T HE longer devaluation and its possible consequences are considered the more doubtful about its effects must every honest student of the situation become. The Chancellor of...

The Bevin-Sforza proposals for the former Italian colonies had one merit—they offered a compromise which might well be acceptable to two-thirds of the General Assembly. When the...

The break-up of M. Queuillc's Government is all but an accom- plished fact. It has lasted for the record period of thirteen months, and stood France in good stead, securing a...

The National Union of Railwaymen, by its decision that in view of existing agreements it had no alternative but to accept the refusal of the national wages conciliation board to...

It would be underestimating the resources of Communist invective to suppose that Marshals Tito and Stalin had reached the climax of their verbal war. But, as each side has now...

The establishment of an East German Government in she Russian Zone, which now seems to be immediately impending, is considerably belated. It was generally supposed that this...

F OR the past year three things have been inevitable in China, and during the past fortnight two of them have come to pass. The Communists have set up their own Government at...

T HE decision to enlist Mr. Ancurin Bevan to reinforce Sir Stafford Cripps in the devaluation debate last week is of some historical interest, in view of the previous...

Tuesday Mr. Herbert Morrison admitted that there had been criticism of the 1951 Exhibition project, and that it was a fair question whether the project should be proceeded with...

people to the sale of contraceptives from automatic machines—a subject brought into the limelight by the recent publication of portions of a letter from the Ministry of Supply...

will speak of Frank Buchman even as we today speak of St. Francis of Assisi. There have always been great men inspired by God in history. They have made history. But what Frank...

77 takes me back to a dinner with him and Ramsay MacDonald, then something of a political outcast, in a restaurant in the Rue Daunou in Paris in 1919. Villard and I were...

to certain serious university problems. At Oxford Dr. Lowe criticised with much justice statutes which compel retire- ment from various offices at the arbitrary calendar age of...

D. COLUMBA CARY-ELWES* I T may seem an ungracious act to criticise one's late host as I feel constrained in some respects to do. Franco was that host for six weeks. He, or...

By R. L BRAM ri* Little has been recorded of that section of the Legal Division of the Control Commission for Germany, the Penal Branch, respon- sible for the supervision of the...

By D. W. BROGAN F IRST of all, the weather. Of course, it was magnificent (and costly) in England, too, but I had more chance of seeing it at work in France. In some regions it...

By PHYLLIS D. HICKS T HIS year marks the bicentenary of the publication of Diderot's Lettre sur les Aveugles, a work small in size but great in influence. Indeed, it may be...

war in Turkey, or not ? That is the question of the day, and much may be said on both sides of it: the unknown event, however, is marching on without much mercy for the wishes...

Prelude to a University ? By MICHAEL STEPIIENS (St. John's College, Cambridge) T HE hundred or so students who assembled at York in mid- August to attend the two summer...

B HAROLD NICOISON I T must be dull, if one Is a theologian or otherwise preoccupied by the eternal verities, not to have time to enjoy, or even to notice, the lesser movements...

THE choice of title is significint. It is the " book-jacket," be it noted, and not the " dust-cover " ; and between the two terms there lies a long history of gradual...

ON Saturday evening the yearnings of many a Central European heart were fulfilled • for Bruno Walter was conducting Mahler at the Albert Hall. 6..ertainly the performance must...

THE CINEMA " Under Capricorn." (Warner.)—" Date with Destiny." (London Pavilion)—" Slattery's Hurricane." (Odeon.)--" Bagarres " (Polytechnic). I FEAR that Mr. Alfred...

More about recordings. One night last week, the whole of the Third Programme—concerts, a play, a music drama, a talk on Goethe, a short story, song cycles and so on—came to us...

ONE of the early autumn successes on the lighter side has been We Beg To Differ. It is based on the verifiable assumption that all men and all women like to gossip about men and...

me to have gone; off at half-cock. One Wilde, one Barrie one-act, one adaptation of an' R. C. Sherriff novel and one thriller—this is really not very ambitious, nothing surely...

THE majority of recent records are orchestral, and there arc some distinguished recordings among them. The following are issued by H.M.V.:—Sibelius' Seventh Symphony is played...

Now that Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas is back from his Round the World in Eight Days journey, contrasted comments might be valuable : From the Spectator of September 23rd, 1949: "...

staggering. They set up a camera in the driver's cab of a Victoria-Brighton train ; started the camera, as the train left, at high speed ; and filmed the entire fifty-odd mile...

Sia s —I feel bound to protest at the tone of the remark in your leader Devaluation is Not Enough about " the pace of railwaymen even when they are not g oin g slow." I have yet...

Unsettled Hyderabad SIR,—Havin g recently visited Hyde/abad I read with interest the first letter of Mr. Horace Alexander, the reply of " Observer," and the second iener from...

