vv HAT is the exact purpose of the complaints in the British Press that Mr. Dulles is seeking, too deter- minedly and too urgently, united action among the Western Powers in the...

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A "leak " by newspaper columnists is obviously not the best first source of the news that Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer has been suspended from the United States advisory com-...

It has taken some months for General Zahedi's regime to put itself into a position to brave the extreme nationalists in Persia and open negotiations on the Persian oil industry....

Britons who are prepared, to spend their lives in the hot and thankless task of helping underdeveloped countries are still needed and are hard to come by. They are needed not...

convinced that the Government had laid no such trap it will be more bitter- than ever. Was there a certain note of satisfaction in the des- cription by the European Electors'...

Two hundred and fifty years ago Queen Anne granted a barter which raised the ancient town of Dunkeld in Perthshire ° the dignity of a royal burgh. But for lack of funds Dunkeld...

T HE Easter recess offers Parliament a necessary break for reflection and re-invigoration. It has been a long period of the session since Christmas (Easter having fallen late...

If the Coventry City Council's melodramatic announcement that it. is "a waste of public time and money to carry on with the civil defence committee" made the Home Secretary...

. HE Easter message—of a world redeemed from sin and God and man at one—may seem this year in startling , ontrast to the news of the latest destructive inventions. In fact, the...

championship; seven Scottish miners have accepted an invita- tion to spend three weeks in the Chinese coal-fields; the Soviet Military Attaché has been allowed to watch a cloth-...

Expounding to the House of Assembly his project for the incorporation of Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechuanaland in South Africa, Dr. Malan is reported to have said: "The...

vvards, villainy will often behave as you show you expect p Ira to behave. If you show that you respect him and expect 01 M to behave like a gentleman, his conduct will...

be a !ing instructional films which show the principal performers Weddings and baptisms what will be expected of them „"en the ceremonies are performed. He says that they save...

another Government to a serious situation for which it holds t he second Government responsible, "serious situation" is generally a euphemism for something which, in any...

There is almost certain to be trouble ahead for a craft or profession when, in the journal devoted to its interests, the Situations Vacant" outnumber very heavily the...

at Berlin on February 18th provides the diplomatic basis for the Geneva conference. Although attendance of both Peking and the North Korean puppet government is envisaged, the...

1 4 OLIVER STEWART T HE quality which gives importance to the three de Havilland Comet accidents in which passengers have been killed is their mysteriousness. The Comet compares...

A T the military airport at Hanoi at 7 ,a.m. to wait for a plane on the shuttle service to Dien Bien Phu, the great entrenched camp on the Laos border, which is meant to guard...

Barbara Hepworth. (Whitechapel Gallery.) BRITAIN Leads the World in Sculpture: an absurd and disgusting thing. to say. But nowadays, when all the arts are expected to Boost for...

THEATRE 'Marching Song. By John Whiting. (St. Martin's.)—Hippo Dancing. By Robert Morley. (Globe.) JOHN WHITING'S new play starts from a good situation: a general from a...

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the female starling is being used to frighten these birds from timber. It seems a wonderful device and like all good ideas it is something astonishingly simple. Perhaps — the...

As I crossed the fence a curlew rose and went calling and complaining over the hill. I thought very little about it until the second bird rose and then I began to consider a...

raised under a sheet of glass, it is a good plan to prepare the bed in which they will eventually be planted out. This , should be situated in a sunny place. I find it helps to...

The Long Long Trailer. (Empire.) and Mr. Arnaz talk in an anguished escapist way about a book which has been turned into a movie—both of them so scared they have no notion of...

JANINE OIARRAT has always something to say and a worthwhile way of saying it, so it is no surprise that the programmes she is presenting at the Stoll Theatre contain more of...

much of what your contributor, Stephen Toulmin, has to say on the subject of Doing With Fewer Science Teachers '; and it may be hoped that the Committee of Investigation into...

interesting and important questions, anti I should like to comment on a few of them. His view that a wider syllabus and less intensive specialisation are desirable in the upper...

l 'oulmin says, nobody seems to know what to o about the shortage of science teachers. Government and industry have certainly Woken up to the value of scientific research; but...

Winchester Assizes has left the public with an unconr fortable feeling of perplexity. Considering ourselves in duty bound tO accept the jury's verdict (however divergent it may...

It may well be worthwhile to make a further attempt, and if there is a promising demand for accommodation in residential clubs such as is indicated, steps would be taken further...

SIR,—Your comments in a recent issue of the Spectator on Mr. Markezinis's resignation seem to have been influenced by the intensive, and formerly unusual in Greek political...

SIR,—I hope you will allow me to thank the many correspondents who have hastened to correct my ignorance of the origin o f the Ballantyne nicknames. Some referred ine to...

John Betjeman for the article Selling Our Churches.' As members for many years of St. Peter's, Piccadilly, congregation, we are shocked and horrified to learn that an offer of...

have entrusted to me the task of writing his biography. I shall accordingly be grateful for any letters which his friends and acquaintances may be kind enough to let me see,...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION NO. 215 Report by Geoffrey Caston The mediaeval guilds were in the habit of demanding from initiates subscription to an oath setting out briefly the...

addresses, his beautiful and dignified services and music, is now added deep sympathy for him in his— and our—irreparable loss.—Yours faithfully, S. ITORWELL Riverside Cottage,...

I WANT to express my gratitude to Miss Pamela Hansford Johnson for her essay on 'Looking At Words' in a ,, recent Spectator. The threat to the future of English literature from...

1 - dont tine . . . douteuse." The object of the exercise is not xplained. We never learn what obscure correlations , . what dices of social trend, what bases for prediction,...

By C. B. RICKS (Ballioi College, Oxford) N the army you don't so much meet people as gradually come to know them. A face grows distinct from all the others, and you see it in...

By STEPHEN TOULMIN I N the history of recent British philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead stands quite alone. As a metaphysician, he had no direct ancestors, nor any effective...

Iv ' R. ROBERT LIDDELL'S account of the islands of the Aegean is !herough, delightful and informative. It will please not only Plose who are lucky enough to be able to follow in...

'THE Epic' is such a vague category, that anybody discussing it seriously and at length, as the Master of Jesus does in this volume, must define what he means by it. For Dr....

• Avec la Pompadour, • Faut toujours porter d'amour. • Avec la Dubarry Faut toujours parler du prlx. . . . • and all the ladies had two lines each. It is a pity that royal...

Turgenev: A Life. By David Magarshack. (Faber. 25s.) It was, in many ways, an eventful enough life, though no man of irhagination bore more passively the extremes of emotional...

t „ ERE was not much argument about it during the war—visits to le 0 Ps by performers of one sort or another, especially by girl r e cteers, were a good thing. It could be...

THE four novels under review have so many threads in common that they might form a tapestry. A prominent character in the first Is a doctor with a weak heart, and its heroine...

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printed. The solution and the names of the published in the Solution must winners will be Across 11. "No man was more when he had not a nen in his hand " (Dr. Johnson). (7.)...

the sterling prices of metals since the beginning of the year, to which my colleague drew attention two weeks ago, should improve the prospects of AMALGAMATED METAL CORPORATION....

but added tha' it was difficult to recommend the sale of 1 ; stock yielding 6 per cent. which wont° probably improve with Wall Street. T1, facts have since emerged which _ion!'...

By CUSTOS THERE was a tendency to take profits before the Easter holidays—some nervous people always expect another ivar to start while the Stock Exchange is closed . — but the...

INVESTMENT By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN admiration and respect for the work of the General Council of the TUC I am second to none but 1 am bound to say that their objection to...