General Ridgway's headquarters believe that the Chinese are about to resume the offensive in Korea. They are likely, "if they do. to deris;e some advantage from the spring...

S S time goes on, and the Peking Government shows no sign of responding to any invitation or appeal to decency, the tendency to strengthen measures against China grows. Last...

The hearings before the combined Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee have shown that at least one prophecy by General MacArthur is likely to come true. As a...

How and where insurance in any proper sense of the word began authentic history does not record. Pooling of risk, the risk, for example, of having a but burnt down, is a...

The Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg seem s to have been acquainting itself with some of the complications which arise from the diplomatic fiction that the North...

The outstanding feature of last week's municipal election re- sults was not the slight Conservative gains or the slight Labour losses, but the heavy loss sustained by the...

Mr. Glenvil Hall did not indicate what his precise target was when, in his speech at the European Assembly on Tuesday he charged other Atlantic Treaty nation, with shirking the...

T HERE has been a shift of interest in the Persian drama in the course of the past ten days. Hitherto the main question has been to discover what the Persians mean by...

one at each university, have to be filled at the same time. Today all Oxford is wondering who will be the next Warden of All Souls, and all Cambridge who will be the next Master...

by the Gloucesters in Korea, and the impressive citation in which General Van Fleet paid tribute to their heroism, is deeply moving in itself. But there is something much more...

3rd Duke of Exeter, whose remains ..were re-interred in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower last week, took much interest in the proceedings, for the Duke, who...

necessary as almost any petition—that we may have a right judgement in all things," I noted that the Prayer Book I was using had the spelling " judgment." But another I...

Art Galleries, published by H.M. Stationery Office at 2s. Admirably produced, it is precisely what its title indicates—a guide to how to get there and a guide to what to see on...

to a legacy of £40,000 if he will come and live in England, has turned down the proposition with a bang, explaining that " I don't want to be an English gentleman with nothing...

phrase about abominating your opinions but being ready to die for your right to hold them.. I am told it was first attributed to him in a volume entitled Voltaire and His...

By HERBERT AGAR R. HAROLD NICOLSON'S characteristically good- tempered criticism of Atlantic Union, in the Spectator a week or two ago, raised two questions of such im-...

By D. W. BROGAN A CONSTITUTION, the Constitution, is at the moment under fire, for one of the defendants in the cause celebre now shaking the United States is the most famous of...

By TOM HOPKINSON I N the exhibition, " Masterpieces of Victorian Photography." organised by the Arts Council and on view,in the Victoria and Albert Museum, there appears a...

By IAIN COLTMOUN S TRASBOURG no longer goes en fete when the Council of, Europe is in session. The startling green flags of the European movement, with their suggestion of...

By ANNE HUTCHISON I T rained this week for three days, intermittently but heavily. Two months have passed since the last shower, almost two years since the last heavy fall....

A Hundred Not Out By LAURENCE ADKINS (Downing College, Cambridge) A WEEK ago a group of Cambridge undergraduates got together in their three-roomed office—second floor...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I AM unaware whether it be true that Mr. Bernard Baruch advised Mr. Churchill to cancel his projected visit to the United States in view of the intense...

"Payment on Demand." (Odeon.) — "The Sun Sets at Da.. (Plaza.) Payment on Demand is not one of the best films to which Miss Bette Davis has subscribed her talents, but with her...

Tate friction of twenty-eight years has rubbed some of the gold off the road to Samarkand ; but that is not to say that Flecker's entertainment is dull. Mr. Basil Dean was quick...

Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. (Sadler's Wells.) JOHN CRANKO, the active young resident choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, has just presented another new work,...

THEATRE Caesar and Cleopatra." By Bernard Shaw. (St. James's.) THE ingenious splendours of Mr. Michael Benthall's production and the admirable acting of Sir Laurence Olivier...

LITERARY PATRONAGE DEALING with " the seedy author" question in his happiest vein of satire, Mr. Thackeray has done much to accomplish his own wish, that the miserable literary...

THERE are not many new voices in this year's Ring at Covent Garden. In Rheingold Otakar Kraus sings Alberich, and his full, round, musical tone gives to the part the dignity...

Poet at the Court of the Grand Mogul. and later Poet Laureate to Abbas II. Shah of Persia ON A CANDLE GUTTERING THE Candle does not mourn the Moth Which found oblivion in her...

VOCAL. The quality of the singing in the Anthology of English Church Music (Col.) is very uneven. King's College Choir always come off well ; but there are passages in Wesley's...

Set by N. Hodgson 1951. Alice, after sleeping for 70 years, wakes up in Whitehall. A prize of £5. which may be divided, is offered for not more than 250 words of what she finds...

Report by Margaret Osborne A prize was offered for an extract from a new Essay of Elia on one of the following subjects: Shaw's Corner in Hertfordshire ; Mrs. Battle's Opinions...

men. I don't know how this stands statistically, but it is very obvious that the number of available men is heavily thinned out by systems of education which aim at making a man...

too often been chasing a Pia morgana, and in the effort to assume the position of men are imperilling their own future happiness. With great public devotion they have allowed...

