The United Nations Palestine Commission has returned to its complaints against the British Government. In the main they arc no more than one aspect in the game of " passing the...

A good deal of wasted energy has gone into calculating the probable numerical strengths of the parties as a result of next Sunday's general election in Italy. Whatever figures...

I T has been clear for some time that the continuous Russian action to impede essential communications between Berlin and Vienna and the West takes its place in a deliberate...

The examination of the Budget falls naturally into three stages. In the first, individuals seize upon its particular application to them- selves. This stage is now over, with...

These are crucial days in the .building of the administrative struc- ture of the European Recovery Programme. The setting up of the organisation for European Economic...

The victory gained by the advocates of the abolition of capital punishment for murder in the House of Commons on Wednesday was more decisive than the figures, 245 against 222,...

Mr. Marshall has identified last week's revolt in Colombia as a - manifestation of Communist world policy. If it had not been for his statement it would have been right to take...

The debate in the House of Lords last week on National Parks produced a useful and comprehensive discussion. The speeches as a whole served to emphasise the difficulty which any...

the present Parliament the week's business has started with a Private Notice Question and Ministerial answer arising out of some fresh outrage in Palestine. Monday added the...

It was no doubt an accidental coincidence that, in the past week, dissatisfaction with the present position of management in industry should have been expressed by three bodies...

A NNIVERSARIES are empty things in themselves, but they can sometimes be singularly opportune: Nothing could be more consonant with the scheme of things than the fact that the...

in the House of Lords on National Parks, of a country code, aiming at encouraging decent conduct in the countryside as the Highway Code encourages—and I think...

I am glad that Mr. Strachey expressed himself emphatically in the House of Commons on Monday when he was questioned about the action of Rules' Restaurant in Maiden Lane in...

House of Commons on Wednesday caused serious dissatisfaction both inside and outside the Labour Party—particularly inside it. A clear undertaking had been given by the...

Dr. toad and his unpaid railway fare are almost subject for a psychological study. What on earth could have induced him to declare four times that he had only travelled from...

the doctors are on the way to settlement. The Minister's statement on basic salary and other points has changed the whole atmosphere, and the interview between him and the...

HAVE rarely attended a ceremony that turned out so unqualified I a success as the unveiling of the Roosevelt statue on Monday. The weather, of course, made an immense...

By C. M. FRANZERO Rome. H ERE in Rome it is difficult to believe that Italy is on the eve of the most important election in her history. Moving through the sunny streets, eating...

By W. H. EDWARDS W HEN the North-West German Radio Network announced that General Sir Brian Robertson intended to make an im- portant statement on policy it a session of the...

By C. M. WOODHOUSE E VEN before the so-called "rape of Czechoslovakia " it was often and publicly argued that the technique of expansion used by the U.S.S.R. was a repetition of...

By D. STURGE MOORE T HERE has recently been a small spate of cartoons in the French Press all inspired by the same theme. Here, for instance, you see that honest shopkeeper, M....

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. T HE most exciting moment at a theatre is when loose folds in the curtain tighten just before the first act. So, too, with football. The first...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I N the nineteenth century Cabinet Ministers and their staffs had time -to write the Queen's English. The more arrogant depart- ments, such as the Treasury...

AT the London Contemporary Music Centre's concert on April 13th Elizabeth Hoengen sang the fifteen songs of Schonberg's op. 15 settings from Stefan George's Das Buch der...

THE THEATRE "Little Lambs Eat Ivy." By Noel Langley. (Ambassadors.) LADY SUCKERING has those characteristics which on the stage are usually associated with the Irish. She is...

" The Murderers are Amongst Us." (Academy.) " Miranda." (Odeon.)—" Three Weird Sisters." (New Gallery.) . 1T is ten years since a German picture has been shown on an English...

A year or two ago it was regarded as a mild jest when the curing of fruit-tree maladies by pills was recommended. Today the method is well established ; is almost normal. The...

THE lines of his young face Stained by brief April tears Show how love's features thrust Up from the long-dead years, And in his eyes I trace The resurrected dust ; The same...

SUBSCRIPTION RATES :- 52 weeks. 26 weeks. s. d. s. d. Great Britain and Overseas by ordinary mail 1 10 0 15 0 Air Mail to Members of the Forces in any part of the World ......

