It will be interesting to see whether Mr. Gromyko will follow, at the Japanese Treaty Conference at San Francisco on Septem- ber 4th, the Russian precedent of 1945, when the...

It is a little late in the day to suggest that the engineering unions' decision to ask for a pay increase which would add £125,000,000 to the annual wage bill has broken the dam...

T HE greatest difficulty which faces Mr. Stokes in Tehran is the deep conviction among many Persian nationalists that any agreement with Britain is automatically undesir- able....

The assumption, on which the United Nations' case at the Kaesong negotiations rests, that the Chinese genuinely desire an armistice, has not come nearer to proof in the past...

In India the contradictions between Congress as a popular crusade and as a political party have never been properly resolved. Even in the days before the war, when an attempt...

The dislike of the Commonwealth sugar producers for the new trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Cuba can hardly have been inspired by a desire for more and freer...

Will the Government that M. Pleven has at last formed, with the aid of useful majorities in the French Assembly, succeed in governing France? If it does, it will have achieved a...

T HE reports of the Communist Youth Rally now in pro- gress in East Berlin provide food for serious reflection. In spite. of various hitches, inevitable where so vast an...

about the Boscobel Oak celebration (to commemorate the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester) appeared in The Times it was obvious that the Cromwellians would be...

about the Nazarene College (Tottenham, London, N.15), which gives diploma-degrees in Psychotherapy, Metaphysics and Associated Sciences (are psychotherapy and metaphysics...

I AVING been abroad when most of the reviews of Mr. Churchill's latest volume appeared, I am not sure how much attention has been paid to the passage in which he deals with the...

The question is inspired by the statement that whereas, when the Cambridge University Library—that striking piece of modern architecture across the river—was completed in 1934,...

a paragraph alleging that "Britain is now in a position to test its first atom bomb in Australia." That may or may not be so ; I don't profess to know ; and if I did know I...

" by Dr. M. V. Wilkes in last week's Spectator will hardly be surprised at the official announcement that " the Trustees of the Nuffield . Foundation have made a grant of...

By LAIN COLQUHOUN LA ST week, at the Infantry School on Salisbury Plain, the Army and the E.M.2—the new British service rifle—staged a convincing demonstration in favour of the...

By D. W. BROGAN FTER the . First World War it was discovered that members of a Chicago baseball team had agreed to " throw " the World Series for the benefit of a gambling ring....

By LORD TWEEDSMUIR B EFORE the war I had the good fortune to see something of that strange being who was known as " Grey Owl.' He lived beside a little lake in the forests of...

By CANON ROGER LLOYD . - T HE Church of England is a very old institution, but never before in all its history has it had to deal with a Welfare State. We need to take fresh...

By RONALD W. CLARK F EW armies of modern times can have experienced in a mere seventy months such radical changes in function, personnel, day-to-day life and morale as those...

By ANGELA THIRKELL A LETTER Was published not long ago in that most respectable organ which I will call The Thunderer, noted for the large square article in the top right-hand...

readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold copies are...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I WAS reading this week one of the short articles which M. Georges Duhamel from time to time contributes to the Figaro. I always enjoy reading M. DiThamel,...

verse play Mr. Nicholson dwells lovingly on a Cumberland dale in which, long after the great atomic war which has destroyed European ciflisation, a simple pastoral community is...

revival of the Fairy Queen, and Goffredo Petrassi's Partita was not given after all on August 6th, as Sir Malcolm Sargent was unable to conduct. The novelties that I have heard...

a Fires of Midsummer Eve." ' By Hermann Sudermann. (Embassy.) Tim play is a good deal more important nowadays than the player. Nevertheless, there are a few players one would...

CINEMA a Murder Inc." (London Pavilion.) - 4, The Golden. Horde." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.)----A , An American in Paris." (Empire, Sunday.) IN Murder Inc., a piece of...

HE was called variously satanic, gross, bestial, vicious and crapulous, but . Toulouse-Lautrec—the ." little monster "—was, according to Tristan Bernard, simply a completely...

IN most ways the Salzburg Festival is now the result of an Austro-' German cultural union, yet it is still largely a celebration of Austrian music and theatre. In front of the...

THE CONFUSION OF THE RAILWAY Although we are fully aware that the demands of the traffic on the pribcipaL railways often exceed the means of meeting them fairly, we are...

Report by E. W. Fordham Walter Bagehot said : " A man's mother Is his misfortune : his wife is his fault." A prize of f5 was offered for three new epigrams on domestic...

Set by R. S. Stanier A prize of f5, which may be divided, is offered for a verse translation of Catullus VIIL: Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse perditum...

