T HE letter which, it is now confirmed, was sent more than a month ago by President Truman to the British Government requesting that the doors of Palestine should be opened to "...

The meetings of the world trade union conference at Paris have not been without some stormy episodes, but the sense that delegates were participating in an historic event in the...

Mr. Isaacs, the Minister of Labour, has redeemed his promise on behalf of the Government to arrange for the speeding-up of the whole procedure of demobilisation ; the revised...

Many vital measures of social reconstruction in the near future will depend on the efficiency with which local authorities can play their part in administration, and these...

In inheriting Mr. Butler's Education Act Miss Ellen Wilkinson inherits also the formidable difficulties of carrying it out, the greatest of which are shortage of teachers and...

Sir Stafford Cripps has achieved a striking and rather unexpected success in Lancashire. His plan for appointing a " working-party " of employers, workers and independent...

In view of the records of suffering which reach us from all the liberated countries of Europe, the British public has not a great deal of sympathy to spare for the misfortunes...

In many parts of the Far East lately dominated by the Japanese " surrender " has been announced before liberation is by any means complete. Indo-China , and Java are cases in...

T HE one fatal mistake in regard to the failure of the Conference of Foreign Ministers would be to attempt to palliate it. The first half of the injunction " Nothing extenuate...

send Borstal boys to Dartmoor really will not do. Public opinion will compel him to change it Dartmoor is not merely a convict prison, it is the bye-word among convict prisons....

I MPATIENCE over the Belsen trials seems to be growing, and ought to be. It is perfectly right, and in true accord with the best tradi- tions of British justice, that the...

imagined than the account of the death of Christ said to be contained in contemporary manuscripts found in the course of excava- tions in Jerusalem. An official statement is...

a shortage of wrist-watches in Russia, but there won't be for long, judging from what I hear of the move- ment of those commodities eastwards from Austria. Russian soldiers...

it the bombing of London, ended. The British Museum was naturally closed while the danger existed. It remains closed still—every department of it, I understand. This seems...

on relinquishing his two-years' stewardship on Monday. The Master of Emmanuel is a man of original mind and clear-cut ideas. He talked challengingly of the creation of a...

new conditions—is launching itself publicly on the world at an Albert Hall meeting next Wednesday, when the speakers will include the Prime Minister, Mr. Eden and Mr....

week (six Parliamentary counsel + eight assistants = r3) is suggested. The witness who gave these figures was Sir Granville Ram, First Parlia- mentary Counsel ; asked what staff...

By LORD VANSITTART T HE Big Three period has outlived its welcome. The institution served its purpose in military matters. Its political record was less satisfactory. In order...

By EVA M. HUBBACK T HE Royal Commission on Population has, after eighteen months' gestation, produced a very small mouse in the form of a statement which, neatly expressed as...

By CONSTANCE REAVELEY T HERE is a very urgent task before us today, which unless much is going on in secret, we are neglecting. It is the task of under- standing the Nazis. I...

By R. D. LLOYD J OHN HENRY NEWMAN performed two outstanding feats that contributed, more than anything else, to his fame. One was achieved on the night of October 8th, 1845,...

If, heedless of what now is known Of power that in an atom dwells, We let War's trumpet still be blown, Its blasts may vie with Gabriel's. And Earth, as when her course...

By JOSEP.H STEELE HERE was a hint of English austerity before we reached the I airport. From the Air Booking Centre in town we travelled in a brown lorry fitted with rough...

; and as the most frequent and dangerous cause of nonsense, or the incorrect approach, I indicated the thoughtless acceptance of formulas, whether British or foreign. I...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I WAS lecturing at Eton this week on the subject of " The Approach to Foreign Affairs." I found my gaze wandering from the alert faces of my audience to the...

country, possessed of sufficient mineral and industrial resources, will within the next year or so be able to " perfect " the atomic bomb. I am also aware that a small country...

which I have spoken to very divers: audiences at different times. Its purpose was to indicate how the ordinary citizen, possessed of no specialised know- ledge or experience,...

many material matters by events and inventions which had occurred since 1907. The perfection of the air-arm had modified, if it had not transformed, the efficacy of maritime...

" The Story of G.I. Joe:" At the London Pavilion. " Conflict." At Warners.—" Painted Boats." At the Tivoli. IT is a pleasure to see an American war film which conscientiously...

" Henry IV " (Part I). At the New." The Rivals." At the Criterion. I SHALL have nothing to say about the present splendid revival by the " Old Vic " Company at the New Theatre...

The Philip Guedalla Collection of Caricatures. By Max Beerbohm— Paintings by Dorothy Annan. At the Leicester Galleries— Paintings by Henryk Gotlib. Roland, Browse and...

