the Foreign Secretary ends one phase of British history in the Middle East. The question now is what can be done to save something from this extensively devastated area of...

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By Our German Correspondent Berlin T HE disasters of the autumn have left West Germany with a feeling of increased importance and a touch of concussion. Few nations can have...

T to i loss of 279 million dollars from the central reserves in a single month is unprecedented. In the last four months the reserves have fallen by over 600 million dollars...

BY L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS A MONG the few `credit' items so far to emerge from the Middle Eastern crisis is the dawn of a better understanding be- tween Karachi and Kabul....

T HE announcement of the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons on Monday that British and French forces are to leave the Suez Canal without delay marked the end of one phase...

Spectrum, a Miscellany edited by Ian Gilmour and lain Hamilton, and published by Longmans at 16s., contains a large selection of features and articles which appeared in the...

By Our Political Correspondent B UT who will come well out of the Suez affair? The measure of the Government's present embarrassments is that so many of its supporters are...

his newspaper at the time of his murder in Nicosia. The draft of an article was found after his death; and the editor, believing that Macdonald would wish to have his views...

I HAVE RARELY listened to a more depressing broadcast than the interview of Sir John Harding in the BBC's 'At Home and Abroad' on Tuesday evening. Not only was the interview...

Conser- vatives to put country before party with a strong condemnation of Tory conduct in the eighteenth century. In order to show that Tories habitually prefer 'party interests...

Suez Crisis has left comparatively unmoved., the most curious was that of an atomic engineer in London for the recent Symposium on Calder Hall. His attitude was one of...

in their determination not to accept the Government's proffered £100,000 subsidy. It is true that in theory it is not for them to accept or reject the offer; the money should go...

on Tuesday morning. Its leading article, in the course of a virulent' attack on the Government's handling of the Suez affair (`the whole affair has been politically bungled to...

issue of Picture Post devoted to a record of the Hungarian tragedy, I would urge you to obtain a copy; profits are to go to the Lord Mayor's Fund for the Refugees. Text and...

which seems to breed the greatest number of prima donnas; and Melbourne must by now have had its fill of them. Quite the worst offender on this occasion was Mr. Jack Crump, the...

restrictions on the right to produce Pygmalion on the grounds that 'some form of traffic control is necessary if congestion and collisions are to be avoided.' If that is their...

not spoil Mr. Eisenhower's golf too much if I report that the ordinary people of France, like the ordinary people of , Britain, seem to me to be walking more proudly since the...

BY ROBERT BLAKE T HE Prime Minister's departure to Jamaica has inevitably raised a crop of rumours about his possible resignation. The constitutional aspect of the problem which...

BY BRIAN INGLIS a rile, members of the medical profession are less S inclined to deny their dislike and suspicion of psychiatry than to admit it, and to justify their resistance...

BY CHANCHAL SARKAR U NCHARITABLE writing about Nehru abroad such as, for instance, Sefton Delmer turns out for the Beaverbrook Press has at least one effect that people like Mr....

A Quiz for the Conscientious Citizen I. Distinguish between : (a) Putting out a forest fire. (b) Keeping the combatants apart. (c) Ensuring free passage through the Canal....

BY JOHN BETJEMAN UT of the Southern Electric, into the salt sea air, I went last week to Brighton to recover from influenza. Street lamps shining on pebbled walls reminded me I...

I SUPPOSE that hardly anybody keeps a game-book nowadays. I have done so. with one or two regretted lapses, since 1918, and the other day I came across the little brown book in...

DECEMBER 10, 1831 YEOMANRY CAVALRY. —It seems that some of the Scotch Anti- Reformers are at present exceedingly zealous in their efforts to form yeomanry corps. The other day,...

express his gratitude to Strix for his obser- vations on the notions entertained by some newspaper editors as to the kind of map their readers will be capable of understanding?...

SIR,—In your issue of November 23 Lord Altrincham describes as 'most pernicious hum- bug' the doctrine that legal sovereignty of Parliament is subordinate to the political...

Mr. Brian Inglis is tackling this most important problem should stimulate the medical profession to prompt and vigorous action. Prevention, however, is admittedly better than...

never seems to stop. Last week the appalling decision taken by the Egyptian Government to expel thousands of people who have lived for years in Egypt underlined the fact that...

The Burnt Paper Nancy Maurice Maps for the Kindergarten J. F. Horrabin Crisis in Medicine Major Hugh Morris Suez And Refugees George Wigg, MP Conscience and Constituents R. L....

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SIR,—I wrote two versions of my review of Fanny, the Drury Lane musical, because I thought I could improve it. In the first I said, in effect: 'The girl is well-dressed, but a...

