German there should be no form of outside super- On to ensure that the elections were free. Between these two sets of conditions there has not been, and there could never have...

The anxiety of the Lancashire cotton industry about the prospect of having to meet more Japanese competition in the export markets is understandable. Certainly the Socialist Mr....

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sea of hostility and suspicion. But it cannot be taken too seriously Until it breaks the surface. That day will come when Moscow Makes its first real concession in foreign policy.

The death of Matvei Fedorovitch Shkiryatov at the age of 70 removes from the Russian scene one of the most enigmatic and powerful figures of the Stalinist epoch. It is probable...

counts: first, because it does not itself represent the territories of Jammu and Kashmir but only that half of Kashmir which has been under Indian occupation since Partition;...

The appearance of the latest divorce figures for England t he Wales gives a sharp shake to the current controversy over °le proposed new canon law on marriage and divorce. Now...

b . The entry for the Spectator competition for Schools has ta l en large and of high quality. The judging will therefore time. It is hoped to announce the result before the...

Although there has been distress and disappointment at the aCcidents to the Comet and to the Britannia turbine-enginetl aircraft, there has been, in the British industry, no...

I T was astonishing on Tuesday to hear two former Labour Ministers assert boldly their support for the policy on installing United States air bases in this country. Certainly...

0 end his version of the famous episode in which the Romans of the decline were obliged to scrap their pre- conceptions about the invaders, the Alexandrian poet . .. they say...

IFFICULT though it may be to conceive of a Suffragette movement in reverse, something very like it has been going on for years all over Soviet Central Asia, where many - of the...

n e ,tuY institution of its kind where odd things sometimes happen. aoine months ago he went to see an important show of C onstables at the Victoria and Albert. He found that...

the whale's throat arrived this week from America in a pedestrian book called How Russia Makes War, by Raymond L. Garthoff (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 25s.). It is corollarially.'

the colonel's dead.' We shall, in all probability, never know how heavy a toll the mail van robbers took of letters calling attention to my hideous mistake; only 53 have got...

Language sounds an impeccable idea, but I can't help feeling that Sir Compton Mackenzie and his fellow-crusaders are L ilting at the wrong set of windmills. It is not the...

not have stood; that it would have meant, as a lawyer friend of mine, no dangerous radical, pointed out at the time, giving orders to Chiang, not mere advice, taking direct...

B y BERNARD FERGUSSON URING the last few months there has been a g ood deal r ) of loose thinkin g on the sub j ect of cowardice. It was touched off by the court-martial of a...

compatriots—and particularly his neighbours at Mortlake who sacked his house and spoiled his great and famous library— regarded him as a dangerous sorcerer, a reputation which...

HENRI-GEORGES CLUZOT'S Le Salaire de la Peur won the Grand Prix at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival as did his Quai des Orfevres and Manon at previous Venetian beanos. This latest...

MUSIC SHURA CHERKASSKY is a sport among modern Pianists. His technical command of the instrument is magnificent, but by no means Without parallel. What sets him apart from all...

The Private Secretary. By Charles Hawtrey. (Arts.)—Alice Through the Looking Glass. Adapted by Felicity Douglas. (Prince's.) ME London theatre is having a false Christmas with...

For the usual prizes readers were asked to bestow a custom of their own invention on any one British town or village, which they Jelt to be lacking in this respect, giving...

a-crown of anyone's money. Among other attractions are Bernardo Bellotto's impres- sive Piazza del Campidoglio, once attributed to Canaletto ; a cunning, pig-eyed Thomas...

for 1883, "of things which everybodY thinks and nobody says; and a list of thine, that everybody says and nobody thinks. , The usual prize of £5 is offered for a list Of three...

the guess is right, the author s "own as an established authority, a sincere end sensitive worker, and a man with neither need nor wish to advertise. a There is room for...

it to the point, but I am disturbed at the implications. If research and practice are to concentrate on physical treatment without regard to theories and explanations,' the...

Sia,—,While Lancashire talks with a 1930 accent of the dumped shilling shirt, equally dated Daily Express leaders mope and rant over a collapse of the Empire, apparently to be...

issue of February 5th. I feel that for too long have, the successes of physical methods in treatment of mental troubles been overshadowed by the analytical couch. I see no...

• A PSYCHIATRIST'S CHOICE la,—Your article 'A Psychiatrist's Choice' It most interesting and I write as one who admires immensely the work psychiatrists are ticlitlg. I am...

