The United States, according to Mr. Hassibi, adviser on oil to Dr. Moussadek, " by being hoodwinked by John Bull, has unwittingly lost favour with the Persians." That variation...

p ROFESSOR A. V. HILL, the Duke of Edin- burgh's successor in the Presidency of the British Association, could have chosen no more immediate and important question for his...

Much bustle and confusion has been caused in Japanese political circles by the Prime Minister's decision to dissolve the Diet and to hold elections for the House of...

The economic task for his Government which M. Pinay out- lined in his speech at Caen last Sunday was one which could hardly be within that Government's exclusive control. The...

A great deal may yet happen before November 4th, but the course of the American Presidential campaign so far has already justified one conclusion. There is going to be no easy...

All that can be said about South Africa at the moment is that something is blowing up that will leave the last state of the Union worse than the first. It may be a General...

and action are at this moment clearly distinguishable. The President of the Trades Union Congress, Mr. Arthur Deakin, has said that wage claims should be made with reason-...

am thinking of taking up a new one now. It is the breeding of death-watch beetles. I shall train these diligent little creatures to a high pitch of activity and enterprise, and...

unknown to readers of this column by reason of his connection with the ridiculous Academie et University Internationale (a large blue seal of which adorns his envelopes) has...

W. L. Grane in the course of the past week had that effect on me, for I remembered well a volume, The Passing of War, by W. L. Grane, which made a considerable impression before...

are less disastrous because they bring out fine qualities in human beings. Attempts to justify war on that principle leave me cold. But it is impossible not to be astonished and...

I T is possible to challenge the Home Secretary's recom- mendation of a reprieve for John Thomas Straffen on the ground that his continued existence is of no benefit to himself...

averages were headed by two amateurs—the only amateurs included in the first eighteen—and without opportunity to consult the records exhaustively I will risk the assertion that...

1. Who's Who 2. Who Was Who 3. Black's Medical Dictionary 4. The Book of Saints Cause and effect as between (3) and (4) are manifest. All the volumes are advertised (in this...

By Professor NORMAN SYKES, D.D. * cc 0 the contract of marriage," observed Dr. Johnson to Boswell, " besides the man and wife, there is a third party—Society; and, if it be...

I By OLIVER STEWART D ELTA-WING aircraft carried the richest implications at the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Flying Display and Exhibition at Farnborough this...

By WILLARD PRICE N ATIONS beset with the problem of race-relations might well study Brazil. " Here, nobody white, nobody black, all Brazilian," was the way a Rio news- boy...

By REGINALD GIBBON C OINING a word to express a natural sound, the choristers speak of their " chatterchism," or use " chattlechism " as an occasional variant. The chatter motif...

decrease in Church atten- dance one reason given is the quality of the sermons and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of today. This criticism may be just or unjust. In...

Headhunters in Hospital By P. J. DIXON (Jesus College, Cambridge). T HE Military Hospital stood in an open, level plain, on land which had been worked for tin years before....

By HAROLD NICOLSON S TAYING this week in a country house in Norfolk I found in my room a little book entitled The Elizabethan Home. Although it was first published in a limited...

Casque d 'Or. (Academy.)—Dedee. (La Continentale.)—Les Miserables. (Odeon.) Tins is a grand week for slumming ; a grand week for brothels, rainswept quaysides, lust, cheap...

THEATRE The Comedy of Errors. By William Shakespeare. (Royal Court.) THE Group Theatre has waved a wicked wand over the farce and translated it into " a diversion in the...

" Lira's a pleasant institution : let us take it as it comes." What a jolly, reassuring apophthegm and what eminently sensible, if difficult advice ! Did it, 1 wonder, seem at...

Festival Ballet. (Royal Festival Hall.) Dancers of Bali. (Winter Garden Theatre.) THE Festival Ballet's strength lies in its male dancers, and so in a recent programme the high...

this country of Wozzeck, has now brought us for the first time, at the Edinburgh Festival last Friday, another of the landmarks in the history of post-Strauss opera, Hindemith's...

A prize of £5 was offered for a four-line epitaph on an English drought. The drought, whether actually dead or, as many insisted, only moribund, had left many with their muses,...

Sugar and spice and all things nice. • • Competitors are invited to take this nursery rhyme, not too slavishly, as a model, and in similar vein to compose not more than eight...

the same motive force as that which promotes any other action in life. When such a grain is buried in the soil, it refuses to remain entombed; it bursts at one end and begins...

The opening of the Free Library at Manchester is a " great feat," worthy of the attendance that inaugurated it, although that attendant company comprised the greatest and...

