A MERICA speaks with many voices, and some of those raised on the floor of the Senate have no very encourag- ing effect as they are borne across the Atlantic. But when one of...

April 2nd, 1951. when "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (S.H.A.P.E.) is activated as the headquarters of Allied Command Europe as of 0001 hours this date," may well...

Mr. John Foster Dulles' speech at Los Angeles last Saturday, following on the circulation to the Powers interested of America's proposals for a peace treaty with Japan, brings...

In Italy would-be Socialists have had several parties to choose from ; they could fellow-travel with the Communist-minded Signor Nenni, or share the responsibilities of office...

The quality which above all has made M. Vincent Auriol a very successful President of the French Republic can be called political courage. It is the quality which has again and...

Mr. Morrison's first speech as Foreign Secretary is none the worse for attempting nothing spectacular. The one thing it was essential to say—that he stood for peace before all...

Mr. Nehru is a man of great integrity, a lover of peace and an upholder of law. It is all the more distressing, therefore, that his speeches and actions concerned with Kashmir...

HAT everyone was concerned to discover when the House of Commons reassembled on Tuesday was whether the Easter holiday had quietened members' nerves and improved their tempers...

The developments in the Durham closed-shop controversy are equally Creditable to the professional associations concerned, particularly the National Union of Teachers, and the...

The list of increased postal charges announced by the Post- master-General is not quite as formidable as it looks, so far as the ordinary citizen is concerned. Telegrams are not...

By ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM JAMES EFORE the submarine and the aeroplane were developed into major weapons for maritime war the balance of sea- power could be seen at a glance from...

By JEAN-PAUL SARTRE H E was thought to be anointed and embalmed ; he dies and it is discovered how much he had remained alive. The embarrassment and resentment which were...

By PETER FLEMING T HIS is a time of year at which, for reasons I forget, the Chinese fly kites ; and it was to indulge this agreeably philosophic pastime that, on a March...

By JAMES LAVER T HE time has gone by when Fashion could be dismissed as a frivolity, and those who took an interest in its vagaries as triflers. It is, of course, a...

By OSCAR R. 110BSON p R ICES, as everyone knows, are going up hand over fist. Almost every day increases in some article or other of personal or household consumption are...

o PAINTERS, poets, wisdom drink From that small philosophic wit Who said, 'tis told, "I think a think, And then 1 make a line around it." When think and line (or words) well...

By VERNON BARTLETT S OMEWHERE near the Canary Islands our liner passed another ship, outward-bound. The ' Llanstephan Castle.' they told me, and my mind went back to the summer...

By LORD KINROSS A PHRODITE came from Land's End, the blunt nose of the island of Cyprus, pointing west towards Crete. The road here descends to a beach where the mountains have...

PRAISE be for little things, for all things small- " Small wonder that," and "little did he know " ; For small hours when the still small voice may call ; Small of the back, the...

HOUSE OP COMMONS: SUPPLY VOTES THE Vote of £16,901 for the Royal Military College was opposed by Colonel Reid, upon the ground of special objection to the examination of...

By MARGHANITA LASKI E VERY year, at about the end of February. I find myself consumed with an intolerable yearning to go to the south again. Of course, I dutifully remind...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE often asserted that, even if I were a rich man. I should not wish to keep a motor-car in London. There arc several reasons for this disinclination....

CINEMA III Unwanted Women." (Rialto.)—" Halls ol Montezuma." (Odeon.)—" Dark City." (Carlton.) Unwanted Women, though sincerely attempting to give a heart- rending study of...

ON Tuesday the Chelsea Symphony Orchestra gave what is probably their last concert for the time being, owing to the usual financial difficulties. They have a fine record of rare...

monotonous. Lawns still squelch underfoot, and flower-beds are streaked with slimy patches of mud. For a week the daffodils have been in much the same relationship with the...

PRIMAVERA gill lacks the Botticelli touch, and refuses to step out boldly, with a kindly goddess to encourage her. But one by one her messengers arrive, birds and flowers as shy...

all manner of foodstuffs peddled from motor-vans (vehicles ranging from ancient Baby-Austins to chromium-plated and streamlined mobile kiosks) a reminder needs to be given to...

rise on the long year's play greeted me while I was driving into Frant village to dinner. The night was cold and starry, with patches of mist, and I was crawling cautiously. I...

Set by C. H. Lewis A prize of £5, which May be divided, is offered for not more thari twelve additional lines to a "hate Poem" that begins : 1 have been so great a lover, but 1...

