W HEN a Chancellor of the• Exchequer is shaping his Budget, it is quite as important for him to be a good psychologist as it is for him to be an accurate arith- metician. If...

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footplate men refuse to be mollified, bears some resem- blance to the newspaper strike that has just concluded. Both disputes arose over differentials—over the size of the...

Income tax standard rate reduced from 9s. to 8s. 6d., and each of the reduced rates cut down by 3d. The single person's allowance raised from £120 to £140, the married allowance...

Mr. Dulles has discussed with President Eisenhower the 'grave implications' of the build-up of Communist air power that has been going on on the Chinese mainland opposite...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE ET'S face it. Two people could not have looked friendlier ][.., than Mr. R. A. Butler and Mr. Harold Macmillan as they „, sat side by side on the Treasury...

lately. Last week he gave the London Authors' Club his views on criticism; this week he has given the London Conservative Union some hints on conservatism. Politicians. Mr....

SO FAR as 1 could see there was towards the end an almost complete lack of concern about the absence of newspapers, apart from the irritation caused by having to get really...

interested to know that Wilson Harris, who, as Janus, wrote them for so long, left, in a will published during the newspaper strike. £36,902. In the same connection, I note with...

fro►n Essex to Sussex, he would be having no more conversation with his gardener, Mr. Park. 1 Alas, what boots it though on even Wing The migrant Martins glory in the Spring!...

Sunday before his Budget contained the words 'Be free from the love of money and be content with such things as ye have,' which were certainly a suitable precursor of a Budget...

the other day during a televised Press confer- ence in New York. Replying to a question about the American airmen imprisoned in China, he said : 'Contacts are continuing. . . ....

BY RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL M UCH of the credit for the ending of the newspaper strike goes to the TUC. It was the pressure of the printing unions operating through the TUC on the...

BY LAIN HAMILTON B ETWEEN the brawny arms of Llandudno Bay the sun struck the sea into a dazzle of dancing lights, and above the heads of truant Liberals enjoying the view from...

to the fact that it was, apparently, based on the parlour-game formula. Its title, of course, and its purpose—guessing at unusual objects, and the guessing done by a hired panel...

tinues to work, and the USA has even appointed a minister for disarmament. I do not know what Mr. Harold Stassen will do with the large terms of reference which the President of...

BY CHARLES SMYTH S UNDAY, April 24, will be the four hundredth anniver , nary of the burning of William Flower outside the church. yard of St. Margaret's, Westminster. Although...

BY JOHNBETJEMAN Bradshaw's Railway Guide goes up from is. 6d. to 10s. a copy from June 13. All railway lovers have to have this publica- tion which has become the official...

to, make pets of most non-carnivorous animals,' says a reader who lives in south Devon. 'When I was in Iraq an Arab brought in one day a baby hare. We brought it up on milk and...

A man must love sheep and have a tender regard for weak and helpless things to be a good shepherd.

GF 7500 T HIS article is about a car (not, as perhaps you hoped, about a spy). I do not understand about cars. Once, when I was very small, 'I was kneeling on one of those...

keep on expostulating because one who is not a literary critic has called attention to differences between Shaw and Lawrence for non-literary purposes. He seems to be unable to...

SIR,—Perhaps because I have just read Barbara Wootton's recently published book The Social Foundations of Wage Policy 1 find some parts of your article 'Verdict: Guilty' a...

H. Coombes W ages and Deserts Lieut.-Colonel H. R. PeIly Ninon R. L. Kitching A. E. Housman D. R. Shackleton Bailey, G. F. C. Plowden, Peter Green

has a right to defend Formosa and ought to do so, but he does not say what right. The question is extremely important because it is being suggested that this country might be...

against the emotional strictures of Messrs. Lloyd and Croyden-Smith; and Hous- man is too good a poet to welcome their kind of allegiance. During the last twenty years (ever...

THE Hiroshima panels to be seen at the Col- lege of Preceptors in Bloomsbury Square are the most interesting paintings to have come out of Japan in recent years. They are not,...

who describes himself as a literary critic,, is entitled to his opinion of Housman's poetry. I do him the charity to assume that he is not similarly qualified to write about...

