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T HE hopes of a great part of the world crowded round the representatives of the Four Powers during their meet- ing at Geneva. It was, above all, the negotiators' aware- ness of...

T HE Government's handling of our economic affairs this year has been very shaky. In many ways it is sadly reminiscent of the efforts of the Socialist administra- tions. The...

will contain, in addition to the usual features, the first instalment of a story SAMUEL DERONDA By JOHN WAIN SAMUEL DERONDA has been specially written for the Spectator, and...

ECENT disorders in Casablanca, as well as the insults offered to M. Grandval, the new French Resident- General, by a section of the European community, and the continuing...

I 4 T was not Sir Anthony's kind of conferqnce: remarked one British journalist about Geneva, where the meetings of the Big Four have overshadowed all other news of the week....

BY HENRY FAIRLIE p ARLIAMENT has risen for the summer recess. and the Chamber of the House of Commons is left, with its ghosts. to the parties of school children and curious New...

Council of Diplomas in Technology. He himself entered Rolls- Royce at the age of 18, and has remained there ever since. He thus, in his own career, represents the 'practical...

valuable assets of the Conservative Party. But the nature of his position and his reputation within the party have always seemed strange to me. Before the war he became...

national newspaper a bold, black paragraph containing the important news, from the British United Press Correspondent in Stockholm, that the entry on Mr. Malenkov in the new...

connection with any other publication bearing any part of this name.' He has obviOusly become aware of the existence of the Spectator of Bangalore. In the interests of peace I...

but a more curious example than the following (an advertisement by the New York District Company in Movie Stars' Parade) I have never seen : "If ye have faith as a grain of...

THE URGENT DESIRE of press, radio, and television corre- spondents, abroad in their hundreds to find out what goes on at high-level conferences, coupled with the natural desire...

BY MARK ROELOFS T HE Dixon Yates controversy has been a part of the American political scene for well over a year. There are some who fervently intend to keep it a part of that...

By BRIAN INGLIS REEDOM is choice,' a Director-General of the BBC, Sir Frederick Ogilvie, once wrote. 'Monopoly of broad- casting is inevitably the negation of freedom, no matter...

BY A. H. BARTON I WAS alone in San Francisco when I read that advertising at popular times on British TV would cost £1,000 a minute. Outside the window a passing trolley-bus...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN A s I am staying in London after Goodwood and not going to Cowes this year, nor even to my usual moor for. the Twelfth (the children and their nanny being sent...

Hero-Bashing H EROES—like gods, and for broadly similar reasons— were once a necessity to the human race. They were, and with primitive people still are, an inspiration, an...

hand in hand, and with the Government's clean air proposals must be linked the plea for a further extension of the use of mechanical stokers.—Yours faithfully, JOHN FOX...

U pshire, Waltham Abbey, Essex [This correspondence is now closed.—Editor, Spectator.]

These are difficult matters to measure, but it is easy to calculate the expense which their inclusion in Northern Ireland did not cause Eire. I refer to the £155,000,000 Eire...

Secretary KING COAL ABDICATES Although, short of economic collapse, it is plain that for some decades to come the demand for fuel and power must show an up- ward trend, the...

drives, or motives, behind her piece—which was to produce later the hysterical and ignorant out- burst of Waugh. After the seconds-long inci- dent on Mr. Waugh's doorstep, Miss...

subsequently all three governments—Westminster, Belfast and Dub- lin--ratified the tripartite agreement of 1925, establishing the border as it presently exists. It is worth...

situation as to imagine that there could be a Committee stage of a Northern Ireland Health Bill at Westminster or that Mr. Bevan was in any way responsible for the Health...

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The listener The Conference at the Summit PETER CALVOCORESSI Should Strikes be Prohibited by Law ? OTTO KAHN-FREUND The Liberal Muse II. The Reshaping of Parnassus A. G....

BENTWICH, formerly Professor of International Relations, Jerusalem University. Comprehen- sive, readable and up to date, this survey of the people and places of the Holy Land...

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in Washington, and it is interesting to find for the first time a descrip- tion of how Roosevelt hit upon 'quarantine' as the right word for the policy he vainly advocated in...