T HE Foreign Ministers of Britain, the United States and France, at their meetings in Paris this week, have been dealing with questions whose issue may have far-reaching effects...

The Prime Minister's appeal for unity in effort at the Lord Mayor's Banquet on Wednesday was more impressive than his claim that his economy cuts were adequate was convincing....

The meetings of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and of the standing committee of the European Consultative Assembly at Paris this week indicate that there is...

The search for solid ground among the shifting mass of inter- national conferences in Paris at this season is most notably rewarded in the case of the meeting of the five...

The address delivered by Mr. G. M. Malenkov in Moscow, at the main celebration of the 32nd anniversary of the October Revolu- tion, was rigidly orthodox in tstructure and tone....

It would easily be possible, by reading the American Press, to gain the impression that Mr. Paul Hoffman, during . his recent visit to Paris, had insisted upon the immediate...

M ONDAY be g an somewhat explosively. Two national news- papers had carried a report of stran g e happenin g s at a works in Walsall. It was not surprisin g that Mr Wells, the...

Ever since the pound was devalued, seven weeks a g o, a succession of g uarded and uninformative communi q ués from Transport House has borne witness to the efforts of the...

Havin g g iven some sound advice to housewives a week a g o Mr. Herbert Morrison on Sunday widened the scope of his admonitions. After the inevitable tilts at the Press and the...

N OT so very many years ago British films were regarded by the public in this country as a joke (and a bad one at that) and were not seen at all by the inhabitants of other...

British theatre on Tuesday. Reporting it, The Daily Telegraph, getting off to a good start, began: "Mr. J. B. Priestley, whose play, ' Summer's Day Dream,' came off at the St....

as he probably hoped for his suggestion that the very lengthy Long Vaca- tion at British universities should be substantially abbreviated. There is a good deal to be said on...

duly divided into male and female citizens nothing definite is known of the sex of Parliamentary electors. The reason also is rather curious. Till 1935 electors were...

the British Association that he should no longer be a member of the Council shows how useless it would be to try to bridge the gulf in mental outlook which separates him from...

the possibility of M. Clementis, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, who is now heading the Czech delegation at the United Nations Assembly at Lake Success, deciding not to...

the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church in Great Britain. One figure was quoted in a Times article from the Catholic Directory, the other taken from a well - known...

is true, and it ought to be told. When the King was visiting South Africa he had a long talk with a Basuto Chief. At the end the Chief said: " When a South African comes to talk...

circles. Though he was a preacher of marked distinction he will be best remembered for his editorship of the Congregational Quarterly, which he founded in 5922 on retiring from...

W HEN the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs was questioned about the document, purporting to be a private memorandum by Mr. Bevin on Anglo- Italian relations, published by the...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington p AUL HOFFMAN, the Marshall Plan administrator, is a man o many accomplishments, the most notable of which probably is his capacity for talking...

By DR. JULIAN HUXLEY, F.R.S. AC ADEMICIAN GLUSHCHENKO is Lysenko's chief scientific helper. He is a member of the small group of cultural representatives from Soviet Russia at...

Below the water in another world Move the swift creatures I delight to see, Tadpole and beetle and the armoured newt ; The sliding weed over the pebble curled, The dappled water...

By JOHN KITTESFORD T was a wonderful summer in Touraine. You could see / that from the burnt-up pastures, from the brilliant dahlias and zinnias, from the morning glory...

By CANON CHARLES SMYTH HEN, in November, 1849, the Rev. Henry Hart Milman, Rector of St. Margaret's and Canon of Westminster, received from the Prime Minister a letter offering...

By NAN WISHART T the street corner Jacopo paused, tail whisking, a creature of impulse, a cat without an idea in his head. The slow water flowed far down beneath the walls...

Inverness Invasion By JOHN FRIPP (Merton College, Oxford) I NVERNESS has been monopolised by industrial England. Since the end of May, it has daily been invaded by the bus...

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By HAROLD NICOLSON I N a bookshop the other day I cane across an enormous album bound in pink morocco and enlivened with a pretty little pattern of watercress in gold. The...

ON November 4th the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R. invited a representative group of music critics and musicologists to meet the Russian composer Dmitri...

THE THEATRE "Queen Elizabeth Slept Here." By)Talbot*Rothwell. Adapted from a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. (Strand.) I WAS brought up to believe that it was...

" Prince of Foxes." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—L'Aigle a Deux l'ites. (Studio One.)—.. White Heat." (Warner.) HOLLYWOOD has recently become consumed with love for the late Caesar...

When Mr. Val Gielgud this summer produced his play on the death of Caesar as it would have been recorded on radio by a con- temporary Roman Broadcasting System, the idea was...

by Mr. Michael Holroyd and Professor Adcock in Four Roman Portraits. I missed the first, but Mr. Holroyd was brilliant on Julius Caesar, and Pro. fessor Adcock on Anthony and...

that it was wrong of the B.B.C., in the programmes that went to make up H.M.S. Amethyst Returns, to join in something that grew last week to look more and more like a national...

