the scanty reports reaching London, it is not yet possible to assess the true significance of last week's happen- 0 ings in Bangkok, where Pibul Sanggram, the autocratic ruler...

to General Eisenhower on Tuesday was a particularly notable occasion, and the observations of the guest of the evening on the European situation were singularly apposite. His...

N OW that the last tanker has left Abadan, it can only be a question of days before the refineries' storage tanks are filled and they are forced to suspend operations. But it...

The announcement of the names of the members of the new National Coal Board, which enters on its duties on August 1st, synchronises with disturbing predictions by the Minister...

Those Socialists who yearn for the crusading zeal of the generations that are gone are not likely to feel their pulse beat much faster at the news of the founding of the new...

Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the position in which the Tshekedi affair has been left after the debates in the two Houses of Parliament last week. Such discussion as...

of experi- ence of the trials of mediation, has now arrived in India as the Representative of the United Nations. By the terms of his appointment, which were approved last March...

The trial of the American journalist Mr. William Oatis at Prague on a charge of espionage, culminating in a sentence of ten years' imprisonment, follows the same lines, and...

Mr. Chetwynd, the Labour Member for Stockton-on-Tees, was able to raise the question of the price of utility clothing on the motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons...

T HE Commons :polished off the Finance Bill on Tasday. As the late, lamented Mrs. Mopp might have said it had "a doing." And that was as it should be. If the Executive ought to...

N OTHING has happened so far to invalidate the hopes kindled by M. Malik's unexpected but obviously calculated reference ten days ago to the possibility of peace in Korea. On...

affair is causing some concern is Fleet Street. It might be supposed that the papers welcomed news that the public wants to read. So in a measure they do, though at a time when...

for expressing a little personal interest in a judgement of some importance given by Mr. Justice Wynn Parry last week, because it seems to decide that I am for ever and...

munist Party of Great Britain that the fortunes of the organ must be some index to the fortunes of the organisation. At present things do not seem to be going well with the...

on me, that what Mr. Tony Weller actually said was: "Put it down a wee, my lord." As a result of not carrying a copy of the Pickwick Papers perpetually in my pocket, nor having...

a committee he is appointing would give useful guidance on the staffing of the main types of wards and departments, " not over- looking, of course, the needs of the patient."...

quoted in the news-sheet of the Bribery and Secret Commissions Prevention League, for knowledge of a legal case of very much more than ordinary interest. During the war some...

T HE leading article on the King's health in The Times last Saturday was opportune, for, as invariably happens in such cases, alarmist rumours with no sort of foundation gain...

is probably only imperfectly appreciated by some readers of this The full significance of metaphors based on the canine dietary is probably only imperfectly appreciated by some...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN T HE policy to which the United States Government is addressing itself, Mr. Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, said the other day, is that of Deterring,...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. I AM unlikely to live much longer. But, for as long as I do live, Monday, July 2nd, 1951, will remain a sad memory, for on that day one thing ended...

By ALEC GUINNESS (Mr. Alec Guinness's much-discussed production of Hamlet, In which Mr. Guinness played the title part, at the New Theatre ended last Saturday after a six weeks'...

By FRANCIS WILLIAMS EVTERS is one of the best-known names in the world. There can be few literate members of the public of any country—certainly on this side of the Iron...

By JOHN ARLO TT E NGLISH cricket is less a game than a reflection of the English. The length and form of a cricket match, the varia- tion and intensity of its stresses, make...

By AN AUTHOR p ROFESSIONAL writers fall into three main groups. First, there are the fortunate few whose books sell so widely that they can take their own time about writing...

By EDWARD CRANKSHAW W E are all prisoners of words: that Is a truism, and I suppose there is no escape from it. We cannot do without labels ; and sooner or later the label takes...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W ALKING last week through the strait orifice that leads from Fleet Street to the Inner Temple, I observed a tall ladder propped against a building under...

"Bird of Paradise." (Leicester S q uare.)---" Dear Brat." (Plaza.) Bird of Paradise is a Hawaiian romance into which a whole heap of information on Polynesian customs and...

Jose Greco and His Company of Spanish Dancers. (Sadler's Wells.) THE Josd Greco Ballet continues to delight its audiences at Sadler's Wells, but on Monday night the latter...

THEATRE " The Winter's Tale." By William Shakespeare. (Phoenix.) THIS play has a sort of cheerful slovenliness, like an essay written by a schoolboy in the last week of term....

to be desired ; but some of the ammunition is not very good, and in the choice of targets there is a lack of ambition and perhaps also of the common touch. It is for the last...

fore- boding. The report about to be published will, it is said, show that the actual population of the island is little in excess of 6,500,000. The aggregate returns of the...

THE exhibition of works by William Hogarth, organised for the Festival of Britain by the Arts Council and on view at the Tate Gallery until July 29th, is the first major...

IN November, 1948, I received'a letter, signed Till Eulenspiegel and giving " Nibelheim 999 " as telephone-number. The writer protested against my " presumptuous notions " about...

Report by Richard Usborne A prize of L.5 was ,offered for a ballade with refrain ". . . Old Etonians like Shelley." Thirty seemed to me a good entry. Ballades are an absorbing...

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letter which was published in the Spectator for June 22nd, I was by no means silly enough to suppose, as one of your correspondents seems to imagine, that other classes did no...

Making , Ends Meet Six—Your series Making Ends Meet is most interesting. Quite a large proportion of the clergy are, I think, readels of the Spectator, and they will be...

