The question of the shipment of oil from Persia in American tankers is certainly important enough to be discussed once again by Mr. Eden and Mr. Acheson When they meet in Paris....

G ENERAL EISENHOWER wound up his much publicised secretvisit to Korea by saying he had discovered no quick way to end the war. No sane person ever thought that he would,...

The new National Executive Committee of the Labour Party will retire into Brown's Hotel on Saturday morning and hope to emerge on Sunday evening with the makings of a policy and...

Whoever they were who murdered Farhet Hached, the Tunisian nationalist and trade unionist, in the outskirts of Tunis last week, they gave the signal thereby for a violent spasm...

A constitutional crisis in Germany has been averted, but a constitutional tangle remains. The facts themselves are clear. The Supreme Court at Karlsruhe has had submitted to it...

The publication of the- Indian five-year plan having preceded , by more than three days the issue of the communiqué recording the results of the Commonwealth Economic...

General Neguib, having at the outset set his face against deal- ings with the old school of politicians, has now not only released from prison those of them who were...

After the party bickerings that have so often marked pro- ceedings in the House of Commons in the last few weeks the close approach to unanimity attained in the discussion of...

The official explanations of the exact effect of the cuts and postponements in the arms production progrdmme which Mr. Churchill announced last week cannot explain the cuts away...

item in a barrage directed against him. – * * He makes an excellent target because, as Labour's old soldiers appreciate very well, his intelligence and experience make him...

I T is no doubt a mere coincidence, though a fortunate one, that three documents bearing on the future of Africa— Sir Philip Mitchell's despatch on the development of East...

its zest for votes of censure. Neither of those moved in the past week has done anyone a scrap of good. In the first, a portmanteau motion charging the Government with a...

Saturday I feel I can claim a high place among authorities on driiing in fog. It was certainly the worst drive of its kind I have ever experienced, and I am glad to find my...

of the sinking of the liner Titanic ' forty years ago brings back vividly the sensation which that alrflost unprecedented disaster caused. The liner was at that time the largest...

H AVING commented last week on the ill-timed and intemperate attack made by Mr. Evelyn Waugh in a Sunday paper on Marshal Tito in the name of his fellow Roman Catholics, I am...

by Mr. D. N. Pritt of opening his letters and listening in to his telephone conversations, were part of a really astonishing performance. The actual words, according to ‘ The...

of the Court of Criminal Appeal that a sentence passed by the Recorder of Colchester must be quashed because the Recorder had wrongly told the defendant that if he wanted to...

By D. R.GILLIE Paris T HE Indo-China War now invades every aspect of French public life. Sooner or later anyone who is try- The expeditionary force in Indo-China consists of...

By GERARD E. NEYROUD New York T HE tallest Christmas tree in the world has been brought down from the northern forest, and now stands rootless on the concrete of New York's...

By C. J. SLADE T HE issues of freedom of the Press and of editorial responsibility were discussed recently by the House of Commons in connection with the proposal to estab-...

By RAYMOND PARMENTER OTORING pleasures are returning once more, but to a changed society. The prospect of increasing choice in the purchase of a car, sensible prices for...

Across a gray autumnal sky At setting of the sun I saw an aeroplane go by, And thought what Man has done. Man was from man so far apart That none of us could say What might be...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. C AMBRIDGE, you will know, won the _Varsity Rugger Match by six points (one try, one penalty goal) to five points lone goal). Oxford should have...

By HAROLD NICOLSON E VEN the most timid person derives pleasure from sudden destruction. In fairs and amusement parks there is often a booth or side-show where for a few pence...

Sibelius, Brahms, Wordsworth. Tie concert given on Monday to celebrate Sibelips's eighty-seventh birthday was, perhaps, planned to please all tastes and, like many such...

THEATRE Sweet Peril. By Mary Orr and Reginald Denham. (St. James's.) IT is sweet enough in all conscience (and could scarcely fail to be with Miss Dulcie Gray, who has come to...

quite natural that this International Festival of Contemporary Music should happen here and now : Here where the strength and daring of the men of many nations have melded the...

DRAWING on a wide range of talent in both its histrionic and direc- tional fields, France has manufactured an omnibus film to end all omnibus films, the seven deadly sins...

Harlequin and the hunchbacked blackamoor Grimace by the silent ivory balustrade, A vine-leaf blows across the marble floor, A web- of shadow mottles the smoo9i facade. Out of...

The Mirror and The Square; and other Exhibitions. THE uncertain are perhaps more confused than ever when the lion of abstraction and the lamb of realism lie down together in...

Set by N. Hodgson A distinguished but absent-minded gentleman has just addressed a chapel-bazaar under the impression that he was assisting at a function in aid of the Field...

To superhuman heights his legend grew ; But God, upon the Day of Resurrection, Will only mark the faithful soldier who

ACCORDING to previous appointment, Lord John Russell went down to Leeds in order to preside over the annual soirée of the Mechanics' Institute, which took place on Wednesday . ....

