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INDEX FOR JULY-DECEMBER, 1955 SUBJECT INDEX A Abbots Investment, 107 (CN) Abdication, 783 (LA) Abominable Snowman Adventure, The, Ralph Izzard, 426 (R) Above and Under Hatches,...

T HE Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act came into , law in 1948; but the investigating Commission then set up did not have its first real test until four years later. In...

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• e I N an extraordinarily clear and honest article in last week's New Statesman, Professor G. D. H. Cole analyses the crisis in Socialism. He points out, what has for long...

I T is wrong to talk as though anything approaching a civil war was in progress in Cyprus. There is a blessed ineffectu- alness about terrorist activity in Cyprus which has led...

T HE annual report of the British Transport Commission makes dismal reading. A deficit of close on £12 million is ' not the worst; the Commission has to admit that an upward...

I T is not so much that history repeats itself. but that it never changes. In the week in which one of Miss Greta Garbo's greatest films, Camille, has returned to London, with...

A HUNDRED years ago on Wednesday the stamp duty on newspapers was lifted and the press came into its freedom. Throughout the country new papers appeared and others which had...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE build-up has started. Mr. Jim Griffiths is being given the full Fleet Street treatment. Mr. Marks in the Daily Express started it, and it has been...

Nex . r . week's Spectator will contain special articles and reviews by the Bishop of London, Lord Hailsham, D. W. Brogan, Ian Fleming, Donat O'Donnell, Walter Taplin, Sir Keith...

An Irish Correspondent writes : I F British hospitals under the charge of religious orders are unwilling (or unable, owing to their constitution) to come into the national...

MORE AND MORE I am driven to the conclusion that the Com- munist regimes regard Orwell's novels not as satires but as useful handbooks of suggestions. Last year, for the first...

`SOCIALIST MPs gave Mr. Aneurin Bevan one of the biggest slaps of his career last night.'—Daily Express, June 24. `IT IS BEING SAID that the Socialist Left wing has been...

to ask itself concerns the future of criticism. Criticism of books, plays, films and so on has been based on the broad assumption that critics are disinterested; however...

some ingenious excuse for her bloomer in Woman's Own the week before last, when she breezily described the cancelled Trooping the Colour and the postponed Ascot. But I should...

BY CHARLES CURRAN T every general election since 1918 the Socialist -Party A has put forward a group of candidates labelled 'Labour and Co-operative.' Forty such candidates...

English players applauded Statham as he left the field. 'The practice of the fielding side clapping one of their number is of fairly recent growth, I think, and it seems to me...

heard the man who sends those rather embarrassing messages that the housewives of this country seem to like addressing to each other over the air say that he was now going td...

BY 0. H. GIBBS-SMITH, Archdeacon of London T HE first sessions next week of the newly elected Con- vocations of Canterbury and York serve to recall the Church to its primary...

BY JOHN HILLS (Headmaster of Bradfield College) E VERY headmaster knows, or at least every member of the Headmasters' Conference knows, that he must not talk about 'my school.'...

BY ISABEL QUIGLY LAMOUR 'AFLOAT!' said the handout, with a picture of a hula-hula girl. 'Smooth music on board. bathing beauties parading the deck, visiting celebrities....

By JOHN BETJEMAN T HE current (June) number of The Architectural Review is called 'Outrage,' and is the most damning illustrated indictment of concrete lamp standards, 'Keep...

At the Shrine L U U NCHEON was served in what appeared to be a kind of mezzanine oubliette. An hour earlier the sky over the north-western districts of the city had turned pale...

SIR,—Hard hitting, in literary controversy, is welcome; we may, indeed, trace many of the weaknesses of present-day literature to the lack of it. But should not the targets be...

position of the British officials illegally dismissed by the Egyptian Government in 1951 as reprisals for action taken in the Canal Zone by the British Army, I made a mistake in...

June 24, Dorothy Ginger stated that she had been informed that 'the British Council is about to entertain a number of Egyptian teachers in England at an expenditure of £52,000...

Friends of the Poor Lady Cynthia Colville Buganda H. M. Grace Is the Travel-Book Dead? R. Conquest Egypt's Dismissed Officials Paul Reed, Dorothy Ginger What Happened at...

Stn,—May I protest against Mr. Walter Wig- field's totally irresponsible statement in your last issue that the experiences of Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain at Versailles,...

abodt the Baganda. It will be preposterous if our Government, to save its face — the decision to deport the Kabaka was a Cabinet one—uses the detention of the Kabaka here as a...

Opera HE best Don Giovanni since 1939 in Britain is now to be seen in John Christie's opera- house in Sussex. Only one of the individual performances, though, would merit...

comes to light, there will be few who have read the story of the Versailles visions ready to believe it a hoax, Such a conclusion would be so out of character with the personal...

