The crop of Ministerial answers to questions when the Commons reassembled on Tuesday showed no sign of a realisation of the growing public demand for effective action. Neither...

General Eisenhower's visit to Germany, like his visit to the other countries of Western Europe, was mainly taken up with the forma- tion of first impressions. What the General's...

Everything that is contained in the latest British Note on the Russian suggestion for a Four-Power Conference on Germany could have been decided within a few hours of the...

have clearly not learned in the past four years how to avert fuel crises, but they have at least made some advance in the technique of dealing with crises once they occur. The...

Five years ago something approaching a national crisis was touched off by a decision to cut the supply of dried eggs. But this week the representation of the public's attitude...

In its recent meetings the Arab League has given a full airing to its internal dissensions without being able to do much to resolve them. Its greatest achievement has been to...

A speech made by the Australian Minister for Immigration this week indicates the practical and considered policy Australia is pur- suing in the matter of attracting new...

The public is only aware of a crisis in the film industry when old films are resurrected at the local cinema. The industry itself is acutely aware of the crisis long before this...

House of Commons it was that which reassembled on Tuesday. And there was plenty to be unhappy about. Mr. Attlee's statement of the Govern- ment's attitude to Peking's...

The debate in the'House of Lords on Tuesday very fairly reflected the state of public opinion regarding the Festival of Britain. The Lard Chancellor, in moving the second...

I N the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Churchill emphasised " the grave dangers which will fall on us all should any serious divergencies occur between our policy and that of...

M R. BEVIN'S new and serious illness must, it would seem, bring the question of the Foreign Secretaryship to a head, for it can hardly be possible for him to carry the heavy...

inordinate amount of interest in various quarters. When the will is published a good deal of curiosity will no doubt be satisfied. Meanwhile here is a small contribution. In an...

Victoria's death has served as a reminder that it is equally (and necessarily) fifty years since King Edward VII's accession. That was in some respects a more notable event than...

advertisement in the Sunday papers: " William F. Temple The Dangerous Edge Introducing 'Janus,' the world's greatest cracksman, whose swashbuckling career makes exhilarating...

any references to senescence. But such references are not to be altogether avoided. They are embedded in official documents—for example, and in particular, in the Companies Act,...

they become settled bad habits, and I quite agree with someone who vigorously damns the current, foolish and increasing use of the word " head- ache " in the sense of...

and rather in the hope of eliciting further information, mentioning only that it has important academic weight behind it. When the translators of the Authorised Version of the...

B ELGIAN colliery owners, with thirty thousand Italians (besides nearly as many Displaced Persons) already in their employ, are busily recruiting five thousand more. The...

By D. W. BROGAN 0 NE of the sources of amusement, albeit amusement of a grim type, in the depression years in New York, was the sight of the Empire State Building. There it...

By GILBERT McALLISTER, M.P. W HEN the late Wendell Wilkie, preparing for an American Presidential Election, made a breathless trip round the world, easily eclipsing Jules...

By IVOR THOMAS* I T is unfortunate that the Government's decision not to order any production models (that is, models for commercial use) of the great Brabazon I airliner...

The Youngest University By BRIAN M. DUNNING (University College of North Staffordshire) 0 N April 17th the Queen opens Britain's newest university, the University College of...

MRS. BROWNING'S POEMS IT is no easy task to read through Mrs. Browning's collected poems ; and the accomplishment of it is not likely to result in a heightened sense of her...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE often wondered why it is that art experts should be so quarrelsome. Some years ago I raised this problem in a " Marginal Comment," hoping that, in...

MY fire grows dim and sullen. The hour is late. Hardly a sign of life in the smouldering grate. But sudden uprises a leaping, dancing dart- " I am here and alive," it says, "...

THE Sadler's Wells revival of Don Carlos is a fitting celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Verdi's death. Composers, like fleshly parents, have an unreasoning yearning...

CINEMA FRom a schoolboy's point of view Kim must be considered abso- lutely wizard entertainment. Kipling's story of the Hindu-reared English boy who became an invaluable cog...

Set by Yvette Sheringham Incertitude, S mes delices Vous et moi nous nous en allons Comme s'en vont les ecrevisses, A reculons, a reculons. GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE A prize of...