SIR,—I was interested to read Sir Shane Leslie's letter in your last issue in which he refers to the urgent need for Muslim-Christian co- operation on lines similar to that...

SIR, — Mr. Hamilton is truly naughty : a teaser. He now titillates our curiosity again, this time about Maundy Gregory. To mention this little • cad, and then to tell nothing,...

SIR, — Outraged civic pride compels me to pro- test at William Douglas Home's reference in your pages to 'Newhaven,' Connecticut. The city in question is New Haven and, perverse...

Sts, — In his article on 'Taverns and Chop Houses' (November 30) John Bowen describes The London, founded in 1720, as 'the first insurance company.' He appears to have over-...

Siit,-1 have just read, in your Christmas number, 'City and Suburban' by Betjeman. I have lost all respect for this dodo as of this moment. I would remind him that 'that...

SIR,—Mr. Glyn Daniel's article made delicious, greedy reading, and compels gratitude, but what is 'love in disguise'? May I suggest that Le Refine d'Angleterre (King Alfred's...

A Tragedy from Greece A Girl in Black and The Silent World. (Cur- zon.) IT is perhaps too easy, in the case of a people like the Greeks, to talk of tragedy where in fact we...

How damnable it must be for the television bosses that imitations don't work. In the world in which Formula is King we're seeing,a spate of imitative gcneration the like of...

S1R,—Your public is entitled to a minimum guarantee of fairness just as surely as your reviewers have the right to their opinions. Mr. Conquest, in his notice of Dannie Abse's...

The Diary of Anne Frank. (Phenix.) ADAPTATIONS are in general ne'er-do-wells. They are apt to lounge about keeping just abreast of the plot, reducing characters who in the...

THE winning entries in the 1951 Festival of Britain opera competition were Arthu r Benjamin's A Tale of Two Cities, Alan Bush's Wat Tyler, Berthold Goldschmidt's Beatrice Cenci...

IN the first room of the Royal Academy's huge exhibition of British portraits is Hol- bein's portrait of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, from the Royal collection, and I would...

Pin-Ups and Moms BY D. W. BROGAN 111) URING the war, I was present at a discussion of that perennially fascinating, or, at any rate, perennially dis- cussed question: 'What is...

MORE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES: A Group of Honest Doubters. By Basil Willey. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) IN More Nineteenth Century Studies Professor Willey has added a fourth...

J uDGFD by their narratives, today's travellers into strange Ian& Fan be set in two categories—the seekers, and those who find what I s already obviously there. The first sort...

THE RACING CAR: Development and Design. By Cecil Clutton Preston; Technical Editor, A. G. Douglas Clease. (Grosveno 1 Press, 25s.) PIT stops are no longer a feature of formula...

s cfENC E AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Vol. 2. By Joseph Needham. (C.U.P., 80s.) AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Vol. 2. By Joseph Needham. (C.U.P., 80s.) JOSEPH NEEDHAM'S history of...

1p this day and age everyone knows better than to disparage the Press. It is not just that it always has the last word (and laugh), but a lso that the public demand for an...

COMPETENT judges have decided that John Cowper Powys Is i ! genius. The point conceded, what can be added is that th ; perpetually youthful Grand Old Man of English Letters is...

BY CUSTOS THE very sharp recovery which the Stock Exchange enjoyed when it became known that the Anglo-French withdrawal from Egypt had been decided on must be classed as a...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT LORD ROTHERWICIC, the Governor of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, has broken into new ground for a bank by setting up an investment department and...

Adventure was written on the faces of the little group going along the path to the wood. One had a length of rope wound diagonally across his chest and shoulder. Another had an...

By PHILIDOR No. 79. G. GUIDELLI (2nd Prise, 'Good Companions.' 1916) BLACK (8 men) WRITE (9 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...

' You know old Jack ' s wife? Well, she used to be even fatter than she is now. They lived over the hill then and to get to the bus they either had to walk a mile an ' a quarter...

BY IAN MALL NOT unnaturally, when petrol is about to be rationed, one thinks of alternative ways of get - ting about. Without motor spirit one ' s pro - gress is likely to be...

Soil sterilisation is useful, particularly for potting and seed - growing purposes. There are different methods, but for small quantities scalding is perhaps the easiest. This...

ACROSS 1 Odin's son seems increasingly in need of a trichologist's attentions (6). 4 'Of — eggs the birdie sings' (Steven- son) (8). 10 The untamed novelist and horseman...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 353 Report by A. M. 0. S. own invention— Competitors were invited to submit very short ghost stories of their the shorter, other things being equal,...

two, three Neds, Richard two, Henry four, five, six, then who? These are the opening lines o f a verl i useful history cram which 1 learned 6 ,, school. The usual prize of six...