For millions of Frenchmen the war in Indo-China is la sale guerre, just as Korea before it was, for many nations, " the dirty war." But there has been nothing dirtier about...

I N the Australian enquiry into Russian espionage there have so far been no disclosures to equal those which startled Canada, and Canada's allies, eight years ago. The...

view of these riots; firmly attributing them to " Communists and other elements inimical to Pakistan within and outside the country," whose interest it is to sabotage the...

decided to keep the Bevanites in order and make it one degree more difficult for them to flout the authority of the party leadership. That is the meaning, so far is it can be...

If it were not for the National Trust many of the old buildings which we now value either for their architecture or for their associations, or for both, would long since have...

Transport Commission, extra `lodging turns' were introduced over the week-end for firemen and drivers at the Newton Abbot depot. On a lodging turn a train crew works up to one...

It is to be hoped that the Bishop of Chichester's wise judge- ment, in which he overruled the decision of his diocesan advisory committee not to grant a faculty for Mr. Hans...

B OTH . Houses of Parliament welcomed the Queen back this week and expressed their sense of the value of her Commonwealth tour. The Commons spoke first, on Monday, and the Lords...

The representatives of forty countries who last week in London drew up the Oil Pollution Convention brought a step nearer—if as yet not a very long step—the ending of a filthy...

Articles by Thomas Hodgkin on African affairs have become ,a fairly regular feature of the Spectator in the past year. They n ave contributed, together with the dispatches from...

0 NE fact emerges quite clearly from the still scattered and unco-ordinated talks and negotiations about Indo-China, and that is that the British Foreign Secretary is deeply...

The two service attaches who have just been recalled, at the request of the Foreign Office, from the Soviet Embassy in London seem to have employed exactly the same ham-fisted...

S ECRET intelligence organisations are difficult things to run. Behind a thick veil of secrecy inter-departmental feuds and jealousies luxuriate, duties overlap, conflicting...

The World Veterans Federation says that its " main aims are support of the United Nations and aid to disabled veterans." The 114 veterans' associations from 22 nations which are...

I speculated last week' about the contents If the letter in which Mr. Bevan explained to the Beaconsfield magistrates his reasons for failing to stop after his recent collision...

This week the Swedish Government published a booklet about the hydrogen bomb in which extravagant rumours about its destructive powers are put into some sort of perspective....

On February 5th, 1954, the Spectator published an article by a distinguished psychiatrist on the physical treatment of mental illness. This article attracted a great deal of...

By D. W. BROGAN T HE Supreme Court of the United States has handed down what is possibly its most important decision since Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857. That decision, made in...

Navy described its arrangements for meeting, greeting and escorting the Queen returned from foreign parts ? To begin with, the MFV scraped a deal of new paint off the side of a...

.ART Tw o Dimensional Tim cross-references in modern painting are Many and complex, but one particular line of deitlopment emerges rather clearly from the current London...

Copland and Stravinsky THE Guildhall Music Society presented an excellently ambitious programme at the Chenil Galleries on May 13th, when the Guildhall Ensemble sang Aaron...

Knights of the Round Table. (Empire.) FOR all its sincere efforts to "make blossom the flowers of chivalry and to spread them in sweet-smelling profusion across a cinema-...

PHOTOGRAPHY, which stabbed painting in the back a century ago, continues to enlarge its influence and its foothold on the edge of the fine arts: it is the express intention of...

Bizet : Carmen (in French)/Stevens/ Peerce / Albanese/Merrill/Re iner/H . ALP 1115-6-7. This is the most outstanding recent opera issue. Rise Stevens in the title part makes...

lish an article by Thomas Hodgkin entitled' 'Panafrica, Eurafrica, Malanaf rice.' His analysis of the nascent Pan-African movement I found most interesting. Saying, " Others...

