Mr. John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser on foreign affairs to President Truman, gaye a number of clear indications that he felt very pleased with his recent visit to Japan,...

The Governor of the Gold Coast had clearly no alternative but to release Mr. Nkrumah and his colleagues who were in gaol for sedition ; he should, none the less, be...

A DETERMINED counter-attack, launched against the centre of the United Nations* front in Korea and pre- sumably aimed at the communication-centre of Wonju. has made a lot of...

It might have been thought that the ultimate depth of irony had been reached when, in the Commons last week, the Govern- ment received what was in effect a vote of confidence in...

There is no doubt about the stature of Mr. Nehru as a world- figure. Partly circumstances and partly his own political sagacity and ability have made him that. For that reason...

It is a devastating comment on the Government's attitude to the rearmament programme, in which steel must inevitably be the key material, that nobody knows what is going to...

When men with such essentially similar outlooks on affairs as MM. Pleven and Schuman, Signor de Gasperi and Count Sforza get together in conference, emerging only from time to...

M R. ATTLEE is a more complex being than many people suppose. He introduced his speech in Monday's debate on foreign affairs by saying he had just visited Mr. Bevin. This...

There is not the slightest sign of a stable settlement of the existing dock disputes. On Merseyside, where the strike which began on February 2nd still continues, the original...

The basic truth that the right way to get more money is to work harder is not one which commends itself automatically to trade unions engaged, as so many are at the moment, in...

of Commons on Monday was inseparably associated with the defence debate on Wednesday and Thursday, for virtually all the Issues immediately arising in the field of foreign...

in' the English language has elicited a number of suggestions. The first two places go by common consent to Boswell's " Johnson " and Lockhart's "Scott ": the third, less...

let anyone make any mistake about that. A veteran! English author, as result of an advertisement by a New Yorkf literary agent, sent the agent in question an article to be...

T HE unsuccessful action brought by St. David's College, Lampeter, against the Ministry of Education in the endeavour to prove that the college was of university status raises...

the Lord Chief Justice on Tuesday, with four other Judges concurring, is to leave this perennial problem in as profoundly unsatisfactory a state as before. The question was...

the fatal fire which took place in an express train near Beattock in Dumfriesshire last June raises serious problems for British Railways, for it involves a balance between...

By J. M. COHEN 0 NE day last week, in the Court of Probate, judgement was pronounced in the case-of the Coghlan millions, which have made headlines on at least four occasions...

By SH1ELA GRANT DUFF T HE fact that Czechoslovakia, alone of the East European satellites, was allowed to send a note to the Western Powers supporting the Russian view on the...

By WARREN POSTBRIDGE Cs ROM that hour the fever left her, and she arose and walked, glorifying God." The words have a familiar ring. Peter's wife's mother, most people who...

By A COUNTRY DOCTOR T HE world's biggest economic problem is how to meet ever- increasing demands for food and raw materials. Despite fertilisers, tractors, combine harvesters...

By HAROLD N1COLSON F OREIGNERS deride us for being sentimental about animals. If they were to examine the matter more closely they would discover that it is not so much...

The Swedish Ballet. (Princes Theatre.)—The Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. (Sadler's Wells.) THE Swedish Ballet company, making its London debut on Monday night, showed itself...

Our Very Own." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.)--44 The s3th Letter." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—“Cesar." (Curzon.) Our Very Own is a domestic picture, the function of which is...

To say anything new about The Consul a week after the first night is a forlorn hope. The truth is just what presented itself to the universal first-nighter, and was being...

and in odd ways. Last year 1 corseted a row of Irish yews, binding them at intervals of two feet with bands of thick wire hidden along the foliage. This keeps them slim, and...

MESSRS. AGNEW mark the centenary of Turner's birth, which falls later in the year, with a loan exhibition of more than a hundred water-colours—the proceeds to be devoted to the...

ONE of the compensations, if they be needed, of living intensely within a small area of activities and connections is the enlargement of our powers of perceiving and...

and so violent that one would expect to find the countryside swept clean of all movable objects, includ- ing the fragile left-overs from a vanished summer. But while driving...

53 Set by Alan Wykes A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for an extract (in not more than 250 words) from the 16-page letter which Mr. Footer wrote to Mr....

