Me anwhile the nearest the French have been able to come t o seizing the initiative in Laos was to drop a parachute battalion as reinforcements for the garrison of Muong Sai, a...

It is a strange thing that after sixteen months of emergency ' in Kenya so little should seem to be 'known of the real streng of Mau Mau. The mind of the Kikuyu may not be a...

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Nor did he add to his reputation by observing that the British road system is still the best in the world—a peculiarly nonsen- sical bit of patriotism. It was left to Sir...

and a possible pension conceals a danger. That danger is that men and women —obviously not of the best kind--might choose to go into politics for the sake of the money,...

Among the many notes struck in Tuesday's debate on the Supplementary Estimate of the Ministry of Food the note of horror at an appalling expenditure of public money was not...

first British ambassador there since the autumn of 1952. On the same day the party of Western oil experts who have been visiting Abadan left .Persia for London with their plans...

T is a pleasure to report this week a pretty piece of Parliamentary manoeuvre. Mr. Wigg, the Labour member for Dudley, has been trying for a week or two now to get the House to...

From the beginning of 1953 until this week, when the latest c ase of sabotage in the aircraft carrier Eagle was reported, there were eighteen cases of malicious damage in ships...

The Report of the Standing Advisory Committee on Cancer about the relationship between cancer of the lung and smoking is remarkable among other things for its caution. A...

S 0 it has been a failure, the meeting of the four Powers in Berlin. At least it has blocked the main Western aim which was to find a way of uniting Germany. An article Everest...

b There is obviously a strong case for increasing MPs' salaries . them, it is only slightly stronger than the case against increasing d .em, which rests on grounds both of...

A NOSTALGIC Imperialism has long been a guiding principle of Chinese cartography, and for many years all home-produced maps of the country have included within her boundaries...

assemblies in foreign countries in order to ° I-It how their membbrs fare included the question " What amenities are available ? " The Dutch were the only people who felt...

1926 is, of course, much longer ago than people of my generation realise. Watching The Boy Friend, Mr. Sandy Wilson's admirable pastiche of a 1926 musical comedy, which seems to...

" When you are ordering luncheon or dinner on this train," said the menu, " may we draw your attention to the interesting wines now provided at prices as reasonable as any you...

By ERNST FRIEDLAENDER Hamburg All this may seem pretty much confused. But then, what would have been full success in Berlin ? That is where the difference lies. For the Federal...

States Recession HE decline in economic activity in the United States, which last autumn was merely a possibility, is now an undeniable fact. Since some time in the late summer...

which may be summed up in the question, is there a will to fight ? Internally, the first essential is that the Vietnamese- should not only possess independence, but should also...

M US IC Mozart ON February 11th the London Mozart Players celebrated the fifth anniversary of their existence as an orchestra. The object of their founder, Harry Blech, was to...

Charley's Aunt. By Brandon Thomas. (New.)—Angels in Love. By Hugh Mills. (Savoy.) THE exhibition of antiques in the London theatre continues with Charley's Aunt (directed by...

The Member of the Wedding. (Berkeley.) —Kiss Me Kate. (Empire.)—It Should Happen to You. (Leicester Square.) JULIE HARRIS'S performance in the adaptation of Carson...

O. had the shootin' there then. He was a mean olc devil, he was. One afternoon I was out with me dog and put up a rabbit that ran right across his land. Well, the dog killed...

brings water from one of the mountain lakes. Rumour had it that the main pipe had burst—the story went about when bursts were one of the great topics of conversation. It was...

Rebeyrolle, at 27 one of the best known of the young French realists, gets his first full-dress London showing at the Marl- borough Gallery. Rebeyrolle is so deter- minedly '...

Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40/Brabec and Holetschek/D.LW.5068; Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings/ Alter, Klein/Concert Arts Orch./Slatkin/ Cap.CCL7520. The...

A ddington Symonds, but the sister.—Yours f aithfully, FLORA RUSSELL [St. Loe Strachey's mother was, in fact, the second daughter of John Addington Symonds, „ M. D., and...

I hoped for illuminating comments on this important sub- ject, -but the letters in your correspondence columns seem rather to cloud the issue. In answer to an article dealing...

