I N his memorial sermon in St. Paul's on Sunday the . Archbishop of Canterbury rose to the height of a great occasion. Nothing is easier than to attempt that and fail. Dr....

The myth which has grown up concerning the motive and necessity of food subsidies remains one of the most baffling of the obstacles to financial sanity. Socialists today breathe...

Although there have been many diplomatic exchanges in London and Cairo in the past two weeks, there has been a dearth even of rumours about what has gone on in them. For the...

The public has managed to forget the deepening crisis since the end of January, when Mr. Butler announced his second, and not unduly painful, set of measures to meet it. But...

There is perhaps some comfort in the, fact that the winter in Korea is drawing to a close without the miseries of large- scale fighting having been added to its inevitable...

In the past year various theoretical schemes have been drawn up which 'would reconcile the nationalisation of Persian oil with its efficient exploitation. All these schemes have...

The forthcoming test of a British atomic weapon in the Australian desert• is receiving plenty of publicity. This, com- bined with news from the United States of the discharge on...

Coal miners have to be singularly unreasonable or extra- ordinarily foolish before they forfeit the admiration and respect in which the general public normally holds them. But...

T HE national sorrow we have been through was seen to be laying a constraining hand on both Houses of Parliament when they reassembled. There has been a genuine desire to keep...

meeting at Lisbon has opened in an atmosphere of tempered optimism. Even when the qualifying adjective is emphasised, as it must be, that is better than could have been hoped...

everything, and in the main they are, but I wonder whether even yet they fully realise the depth and extent of the anger the publication of some of the pictures of royal grief...

general comment on the result of the case against advertisement in its pages last October, suggesting that the pending General Election would provide an opportunity of saving...

be hoped, the cont.toversy about his intended stay at the South African Prime Minister's official residence. What criticism there was had not indeed as its object Dr. Malan, at...

I T would, as things have turned out, have simplified life if twenty-five years ago the Duke and Duchess of York had decided to call their first daughter Margaret, and their...

that the Queen had that day received Dr. Adenauer, the German Chancellor, is it too much to hope that the B.B.C. News Department will now drop its persistent, incomprehen- sible...

Chapel at Windsor must have marvelled at the smoothness and order with which the whole proceedings went. In fact, I gather there was more than met the eye, or ear. I have...

week, on the strength of the Bowater results, of the spectacular profits paper-makers have achieved in the past year. Since then several other results have been published, and...

A girl looked down from the skies ; The desolate, wintry ground Was her Kingdom, ancient, renowned, But no light was in her young eyes ; For that old King-maker, Death, Had...

By SIR ERNEST BARKER T _ HE Spectator, in an article on " Queen and Nation," has raised the question whether the example of family life set successively by King George V, by...

By ERNST FRIEDLAENDER T HE Bundeshaus in Bonn and the Palais Bourbon in Paris have been the scenes of two of the most dramatic parliamentary debates since 1945. In both...

T O look back upon the reaction of the American people and Press to the death of the King and- the accession of the Queen is to perceive that something of historic significance...

By SOMERVILLE HASTINGS, M.P. T HE line of separation between sickness and health in those past middle age is an uncertain and constantly changing one. And this for two...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. A FEW weeks ago, at Stamford Bridge, the referee said that Wolverhampton Wanderers had scored a goal. The Chelsea team said that Wolverhampton...

L4GOS has been chastised for daring to resist British dictation, and has been destroyed. In the fulness of philanthropy, tke missionaries and officers of the British Government...

By HAROLD MCOLSON S INCE the death of Norman Douglas I have been reading with interest the notices and articles that have made reference to his life and character. On the whole,...

The Greatest Show on Earth. (Plaza.)—Roberto. (Continentale.) —Steel Town. (Leicester Square.) MR. CECIL B. DE MILLE'S answer to the challenge of Quo Vadis is The Greatest Show...

the play takes place in the dining-room and kitchen of a semi-detached house which looks out on to a section of railway track just prior to its diving underground." So the...

THEATRE Bet Your Life. By Alan Melville. Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith and Charles Zwar. (Hippodrome.) A urrix hooting owl in a nightshirt, ejected by his wife and falling with...

So much bedding has been wheeled out from the standing-in herd that the midden towers at the back of the shippon. On a bank at the bottom of the field snowdrops are showing. One...

Tim closing of gates is a thing one must not forget when crossing a farmer's land. Round about there are several gates bearing an advertise- ment for a farming journal and a...

After .dark the road is quiet. For a period of an hour or so three or four cars may come rattling down or struggling up to the farms and villages " back in the country," as they...

Among the early jobs in the vegetable-garden arc the putting in of parsnips and shallots. Some people are inclined to put down shallots too early. I doubt whether they gain in...

