The enemy offensive in Korea has made swift and substantial gains, including a major penetration in a sector apparently mainly held by South Korean formations. It looks,...

What matters is that the American Government and people and the United Nations should turn their attention towards the hard military and political problems presented by the...

As the Schuman Plan for a European coal and steel community progresses from the stage of political negotiation to the stage of economic experiment, the need for a consistent and...

Certain figures in a Board of Trade announcement published on Monday constitute a further grave menace to the freedom of the Press in the fullest sense. There is, of course, no...

Relief that the Anglo-Argentine trade agreement has been signed at last seems to have outweighed the urge to exact penance 'from the persons responsible for this latest retreat...

Mr. John Foster Dulles. President Truman's special ereoy, 'is working.with a will at the task of explaining to the Japanese just how a Pacific defence pact between the United...

fort- night in which to produce a detailed scheme 'for the nationalisa- tion of the oil industry. The time allowed it to fulfil its task was absurdly short, and even if the...

On Monday Mr. Bevan explained a resignation which was understbod to be based in the first instance on his objection to the imposition on Health Service patients of a charge...

F ROM the moment of Tribune's unmeasured attack on the Budget and Mr. Gaitskell the drama unfolded itself rapidly. Mr. Bevanhad gone by Sunday, though the news was not published...

The Durham County Council has now yielded to pressure from the Minister of Education, and given the undertaking he requires that in future candidates for teaching posts under...

R. ANEURIN BEVAN, in his valedictory speech on Monday, suggested that so dramatic a resignation " might cause even some of our American friends to think before it is too late."...

/ WAS standing on the Wahn aerodrome, near Cologne, on Monday morning with a group of M.P.s when the plane from London arrived. One Labour Member hurried across to ask an...

Everyone took it for granted that if Sir Hartley Shawcross's place fell vacant for any reason, Sir. Frank Soskice would move up and Mr. Ungoed-Thomas become Solicitor-General....

American Threat to British Culture" on Sunday. The defender of British culture is to be Mr. Samuel Aaronovitch. The Communist Party is anxious to secure publicity for this fact...

The Shadow of the Gallows. which was reviewed in this journal last week. I am not sure that the most effective passage in the book is not that devoted to the reproduction of an...

week-end did very useful work, though no concrete results were achieved, or indeed attempted. Many problems—such as the shortage and cost of newsprint, the relation between news...

of duodenal ulcer is worry. " May I conclude by wishing you a speedy return to health and vigour? " Mr. Bevan to the Prime Minister.

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington A WAVE of emotion swept across the United States in the hours after General MacArthur had addressed the Con- gress, and the white surf boiled with...

By W. 0. BELL I N education, as in religion. " There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load." Education is a very personal...

By C. P. FITZGERALD Canberra I F there is no general disposition in favour of the blind acceptance of American . leadership, there is also a growing demand for a policy which...

gy WILLARD PRICE A THOUSAND miles up the Amazon in the city of Manaos lives a fabulous being whom the people of that region call the Emperor, because he rules a territory as...

By GLORGE ROBEY HERE is a narrow gulf between tolerance and intolerance, between narrow-mindedness and human understanding, and between the things which make us laugh and the...

MIDSUMMER MADNESS FOR CLUBS Certain gayly - disposed young gentlemen are carrying on a correspondence in the Morning Post, suggested by ideas more natural than mature. They...

Christianity in Oxford By DAVID EDWARDS (Magdalen College, Oxford) T HE most popular belief about Oxford is that its causes are lost ; this is held to apply to religion no less...

of all universities and university colleges in Britain. There is no limitation as to subject. and they should be about 1.400 words in length.]

By HAROLD NICOLSON M R. CLARENCE STREIT, the author of Union Now, has been paying a visit to Europe. He has had many opportunities of renewing relations with former friends and...

was written with more than one special purpose. It was written for the Religious Drama Society, who are promoting religious plays for the Festival of Britain, and Mr. Fry has...

a Born 'Yesterday." (Odeon.) — a The Tales of Hoffmann." (Carlton.)—" La Ronde." (Curzon.) MISS JUNE HOLLIDAY won an Oscar for her performance in Born Yesterday, the story of...

