0 NE sentence spoken at Chicago on Tuesday bids fair to settle the decision of the Democratic Convention now sitting in that city, and quite possibly of the electors of the...

Most of the Government's financial policy since it took office last October has aimed at arresting inflation—or in other words at averting the danger of rapidly and con-...

Chargé d'Affaires in Peking presented to the Chinese Foreign Office a Note in which Her Majesty's Government announced the decision of the British merchants to close their...

American protectionism is not a subject on Which the British Government, with its vital interest in dollar-earning exports, should pull its punches, and the President of the...

It is very important to distinguish two separate elements in the violent protest which followed the Minister of Labour's – decision that proposals for wage increases submitted...

Everyone who cares for decent journalistic standards —which the establishment of a Press Council might - or might not serve to elevate, or at least maintain—will be grateful to...

The exponents of " new thinking " within the Labour Party are not likely to derive much encouragement from the Resolutions for the Annual Conference of the Labour Party which...

The news of rain and an east wind in Helsinki cannot extinguish, even in the hearts of people who do not normally pay much attention to athletics, the feeling that at this...

T HE House of Commons may have its defects but, bless it, it is rarely the same place for two consecutive hours. Its moods are infinite like those of life. With what a precious...

T WO Middle Eastern countries—Persia and Egypt— are today in the early stages of # revolution. Power rests in the hands of the group in the capital which can com- mand the...

Emerson asserted, and I have no reason to dispute the statement. But it is very much more important to know what happens when half-men go. I am greatly disturbed by a statement...

baby-talk.' "- Dr. Margaret Robinson. Undoubtedly. The other day I heard an infant of six months and three days remark, when accosted in that medium: " I should be obliged if...

the charitable side) has been rearing its fan- tastic head once more. So at least I conclude, for the familiar W.O.U. handbook was enclosed with a' benevolent letter received...

HE Foreign Office is singularly fortunate in having two Ministers so competent to guide its destinies in Mr. Eden's absence as Mr. Selwyn Lloyd and Mr. Anthony Nutting. By his...

always arouse some interest, particularly in the case of the New Testament, since many more people are versed in Greek than are versed in Hebrew. A Welsh correspondent,...

By ERNSTFRIEDLAENDER T HE interim injunction issued at Karlsruhe last week by the Federal Constitutional Court against the neo-Nazi Socialist Reichs Party has been warmly...

The Religious Aspect By LORD PAKENHAM* T HREE words of introduction are necessary. First, I do not know anyone whose friends would be less likely to select him as an example...

By JOHN KITTESFORD J UST now it is winter-time in Natal. But the weather is like a fine English summer. The poinsettias and bougain- villeas are in full bloom; the rust trees...

By MICHAEL GRAHAM W ITH The Conduct of Life* Lewis Mumford completes his series of four great books, which have been his main occupation for twenty years. Together they form...

Bellerophon rode Pegasus almost to the sun, where- upon Jove sent a gad-By to cure him of presumption. The glare dazzling my eyes, This strong force battling under me Dragging...

By JOHN NEWEY A YOUNG man starting a scientific career in a professional or technical subject has to acquaint himself with an increasing range of topical knowledge as it...

By C. A. HOY V 66 OUS avez trouve la bonne solution ! " , We have long since lost count of the number of times we have heard these words from Frenchmen and French- women, rich...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been occupied this week in transferring myself from one part of London to another. This process of changing houses is one that I recommend to those who...

The Sound Barrier. (Plaza.)—N6 de Pere Jammu. (New Gallery. —First Communion. (Academy.) I NOW know (I think) the principle of jet-propulsion, and why it is (or has been...

THEATRE King Henry the Sixth—Part HL By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) " I WONDER how the king escaped our hands." Shakespeare plunges into his chronicle with his first line,...

ONCE again Glyndebourne has given us an admirable Cosi fan tutte. No other opera is so well suited to the house, the setting and the genius loci, for in Cosi fan tutte...

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care of themselves. They should be stopped when they have reached a satisfactory height, sprayed with cool, clear water to help the flowers to set, and kept moist at the roots....

If all the pigeon-eggs laid in the cotirse of one summer hatched, and the young came 6" maturity, there would be hardly an acre of wheat or oats left to harvest, hardly a bit of...

