C OLONIAL unrest is such a familiar phenomenon these th a days that we feel no surprise when we read in the papers irigt Yet another British colony or protectorate is demand- ni...

I -1 ROM No. 10 Downing Street the order is going forth : 4 Remember Tonbridge ! Had a few hundred more Govern- ment supporters abstained, they would have caused the bi ggest...

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BY RICHARD ROVERE New A T the moment, some thirty-six hours after the firs 6 riannouncement that the President was suffering an intestinal disorder, the political situation...

T HE report of the Medical Research Council's committee on the hazards to man of nuclear and allied radiation is r 1 document which is only reassuring in a limited sense. It is...

T HIS week has brought significant news from both East and West. From America President Eisenhower's re- moval4o hospital and subsequent operation must in one se nse have...

THE RESULT in the Minnesota primary election means the end of AO Stevenson as a presidential candidate . . . the Democrats will /la ve to look elsewhere for their standard...

By HENRY FAIRLIE T HE dismissal of the Standard workers may not be, the most difficult problem • facing Mr. Iain Macleod, bdt it is the most immediate. In his reply to the...

has come back to real life with a slightly dazed feeling that he has enjoyed himself. 'Fabulous' may be an adjective that is overdone nowa- days, but it fits this yacht, just as...

successful operation, by a member of the medical profession, that it is possible actually to improve expectation of life by removing a portion of the intestines. The next thing...

Joynson-Hicks, I am reminded of a,pamphlet that clue wrote shortly after he had left the Home Office, and become Viscount Brentford. Do We Need a Censor? was Published in the...

of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents, taxes me with being one- sided in my criticism last week of the Federation, concerning its treatment of Hulton's Sunday Star. if...

MOST MPS MAY BE SATISFIED with Mr. Maudling's explanation Of the Government's action in the case of Mr. Lang, but that Is no reason why the rest of us should be anything but...

for ensuring that a private individual in private employment Was deprived of his job. What is intolerable is that the private Individual should have no genuine right of appeal....

'Thrust and counter-thrust continue over the existence and authenticity of the Casement diaries. Till the Home Office admits both—as in time it must—may 1 be permitted to give...

BY ROBERT BLAKE T HI3 civil servants who govern the Home Office have managed to render their department by far thas most notorious in the country for general asininity and...

BY D. W. BROGAN S WINBURNE said that Tennyson's Idylls of the King ought to have been called Norte d'Albert' and some such irreverent thought overcame me as I read Mr. Pusey's...

By MORAY McLAREN T HE most embarrassing sounds that can be made by the human voice in these islands are from (a) a Scot trying, and failing, to speak 'high English,' (b) an...

By GLYN E. DANIEL T T this time of the year a middle-aged man's fancy turns to thoughts of travel and, eagerly, as from Easter to Whitsun the bookshops restock with current...

I notice the national love of gardening. Cacti look rather out of date in 'contempor- ary' rooms and people forget how much they like tele- vision in their joy at welcoming rain...

IVE a dog a bad name and hang him,' says the proverb. The curious thing is that until compara- tively recent times dogs, and other animals as well, used to be hanged for their...

SIR, May I offer a reply to your note on ti publication of the new Sunday Star, as You r comment, one-sided as it is, gives a wrong le pression of the facts, which, stated...

SIR,—As a young man, I was for some years a leader writer on a well-known, and still respected, Liberal newspaper. One night our Berlin correspondent, having, I suppose, nothing...

coming from to pay for the Peopl es League full-page advertisements in the press it is curious that he did not ask when putting a number of other questions to me on the tele'...

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MR. WOODROW WYATT'S Child's Guide le Middle East Oil in Panorama on MonclaY was as sound a piece of simplification as tele' vision has given us. Mr. Wyatt has n either the...

SIR, —May I assure your correspondent, Mr. Howard Marten, and your readers in general that the redesignation of third class as 'second class' on British Railways does not imply...

Crystals of Sculpture HERBERT 4AD'S novel The Green Child ends with a description of an imaginary country, some of whose inhabitants spend their lives either in the making of...

place on July 20, 1944, when Coun Stauffenberg attempted to' assassinate Hitle and a group of his friends tried to seize poWe in Berlin. We have all, I suppose, been bored by...

a Soldier at the Festival Hall last week was not ideal. The engagement of. Peter Ustinov and Sir Ralph Richardson was a box-office success but an artistic mistake. It was a...

THE southern half of Europe has evolved its own pattern of provincial life—each country varying, but with a terrible rough homogeneity about it that rainy northerners like...

WHAT have the Hungarians got that has not been shown by previous visiting troupes from China. Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, ani. other prodigious exporters of cultural ideas?...

.1 1112. FAMILY REUNION. By T. S. Eliot. (Phccn lyis play is sometimes said to be T. S. Flint's best. Certainly it is one of his most i nteresting attempts. While suffering from...

JUNE 18, 1831 THERE: was a very confident. rumour on Tues- day, that Prince LEOPOLD had accepted of the proffered crown of Belgium, non obstante the question of boundary. . ....

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SERVANT OF THE COUNTY. By Margaret Cole. (Dennis Dobson, 15s.) l i !'s+ the-late Mr. Sidney Webb married the late Mrs. Sidney i i :° 1 ) he gave her a ring. According to H. G....

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LENNOX COOK'S The Lucky Man (Collins, 12s. 6d.), a first Dac I, is something it would be pleasant to meet more often—a (mare or less) proletarian novel written without social...

THIS book concerns women in the early Mediterranean civilisa- tions and describes their lives and appearance from Neolithic to Roman times. It is both erudite and delightful,...

FOR some time Dr. Edith Summerskill has been campaigning 1 01 the abolition of boxing; she has spoken in the House of Commons' sat on committees and written articles for the...

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A supply of greenstuff requires some plan- ning and successional sowings to ensure enough young plants to stock the plot. Brussels sprouts should be planted out now as well as...

Davy Crockett, if he was indeed half the man they claim he was, must be turning in his grave to have as his memorial so many moth- eaten skins worn on the heads of small boys....

THIS learned work, Some Aspects and Prob- lems of London Publishing between 1550 and 1650, by Sir W. W. Greg (Clarendon Press, 21s.), is a reprint of the Lyell Lectures...

'Man, I heard the fire engine goin' through the village like an express train with the bell ringing and I said, "Well, it gives them some- thin' to do with all that gear they...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT How many people realise that this country is now, economically, in decline? It would be difficult to discover it in the official statistics. Last week the...

BY CUSTOS THE best course for the bewildered investor is to forget the stock markets for a time until a clearer and brighter light is thrown on the outlook. Our economic policy...

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discovered various lines of prose which had the familiar five-foot iambic cadence. This prompts me to offer the usual prize of six guineas for a sonnet, or up to 14 lines of...

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