THEATRE Waters of the Moon." By N. C. Hunter. (Haymarket.) " How can we know the dancer from the dance ? " Or the dance from the dancer ? How can we know this play apart from...

THE exhibition of " Modern Books and Writers," which will be on view at the National Book League's headquarters until September. surely reflects great credit on its organisers,...

AFTER a barren winter at Wigmore Hall, with nonentity following nonentity in almost unbroken succession, the spring has brought two performers well above the average at any time...

Set by Margaret Usborne A prize of a which may be divided, is offered for an extract from a new Essay of Elia on one of the following subjects : Shaw's Corner in Hertfordshire...

Report by C. H. Lewis A prize was offered for not more than twelve additional lines to a " Hate Poem" beginning: I have been so great a lover, but I found Love not enough to...

The Future of Public Schools Sta.—Mr. Snow is quite right in saylhg that most L.E.A.s seem to reserve assistance to go to public schools for those who come from broken and...

Sia,—You appear to favour some form of home rule for Scotland. If different portions of this tiny island are to have different forms of government, would it not be sounder and...

SIIL—Mr. Watkins now seeks to abandon a merely bad position and to adopt instead a wholly untenable one. He now says that he never adopted the attitude that he objected to our "...

April 21st is marked in my diary as a memorable day, and its approach has made me keep a keen look out this year, for on this date in 1950 I had a visit from A hoopoe. It was my...

Farmer friends are already pointing out to me successes with both winter and spring corn that one could hardly have expected under the exceptionally wet conditions. Both October...

IN the glory of spring sunshine we shall soon forget the long wet winter with its unenviable records of cloud and precipitation. The other day I saw Bombylius, the bee fly, for...

Sia.—Mr. J. A. Nelder, in your issue of March 23rd, quoting from an article in which I had written, The hotels, if simple, are attractive and clean." asked whether it was...

SIR.—In his review of Viscount Templewood's book on capital punish- ment, Christopher Hollis quotes: "The experience of thirty-six States shows that abolition of the death...

There must be ceaseless activity now to make up for lost time. And necessary replanting in herbaceous borders and any pruning of roe trees that still remains to be done must he...

the time, of Christ Hebrew occupied the same position as Latin 'in the Middle Ages. In the synagogue the Law was read in Hebrew by the reader, and then paraphrased by the...

Sixty yards from my window across the water-meadows the river bounds my little realm. On the opposite side of the stream, and reflected in its waters, grew a splendid willow...

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S INCE the taste for Anatole France evaporated, few French novelists of our time have been widely read in translation in this country. Proust is more than ever a name to conjure...

The March of Education ' Tins book has many virtues, and not the least among them is that it is pleasant to read. Education suffers from the technical jargon with which some of...

Shelley : Selected Poetry, Prose and Letters. Edited by A. S. B. Glover. (Nonesuch Press. 223. 6d.) IF Mr. Glover has not done quite all that his publishers claim for him—if he...

Speranza. By Horace Wyndham. (Boardman. t se.) THE rural district now known as the Republic of Eire has suffered more severely from the antics of women exhibitionists than any...

English Husbandry. By Robert Trow-Smith. (Faber. Bs.) THE literature of our native farming is enormous, and yet I would venture to predict that Mr. Trow-Smith's contribution to...

The Lipton Story. By Alec Waugh. (Cassell, rtl. 6c1.) SINCE there must be many people who would like to be millionaires, there are probably many who will enjoy reading how...

FROM half-century to half-century—one would expect any story covering such,a broad span to have some sort of shape. It is Mr. Lynton Hudson's misfortune that the history of...

The Disappearance. By Philip Wylie. (Gollancz. t2s. 6d.) The Disappearance is a vision of what life might be like in the United States if all the women in the world suddenly...

By CUSTOS DOMESTIC politics have now reasserted themselves as a temporarily major influence in markets and have imposed the first real check on the post-Budget rise in...

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, May 8th. Erstelopes must...

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