unlimited satisfaction from Mr. Robert Boothby's gift for candour. His speech at Banstead last week, in • which he proclaimed in relation to the Labour Pday in Parliament that "...

advanced northward -across the 38th parallel, in October, 1950. they were out to stabilise conditions in the whole of Korea and to establish a unified democratic government, in...

The import of the Atlantic Treaty Organisation appointments announced by General Eisenhower on Wednesday -is not to be grasped without careful study. It may be noted, to begin...

' If the treaty initialled in Paris by representatives of France, • Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg is finally signed by their Governments, and if after that it...

Mr. Morrison would appear to have made a successful debut at his first international conference. To restrain the enthusiasms of politicians in this and other countries who want...

party political nonsense, the speech which Mr. David Eccles, M.P., made last Saturday on relations between the Conservatives and the trade unions came as a welcome breath of...

When Mr. Herbert Morrison announced on March 6th that, on the best figures he could then obtain, the expenditure on the Festival Gardens in Battersea Park would amount to some...

One of the least happy aspects of the educational situation in this country is the petty jealousy of the old-established grammar schools exhibited by bodies with a Labour...

T HROUGH all the " loud contention " of these last days. through the bickerings and the buffetings, the cheers and the jeers, the echoes have been insistently heard of two...

T HE decision of the Persian Parliament to nationalise the oil industry has been greeted in this country with as much astonishment as alarm. Yet it would have been much more...

prise the Golden Number, Easter falls this year almost, if not quite, as early as it is possible for it to fall—for extensive as its vagaries are, they are not completely...

enterprising persons who collect impassive degrees as easily as picking primroses. A case heard at Manchester Assizes on Monday throws gratifying light on the process. It was an...

astonishment at its acquiescence in the present food fiasco. It is not merely that Mr. Webb's persistence in haggling with the Argentine— right enough, no doubt, up to a...

Mr. Bernard Shaw's cottage at Ayot St. Lawrence to the National Trust last Saturday should attract a considerable crowd ; for though many had to walk in weather that can best be...

a deficiency of audacity, and there was a certain entertainment in those passages of his broadcast last Saturday in which he deplored with the utmost gravity the party...

11) N% ARREN POSTBRIDGE 0 F all the miracles recorded in the Gospels, the supreme miracle, the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth on the third day after his crucifixion, is the...

By A. C JENKINS C ROSS-LEGGED we squatted op the deeply piled birch- brushwood that formed the floor of the guottar of striped blanket-cloth. The air seemed to drape us about...

By CLELAND SCOTT F OR the man who can bear. his own company for long periods, prospecting for minerals is fun, especially in Africa. You are unlikely to make a fortune, but you...

By Prof. C. M. YONGE, F.R.S. 0 NE hundred years have elapsed since the death of John James Audubon. This centenary will not pass unnoticed in the United States, where Audubon's...

By R. G. G. PRICE j UNIOR games in a private school have the duration of hell without the literary flavour. Obe cannot console oneself by saying to one's fellow-sufferers, "...

Escape to Patriotism By JOHN FRIPP (Merton College, Oxford) W HILE Mr. Strachey turns jingo, and the world thaws into war, and the Sunday threepennies foretell the land- bound...

A PROJECT to establish at Chelsea a Metropolitan Hospital for Children was promoted by a meeting in the Hanover Square Rooms on Monday. Lord Ashley, who presided, while...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE often endeavoured, in using the space accorded to me by this hospitable newspaper, to communicate to others the comfort and the relaxation that I...

Lost Youth." (Continentals)—"" Tea for Two." (Warner.) WHEN first produced in Italy Lost Youth created an uproar and was banned by the censor, who subsequently relented on...

THEATRE " Electra" and "The Wedding." (The Old Vic.) IN their volatile new offering the Old Vic company prove, to our delight, that both they and Tchehov. are still capable of...

to the hours after dark. I was out prowling round before dinner, with the corgi snuffling his way along like a miniature doodle-bomb, exploding at every rabbit-hole. Light had...

That was a memorable walk, for the return of the rooks was not the only sign of spring that came my way. Further gales and floods had filled the Weald with open lakes where...

I WAs wrong, or at least premature, about the absence of rooks from the nests in the copse at Hushheath Manor, that shapely, small Eliza- bethan housc with an Italian garden on...

the old winter pear, for the heavy weather has washed away most of the clay with which they wets affianced to the old wood. No sign of life yet. When Thomas Cromwell, in the...

