There has never been much doubt that the Indian Congress would have to split ; the only question was at what moment the split would come, and along what lines. The official...

The second visit of Mr. Dulles to London seems to have been more productive than the first. He has been able to return to Washington reasonably certain that when the draft...

T HE result of the French elections is broadly that chaos has been averted without stability being achieved. The situation has not been materially changed by the declara- tion...

Controversy continues to rumble, if not to rage, round the War Office decision to re-equip the British Army with the .280 rifle in place of the .303. The United States Army has,...

The general smoothness of the working of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation arrangements. is demonstrated not so much by the device of appointing Admiral Carney...

The British public is by this time so apathetically accustomed to expenditure measured by thousands of millions tbat the mere increase in the cost of the Festival Gardens at...

The latest Soviet Note on the subject of a conference of Foreign Ministers makes it perfectly easy for Mr. Morrison to call off the meeting of Foreign Ministers if he does not...

Indications that uneasiness about the treatment of Tshekedi Khama is increasing in Labour circles, as it should, are provided by a letter from Mrs. Eirene White, a Labour M.P.,...

Since tooth-paste is the example Sir Hartley Shawcross took, the question of conditions of resale may as well be discussed on the basis of tooth-paste as on anything else.. A...

* * * * The new policy is designed to force the Socialist pace and confound the consolidators. It is worth noting that there has always been as much disputation in the Labour...

p ERSIAN actions are often as obscure as their words. Nobody really knows what is supposed to be happening in Abadan, and whether the fate of the installations is being decided...

weeks ago, I am possibly a little rash in bringing George Whitefield into discussion. But there really ought to be some agreement as to how to spell him. In Tottenham Court Road...

films professionally and with the Labour Party politically, was made a peer in the Birthday Honours List in June, 1949. Whitaker's Almanack for 1950. then in process of going to...

in the East End of London, are better brought up than non-Jewish, and juvenile crime is diminishing among the Jews while it is increasing elsewhere. Reason ? ' Jewish mothers...

journalism as any man I can think of. He was 81 when he died last week and he had been writing to the end. His fortunes were largely bound up with Lord Northcliffe's and he was...

harm provided it is peace pure and simple, not peace according to the prescription of a particular State, that is in question. A new body, " The Musicians' Organisation for...

HE Doily Express (" Controlling shareholder Lord Beaver- brook ") attacks Sir Oliver Franks. British Ambassador at Washington. So does Col. McCormick's Chicago Tribune; does the...

By R. C. K. ENSOR T WICE in my life-time I have seen the world confronted by an aggressive Great Power, and on the first two occasions war resulted. It is very important for the...

By JEAN PAUk1NE SMITH* A FTER surrender—what? That was the question we all asked on V-J Day in 1945. The following March found many of us actually in Tokyo, where we were met...

By D. R. GILLIE Paris T HE French people have given the Republican politicians another chance. Although the only way in most con- stituencies to record a critical vote to the...

By a PARISH PRIEST M Y wife and I sat and puzzled over the household bills. Those in authority said the cost of living had risen only a few points, surely not more than ten....

E VERY year, in the British Zone of Germany, a few hundred army lads take German girls to be their wives. It is surprising how short-lived was the British policy of non-...

THE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagents or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take thg risk of carrying stock, as...

A Day of Siege By A. P. CARTER (Middlesex Hospital Medical School) W AR came to Malta in June, 1940, after nine months of speculation and fear. I was ten, and watched the...

By 11AROLD NICOLSON T is salutary from time to time to attend the annual Speech Day of one's old school. The buildings during the last half- century appear to have shrunk to...

Company of Spanish Dancers. (Sadler's Wells.) THIS should be a memorable month in the London dance-world, for at the Cambridge Theatre and at Sadler's Wells two unrivalled...

CINEMA “Whirlpool " and "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) --“Pattes Blanches." (Cumin- entale.)—" Operation Pacific." (Warner,) Films based...

Unless I am in a hurry, which I always seek not to be, there is nothing I enjoy more than crossing the Gravesend-Tilbury Ferry. This experience gives all the pleasures of going...

Parsifal was given at Covent Garden on June 16th, and has once again aroused in most listeners all the old questions. Nietzsche posed many of them but not all ; for the...

The roses are now coming into their kingdom, with crown and sceptre and bands of music. Except for a dozen new bushes, replacements of casualties, my rose-beds are peopled by...

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Stopping on a drive back from Cambridge (sleepy after May-meek festivities), I took a nap on the Downs, and waking up found myself surrounded by flowers which 1 had not noticed...

What an elusive fellow he is ; always in the next valley, always mosing off and leaving his derisive cry behind him, just as a jet-plane leaves its whistle a quarter of a mile...

This is the week in the high summer season when the cry of the cuckoo has become so familiar to our ear that we tend to ignore it. Rut soon it will break its rhythm, and stop....

Set by IL Kennard Davis A prize of £5, which may be divided, Is offered for an extract (not more than 250 words) from an address on the occasion of a prize-giving at a girls'...

Report by Mervyn Horder Half-way through this twentieth century, what with one thing and another, there is room for reasonable doubt about the apprb- primeness of the lion as...

making ends meet is the placing of the ends. Many in this country, and hosts outside it, are asking: " Why, in the face of want all over the world, can a man retain more than...

SIR.—I have read with great interest the articles and correspondence in your columns entitled Making Ends Meet. I am an ordinary worker living in the midst of an essentially...

