The course of the San Francisco Conference having run more kmoothly than most reasonable people expected, Japan is now restored, for good or ill, to the status of a sovereign...

If the reports of a Communist armoured force in the demili- tarised area are true, the episode of the Kaesong armistice talks is over. It might have been possible, with good...

this week by the British Treasury are undoubtedly justified. Many more stringent measures will have to be adopted to rectify the loss of dollars that the drying-up of Persian...

It was clear from the start that the reactions of the unions to Mr. Gaitskell's speech at the Trades Union Congress last week would be more important than the speech itself. It...

All the steps so far towards a New British Central African Federation have been taken with care and circumspection. The report published by the British Government in June, in...

Among several useful and unpretentious publications issued lately by the Conservative Central Office the latest, Pattern of Peace, by Brigadier Anthony Head, M.P., must take a...

If the parties of the French Government had set themselves to demonstrate all the hopeless ineffectiveness attributed to them by General de Gaulle they could hardly have done it...

O F the numerous questions—Persia, Korea and Egypt among them—which the Foreign Ministers of Britain, the United States and France are discussing this week, the one which...

the possession of money being a stewardship gained a• certain fleeting currency. The twentieth century of the Christian era has known how to change all that. In one week, or at...

A N evening spent with Dr. Gallup, organiser of polls, who arrived in this country on Monday, is a stimulating experience. The public opinion test is by now an estab- lished...

as second only to the Te Deum among mediaeval Christian com- positions, and translated into English in the seventeenth century by Bishop Cosin as the well-known "Come, Holy...

Czechoslovak Ambassador to the United States, when the latter was presenting his credentials, has attracted less attention than might be expected. Relations between the two...

agent is described, I see, as "a gregarious pipe-smoker." As a mild student of the English language I find this a little perplexing. Is he a gregarious person who, incidentally,...

whether the G is hard or soft I should say it should be soft before an E; but the dictionary says the thing is optional, and I don't greatly mind. Anyhow, an international...

landing-ground, I have been asked what I should call such a place myself. I should call it a hoverport. This type of machine is, I believe, generally known in the United States...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. HE American peace with Japan, signed, sealed and sup- ported by all the nations who fought in the Pacific ekcept India. Burma, the two Chinas and...

BARBARA CASTLE, M.P. Y first and abiding impression of Tito's Yugoslavia is of my luggage being trundled through the streets on The foreign visitor gets used, therefore, to...

By PAUL GRIFFIN EREFT of his brave companions, Odysseus of the nimble0 wits struck the grey ground with his feet and stepped into the booking-hall. Athene, sitting upon...

By E. COISTON SHEPHERD / F only we had known that Russia would keep alive the threat of war during the first six years of the peace, the British . programme of aircraft...

By JAMES NOWELL T HE Berlin rally is the most spectacular of recent attempts to direct youthful energy and enthusiasm to political channels. But it is not the only attempt....

By MARTIN MOFFAT T HE Evangelical Church in Germany is unique in being able to bring together its members from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Those attending the Church...

By HAROLD NICO1SON A T this season of the year garden-addicts, to whom has been accorded the gift of ever-recurrent youth, start thinking of the spring. Stiff paper bags, or...

"Edward and Caroline." (Academy.)----“ When Worlds Collide." (Plaza.)-- ,, Rhubarb." (Carlton.) M. JACQUES BECKER'S Edward and Caroline is enchanting. Its sim- plicity is...

THEATRE "Saint's Day." By John Whiting. (Arts.) THE ARTS THEATRE is an admirable institution and has long been firmly established in the London playgoer's respect and...

THE Three Choirs Festival at Worcester followed a normal and largely uneventful course. It is fundamentally a regional festival, a celebration of the quite remarkable musical...

RECENTLY the, subject was raised over the microphone as to why yew trees were planted in churchyards. The answers given by the experts were so unsatisfactory that it is worth...

My autumn occupation is to watch A bumble-bee rifling a bramble flower. The golden process looks as though an hour Will not suffice, so leisurely the despatch With which the...

Dr. Vaughan Cornish in The Churchyard Yew and Immortality has given substantial evidence for the churchyard yew being as archaic a symbol of immortality as the last sheaf ift...

