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INDEX FOR JANUARY JUNE, 1955. SUBJECT INDEX A Abbott, Claude Collect, and Anthony Bertram, Poet and Painter, 507 (R) Above Us the Waves 392 (CA) Absenee-Proneness, 611 (A)...

W HAT a journal means when it talks of its independ- ence is a question which cannot be answered with parrot-phrases. At the very root of much thinking about the nature of...

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I N its short-term task of findin g a way to avert a strike, the Court of Inquiry into the railway dispute had to choose between two, courses. It could search for some soothin g...

T HE news from Melbourne, where the MCC defeated Australia in the third Test Match by the handsome mar g in of 128 runs, came like a ray of sunshine through the January murk;...

and imagination can be forgiven for boggling at the prospect of India without him; but his worthiness does not prevent him from being at times remarkably silly. He likes to...

people without jobs or homes, and of a low standard of living,' could hardly go unchecked if it reached massive proportions. This would be true whether the immigrants were white...

There have been rumours in Rome that the Pope is con- sidering the possibility of breaking the 400-year Italian monopoly of the Papacy and being succeeded by an American. He...

got their phrases out of slot machines. One visualises a vast electronic computer; when an official presses a button marked, say, `German rearmament,' he can be certain of...

weekly Education, has published an excellent booklet on comprehensive schools. The first half of it consists of a survey (by Dr. Robin Pedley) of the comprehensive schools in...

for South Norfolk, can count himself unlucky. Just as his by-election campaign was getting into its stride, his Party published its statement of policy on agricultural...

that the number of titles,published in Britain in 1954 was the highest ever, will be, as the Bookseller itself commented, received with mixed feelings. Those most closely...

and even if there has been no proof that it can poison humans, it is a safe rule that the use of spch chemicals should be avoided unless it offers overriding advantages. There...

strong feelings in most of us; but the Ministry of Food's report on the subject exudes mainly a patient resignation, a 'boys will be boys' attitude to offenders. 'Although the...

'IT MAY WELL BE that the moment of opportunity for the Liberal Party, for which many of us have waited so patiently, is at hand.' How often words like these have been written or...

THE OFFICERS' STRUCTURE COMMITTEE, which has been sitting in the Admiralty for about a year, is not—as its name and recent developments in the United States Army in Europe might...

Daily Express. I read on, interest quickening and indignation on the leash, and learnt that the man concerned was a German who had joined the Foreign Legion. He had been...

OUTSIDE the Christmas-card industry the possibility of snow falling in substantial quantities upon the south of England never seems to be taken seriously by the people who live...

DR. EDITH SUMMERSKILL is reported to have told an audience in the capital of the Holy Land that if she could have a family in the next world she 'would bring all the children up...

in Panama City referred to the 'general belief' that the gunman who shot President Remon 'operated with an effici- ency not to be looked for in a Panamanian assassin.' Were I a...

'T HE President then said `Brothers . . . I mean Gentlemen . . . The wind- ing-up of the Integrated Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Workers' Union is an historic, even...

Can Any Good Thing Come Out of Galilee? By JOHN STRACHEY T HE startling thing is that, inescapably, undeniably, Israel is the Holy Land. In spite of all the bustle and fret of...

By J. E. M. ARDEN O VER Christmas it was announced that Noel and Herta Field had (how spontaneously is not clear) asked for political asylum from the very government—the...

By JOHN ARLOTT Brisbane ODRIGO MARCOS, although a Spaniard of Spain, was clearly unaccustomed to the type of heat that Brisbane calls normal. In his own land, the sun may burn,...

By E. ARNOT ROBERTSON Dear Gentle Reader, Where are you now? I often think of you, wistfully. Especially when I see in the post envelopes re-addressed by my publishers. I know...

becoming a myth? In the spring of 1917, when I was Director of the ,Egean Intelligence Service with headquarters on the island of Syra, one of the anti-Venizelist papers in...

By JOHN BETJEMAN I T is in the local papers that one often finds the real news. This week's Wiltshire Herald tells me of the desperate attempts the British Transport Commission...

this season. The callers we had fell into two main sorts. One sort rang the bell and waited for the door to open, sang a faltering note or two and held out a hand for a...

time from now until March will do. Bulbs should be pressed into the firmed soil until two-thirds buried. If inquisitive birds pull them out, a few strands of black cotton...

of Ayrshire cows, my grandmother lovingly bestowed upon her favourite milkers the names of her dearest friends. In the same way it was not uncommon for the brood sows to be...

' By IAN NIALL H OW quickly even a small number of hens can reduce the weeds and greenstuff on a large area of ground! At the cottage, where a dozen or so hens are having free...