Fear is the great progenitor of anger, And fear finds ever nourishment in hunger ; I did not know that all my crushing fury Was born of nothing more than bitter envy And that I...

a field might be described as a promenade of starlings, although most of the time, in their eagerness, they run. One can only guess at the amount of food they obtain in a field,...

DURING a week of not outstandingly rewarding concerts I have been twice reminded of the different pace at which the language of music develops in different epochs ; or, as an...

Report by N. Hodgson In Benefits Forgot Miss G. B. Stern writes that she found the follow- ing entry in one of her rough notebooks, but is quite linable to attach any meaning to...

Set by J. M. Cohen A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a verse translation in the same metre and rhyme scheme of the following sogig of the fourteenth century :...

i‘ An AmeriCaq and Mr. Wilmot" SIR,—Professor Goodhart's comments (in the Spectator of February 15th) on my book, The Struggle for Europe, are directed chiefly at points which...

Slit,—Your admirable leading article Queen and Nation suggests that " at the outset of a new chapter in the national life" we should make it " a little different from the old "...

February 15th—Queen and Nation. It is the best thing I have read on the new reign, and I agree with every word of it. The sad thing is that novels of the type mentioned are...

for your leading article. A new age has begun. If all standards are to be raised, as one prays, it is good to know the Spectator leads us. May our gracious Queen lead the nation...

Sm,—May I refer to the article by Dr. Stephen Taylor, in your issue of February 8th, on the Harlow health centre ? We know so little about the problems of group practice that...

S1R, — The more erudite the historian, the more difficult it doubtless is for him to assess the late King's place among our Sovereigns. The everyday / reader of history is less...

many who will disagree with Janus's lament that " Abide with me " was not included in the broadcast memorial service to the late King. Has Janus counted the number of times the...

correspon- dents, Mr. Stockwood and Mr. Denton Thompson, that traditions have their value. Two candles on the altar is the ancient use of the Church of England. Put first things...

Mr. Stock wood and I have similar views on any question. But 1 ,wholeheartedly agree with his letter on this subject in your issue of February 8th. It was because I had neither...

shine "; Such the commandment of the Voice Divine. But Holy Writ, it seems, forgot to fix The proper complement of candlesticks. Is it that the significance was missed By the'...

articles on the situation in Europe, but I must 'contest your comment last week on the crisis in the project for a European Army. You say : " No decision by the British...

SIR,—It is not only the horse that is vanishing. Even if we had the horses, there is hardly any harness in the country; leather is practically unobtainable and the price...

sense of disappointment about the B.B.C. Memorial Service. It was most unfair to the Archbishop of York that he was not permitted to begin his address until the service had been...

protect the English language. Have you noticed that Whitehall has changed " fodder " into " animal feeding stuffs ? " I hope that you will agree that this corruption is horrible...

Flaubert : A Biography. By Philip Spencer. (Faber. 25s.) FLAUBERT has come full-circle. Once a target for fashionable attack, he is now too often made an idol for fashionable...

African Close-ups Venture to the Interior. By Laurens van der Post. (Hogarth Press. 12s. 6d.) I FIND the merits of this sensitive and distinguished book extra- ordinarily...

The Mill On The Po. By Riccardo Bacchelli. Translated by Frances Frenaye. (Hutchinson. 15s.) Tms very large-planned and lengthy Italian novel is evidently held in high regard in...

(Geoffrey Cumberlege. 21s.) KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S misfortune was that she never found suitable conditions in which to write. Her restless consumptive's temperament partly...

TOWN-PLANNING is one of the masculine, esoteric, non-popular occupations, probably for no better reason than that most people cannot read plans. The camera, which can illustrate...

IN the present century the United States has enjoyed foreign relations I but she has assumed too recently the status of a world Power to have acquired a foreign policy. This is...

The Complete Works of William Diaper. Edited with an introduction by Dorothy Broughton. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 15s.) WE have not come to the end of our eighteenth-century...

Thus is a handsomely produced book with 84 plates, eight of which are coloured, illustrating a wide range of natural beauties and works of, art. It is attractively and lucidly...

The Pencil of God. By Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin. Translated by Leonard Thomas. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) . Deep is the Night. By James Wellard. (Macmillan. 12s....

ONLY the individualistic artist of the nine- teenth century could have believed that a nat- ional art ought in some way to be opposed to the traditions of Europe; if the...

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...

By CUSTOS WITH Mr. Butler's budget less than a fort- night ahead markets are exhibiting an under- standable caution. Buyers, of the institu- tional as well as the private type,...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, March 4th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...

A u o 1i re Di C'AIT E Vi l laWMPIOCIElga • 511 12 12611161171 Solution on March 7 The winner of Crossword No. 664 is: WALTER WHITEHEAD, Esq., Ingleholm, Bridge of Weir,...