W ITH the Menzies mission still in Cairo the Suez crisis is for the moment stationary on the diplo- matic front, though the international atmosphere has become notably more...

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EWS this week has again been overshadowed by the IN Suez crisis. Activity has been mostly behind the scenes and some—notably the Labour Party, which has been agitating for the...

debate,' Mr. Arthur Horner said trium- i, phantly; 'it is a demonstration.' So indeed it was; and a rather disheartening one. Pleasant as it was to watch the Trades Union...

By CHARLES CURRAN T ait: most popular song in Britain at the moment is called I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas. It seems to sum up the Trades Union Congress at Brighton this...

of English law, but any ass knows perfectly well that even magistrates must turn a blind eye from time to time. No doubt if the people responsible in the Oxford Street shop had...

Law Courts was a stirring sight. At a canter, arms flailing, booted and bowler-hatted, he would be seen discoursing loudly to his retinue, which consisted of two clerks and four...

often maintains that he is misquoted, but so many epigrams have been tagged to his name that they can't all have been made up. My own favourite is the one where someone argued...

LORD CILCENNIN has so often had his fleet sunk under him by the press that the news that he had at last been succeeded at the Admiralty by Lord Hailsham came almost as a...

week, is obviously a very ingenious invention; a credit to its makers, to British workmanship, and to the British aviation industry. But 1 hardly think it was wise of the...

a routine tyre change. 'I won't race any more,' he said at once, 'Fangio can have my car.'—News Chronicle, September 3. 'FANGIO said to him, "Will you let me take over your...

BY ANTHONY HARTLEY ][..., IKE Rome, Prague is built upon seven hills. Like Rome it is a city of the baroque. But there the resemblance ends. In this central European metropolis...

fair readers, for allowing the graver matter of our journal to encroach too largely on the portion more especially dedicated to their service. This week, an apology may be...

BY EDWIN SAMUEL IF OR nearly twenty centuries Jews survived as scattered religious communities; citizenship of their shadowy empire was expressed in synagogue membership. The...

it over and I really think that the best thing I you can do is to take the train.' My friend was regretful, apologetic at making such an archaic suggestion, but isolated in...

Mr. Francis Thompson, the librarian at Chatsworth, has discovered that the great conservatory there was designed by Decimus Burton, down to the minutest detail, for the signed...

BY JOHN BETJEMAN H IDDEN somewhere, deep in the Ministry of Works, is the Bailiff of the Royal Parks. I do not like to think of him in that dreary building, Lambeth Bridge...

each and coffee for two in the King's Cross Hotel, London, which is run by British Railways. The bill was 15s. Is this one of the ways by which the unlucky Sir Brian Robertson...

massive shutter of rock was lowered to bar a secret passage, the witch Gagool perished beneath it `with a sickening scrunch.' The phrase—at one time regarded by me as the most...

Bcavan writes, 'And the Government which created these problems by destroying the BBC's beneficent and far-sighted monopoly has to be brought to face them.' I challenge Mr....

to maintain that the Immaculate Conception was 'repudiated by the greatest mediaeval theologians' and is just 'moonshine.' If I remember rightly, Aquinas. treating of it inci-...

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the Virgin as Co- Redemptress should not have been obvious to- the Early Church, which preached the Gospel of redemption by the death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ,...

Chesterton Pam Jennings Jock Scot Toni SC011 Deification and Clarification T. Charles Edwards, W. J. Burls-Hunt That Subsidy John Irwin Against Churchmanship Tyrrell Burgess...

instance. The people of Scotland naturally think of the Scottish language as 'Scots,' and only literati could think of it as anything else. The traditional name was founded by...

Fringe and Centre LIKE an old-fashioned egalitarian tract, Edinburgh offers us a striking juxtaposition of Two Nations, the haves and have-nots, the Officially Sponsored and...

THE Sadler's Wells Ballet's version of The Miraculous Mandarin is a less worthy con- tribution to Edinburgh Festival achievements than its last reconstruction (The Fire-Bird),...

As the BBC has courageously invited 'evaluations' of the Third Programme, in connection with its impending tenth birthday, I have been switching more often from tele- vision to...