H.M.V. have issued two remarkable recordings of classical violin concertos : Beethoven's played by Menuhin with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Furtwangler, and Brahms's by...

Hudson, the greatest of the Jefferies school, was celebrated in London last week by an Anglo- Argentine group. It should have been attended by Miss Nancy Price, who on the same...

; and though opinions differ abruptly on his merit as a writer there is no doubt that he started a school of thought almost in the Wordsworth manner. By way of celebration the...

APRIL beyond all question is the most exciting, the fullest, of months for any naturalist, especially for those interested in bird migration ; and so far as swallow and cuckoo...

SIR, —The adoption of the Marshall Plan by Congress and the discussions on the future of Germany between the Western Allies make it appropriate to survey the German scene....

SIR, —It would be very helpful for many of us here in the United States if certain matters regarding gift parcels could be clarified. I and many of my friends send parcels...

g , POWER BEHIND UN.0." S> May I be allowed to express my warm agreement with Dr. Garnett's letter in your issue of the 9th instant ? The danger of an outbreak of war seems to...

SIR, —Surely the facility of Louis XVIII, Sir Isaac Isaacs (and other persons) to state the day of the week on which an event occurred in an earlier year has nothing to do...

Others go even further and complain when Englishmen in England criticise the attitude of their compatriots to events in Czecho- slovakia, Yet these same people are the first to...

Sra,—While searching for Byroniana in the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse I came across what is obviously the original story which Byron distilled and refined into Beppo. In a...

Sm,—Representatives of political refugees from Czechoslovakia have formed a relief committee in London. Czechoslovakia has once more fallen victim to brute force, her freedom...

" British workers would never make war on the Soviet Union," and certain evening papers' here have added that "Russia possesses the atom bomb," a piece of information I could...

SIR,--Mr. Warren Postbridge states in his article on a fixed Easter that the Act dealing with this matter passed through the Houses in 1928 without a division. This is not quite...

SIR,—A campaign to rally Christians to positive action in support of the Union of Western Europe in order that it may be directed along Christian lines, and to encourage them,...

SIR,—I have been a frequenter of Rule's Restaurant in Maiden Lane for twenty years, off and on. Recently its proprietor refused admittance to a West African gentleman. The...

SIR,—The Spectator in its issue of April 2nd sends a message of congratu- lation and good wishes to The Statesman, the well-known Calcutta and Delhi daily ; and in this...

Surely everyone would prefer it to be so, though I feel that the contributor did not go as deep as he might have done. If one section of Christendom decided to keep to the old...

SIR,—In reply to the letter from "Parent and Taxpayer " in which he complains of his inability to gain admission for his children to a State secondary school through lack of...

Snt,—May I, a member of the teaching profession, say how much I welcomed Mr. Garrett's article in last week's issue of The Spectator. After the prominence given in the Press...

The Unfortunate Traveller. By Thomas Nashe. Illustrated and In- troduced by Michael Ayrton. (John Lehmann. 15s.) The Unfortunate Traveller is a work of extraordinary power and...

Brief Chronicle The Second World War : a Short History. By Cyril Falls. (Methuen. 15s.) WE had to wait until 1934 for anything like a satisfactory brief account of the First...

THE association in the popular mind between capitalism and un- employment is understandably—one might almost •say deservedly— strong. Historically the two go together ;...

M. JgRoME CARCOPINO, a member of the Institute, and in France at the moment without doubt the greatest authority on Roman history, has just published a book of enormous...

The Short Stories. By E. M. Forster. (Sidgwick and Jackson. 10s. 6d.) MR. FoesrEe's short stories need no long introduction. Published before the first world war, they have...

THE opening sentence of Mr. Ransome's introduction says that "Sailing Alone Round the World is one of the immortal books." That may be so, but, like Mahan, another great...

ONE taps, as a matter of course, at the barometer of contemporary fiction in the hall. No change. For years now, it seems, it has been stuck at the same place—somewhere...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be =voided to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week April 27th. Envelopes...

The winner of Crossword No. 471 is Miss E. M. OLNEY, Eastcote, Nr. Towcester, Northants.

By CUSTOS " GOOD FOR GILT-EDGED" , would have been my verdict on Sir Stafford Cripps's Budget if there had been no levy on investment income. How else could the Stock Exchange...