at first sight. ,, A ny discussion of defence must begin not, as the Socialist a m endment would have it, with a discussion of the proportion of national wealth it is right to...

There can be no compromise with the nightmare of Mall Mau. It must be exorcised absolutely. But at the same time it has been only too clear that its grip on the Kikuyu is so...

a recent case at the Old Bailey, and what are widelY believed to be the views and intentions of the Home Secretary are causing some alarm in publishing circles. The alarm is...

life again now that the Government is on the point of publishing its Bill and making its intentions known in detail. There has rarely been an issue which gave rise to so many...

taking their pleasures Sa dlY and, so it follows, their cricket too seriously. But in this ether peoples are well in the lead. Dr. Jagan did not get his ..expected welcome home...

weave its own patterns and to produce results at times which appear to be pleasantly simple but which could only' have been achieved by complex preliminary processes. Such a...

The contrast between Howsham Hall and Shaw's Corner goes deep. Shaw's Corner is commonplace and ugly. Howsham Hall, near Malton in Yorkshire is fine and handsome. Shaw's Corner...

get a chance to do it until November, 1958. In the meantime it is a matter of reducing his present power in Congress and that is a highly technical task on which few people,...

back twenty-five Years and I began to wonder what Mr. Graham has that Aimee Semple MacPherson did not have. The short but Perhaps not unimportant answer is a microphone. In 1929...

Division in Korea, recalls with pleasure some words he once heard a Canadian officer use. The Canadians were on the extreme flank of the Division's front; on their right an...

The conductress took his pound note, descended to the lower deck, counted' out 19s. 10d. and went aloft again with a fistful of coins. As she reached the upper deck the bus...

had explained to her what cannibals were, burst into laughter and asked : " Did you ever have a slice of Human Being-Pie, Daddy ? "

of atomic ,Ett r iare ,I met—rather inconsequently—two bishops. They ' en ded a dinner given by the Territorial Division which was undergoing its theoretical baptism of atomic...

R. BILLY GRAHAM'S premiere—it is difficult to think of another word to describe the launching of the Greater London Crusade—packed 11,000 people into the Harringay Arena. This I...

Monday that, if the increase in the world population goes on at its present r ate, the human race will have standing room only on our Planet by A.D. 3954. I should rather like...

the ship which I proposed should be moored off the Palace of Westminster for the accommodation of impecunious MPs, but few rose above the puerile. Mr. Nicholas Monsarrat is...

By RICHARD CHANCELLOR been sent away to the East, where their burning patriotism, particularly that of the Latvians, is known to inspire respect among their Russian gaolers....

By JACK WHITE Dublin N like a nice juicy murder. We in Ireland have never developed the intense devotion of the English to murder as a pastime; our few homicides tend to be...

• By THE BISHOP OF LONDON A CENTURY and a half is a good span of time by which to test the usefulness of any organisation. There are few that can give so good an account of...

nearly succeeded in making a masterpiece of Harold Brighouse's play Hobson's Choice, failing only inasmuch as he has allowed the central character to splurge himself in such...

IN the canon of Shakespeare's plays Coriolanus has a peculiar and rather for- bidding position. Little performed and less 1. quoted, it differs from the rest of the , tragedies...

The Neo-Romantics LONDON has recently been given performances of Nielsen's fifth symphony and flute con- certo, Pizzetti's cello concerto and Rach- maninov 's second symphony....

A vision missed, yet he had brought some remnants, Shreds of old dream for you to conjure with, A winter unwrapped from him and he giving .Himself, explorer, to you from the...

Latest face, so effortless Your great arrival at my eyes, No one standing near could guess Your beauty had no home till then ; Precious vagrants, recognise My look, and do not...

Company. (Saville Theatre.) which she has developed over thirty years of continuous experiment, and her subjects are profoundly serious—not necessarily gloomy —in that she seeks...

Lang in your issue' of February 26th contains one impbrtant piece of misrepresenta- tion, perhaps my choice of words is too polite, for in the second paragraph of the letter,...

SIR,—May I, as the Chairman of the Central Advisory Council for Education (Wales) when the Report on ' The Place of Welsh and English in the Schools of Wales' was pre- pared,...