Sta,—Approximately a hundred years ago Lord Macartney, while nego- tiating with the Manchu Chinese the treaty of Nanking, equally beset with thorny disputation, expressed this...

interesting criticism of my book Crisis in English Poetry, published in the Spectator of July 27th, makes a mis- statement which should be corrected. He writes that, in this...

his interesting letter, which you published in your issue of August 3rd, Mr. Hubert Williams_ raises the important question of the individual versus the State. When income tax...

The Berlin Festival Sul, —May I, as one of the non-Communist students who returned from Innsbrfick, comment on your remarks on the Berlin Festival in the Spectator of August...

Sut,—May I briefly emphasise one point in Mr. Newell's excellent article on this subject ? He says that a chorister must be " alert, resourceful and intelligent ": in my...

Slit,—Coming at a time when it is so important to keep up agricultural production at home, the Government's decision to bring to an end the agricultural cottage certificate...

Here between the arc of the Fwddog Ridge and the spur of Hatteral Hill, William de Laoy, whose family held 116 manors, came on a deer-hunt, and like St. Hubert remained to pray....

Sist,—'lire fate of the accidiosi in . Dante's Purgatorio, recalled by Mr Hogg, was unpleasant enough, but it was nothing to what happened to them in the Inferno (Canto VII) ; "...

SIR.— Before the awful moralisings of Walter Taplin die away, may I gild the lily with a simple saw.—" Twopence saved is threepence earned." And for the fortunate ones who pay...

Sic —As one who has been a constant reader of the Spectator for some sixty years might I suggest to HE., who writes the notes headed At Westminster, that his use of the word "...

that one can survive the first year it is far better to be paid in arrears than in advance. The money comes in just as regularly but it is always owed to one instead of having...

The seventeenth-century lord of Great Tew's badly restored manor was. Lucius Cary, second Viscount Falkland, of whom.J. R. Green wrote: — "a man learned and accomplished, the...

PERIODICALLY I make a pilgrimage to Great Tew in the nondescript country between the Cherwell and Evenlode Valleys. My reason is threefold—the singularity of its richly secluded...

- We stilt have our gardens. The honeysuckle begins to bloom again ; the roses open their second season ; the white salvia and frilled white daisies take the place of the Regale...

could possibly be so unapprecia- tive of Janus, and did he really write the letter ? One wonders. Janus, one suspects, leads a double life, and either Janus or the Editor, in a...

THE romantic, the highly-coloured, conception of life in, the far North implanted in the average mind by adventure stories and the films is presented here by Wasa-Wasa. The...

Donne the Outrageous IT is time that the warm enthusiasm which swept over readers of poetry in the 'twenties when confronted with Donne, and the Metaphysicals generally,...

identical purpose; to recom- mend a new definition of " liberty." Not an identical definition, but two of the same sort. Neither the Minister for Commonwealth Relations nor the...

Windsor Castle. Sir Owenjvlorshead. (Phaidon Press. 3os.) THE foundation of Windsor Castle coincides with the introduction of our royal family to England. William the Conqueror,...

THERE is an obvious case for translating Faust and Dante, as there is none for attempting Racine or the classical drama of Spain. For it is possible to bring over into English...

MR. DEDUER has not been well served by his publisher's blurb in which it is claimed that his war diary " will remain one of the great diaries of world literature," and that "...

Huskisson and His Age. By C. R. Fay. (Longman. 30$.) WILLIAM Husetssort, " Liberal-Tory statesman, has had to wait, long for a full-dress biography. lll-fated Liverpool, the...

(Duckworth. 9$.) THIS book originated in Mr. Money-Kyrle's work as a psychiatrist in the German Persionel Research Branch of the Control Commis- sion. He found there that the...

P4 R. A A roolS Llo.elmo ois4 c ol a, lui-ri A at. Ferndale, Tunbridge SOLUTION ON AUGUST 3j, The winner of Crossword No. 637 is Miss STONEMAN, S Wells. .

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of tile first correct solution opened after noon on August 28th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post...

A Short History of World War L Compiled by Sir James E. Edmonds. (Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege. 3os.) THERE could be no better guide to the First World War than...

The Wind and the Flame. By Manes Sperber. Translated by Constantine FitzGibbon. (Wingate. i s - s.) THE god that failed—for how many dispossessed liberal intellectuals, reduced...

English Legends. By Henry Bett. (Batsford. 25. 6d.) • IN this detailed chronicle of old legends, mainly in this country, Dr. Henry Bett shows that his researches into the...

By CUSTOS THIS week the Stock Exchange has witnessed the rare spectacle of a strong recovery in equity shares and a steady improvement in -- gilt-edged prices. The obvious...