SIR,—Mr. P. A. Preen takes a chance on my inexperience (not quite justifiably) but he should not do so on my ignorance or under- standing: St. Paul also recommended charity. He...

which you give concerning Madeira in the travel supplement to your issue dated January 29th. In the footnote to the section dealing with Ibis island, you state that Madeira is...

long vowel ever cling like ivy Around that very dull historian Livy? Must Venus — a round, ripe word like a plum— Withering to Wennu.v, strike the M usea dumb ? Why should...

Yesterday I went along the path to the beehives and inspected the boxes, seeing that the lids were still firmly down and the wire bracings to hold against the gale were all...

SomE days ago I had a letter from a friend who spoke of the compensations of living in a remote place—a verdant part of County Clare. I spent my impressionable years on a...

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doubt still hovering in ray mind from his article of February 5th ? 10 Hans Place, S.W.1 MEDICAL STUDENT

in his unusual collection occurs in a passage of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography, paying figurative tribute to his brother Llewelyn. He describes him as " . . . more full of...

round about, I gathered that the spell of bleak snowy weather did not catch the hill farmers completely unawares. As so often happens, snow on the morrow was anticipated by the...

was fifth in Latin last term. November means ninth month, so it is the proper name for September, and December is the proper name for October, so we ought to call them like'...

fallacies in Sir Compton 'Macken- zie's article on English pronunciation in the Spectator of January 22nd. The main point is that in words derived from Latin and Greek, the...

I READ recently a confident statement that golf was brought to Scotland from Holland by Scots in the Dutch service during the seventeenth century. This is not in fact true. What...

Russalka, the Water-Cat ' By ANTHONY WATERMAN (Selwyn College, Cambridge) I N the heart of Wessex, on the very rim of Egdon Heath, there stands a solitary hamlet not far from...

By WALTER TAPLIN M R. PETER SMITHERS says in the preface to his admirable biography of Joseph Addison* that his feelings towards his subject "are those of deep admiration for a...

The War in France and Flanders,1939-1940. By Major L. F. Ellis. (H.M.S.O. 37s. 6d.) ' "PLACED by circumstances outside their control in a position of extreme difficulty, they...

which you have to go to Africa to write, and those which could equally well be written in Kensington. Lords of the Last Frontier belongs to the first category ; Rainbow on the...

PROFESSOR LEVIN'S new book begins with an incident during a United States Congressional hearing ; somehow Christopher Marlowe's name was brought up, to be challenged immediately...

• (Cassell. 2 vols. 30s. each.) "FINISHED that extraordinary book Wuthering Heights:" wrote Charles Lutwidge Dodgson in 1856. "It is of all novels I ever read the one I should...

WE have got accustomed to good illustrations in the Phaidon books, as well as, in more recent years, to good texts. But this latest volume, on Ingres, sets something of a new...

and Greek as 'dead' languages and their study as a waste of time. But there are not many who are so blind as this. Most people recognise that there are very great advantages to...

. JOHN MACGREGOR, the author of The Voyage Alone in the Yawl 'Rob Roy' (Rupert Hart-Davis, The Mariners' Library, 9s. '6d.) was a Victorian who combined mild eccentricity with a...

beings are exceedingly adaptable and will quickly re-establish normal human conditions in the most forbidding of environments; but the difficulty remains. All these five novels...

and is an expression of homage to the Queen, on the occasion of her Commonwealth Tour, by the Society of Australian Writers in Great Britain. The proceeds are being given to...

up to the earlier standard in the fullness of the information it provides. It contains a full and detailed review of the first published volumes of The History of Music in Sound...

THE appearance of the first volume of a complete edition of Dekker's plays in the l ni - .old spelling and with a critical apparatus ust be very welcome to any student of the...

and Airman. By Richard Rumbold and Lady Margaret Stewart. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 16s.) PERHAPS nothing has changed man's attitude to the world so much during this century as...

By CUSTOS THE industrial share market, while remain- ing firm, is showing signs of pausing in its upward march. It needs to recover its breath and gather strength for the next...

industrial equity shares (Financial Times) has probably broken through its previous peak—the 140.6 of January, 1947. (This was on the morning of Tuesday: profit-taking reduced...

8. Retreating women's force in not so much. (9.) 17. 9. Joins the golf course. (5.) 10. A suggestion of punishment in old 19. surroundings ? Yes. (4. 3. 3.) 16. It can always...

nr_.1111101 orlon:gm n nnomna onmmu =Rimming mmunmum• amnmmn annmminm mmorina OMPIRIFI MUMMMPUB4 M noun' onunmnmnn wmon, The winner of Spectator Crossword No. 767 is Mr. G. J....