Another programme, of a lighter kind, which has been wearing its way rather into my affection is Talk Yourself Out of This. It will not please those who dislike, or despise, all...

The B.B.C. is causing me serious disquiet about myself. I have had great good fortune in my own family life ; why, then, am I over- come with the bitterest dislike whenever the...

been assembled at the headquarters of the Arts Council by the Council and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, is representative and varied. It does not dwell unduly upon the...

am grateful to Mr. Bender for commenting on my remarks. May I answer some of his points ? 1. I have, several times, seen the plants in question and can vouch for their damage....

Sist,—It may be of some interest to point out the effects of spoon-feeding on another branch of agriculture. In my own industry, apple-growing, controlled prices have had...

dismantling were abandoned, Mr. Albert B. Newman, in common with many other Americans, appears to be unaware that the plan was as much American as British, and that he is quite...

Groundnuts Gloom Sig,—The many explanations which your article Groundnuts Gloom tries to give for the catastrophic failure of the at the time much advertised scheme may be...

SIR, —On my return from abroad I have read Mr. Harold Nicolson's comments in the Spectator of June 24th last on the memoirs of the late Ttichard von Kuhlmann. As I was the "...

Stn,—The article on ,Spain in Morocco gives an entirely false impression of the Spanish zone of Morocco. In fact it contains so many assertions completely at variance with...

SIR.—It is a good thing that an Indian national should put forth his country's claim to be a permanent member of the Security Council. It shows how keen and watchful...

SIR,—It is indeed a scandal that one cannot be certain of the first post being delivered before leaving for business in the morning. (In my case the variations in the times of...

SIR.—From the Spectator I derive much pleasure. With one exception nothing offends. In a colony with a poor press and narrow editorial comments in the daily papers, it is a...

SIR,—Since much of the world's great literature is concerned with por- traying human frailty, surely Messrs. Gordon Samuels and Burns arc unreasonable in asking a literary paper...

of butterflies (which is my experience) in some places and the multitude in others. The only common experience is that Clouded Yellows made a late but general and generous...

successional growths, has two rows of peas that flowered too late to bear fruit. He has cut them down and confidently expects that they will produce earliest possible Peas next...

much in the news, owing to their development of pernicious habits. Here is a new example of the worst of the habits. The scene is the interior of the dome of Haileybury Chapel....

' all administration of a recently-discovered drug which destroys is sexual feeling is being ordered by courts up and down the country as a punishment in homosexual cases....

SIR,—In his review of Mrs. Margaret Cole's symposium on the Webb& your reviewer seems to imply that the London School of Economics is no longer the home purely of " facts and...

SOME odd contrasts are to be seen this November. We have had with at least their normal severity the first stiff frosts, that have blackened and wilted the vegetable marrows,...

with man seems to be general. Here is another lamentation (from York) for the losses they inflict: "For about six weeks blue tits have been coming into the children's bedroom...

Yeats: The Man and the Masks. By Richard Ellmann. (Macmillan 21s.) THE portrait of Yeats painted in this book by Professor Ellmann is one which will scarcely be recognised by...

Cosmo Cantuar: " REMEMBER always," said Mrs. Randall Davidson when the Arch- bishop of York one day at Lambeth had been talking intimately about religion, " remember always...

THE purpose of this Mass Observation Survey is succinctly described as that of " discovering just why people read newspapers, how far they are influenced by them and exactly...

Henry Ireton. By Robert W. Ramsey. (Longmans, Green. 15s.) IT is appropriate that a biography of Henry Ireton should appear in this, the tercentenary, year of the execution of...

The Two Impostors. By Daniele Vare. (John Murray. 18s.) THE two impostors arc Triumph and Disaster, but they seem far away from this charming yet singularly shapeless book. It...

A Religious Rebel. Edited by Logan Pearsall Smith. (Nisbet. 10s. od THE rebel is Logan Pearsall Smith's mother, about whom those wh, have read his Unforgotten Years know a good...

Draynflete Revealed. By Osbert Lancaster. (Murray. 8s. 6d.) THESE ingenious books all depend largely on illustrations for their success, and they have in common the wish to...

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A Fearful Joy. By Joyce Cary. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) 8s. 64.1.) Time is so Short. By Parr Cooper. (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.) MR. JOYCE CARY goes from strength to strength, and...

FOR hundreds of years " true " ghost stories have been part of the underworld or demi-monde of religious literature ; today they have prudently attached themselves to the...

By CUSTOS THE Stock Exchange has a habit of looking well ahead, and in its assessment of the position of Mr. J. Arthur Rank's Odeon group of companies it has clearly...