ESTABLISHED No. 6614 FRIDAY, APRIL 1828 1, 1955 PRICE 7i , (.1.

T HE newspaper strike is the latest card and most sinister of the Electrical Trade Union's guerilla operations against British industry (the engineers' union is involved too,...

FORMOSA AND.THE ISLANDS—Shortly before the weekend a controlled leak was sprung by top US military circles, who let it 1:e known that Communist China is expected to attack...

1954, some moderately interesting but quite irrelevant thoughts about our long-run prospects,' and virtually nothing about the outline for 1955. Politicians and official...

The Pilgrims of Great Britain and the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth are jointly arranging at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Wednesday, April 6, 1955, at 12 noon, a...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HERE have now been three important votes about Mr. Bevan's future in the Labour Party within three weeks. The Parliamentary Labour Party has voted to withdraw...

BY RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL ing them indefinitely if there is no work for them to do. Some- thing like 22,000 highly skilled, highly paid men are affected. The strike, however,...

last week was the Marylebone Mercury. Across its front page ran the headlines : 'Flats given to sweetie-pies : not for first time, councillor says.' Life goes on. PHAROS

the House of Lords for a long time, the Archbishop of York said that the pos- session of the hydrogen bomb seemed to be the one possibility of preserving peace in the years...

T HE President last week appointed Harold E. Stassen to a newly created job of Cabinet rank that the news- papers are describing variously as Disarmament Direc- tor, Secretary...

BY ROGER FULFORD T HE contrast between the start of Princess Margaret's Caribbean tour and that of her grandfather in 1901 will hang vividly in the mind of some older readers....

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME I HAVE always admired foreign correspondents, those squash-hatted men who dash from capital to capital on behalf of the more sensational daily newspapers...

R USSIA has evolved into a competitive society. No one will contest this fact, but its immense implications for the future of Communism are easily forgotten in the current...

BY ANTHONY HARTLEY I HAD had a lot to drink for lunch. That was very neces- sary. Going to the first rugby football match I had ever attended seemed to make any excesses in this...

BY MORAY McLAREN M R. JOHN SMITH announced that the toast of the London and South of England Press Club would be proposed by Mr. Alexander MacGonnegal, the Minister of...

T HE Wood Green Empire is now shut. It was an Edwardian terra-cotta marvel, a somewhat less expensive version of the Hackney Empire. It is sometimes sup- posed that television...

cure for rheumatism,' says a friend who lives in Great Missenden, `that I must send the following account, although I know that wart charms are not so rare. Years ago. as small...

LTHOUGH I have not yet been able to find out exactly which of the canals are on the Transport Commis- sioners' list of those it is proposed to close, I am, in common with many...

To me pigs have always been something more than mere bacon and I make no apology for returning to the subject of their versatility and intelligence, prompted, as I am, by...

Chrysanthemums in the greenhouse should be stopped this month Young shoots should be nipped off at about five inches. a process as important as disbudding is later on. Stopping...

Poor Man's Matto Grosso HE elderly chairman consulted his watch (I use the verb advisedly, for he did everything in a punctilious and deliberate way), then rapped with some...

of censorship. It more urgently concerns the ethics of acquisition, and raises the ques- tion why an organised society should permit certain of its members to pander to human...

Mr, Mosley states that it is not true that his book was written 'without consulting' General Wingate's widow and his family. The facts are these. In the autumn of last year Mr....

The Censorship Plot J. C. C. Armitage, William Gardener, Joyce Cary Doctors' Dilemma Robert Mailer Caucasian Deportation Baron de Beauge (uidc to the Planets Patrick Moore...

SK—As your correspondents have pointed out, Mr. Cary goes too far in failing to dis- tinguish between horror comics for children and erotic literature for adults. Once I become...

from some mysterious source? Who are these 'common informers'? Have they any connection with the police? Did anyone tip them off that their informing would be wel- come to...

on the shoulders of a few unfortunate men at the top. The Graves- end by-election will show whether the nation is prepared to accept that responsibility. It is fortunate that...

two, each possess, or soon will possess, the physical power to bring total and instant destruction to each other.' If so, and if, as he advocates, we refrain from making the...

and renewed prohibition of the most tempting types of hire-purchase selling seem to suggest that a 'soft' Budget may be contem- plated, since these measures might be relied on...

