/ ' N all circumstances,' the footplatemen's union boasted last week—excusing themselves for their refusal to co-operate with the NUR—'we can be relied upon to play the trade...

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T HE week's news has been thundery; not only has the weather broken in some parts of the British Isles, but the international climate has also shown signs of depart- ing from...

T HE wave of unofficial strikes for substantial wage increases has taken West Germany by surprise. It is the country's first experience of unofficial strikes on a major scale...

By HENRY FAIRLIE S IX weeks ago, before he left for the Far East, I commented on the speed with which Mr. Lennox-Boyd had acted to avert a serious constitutional crisis in...

work and for its invention of a royal barbecue, I do not think the press's silly season has been any sillier than Mr. Aneurin Bevan's. A fortnight ago Mr. Bevan was much...

a portable TV set being brought down to a crowded beach. 'Calm your- self,' one of the sunbathers tells her indignant husband : 'it was bound to happen.' It has happened. At the...

year. The reduction is roughly one quarter of the troops she main- tains in excess of those she is allowed under the peace treaty with the allies, but, of course, it is the...

I AM INTERESTED in the news of the preparations for the Duke of Edinburgh's Study Conference on the Human Problems of Industrial Communities within the Commonwealth and Empire....

'IF BREASLEY had been able to prevent Va Presto from bumping Acropolis . . .'—Daily Express. 'THE ONLY bumping that appeared to have occurred seemed to have been done by...

on their profit. I should feel happier about the Corporation's future if its executive would learn how to handle its staff as 'satisfactorily as the staff handle their...

me,' Elsa Maxwell (Daily Mail, August 30). 'A CAT may look at a king,' said Alice.

BY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS M ANY articles and letters have made their general protest against the fourteen-day rule in the name of free speech, and a number of articles—notably that...

BY H. PHILLIP LEVY T HE reasons given for the banning of reports of Parliamentary debates in the eighteenth century were much the same as the reasons given for the fourteen- day...

BY A. RIZO-RANGABE* L IKE most of my countrymen. I have followed with a poignant sense of foreboding the increasing tension in the traditionally close ties of Anglo-Greek...

BY EVELYN WAUGH F ROM the extremity of the circle, which a, Stratford-on- Avon is politely misnamed a 'box,' every face in the audience can be plainly seen. Dense, devout,...

CCORDING to the labour exchange he owned two businesses: a café between the arches of the Palace Pier, and a rock shop on the promenade. We found him in the café sitting at a...

A Poaching Laird T HE monsoon may have broken by the time these words appear in print, but meanwhile the Highlands of Scot- land, or at least the deer-forest where I am, are...

The 'New' Conservatism Patrick Medd Thomas the Rhymer John Davenport Compromise on Cyprus Ursula Branston Arts Council Policy Philip James Bryan Robertson Belloc `Anadyomenos'...

SIR,—Mr. Archer is justified in asserting that Dylan Thomas was not a major poet. No such claim was made for him by me or by himself. He gave himself a B+, which may have been...

SIR,—We should like to bring to the attention of your readers that since Professor Zeine wrote you about the persecution of the Baha'is in Iran an Iranian Cabinet Minister has...

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tion of Mondriaan at the Whitechapel Art Gallery Mr. Basil Taylor. states that this exhibition reflects unfavourably upon the exhibition policy of the Arts Council 'at any rate...

Mondriaan exhibition Mr. Basil Taylor refers to this Gallery as 'self-supporting and modestly endowed,' and then refers to the Arts Council. May I take this opportunity of...

SIR,—I agree with much in Mr. Harold Soref's letter, but surely he is wrong in saying 'Up to three years ago AKEL, the local Communist Party, was opposed to enosis.' On the...

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Festival Blues As the last maroon echoes over the castle, as the last cocktail is drunk and the last dramatic critic speeds southwards with an increased blood alcohol content...

THE faint grumbling in the background is pre- sumably intended to suggest the noise of waves breaking on shingle. It more closely resembles snoring, a response that the first...

ENGLISH sculptors have been particularly faithful in the past forty years to the sculptural orthodoxies of the period. No artists have been so devoted to the principle that...

GLYNDEBOURNE'S new production of Verdi's Falstaff has been the outstanding musical experience of the festival. It is very much Italian in musical conception and performance, all...

complaint is of an excessive reverence that dropped the announcers' voices to that low, faintly quivering pitch reserved, as a rule, for death and disaster. Some things, of...

SEPTEMBER 4, 1830 A LAKE OF GENEVA. — The Furet de Londiel, says: 'There was consumed in England lo,s' year twenty-four millions (!) gallons of gel.' An amateur has calculated...

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MILTON REGAINED. POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, VOLUME 2 —Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, Poems Upon Several Occasions Both English and Latin. Edited by Helen Darbishire....

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MAKE A SIGNAL! By Jack Broome. (Putnam, 16s.) BECAUSE this book is about the engineering branch of the Royal Navy its period is the nineteenth century when the Navy, extern-...

KINGSLEY Amis's second novel is happily unlike his first. I say this not from any dislike of the amusing but overlong and quite hysterically overpraised Lucky Jim, but from...

THOSE who dream of the miniature trains which England knew and lost can turn to Mr. Morgan's survey of little old trains in the Low Countries, France, Italy, Austria,...

HAGGAR admirably fills the gap left since the publication in 1929 of Herbert Read's Staffordshire Pottery Figures, supplementing our knowledge not only of the more famous...

SCO'TLAND. By G. S. Fraser and Edwin Smith. (Thames and Hudson, 42s.) PUBLISHERS, whether of newspapers, maga- zines or hard-cover books, have long recow nised that the British...

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FitzRandolph in her painstaking booklet has had them, and per- haps the harassed guide, principally in mind. Both will find the answers to their historical problems succinctly...

a curious feature of the book: 'a kind of deprecatory self-conscious- ness which occasionally appears as a mild burlesque of the narrator's own art.' Mr. Campbell writes of...

One of the pleasures of harvest used to be when the binder came to the last two or three cuts of corn. An army gathered with guns and sticks to deal with the rabbits, and there...

We were talking not long ago about an old dog owned by two members of the family, and it was remarked that the dog in his declin- ing years has become inordinately jealous of...

is to have it out in the open and to alternate layers of vegetable matter with layers of soil, keeping the heap confined and yet aerated by means of a stout mesh wire enclosure...

THREE prizes of eight guineas each are offered for the three best original descriptive reports (between 500 words and 750 words) of any notable event occurring between July 1,...

be a review of London's -political statuary and that some of the 'lesser lights, no longer so highly valued as at their deaths' should be returned to the towns they represented...

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT has been obvious for some time that we have been trying to do too much—that the Chancellor's expansionist policy had re- leased an investment boom...

By CUSTOS WHETHER or no Mr. Butler now pretends there is no economic crisis no one can deny that there is a Butlerian crisis in the stock markets. The industrial share index...