CRITIC BETWEEN THE LINES SiR,—May I thank Miss Laura Deane for ber delightful and witty letter. With regard to your other correspondents: Anonymous letter-writers are not...

the above heading, I feel myself invaded by an intense regret that Chesterton and Shaw are dead. How their razor-sharp intellects, allied to their grossly unstable brains, would...

for the success of shock treatment, they might themselves receive as great a shock as any they administer to their patients and Dr. Weatherhead would have less cause to worry....

convinced doubters, if there still were any, that Strix was perfectly right in using the word 'vindictive' to describe his extraordinary campaign against General Templer and all...

psychiatry; and 1 also would add advanced neurophysiology, bio-chemistry and electronics to my curriculum of training. On the other hand, I would also add psychplogy and...

is undemocratic," does he just m ean that people of intellect are not the I ntellectual equals of people without it, or is some other complexity involved ? In any case, the...

C. Archer Wallington in his letter is In error in thinking that I was gibing at the bisho p s , What 1 was trying to bring out was that w e have somehow got out of touch with...

I don't mind what the pundits say about condu:ts; but I hope they will not insist upon Eros. What becomes of the music of ' Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done' if the...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 207 Report by Joyce Johnson Readers were invited to submit a song (or extract from it) from the libretto of a new version of The Merchant of Venice,...

letter of protest by any one of the following, addressed to a journal of his day, guilty of an unfavourable review of one of his works: Byron, Coleridge, Ben Jonson, Macaulay,...

The following item of news was in the newspapers on the morning after Mr. Macleod's statement: " Mrs. Mercy Coffee, who had smoked shag tobacco in a clay pipe since she was 15,...

By JACOBINE HICHENS It is no longer a surprise to anybody going into the library of one of the Inns of Court to find a number of women working there. It is an accepted fact...

The Irish Stop Fig,-itting. BY J. P. W. MALLALIEU I T was exhilarating and depressing by turns and, as it began with exhilaration, so will 1. First there was the weather. It...

The Old South By D. W. BROGAN this book is to be most highly recommended. There is hardly a dull page, though there are a good many depressing and saddening ones. Those who...

Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. Edited by T. S. Eliot. (Faber. 30s.) OUR debt to the greatness and generosity of Ezra Pound is a vast one and in the essays on his contemporaries...

The Seventh and Three Enemies. By Brigadier G. M. 0. Davy. (W. Heifer and Sons. 35s.) THROUGHOUT the British Army the regimental histories are being brought up to date, and the...

A New Handbook on Hanging. By Charles Duff. (Melrose. 10s. 6d.) CAPITAL punishment, like the peak of Everest, prompts much con- versation with no basis of observation. Everest,...

THE honest communication of the experience of war is becoming impossible. In an age of propaganda broadcasts, training courses in morale and documentary films even the honestly...

produced. It is two years late for the event it commemorates, the centenary of the Great Exhibition, though that would hardly matter if the book were an illuminating...

the Earl .of Cranbrook. With drawings by John Nash. Limited edition of 500 copies. (Ipswich : W. S. Cowell. £2 12s. 6d.) VERSE of the order of The Stuffed Owl pro- vides an...

42s.) under its own feet. Conceived in a spirit of Huguenot piety, it subjects the texts it examines to so rigorous an examination that many of the events described are...

English language, although Mr. Colin Mason's has been announced and should shortly be forthcoming. Professor Stevens occupies a chair in the University of Southern California....

Su HUA, encouraged and advised by Virginia Woolf, to whom she had written from a remote Chinese province in 1938, put down her childhood impressions and memories, regardless of...

Chatham House in choosing him to write what is obviously the key volume of the wartime series of their Survey. Even those familiar with the printed sources for the period on...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT actions. And some chartists (not my correspondent) will misinterpret them. So I repeat that the bull market of 1952/54 was due not to the discounting of...

By CUSTOS THERE is clearly no need for investors to panic out of tobacco shares on the cancer scare but the recovery which has followed on the maintenance of the IMPERIAL...

9 Pride's too involved for this lodger. 14 (9.) 16. 10. The Scotsman's wild oats. (5.) 17. 11. " Leave to Robert Browning Beggars and vines " (Kingsley). (5.) 18. 12....