SIR,—At the request of his eXcOUTors I am writing a biography of George Orwell. I should therefore be most grateful if any of your readers who were associated with Orwell and...

in your issue of March 4 headed 'Animals that swim.' His invitation to 'someone who has met a pig in midstream' prompts this letter. More than fifty years ago I was boating...

sure,. forgive me for pointing out two very minor slips in his very friendly review of my book, Guide to the Planets (March 11). Sir Edmund criticises my statement that the...

was wrong in casting doubt on the belief that pigs arc liable to cut their throats if they swim. The up-and-down action of their fore-trotters would inevitably inflict this...

shying at so many Aunt Sallies that he misses them all : BBC, English advertising men, Lord Nemsley, Maurice Winnick. et al.

deplore the exag- gerated statement by your contributor, J. E. M. Arden, when he refers to 'the surrounding and deportation of most of the minority nations of the North...

MUSIC SINCE his appointnnent as Musical Director of Morley College in succession to Michael Tippctt some years ago, Peter Fricker has changed the character of its activities...

DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS. By Eugene O'Neill. (Embassy.) DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS. By Eugene O'Neill. (Embassy.) IF Desire Under the Elms still succeeds in imposing itself upon it is...

CHILDREN OF HIROSHIMA. (Marble Arch Pavilion,) — ABOVE Us THE WAVES. (Ode0B.)—THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME Ur. (Leicester Square.) As a plea for peace, Children of Hiroshima has a...

feet) and join in a human giggle. Mr. Ed Murrow in New York talked to Mr. Bing Crosby thousands of miles away in his Hollywood home. We saw Bing's full-size billiard-table, his...

The New Provincialism I T is now possible to travel from London to New York be- tween meals, and from London to Paris between drinks, but writers and intellectuals in these...

BY F. R. LEAVIS C ERTAINLY an occasion for some applause : 'A propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' can at last be got. But (I am afraid I shall seem ungracious) I wish the manner...

BY ROBERT GRAVES T HIS is a book about two different human senses of time, by -a Rumanian student of philosophy and comparative religion.* Dr. Eliade has taught at the Sorbonne...

BY KINGSLEY AMIS U NTIL about twenty years ago, Peacock was still getting his fair share of literary attention, in quantity at any rate: the big scholarly Halliford edition was...

Reason and Revolution. By Herbert Marcuse. (Routledge, 25s.) THis is a book about Hegel. It was first published fifteen years ago and is now reprinted with a brief epilogue. It...

THE purpose of this book, and it is a good one, is to present the Public life of Winston Churchill through the eyes of the world's cartoonists. If we are to assume that the...

without cure of souls. Thus Cardinal Adam Easton. OSB, Was (among other things) Archdeacon of Shetland, Provost of Beverley, and Precentor of Lisbon Cathedral. It seems to us...

disintegrated or settled down, half-full of water, to float for a few Precarious moments. For invariably the shock of the impact concussed some of the crew, and injured others;...

to and light on the pocket, it is also one of the few European countries in which life since 1939 can be said to have had con' tinuity—a country that has escaped both the litter...

ber), Donald Davie on R. P. Blackmur's important and infuriating Language as Gesture (February), and Martin Dirndl on Stendhal (March). We were evidently meant to take note of...

Dearest Bess. By D. M. Stuart. (Methuen, 21s.) THE ladies of the Devonshire House set were seldom idle. TheY planned and schemed for the support of Government and fot ? the...

Going into the Past. By Gordon Copley. (Phcenix House, 8s. 6d.) THE present widespread interest / in archaeology—particularly prehistoric archeology—has caused an unparalleled...

Trial of Strength. By Celia Dale. (Cape, 12s. 6d.) NOVELS are as good a way of living vicariously as any. You can live backwards in time or even forwards, farther to north or...

Dekker's plays con- tains The Honest Whore as well as Westward Ito. Northward Ho and variops sundries. This k the Dekker that nobody reads—let alone acts but irs s...

Tius volume contains lectures, articles and reviews by ; •Professor Norman Baynes, for the most part, ptiblished • between the years 1912 and 1951: This cbilection of a number...

By CUSTOS IT haoeen an extraordinarily dull week on the bck Exchange without newspaper comrrnt on the business world. Dealings fell tcthe level of a dull day in the mid- sumirr...

By NICHOLAS DA 1 INPORT Ti 1!. Stock Exchange has been one of the worst sufferers from the temporary disap- pearance of the national newspapers. It provides a market in some...

outer world by a dense curtain of mono- tonous green, and we shall not see for six months the delichte tracery of the bare boughs. All will be lush with sporadic wwwilt and a...

A London brewery is re-equipping one of its pubs as a Victorian gin-palace, complete with original etched mirrors, porcelain-handled beer-pulls. mahogany panelling and studded...

2 'To sot the cause above -' • (Newbolt) (6). 3 Boil ale (anag.) (7). 4 Captain of an early stock-boat (4). 6 Devastating, though they might just amount to a row of beans...