T HE aim of the first year's operations was to clear 150p00 acres of bush for planting by the end of 1947. That is from Cmd. 7334, East African Groundnuts Scheme, Review of...

The passage of the Parliament Bill for the third time through the House of Commons on Monday by the Government's usual majority was, of course, a foregone conclusion. There is...

Any observers who may have been wondering when the " incidents " on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border were going to develop into a major armed attack from the East were almost...

The Hague conference on Indonesia, which has just completed its labours, was the first attempt since 1945 to achieve a comprehensive settlement of all outstanding problems in...

The disappointment among Germans which followed Monday's non-committal statement by the British High Commissioner on the subject of dismantling was undoubtedly heightened by the...

The Chief of the Imperial General Staff has completed a tour of British garrisons which took him as far East as Hongkong ; and Mr. Malcolm MacDonald is presiding over a...

The part played by M. Georges Bidault and by his party, the Mouvement Republicain Populaire, in the long crisis in France has been straightforward and honest. It ended last...

1 T has been a quiet week at Westminster, the subdued tone of questions and debates being matched by the thin curtain of fog which has shrouded every corner of the Palace and...

Attempts to elicit information from Ministers about their intentions regarding the future of conscription have so far been unsuccessful, and at this stage it is right that they...

M R. PAUL HOFFMAN, the head of the Economic Co-operation Administration, is a public servant with an unenviable task. He has had to hustle members of the Organisation for...

existence Messrs. Longmans, the publishers, have to their credit. Someone now sends me a letter from a Birmingham firm, Messrs. Ottway and Company, Limited, bearing a note at...

extremely interesting, but the sub-heading: " RELATIONS BETWEEN ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WORLD" shakes me a little. Is this contrast really necessary ? Perhaps it is. Anyhow, the...

being carried on by the Foreign Office at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, in the form of courses in British political practice, and indeed political practice generally, for selected...

My good intentions deserved a better welcome. It is all a question, it seems, of carbon copies. That is why, in writing to "Dear Janus," my acquaintances must put my address on...

are home again, slipping into Plymouth Sound past Rome Head and Cawsand Bay, like so many famous vessels from Drake's ' Golden Hind' onwards. Their reception in London is still...

I am sorry about burioice. It appears to have not only puzzled but annoyed. It represents a certain mispronunciation of bourgeois. But let it be forgotten.

AT ground the Political Correspondent of The Observer has for saying that (in Tory circles) " the belief now is that there will not only be a Conservative victory, but that it...

By RAWLL KNOX A MONG regular attendants at European conferences there must by now be a strong tendency to cry leprechaun every time an Irish delegate rises to his feet. The...

By MARGHANITA LASKI A F TER the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the Sephardic communities scattered throughout the world. It was from the great community of Amsterdam that...

How should our children guess We once were the same Who have so grotesquely outgrown that name ? A frog-prince wins their credence, But what son or daughter delves Into our...

By HONOR CROOME. W HEN Lord Bruce last week warned a National Savings rally at the Guildhall that Government policy was placing the movement in a position where it could not...

ByGARETH LLOYD I N the Radnorshire hills, where these lines are written, we are seeing the effect of Whitehall's agricultural policy not in changing hues of grey but in the...

SPECTATOR—CHRISTMAS NUMBER TO BE PUBLISHED ON 18th November at the usual price ed. Contributors to this issue Include :- Sir Patrick Abercrombie Lord Beveridge Peter...

By C. M. WOODHOUSE T HE impending withdrawal of British troops from Greece, announced earlier this week in the House of Commons by the Under-Secretary of State for Forcign...

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Their Gap and Mine By J. A. FOWLES (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) R. ATTLEE'S recent announcement 'of economy measures to be taken has woken me from a state of moneyless stupor,...

CURRER BELL'S " SHIRLEY " IN several respects this " tale " exhibits a considerable improvement upon the novels that under the name of Bell with several prefixes have excited...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T 0 be displeased by what is universally esteemed suggests a shabby mind. There arc people who, in discontent with this vivid but distracting world, seek...

A TRIPLE bill at the Leicester Galleries. Dora Gordine's supple and orientalised figures are well known. Though she attends with some care to matters of texture and colour, she...

The Search." (Ritz.)—"Une Si Jolla Petite Plage." (Rialto.) "Little Women." (Empire.) The Search is a dramatic appeal in semi-documentary form for the displaced children of...

THE THEATRE Before the Party." By Rodney Ackland. Based on a Story by W. Somerset Maugham. (St. Martin's.) THE fact that Laura was a murderess need not really have bothered...

In television, London Town continues to explore the metropolis, using film sequences with studio annotation. It is excellently de- signed and carried out with a smooth vivacity....

Both on The Problem of Patriotism and on The Meeting of Britain and Europe, Mr. Birley was wise and humane, and original without being eccentric. His analysis of England's...

THE first performance of Rosenkavalier in the autumn season at Covent Garden, with a new and almost entirely British cast, provided a good specimen example of the company's...

