride as among the least pardonable of human iniquities. Not being a theologian, I am uncertain of...

" IN the theatre, where technical knowledge and skill look comic and the most revolting crimes are not without their power of attrac- tion, the love of God is just dull."...

CINEMA "The Mill on the River." (Cameo-Polytechnic.)—“The Galloping Major." (Plaza.) THERE is a hint at the beginning The Mill on the River (or ii Mulino del Po to those who...

FIRST reflections on the South Bank Exhibition suggest that it is the architects' and designers' show. The work of the artists is, I think, uneven and often disappointing. The...

week of disappointment ; they have been making a thorough nuisance of themselves by carrying nesting material into the porch of the parish church. Just beneath the tiles of the...

country are the smallest, and among the most diminutive of the creatures visible to the naked eye I commend to notice a great friend of mine, Polyxemis lagurus, the bristly...

fine example of the blue spruce, Picea pungens. It had a troubled childhood, for after being raised in a Kentish nursery, it served, in 1928.. as a tiny Christmas-tree at...

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- hit ceremonial of opening the Exhibition was simple, but judiciously conceived, and eminently successful. The rout ensemble of the edifice was striking and beautiful. It was...

THE human memory plays us queer pranks, and without notes it is a little dangerous to speak confidently about changed relationships in the bird-population. Nevertheless I feel...

Set by John Usborne Landor's fire of life, it must be imagined, flared up, and he found, himself anything but ready to depart at the age of, say 85. The, reason : a boyish...

Report by Guy Kendall A prize was offered for a triolet on birds-nesting. The origin of this competition was a letter in The Tiims deploring the fact that during the last few...

The New Feminism Sta,—Your reviewer, Honor Croome, dassing Mrs. Williams-Ellis's The Art of Being a Woman in your of April 13th, brought to this question what I believe to be...

SIR,-I get your publication nearly every week. It is possible that when you enter the political discussion of the domestic affairs in the U.S.A. you run the risk of entering a...

SIR. -- Mr. Harold Nicolson, in his Marginal Comment of April 27th, was sceptical of Clarence Streit's vision of an " Atlantic Federal Union of the Free." He asks (I) " Does not...

Sta.—Dr. Beyer, the apologist for Apartheid at Africa House, in the welcome he gave last week to the South African cricketers, observed that they came in " the tradition of...

SIR,—I have undertaken to write a memoir of the late Professor Harold J. Laski. There must be many who possess letters from him, or other manuscripts and documents. I should be...

Sta,—Sentiment alone is no good basis for balanced judgement. After reading the paragraph in your last issue by Janus about capital punish- ment, it is well to remember that the...

be the only one of your readers to haye been mystified by your critic's discovery of the presence of Jonah and the whale in Christopher Fry's new play A Sleep of Prisoners which...

Sm,—Janus, in making a gibe at the Communist speaker on the American threat to British culture, has - reacted in a near-Fascist manner to the emotive stimulus of a Jewish name....

The Mind of Pasteur Louis Pasteur : Free Lance of Science. By Rene J. Dubos. (Gollancz. tss.) OF the two greatest men of France in the last century it is arguable that Pasteur...

of Stalin. Mr. Armstrong advances to his attack from Yugoslav terrain, and con- cerns himself primarily with the Communist menace to national independence. He makes clear that,...

BESIDE Lytton Strachey, Racine's first wholehearted advocate in this country and in our day, Dr. Brereton will appear unexciting, over-temperate, even timid. The contrast is...

(Cape. 185.) IT may seem that verse is an inappropriate medium for stories which are merely incidental—such as how a salesman calls to buy a plantation of firs for Christmas...

tackground to Sweden. By Terence Heywood. (Constable. ess.) ftiE long list of acknowledgements with which this book is prefaced s in itself a frank admission that here is a...

The Life of Dr. John Radcliffe, 1652-1714. By Campbell R. Holm. (Faber. I ' • DR. JOHN RADCLIFFE rose from humble circumstances to wealth and fame, yet there was nothing of the...

Richard Bransten. Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. (1-fart-Davis. 21s.) THERE is an enervating jocularity about this book (intended for American visitors) which appears to be...

This Was the Old Chief's Country. By Doris Lessing. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) No Arms, No Armour. By Robert Henriques. (Collins. nos. 6d.) EVERY human experience depends for...

Cornhill, Mr. Peter Quennell announces his retirement from the editorship, which in future will be vested anonymously in the House of Murray. The news of Mr. Quennell's...

As I predicted, the disturbances cork the home political front have merely braked the rise in industrial equities without causing any real change in trend. Even the developments...

announced by the daily news- papers seas, iss line with the increase in selling price, lest space will be allocated for advertisements. With further restrictions and greater cam...

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I I IT v T A F ir F L tik 1 b SOLUTION ON MAY 18 The winner of Crossword No. 622 is Miss M. MASON. Eden Kirkb!, Stephen, Westmorland.