The Conquest of Death Sur,—Dr. Geiringer's distinguished articles and the resulting correspon- dence have raised important points which call for some further elucidation,...

Snt,—Your sober comments on the case of Herr Krupp are welcome. What has been depressing in many of the letters in the daily Press has been not so much their conclusions (which...

When Janus is dining at Caius He can scarcely be quite at his aius If they offer him puns Or three-ha'penny buns He only says " Plains give me chaius."

Catholic and High Anglican views on divorce being accepted as the Christian attitude can be supported by the example of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Church of Scotland...

Snt,—Not bad about dockers and Caius but slightly juvenile surely ! However, better that way than that Janus should get Magdalene before

Sut,—In your leading article on Soviet strategy you state that it may be 'taken for granted that " Russia contemplates equal representation for the 18-million population of...

SIR,1 believe that Herr Friedlaender is mistaken when he suggests that the annexation of the Saar has at any time been a French objective during or since the last world war. The...

Sm,—Mr. Nicolson's references to the television coverage of the political conventions in Chicago (Spectator—August 1st) are misleading and Llike to think that had he seen the...

SIR, —Sir Gilmour Jenkins's suspicion that I have read no more than the title of Dr. Vaughan Williams's Who wants the British Composer? is not, in fact, justified; but even if...

in the Church of England to what he calls " high Anglican opinion." The Archbishop of Canterbury has many times proclaimed the official attitude of the Church on this...

when the topsoil is free from moisture. Use a fork for the job and treat them gently, however firm they seem. Dry them out on a concrete path or lay them on a corru- gated roof....

freak birds in our vicinity, but now they seem to have gone. One of the most frequently seen was a mealy-coloured house sparrow that flew with a large flock of other sparrows...

of the Rothamsted Experimental Station at Harpenden covers the findings of Dr. C. G. Butler, of the Bee Department, working on the importance of perfume in the discovery of food...

my head I swung my arm and drove him away and as he evaded the blow he went into the spider's web. The tension caused by his struggles sent messages along every support of the...

RECENTLY I was invited to take part in a badger " hunt." The sport in this locality takes the form of perching in a tree with a gun loaded with number four or heavier shot and...

Threshold of Victory f This, presumably, is the penultimate volume of Mr. Churchill's great war-history. The final volume, which must be well advanced in preparation, will...

a biography of Fanny Brawne ; Dr. Keith Felling " Lord Chatham : A War Minister in the Making," by 0. A. Sherrard ; Honor Croome Beatrix Potter's " The Fairy Caravan " ; and...

to replace Ward's English Poets, since now, obviously, no one would have shelf-room for a " Chalmers," sets out to present the tradition of poetry written in English ; it...

The Book of Cricket. By Denzil Batchelor. (Collins. 42s.) MANY years ago G. W. Beldam, who played for Middlesex, produced a book called Great Batsmen ; Their Methods at a...

THE theory long held by most European and nearly all American anthropologists is that in the distant past some very lowly savages with a very primitive cultural equipment made...

Studies in British Financial Policy 1914-1925. By E. V. Morgan (Macmillan. 28s.) Studies in British Financial Policy 1914-1925. By E. V. Morgan (Macmillan. 28s.) HISTORY never...

A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music. By Thomas Morley. Edited by R. Alec Harman, with an Introduction by Thurston Dart. (Dent. 35s.) NOT only musicians, but also...

Museum Pieces. By William Plomer. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) Tom Tallion. By E. H. W. Meyerstein. (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) The Deceivers. By John Masters. (Michael Joseph, 12s. 6d.) MR....

THE State of Israel is now a little more than four years old, and already there is a formidable library of literature about it. The only real cause for surprise is that in a...

rew subjects more exasperating than the English theatre, that shabby, shape- less, bulging bag of tricks which has a way of spilling its contents infuriatingly whenever someone...

Good English : How to Write It. By G. H. Vallins. (Andre Deutsch. 15s.) GOOD books about the writing of English ought to be received with gratitude and read with attention....

By J. Basil Oldham. (Blackwell. 25s.) MR. OLDHAM has long interested himself in the history of Shrewsbury School—which he has served for many years as history-master,...

E. M. Forster. (Hogarth Press. 12s. 6d.) THERE is nothing in this collection of short stories and critical essays by various hands to suggest that anything very new or•...

By CUSTOS ALTHOUGH some of the steam has gone out of the stock-market rise there is nothing to suggest that the City has abandoned its new-found hopefulness. Gilt-edged, which...

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