D. R. GILLIE: The Face of the Fren ERNST FRIEDLAENDER : German Confusion STEPHEN SPENDER : In a Prison Cell PAUL BAREAU: From Marx to Keynes WITH 50th FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT //...

T HE negotiations and conferences of the past few months have at least made it clear that, whatever the merits of federation for North and South Rhodesia and Nyasa- land, it...

Although the oil lost in Persia has been rapidly made good to the West from other sources it is to nobody's interest that Persia's wells and refineries should remain...

The most important unanswered question in Germany at this moment is, of course, the question concerning the exact course of Communist policy now that the new German contract and...

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The first feeling towards Sweden inspired by the incident on Monday in which a Swedish aircraft was deliberately shot down over the Baltic by two' Russian fighters is one of...

Mr. Lennox-Boyd's statement on passenger transport fares was a poor performance in more ways than one. He delivered it in a form which was barely comprehensible to the House and...

When Russia rearranged its diplomatic pack and played an ace towards London in the person of Andrei Gromyko, it was inevitable that speculation should soar to the 'zenith of...

Israel has lived in a condition of chronic crisis ever since the State was born four years ago. But during the last few weeks even the citizens of Israel themselves have begun...

M R. LENNOX-BOYD'S performance on fares reminded one of the woman who had listened to Samuel Alexander, the philosopher, discoursing on Deity and Value, or something of the...

THE SPECTATOR 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...

Socialist opposition to every attempt by the Government to reduce the handicaps on free enterprise, as it is doing—rather tentatively—in the case of civil aviation, is a...

T HE three wars which provide the only close contact between Communism and the West in the Far East seem . . momentarily (except for those who are actually engaged in them) to...

of The Times for insertion in the " Deaths ' column: " Holmes. On June 9th, 1952, finally and peacefully, at his home in Sussex, Sherlock, brother of Mycroft." The advertising...

some mention in these notes of a young tawny owl to whom I was acting in loco parentis. This likeable bird, which as soon as it could fly spent its days in the woods, used to...

I think do the Navy and the R.N.V.R. It was therefore perhaps illogical of me to feel a slight qualm of misgiving on hearing a rumour that Mr. Sidney Rogerson, the new Director...

Conference is developing. The British delegation con- cluded (though that is perhaps hardly the right word) a barter agreement with the Chinese People's Republic for the...

deserve the greatest' credit for the series of illustratecLarticles which are republished this week in a pamphlet called The Traffic in Irish Horses. They give an objective but...

and another girl were sitting talking after dinner in the other girl's cottage when they noticed that the chimney was on fire; they, could see flames through a hole in a beam...

I T cannot be said that publication of the treaties signed in Bonn and Paris has so far produced any new arguments pro. or con. in German public opinion. Those who oppose the...

By T. F. W. MACKEOWN* S INCE the start of the National Health Service a constant cause of complaint has been the lack of published statis- tics relating to the staffs and costs...

A " most horrible piece of London romance " came under the Lord Mayor's notice on Saturday. Mahomet Abraham, a jet black blind beggarman, who is usually led through the streets...

T HE prospects of the Fourth Republic, that is to say of the survival of some form of parliamentary government in France, are today brighter (which does not mean very bright)...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. W HEN I was a boy, I expected Holmes and Sutcliffe or Hobbs and Sutcliffe to make 200 for the first wicket even on the stickiest of pitches. On the...

The Hill By ANTHONY MAY (St. Andrews University) A SHOT. " Damn," we said. Another shot. We stirred, for a Nelsonesque disregard of signals must be practised with discernment....

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HIS morning, in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, takes place a memorial service for Desmond MacCarthy. He was a man of such quality that his company enriched...

Ivanhoe. (Empire.)—Diplomatic Courier. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) —Kangaroo. (G aumont.) I HAVE always thought Ivanhoe a particularly boring book, but Mr. Richard Thorpe's film...

EXHIBITIONS the size of a Royal Academy summer show are not cheaply or easily transported, and the big display of Mexican art currently staged at the MusCe d'Art Moderne in...

IT is primarily as a lyrical celebrant of landscape that Ivon Hitchens has won and held the secure place which he occupies. Certainly there is no contemporary, with an...

THEATRE SIR RALPH RICHARDSON'S Macbeth is radically different from any presentation of the part that one has either seen or imagined, but it s not easy—indeed, to be frank,...

THE slump in the musical world is now unmistakable. It was not Perhaps difficult to foretell that the boom of the first post-war years could not last, that the expansion of...

the lines of " In April, Come he will. . . ." about any well-known figure of life or literature: WHEN I saw the terms of this competition in cold print, I wondered what I had...

Set by D. R. Peddy From time to time it is Suggested that Civil Servants should be issued with uniforms. A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for an extract from a...

