In spite of the categorical assertion in a weekly review a week ago (time and tide are notoriously impetuous) that "many weeks of negotiations in Cairo and in London have ended...

The steady deterioration in the position of British firms trading in China no doubt had to be formally recognised at some time. The Note delivered by the British Charge...

confusion into which official transport policy has been allowed to fall that the Commons on Wednesday were less concerned with obtaining further details about the Government's...

The problem of controlling the vast prisoner-of-war camps on Koje island is not one that can be solved quickly by a few determined American officers. The prompt action of...

M. Pinay's success as Prime Minister of France is undoubtedly due first and foremost to the consistency with which he pursues his chosen course. The French Assembly had...

The prospect that Dr. Malan may drive the Union of South Africa into dissolution increases. The resistance of Natal to the Prime Minister's resolve to override the Supreme Court...

If kitty thousand casualties in a single year will not shock motor-cyclists into driving more carefully, what will ? The Committee on Road Safety, having looked at this question...

The Excess Profits Levy was a bad tax in its very conception, and no amount, of tinkering with it in committee will turn it into "a good one. It was intended to deprive...

T HE Finance Bill, as the Tories' dislike of the Excess Profits Levy, not to mention the Purchase Tax, has shown, is no popularity-winner, and yet Mr. Butler is coming through...

Those thoroughly bad employers the Durham County Council have never, of course, at any time abandoned their notorious " closed shop " policy, despite the fact that the...

W ITHIN the next week two steps of great importance towards the creation of a new European society will, in all probability, have been taken. It is true that for the moment only...

American Presidential election. Since then (according to the American weekly News Week) the prospect that Governor Stevenson, of Illinois, may consent to run after all has in-...

quickly. It has just held a conference of editors of daily papers of all countries in Paris. Mr. A. P. Wadsworth, of the Manchester Guardian, was in the chair— an admirable...

itself into a worse mess, or got out of it (so far as it is out) more unimpressively than Le Monde in the matter of the alleged declaration by Admiral Fechteler over the...

IlYTHING more fascinatingly interesting than the Presidential address given by Dr. Gilbert Murray at the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Psychical Research on Wednesday...

paper an " important notice " to the effect that the " Ireland Can Make It " Exhi- bition has been unavoidably postponed " due to the fact that the new C.I.E. Garage cannot be...

hospital in existence before 1948 could be taken over by the National Health Service hospitals founded since 1948 cannot—not at least without fresh legislation. That is what...

By REGINALD PECK T HE ancient ideal of a university as a universitas litterarum has not always been perfectly realised in the western lands that gave it birth. But the concept...

By the REV. J. STAFFORD WRIGHT U NLIKE the other great Christian festivals, Ascension Day does not force itself upon popular attention, for it has no Bank Holiday attached to...

By GERARD FAY N OWADAYS I seldom see those Secrets of Nature films which show a flower opening and closing, telescoping twenty-four hours of life into a few seconds. I am...

By GEORGE BRINSMEAD I T has been announced that Mr. Dean Acheson will shortly be visiting Brazil. It is hoped that this evidence of the Secretary of State's interest in...

By the Rt. Hon. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. D R. FFRANGCON ROBERTS recently wrote a close and painstaking study of the very problem which has so engaged the attention and the time of...

The Pied Piper By JUDITH JARVIS (Newnham College, Cambridge.) 66 S this your first visit to Europe?" asked Anthony Eden. i We had privately nicknamed him Anthony Eden as he...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is merciful that human beings should be such small receptacles that they cannot absorb more than they can contain : once they have been filled to the...

THE Royal Philharmonic Society's concert at the Festival Hall on May 14th was a disappointment and remains a mystery. Rafael .Kubelik, billed to conduct a largely Slavonic...

The Dragon's Mouth. By J. B. Pfiestley and Jacquetta Hawkes. (Winter Garden.) " BICKER, bicker, bicker, eh Mr. Priestley ? " I am quite persuaded, after having listened to Mrs...

CINEMA Mourning Becomes Electra. (Carlton.)—Deadline. (Odeon.)— My Six Convicts. +(London Pavilion.) MR. EUGENE O'NEILL'S Mourning Becomes Electra is a work ill- suited to...

smith.) EVEN in the 1890s, when it was written, Shaw found Pinero's peep into the 1860s sentimental and.inept, and the subsequent half-century has, I am afraid, quite staled its...

Earth up early potatoes after weeding between the rows. It helps to aerate the soil, and encourages the spreading of tubers if the ground is well forked before drawing up the...

A farmer near here bought a sheepdog last November and lost it on the first day of April. He heard last week that it-had returned home, - covering a distance of about sixty...

FRIENDSHIPS between animals of different kinds are inexplicable hap- penings, but always fascinating. Perhaps this is so because they give free rein to the imagination. Someone,...

In stony country almost every field has its stone-heap. It may be bramble-covered, lost in weed or thistle, but it is there, a home for the stoat or a snake, and generations of...