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. By William Shakespeare. (Regent's Park.)—THE LION IN THE LIGHTHOUSE. By Billy Thatcher and Rolf King. (Embassy.) IT was pleasant to discover a...

and sarcastic letter under the title 'The Attack on Baha'i,' published in your issue of June 3, has attracted my attention and has caused me both astonishment and regret. To...

('a corn-fed Middle- West senator' on p. 800 and 'the corn-fed tradition of modern American poetry' on p. 803) recalls an older example of dietary pejorative. St. Jerome, in...

LA CROIX DE Bois. (Palace.) THE Little Singers of Paris, an unaccompanied boys' choir weighted with adult tenor and bass, some thirty in all, share this entertainment with the...

THE UNDERDOG. (Bett i eley.)—RIFIEL (CUE- zon.)—THE PRINCE OF PLAYERS. (Rialto.) THE hero of The Underdog is a timid German boy at the turn of the century who through fear...

THE Festival of Indian Films at the Scala Theatre was not merely the first major presen- tation in Europe of the second-largest film industry in the world, an industry which, in...

I HAVE been playin g that remarkable Ameri- can recordin g The Investigator. A feature of the school of Mr. Norman Corwin, it describes the way in which a senator of the school...

YEHUDI MENUHIN g ave his first public performance of the Sibelius violin concerto, with the Finnish radio orchestra conducted by Martti Similil, at the Helsinki Sibelius...

JULY 3, 1830 THE TAILORS.—It has been usual for the journeymen tailors to strike for double wa g es on the occasion of a g eneral mournin g . On the present, a feeble effort...

Not Passion's Slave BY J. D. SCOTT T HE English are a very gentle, very shy people, who have very little contact with their neighbours; they care deeply about children and...

THE first of these, a volume of accurately translated essays from Situations, has Sartre's familiar tantalising attraction; but it will attract zealots for the author rather...

I FELL into conversation once with a colonial official on leave from British West Africa. We got round to writing somehow, and I asked him if he'd ever met Mr. Graham Greene...

MY SEVERAL WORLDS. By Pearl Buck. (Methuen, 21s.) MANDARIN RED. By James Cameron. (Michael Joseph, 15s.) OUR understanding of China owes a great deal to Pearl Buck, both for The...

ONE thing at least is clear about A Fable: it is offered at the level of a masterpiece and asks to be judged as such. Nine years in the writing, as they say in the trailers,...

THREE prizes of eight guineas each are offered for the three best original descriptive reports (between 500 words and 750 words) of any notable event occurring between July 1,...

BY IAN NIALL ArrutsrEnNo cattle shows is something to which certain country folk—farmers, farm labourers and those who can make or borrow time by any expedient—become strongly...

Lacerda and Arthur Waley. (George Allen and Unwin, 9s. 6d.) SENHOR DE LACERDA is one of the few poets writing today who, while still under thirty, possesses the assurance of...

Tms short memoir is a work of piety, an offering to the memory of a friend. Such a book, neither biography nor criticism, is not accessible to the comments of strangers. The...

ago, was some sort of seminal book, although it may not have been profound. This new book cannot be expected to be profound, as it is a survey of the semantic development in all...

To be a trout fisherman and never turn to philosophy is almost impossible. Sooner or later the ways of trout teach an angler that he must wait upon nature and, although he may...

strawberries in my part of the world. One of the greatest drawbacks is mould, which takes place in prolonged periods of overcast skies and high humidity. About the only thing...

Three-quarters of a million squirrels were destroyed in the first two years of the Forestry Commission's 'shilling a tail' campaign, I noted the other day. A total of £29,533...

BY PHILIDOR No. 4. L. LACNY (let Prize, Prague, 1954) WHITE, 8 men mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Mari : Kt-Kt4, threat Kt-B6, 1 ......

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE main reason for the rise in share values in the past few weeks, according to Mr. Gaitskell, has been the Budget with its tax reliefs for companies,...

By CUSTOS AFTER, its sharp advance it is good to see the Stock Exchange react and quieten down. The dock strike and the weakness of the t are holding back fresh buying, but no...

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a little less perfect, and a little less widespread, than it should be. A prizg of £5 is offered for the most amusing reply in 'English' to your holiday inquiry from the keeper...

A Taxpayers' Dictionary published in France included the following definitions- 'Profit : What remains when the tax collectors have taken everything'; 'Taxpayer : (see...

DOWN Sketch often done entirely in red (9)■ 'Winter was not unkind because ' (Bridges) (7). The rodent swallows most (10). 'Time ... the - in beauty's brow' ( Sh akespeare)...