Federation in Africa SIR, —Mr. Harry Franklin's clear analysis of the Central African prob- lem in your issue of May 9th, written with sympathy and restraint and a thorough...

his jury service recalled my own experience twenty years ago. When we retired to the room " severely furnished with a wooden table," etc., there was under that table an article...

delusion that some writers on Saki have had, that he had ' a miserable childhood '." Miss Munro seems to look now through far more rosy spectacles at her brother's childhood and...

Stir,—Last week four veterans, A, B, C and D, two soldiers and two civilians, met. Their ages were respectively 91, 90, 90 and 89. Except that all four live in the country,...

for less work. Mr. Simmance not merely supports, but deifies, this prin- ciple. All he -wants from the pools, he unblushingly tells us, is to get £75,000 for no work at all. He...

met him hurrying to one of his jobs, carrying bait-traps and leading his terriers. He is proud of his calling, and ready to impart information on the subject of rats. "Rats is...

hillier places. Farmers go round stopping holes with anything they can find: Often they cut down a blackthorn and push it into a gap, or lop branches from the nearest tree. A...

Conifer trees have been planted on the sides of the mountains, and grow thickly there in places where it is hard to see how they obtain enough nutriment from the thin layer of...

Leeks are a valuable vegetable and useful for more than broth- making. They do best in rich soil; should be planted with a dibble and puddled in. Give them plenty of room, and...

When I was a boy, one of the delights of life was in looking through farm-catalogues supplied by seedsmen and the makers of cattle- medicines. The latter provided great...

have read with interest your reviewer's comments, in your issue of June 6th, on my new nook, Adoption in the Modern World, and I hope it is not too late to correct one or two...

SIR,—Mr. Nicolson writes of the terrible haemorrhage which befell Keats on February 3rd, 1820. But was it so ? Nothing in Keatsian literature is more familiar than Charles...

In a Prison Cell Solitary Confinement. By Christopher Burney. Foreword by Christopher Fry. (Clerke and Cockeran. 91. 6d.) DEAR Reader, it is not impossible that you and I will...

FEW readers after finishing Sir Arthur Willert's book will disagree with Lord Acton's comment on historical writing quoted by Professor Charles Seymour in his preface to The...

A Sabine Journey. By Anthony Rhodes. (Putnam. 18s.) IN the summer of 1950 Mr. Anthony Rhodes went to Rome. It was Holy Year, and he wished to see something of the ceremonies at...

Modern English Painters : Sickert to Smith. By John Rothenstein. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 25s.) WITH this collection of essays on seventeen English artists who were born between...

HERE we have a man of words, a lexicographer, exercising himself very pleasantly as a nian of letters. The result is a charming, occa- sionally irritating, but nearly always...

THAT hard-worked phrase " dear, dirty Dublin " cannot possibly strike many visitors to the noble city so admirably described in Mr. Craig's book as being particularly revealing....

THE setting of Mr. Stephen Coulter's first novel is a small town on the west coast of Africa ; and if the story owes something to Mr. Graham Greene, the way in which it is told...

Thomas Mann : An Introduction to his Fiction. By Henry Hatfield. (Peter Owen. 12s. 6d.) AN amazing amount has been written about Thomas Mann ; • perhaps more than about any...

By CUSTOS PEAK profits, flanked by warnings of lower earnings in 1952, have now become a recur- ring theme in company reports. The latest illustration of what investors may...

50th Financial Supplement FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1952

By OSCAR R. HOBSON A YEAR ago in an article in the financial number of the Spectator I discussed the cost of living and its probable future movement. I said that the cost of...

By J. GRAHAME - PARKER WHATEVER may be posterity's verdict on the Government's revival of the orthodox methods of monetary control, there can be little doubt that it will be...

By STERLING " WITHIN the sterling area the most detailed selection control of credit is to be found, perhaps, in the records of post-war banking in Australia. The system has a...

By FRANCIS WHITMORE As every investor has been made acutely aware, great changes have been taking place in recent months in the economic and financial scene. Some had already...

By J. H. J. DAY, THE services provided by insurers cover a very wide field. Many of the risks underwritten are familiar to the ordinary individual, who has learned to...

By J. D. MARVIN THE whole money set-up has changed since the investment merits of the building societies were discussed in the Spectator nearly a year ago. Then Bank Rate was 2...

WHO were the greatest economists of the past generation ? Joseph Schumpeter, himself no mean candidate for the short list, left a series of biographical appreciations which...

CROSSWORD No. 683 1,4 Book Token for one guinea wilt be awarded to tire sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, July 1st, addressed Crossword....

The winner of Crossword No. 681 is: J. A. C. MORRISON, Esq., Chalford, Stroud, Glos.