The Yugoslav State Company. • (Cambridge Theatre.) AFTER the last exhibition of folk-dancing at the Cambridge Theatre, I must confess I was not wildly excited at the idea of...

The nest of a waterhen, a sort of raft of woven rushes, has beauty about it, and even the scrape of a plover, when the eggs are laid, is a delight; but for sheer artistic wonder...

A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for a verse translation, adhering to the line and rhyme scheme of the original, of Eduard Morike's " Heimweh " : Anders wird die...

Report by R. J. P. Hewison A prize of was offered for a poem in rime riche on a subject suitable to the month of May. Rime riche, in French a sought-after beauty, is considered...

Railway Reforms slit,—I have felt increasingly, since nationalisation, that our railway system could do far worse than follow ,the lines on which the Indian State Railways...

Sta,—Janus's remarks about the Great Western Railway prompt me to mention that last year your paper, among others, was good enough to print our appeal for the restoration of...

Snt,—May I in tropical language applaud the perfection of Harold Nicolson's article on A. J. Balfour and Jews. At the Peace Conference, to which I accompanied him, Balfour...

Sta,—The easy impartiality of even the worst British chairman derives, surely, from causes deep in our national Character. For the same reason Germans excel equally decisively...

To the very small committee of Adelphi producers we are enabled now to add the name of Mr. Mark Lemon; who has all the geniality, popular humour, and knowledge of English...

indifference " mentioned by Harold Nicolson in his fascinating Marginal Comment, your readers may be interested in the following characteristic example, which has never before...

Sta,—Dr. C. K. Allen's delightful article calls to mind the late Lord Atkin's famous "neighbour" dictum in the case of Donoghue v. Steven- son (1932): " You must take...

SIR.-1 was much interested in Mr. Grigson's article about fritillaries, as both the white and purple grow in profusion in - this exceptionally cold. wet garden, where the soil...

Stn,—On behalf of your Catholic, Anglican, Quaker, Wesleyan, Baptist, Methodist, and even Unitarian readers, allow me to thank you for / following the panegyric on the...

SK—Janus's comment on the large attendance at the London Mission- ary Society's annual meeting, over which the editor of the Spectator presided, prompts one to add a few more...

SIR.—I was very interested to read your article Industry and the Public Schools, and the reference to the Public Schools Appointments Bureau. My son, a normal boy, left his...

SIR,—As an ex-Queen's nurse, I have been greatly interested by recent correspondence in the Spectator, but I cannot believe, as long as we have our nursing services, that any...

Sut.---Js the port from which the Queen's sail Southampton or South Hampton ? B.B.C. announcers favour the second version,. slightly stressing the second " h " for- fear...

Declaration of Faith. By Herbert Agar. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) MR. AGAR perplexes me, which is something 1 never thought could happen. He is one of the prophets of the age, as his A...

A Great Ruler Arabian Jubilee. By H. StJ. B. Philby. (Robert Hale. 30s.) GIVEN Mr. Philby's knowledge, industry and opportunities this was bound to be an important book. It...

" POTTED history " is proverbially dull, a mass of events unillumined by the sidelights which make the human scene a living reality. If to that is added the tiresomeness of...

The Journal of Eugene Delacroix. Translated from the French by Lucy Norton. (Phaidon. 21s.) Tuts pleasant volume is the translation of a selection from Delacroix's Journal, and,...

The Island of the Swan. By Michael Malim. (Longmans. 16s.) THE Island of the Swan is the old Portuguese name for Mauritius, where, shortly after the end of the war, Mr. Malim...

THE sixty-four years of the life of Napoleon HI should attract the dramatist as well as the historian. They offer an extraordinary contrast of light and-shade. They were spent...

Musical Trends in the Twentieth Century. By Norman Demuth. (Rockliff. 35s.) Tins is an ambitiously planned book, covering an enormous field of music, and professing, as the...

The Man at the Door. By Millie Toole; (Dent. 10s. 6d.) (Harvill Press. 10s. 6d.) Another . Pamela. By Upton Sinclair. (Werner Laurie. 12s. 6d.) A Breathless Child. By Frances...

Tedder. By Roderic Owen. (Collins. 18s.) New Fabian Essays. Edited by R. H. S. Crossman. (Turnstile Press. 15s.) • The White Rabbit. By Bruce Marshall, from the story told to...

ago as 1829, this is the first time the city has been accorded a slim " Baedeker " all to itself. Frankfurt is such an individual place, with its local pride, its dialect, its...

-IT is more than likely that this excellent anthology, now in the third year of its life, will take the place of the " Oxford Book " for this generation. For not only does it...

6d.) MR. C. E. VULLIAMY has written a book of essays which have to be read ; they cannot be skipped. Whether he is dealing with eccentrics such as the father of Maria Edgeworth,...

events the optimism which produced the recent rally in markets has now evaporated. As I feared, the fall in exports, the heavy burden of taxation in buyers' markets and the...

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