Sta.—No doubt owing to limitations of space, Mr. Walston was less than fair to the character of the British farmer in the Spectator of Sept- ember 23rd. He implied, to start...

week's House of Commons debate, states that Mr. Stanley's best casual thrust was " at the expense of Mr. R. H. S. Crossman, who, in an article in a Sunday paper on the very day...

Stn,—The interesting article of Mr. Bender in the Spectator of September 23rd sets out objectively the arguments of Germans in connection with the dismantling of the...

SIR, —It is astonishing that a writer considered worthy of space in the Spectaror should so disregard facts as does Dorothy Crisp, in her article. Paradox in Malaya, when she...

his crumbs of friendly criticism, I will admit that I have not visited Northern Ireland as often as I could wish, though more often and for rather longer periods than he...

SIR, —The trouble with Lctcombe Bassett is this: all our planners are urban-minded, and they are forcing unwanted urbanities on our country- side. Sewers are not seen, but...

following cardinal points your review of Dr. Flatter's book, Hamlet's Father, published in your columns on September 9th, appears to me damagingly contrary to the facts? Your...

marten, none is fonder of a home or more faithful to one home than the stork, which unfortunately does not like the journey across the North Sea. I hid hoped this summer to see...

SIR,-1 remember hearing the late Dr. G. G. Coulton quote, as " tradi- tional," this definition of the word ; don ": " A word which in Spanish denotes a gentleman, and in English...

Slit,—I am surprised that, in the Spectator of September 30th, your reviewer, Dr. H. W. Garrod, shares Mr. Gilbert Highet's bewilderment at Mr. Ezra Pound's:— PAPYRUS " Spring...

WE have all said good-bye to September with regret. It is often one of the best of months—with its trees still green looking down on yellow harvests, with its conjunction of the...

Charles Lamb—si foret in Terris—would rejoice to find at his beloscd Mackerye, or Mackerel, End, by Harpenden, in Hertfordshire a nursery garden of exceptional quality, set up...

Countryman in making country villages their headquarters. The closest imitator is perhaps the Country Journal, a very excellent quarterly, issued at Denmead, in Hamp- shire. Its...

England was a most happy place because whenever politics grew at all virulent someone brought in a Bill for the protection of birds ; and all was well. A new piece of evidence...

SIR,-- Janus should be more careful of his facts. I did not use the word " bugger " in my translation of Plautus. I used the phrase " buggering off," a common colloquialism for...

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Mr. Maugham's Workshop SINCE he was eighteen Mr. Maugham has kept notebooks in which he has recorded emotions, ideas and observations of men and things which might afterwards...

Eleanor Rathbone. By Mary Stocks. (Gollancz. 21s.) " WE were impressed by her vehemence " said a senior offic:al in a Ministry which had found itself constrained to capitulate...

The Elizabethan House of Commons. By J. E. Neale (Cape. 18s.) SrunEmrs of Parliament of all ages, and especially those who have read Professor Neale's Queen Elizabeth, must have...

Delight. By J. B. Priestley. (Heinemann. 10s. 6d.) THE Mr. Priestley we know is something of a malcontent; he grumbles chronically, and for other people's sakes (he declares) as...

Essex. By Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. Shropshire. By Maisie Herring. Somerset. By Sylvia Townsend Warner. South Wales. By Tom Richards. (Vision of England and Vision of Wales Series....

Russia Puts the Clock Back. By John Langdon-Davies. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) THE Lysenko controversy, which is the subject of this interesting book, has already become a cause...

nits book is a valiant attempt to bridge the gulf between musi- cologists and executant musicians. The latter, owing to the present high standard of virtuosity, have literally...

The Socialist Tragedy. By Ivor Thomas, M.P. (Latimer House. 10s. 6d.) DISILLUSIONED Communists frequently feel compelled to justify their defection by strident attacks on the...

Doctor Himself. By Winifred Stamp. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) THIS is the biography, supplemented by tributes from V. S. Pritchett, Sidney Dark, H. M. Tomlinson, Charles...

Intruder in the Dust is, it seems, Mr. Faulkner's seventeenth book and his first novel to be published since 1941. What a perverse and exasperating writer—what an impossible...

Secondary Education for All. By H. C. Dent. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8s. 6d.) MR. Darr positively prances with his belief in education as a panacea for all society's ills. His...

6d.) IH this short and unpretentious book to which Lord and Lady Beveridge contribute several chapters each, they record notes and impressions of a visit last year to New...

By CUSTOS IF investors are in any need of a reminder that these are odd markets, let them consider the recent behaviour of gilt-edged prices. Before the pound was devalued the...

four more of the " Arts in Britain " British Council two or three years ago. to provide English-speaking people ab what had been happening here in the c a tive arts during the...

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct wiution of this week's crossword to be opened alter noon on Tuesday week, 0, sober 18th. Envelopes must be...

The winner of Crossword No. 5.48 Is MRS. PEPLOS, North Park, Moffat, 1 >amfriesehire.