In bowler hat and careful glove He dressed as for a lover's tryst ; But three-foot six is low for love, And girls look upward to be kissed ; And in his eyes, as you may guess,...

Report by C. S. W. A prize of £5 was offered for a list of Christmas presents, with appropriate messages, to be sent by any one of six notables to the other five. Competitors...

light it throws on long waits for patients and dumbness in doctors. Another aspect of the tvalth service which I think merits investigation is the question of out-patient...

Doctors and Patients SIR,—Mr. Barton accuses hospital staffs of withholding information of the patient's illness from the patient himself or his relatives, or, alternatively,...

claim that there is much waiting at hospitals is true. It is also true that occasionally it is attributable to a doctor's unpunctuality, but this, 1 believe, is a comparatively...

SIR, — St. John Ervine's further letter leaves me quite unrepentant. I know nothing — of Bernard Shaw's family life other than what he has himself written or caused to be...

Set, —In the bad old days M.P.s were elected on the hustings. The tenants, labourers, and mechanics voted publicly under the vigilant eyes of the squire and the manufacturer,...

Sut,—Mr. Vyshinsky stated amongst other things that the Chinese prisoners would be breaking their oath of allegiance if allowed to decide whether or not to be returned to China....

SIR,— Pyongyang radio-station continues to spit venom at the Allies in Korea. One wonders why this military objective has been left standing by the Allies' air-power.—Yours...

Sul,—I have read Sir Carleton Allen's recent article on The Over- worked Force with great interest. He admits that he is unable to solve the problem of bringing the Police Force...

Sia,—The Trustees of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust are grateful for Mr. Stephen Bone's informed and understanding article on the need to raise £4,000,000 to save our...

wonder did Mr. Christ, in his search for precedents on the use of the guillotine, find a precedent to cover the crowding of two days' business into one, because the House had...

of the Spectator, I made a small slip. Referring to the bequest of £5,000 over which G. B. S.'s mother had a power of appointment, I said that it was made by her father. This...

Ice covered the pond when last I went that way, and I halted to look about. A change in temperature can place things in time, and there was a picture on the ice, the crusted and...

SIR,—In view of present economic trends, would it be true to say that the professional classes will soon have nothing to lose but their brains ? —Yours faithfully, GINA MOORE....

AN early crop of mushrooms, a basket of blackberries or anything that will turn a shilling attracts old R. and even the cold spell gives him an opportunity. Out come his saw and...

SIR. —As a journalist and an aspiring film-critic, though not necessarily a " highly intelligent " one, may I make a plea for Miss Graham. Intelligence is a gift of nature and...

SIR.—It is surprising that your theatre and cinema critics do not always spell correctly the names of sertain actresses and actors, in particular the names of the eminent Miss...

Spray fruit-trees with tar oil now or in January. If the trees are old and gnarled, a brush may be used with better effect. Bushes will benefit from the same treatment. Only a...

of a fox's work, I never cease to be amazed at its capacity for wanton killing. On a farm not so far away they shot a dog-fox the week before last, and the fox was photographed...

Light in the village street at night depends on how thick the window- curtains are, save at the corner where one solitary lamp burns. Now and then a door opens and illuminates a...

The Irony of American History. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (Nisbet. 15s.) IN the years between the two world wars, when America sought to turn her back on destiny, her favourite...

The Background of Mau Mau Man Mau and the Kikuyu, by L. S. B. Leakey. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) DR. LEAKEY is primarily an archaeologist. He ivas till last year the curator of the...

A Prospect of Cities. By Cecil Stewart. (Longmans. 25s.) Modern Town and Country Planning. By James W. R. Adams. (J. and A. Churchill. 42s.) To start out from the Greek and...

An Experience of Critics. Edited by Kaye Webb, with caricatures by Ronald Searle. (Perpetua. 7s. 6d.) The Fugitive Art. By T. C. Worsley. (Lehmann. 18s.) 15s.) Verdict at...

book—Music in the Five Towns—which remains a landmark in the history of music studies. The aesthetic abstraction of nineteenth-century musicians was such that no one had thought...

IN a recently-published study, The Art of Simenon, M. Narcejac sets out to demolish the view that M. Simenon is, or ever has been, a crime novelist in the ordinary sense, and he...

The painted tribesmen stared at him with wonder As they saw him walking in the gardens alone, Or sipping white wine on his prim Roman verandah Among the statues and the urns of...

11:as addition to "The English Novelists Series" offers a sound if cautious survey and estimate of Henry James's art. Mr. Swan wastes little space over biography, after...

12s. 6d.) MR. Su.com has a very pleasant taste in comic and curious verse, in the making of which he is himself an accomplished practi- tioner. His taste is for rustic humour...

By CUSTOS THE fog that gripped the City for four days has its counterpart in the mist that still enshrouds investment prospects. Unhappily, the groping investor has no market...

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