British spokesmen have often urged that Egyptians and Sudanese should get together to settle their differences between themselves. For the past few weeks Cairo has been full of...

IN KENYA T HE silent, sullen threat represented by the Kikuyu tribesmen gathering in the inaccessible Aberdare Mountains dominates the scene in Kenya for the time being. Nobody...

The Bevanite group has " loyally " accepted the Parliamen- tary Labour Party's order for their disbandment in terms which virtually make nonsense of both the loyalty and the...

It seems probable that the objections raised in Press and Parliament will induce the Coronation Joint Committee and the Coronation Commission to reconsider the decision that the...

Dr. Moussadek has proved yet again that his bite is, if anything, worse than his bark. All the last-minute doubts about his intention to break off diplomatic relations with...

The Viet-minh offensive north-west of Hanoi has reached the Black River, which is reported to have been crossed by advanced elements south of Van-Yen. The crossing is not...

The Allied High Commission in Germany is wise in decid- ing, as it appears to have done, to take no official notice of the ill-conditioned and provocative speech delivered by a...

Ever since the war the whole question of fuel supplies in Britain has been dominated by the -warning, sharply fulfilled in February, 1947, that we are never far from the verge...

I T was refreshing on Monday to hear Sir Ian Fraser com- plain that the Ministry of Transport's refusal to restore turnpike roads showed lack of imagination. One sus- pected for...

The situation in which the finest products of British con- temporary industry are not available for home consumption is one to which the British public is growing accustomed....

B Y the time the next issue of The Spectator appears the American Presidential election will have been decided. Other elections will have "I:teen decided too, for the whole of...

John Braithwaite by the New York papers I prudently inserted the qualification " assuming the remarks attributed to him were authentic." Apparently they were not. What Mr....

edition de luxe of Trollope's novels which the Oxford Univer- sity Press is publishing, I am reminded of the appreciation that volume secured from a rather unexpected quarter....

publicly a foul attack made on Sir William Strang, the per- manent head of the Foreign Office, in a recent issue of a Sunday paper. In view of the fact that a civil servant...

ago consists, I am told, of a letter addressed to this journal by four writers, of whom one was Frederic Engels and the other Karl Marx. Its interest is increased by the fact...

in Kenya it is Mr. Fenner Brockway, M.P.; and if there is one place where Mr. Fenner Brockway had better not be it is Kenya. He is a man with whom enthusiasm—often, no doubt,...

proper pro- fessional pride at the omniscience of the British Press. We possess papers that can see what never happened and hear what was never said. The latest journal to...

the treatment of criminals, but it is rather easy to slip over the border into sentimentality and indulgence. When I read, as I did on Tuesday, that a revolution in our prison...

of Commons on Monday produced none of the reassurance that was needed. One answer was that no system of automatic train control, such as was adopted by the Great Western Railway...

to be, and is, a purely personal approach to the problems which confrpnt the Labour Party. My only qualification for that is licit I am a very bad party politician. Although l•...

NIVERSITY teachers of politics are accustomed to point out to their pupils that the ancient City States, in which the democratic idea and vocabulary were born, asked much more...

By CANON S. P. KERR (Cathedral Rectory, Lisburn) (To whorl! the First Prize in this category has been awarded.) 66 T HE common people heard him gladly." Mark xii, 37. The...

By ROGER PILKINGTON N 0 nation is so positively lithophilic as the British, and it is surprising that this facet of the national character has not been more widely investigated...

of Jesus College and • Elizabeth Trowell 'of Girton College, Cambridge.

Oxford in Berlin By RICHARD COX (St. Catherine's College, Oxford). T HE Hebbel Theatre is only a stone's throw from the Russian sector; its ponderous stone facade overlooks an...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W E ought to benefit by experiences which, without causing acute 'discouragement or self-distrust, diminish spiritual pride. Living as we do in a haze of...

Masked Ball. By Giuseppe Verdi. (Royal Opera House.) FOR the performance of Verdi's Masked Ball, which opened the opera season at Covent Garden, Edward Dent not merely made a...

THEATRE Tim power of the stage as a propaganda medium is strikingly demonstrated at Hammersmith, where audiences are being nightly persuaded that the professional boxing...

Because You're Mine. (Empire.)—The Holly and the Ivy. (Carlton.)—It Started in Paradise. (Leicester Square.) THE human mind, and in particular the mind of the Selection Com-...

Gericault (Marlborough.) A Gericault exhibition is an event. It is 132 years since the Raft of the Medusa earned its author a small fortune by being toured round England...

International Dance Festival. (Albert Hall.) OF the 450 performers, only the French, Belgian and Brazilian dancers came to England specially for the occasion. The rest of the...