Leaven in the Schools SIR.-1 read with interest Lord Beveridgernsuggestion tbat.if those few children who bring - intellectual interests" with them from home were sent to the...

your readers must be rzrateful to Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald for his dispassionate survey of the Japanese peace treaty problems. In particular ne sets out clearly the ,iatural fear...

of the parish church of Saint George at Gravesend has been the subject of discussion and debate 1 think it would be fair to say that very few people locally would be at all...

SIR —I enjoy Martin Cooper's music criticism, but I think that, in common with a lot of other people, he has a 'mistaken idea of Delius's character. As my father, Norman...

SIR. — As it is again being publicly deplored that many children are in institutions who would be far better with private families, it seems opportune to draw attention to the...

SIR.—May I ask the assistance of your readers in my search for original manuscript and pictorial material referring to John Andre? He was born about 1751, lived in Clapham, was...

SIR,—It was with " no small indignation" that 1 read Mr. Richard Church's remarks on the setting up of a Borstal institution in Kent. and I wonder which part of the country he...

Sta.—Janus cites the prostitute and barrow boy as cases which make the law look a fare: he could well add the London motorist. Once every three months or so the owner-driver is...

to Mr. Derek Hudson for his complimentary references to my book ; but it is perhaps worth pointing out, b y your kindness, that, in one respect, he is less just to it than he...

Sta.—Mr. Arthur Ransome, in his review of Miss Haggard's biography of her father, refers to Rorke's Drift as " that disaster?' In the same review he points out an error of Miss...

described a game which was won before the winning side had received a ball. The match was between Kings' choir-boys and St. John's choir-boys. St. John's went in and were all...

place from Batty's Hippodrome at Kensington on Monday evening. At six o'clock, the balloon, having in the car Mr. and Mrs. Graham, was released from its moorings, and rose...

K EYNES was one of the great writers of our time. Unhappily there is a veil between the most of what he wrote and the reader innocent of economics, for he chose to devote his...

WINDOWS open to salute the summer Which enters every sleepy parlour A green delightful scent more subtle Than the breath of flushing petal. Over lawns the butterflies spin Like...

The Last of the Radicals. By C. V. Wedgwood. (Cape. t6s.) Miss WED WOOD'S life of her uncle is in a sense a study in temperament. Josh Wedgwood had in him the makings of a...

Secret Messages The Richardson Story. By Francis Williams. (Heinemann. ros. 6d.) No - rtitmc but " a change of heart," it has sometimes been suggested, can save mankind from...

Memoirs of Ernst von Weizsacker. Translated by John Andrcus. (Gollancz. 16s.) BARON VON WEIZSACK ER is a persuasive memoir writer and alsp a sincere one in the sense that he...

Inquiring Spirit. Edited by Kathleen Coburn. (Routledge. 25s.) THERE is something similar in the fascination of the characters of Coleridge and Henry James. They lack the...

The Hidden and the Hunted. By Howard Swiggett. (Heinemann. 81-. 6d.) ' The Gollancz Detective Omnibus. (Gollancz. 65.) THIS week we are really in luck. There is a detective...

is a distinguished astrophysicist. Some ten years ago he discovered, in certain atomic-nuclear reactions, what is now believed to be the source of the radiant energy of the Sun...

The Balance of Payments. By J. E. Meade. (Oxford University Press. 3os.) Mind, Life and Body. By Reginald 0. Kapp. (Constable. s ss. 6d.) The Making of a National Theatre. By...

The Year of Sweet Illusions. By Hans Carossa. Translated by Robert Kee, (Methuen. los. 6d.) LamieL By Stendhal. Translated with an introduction by T. W. Earp. (Turnstile Press....

good manners, but only, surely, if these are taken for granted. If, on the contrary, the questioning mind seeks origins and causes, development and growth, bad manners may well...

(Collins. 18s.) Palace of Industry, 1851. By C. R. Fay. (Cambridge University Press. t Ss.) THE authors of these books were a little unfortunate in that they appeared rather...

C. Browning. (Dent. 123. 6d.) THIS book replaces two pre-war Everyman volumes, but is an entirely fresh compilation. Perhaps its most useful section is one con- taining nearly...

p.) MR. RICHARD CHURCH has never belonged to a school, either as creative writer or critic ; it has been all the more important to hear his passionate, independent, enthu-...

THIS remarkable compilation is irresistible. Its bulky weight may at first seem somewhat forbidding —it is impossible, however, to read three pages of it without becoming...

By CUSTOS Nor only the stockholders in Anglo-Iranian Oil but investors as a whole are, for the time being, " in a Persian market." It is now the news from Teheran that matters...

The Annual Register, 19so. (Loniptians. 3 Gns.) nos invaluable work of reference continues to show that the writing of contemporary history can be made both accurate and read-...

6d.) ADOPTING an original and not very success- ful method, Lt.-Commander Miller, who served through most of the war in the Admiralty mine-disposal service and gained the George...

49th Financial Supplement FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951

By OSCAR R. HOBSON P RICES in the shops go on rising and rising and nobody does a thing about it. What should be done about it and who should do it ? Well, I don't know that...

By FRANCIS WHITMORE To many of us the British banker must often appear as a person who is always trying to look round the next corner but one. The qualities with which we invest...

By J. H. J. DAY, F.C.I.I. THE business of insurance is a branch of commercial activity in which the British have always excelled. Although the very earliest insurances were not...

By JOHN D. MARVIN IF you decide to put some of your savings into the shares of a building society, the society will pay you only a moderate rate of interest ; the figure is 24...

winner of Crossword No. 629 is G. D. BARRON, Old Mill House, Wadeford, Chard, Somerset

f.4 Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the tint correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, luly 3rd, addressed Crossword. 99 Gott& Street,...