SCIENTISTS IN POLITICS Sta,—Dr. J. B. S. Haldane upbraids me for asserting that the political views of scientists " tend to be uninformed and naïve, when not actually...

thing to do. But I don't think can let Jim Phelan get away with it altogether. In his review of The Truth About Dartmoor, entitled ' Howard's Folly,' some of the aims of John....

SIR,—1 have not read Sir Herbert Read's boOk, Anarchy and Order, but this will' not, hope, disqualify me from commenting on the arguments against it deployed by Protestor...

only more and better sheep, but cattle too can be introduced. From the Duke's other estates have come Shorthorns from Cheshire, Gallo- ways from Invernessshire, and Welsh Blacks...

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game for Warwickshire, W. G. Quaife came out of retirement in the late 1920s and scored—a century. Most remarkable of all was the performance of A. E. Stoddart. He retired in...

S1R,—Your book reviewers are still at it. The archetypal Adult Education Lecturer is being potted at again, this time in a sort of in-off shot by Mr. Monteith, who writes of...

get up. Nearly two hours before I got out of bed I had awakened to the twittering of birds and by the time the dawn chorus was in full voice sleep was impossible and I began to...

day I discovered the corpse of a pigeon. The feathers of the bird were strewn about and it was hard to tell whether it had been shot or pounced upon by a fox or a cat, although...

eight superimposed boards. For this it has been found necessary to invent additional types of chessmen, with greater powers than those of the traditional pieces. For the usual...

when I was fonder of taking a gun with me I used to shoot wild duck on occasions. 1 suppose half a dozen times in my life 1 have shot curlew—the poor man's grouse, as they are...

your type is the same as the set-up for Resistance Is Nil. The alignment is perfect. The call of your voice on my inter-corn And the echo of your heels on the terrazzo And...

0 NCE upon a time it was the querulous old man who made a habit of praising the days gone by when he was a boy: Horace preserved him in the amber of an immortal hexameter....

Y T. N. DELF (St. John's College, Cambridge) P ARACHUTING seemed merely a pleasantly exciting change from the dull routine of Army life, when as a • National Serviceman I...

Here's Richness By EVELYN WAUGH H ILAIRE BELLOC'S death last summer came at the end of nearly fifteen years during which he had written nothing and made no public appearance....

THIS is a most sprightly spring double: two trumpet calls to blast the sluggards from their soothing shades, and prick the zealous into yet more frenzied life. Lord...

there have ,for some time been two opinions. The first is that colour Photographs are, almost invariably, both accurate and beautiful, and that their mere reproduction in a book...

ON the west front of Chartres Cathedral, amongst innumerable other figures, you will find seven scrubby, resolute little men, crouching over writing desks, each of them with his...

THESE two books have little in common except the last word of their titles, but since the first is a factual record and the second an imagin- ative diagnosis they complement...

The Adventures of Augie March is a very long book, which could be taken as a cue for prattling about epic and breadth of scope and all-inclusive vision of life, but in fact what...

Press. 30s.) PRUSSIAN history is a phenomenon sui generis: much of it is history in reverse. At a time when on the whole the crusades Were a dying form of endeavour, the Teu-...

of Breadalbane from the foot of Loch Tay westwards to Ben Lui and from Glen Lyon southwards to the Braes of Balquhiddcr and Loch Earn. After a preliminary survey of the area he...

almost unbearable to those who retain the slightest whiff of childhood—when a heartless nanny marched her charges out of the theatre just as Puss-in- Boots was warming up. Here...

15s.) SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY Puritanism sank deep roots into English live, and it survives in far more than Sum'ay observance or a national determinatioa to take our pleasures...

Bartok after Dr. Halsey Stevens's recent survey of the man and his music. The present work, which is translated from the French, gives a more sympathetic picture of the composer...

By CUSTOS THE sharp set-back in the gilt-edged market which followed so soon after the Bank rate cut was evidence of some weak bull positions. The rapid appearance of a new...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE cut in Bank rate has been so thoroughly discounted in the stock markets that after the first rapturous rise prices fell back—in places quite sharply....