Dr. Adenauer's insistence on the necessity of Germany's entry into the Council of Europe is very much to be welcomed. He is, of course, considering Germany's interests—very...

The spate of questions about the exact nature of the Schuman plan has reached its peak, and the first answers are beginning to come in—from M. Schuman himself, from M. Jean...

T HE British, American and French Notes to the Soviet Government on the action of the latter in building up a formidable armed force in Eastern Germany bring into the open and...

Out of all the conjecture and speculation about the Labour Party conference at Abinger last week-end there emerged a communiqué which the Daily Herald, which might be expected...

In a cool, objective but inevitably gloomy survey of the situation confronting British interests in China, Mr. W. r j. Keswick, the chairman of the China Association, has made...

In transmitting to Congress on Monday the Secretary of State's report on the activities of the United Nations in the preceding year President Truman in a covering letter added...

Lord Winster has made an effective contribution to the controversy on retroactive legislation by recalling that the Declaration of Human Rights, which the General Assembly of...

the severance between Sir Leslie Plummer and the Overseas Food Corporation is not g ood news. It is the best possible news. Sir Leslie, no doubt, has g reat ability. He was no...

M ONDAY'S debate had the usual concomitants of a discussion of housin g .plenty of politics, much heat at times and Mr. Bevan. No such debate is complete in which the Minister...

It was coura g eous of the Postmaster-General to intervene in the dispute which had arisen between the B.B.C. television depart- ment and the representatives of sport ; there...

T HE past few weeks should have seen a great clarification of the public mind on the subject of British building. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his Budget...

excited more passionate interest if it had taken place at Oxford than it did at Cambridge is a matter of speculation. It could hardly, at any rate, have had a more ideal...

too late for mention here last week. It attracted a galaxy of cricketers out of flannels and elicited some extremely good speaking from Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who comes of a...

Memoriam " column of last Friday's Times (between " West " and " Pritchard''). It ran: QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN.—The Martyr Queen of England, beheaded May 19, 1536. - The Gospel Light...

Economic Co-operation had recommended that member countries should fix the allowance for tourists at the equivalent of 150 dollars, tourists would now get £53 instead of £50 I...

T HERE should be a strong demand for reconsideration of the proposed increase in railway meal prices. A Cambridge college charges i s. 6d. for a breakfast fully equal in quality...

remain unconvinced that Derbyshire Education Committee is justified in spending £17,000 in the purchase of a mansion to be used as a school for rock-climbers. It is clear from...

in my position that sounds a lot, but there are those who would gladly part with 850s. rather than miss Who's Who. The main value of the volume no doubt is practical ; it is...

By SIR PERCIVAL GRIFFITHS F OR some generations it has been customary to speak of the ingrained pessimism of the East, and to contrast it with the active hopefulness of the...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Nairobi, May 0 H, we're all a bit round the bend in Kenya. The altitude you know." This was a Government official in Nairobi, laughing off some...

By PETER FLEMING N N immense, patient strength—perhaps that is the quality in Lord Wavell which seems, now that he is dead, the most important part of his character. With it...

By H. D. WALSTON G ARDENERS and fruit-growers have for long used chemical sprays as a means of combating insect pests, while on the Continent arsenical compounds have been used...

By H. G. St. M. REES M ORE people than ever are touring France by road this year, many of them making the experiment for the first time. The Spectator some weeks ago published...

Undergraduate Magazines By COLIN CROSS (Queens' College, Cambridge) I T is a cliché to describe university life as subsisting in a / self-contained world of its own. The tiny...

By HAROLD NICOLSON M ASS-OBSERVATION have issued through Art and Technics Ltd. a bright little shilling pamphlet entitled Voters' Choice. It represents an enquiry into the...

“ In a Lonely Place." (Odeon.)—....fie Deported." (Gaumont.) --A , Pride of Kentucky." (Carlton.) THE question how far artists may be excused eccentric behaviour which would not...

THEATRE "'Background." By Warren Chetham-Strode. (Westminster.) THOUGH 1 enjoyed and admired this play, I came away from it wishing—not less inconsequently than...

WHOEVER says farewell, Has, for acquaintance, Death: Small death, maybe, but still Of all things - dreaded most . Yesterday I lost An old, exacting friend Who for ten years had...