SIR. —The letter from the Rev. H. J. Hammerton is so courteous, sd moderate in tone, and I so much appreciate his fair-mindedness in, sending me two copies of his own parish...

Sta.—U. Henriques states that she has noticed no inclination among the young ladies of Oxford or Cambridge to soft-pedal their femininity. I happen to be the daughter of a...

Braunton Burrows Six.—Will you allow me space in which to reply to the remarks made by Janus in your issue of May I I th, which relate to the recent enquiry on the military...

the Bible ? " May I suggest as perhaps bracketed equal with his choice of Proverbs vu the tragi-coatedy of Judges mil and xvm ? (The two chapters are one story.) The casual yet...

SIR.—Mr. Broadbent surely betrays how limited is the circle to which his haunts are confined, when he describes the indifferent standard of its surroundings. He sneers too at...

SIR,—Surely the point of the old tag, quoted (at second hand) by your Parliamentary correspondent this week is that one must " tell it to the Horse Marines "—a body of men...

Sut.—Mr. E. N. Thomson's letter in your issue of May 4th shows a spirit of rather smug self-righteousness which is bound to wound our guests from the Union of South Africa. It...

SIR,-1 was delightedly syrpersed one day recently to find entertaining a theatre queue off St. Martin's Lane, not the usual " buskers " but two young students seeking to help...

have not read Mr. Aubrey de Selincourt's new book, The Schoolmaster, and it is probable that I never shall, for in comm, .n with many others my reading time is severely limited:...

the modern insets for parish magazines but may I suggest that local pages sometimes are not worthy of the insets either in style or originality ? These qualities might easily be...

surprise at Janus's idea of "entertainment "7—Yours truly, W. R. GUEST. The Vicarage, Lankelly Lane, Fowey.

SIR.—I confess - that I can see no signs here of the dark-complexioned future Sir Evelyn Wrench fears for us, but perhaps after a winter as sunless as yours we are not at our...

Sik—Janus's Biblical references are always welcome and interesting. I agree with him that the short story in Proverbs vii is most entertaining. As one reads it, one can't help...

What is this quality ? Perhaps if we could define it we should lose it. It is a gentleness, a serenity: built is more than that. Our trees, o∎er- grown into fantastic shapes,...

I must recommend A Nature-Lover? Anthology, edited by R. M. Lockley (Witherby, 10s. 6d.), because the prose and verse chosen by thi , knowledgeable and sensitive naturalist add...

Every year at this time correspondence in the Press turns to this matter of the birds' aubade. I remarked here recently that I found the robin to be the first bird to break into...

ONE of the greatest pleasures of holidays is coming home again. Ali -r a more than usually sordid experience of the Channel crossing and passage through the Customs, I found my...

To return after a month's absence at this time of the year is to find one's garden so transformed as almost to create a touch of shyness in one's appreciative eye. For a moment...

Florence, I found a vast map-room, its walls decorated with fifteenth- and sixteenth-century conceptions of the various countries of the world into which the Medici gold had...

part of The Last Tycoon, the novel interrupted by his death, Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote : "Actidn is Character." And, indeed, portrayal of character wholly through behaviour...

Gide's Development Andre Gide: The Ethic of the Artist. By D. L. Thomas. (Seeker and Warburg. I is.) Auttiottuti Mr. Thomas's statement that "Gide is neither liked nor...

Newman's University. By Fergal McGrath. (Longman,. 305.) " ALWAYS preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud, but in none . . . here picturing a vice so as to make it...

THE essence of an exhibition is that the show of objects is to some degree organised and arranged. The motive does not matter ; the nature of the exhibits does not matter ; what...

Don Bradman. By Philip Lindsay. Maurice Tate. By. John Arlon. ANNOUNCING these "Cricketing Lives," the publishers express, under the heading of "The Great, the Noble Ones," the...

English Draw ings at Windsor Castle. By A. P. Oppd. (Phaidon. sos.) MR. OPPg has followed up his catalogbb of the Sandby drawings in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle with...

" FirrioN of an elevating character "—this haunting phrase from Sundays at Home comes to mind when opening a parcel of new novels. Will they elevate ?—it is unlikely, but, at...

English Church Architecture. By W. H. Riley. (Hodder and Stoughton. 73. 6d.) THE study of mediaeval churches involves the appreciation of a whole civilisation, so that no one...

Mill's account of his wife in his autobiography. He claimed that not only were his writings as much hers as his, but her perceptive mind " would, with her gifts of feeling and...

adult, being led through the portals of Broadcasting House must realise the widespread yearning to penetrate behind those entrancing scenes ; much more will be learned from this...

2ss.) IT is thirteen years since Stanislaysky died at the age of 75, 53 years since he and Ncmirovich - Danchenko founded the Moscow Art Theatre. He has long been recognised as...

and social services con- cerned with illegitimacy, Illegitimate Child- ren and Their Parents, has been published by the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child....

By CUSTOS AFrest their virtually non-stop rise since the Budget industrial ordinary shares have at last begun to show signs of hesitation. Wall Street's sudden spasm of weakness...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened alter noon on Tuesday week, May 29th. Envelopes...

The winner of Crossword No. 624 is The REV. J. 0. KENNEDY, St. Andrew's Rectory, Droylsden, Manchester.