Report by J. M. Cohen Riding over the plain of La Mancha, Don Quixote catches sight of a line of pylons in the distance. A prize of f5 was offered for a conversation in which...

supported the Korea incident, it is much better to interpret their conduct by their recent actions than to make guesses based on what the intentions of European nations would...

How to Deal with China sea,—Two contributions in your issue of January 19th give me an opportunity to put down some things that have been on my mind. I recently spent sixteen...

SIR. Mr. Tarran, in his letter in the Spectato• of January 12th, hit the nail right on the head when he said that the building requirements of the country were not 200,000 or...

"Towards a Press Council?' You say the draft constitution for such a body prepared by representatives of the various newspaper proprietors' associations, the Institute of...

SIR.-1 am glad to see your decided comment on the newspaper pro- prietors' idea of what would be a representative General Council of the Press. As you say, there can be no doubt...

Sia.—The restrained article in the Spectator ofJanuary 5th by Mr. Edward Hodgkin stops short of drawing its logical conclusion. It is high time that conclusion is drawn. The New...

SIR. — In your note, " Kashmir Unreason," in the Spectator of January 19th, you state: "That the predominance of fault is on India's side is beyond all question." And again: "...

at least half his hope (side your review of his reprinted essays), for the word " discursion " is not quite as new as he assumes. G. K. Chesterton's Alarunis and Discursions was...

SIR. —The sense of humanity is now so attenuated and so rarely operative that it may seem futile to protest against any of the minor barbarities of modern warfare. But I think...

Sir, — Janus, in your issue of January 19th, has an interesting paragraph on reindeer. As. Chairman of the Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom I can reply at once to his...

SIR,—Dr. Lampard, in his article, Doctors and Drugs, writes: "No nurse has the foggiest idea of the cost of the medicaments she uses." During a probationer's training the young...

SIR, —The answer which Janus's friends, lay and clerical, might return to his question, what is the missing word in the quotation: "There were in the same country shepherds...

of the most attractive juxtapositions of contrasts in England is to be found in Sussex, among the by-lanes that lie like a hair-net over the triangle of country between the...

Ent, — A fortnight ago J. F. Bethune-Baker, D.D., F.B.A., for nearly a quarter of a century Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the Univer- sity of Cambridge, and for over...

been helpful this week, and I have put a major change into action. It is to move a ten-year-old yew hedge about eight feet to the left, thus bringing two large flower-beds out...

ANOTHER tamer of robins, who brings them to feed from her hand, has something to say about the hypothetical blue feather. She says it is not on the wing, but is a band outlining...

L OGAN PEARSALL SMITH died in March, 1946, some months beyond the age of eighty, and this death left one with the sense of having lost not a friend only, but a stimulus and an...

A Great Economist r . HARROD has solved with remarkable success the chief problem ed by a biography of Lord Keynes—that of doing justice in a cdllhhrrerent narrative to his...

IAN HAY is responsible here for the first volume to appear of a series of short military histories of the Second World War com- missioned by His Majesty's Government and...

Greek Poetry for Everyman. By F. L. Lucas. (Dent. 16s.) " IF anything could justify the world," says Mr. Lucas (rather gloomily), " it would be its beauty ; and the Greeks were...

DR. Mum . CUNNINGTON has long since established himself as one of our leading authorities on the history of costume. His magnum opus, Englishwomen's Clothing in the Nineteenth...

Sir Thomas Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, EDITIONS of Erskine May do not usually follow quite as rapidly on the heels of their predecessor as the fifteenth has...

THIS week's books, one novel and three collections of short stories, are not only interesting to the reader, but raise questions of deep interest to writers. Each emphasises in...

THE period is summed up by Mr. Ross, perhaps mainly for the sake of assonance, as " fortuitous, fervent, frozen and frustrated " ; but the general impression he gives is that...

llic Right of the Child: By Edward Fuller. (Gollancz. 93. 6d.) COUNTESS MousrrasrrEN, President of the Save the Children Fund, in a short foreword to this book, an official...

Late Harvest. By S. L. Bensusan. Illustrated by Joan Rickarby. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 16s.) Tins collection of fifty-five short sketches about people who live in the Essex...

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

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By CUSTOS AFTER their recent bout of activity markets are showing some signs of tiredness. This week the volume of business has fallen below expectations and here and there...