The most conspicuous feature of the Russian interferences with traffic between West Germany and Berlin is that they have gone on for years and show no signs of stopping....

ISCUSSION with Dr. Moussadek has always been a slippery business in which the shifting terms of his latest pronouncement have always counted for less than the ultimate strength...

General Bradley's statement in Paris on Tuesday, in which he emphasised that the N.A.T.O. forces planned for 1952, 1953 and 1954 must be provided and trained, was a sufficiently...

After four weeks of negotiations in Moscow, the Chinese and Russian Governments have agreed on what look like various amendments to the Treaty which they signed, after much...

Immediately after hi4 arrival in England on Sunday, Mr. E. R. St. A. Davies, Chief Native Commissioner in Kenya, hastened to point out that reports of the activities of the...

A distinction niust be drawn between strict legalism and political wisdoni in the handling of such an issue as the racial question by the United Nations. The Arab States which...

The public and polite - preliminaries in London out of the way, the real business of the international cotton textile con- ference begins today at Buxton. These talks are...

E UROPE, particularly Western Europe, has been getting itself into a royal muddle, and it will take all the ingenuity and determination of the Consultative Assembly now in...

for those to whom statistics appeal, a quite fascinating, publication. It is meant primarily for advertisers, and is designed to show by what classes of reader, and what parts...

is with the Dean of Lichfield, Dr. Iremonger. His life of William Temple, though published so soon after the Archbishop's death, is never likely to be superseded. It is a most...

I S too much fuss being made about the Coronation ? There are those who think it is, and I am not very much disposed to differ from them. No one would wish the historic rite...

Mr. Asquith in connection with his centenary last week. For some- thing like ten years in the seventies and eighties of last century Asquith regularly wrote one of - the two...

(which he was kind enough to give me), I read for the first time the words (applied to certain singers) " A girl with one lung • And a man with a voice like a snore." On...

questions I quoted Mr. Asquith as having put. According to my recolle2- tion the reason why Hamlet did not succeed to the throne of Denmark on the death of his father was that...

a hundred years ago, on the charge against a Mr. Simpson and M. and Mme.• Poitevin of cruelty to horses, which were carried aloft suspended from balloons, has apparently aroused...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. N intelligent and experienced political writer complained the other day that it is rapidly becoming too difficult to write objectively about this...

By NOEL STREATFEILD D O the children of one generation differ fundamentally from the children of another ? It had been my con- tention that children change little, that the...

By G. E. R. GEDYE Vienna. M UCH speculation has been aroused in Belgrade and Vienna as to the objects of the forthcoming visits of Mr. Eden, which are officially described as...

There will be other deep depressions, Grey fog filling the horizon, Atlantic low. The sun a man relies on is quick to go, The sun goes underground. Sharpen your joys on the...

By MICHAEL SWAN T HE cemeteries of Roman Catholic countries succeed more than do our Protestant burial-grounds in denying death and giving the decaying remains a kind of immor-...

In almost all discussions on the decrease in Church atten- dance one reason given is the quality of the sermons and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of today. This...

Calypso on a Dustbin By J. M. CULHANE (Christ's College, Cambridge) I THINK the first time I heard a calypso was on the third or fourth day of my stay in Trinidad. There were...

The death of a wretched girl in St. Martin's Workhouse has, not for the first time we believe, brought to light a miserable colony of castaways in " the Adelphi arches." The...

By HAROLD NICOLSON R. WINSTON CHURCHILL has said somewhere that all busy men, especially those engaged in public life, should occupy their moments of leisure by writing a book....

THERE was a time when a mere whiff of alien eminence was enough to give the English cognoscenti the vapours. The history of painting in this country is studded with the names of...

THEATRE Romeo and Juliet. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) Tins production, like almost everything Hugh Hunt does, is well considered and solidly built, and it has in Clare...