THEATRE • TwEurrst •Thom% By William Shakespeare. (Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.) THERE is a certain lack of heart about this elegant and well-paced production. The...

March 25 there was a remark which one would have thought would have drawn the fire of your readers before now : I refer to the statement that Bentley left 'detailed proof of his...

This crudity in the play itself can also be seen in the acting. With two exceptions the whole cast over-acts to extinction—whether it is the American accents or the relief at...

The Prisoner is an adaptation by Bridget Boland of her play in which Alec Guinness was carried in the arms of the tragic Muse to the very heights of his profession. It is rare...

A TAILOR'S PROSPECT.—A journeyman tailor was brought up yesterday at Union Hall, for neglecting to maintain his wife. He stated that he could find no work; but added—"Your...

Jefferson, Crom- well, Milton, and Voltaire; by their pleas for individual liberty they condemn themselves as enemies of society. Soon there are moves against further sus-...

Don Giovanni, made by Paul Czinner from an actual stage performance under Furtwangler at Salzburg, must be counted a failure. It opens with an apologia, that it aims to preserve...

You, my thought's mistress, not my body's, lie Untouchable, in a distant town, And in my brain Move intangibly, or murmur, sigh Or smile; your breath beats in my own. But in...

All land exacts a loyalty from those Who claim it, nothing is settled By the simple deed of purchase. The flat alluvial plain rocking with wheat, Chalk pits and gravel quarries...

It was not hard for Tiberius Claudius Rufus 'To be decent and to keep the traditional laws In the presence of the Hellanodikai, And still to perform acts worthy of the Olympic...

BY HENRY FAIRLIE T HE inter-war years, and particularly the Thirties, still await their historian, the observation and comment of someone who was not involved in them. The...

Digby. (Faber and Faber, 30s.) literary purpose, nor yet in its :esthetic qualities, but in the sYmbolic images of its hidden depths. For his purpose he has c hosen—rather...

Going to the Wars. By John Verney. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE intractability of Verneys as soldiers is part of the English tradition, ever since the Civil War, when a father and...

As the author of the chapter on Los Angeles says, 'The issue may well be whether urban man can solve the problem of metropolitan . living through governmental institutions of...

MR. DAVIDSON has written an intelligent, well-documented book about the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola—the first of its kind for a long time. (Never mind, for a moment,...

FOR some years now, M. Andre Malraux has been drawing atten- tion to the great new world that has been opened. up by recent technological development. He is not referring to the...

The Kahuna Killer. By Juanita Sheridan. (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) WHERE Ambler showed the way a new generation of (more or less) literate thriller writers follow. It's a happy...

fr would be a sad day for the hotel trade in Britain if Mr. Ashley Courtenay ever opened an hotel of his own : for it would surely be the Grandest there had ever been, the most...

The Master Builder. By Henrik Ihsen. Transla- ted and with a prefatory study by Eva Le Gallienne. (Faber, 18s.) BY pretending to be more than it is, this makes a very...

a good word for the general knowledge quiz. It would appear to have been coined, on the analogy of 'Alpinism,' by Mr. C. G. Egeler of the Royal Netherlands 1952 Andes...

and E. W. R. Lumby. (The 39,523 THE materials for this new volume in the Navy Navy Records Society, 45s.) Records series were collected by the late 1,159 Admiralty Librarian Mr....

By CUSTOS ALTHOUGH 'sixpence off' had been expected on the Stock Exchange, prices were immedi- ately marked up throughout the gilt-edged and industrial share markets, for the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT A 'SOFT' Budget had been discounted in the City. On the Tuesday morning everyone on the Stock Exchange I questioned was cer- tain that sixpence would come...

10 You'll find her in Ireland, ready to 3 They're all pals in the institution 6 Vera not in? (anag.) (9). 14 The American seizes his luggage (5). 9 It enables a Yank to see...

the tenth anniversary of VE Day by recalling the atmosphere of 1939-45 in twelve lines of verse, written as if con- temporary, and containing ten or more of the following...

us will soon be cut ofi from the outer world by a dense curtain of monotonous green, and we shall not see for six months the delicate tracery of the bare boughs. The usual prize...