the remaining British tech- nicians in Abadan is modified within the next few days it will either have to be complied with or resisted by force. The grounds on which forcible...

The news that Mr. Gaitskell gave on Tuesday of the state of the British dollar balance and of the possibility, which was discussed at the Ottawa Conference, of an increase in...

say that the prayers of the nation for the King have been answered. The warning that anxiety must remain for some days holds good still. Not for a week or ten days more will it...

The result of the Australian referendum on an amendment to the Constitution which would make the enforced dissolution of the Communist Party possible leaves the Communists...

The combination of Oriental touchiness with Communist `Tigidity continues to bedevil the prospects of a truce in Korea, where early this week the Chinese delegate walked out in...

The Victoria Falls conference on Central African confedera- tion has not been a success in the sense of registering any visible progress towards a goal desired on the whole by...

The situation in Western Germany is difficult, and might easily ;become disturbing. For that there are three reasons. The pro- posal of the East German Prime Minister, Herr...

F ' ROM the public calm and private bustle in which the parties are writing their election manifestoes One unmis- takable fact has emerged. The Tories intend to place great...

fortnight ago, was a great success. Mr. Cox, established in a far corner of the London Library's reading-room, ,held regal court while his admirers queued to pay him...

School Fund. Let me tell you all I can. The idea is to raise 0,000 to help a schoolmaster to secure adequate premises for his school which was closed down in March owing to its...

Shar- ing to the utmost, as it does, the anxiety of the Queen and the Princesses and Queen Mary, the nation can still, I hope, spare a thought for the doctors who are bearing so...

at the opening of the new Parliament will be read by the Lord Chancellor. But who will the Lord Chancellor be ? Quite possibly, of course, Lord Jowitt, as at present. But the...

publish a strip cartoon (daily, I think) in the Daily Herald. The experiment will be watched with hope and interest by his friends and admirers, who have been genuinely...

considerations. Leading politicians, it seems, may not only be heard by millions, but seen by rather fewer millions. That involves what may be the quite momentous decision as to...

By WILSON HARRIS T HE reign of King Edward VIII is unique in English history. It is not quite the briefest, for Edward y was on the throne for no more than ten weeks as a boy...

By LORD ABERDARE* FTER the undisputed success of the recent Youth Rally in Berlin people are wondering what this country can offer its boys and girls Which will be as...

By HENRY DURANT* T HE number of people in this country who are really interested in politics is, as compared with many Con- tinental countries, rather low. Opinion poll results...

By H. C. A. GAUNT (Headmaster of Malvern) T HE alarm clock broke silence at fifty-five minutes after midnight. Agamemnon, knowing it was five minutes too early, grunted and...

"SPECTATOR" Please write:— THE CIRCULATION MANAGER, "Spectator," 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1.

By MARION PICK G ' EESE may daunt a nervous person. They rush forward , with necks outstretched ; they surge around one hissing and pecking, and there is a general view that...

. By JULIAN CIUTCHLEY (Pembroke College, Oxford) HERE appeared some time ago in a news-reel some short but dramatic pictures of a student riot in Paris. For a brief moment one...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I OFTEN recur to the theme of young people being taught foreign language's. -I do so because I hope that my words may come to the ears or eyes of those...

"The Lady With a Lamp." (Warner.) — " Cyrano de Bergerac." (Carlton.) THE old argument about whether historical films (or historical plays and historical novels for that matter)...

of course. Unused to it, how can we pass judge- ment on it ? Thus the general reaction, accompanied by wonder and an amazed shaking of heads. But it is a false respect ; the...

THEATRE " Tamburlaine the Great." By Christopher Marlowe. (Old Vic.). WHEN one used to read this play the words were everything ; there was nothing else ; and the words,...

OF all the improbable discoveries to be made in 1951 that of a modern Danish symphonist is the most improbable. That anything like Carl Nielsen's symphonies should have been...

Tim last Arts Council Festival exhibition is by no means the least. For showing at the New Burlington Galleries Mr. Brinsley Ford has selected more than 200 British...