The stage is Elizabethan ; the accents and acting style are meant to be. There is here much for Shakespearian students to discuss. To the ordinary playgoer the accents, seeming...

not when the Lunts are on the stage. It is then no more than an excuse, a scaffolding to be shoved up and covered with brocade, any old floorboarding under the rich carpet. The...

THE Three Choirs Festival at Hereford last week followed its ritual pattern. The statutory St. Matthew Passion, Messiah and Gerontius were supported by The Creation, Hymnus...

The Planter's Wife. (Leicester Square Theatre.) QLTITE the most exciting passage in this Far-Eastern Western of the war in Malaya is a fight to the death between a mongoose and...

Ballets Negres. (Twentieth Century Theatre.) AT the Twentieth Century Theatre in Westbourne Grove, the Ballets Negres, under the directorship of Berto Pasuka, are holding a...

The keeper met us at the door of his cottage, and we walked across the moor with him for our promised look round. A few grouse rose and sailed away out of sight. A kestrel...

me right on compost-making; but, without a structure in which to manage the process, I find it not so easy unless one uses an agent of some sort. Naturally rotted green stuff is...

WRITING from Montrose, Mr. Ian Grant tells me how he watched a heron chased by a rook or a crow as I did a few months ago. I have thought a good deal about the hostility of...

had not. A long time ago I once tried to poach a few pheasants by moonlight. My efforts were not successful. Lamping was new to me. My friend, who had been out getting rabbits...

of the lake, and the water in front of me rippled and became still again. In the depths the weeds swayed gently, and their shadows mottled the bottom so that at first I did not...

often protects the biographer from his subject. Readers are invited to submit, within one hundred and fifty words, the opening and/or closing sentences of Johnson on Boswell,...

A prize of £5 was offered for a Whitehall advertisement in The Times, in the Sapphic metre and in not more than four stanzas, inviting applications for the job of Head of the...

Snt,—I am delighted to learn from Mr. Rickard's letter in your issue of August 29th that the Duchess of Fife is one of the steamers in service on the Clyde. It so happens that...

non conturbat me," recalls the more succinct rendering of the there- from-derived Andalusian folk-song Cada vez que considero Que me tengo que morir Tiendo la capa en el suelo Y...

Six,—May I add a personal experience to the letters which have appeared on the above subject. Recently, after a severe operation, I had a serious haemorrhage, which was not...

S1R,—In your review of American Indians in the Pacific the point is made that " the Maori Polynesians never made stone statues or any- thing of the kind." I feel it may be of...

SIR,—Janus may be interested to know that " doryphore" was the pseudonym used by the members of the resistance movement in France for members of the German police or Gestapo in...

Snt,—As a lifelong and unrepentant doryphore, I feel bound to protest against Mr. Harold Nicolson's attempt in your last issue to alter In Memoriam. Tennyson wrote: "Leave thou...

sut,—I am obliged to Mr. J. Gordon Stanier for his courteous correc- tion. He is quite right on both points. The Foreman of the Jury was Thomas Veer, but it was undoubtedly...

The League and Corfu Sill, — Spectator in his Notebook last week assailed the Daily Express leader-writer for having expressed himself with vigour on a subject " he does not...

of the Ephesians, or any of her sisters, into the discussion on marriage and divorce. I remember gazing upon a statue of this many-breasted goddess in Naples Museum, and...

SIR,—Janus's new hobby has great possibilities. If the beetles could be given a certain amount of artistic training, and encouraged to attack only the more unsightly parts of...

SIR,—Schoolmasters probably see as much of the havoc wrought by broken homes as most people; no one can lament the tragic results more, and none can more ardently desire to mend...

Sut,—Mr. Gibbon's article, Portable Harmony, in your issue of September 5th, reminds me of an amusing incident which happened to me some years ago. The first of a series of...

S1R,—Your comments on the address given to the Modern Church- men's Union by the Director of Religious Broadcasting are, if I may say so, very suggestive and pertinent....