The rising of a hare from a particular part of a field day after day must surely increase its chances of being exterminated. A farm- dog learns to know where a hare rises, and a...

the moorland road in his little car. It was part of his patrol, he said, now that the grouse are more plentiful than in the war-years. He looked for poachers, and informed me...

or putting in new ones. Dig the ground well, and use a peat or old manure mixture to stimulate subsequent root-growth. Remember, in the case of standards, that the stake should...

sticks in the early afternoon and walking along the side of a fir-wood. A number of chickens were feeding on the turf, and, as A. approached, he saw a fox in the gorse that grew...

A CORRESPONDENT from Antrim asks how he may get rid of bracken that is encroaching on his garden. Bracken seems to flourish on light, well-drained soil as much as on peaty...

Report by John Usborile Kiplinfesque fables were called .for to explain a dog's circum- ambulations before curling up by the fire, the cuckoo's parasitic habits or the fact...

Set by Marghanita Laski Competitors are invited to offer 200 words from a novel of a kind that would be familiar to Jane Austen, but written in a language that would be almost...

SIR, —Mr. Derek Hudson's interesting review in your last number seemed to me to do discriminating justice to John Doyle's art as cartoonist. I should like to add a word. Mr....

Sm,—I hope Mr. J. H. Thomas was not complaining that so-called Bevanites had taken part in certain broadcasts; as a constant listener, I have found their lively participation...

Lowering the Odds Snt,—It is quite obvious that you must have published my letter to you dated September 28th, since one of your very earnest readers has written to me and...

Slit,—When Mr. Harold Nieolson points out that any real understand- ing of the mentality of a foreign nation is beyond the capacities of ordinary people, I am sure he is right.'...

Sm,—Dr. Wingfield-Stratford's remarks about the safety regulations on the railways are unfortunately true; but his example is inaccurate. He must be referring td the - collision...

Sta,—Here is a footnote to Michael Sadleir's fitting review of Green's A. E. W. Mason. In the 1906 Parliament, Mason was Liberal M.P. for Coventry. Early in. the first session,...

SIR,—It is sad to see Janus's grumble about £25 holidays on the Continent in last week's Spectator. My husband and I have just returned from a holiday in Italy, lasting nearly...

SIR,—Your issue of October 24th carries a paragraph over the signature of Janus which evokes relevant memories. I personally visited Morley at Elm Park Gardens and, after an...

THE COLOGNE PRISONERS London, 28th October, 1852. SIR, — The undersigned call. your attention to the attitude of the Prussian press, including even the most . reactionary...

Sm,—Will you be so kind as to allow me to thank, through your paper, the many readers who have written to me in reply to my letter about books for boys ? I started to reply to...

Evil First And Last Hider: A Study in Tyranny. By Alan Bullock. (Odhams. 25s.) Tins impressive and well-written book will doubtless remain the standard life of Hitler for many....

Spectator Harvest. (Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.) MR. WILSON HARRIS, in his foreword, suggests that this book ought, perhaps, to be called "Spectator Gleanings" rather than...

"Hymns and Human Life" by Erik Routley; Arthur Ransome "A Forgotten Journey by Peter Fleming; and Dr. Keith Felling a new edition of "Lord Hervey's Memoirs."

The Wreck of The Maid of Athens.' By Emily Wooldridge. Edited and illustrateeLby Laurence Irving. (Bles. 12s. 6d.) FOR a maritime nation, as Mr. Laurence Irving reminds us in a...

CHAUCER 'S description of the Man of Law could fittingly be applied to the late Lord Macmillan, fornpowhere was there so busy a man" and certainly "he was full rich of...

The Travels of Ibn Jubayr. Translated and edited by R. J. C. Broadhurst. (Cape. 42s.) DISCERNING readers of this most human book will enjoy the experience of gazing upon Mecca...

Atlantic Impact, 1861. By_Evan John. (Heinemann. 15s.) NOT since the appearance of Great Britain and the Civil War, by Professor E. D. Adams, a quarter of a century ago, have I...

No Stone Unturned. By Ian Hamilton. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) WHEN Ian Hamilton, an undergraduate of Glasgow University, manhandled the Coronation Stone into a car outside...

Westminster Hospital, 1719-1948. By John Langdon-Davies. (John Murray. 21s.) FORTUNATELY, of the two people who have written this book, Mr, Langdon-Davies, the historian, has...

Pastures New. By Ian Niall. (Heinemann. 10s. 6d.) JUSTIFICATION may doubtless be found for the title Pastures New, a volume succeeding Fresh Woods ; but to more literal . minds...

The Owner. By Inez Holden. (Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.) I WISH it were possible to praise more highly the novels of Mr. R. C. Hutchinson. I have read most- of them and have always...

By CUSTOS A Ham pound in the foreign exchange market, reinforced on the domestic front by the Chancellor's hint of the possibility of some modest reduction in taxation next...

IA Book Token for pee guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 11th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...

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