W HILE the content of the talks Dr. Adenauer has been having in London With the Prime Minister and Mr. Eden naturally remains undisclosed something of their tenor may be...

If there is nothing very tangible to show from the meetings of the United Nations Assembly in the past week, the mere fact that the representatives of Britain, France, the...

M. Paul Reynaud, the French Conservative leader, has scored rather heavily, both at the Council of Europe and in a letter to The Times, in his references to Mr. Churchill's...

The amicable signature of a new oil agreement is a rare source of gratification these days, and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which owns fifty per cent. of the shares in the...

One more road which the Soviet delegation at the Assembly has blocked, this timeihrough the agency of M. Malik, is that lead- ing to the appointment of a United Nations...

A suggestion made by the Communist delegates at Panmunjom that truce supervision should be carried out by "representatives of nations neutral in the Koiean war" still awaits...

It would be a mistake to make too much of Mr. Lyttelton's remark, on arrival in Malaya, that "the political situation would have to wait." It need not be supposed that he was...

been too short even to be regarded as a curtain-raiser to the Parlia- mentary drama that is to come. No sooner has the new House of Commons settled down than it is breaking up....

The Christmas season would hardly be complete without some threat from transport workers to spoil it. This year it is the growing delay to cargoes, including food cargoes,...

The Bill authorising the re-organisation of the City Churches corresponds closely with the exposition of its purpose by the Bishop of London before his Diocesan Council last...

I T would be interesting to know how many of the multitude seeking a house to live in are enlightened and encouraged by the unending argument between political parties on the...

of the day. Obituary notices in the daily papers have dwelt on her vitality. That is just. It was one of the characteristics which was bound to strike even the most casual...

Mr. John Strachey, relieved, to his satisfaction or other- wise, from the responsibilities of office, contains some very sound observations on Russia in relation to world-peace....

pennies (40 for every man, woman and child in the population) now in circulation go. A clerical correspondent replies feelingly that he knows—into church collection bags, but...

seeking admission to the Imperial Cricket Conference, membership in which India automatically retained after the partition in 1947, it was explained by Sir Pelham Warner and...

should have found the task of rendering Mr. Churchill's speeches into that medium too much for them. Since the Prime Minister's art consists of putting the indispensable word in...

notable career. I am sorry it is dead, but it might have expired more becomingly. There has been too much "of whom the world was not worthy" about recent leaders bearing on its...

2nd. NO SECRET TALKS ON DISARMAMENT Observer, December 2nd. Nice to know.

By F. SPENCER CHAPMAN* T is very easy, as a study of the recent dailies and weeklies will show, to criticise the direction of the campaign in • Malaya during the...

By D. W. BROGAN A YEAR from now a new President will have been elected. He may, of course, be Mr. Truman, who is exempted from the new constitutional amendment barring a third...

By CANON ROGER LLOYD F 4 AGER and widespread speculations about the visible changes which nationalisation would bring to the railway scene have now died down, for during this...

By KENNETH OCHILTREE T HE warm sunshine of an unusually lovely September afternoon poured through the long windows, enhancing an after-lunch somnolence. The quiet voice of the...

By CLARE FRY T HE architectural papers have an excellent habit of making surveys of different kinds of buildings, particularly places of public resort, and showing by...

Subscription rates: 52 weeks, 35s.; 26 weeks, 17s. 6d. Send subscription instructions, accompanied by a remittance, to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C1. Postage on...

SIR ROBERT PEEL announces that his entire stud is to be sold by auction, by Messrs. Tattersall and Son. In the advertise- ment announcing the sale, it is stated that Sir Robert...

American Opinion By ANDREW HACKER (Queen's College, Oxford) A S an American at Oxford I am getting rather tired of being considered an expert. I feel that I know as much about...

By HAROLD NICOISON I WAS lunching yesterday with a friend who had just obtained an appointment in Iraq. He told me that he was leaving England on Saturday and would be in...

"Relative Values.' By NoSI Coward. (Savoy.) MR. COWARD'S new comedy was jubilantly greeted on its first per- formance, and what with royalty in the stalls, the author in the...

OPERA MELVILLE'S Billy Budd, of which psychological reflection is the greater part, and incident by far the smaller, seemed an improbable basis for a good opera. It has...

"The House in the Square." (Odeon.)— - " Lightning Strikes Twice." (W,a2-ner.)-- ,4 Week End With Father." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) PERHAPS it is a mistake to hope to...

specialise in people sheltered and unfinished, maladroit in the presence of hard reality wing-beating idealists, like the mother in The Glass Menagerie, Blanche in A Streetcar...

Uday Shankar and Amala with their Indian Ballet. (Princes Thearre). ON Tuesday night Uday Shankar and his company carried me a step further in my understanding of Indian...

Report by D. R. Peddy A prize of £5 was offered for an extract from a speech by a delegate to the annual conferm of a union representing one of the following : Recidivists,...

Set by R. J. P. Hewison A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a macaronic New Year carol in not more than 16 lines, including refrain. Entries must be addressed_...