THE Celtic romanticism that has led many of his countrymen into a humourless gloom infuses Ceri Richards' kaleidoscopic improvisa- tions at the Redfern Gallery with a refreshing...

To cover a hideous bird-table, I planted years ago a sprig of honey- suckle given me by a village dame of ninety-two. It has become a gigantic bush, and this week I saw first a...

I wonder whether this beautiful Doivnland campanula with its deep blue terminal head an inch in diameter is as uncommon as is supposed. I found it abundant and growing on stems...

When I was in Devonshire, I noted with great regret that the grey squirrel had driven out the red as far west as the Otter River. Yet a friend tells me that, as she was sitting...

- Set by Thea Holme .‘ A prize of £5, w hi c may be divided, is offered for an extract from a farewell address (after a presentation by grateful parishioners) by one of the...

a very good dry Martini at the Palace Hole! in Guatemala City . . ." say.%the "I." character in The Man with a Scar, one of the stories in Here and There by Somerset Maughanz....

hope you will allow me space to correct certain statements made by Janus in your issue okSeptember 7th. 1. He states that Equity claims the right to make a separate ruling for...

Disappearing Clergy $;‘,—The Reverend Mervyn Stockwood's article, Disappearing Clergy, must have caused distress to many who profess and call themselves Christians. Mr....

SIR, —Most of what "Observer" says is no doubt true enough, but I wonder if he ever observed Portugal during the fifteen years of republican government that preceded Salazar....

SIR, -- 4 was much interested in the review of Professor Fleure's admir- able book, A Natural History of Man in Britain, which appeared in the Spectator of September 7th. I...

SIR,—May I appeal to you (or any kind reader) as one uncle to another ? My young nephew, Bill, - is doing quite well at his boarding-school. But the catering there is not all it...

ALL foreigners intending to reside permanently in Paris, or exercise any calling there, must henceforth present themselves personally to the authorities, and obtain permission...

0 NE night not long ago a chance arrival in a London club beheld a portent. Seven professional writers sat in a group around an eighth, listening in delight while he harangued...

Ifs.) THE first problem with which Mr. Dos Passos' new book confronts the reader is to assess how seriously it is to be taken. Here we have a book concerned with the situation...

SOME degree of embarrassment is commonly felt by anyone who reads a book of passionate and intimate letters, especially when the letters are those of a woman, written with...

Old Friends and New Music, By Nicolas Nabokov. (Hamish Ham- ilton. us. 6d.) THIS is a book of loosely connected jottings, beginning and ending with pure autobiography but...

Theodore Dreiser. by F. 0. Matthiessen. (Methuen. ca.) THE terms of literary criticism should never be taken too seriously. Novelists, for example, who concern themselves with...

A Farmer in WhitehalL By Anthony Hurd. (Country Life. 5s.) MANY who farmed through the war, concerned with the ordinary and daily worries inseparable from their work and...

Castlereagh. By lone L eigh. (Collins. 2 is.) A ONE-VOLUME biography of Castlereagh is much needed. It is true that all the materials for a complete one do not yet exist ; but...

In the Greek fable sat three Fates, who span, _ Drew, and h .- revocably Shore .across The destinies bf miserable man: , Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos: . Of only two have...

Alfred the King. By Patry Williams. (Faber. us.) I CANNOT read Scott with any-great enjoyment nowadays, mar indeed could I ever do so, but Scott's idea of a historical novel...

Fratres: Club Boys in Uniform. AU Anthology Compiled by Basil L. Q. Henriques. THESE books, alike in their theme of club- work among juveniles, are in other ways almost...

by the Bureau of Current Affairs, 117, Piccadilly, W . r. 25.) A GREAT deal of original and interesting re- flection and speculation is packed into this small brochure. Mr....

the Author. (Dent. 16s.) THIS book is a pleasant successor to Lovely Is the Lee, for there remained many things about his home town that Mr. Gibbings left out of his first Irish...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, September 25th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...

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By CUSTOS MARKETS are still behaving suprisingly well. I say " surprisingly " because already indus- trial equity shares have recovered the ground lost immediately following...