Ends Meet may leave a wrong impression, namely, that a salary of £900 after deduction of taxes is a typical or representative one. Actually, from what the writer of it says, it...

point which it would be well for Church of England people to consider. So much money in•the Church of England is raised and spent on church luxuries.instead of on the proper...

letters on this subject, although it has struck me that in some cases the ends, even in these days, ought to overlap pretty comfortably ; but what has moved me to write to you...

of the Spectator, but I think you are asking for trouble by Nos. I and IV of ite series Making Ends Meet. The retired headmaster seemed to me to be living in luxury on his net...

Frankenburg writes about one hindrance to adoption ; I should like to draw attention to another. A friend and I. both unmarried and sharing a house, decided a short time ago, to...

SIR,—I have read Benjamin Richards's B.Z. Brides with interest. He attempts to tell us who they are, where they come from and why they marry British troops. Perhaps you will...

SIR,—I hope that Lord Kilmaine's plea for help from the State for ancient churches may not be dismissed too lightly. Many of us clergy find ourselves in the position of being...

articles Making Ends Meet. Like hlm I am Wit ordinary worker living in the midst of an essentially workin-class district. And my income is only half that of the retired...

• In he walked one evening with a stride that shook our glasses, carrying under his sinewy arm a bundle of what looked like triune hybrids of walking stick, mitre and...

I HAVE an old friend who is one of the most sagacious, conversant and far-seeing of English farmers. He lives in a long-fronted William-and- Mary house under the North Downe,...

of garden closes after the Stygian winter as though Proserpine had escaped from Pluto to become Perdita, a celebration of prodigality of which the gardener is witness only. Let...

SIR,—Knowin g that the publication of obituary notices is not your general practice, I. should be deeply grateful were you able to print this short tribute to Cecil Phillips,...

This incident in little had for its setting the diversity and fecundity of the Kentish Weald. Swards mown, rather than postures cropped, by Kentish sheep that also cast splashes...

SIR,—Mr. Carter and readers of his article A Day of Siege will doubtless be interested to know that children of all ages still play in the sun at St. George's Bay, and in fact...

p AUL VAL8RY had a glacial reputation. To most readers his name suggests, I suppose, Monsieur Teste, that cerebral masterpiece, and a single poem of an almost unthinkable...

Through German Eyes During the past two years the Spectator has published articles On contemporary English literature by a Frenchman, an American and an Irishman. In the...

Winged Chariot.. By Walter de la Mare. (Faber. los. 6d.) HE sits by himself, talking to himself ; and that inward companion replies to him. The subject to be unriddled is the...

The Master Forger : The Story of Han Van Meegeren. By Joh Godley. (Home and van Thal. 9s. 6d.) Van Meegeren's Faked Vermeers and De Hooghs. By Dr. I Coremans. (Cassell. 20.) I...

Know Your Germans. By Count Kurt Blucher. Translated by Lord Sudley. (Chapman lt Hall. 125. 6d.) C ounrr BLUCHER is a man of astonishing courage and 'common sense with a...

Photobiography. By Cecil Beaton. (Odhams. t8s.) THIS is a curious and revealing book. On the surface it is trashy, the story not of a life but of a life's programme, scrambled...

The Individual and His Religion: A Psychological Interpreta- tion. By G. W. Allport. (Constable. xis. 6d.) Ir is said that on a day in the 1930s two Cambridge dons were passing...

THE recent tragic disaster to the Affray' serves to give an added interest to this book, the first I have come across that has dealt in such detail with that branch of the Royal...

George Wyndham: A Study in Toryism. By John Biggs - Daviv)n. (Hodder and Stoughton. 18s.) GEORGE WYNDHAM was peculiarly sensitive to the transitoriness of the contemporary...

THE twentieth volume of Macdonald's series of " Illustrated Classics," Dickens's Great Expectations (9s. 6d.), is published with the original pictures by Marcus Stone. Like all...

Ti-Coyo and His Shark. By Clinnent Richer. (Hart-Davis. Colonel Julian and Other Stories. By II. E. Bates. 8s. 6d.) (Michael Joseph. los. 6d.) 11pNG ago the English claimed...

for Penal Reform. as. 6d.) THIs year's issue of the official organ of the Howard League contains some hopeful news of prison treatment, including a survey of group therapy by...

The.Pleasure of Being Oneself. By C. E. M. load. (Weidenfeln and Nicolson. i 2s. 6d.) MR. JoAD has written nothing better than these charming essays on the pleasures of being...

(Thames and Hudson. 3 ss.) A HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX pages of archi- tectural and sculptural photographs, as good as such photographs can be, devoted to the high Gothic of the...

Latest results of Patons and Baldwins, the woollen spinners, bring a reminder that wel- come as the recent break in wool prices is to the trade, it also involves some adjust-...

111 r cent. Courtaulds £1 ordinary units have een,a disappointing market. Profit-taking has brought them back from 51s. 6d. to 48s. 9d., at which the yield is £4 12s. 6d. per...

always worth examining, and often provide a good medium for investors who have to consider income but to whom the prospect of a moderate increase in capital value with. out...

Faced by similar problems in the same kind of business, Salts (Saltaire), the worsted spinners, have chosen the bolder path by allowing their shareholders to participate in the...

By CUSTOS To judge from the turnover in the stock markets—the falling-off cannot be wholly explained by holiday influences—most investors have decided to keep a watching...

side of the industry and only a comparatively small stake in film production, the Associ- ated British Picture Corporation again demonstrates the efficiency of its manage- ment...

the 30 per cent. rate which has been in force since 1946, Sir William Fraser and his co-directors on the board of the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company have fulfilled most City...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, 7uly 17th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...

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