ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6685 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1956 PRICE 9d.

D UR1NG the intense diplomatic activity of the last few days the shape of the Suez conference has perceptibly altered from that which it assumed when it was first announced....

have been difficult to play down the urgency of the Suez crisis, for it engages no American passions and, despite the fact that we are second only to England in the volume of...

By Our German Correspondent Bonn A SUDDEN fit of hysterics thrown by Britain and France over an inevitable shrinkage in their dwindling colonial empires might have pitched the...

BY CHARLES CURRAN D URING the past fortnight Sir Anthony Eden has regained every yard of the ground he has lost inside the Tory Party during the past year. He has established a...

N o doubt the Suez - crisis ought to have monopolised public attention over the weekend; but in fact it was squeezed on to the conversational sidelines by the weather during the...

MR. GAITSKELL has given the Government a general blessing, and out- wardly the [Labour] leadership has never been more united. Even Mr. Herbert Morrison, who has hardly been on...

on Suez, the Manchester Guardian's London Correspondent noted a few days ago, it might not be easy to arrange a special television appearance in a hurry : 'there will be the...

my boobydom to theology, but on this particular theological point I venture to think I am being fairly sensible. Mr. Waugh writes that 'the doctrine of Mary's co-Redeemership...

MY OPINION OF the Independent Television Authority, never very high, has fallen further since reading its recent notice to the press. It announces its 'dismay' over the...

the well-deserved award of the Arts Council prize for poetry to R. S. Thomas for his volume Song at the Year's Turning. Readers of the Spectator will remember the praise...

of a bus recently travelling up Oxford Street when the conductor ap- peared; turned the front seat upside down; put one foot on it (to balance himself); produced a camera of (I...

of Governors of flit Weizmann Institute at Rehovoth in Israel and representatives of organisations in Britain and America which support this remarkable centre of fundamental...

BY ELIE KEDOURIE T HIS is a bitter moment for Britain in the Middle East. Hulagu has not swooped down in the fair province, there has not even been a fight in a field; yet, what...

AUGUST 13, 1831 THE locomotive world ought to be informed that Mr. ANDREWS has written a Guide to Southampton and its neighbourhood, and that Mr. GROOMBRIDGE has published it...

BY D. W. BROGAN A MERICAN politics have seldom been, in one sense, more easy, in another more difficult, to understand and to make comprehensible to the British reader than they...

BY R. A. SCOTT-JAMES I S it true, as we have been told, that the novel is a decaying art, yielding pride of place to biography, autobiography, travel and other forms of...

W H1CH is the most beautiful town left in England? Last Friday, before the rain started, and when the sharp morning sun was throwing up the stonework black and silver against...

Below are printed the answers to the questions which appeared last week. 1. a. The United Kingdom does not include the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel...

HAVE been telling how I was expulsed from Sofia. They said I must be telling you.' This fragment of dialogue came into my mind when I , r ead Mr. Sefton Delmer's account of his...

Am—Theology is a highly technical subjec t t and it is only when he ventures into it t . ,h e your sagacious, courteous and learned Pa r i Pharos appears as a booby. The...

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SIR,-Mr. David Ormsby Gore, in his article on 'The Golden Chance' suggests that one of the reasons for the Government's failure to 'take the tide at the flood' is the lameness...

mind the well-known storY the death of Kingsley, one is tempted to saY' 'Who would have thought we should hat, c regretted poor Belloc so soon'! Mr. WaUP ought not to attempt to...

SIR,-Mr. John Parker implies that if a motor firm is nationalised it makes greater efforts to find out exactly what the foreigners require. I would merely observe that, despite...

in his difference with Evelyn Waugh. Ity deed his courteous, but devastating, reply W f the letter in this week's issue is sufficient 0 itself. Mr. Waugh has chosen to support 3...

Safeguarding Suez Louis Fanous The Golden Chance Michael Astor Nationalisation and Propaganda R. Gresham Cooke, MP Deification and Clarification Evelyn Waugh, Rev. E. G. Rupp,...

SIR,—When my copy of your paper arrives, I always turn to Pharos first and am never disappointed. I read with tolerant amusement about the Eton College boys who had never heard...

Muted Tragedy THE SEAGULL. By Anton Chekhov. (Saville.) --CESAR AND CLEOPATRA. By Bernard SHAW. (Old Vie). WHENEVER a play by Chekhov is put on there always seems to be a...