From the Dalcassian Legation A cu.—Our London Representative has drawn our attention to an article by Mr. Brian Inglis which appeared in the October 26th, 1951, issue of your...

Snt,—The article by Professor Brogan on the threatened stoppage of steamer sailings on the Clyde deals with a matter that requires wide publicity. Unfortunately Professor Brogan...

SIR, —Mr. Franklin has criticised the Government of Cyprus on two issues in particular, without attempting to explain the difficulties that confront it. He claims that "the...

Sta, — Mr. Cadbury states that the Quaker delegation walked about Moscow and Kiev " unaccompanied " when they wished to do so. It goes without saying that he and his colleagues...

am only too sensible of the truth of S. M.'s contention. The English apple (with which, when well grown, no other apple in the world can compare) has all too frequently been...

Sia,—I am glad that Janus has directed attention to the ridiculous lengths to which the publishing of photographs of the Royal Family is going. A short unit ,ago at the cinema I...

S1R,—Professor Tunbridge in his article, Lire--and Years, refers to some important aspects of the expected increase in what he terms the pension- able population. In this...

We are indignant with the weather for the recent floods, but the fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the clouds but in ourselves. Floods are a symptom, not-of excess water, but of...

I WATCHED a man ploughing very stiff and sodden land with a heavy tractor. A light Ferguson tractor would obviousry have been by far the better implement against packing, but...

was ostracised. This is loose thinking, as in the journals, including the Spectator, which habitually treat King Canute as a - vain fool, instead of one who gave his courtiers a...

In the United States, where bitter experience of "mining" out fertility has 'taught a belated frisdom, it is in the best farming areas that our mould-board plough has become...

SIR,—With the authority of the Public Trustee, and as the principal publishers of Bernard Shaw's works in Great Britain, we are contem- plating, some time during the next live...

Str,—My grandfather was born in 1795, and died in 1868. I was born in 1862, and remember him quite well. A span of 156 years.

in my 'garden and its surround, so that I did not relish having to fell one of the biggest and finest. This was a balsam poplar, the nearest to the house of a line of them...

But this is by no - means the whole of the story. Soil conditions range from the extremes of good and evil. If the latter, soil is like dust or cement ; if the former, like a...

Miss Farjeon Looks Back to 1851 WEU, my dears! summer is over, with all the delights and excite- ments of the Great Exhibitifln, and I hope you were lucky enough to be taken...

As usual there is much ephemeral shoddy stuff among the Christmas books for children ; but some sparks shine in the ashes, books that lift the imagination and charm with their...

8s. 6d.) Castaway Camp. By M. E. Atkinson. (Bodley Head. 95. 6d.) ANY parent with a sense of social responsibilty must be seriously perturbed at this year's crop of adventure...

Famous Paintings: An Introduction to Art for Young People. By Alice Elizabeth Chase. With a Foreword by Sir Gerald Kelly, P. R. A. (Macdoinald. r 8s.) The Story of the...

WE the too minor poets, we (And let's be facetious, call it wee) Are humble enough, God knows, God knows. Perhaps we ought to have written prose, Not written at all, not tried...

Happy-Go-Wilkie SINCE, some 25 years ago and on both sides of the Atlantic, an urge to " re-valuate " a Victorian man or woman of letters took possession of contemporary...

The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, (Ilamish Fiamilton. 305.) THE difference between English and American humour is not really so remarkable as the difference between...

The Phoenix in the .Desert. By Dunstan Thompson. (John Lehmann. 2 Is.) THE writer of a - travel-book describes either the countries visited or himself. If he is accomplished...

The Apple and the Spectroscope. By T. R. Henn. (Methuen. 25. 6d) • AT most Universities the doctrine is given lip-service that the scientist needs humanising, and the humanist...

The Second Burst. -By Sir Alfred Munnings. (Museum Press. ass.) WrrH characteristic verve and disarming candour Sir Alfred Mun- nings continues the reminiscences of his first...

WHEN Moby Dick began to be widely read, in the nineteen-twenties, some ten years after its rediscovery, the verdict of the American journalist who called the world's attention...

Petain : Patriot or Traitor ? By Sisley Huddleston. (Dakers. us.) Mn. HUDDLESTON lived in unoccupied France or in Monaco through- put the four years of the Vichy Governments,...

THIS is a rare cdmbinalialBlvd1idf6rfhary adventure and most skilful telling. The sttaiMefltNtis of a man and wife, living contentedly until the outbreak of war, and with...

Lion in the Cellar. By Pamela Branch. (Robert Hale. 9s. 6d.) IN the traditionally told novel we are carried along a road past scenes and objects laid out in chronological...

One Man in His Time. By Bruce Belfrage. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.) One Man in His Time. By Bruce Belfrage. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.) MR. BRUCE BELFRAGE has played...

THE new issue of this valuable guide to the House follows the same lines as its pre- decessors; there is indeed no very obvious way to improve on them. There are the usual short...

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By CUSTOS As I suspected, markets are not finding it easy to hold up in face of continuing uncer- tainties. Gilt-edged prices, from which in present conditions other markets...