Point by point the defenders of the Administration are getting the upper hand in the debate on American foreign policy—the debate which is usually given the title of " great."...

I T is doubtful whether the full significance of the present railway wage dispute has yet been properly realised by the public at large. It is not merely that the railwaymen are...

Unless Communist resistance stiffens, it may not be many days before General MacArthur will have to show what he meant when he said this week that he will not " Lrbitrarily...

At a Communist Party meeting last Saturday, Marshal Tito said that Yugoslavia was willing to be helped with food from the West, but that he had no intention of purchasing arms...

General:Robertson's visit to Israel is timely. His concern is the defence of the Middle East, and he is not obliged to believe, as do some of its neighbours, that the State of...

Very few problems have been solved in the five and a half years that have elapsed between the ending of the Pacific war and the present attempt to draw up a peace treaty with...

After the excitement of the general election the Gold Coast is finding the preliminary stages of making the constitution work something of an anti-climax. The Assembly has had...

settlement of the Kashmir dispute laid before the Security Council on Wednesday in a joint Anglo- American resolution gives the two contesting parties a great opportunity and...

T HE menace of the typescript-bound orator reading hie speech (save the mark) grows alarmingly. It comes almost entirely from Ministers. Take this experience of the last few...

gig HE way to resumption." wrote Salmon P. Chase of specie payments in 1866, " is to resume." In the same way, it may be submitted, the way to conference is to confer. It is...

Prizes at Cambridge (who, by the by, gives the prizes now that there arc no Members to give them ?) " Bernardus Shavius cum Euripide coniparatus." Superhumanior, me judice.

readers think that Morley's " Gladstone " should be included in the list. It is a matter of opinion, so I record their views, though I do

Government departments (I have not been told which) have coined and are shamelessly using in official communications the hybrid word telecon (tele Greek, con Latin) to indicate...

London for the Festival of Britain going to find their way about London ? In the same way as any foreigners visiting London do already, no doubt. Yes, but when they arrive not...

R. GAITSKELL is to be congratulated on his decision to find the not very considerable amount of money needed to ensure the continuance of the History of Parliament, begun on the...

Devon, but not necessary. At present employed with head of Evangelical Bishop."—The Christian. Served with parsley sauce ? * * * *

Lampeter, about whose application to be recognised as a university I made some observations last week, for the full text of Mr. Justice Vaisey's findings in the case. As was...

assent, but in the stand he is taking in the interests of British music in the new concert-hall on the Festival of Britain site it is very hard indeed to disagree with him. Here...

some—to Mr. Ness Edwards's redemption of his promise to restore late postal collections in London. When last Monday I found the time-plate on my local pillar-box replaced by a...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. G ENERAL EISENHOWER is on the high seas as this message is written, returning from the argumentative American continent to set up his...

By W. 0. BELL F INAL in the sense of decisive ; for it is not the university class-list nor the school certificate which finally decides a boy's career ; it is, for all except...

By VISCOUNT CECIL OF CHELVVOOD I T would seem incredible if it were not true that, at a time when the most violent attack on Christianity since it became a world religion is...

By E. W. ASHCROFI' A T the end of last month two Deputies from the Italian Chamber resigned from the Communist Party. Their example has been followed not only by some...

By D. A. WILSON W RILE the " Q cars " in the county of Oxfordshire feature in the headlines, the most hopeful discoveries concerning road safety remain largely unknown to the...

Tribute to Mrs. Bates By D. A. STONE (Queens' College, Cambridge) T HE importance of Mrs. Bates in the history of the develop- ment of English drama is something that one...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is with appreciation, but with some perplexity, that 1 have been reading the articles and letters recently devoted to the subject of Carlton House...

THEATRE THE Madwoman was a succes Jon in New York ; and this country, which spends half its time grizzling because we see eye to eye with America (" subservience ") and the...

more themes, or bigger themes, than Shaw did. Some were more congruous to his genius and his outlook on life than others—war, for instance, is a subject which he really...

had a stalling for every time Cicely Courtneidge had been called " indomit- dhle." It is hard to say: " Here she is again," without adding: " God bless her," for hers is that...

NA Walk in the Sun." (Plata.)—"Rocky Mountain." (Warner.) Pool of London." (Odeon.) IT is with some trepidation that I recommend to you yet another American war picture, for...

THE concert of modern Scandinavian chamber music which the London Contemporary Music Centre organised on February 20th was not immediately inviting, even in prospect. But on the...

Set by Owen Tweedy A prize of LS, which may be divided, is offered for not more than twelve lines of the National Anthem of one of the following States: Erewhon, Ruritania,...

