NEWS OF THE WEEK A FRICA Air Transport Argentine .. Atomic War .. Australia .. B B.C. : White Paper on Beveridge Report, 50 ; control of broad- casting, 82 ; annual report,...

The much heralded Bevanite document, One Way Only, is a curious production—anonymous, with an introductory and rhetorical blessing from Aneurin Bevan, Harold Wilson and John...

HE intolerable interference ,with the British ship ' Empire Roach' by an Egyptian corvette is of sinister significance as providing evidence, completely of a piece with what is...

By accepting President Truman's offer to send Mr. Averell Harriman to Teheran to discuss the oil dispute, Dr. Mossadaq may have been just in time to keep the Persian Government...

The British Transport Commission, in its annual reports, has never been backward in finding excuses for itself. It is apparently now reaching the stage when the tone of...

the legal impediments to normal relations between Britain and Germany should be reduced pan passu with the improvements in the general understanding between the two countries....

Nobody is likely to mistake the minor adjustments recom- mended by the Government in the White . Paper on the Beveridge Report for significant changes in the structure of...

One of Mr. Gandhi's outstanding qualities, which used to exasperate his followers as much as it endeared him to them, Was his readiness to admit his mistakes. In his "...

of the Home Office, published a few weeks ago, pointed out that local authorities and voluntary organisations are still boarding out only a small proportion of the children in...

from a Census are available in any case—as is sufficiently shown by the close , correspondence between the figures given in the Preliminary Report, published on Wednesday, and...

p ARLIAMENT is scraping the legislative barrel. If it is not, disparaging to some useful little Bills one would say it is down to the lees of the session's legislation. Had you...

HEY are in the first instance purely military issues. About that there is general agreement. The purpose is to arrange a cessation of the actual fighting, which involves the...

Sunday Express.' but I think it has performed some service in giving the salaries, I assume accurately, of some of the British members of the staff of U.N.E.S.C.O. The first...

was a triumph for British rowing, and for Cambridge rowing in particular—most of all, of course, for the college crew, Lady Margaret, which won the Grand. Rowing is a strange...

light has yet been shed, is manifestly a matter of the first importance, and when the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge—who I see is the President of a new Sherlock Holmes Society...

a writer to retain, and use elsewhere, a pseudonym under which he has been writing in a particular paper, I suggested that it would make all the difference whether the pseudonym...

creates a vacancy at Droylsden in Lancashire, was one of the Free Church Ministers (among whom Silvester Home in the past was, I suppose, the most notable) in the House of...

By Sir HENRY DALE, O.M. A LITTLE book which has been published this weeks cannot fail to reach its mark with any reader who has normal human sympathies ; indeed, there are...

By A MINER AKING ends meet seems to me to be a relative term, and it remains always a problem irrespective of the size of the individual income. I was married at the age of 25...

By H. G. DANIELS Geneva HIS year's session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva must have been an uncomfortable affair for a good many delegates. There were...

By SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES, F.R.S. (Astronomer Royal) N Y NY new discovery in the field of interstellar space, such as that recently reported by Dr. vane Hulst, of Leiden...

By THE BISHOP OF DERBY T HE Festival and Pilgrimage in honour of St. Paul which has just been concluded in Greece is of more than ephemeral importance. It must be held to have...

Amongst the Hills By STEWART SANDERSON (University of Edinburgh) y OU are aware of Pitlochry as a tourist-centre as soon as you enter the Vale of Atholl. Half-hidden at the...

readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold copies are...

By HAROLD NICOLSON ROM time to time I am reproached by an anonymous cor- respondent for over-indulgence in relative, clauses. His method is to detach this page from the body of...

THEATRE “ His House in Order." By Arthur Pinero. (New Theatre.) A YOUNG wife, made to feel an intruder in her new surroundings— there are few more rewarding situations. We...

