15 JANUARY 1954, page 6

They May Possess Of Thinking Things Out For Themselves. His

proposed remedy (which would fall rather hard on periodicals like the Spectator) is impracticable and was not meant seriously; but there may be something in his diagnosis. When......

Footnote (non-erudite) To Above

To prefix , the columnists' trade formula " It may not be generally known. . . " to what I am now going to say about Mr. Auden would, I feel, be slightly disingenuous. It is not......

Wages And The Wolf

SELF-CONGRATULATORY pamphlet published by the Conservative Central Office in December noted that the number of working days lost through strikes during the first two years of......

Unser Auden ?

A nice point, or so it seems to me, is raised by the wording of the citation which this week announced the award of the Bollinger Poetry Prize to Mr. Wystan Auden. After......

A Spectator's Notebook

S PEAKING at SHAPE on Monday, General Gruenther estimated the strength of the USSR's satellite armies in Europe at 70 divisions, " which might soon become more effective." The......

The Two Men, Strangers To Each Other, Had Been Standing

side by side for perhaps half a minute before the smaller and, at a guess, the nicer of them spoke to the other. They were in the foyer of a restaurant, and the demeanour of......