MOTHER COURAGE, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, TRUMPETS AND DRUMS, An adapta- tion of George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer—By Bertolt Brecht. (Palace.) We are all greatly in...

THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC. (Odeon, Marble Arch.)---BHOWANI JUNCTION. (Empire.) FROM the opening shot of Judy Holiday entangling her umbrella in a passer-by, The Solid Gold...

and even if the revival of Mr. Bolfry at the Aldwych were much less successful, it would still be welcome. For some reason the first act is more effective than the second:...

BY ROBERT GRAVES T HE art-historians Dora and Erwin Panofsky—he has been a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton since 1935, and she is known for her work...

PROUST. By J. M. Cocking. (Bowes and Bowes, 7s. 6d.) THIS very stimulating book (in the headache-making typography of the useful Studies in Modern European Literature and...

THE EMPIRE OF OIL. By Harvey O'Connor. (John Calder, 25s.) MR. O'CONNOR'S aim is as simple as it is generous; to tell the world —and more particularly the American part of...

ANGLICAN ORDERS AND DEFECT OF INTENTION. By Francis Clark, SJ. (Longmans, 25s.) WHEN Pope Leo XIII declared, in his famous Bull Apostolicce Carte of September 13, 1896, that...

Kerguelen is one of those places like Grahamland which have to be occupied and 'administered' by a handful of poorly paid men in case any other country tries to annex it. In his...

POLITICALLY, the late Robert Benchley regarded himself as 'a con- fused Liberal,' and it was from this viewpoint that he wrote the inimitable articles and dramatic criticisms...

THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL. By Lord Russell of Liverpool. (Cassell, 18s.) TALES OF THE CRIMINOUS. By William Roughhead. (Cassell, 18s.) FIRST, two legal scrapbooks : the...

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF THE CHURCH. By Christopher Hill, (O.U.P., 42s.) THIS is an excellent book. The general reader will not find it easy going, but anyone with a keen interest...

THREE GEISHAS. By Kikou Yamata. Translated by Emma Craufurd. (Cassell, 16s.) THE first sentence of this book—`A geisha is not a prostitute'— is significant. So many people,...

"'TAKE my camel, dear," said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass' : this opening sentence of Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond...

WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY. (Macmillan, 70s.) THE newness of any dictionary, especially of English, is compara- tive: most new dictionaries are not new at all, being mere...

A SUPPLEMENT to the Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of Gardening in four volumes has been published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press (42s.), edited by Patrick M. Synge,...

BY CUSTOS THE attempt at recovery in the gilt-edged market was rudely squashed by Mr. Harold Macmillan at his recent press conference when he referred to the dismal gold returns...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT As Mr. Macmillan has lost the co-opera- tion of labour in his final attempt to stabilise the price level he might at least have made sure of the continued...

Late-planted strawberries never do very well the following season because they have difficulty in establishing themselves in un- favourable weather. The latter half of Sep-...

BY IAN NIALL IT is possible to claim to have heard the first cuckoo and get credit for it in the columns of a newspaper, if nowhere else, but few people ever remark that they...

BY PHI LIDOR No. 66. A. J. FINK & Ua TANE. WHITE (11 men) mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Stocchi: P-B 5, no threat. Note that one...

jumped out of a train some time ago and eventually found its way home, a distance of thirty miles, reminds me of a much-petted old pony I know that was pensioned off. The pony,...

Been in the Army an' knew 'ow to 'andle 'imself. When'e come first I was up at the Vicarage doin' a job an' saw some cups 'e'd won. "Been a bit of a runner, Vicar?" I asked. "I...

ACROSS 1 Labour reverse to American commerce needs coping (10). 6 'and the - by the wall Would be half-full of water and stars' (Stevenson) (4). 10 A bumper that should waken...

in fact a sonnet by Jules de Ressiguier (1778-1862): 'Forte Belle, Elle Dort; Sort Frele, Quelle Mort! Rose Close, La Brise Ea Prise.' The usual prize was offered for a sonnet...

the usual prize of six guineas com- petitors are invited to complete the follow- ' ing poem, adding not more than ten lines : '0 where. 0 where is Polygon?' / asked of Silicate.