SIE,—There are one or two impressive—and possibly significant—features about the spate of " Save Europe Now " appeals which has recently been launched in the form of letters to...

StE,—Mr. Philip Carr in his article " Selling Britain Abroad," repeats the frequently heard criticism of the British Council's failure to provide English periodicals for foreign...

sm,—It is perhaps dangerous for a newcomer to venture to enter a con- troversy which is already under way, but as a man in the street I should like to have the opportunity of...

Abroad " in your last edition of The Spectator is without question. I should like to stress the importance of the last paragraph, that country hotel-keepers should " show a...

DIVIDED EUROPE Slit,—I have read, and many times re-read, the article " Divided Europe " in last week's edition of The Spectator. And, since this article states very...

StE,—I can only express astonishment that Mr. Comyns Carr could use such a ludicrous argument as he does in your issue of September 28th. In order to ascertain what the effect...

Sut,—I feel perturbed after reading the article " Drink and the State " in your issue of September 28th. The writer, a Licensing Justice, has fallen into the error that all...

from Mr. W. E. Simnett to your issue dated September 21st? This Council, which represents some 70,000 independent shopkeepers and traders (that is, the smaller type of shop),...

Snt,—Some of us are very grateful to Mr. Robert Hyde for putting down on paper what we have long been thinking. I had a month in the Whitby Cottage Hospital three years ago and...

too optimistic. English cooking is, and I am afraid will remain, renowned for many years as the worst in the whble of Europe. What is wrong with our professionals and, above...

your issue of September 14th, of my book, "Master and Brother," Mr. Wilson Harris says that I make a " strange blunder " in asserting that it was Col. Seely (Lord Mottistone)...

hill farm! " So writes Sir William Beach Thomas ; and on my Welsh hill farm I have just harvested three-quarters of my oats with a combine at nearly 1,300 feet. I got over a ton...

Not only fish make their unaccountable appearance in pools and brooks which were just now dry land. I built a shallow concrete pond some two yards in diameter and planted a...

Stn,—Suggestions have appeared in your columns and elsewhere that the hill country of the late Italian colony of Eritrea should be transferred to the Sudan, and that only the...

NO one has put more effectual energy into the means of reviving - food production in Europe than Sir John Russell, just now the DireCtor of Rothamsted. Everyone will regret that...

the late summer, a good part of that adorable district in Cumberland which is now offered as a National Forest Park, so-called. It always was a national park in essence. On my...

Sin,—I am very glad to see that, in your current issue, you say " Un- questionably South Tyrol should be restored to Austria." As one who has visited the South Tyrol, better...

Can any wise entomologist explain (t) Why hornets should be more numerous than in any year within memory and wasps fewer? You would think that the same conditions would help or...

If you have a Simonsii to stand upright and a Horizontalis to lie down you will never miss winter berries. The birds seem less fond of them than of the very similar Pyracanthus,...

Stn,—Mr. Hampson's answer to my first question (" Which attributes? ") is a stream of unqualified reviling no more worthy of our respect than the infamous pronouncement which...

Our Parliament. By S. Gordon. (Hansard Society. 6s.) THERE are some books which it is difficult to praise too highly This is one of them. More than a generation has elapsed...

Millennial Dawn The Jehovah's Witnesses. By Herbert Hewitt Stroup. (Columbia University Press. $2.50; Oxford. 16s. 6d.) IT is a curious fact that the body of believers calling...

An Italian Diary. By Flora Stark. (Murray. 6s.) WAR provided the occasion for this little book. Mrs. Stark, who had lived for fifteen years at Asolo, where she ran a silk...

MANY teachers, particularly women, must at one time or another have simpered at the compliment, " But I should never have thought you were a teacher." As Miss Strudwick...

"You must read Warren Beck's Final Score." "You must read At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor." Novels, we are told by reliable experts, are read, not because publishers...

ASSOCIATED BRITISH PICTURE SIR PHILIP WARTER'S SPEECH THE eighteenth ordinary general meeting of the Associated British Pic- ture Corporation, Limited, was held on Thursday...

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SOLUTION ON OCTOBER 19th The winner of Crossword No. 341 is Miss BANKS, 21, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 2.

6d.) IN spite of the " penny-dreadful " title and jacket, this account of one of the war's smaller exploits is well worth reading. Since 1942, the Admiralty has been employing...

By CUSTOS IT is a striking indication of the hopefulness of investment sentimcn that the steadily accumulating evidence of the transition difficulties of British industry is...

The Dutch Navy at War. By Lieutenant-Commander Kroese, Royal Netherlands Navy. (George Allen and Unwin. 6s. od.) ALTHouox Dutch warships haw. fought many actions during the...

to be sent overseas. This will enable copies of The Spectator to be forwarded to friends of our readers, both civilians and those in the Forces, in any part of the world, except...