INDEX NEWS OF THE WEEK A GRICULTURE "" Arabs— 618 Art (Export of Works) .. 555 Atomic Research .. .. 382 Australia .. 86 Austria 381 IQ AL KANS .. 54 " &B.C. : and youth,...

T HINGS have not gone well this week with Mr. Taft at Chicago. They may, indeed, have gone worse than yet appears. Everything depends on whether he can reverse the trend created...

The Transport Bill is to be the principal measure to be considered in the present session of Parliament. The session is not to be closed until the Bill is passed. It is a very...

General de Gaulle is a statesman as consistently true to his principles as the Elder Cato. He has always maintained that the constitution with which the Fourth Republic saddled...

This week's debate in the House of Lords on Central African Federation produced a useful discussion with the inevitable differences of opinion. There is abundant room for that,...

If there is any detectable general tendency in the recent changes among the Soviet satellites in the Balkans it is a tendency towards tighter Russian control. The exact reasons...

There is ground for some optimism regarding Malaya. In the past fortnight there have been more instances of terrorist leaders being, killed or surrendering. During his recent...

Mr. Churchill was clearly right to reject the proposal, made in a question in the House of Commons on Tuesday, that the idea of an economic federation of the Commonwealth, with...

The series of articles now appearing in this journal under the above heading clearly concerns every member of the om- munity. No one has more than one life on this planet, and...

C OMPARED with the gusts of the Korean storm mere zephyrs of controversy have been playing about West- minster this week. That is something to record of a week in which there...

The opposition of some members of the Labour Party to the existence of normal relations between this country and Spain is more emotional than rational. Objecting to the re-...

/ T is perfectly plain that the mounting wave of wage claims must be resisted. So clear is it that the addition of some £500,000,000 a year to the national wage bill would break...

to Lord's on Tuesday for the last obsequies ? I rang up to find out the score. Five Oxford wickets down for fifty something, and 136 needed altogether to save an innings'...

latest model is likely always to be the most efficient. The " Queen Mary " was completed in 1936, the " Queen Elizabeth " in 1940 and the " United States," which has...

T HE fact that the question of a doctors' obli- gation to secrecy, re-discussed at the British Medical Associations's Dublin meeting on Monday, has, as someone said, been...

enthusiasm for that admirable country as Mr. Butler, who seemed to make it impossible to go to foreign parts for more than ten days, or at the most a fortnight. BILL just after...

bloWs from the south or west, or alternatively from the north or east, you get rain. Once grasp that elementary fact and you will know , what to expect. None the less (and I am...

Thought for Food By A. P. MEIKLEJOHN T HE human body is, an astonishing mechanism consider- ing the poor materials that sometimes go to its making. Many people think of their...

By GEORGE BRINSMEAD S IX of the Latin American republics were to hold national elections in the present year. During this period of political activity, one general...

HAT sort of festival is this you're going to at Lyons ? "„ " Theatrical," I said, " and musical." " Gastronomical," he said, having once visited Lyons. And so it was in part....

By LORD KINROSS T HAT wearisome five-hundred-mile journey across the desert, from Damascus to Baghdad, is a journey back- wards in time. Baghdad has the flavour of Cairo a...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. W HEN the sun shines on it, and the sky is only softly clouded, and there is enough breeze to stir the(flags or cool spectators' foreheads, Henley...

ByRICHARD USBORNE I HAD never before seen a bishop disrobed to shirt and braces. This was my fifth and last sports day at my son's prep-school. The bishop is a new father, and...

Like sapphires turned to flowers The morning glory glows Where sunset gives to towers The beauty of the rose, And peepul trees rise solemn Towards the Indian skies, And, column...

any of your friends residing in any part of the world at the following rates :— 52 weeks, 35s. ; 26 weeks, 17s. 6d. In addition a Birthday Greeting card will be forwarded...

By HAROLD NICOISON I NEVER worry overmuch about the happiness of foreign residents in this country. I know that, after the first few aching years of loneliness and...

Nell 0 'Day. (Royal Court.) THIS is literary history without tears for repertory theatre-goers. It is the sort of piece conceived and born to be exempted from entertainment tax,...

he must go from sin to sin like a real gentleman." This is said of Pless, the nasty farmer who has seduced his servant-girl Karen, driven his delicate wife to suicide, and made...

THEATRE The Innocents. By William Archibald. (Her Majesty's.) . The Turn of the Screw was a unique story, but this play " based on " it is an ordinary spook sonata of shallow...

ONE of the chief characteristics of the revolution which took place in music during the first quarter of the present century was the unanimity with which the revolutionaries...

Something Money Can't Buy. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—Castles in the Air. (Plaza.) IT is grievous to report that the two new films on view this week are both nearly as bad as films...

The New York City Bank. (Covent Garden.) IT is just two years since the New York City Ballet were last in London : now they are back again at Covent Garden with that fine...

at its gallery, 4 St. James's Square, until August 9th, the finest exhibition of the work of our greatest (Beardsley enthusiasts dissenting !) English black-and-white artist,...

PASMORE becomes a constructivist ; Sutherland turns to portraiture. There seems to be no glance of recognition as the two files of ants pass one another in opposite directions,...

RESULTS OF THE ELECTION—IF ANY ? So far as the Election has proceeded, it would seem to con- firm our anticipation that the electors intend to create a Parlia- ment...