Melisande, composed in 1902-3, and Hoist's chamber opera Savitri of 1908, two works which have been heard in London this last week. Schonberg's op. 5 is a monstruAr informe,...

Report by Richard Usborne Tornkins, the hunter, a fairly veracious man, said, " I once shot a lion with a bandaged paw in the African jungle." A prize of £5 was offered for...

Set by R. Kennard-Davis A prize of £5, which may be divided. Is offered for a conver- sation (in not more than 250 words) on their respective masters between Sam Weller and...

SIR.—In your note on Malaya in the Spectator of February 2nd refer- ence is made to the economic rivalry between " the Chinese and the Malayans." "Malayans" is a term generally...

Sia,—Mr. Caraway asks for "an organisation consisting of Individual members of the various Churches whichyould have a similar relationship to the World Council of Churches as...

SIR,—I must thank your correspondent for correcting me on matters of fact, but I must join issue with him on the question of principle. I cannot believe a country that has...

his very interesting article in the Spectator of March 9th. does not mention one of the facts which is bound to have a far- . eaching effect on the future of farming, viz., the...

SIR,—When commen1ipj on Dr. Barnes and the Vicar of Crockham Hill, Janus falls into the l?l"too common error of imagining that spiritual matters must be kept in a watertight...

SIR.—WC were most shocked when we read the article of Miss Virginia Graham in your paper the other day. She spoke of her childhood days and how she and the children of today...

SIR.—In the leading article in last week's Spectator it is stated that Mr. Kevin occupied the Foreign Office longer than any predecessor since Sir Edward Grey. Did not Mr. Eden...

SI R,—Io her review of The Cardinal, Miss Marghanita Laski remark , that she is aocustomed"to "devour a book in a few hours." In case a more protracted effort was made with...

Comment in your issue of February 9th, and his description of the good work being done by London House and the Victory Club in providing places where students of various...

SIR,—Is it pedantic to protest at th , growing habit of writing "if " for " although " ? It is discouraging to see it appearing in your columns. "The hotels," I read, "if...

SIR.-1 was present at what I have always understood to be the last appearance of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving together. This was at the New Theatre, Oxford, in 1902. She was...

T WO massive volumes contain the Diary* which Dostoievsky contributed, first weekly and later monthly, to the review, The Citizen, between 1873 and 1881. The Diary is not con-...

The Task of the Red Cross Warrior Without Weapons. By Marcel Junod. (Cape. z2s. 6d.) NOBODY nowadays shares Mussolini's belief that war is to men what childbirth is to women ;...

Memories and Portraits. By Ivan Bunin. Translated by Vera Traill and Robin Chancellor. (Lehmann. 1 as. 6d.) IVAN BUNIN, at eighty,.looks back on a past in which he has played...

The Lonely Tower. By T. R. Henn. (Methuen. 2 is.) As Yeats's poetry can be understood completely—if at all—only with some knowledge of his life and times, the topical and...

(Hollis and Carter. 30.) THE reason why the public is offered this expensive and fully illus- trated study of six rogues who flourished in the reign of King Charles II is that...

Smooth and Rough. By Adrian Stokes. Illustrated. (Faber. ► cs.) ONE of the pleasures of reading Mr. Stokes's writings on art has always been in the discovery of a poet's...

Confucius: The Man and the Myth. By H. G. Creel. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. ass.) PROFESSOR CREEL aims to pierce the mist of later tradition with which the conventional view of...

The Case of Comrade Tulaycv. By Victor Serge. Translated from Peterson. (Heinemann. los. 6d.) A Season in England. By P. H. Newby. (Cape. los. 6d.) Hoxisr faith, I think, and...

Ireland and Italy in the Middle Ages. By Vincenzo Berardis. (Clonmore and Reynolds, Dublin. i is.) THIS IS an interesting study by the late Italian Envoy Extraordinary and...

By CUSTOS The Fall in Gilt-Edged In the Consol market the Northern Rhodesia loan flop has touched off a precariously-balanced situation and induced a stream of small sales...

THE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm ordet with their news- agent or to take out a subscription. Newsagenn cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as...

[it Book Token for one guinea wilt be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. April 3rd. ACROSS...

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