SIR,-4 am writing a comprehensive book on e history , (not the making; there are thousa n d s of pamphlets on this) of cheese. One chapter is to be an anthology of inter-...

Sue,—I must protest against your capitalisation of the pronouns referring to Jesus in my letter published in your issue of June 22. This implies a conception of him which I do...

is the beginning of a campaign to recover the lost million pounds. In the uproar of the ITA boys howling miserably and in vain for their E750,000 culture money the BBC may slip...

could happen if the abandoned wife of an absconded fellow- traveller began, a year later, to receive mes- sages from him. He implies that his attitude is unchanged and he...

Somerville Hastings, MP, writes : 'The chemical test is This might create the impression that the courts in Holland base an eventual judgement solely on the outcome of the...

a cutting of Mr. Brian Inglis's notice Charges me with making a dull job of a story Methods of Mr. John Huston. of my book, The Crazy Kill, in which he founded on the...

Spretalo and dubbed in Italian) in Italy last Novembe r in a freezing cold shack of a cinema with wooden scats and an audience that saw (muic or less) what the film was driving...

EDWARD STEICHEN'S famous and magnificent anthology of photographs entitled 'The Family of Man' has been brought to the Festival Hall by the Hutton Press. You will probably know...

The Times had some dignified Bank Holiday fun with the plea made by ITA for a Govern- ment subsidy. In language as sonorous as that which issues from Printing House Square. ITA...

The Creator of the Suez Canal BY CHARLES WILSON I T is just a century ago since Ferdinand de Lesseps moved the first cubic foot of earth out of the hundred million that were to...

All knowledge, all thought, all achievement, seems more precious and enjoyable to me than it ever was before in life. But as soon as one has found the key of life 'it opes the...

CHINA: NEW AGE AND NEW OUTLOOK. By Ping-Chia Kuo. (Gollancz, 16s.) THERE is no lack of serious studies on Communist China, but the present volume by Dr. Ping-Chia Kuo is...

THERE are too many bits and pieces in this book for it to be much of a literary success, which is a pity because Fisher is a good writer, a very good biologist and a first-rate...

ENGLAND'S PRECEDENCE. By William McElwee. (Hodder and Stoughton, 21s.) THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE SECRETARIES OF STATE AND THEIR MONOPOLY OF THE LICENSED NEWS, 1660-1681. By Peter...

QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have been surprised and perturbed when she was informed that Abraham was not the same kind of poten- tate as she was, but a wandering nomadic...

tail- flurry of blue-green and gilded palm-frond feathers,' starts Han Suyin's . . . and the rain my drink (Cape, 16s.), 'to drop stag- gering, clutching, swinging their meek...

To get the best show from a rambler one must prunewith an idea of balance of old wood to cover a particular area, cutting back laterals. Weak shoots appearing at this time of...

The friend who spoke of seeing blue hares on the Derbyshire hills hastened to assure me again that this was so. He had seen two more at the weekend and was convinced that they...

By PHILI DOR No. 62. J. C. MORRA (3rd Prize, 13.C.P.S. 1953 ToumeY) BLACK (10 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...

Y lady who, with an eye to economics and good o nusekeeping, bought a dozen day-old ducks and became their foster-mother, the intention t 'eing to put them to the sword when...

BY IAN NIALL ei N HOLIDAY in an old cottage where 'mod. eo ns,' are very much the exception. I find r nYself renewing acquaintance with the daily Chore of water-carrying, going...

'Strong as death : black as night : s weet as love.' Such is the classic prescription fa l coffee. Competitors are invited to prescribe , in similar vein and scope, the...

'Playbox has gone and only a few weeks ago Rainbow breathed its last, and now Tiger Tim and the Bruin Boys, who first appeared in 1914 and still arouse nostalgic memories, have...

ACROSS 1 Box? Thanks! But only where the tough survive (6). 4 Hardy timely retaliations (8). 8 I declare one hoop (8). 10 Coral island contributes largely to a Perthshire area...

B Y CUSTOS THE stock markets opened nervously after the holiday under the shadow of an inter- national crisis and a sharp setback in Wall Street. The centre of the selling storm...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Is unfortunate that the Egyptian crisis ?aid . divert public attention from the ur e important problem of British in- 11 strial relationships. The...