SIR,—Several issues of censorship were raised recently in the News Chronicle over the fate of Spare the Rod, the film which Ronald Neaine was to make from my novel of that name....

Enosis Harold Sore! and T. W. Cain Film Censorship Michael Croft Mr. Gilbert Harding Lionel Hale The Grave-Diggers Philip Williams Welfare Children Peter Green Unwillingly to...

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the recent riots in the colony give weight to an opinion widely held here, that education in Cyprus is seriously tainted by politics. The fact that the riots were largely caused...

SIR,—Ewes in lamb can be terribly hurt by a merely playful dog. Widespread instruction of owners in the technique of training their dogs has done much to spotlight this danger...

SIR,—Owing to parochial duties in preparation for Christmastide I have only now read the letters addressed to you which you print in your issue for December 17. I must challenge...

Sts,—With reference to the published Answer to Christmas Question No. 7 (a) may I ask since when the interrogative pronoun "Who" has been appropriate to a horse? I am willing...

SIR,—The recent behaviour of the French Assembly merits criticism, but not misrepre- sentation. You claim that 'the opposition to the agreements was almost consistently dis-...

SIR,—Writing) in the Spectator of December 24 with sonic indignation, and in no very kindly terms, Mr. Haynes complains that your critic considers that there are 'size and...

SIR,—I had hardly hoped that my remarks on emotional double-think in public, apropos 1984 and Miss Kendon's article, would have evoked so perfect a specimen of the genre itself...

Carmen Jones. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) TAMPERING with the classics, particularly the hackneyed ones, is a business as dan g erous as it is tempting, and Oscar Hammerstein II, by...

THEATRE `BETWEEN the actin g of a dreadful thing and the first motion' time is all too short on the London sta g e. To look back over the pro- ductions of 1954 is to be...

IF the authorities at Lime Grove s have made any New Year resolutions, I hope that one of them is that in 1955 more time will be g iven to those pro g rammes for which TV is the...

The Mystic and the Myth DAVID JONES'S hooks are complex word- patterns, shot through with more or less esoteric allusions to Celtic myth and medimval legend, the teachings of...

IN the year 1954 more passengers crossed the oceans by air than by sea. This landmark in the history of travel has chanced to coincide with the opening of the first National...

No, I have never found The place where I could say This is my proper ground, Here I shall stay; Nor met that special one Who has an instant claim On everything I own Down to my...

By REX WARNER T HE correspondence of Defoe, now for the first time brought together in one volume, is interesting and impor- tant for many reasons. The letters cover a period of...

Man on Earth. By Jacquetta Hawkes. (Cresset Press. 21s.) GOETHE once said to Eckermann that the important thing was not to . try to solve the riddles of the universe, but to ask...

Michelangelo: The Tomb of Julius H. By Charles de Tolnay. (O.U.P., E10.) Romanesque Sculpture in Italy. By G. H. Crichton (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 50s.). MR. DE TOINAY'S book...

The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries. By R. R. Bolgar. (C.U.P., 45s.) TROUBLED like many another by the uncertain future of classi- cal studies, Dr. Bolgar has done an...

The Eye of Heaven. By Isabel Quigly. (Collins, '10s. 6d.) THE Eye of Heaven reveals a talent of mature sensibility. 'Some- tidies too hot the eye of heaven shines.' But was it...

The Great Storm. By J. Lennox Kerr. (Harrap, 12s. 6c1.1 The Atlantic Ocean. By F. George Kay. (Museum, V , EACH of these authors has a precise angle of approach; their treat-...

Decoration of English Porcelain. By Stanley W. Fisher. (Verschoyle. 42s.) EACH of these three volumes fills a gap. Mr. Savage's guide, though it is not exhaustive, sketches the...

by Kiddell-Monroc. (O.U.P. 12s. 6d.) IN a year when good fairy tales are scarce, Miss Barbara Ker Wilson's Scottish collection is particularly welcome. The Lowland-Scottish and...

* * * As a nation we have, however, firm grounds for self-congratulation. While exports for the ten months increased by about 6 per cent. consumption increased by only 3 per...

By CUSTOS THE old account on the Stock Exchange ended and the new began this week with such cheerfulness that one would have thought the railway crisis was a dream. The market...

stanzas and an envoi) designed, sin- cerely or satirically, for the Holidays in Britain movement, with the refrain: 'Why should I want to go abroad?' Humour is expected and wit...

SPECTATOR' COMPETITION No. 253 Report by J. M. Cohen The usual prize was offered for a translation in similar form of Ronsard'is sonnet : Marie, a tons les coups vous me venez...

ACROSS 1 The convicts are beginning to show their age (8). 5 Beast of burden needs lubrica- tion (6). how to deal with this (3, 5). 10 A hundred hold me fast (6). 12 I am,...