Report by Yvette Sheringham Incertitude, 4 uses delkes Vous et moi nous nous en allons Comme s'en tout les ecrevisses, A reculons, a recIIICIIS. GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE. A...

Sta.—May I be allowed to raise an eyebrow at the curious divagations which obscure Mr. Tynan's notice of The Gay Invalid. If a critic dislikes a piece, three targets merit his...

SIR,—In your note of February 2nd you refer to the dispute in some engineering firms, here on Wcarside and elsewhere, about the increase in wages negotiated by the unions for...

SIIL—In your issue of February 9th you say that Dr. Clementis "could never be suspected of any real enthusiasm for Communism." Vladimir Clementis was one of the leaders of a...

Britain's Peace Aims Sta,—May I congratulate you ,on being, I believe, the first paper actually to advocate and set out some positive peace aims for Britain. Until this country...

define more closely—if such a thing is possible—what it is that " it is essential to defend," this being the crux of the whole matter. In the context the words "this democratic...

SIR,—Christians should do their utmost by prayer and sacrifice for peace. But when it is suggested (after mentioning the name of, G. K. Chesterton of all peopfe) that unilateral...

remarks that "no previous poll has been anything like as favourable to the Conservatives as this." This is not the case. The recent poll showed 51 per cent. supporting the...

SIR. —May I, as chairman of the Kingston arid Malden Victoria Hospital, endorse the letter from Dr. E. C. Warner in your issue of February 9th. It is not surprising that Mr....

SIR.—I am being shifted back from the tiny island of Carriacou to Grenada (one of the Windward Islands), and I feel I must write you a line, if you will allow me. For some happy...

SIR,—Janus is wrong in supposing that a railway journey from Oxford to Cambridge need involve a tong wait at Bletchley. A through train (no corridor) leaves at a reasonable hour...

Mr. Disraeli's motion, on the unequal load of taxation borne by the owners and occupiers of land, engaged the House of Commons for two nights. Mr. Disraeli struggled with almost...

T HIRTY years ago I knew Hudson personally, and devoured nearly all his books with the voracity of a larval ichneumon fly. Followed a long interval when I scarcely read him at...

A Concise Dictionary of English Idioms. By William Freeman. (English Universities Press. 8s. 6d.) Too many books upon the art of achieving good English have been written either...

The Nips Long The Imperial Way. By Hanama Tasaki. (Gofiance.. las. 6d.) Tills is an account of what happened to, and within, one squad (we would call it a section) in a...

,Chekhov. A Biographical and Critical Study. By Ronald Hingley. (George Allen & Unwin. 2 is.) ,Chekhov. A Biographical and Critical Study. By Ronald Hingley. (George Allen &...

IF Dr. Johnson was right and no sensible man ever wrote except for money, the wisest and most successful of them are surely those who have written for a great deal of money, the...

Peacocks in Paradise. By Elisabeth Inglis-Jones. (Faber. 18s.) THE reign of George III was prolific of private Elysiums, but few of them played as large a part in the cultural...

SINCE pure relief, the pleasure of the story that stops at the point that gives the happy ending, is never ours in the intellectual novel of today, what delights, we may justly...

least interesting portion of this very. interesting book is the portion to which the author himself appears to attach most Importance, that dealing with the principles and...

and Alan Hodge. January, 1951; February, 195!. (2s. 6d. each.) ArrEssrrs by editors or publishers to set out the aims and objects of their publica- tions usually make painful...

Cinderella of Europe: Spain Explained. By Sheila M. O'Callaghan. (Skeffington. 1 2S. 6d.) WHAT is it about Spain that makes the English—and, alas, the Irish—lose their heads ?...

Der SS-Staat, that remarkable study of the concentration camps under Hitler. The Nazi concentration camp pro- vided a particular and dreadful aspect of National Socialism,...

be wrong to demand originality from a history of the novel. The facts are legion, but most of them have been mar shalled, and when the newcomers ha..e fallen in, it only remains...

-.By CUSTOS IT is scarcely surprising that markets have appeared to lose a little momentum this week, but, apart from gilt edged, they have held impressively firm. Steel vesting...

The winner of Crossword No. 612 is Hiuu.sH Wrtyra, Esq., 14 Muirfleld Crescent. p ander .

(A Book Token for one gumea will be awarded to she sender of the first correct solution of slut week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, February 27th....