WHAT do they know of England who don't know their Gilbert and Sullivan and have not - watched an English audience at The Mikado ? It was after the lapse of very nearly the...

the expenses of works at the New Palace, for 1850-1, gave Mr. Osborne an opportunity to reventilate the question of the enormous difference between Mr. Barry's estimate (about...

for an extract of not more than 200 words from a " period" novel dealing with English social life in 1950, and written some 200 years later by an author who has gone to some...

Report by Mervyn Horder A prize of £5 was offered for a description of a journey up Regent Street in the style of Charles M. Doughty, H. M. Tomlinson, Sacheverell Sitwell,...

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SIR,—The Dean of Canterbury in a recent speech at Brisbane seemed rather annoyed with a recent paragraph in the Spectaior. In a note in the Calcutta Statesman a few days ago...

Sia,—The writer of your paragraph Bright Boys and Dull wrongly assumes—as a great many people seem to do—that both the intention and the result of the age-limit for G.C.E. are "...

Railways in the Dark SIR,—The above headline to the first note in the Spectator of- May 12th is a peculiar one. Does any other industry in this country publish monthly and...

Sia,—No one will deny that it is in the best interest of a country to be provided with the most efficient transport possible. If any form of transport is artificially kept...

S112, —The Spectator of March 31st writes; "The effective suppression by the Pakistan authorities in East Bengal of the communal disturbances which flared up in February,...

Snt,—My attention has recently been drawn to a letter from the Rev. R. G. R. Calvert in your issue of August 12th, 1949, on the subject of self-government in the Falkland...

Sru,—You have been good enough to afford many inches to the ventilation of Scotland's grievances and to her struggle for emancipation from the Westminster yoke. You will...

SIR, -1 wonder how many of us Mr. Harold Nicolson sent scrambling for our O.E.D.'s last week. Personally I am grateful for the enforced learning, but I do venture to hope that...

third volume has mis- understood the purport of the book. The Bishop, in a letter to me on December 14th, 1944, said: " I am trying to complete a supplemental volume which would...

SIR WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS lamented in this column three weeks ago that he had never known so many nests deserted. I am by no means so accomplished an observer of birds' weddings...

Some years ago I found the library at Kew happy to accept and house a collection which my grandfather had made in his boyhood of the wild flowers about his home at Clapham. The...

SIR.—NO one but a churl would fail to be delighted with such a review as Mr. Vulliamy's of my Underworld and Here, There and Everywhere. May I, however, comment on several minor...

A table-lamp of sycamore, in the excellent display of handmade furniture lately staged by the Rural Industries Bureau at the Victoria and Albert Museum, revived in my mind the...

If ever that map of the wild flowers should come to be c drawn, I should owe its most distinguished entry to the kindness of a stranger. Years ago I received a small parcel, the...

readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold copies are...

46 HEIR capacity to read continuously for any length of time being 'limited, they can absorb knowledge better if they get it in small quantities: therefore they will often read...

The Treatment of Offenders The Young Lag. A Study in Crime. By Sir Leo Page. (Faber. 18s.) Jr is frequently said both by lawyers and lay magistrates that the task of a Court in...

William Stukeley. By Stuart Piggott. (Clarendon Press. ifls.) IT is a strange and infantile propensity of the grown mind which. even in the company of sober scholarship,...

AFTER his dozen years in California Aldous Huxley remains a most sensitive recorder of the aesthetic emotion, and one of the most accomplished writers of the century. What he...

John Dryden.. By David Nichol Smith. The Clark Lectures, 1948-.0. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) THE study of English literature as a branch of learning has spread widely...

Saviour and Christ Church, Southwark. (The County Hall. 3os.) THE first feeling aroused by this volume must necessarily be one of pleasurable anticipation. The detailed Survey...

Northcliffe in History. By Tom Clarke. (Hutchinson. I6s.) MR. Tom CLARICE has produced an excellent portrait of Northcliffe (Alfred Harmsworth), and has made that great...

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John Burns: Labour's Lost Leader. A biography by William Kent. (Williams and Norgate. 25s.) MR. WILLIAM KENT is already the editor of An Encyclopaedia of London, and he has now...

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By CUSTOS AFTER a fortnight's slow but steady ascent, the gilt-edged market has paused for breath, and some stocks have slipped back a little. The advance revealed the pivotal...