Report by Hilary Brett-Smith A prize of .£5 was offered for an excerpt from . Herr Baedeker's description of one of the following : Xanadu, Valhalla, Perfidious Albion,...

Sia,—May 1 make certain comments on the letter from Mr. James Fishwick which was published in the Spectator of February 9th ? It is true that the vast majority of domestic...

The Case of Mr., Messer SIR,—The letters of Dr. E. C Warner and Brigadier Skentelbery throw into relief issues that go deeper even than the fate of the Kingston Victoria and...

SIR — Your article, Britain's Peace-Aims, inspired by the Archdeacon of London's address, conforms to your usual high standard of clear- sightedness, and on the whole would...

recent action brought by St. David's College, Lampeter, against the Ministry of Education, prompt me to give some further information about this College. A former Lord Chief...

Others seemingly overlooks the explanation, quite common today, that the withering of the fig-tree was an " acted parable ' involving the use of Jesus's supernatural powers. It...

SIR,—Regarding your editorial note Reason for Railwaymen. Truth is undoubtedly relative, and however basically true your note may be, another truth, still more basic, stands out...

THE face of nature is as constantly expressive as the human countenance. Sometimes, between our rich moments of attention to one or other item in the out-of-door world, we pause...

SIR.—In brief: Mr. Daubeny, as impresario, supervised and controlled the choice of title, the expenditure and the casting of The Gay Invalid. I quarrelled violently with his...

snowdrops are making a good show this year. The snowdrop is a flower that delights in two ways; first. as a symbol, secondly, in its detail, for it is perhaps the most...

THE BUDGET Its you continue the Income Tax unmodified, what do you give us for it? That is the question which Sir Charles Wood was expected to answer, but which he fails to...

SIR,—Whilst in agreement with Mr. 0. Pick about the deplorable part Dr. Clementis played in the Communist-led mutiny of Czech troops in Cheshire in 1941, I should like to add...

S1R.—Lillian Browse implies that Miss Julie is an " Ibsen drama." Is Strindberg ever to get the credit for anything in this country?—Yours

I cannot recall a winter when the ground has been so thoroughly saturated. The most carefully drained lawns and meadows are now sodden, and even hill-top grassland is...

The Destruction and Resurrection of Pompeii and Herculaneum. By Egon Caesar Conte Corti. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 25s.) Counrr Court is among those rather uncommon historians...

Blessing or Curse? The Chinese in Southeast Asia. By Victor Purcell. (Oxford University Press. sos.) THERE can rarely have been a more timely and let less ephemeral work than...

H. G. Wells. By Vincent Brome. (Longmans. tss.) MR. BROME'S book about Wells might conceivably have served a useful purpose because, as his publishers state on their...

Ouida. By Eileen Bigland. (Jarrolds. 16s.) How sad it is that Louisa Rame—" Ouida " was her childish pronunciation of her i own first name—should have become, for us and for...

Literature and Psychology. By F. L. Lucas. (Cassell. ss.) Poetry and Faith. By Augustus Ralli. (Bodley Head. t is. 6d.) IN literary criticism, as elsewhere, it is too often the...

Colonel of Dragoons. By Philip Woodruff. (Cape. :as. 6d.) WHEN, as sometimes happens, the English and American novels of the week have brought me to a low condition I have...

los. 6d.) Confessions of a Poet is disappointing in that although it tells us much concerning Verlaine's childhood and schooldays, fir+ marriage to Mathilde, and his experience...

by Stanley Baldwin his work has been infrequent but enjoyable. He writes in the tradition and is not interested in technical experiment. His concern as an artist is to perfect a...

Restoration Love Songs. I dited by John Hadfield. (Cupid Press. Limited Edition. 2 gns.) THIS is a beautifully produced and printed book. The selection is good, the text is...

its kind. It has the support of a very strong editorial board, centred on the Oxford English School, and a guarantee from its publishers of a three- years life. It strikes a...

(Macmillan. 2 Is.) WITH another General Election in the wind this comprehensive study of the last one, undertaken by its author for the Nuffield Foundation, is particularly...

(Gollancz. 1 23. 6d.) IN twenty-one autobiographical sketches we get glimpses of Miss Eaton's childhood in Canada, her schooldays in England, and her working days in France,...

published by the British Drama League, is entirely devoted to the memory of Bernard Shaw and contains rewarding contributions by Dr. Gilbert Murray, Sir Lewis Casson, Dr. F. S....

By CUSTOS SIEEL vesting day has come and gone, but not without causing something more than a ripple in the gilt-edged market. The pessi- mists who forecast that the new British...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, March 6th. Envelopes...

The winner of Crossword No. 613 is A. GORDON TAYLOR, EsQ., 51 North End Haute, London, W.14.