Set by Limpet The following advertisement appeared four years ago under the heading " Personal " in a country newspaper : " Cricket—Will the Boiler Engineer Gentleman who met...

Report by D. R. Peddy A prize was offered for an extract from a manual of departmental drill and ceremonial for a full-dress review of Civil Servants. I feared, after setting...

Doctors of Divinity Snt—Only ignorance can excuse Mr. Ross Williamson's unfairness in calling Lambeth degrees " bogus." if he were familiar with our Oxford Statutes he would...

Snt,—I should like to draw attention to the discrepancies which appeared in the Spectator of May 30th, under the heading of " Hitlerism in South Africa." Whilst the title of...

leads on naturally to what constitute, if not suggestiones falsi, at least suppressiones yeti. I refer to certain entries in Crockford, which imply by such entries as "...

Snt,—In his- review of Ross and the New Yorker Prof. Brogan was unfair - to dramatic critics. He describes Season in the Sun as "the only successful play by a dramatic critic...

SIR,—To one who is puzzled by the arguments against gambling on ethical grounds the letter of Mr. G. A. Sutherland is of interest. No doubt an undeveloped social sense is...

SIR,—In April, 1939, yob published an article entitled Land for the Jews, advocating the development of the Negev for the relief of their distress; the idea was not taken up,...

Where the early potatoes have been lifted, plant winter cabbage. Firm the bed well by treading down, and puddle the plan". After a few days look them over, for the fly may have...

There was no doubt that the hedgehog was dead. He lay on his back among the leaves and grass, and his helplessness made him a sorry sight. He was old. His claws were horny, and...

SIR,-1 know Mr. Derek Hudson and Miss, Glynn Grylls will be relieved to hear that at least two libraries in London are as tender of the feel- ings of women writers (and...

When the days are hot and there is little breeze, the farmer looks anxiously at the behaviour of his flock. If he sees one or two that seem to ruminate long in one place, he...

IRONMONGERS' shops in country places attract me. When I see the coils of a long net, a cluster of purse-nets or snares, I stand in reverie and cause an obstruction on the...

SIR,-1 did not intend to describe Mr. Ogden Nash as a " part" of the New Yorker, but as a poet.—Yours, &c., 8 Rue HaWty. Paris IXe. D. W. BROGAN.

crowding each other and looking very concerned. One held something in his hands, and every so often they stopped and inspected the object. I watched them as they approached, and...

SIR,—As a British woman who has lived for over thirty years in France, and as a regular reader of your paper, which is of particular value to peopILNabroad, I beg to state how...

Mr. Hoover The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920. (Hollis & Carter. 30s.) MR. HOOVER is the only living ex-president of the United States, and that tells...

Rumour and Reflection. By Bernard Berenson. (Constable. 30s.) I READ most of this book on a sick-bed in the midst of a heat-wave, and found it precisely the medicine 1 needed. I...

IT is not surprising that few people have any idea as to what con- stitutes the business of picture-dealing ; nor that this, business is regarded on one side with envy of the...

Nineteenth Century English Pottery and Porcelain. By Geoffrey Bemrose. (Faber. 30s.) THE epithet " Victorian," so long a term of anathema, has lately altered its connotation to...

The Shoals of Capricorn. By F. D. Ommanney. (Longmans. 21s.) FROM the evidence of these three books, there is an unfailing fascina- tion in hunting the great fish of the sea....

Majority, 1931-1952: An Anthology of 21 Years of Publishing. (Hamish Hamilton. 25s.) THE time has come when some of us face anthologies with appre- hension. We should like...

The Face of London. By Harold P. Clunn. (Phoenix House. 30s.) PROFESSOR PEVSNER'S astonishing one-man Domesday Book has reached its fourth volume—the most impressive one so far....

The Revolutionary Movement in France, 1815-1871. By John Plamenatz. (Longmans. 16s.) THE myths and historical memories of the French Revolution have dominated the political...

The Gospel According to St. Mark. By Vincent Taylor, D.D. (Macmillan. 50s.) THE time was ripe for a standard new-commentary (based on the Greek text) of St. Mark's Gospel ; and,...

The Green Man. By Storm Jameson. (Macmillan. 15s.) I DOUBT whether Miss Storm Jameson's astonishingly sustained • achievement has had the recognition it deserves within the...

Fourth Edition with Revisions and Additional Letters. (O.U.P. 30s.) THE Buxton Forman edition of Keats's letters has long been established as the authorised version. Five years...

21-4. France III. The Pyrenees. By Violet Alford. Poland. By Helen. Wolska. Rumania. By Miron and Carola Grindea. Yugoslavia. By Ljubica and Danica Jankovic. (Parrish. 4s. 6d....

Baudelaire. By P. Mansell - Jones. Paul Valery. By Elizabeth Sewell. Rilke. By H. E. Holthusen. Croce. By Cecil Sprigge. (Bowes and Bowes. Studies in Modern European Literature...

the rally in the textile share market are Courtaulds' £1 Ordinary units, which have moved up from 33s. 6d. to 35s. 6d. When the preliminary figures, accompanied by -the...

.E.in g s 0 . m einaligin N 0 A E11111211C.MIZINC1 131 %.; 'iv 0 1313441DIEIVA EIDER L s , Olin OM 1111 III u I21 El u til MT E 1211313 E 1 .11:113 Elri 4 1 El P1 IV 01-..111...

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first Correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, July 22nd, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street. London. W .C.I....