COLD WAR FOR EVER ? Sia,—Mr. Peter Wiles's article in your last number has a refireshing dogmatism which othe'it would-be interpreters of the Soviet Union may well envy. It is...

Peterson suggests in his letter in the S pectator of February 19th that Dr. Purcell's b roadside' against General Templer's regime in the Twentieth Century is so irresponsible...

full text of Dr. Purcell's letter published in the Spectator last week but write in reply to extracts which were republished in the Straits Times. Dr. Purcell does not deny that...

work frequently takes him to Glasgow, I enjoyed very much lain Hamilton's article in your current issue. In case, however, his closing reference to Edinburgh's " cool, well-bred...

Scrutiny, and the best to pe hoped for is, as has frequently been suggested, that the volumes of Scrutiny should be reprinted— cheaply. Only by thus being rendered more...

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of selective weedkiller with a " repellent stench," most of them being quite fresh-smelling; as you are unlikely to come into contact with any of the particles unless you are...

SIR,--The increase in railway freights has already been brought to our hearths and homes by the rise in coal costs. The Trans- port Commission's accounts could have been...

chemical sprays on hedge- rows and verges. Besides the dangers and aesthetic horrors cited by your correspondent, there is also the added hazard to bees and honey-consumers. The...

of articles in the Spectator relating to clergy, upon which I wish to comment briefly. 1. Canon Mervyn StockWood in his article has given a very fair and clear account of the...

but for some reason 1 did not see any. In other years I have always noted them, but seeing none this time, I wondered why they had not been driven in our direction. I might have...

noses!" Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 212,' 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, must be received not later than March 16th. Results in Spectator• of March 26th.

drink, children, parties; the unmen- tionable transience of youth; the excellence of one's own entries. Yet, oddly enough, no one quoted that chronic (and, 1 am told, peculiarly...

new supplies of food every few minutes in order to maintain its energy, but old country- men have told me this many times. I have never had the opportunity of putting it to the...

Compton Mackenzie AY I begin by quoting what I did say about the atti- tude of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to the English Language in the matter of pronunciation ? "...

Charlie By JOHN ARLOTT T HE county cricket captains, at their annual meeting, included, as a new appointment' in their list of umpires to stand in first-class matches in 1954,...

This animal is us, and had to be. Let us not tire it with capricious rhoods, Bewildering/its darker constancy, Nor taunt it as with head on paws it broods And mourns its...

By PRISCILLA JENKINS (Colston's Girls' School, Bristol) T HE publication of a critical work by a well-known poet raises the question of the importance of the criticism of poetry...

By IAIN HAMILTON S a political historian Mr. Roy Jenkins is not at all partisan. In the preface to his closely documented account* of the struggle between the Liberals and the...

The Doors of Perception. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) OF Mr. Huxley's countless admirers only a minority, one imagines, are sympathetic to the body of teaching...

The first, Alix des Roys, was a good energetic mother and a ` u arlst of great sensibility. Her son's writing is in most respects 2 111 Y the fulfilment of what she might have...

Devon. By W. G. Hoskins. (New Survey of England, Collins. 42s.) PROFESSOR SIMMONS, the editor of the series, says : " This New Survey of England has two main objects. It is...

OUR age dotes on the inside story: it prefers Rockefeller eating crackers and milk and reading Ella Wheeler Wilcox, to Rockefeller mani- pulating companies like steel balls in...

MR. PRIESTLEY has always been a man of vision, but it comes in two qualities. As long as he uses it to transfigure common things, as long as he looks through what is on this...

its kind. It is hard to know which most to praise—the 'definitive cataloguing of the Collection with its many corrections to previous slipshoddery, Douglas Cooper's introductory...

Michael Harrison. (Cassell. 21s.) Tins is not another biography, but rather a gossip about Dickens for Dickensians. Mr. Harrison takes us on a ramble through the Medway towns,...

VICTORIA'S Government, on assum- ing direct responsibility for India in 1858, decided that each year a report on the material and moral progress of India should be presented....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT JUST as bad news of labour unrest will depress the Stock Exchange, so good news from the Stock Exchange will depress Transport House. The reaction is so...

By CUSTOS THE long (three weeks) account on the Stock Exchange ended on a dull note and it is obvious that investors are becoming much more selective. A warning to that effect...

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