Ste,—May I encroach on your columns on behalf of the patients of the Park Sanatorium, Davos, who have asked me to thank those of your readers who have very generously responded...

be taken literally and which are ideals," on what grounds does the Modern Churchmen's Union disregard the uncomfortably straight-off-the-bat utterance on the indissolubility of...

is:—Scire licet nobis nihil esse in morte timendum. It is granted to us to know that in death there is nothing to be feared.—Yours faithfully, W. L. WOOD. White House,...

Codd's Last Case and other Misleading Cases. Reported and Edited by A. P. Herbert. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) "Two rights may well make a wrong" (per Lord Mildew in The Queen v....

Burma Today Golden Earth. By Norman Lewis. (Cape. 18s.) MR. LEWIS, whose account of his experiences in French Indo-China showed him to be a tireless, resourceful and perceptive...

"Shorter Cambridge Medieval History"; Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H., writes on a book of "Welsh Country Characters"; and J. M. Cohen discusses a new volume of Stendhal's letters.

The Lyceum. By A. E. Wilson. (Dennis Yates. 18s.) "I SUPPOSE they'll turn it into a boot factory!" Such was Henry Irving's forecast of the fate of the Lyceum of which he had...

As its title suggests, this is an anthology, and Dr. Sitwell has brought out of her treasure things new and old. Perhaps it is the old things that to most people will be the...

Who Lie in Gaol. By Joan Henry. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) THE first part of this book should give great satisfaction to those who believe in the intrinsic value of retribution....

IN a volume of Talks on Book-Collecting published by Messrs. Cassell a couple of months ago, Mr. Simon Nowell-Smith lamented the non-existence of a dictionary of the terms,...

We will post the SPECTATOR to any of your friends residing in any part of the world at the following rates :— 52 weeks, 35s. ; 26 weeks, 17s. 6d. In addition a Birthday...

The Peoples and Policies of South Africa. By Leo Marquard. (Oxford University Press, Geoffrey Cumberlege. 16s.) THOUGH this book begins with a thumb-nail sketch of the history...

The Pinkerton Story. By James D. Horan and Howard Swiggett. (Heinemann. 18s.) Murder Inc: The Story of the Syndicate. By Burton B. Turkus and Sid Feder. (Gollancz. 16s.) Fruvis,...

Heroic Poetry. By C. M. Bowra. (Macmillan. 40s.) SIR MAURICE BOWRA'S book is welcome and important for two reasons. First, he reveals fresh material for study, and gives infor-...

Now and then a reviewer is lucky enough to get time to ponder over a book instead of having to deliver the customary snap judgement. The more I ponder over Prisoner of Grace,...

This Satirist, well-meaning, makes a hubbub In scorn of the benighted in a suburb ; And they, poor happy naturals, persist, In blissful ignorance of the Satirist. WALTER DE LA...

The Vision Press. 25s.) IN the publisher's opinion the life of this minor French poet has a higher interest than that of some other nineteenth-century writers whom he lists,...

the various accessories of furnishing made and used in England since A.D. 1100." The dust-cover promises also the " age and derivation " of its " names and terms." No competent...

E. Finer. (Methuen. 42s.) SIR EDWIN CHADWICK'S importunity kept him in public service for twenty years despite continual exasperated opposition. His argumentative presence,...

6d.) THE realm in which antiques are bought and sold and shown off is as cluttered with rum customs and rummer customers as that of horse-trading. Its citizens range from...

in association with Florence Rutter. (Harrap. 15s.) THE black children whose paintings and drawings are reproduced here were orphans, " some born here at Carrolup, some in the...

Gravity and Grace. By Simone Weil. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. • 15s.) " I Love the working classes," the late Evangeline Booth is reported to have said. The late Simone Weil...

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By CUSTOS IN unusually inactive markets the process of consolidating the recent recovery in prices continues. It is being helped by the im- provement in investment sentiment...