Thus," I said to myself while listening, " will read better when the Listener prints it." And so it did. It was the first of the new series of Rcith Lectures, given by Mr....

There was good question-and-answer in Town Forum Visits Holland. In Amsterdam four British speakers answered questions about Britain from their Dutch hosts. There is always a...

Sta,—You are, of course, right in your criticism of Mr. Attlee's pro- gramme curtailing our present national expenditure. The subsequent debate in the House on these proposals...

Dom Columba Cary-Elwes' article, one yet tresses any logical conclusion. The plight of Spain which he describes (shortages, &c.) is on his own admission due partly to natural...

An Alternative to Franco SIR,—T would be grateful for a little space to clarify a few points. It is true one does not meet Communists in Spain ; theYdo not advertise them-...

Sta,—Bishop Tubbs's appeal in the Spectator of October 28th has beep accompanied by scarcely veiled criticisms affecting the good name and policy of S.P.G., and, if these are to...

Sis,—The disturbing news that Gold Coast farmers are opposing the steps taken to arrest Swollen Shoot disease is not surprising to anyone who has lived in West Africa and has...

Sta,—I am very loth to charge your paper with an error of taste or judge- ment, and so I presume that the article on last week's Undergraduate page called Portrait of Lita was...

only an error of judgement, but also an act of treachery to clean-living youth. " If the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" —Yours sincerely, W....

Ssa,—There are a couple of points arising from the review by C. E. Vulliamy of The Four Bronzes, by Lawrence and E. M. Hanson, in the Spectator of October 21st, which it is...

F.R.C.S. Ophthalmic Surgeon," is worthy of close scrutiny since it reveals the attitude of mind of some ophthalmic surgeons towards the supply of spectacles under the National...

by professional gardeners, 10 sow sweet-pea seed in a section of inverted turf, which, being coherent, did away with the need fort flower-pot. This principle, in a rather...

The migrations of birds are not as a rule greatly influenced by weather. They set off on their journeys, whether south or north, at dates that do not widely differ from year to...

Sut,—In the Spectator of October 28th Mr. Tahmankar makes the plea that India should have a permanent seat on the Security Council. Obviously nothing would contribute better to...

The general greenness has been interrupted in places, not by symptoms of winter, but by summer flowers. On one common the harebells have seemed to take a new lease of life ; and...

mortal enemy to many farmers, especially in the north and west and on the hills. It is bad for sheep, not only because it destroys grass ; it is a harbourer of pernicious...

SIR,—I was so glad to see that in your last issue there was a paragraph complaining about our postal service. I don't understand the quiescence of the country under this...

succession of droughts produced a rare transformation scene. Complete greenness followed general brownness. Every grass field, every cofbmon is covered with a nap of fresh, lush...

Nostalgia on the Fifth A History of Fireworks. By Alan St. H. Brock. (Harrap. 21s.) PYROTECHNY is under a cloud nowadays, and this book's appearance is well-timed ; for, if we...

AT the time of his death, in 19v, Mr. Stannard, a distinguished historian and a member of the staff of The Times, had substantially completed this book, which has been admirably...

The Letters of Princess Charlotte, 1811-1817. Edited by Professor Arthur Aspinall. (Home and Van Thal. 42s.) "Sence and Sencibility I have just finished reading," wrote Princess...

Landscape into Art. By Kenneth Clark. (John Murray. 25s.) A CRITICAL approach to any particular facet of painting that takes in solely the aesthetic considerations, whilst...

well known as a broadcaster with 3 gift for "getting it across." This book contains chapters on the prophetic writings, the vocation of the prophets, the vocation of the people,...

The Poems of John Chre's Madness. Edited by Geoffrey Grigson. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 21s.) QUITE apart from its theme, there is a touch of split personality about .this...

The Age of Constantine the Great. By Jacob Burckhardt. Translated by Moses Haas. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 18s.) ONE of the minor joys of scholarship . lies in the...

Civic Theatre Design. By Richard Leacroft. (Dobson. 10s. 6d.) FRANK LLOYD Witicirr, in his eightieth year, has said of his pip- jected theatre at Hartford, Connecticut : " The...

Once Upon a Time. By Vaughan Wilkins. (Cape. 12s. 6d..) The Parasites. By Daphne du Maurier. (Gotlancz. Ils.) Two English and two American novels, and I could wish I had had...

Clay Under Clover. By Thomas Skelton. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) NAVVIES have been writers before this, and a few of them have been good writers. But sooner or later they have found...

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in G minor. Beethoven: Coriolan and Egmont Overtures. (Penguin Scores. 2s. 6d.) FOR half-a-crown each, Penguin Books have produced three minia- ture scores, presumably the...

By CUSTOS THE " balanced scheme of reconstruction " now announced by Sir Edward Wilshaw and his co-directors on the Cable and Wireless board fulfils my recent forecasts that...

& Co. 21s.) VERY little is known about the Druids. Mr. Spence has done a service in giving many references to the books he has consulted so that the reader can form a judgement...