Report by Barbara Worsley-Gough A prize of £5 was offered for an excerpt from a speech by Disraeli, while leader of the Opposition, attacking the project for turning Carlton...

put the money thus saved towards repairing or renewing her bed ? On her own showing she gets neither service nor companionship, and philan- thropy is not only not necessary but...

on behalf of authors. It is strange that, though writers earn their living by the published word, so little appears in print about the hardships imposed upon them today. Harold...

A Classless Society Sut. — In the Spectator of March 30th Mrs. Beryl Seaton tells a story pre- sumably from her own experience. I will tell you one from mine. During the ten...

the vagaries of Easter be removed by simply separating the holidays from the holy days? I suggest that the "spring bank-holidays" should be the third Monday in April and the...

SIR,—Authors in general will agree heartily with the observations of Janus in your issue of March 30th concerning the proposed reduction of authors' royalties. Of course, the...

Kitchen for Mrs. Seaton's article is based on fallacious thinking. Mrs. Scaton's conscious superiority implied in every sentence of her article is, I think, due to lack of...

SM.—One may rightly abjure the principle of the closed shop on purely moral grounds, but there is also a practical objection which seems to be commonly overlooked. The worker...

SIR,—In approving the comments of the Primates on divorce you summarise their opinions and add: "That is not church dogma ; it is bard and incontrovertible fact." To the...

in your last issue. Let Easter be variable as it is now, and let the spring holiday be independent of it and fixed. Surely Janus misses the point. Good Friday would not be a...

Sut,—As one who views the recent Conservative methods with sorrow, and agrees entirely with Mr. Gilbert Longden about the need to discuss Ministerial orders, I must say I would...

once-only publication and will not appear regularly, as Janus surmises. It has been produced chiefly to provide one of the Christian links with the Festival of Britain. Eaton...

SIR.—Of course Mr. Hamilton Fyfe is right. How could a study of the Bible lead to a union of the Christian sects when every On noy interpret the Scriptures as he will ? Yet, if...

in the otherwise wholly admirable paragraph on the Matrimonial Causes Bill in your issue of March 30 ? You say most truly that "the stability of the home, which rests on the...

SIR,—In his interesting article on Persia, Mr. Philips Price paints a picture which, in general outline, is applicable to most of Asia outside the Soviet Union and Communist...

SIR,—I read with dismay Mr. Richard Church's casual reference to spraying black-currant bushes with D.N.O.C.. The perils of modern insecticides and weed-killers are now being...

T HE Folio Society has published what in Hollywood circles would rank as a super-colossal edition of The Moonstone in glorious Technicolor'. 1 am doubtful of the value of new...

Books of Escape ESCAPE is unique among adventures. More purposeful than most of them, it is also like no other in that it cannot be deliberately undertaken, so to speak, from...

THIS is not an easy book to discuss, for it has to be regarded from many widely separated points of view. Though it is written as autobiography and includes an account of the...

Surgeons Twoe and A Barber (1600-1947). By Donald McDonald. (Heinemann Medical Books, 42s.) IF it be true, as our author tells us, that the history of the Indian Medical...

THIS carefully-dated study, from the death of Buckingham to the outbreak of the Civil War, makes the second part of what is to be a trilogy, coming between The Jacobean Age and...

The Making of Books. By SeSn lennett. (Faber. 425.) THE informality of Mr. Jennett's book is its most individual feature. Admittedly—perhaps inevitably—he slips into historical...

Spottiswoode. 93. 6d.) TAKING the best English detective-novel characters as being of the intelligent upper middle classes with no tendency to other than the most " subtile...

THIS is the companion volume to Miss Hoist's biography of her father, published by the Oxford University Press in 1938. With these two books to consult, the student and even the...

-I've seen the reviews —it's one of a set —I thought I would when I had my operation —you see, the author's a friend of my mother's —I saw the film —everyone tells me it's...

BEATRICE WEBB, looking round in the 1890s, judged Robert Blatch- ford to be the most influential man in the nascent Labour move- ment. He was then in the flush of his success...

The Death Wish. By Vera Caspary. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. los. 6d.) The Bellringer's Wife. By Maxence van der Meersch. Kimber. los. 6d.) The Shadowed Hour. By Coral Hope....

READING Robert Lynd's Essays on Life and Literature, a new volum.! in Everyman's Library (Dent. 4s. 6d.), I have been thinking about a change in journalism which has become...

Titts spring a number of letters from literary and historical figures are being published Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middle- ton Murry (Constable) is to be a third as...

By CUSTOS THIS has been a puzzling week for investors, most of whom, to judge from the falling off in Stock Exchange turnover, have registered their doubts by doing very...

[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. April 17th ACROSS L...

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