It would be most unlike the Egyptians to ignore any of the known devices of bargaining in the course of the negotiations on the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty. The recent report,...

To say that the eyes of the world are on the United Nations Assembly would not only be to use a cliché, it would also be untrue. The meetings of the Council of Foreign...

M STALIN'S sets of replies to correspondents are of impor- t , tance only if the policy they indicate shows some sign of taking practical shape. It cannot be said that much has...

The debate on the Press in the House of Commons on Tuesday served no more useful purpose than the proposed Royal Com- mission, which the Government will apparently now appoint,...

Questioned in the Commons on Monday about the future of Japanese industry the President of the Board of Trade said he was glad to have the opportunity of making a statement on...

India moves slowly towards self-government in a steadily mounting crescendo of communal disorders. The new Cabinet, with its five Muslim League nominees, met the Central...

The smallness of the attendance in the House of Commons during the discussions on the Defence White Paper indicated, not indiffer- ence but substantial satisfaction with the...

The Spectator this week assumes the enlarged size of 32 pages ; among new features is " On the Air," which will be found on page 45o. Readers are reminded that a fee of four...

In the nineteen schools of social work operating in the British Isles there is no common policy and not even an accepted name for the diploma gained at the end of the course....

" DEFENCE," as Adam Smith so wisely observed, " is more important than opulence." Nowadays a Government may count itself lucky if it is able to provide either one or the other ;...

The process whereby the Conservative Party is acquiring an economic policy is slow and not very sure. But it has speede d up a little lately and in a speech at Plymouth last...

W ITH the advent of November winter may be said to have well begun ; and winter in Germany is likely to bring disaster on a scale not yet as much as imagined. There are men on...

not make its publi- cations more generally available. The necessity of writing to Kings- way and enclosing a postal order, I am quite certain, deters fifty per cent. of...

Germany. I certainly agree with him that the process of denazification has probably gone far enough—or nearly so, for I fancy there are some nasty bits to clear up yet. But to...

pected to be of more than ordinary interest with Col. Walter Elliot, Dr. Scott Stevenson and Dr. C. E. M. Joad standing. Actually it will not, for the candidates in a university...

can spare time from thoughts on litigation to commend the appeal for funds now being made by Bristol University, of which he is Chancellor. Bristol is one of the youngest of the...

T HE fact that Mr. Churchill is bringing a libel action against the author and publishers of an American book called Dinner at the White House is of some interest. I have no...

are responsible for bringing to my desk from time to time particulars of other singular adventures in the university world. The latest is the Edinburgh Theological Hall, with a...

am told, has settled down in a trailer-caravan. Has the University made it a licensed lodging-house ? jexus.

on Tuesday was a patchy affair, with some good speeches on either side and some far otherwise. The fundamental questions, whether there was really a case for a Royal Commission,...

By W. J. BROWN, M.P. T HE invigorating air of Brighton was not alone responsible for the confident and buoyant mood in which delegates to last week's Trade Union Congress...

By F. W. SKINNARD, M.P. T HE recent recurrence of serious labour troubles in Jamaica and the consequent trial for manslaughter, and the acquittal, of Alexander Bustamente and...

By RICHARD CHANCELLOR T HERE is a magnificent scene in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, The Tsar's Bride, laid in the Beautiful (or Red) Square of old Moscow, where a busy market is in...

By MAURICE BRUCE A N educational service has been for more than a century a recognised branch of the Army, but, with the exception of voluntary enterprises at the end of the...

By J. GORDON COOK W HAT has given plastics such importance in the modern world? Why should we want to make telephones or door-knobs or refrigerators from plastics rather than...

By DEREK PATMORE T HE western world is just beginning to discover that Modem Greece has a culture quite apart from that of Ancient Greece. In the past too many people thought...

By J. S. MORRISON T HE young man sat at his office desk and thought of home. His eyes had left the documents in front of him and refocused on the hills that were visible...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I WENT up to Oxford for the opening meeting of United Nations' Week. It was one of those early autumn afternoons on which the mist of the Thames Valley...

MESSRS. TOOTH have produced for us an early Constable View of Chatham, painted, it is assumed, after the artist'•s trip from London to Deal in an East Indiaman at the age of 27,...

" Cyrano de Bergerac." By Edmond Rostand. At the New Theatre. Go and see Mr. Ralph Richardson's Nose and watch him jump out of the Moon in the third act of this famous play in...

" This Man is Mine." At the Plaza.—" Appointment With Crime." At the Astoria. —" Le Bois Sacre." At Studio One. THE usual contributor to this column seems to have all the luck....

" Coppelia." At Covent Garden Opera House. " The Vagabonds " and " The Catch " at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. THE Sadler's Wells first ballet company chose Coppelia with which...

of the Third Programme is to mark the enterprise as a primary achievement in British broadcasting. That it has been successful in both planning and accomplishment is widely...

IF you would meet the dead, and love and laugh With those who lost all beauty long ago, Come to my valley. Where the stream runs clear, The stones like deep brown eyes of...

SIR,—I have read with interest Mr. Richard S. Rowntree's letter in your issue of October 25th. I have just returned to England after spending sixteen months in Austria. My work...