The Sadler's Wells Ballet. (Covent Garden.) CONSTANT LAMBERT'S ballet Tiresias, with choreography by Ashton and decor and costumes by Isabel Lambert, was given its first...

on the border between E g ypt and Libya, the fortunes of war bring in turn the officers and N.C.O.s of the Italian, British, German and Free French armies. The staff of the...

bringing before, the public—or that very small fraction of the public that seems to be interested in Haydn—the lesser-known or unknown works of the most neglected of great...

Report by R. Kennard Davis A prize was offered for an extract Mont a speech on the occasion of a prize-giving at a girls' school by Polonius or Joseph Finsbury or Alfred...

Set by D. R. Peddy A prize of £5, whichimay be divided, is offered for not snore than 200 words from a B.B.C. broadcast in the series " In the Kitchen" ; the dish described...

I feel that the article by a retired headmaster lacks one very important point. Few people realise that for nearly a third of the year schoolmasters are compelled to live in...

Barber, who says: "I think that increased leisure and educational opportunities for the workers will mean that we shall gain as much in this way as we shall lose " (i.e., in the...

SIR,—I agree with Mrs. Nicol that so far your contributors to the Making Ends Meet series have not been helpful about managing on a small amount of money. This is really quite...

usually enjoy very much the richness and fairness of your information, and am particularly glad of your statements about my country ; but a fortnight ago, when I read Mr....

The Tshekedi Case Sic —Those who know the Bechuanaland Protectorate beri will find it hard to disagree with the arguments of the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations...

the maturity, the finish and generosity of their building tradition, though they are so far away from the celebrated old wool-villages and market towns. The houses are...

THE Cotswolds must be feeling rather sheepish under the glarTof publicity that they are standing in this year, and perhaps the endless wreckage of drystone walls on the wolds is...

S1R, — In your comment on Mr. Brunel's letter you appear to beg the question. You may be right in saying that " a demand for a peace pact will not avert war." It is as true to...

strawberry beds, I allowed a schoolboy curiosity to count the buds and blossoms on a single third-year plant. Mine is a new strain with the forbiddingly impersonal nomenclature...

What a wonderful year for buttercups, say the sight-seers. And what a poverty-stricken one for nutritious grasses in consequence 1 No domestic animal will touch a buttercup,...

Sta.—The picture painted by Harold Nicolson in Marginal Comment of a stream of men learned in the law which he watched wind its way to lunch is a charming one. But when he...

CREASy'S DECisiVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD It was a happy idea of Profegkor Creasy to select for military description and political remark those few battles of which, in the words...

Re-Planning the City The City of London : A Record of Destruction and Survival. Prepared under the directions of the Improvements and Town- ' planning Committee of the...

William Shakespeare : The Complete Works. Edited by Peter Alexander. (Collins. t Es.) The general reader, with his " Globe " or " Oxford " Shakespeare, may'imagine that to...

Native Administration in the British African Territories. By Lord Hailey. (H.M.S.O. In four parts : Part I 17s. 6d. ; Part II los. 6d. ; Part HI 575., 6d. ; Part N Ss.) NATIVE...

AFTER the customary prelude of a somewhat aggressive modesty and a noisy disavowal of•ostentation, the Englishman is rarely slow in praising his own work, virtues and ideas....

Christopher Fry : An Appreciation. By Derek Stanford. (Peter Nevill. 12s. 6d.) MR. STANFORD believes that- from the beginning the work 'of Christopher Fry has been largely...

My Six convicts. By Donald Powell Wilson. (Hamish Hamilton. Iss.) DR. WILSON is a psychologist who, early in the '30s, was sent by the U.S. Public Health Department to the...

THE centenary of Reuters, and the articles that event has inspired, have made the history of the greatest news agency in the world widely familiar, but there is still room for...

FOUR workmanlike works, all of them intelligent and readable, the first three giving the impression of drawing upon pretty well the whole of the writer's resources, the Other...

By CUSTOS HOLIDAY distractions are still reinforcing the obvious political restraints on stock market activity and turnover is at a low ebb. It is difficult, in the...

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