Market-day found us passing through the county town, and it struck me that, though farmers may come - now in cars in place of traps, they change very little. If anything they...

ONCE, in the old days, relatives who • had dairy-farms made cheese. They were very proud of their product. It had a fine flavour and a rich consistency, and it kept well. When-...

0 God, as in this quiet room alone With Thee and with my thoughts I sit, and cast My musing mind over the lengthening past, Both pride and penitence appear outgrown. My highest...

It is a long time since I cut rushes for thatch and used a scythe. Once I could lay a fairly neat swath, and go forward with a movement that was not too jerky, but the day of...

comparison on the model of" liar, dam' liar, expert witness." As I opened the envelope containing the entries for this competition' the sound of the grinding of axes was loud...

Set by N. Hodgson A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for soubriquets (on the analogy of " The Swan of Avon," " The Rupert of Debate," Itc.) for Mr. Winston...

Thomas Collins, an old man, has been twice examined before Mr. Arnold at Westminster, on a charge of having fraudulently obtained a great number of portraits from " the nobility...

was very interested in Col. de la Fargue's article Outlook from Meikles and in the letters which have subsequently .appeared from two comparatively new arrivals in this Colony....

is probably true that there are many voluntary organisations which include Atlantic union within their programme of still wider union. Perhaps that was the very reason for the...

not mean to call Lambeth degrees bogus, and that illiterate is too strong a- word for his animadversions on the theological incompetence of Bishops. My point about the Oxford...

Doctors of. Divinity Ste,—Mr. Ross Williamson might be interested in the information about Lambeth degrees which was given by Archbishop Lang in a speech in the House of Lords...

Sat,—Janus may be interested to learn that the fourth centenary of the birth of Edmund Spenser has been honoured also by his old school, and that the school is by no means...

Snt,-1 he answer to Mr. Arthur Burns surely is that lotteries, like alcohol. are harmless in moderation, but socially undesirable if carried to excess. Nation-wide mammoth...

SIR,—I have recently had occasion to advertise an unfurnished flat and to show applicants over it. The rent was as high as could reason- ably and fairly be asked, there were...

SIR, —Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu entertains us with many of his sympa- thetic and felicitous observations at Henley. Yet apparently he did not notice the most essential element in...

SIR,---1 anus's references to Scotland as a holiday country were of more than usual interest to me, as I have just returned from my first visit there (my wife and I experienced...

should like to correct certain rather misleading statements made by your reviewer on Livres de France. First, we undertake to supply five or ten books yearly not, as suggested,...

Witchcraft. By Pennethome Hughes. (Longman. 21s.) The Alchemists. By F. Sherwood Taylor. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) THE quest for common origins is full of perils, and, although it...

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Mr. President : Personal Diaries, Private Letters, Papers and Revealing Interviews of Harry S. Truman, Thirty-Second President of the United States of America. By William...

F the two officers who brought a German General back alive from rete in 1944, Mr. Moss was the one who wrote about it. Now e has written about other war-time exploits. Mr....

Lady Charlotte Schreiber (formerly Lady Charlotte Guest) : Extracts from her Journal, 1853-1891. Edited by the Earl of Bessborough. (John Murray. 21s.) Tins is a sequel to The...

The Making of France is an analysis of ideas rather than a history of events, describing not, as the title suggests, the wars, treaties, mar- riages and political assassinations...

Professional Captain. By H. E. Dollery. (Stanley Paul. 12s. 6d.) CRICKET books by professional (or amateur) players are usually thoroughly bad, but it is difficult for...

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The Burnaby Experiments. By Stephen Gilbert. (Faber. 15s.) PERHAPS the word " fiction " begs the most important question of all, because it has never been clear whether we want...

STORIES of little boys who run away to sea have been told many times before, but seldom more agreeably than in Sea Fever. At fourteen, when he persuaded his family to grant his...

15s.) THE author of this delightful book is a -Dane who lives in Kensington. He des- cribes the stately, almost Palladian life at the front of the house, marred only by the "...

The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music. By Francis F. Clough and G. J. Cuming. (Sidgwick and Jackson. £5 5s.) Tins immense volume is indispensable for all serious...

Introductions to English Literature, with its hundred pages of con- tentious, stimulating and scholarly introduc- tion and its three hundred pages of biblio- graphy, comment and...

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