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Set by Peter Townsend - There is an even more acute shortage of newsprint, and the national daily papers have grouped themselves into an association to effect fair...

of £5 was offered for two long-felt-want-filler-devices which science has not yet invented but which the ordinary person really needs in this inodern age. If Spectator...

Disappearing Clergy- Slit.-1 will try to deal with the main points raised by your correspon- dents. (1) Mr. - K. C. Stuart is worried because I refer to the priesthood as a...

SIR,—The Third Programme broadcast on this subject by Miss C. V. Wedgwood was able and stimulating. There is no doubt that the , Puritan outlook on life, which was dominant with...

vacant charges in the Church, why does mother Church not turn to that great untapped source of supply, the women of the Church, and ordain them to the Ministry? The position of...

demonstrate its provinciality it •' could hardly have done so more thoroughly than by uttering one scornful sentence: "The question of State-aid for denominational schools is...

purpose of both institutions i3 the same, the means employed are — radically different. Misinformed enthusiasm in the last century per- mitted the confiscation of a large...

SIR,—In answer to Dr. Vaughan Williams I should like to say that I omitted the name of Gerald Finzi from my West Country musitians through no disrespect for his muse but for...

THE invasion of Cuba, is finally suppressed. The leader has been publicly executed ; the Cubans have evinced no sympathy with him or his followers; the surviving Americans who...

Sig—Having myself visited Tito's Country" in July, I was much inter- ested by Mrs. Barbara Castle's article which appeared in your issue of September 14th. While endorsing all...

SIR,—Three weeks ago it was "The Disappearing Clergy." Last week "The Drsappearing Horse." I look forward with interest to the next article in this series.—Yours faithfully, `...

SIR,—In company with thousands of other admirers of Janus I have always regarded him as, quiffs , " rightly, a stickler for the correct use of the Englishianguage. I was...

examples of nature's overplus. There are diminutive forests of the scarlet-knobbed clubs of the wild arum in every ditch, wood, thicket, hedge and waste. Assembled in such...

About two-thirds of my apple and pear trees are now cordons and espaliers, and in a bounteous year what an overwhelming vantage they possess over standard trees! Their...

The other visitation is the crane-fly or daddy-longlegs, which moves in hosts over meadow and lawn and at night invaded houses all through .September, presumably driven by one...

Figs are always problematical in a garden, unless one goes to the considerable trouble of building a brick container round their roots on planting. Otherwise, the fig will only...

I HAVE heard to my astonishment that many orchards in Kent, Cornwall and parts of Hampshire have a crop of apples which, compared with last year's, is as penurious as are our...

• The Worm at the Root Leslie Stephen. By Noel gilroy Annan. (MacGibbon and Kee. 2ss.) Mn. Ar■iNik has written a study - iii intellectual ecology. "It is worth while," he says,...

DID any responsible person in England really desire the trial of Field-Marshal von Manstein, at the age of 64 and after five years of delay ? The vast majority of the British...

Doctors by Themselves. An Anthology compiled by Edward F. Griffith. (Cassell. 2 IN spite of a rather dusty remoteness in many of the extracts, Dr. Griffith's well-arranged...

Hollywood, The Dream Factory. By Hortense Powdermaker. (Seeker and Warburg. 18s.) DR. HORTENSE POWDERMAKER, who has written a book on the Stone Age culture of the Melanesians...

THESE three books illustrate a problem that has faced many Jews in the century and a half since the ghetto, walls fell—that of the quest for a faith to replace' Jewish...

it Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles. Edited IT is just a little over a hundred years since John Russell Bartlett published his Dictionary of Americanisms : A...

Monmouthshire. By Olive Phillips. County Books Series. (Hale. is.) THE County Books Series has maintained so high a standard of authorship and production. that it r haS earned...

Hobbes and His Critics. By John Bowie. (Cape. /Os. 6d.) I KNOW nothing of the book-trade, but I should not expect a study of the seventeenth - century critics of Thomas Hobbes...

My Son is Mortal. By Ethel Vance. (Collins. los. 6d.) So many books—so little space to praise them. Or perhaps appraise would be a fairer word, for there's no pretending that...

By CUSTOS NOT since devaluation have stock markets been given such a powerful stimulus as they have received from the announcement of the election date. The immediate...

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