SIR,—In your issue of October 18th Mr. L. J. H. Horner, Secretary of the Canal Association, has chosen to make disparaging comment upon the declared aims and objects of the...

Horner, the Secretary of the Canal Association, would state what steps his association has taken to keep the Birmingham and Stratford Canal in navigable condition, or the...

Mr. Anthony Nutting? The result of the Blackpool Conference is in the published policy—that is all the public at large should have to consider. It may well be true that the...

against speech I know. Your correspondents must really draw a little on their own experience. Motives to silence, as to speech, are mixed. I can think of five better reasons why...

THE TORY PROGRAMME Stn,—Mr. Rawlinson, in your issue of last week, criticises, by implication, the speeches made by Mr. R. A. Butler and me at the Blackpool Con- ference. He...

Sra,—Let me register my intense regret that my admired friend, Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, should have recorded in your columns approval of the biography of Alexander Woollcott by...

Sia,—The restriction of liberty in purely personal matters is something to be guarded against when the grounds for its advocacy are superficial and inadequately thought out. In...

Sta,—I have no wish to defend my book on Democracy in France against reasonable criticism, but I must ask leave to defend it against exaggerated charges of inaccuracy. Your...

6o Members of Parliament who had the privilege of visiting Austria in the party which included Kenneth Lindsay, M.P., who contributed your article, " Austria and Britain," I...

Sta,—Your reviewer of Mr. Richard Aldington's Wellington quoted Mr. Aldington as saying that Mr. Belloc managed to write a chapter on the Peninsular War " without mentioning...

Sta,—I cannot say that my letter is one of your usual readers, and I will not answer to any article or problem written in your colums. A young German student I know your...

Snt,—While wishing both humbly and heartily to be numbered by Mr. Harold Nicolson among his own kind, that is to say, the eupeptics, may I now ask if he is wise to praise the...

SIR,—Mr. Jones has put his thumb on a very real source of grievance, and one which is only fully realised by those who have served overseas. When I last visited Cairo (as a...

Sta,—I think it is not generally realised that it is now more difficult for an English artist to obtain canvas and other painting materials than at any period during the last...

Sm,—As a former third-class season ticket-holder between Newton Abbot and Plymouth during the later war years, I was interested in the letter from W. B. Manley. During those...

Stit,—With regard to the Trades Union Congress' recent descision to work towards a fourty hour week it might be interesting to take into considera- tion the ammount of work done...

SIR,—Asmy officers are concerned lest a part of the life-story of Field- Marshal Viscount Montgomery given prominence in certain Sunday newspapers should be accepted as...

SIR, —Contrary to Mr. R. C. Evans' experience in Holland in finding English publications so poorly represented is my experience in Belgium, where I have recently come to live....

It is pleasant to find new bushes and plants, as may generally be done at the shows of the R.H.S.; but it is also pleasant to see old friends. For example, one of the winners in...

THE death of Thompson Seton recalls to me a number of pleasant experiences in his company, which was never not stimulating and fresh. For example, once under his direction I got...

Sta,—I was much interested in the letter which appeared in one of your recent issues by Mr. J. P. Brander, as I am a member of the Wye Board of Conservators. I agree with your...

Sul,—Janus in his concern for the wives of undergraduates with children writes that they have a problem—" of course in consequence nursemaids." Why of course in consequence? As...

original Indian totem pole and a Judgement Seat, and he devised there a number of the games par- ticularly associated with the Roy Scout movement, of which he has some claim to...

A host of correspondents have written on the subject of Sauce Alone, but none has said whether the name is still current in this or that locality. Its use has been much more...

A Poet Abroad European Witness. By Stephen Spender. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) MR. SPENDER has written what he modestly describes as a " con- ventional Travel Book " about...

A Countryman's Creed. By Sir William Beach Thomas. (Michael Joseph. 10s. 6d.) THERE are, of course, many ways of representing the Englishman by types from the various walks of...

Louis XIV and the Greatness of France. By Maurice Ashley. (Hodder and Stoughton, for the English Universities Press. 4s. 6d,) Louis XIV and the Greatness of France. By Maurice...

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Andrew Lang : A Critical Biography. By Roger Lancelyn Green. (Edmund Ward. 15s.) Andrew Lang : A Critical Biography. By Roger Lancelyn Green. (Edmund Ward. 15s.) IN 1888, Henry...

France is a Star. By Christopher Dilke. (Heinemann. 7s. 6.) Here Comes a Chopper. By Gladys Mitchell. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) IN his first novel, The Bridgehead, Christopher...

THIS is always a season of intense activity in the book world. But this year publishers, their activities restricted by paper-rationing and a bottleneck at every printer's, are...

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MISS ROBERTSON supervised a playground attached to a block of flats in a Dublin suburb ; and she gives you Dublin slum life at its lowest and gayest. She deals in badness of all...

Cat's Company. By Michael Joseph. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) THE domestic animals are seldom seen to advantage in literature. The horse or dog cannot appear in print but the...

By TERENTIUS INVESTMENT markets continue to be dominated by the effect of the Local Loans redemption. Holders, incidentally, might note that this stock can be sold at £too HS....