The opening of the debate in the South African Assembly on the Bill to over-rule the Supreme Court in its capacity as interpreter of the constitution has revealed strikingly the...

What Russia " is demanding, and what every German is satisfied that she is demanding, is the neutralisation of all Germany as the price of the reunion of Eastern with Western...

In a letter to The Times this week Mr. Geoffrey Faber asks whether the policy of annihilating outright every herd in which an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease occurs is...

It is well known that any foreigner who criticises any detail of the internal administration of the United States is asking for trouble, for many Americans cannot be relied upon...

The death of Sir Stafford Cripps in the circumstances in which it has occurred has moved men of all parties. An appreciation of him appears on another page. In say- ing that he...

There has been a steady tendency for the annual Economic Surveys to devote less and less time to the future and more and more time to the past. This year's Survey, the first...

Nothing has been officially disclosed to show what has gone on during the past six weeks in the talks that have taken place, in Cairo and London, between representatives of the...

T HE death of Sir Stafford Cripps occurred as the Parliamentary battle was being joined again after the Easter recess. Not for the first time when it has been engaging in...

The Attorney-General on Monday made what on its merits seems an unanswerable case for a new scale of remuneration for the Bar and Bench. When it is recognised what the course of...

The decision of the Liberals in the House of Commons to vote against the Government in the matter of guillotine closure in the debates on the new Health Service Bill is...

really needs a cool and thorough scrutiny of its whole transport system, is going to have to endure instead the spectacle of Parlia- ment playing at trains. The Government's...

of Lord Greene has caused to everyone who had had personal contact with him, for he was one of those men, all too rare, who inspired something like affection even in almost...

to be shot at that—readers may believe me or not—I hesitate to criticise it. But like other public institutions it profits from criticism, not being so perverse as to treat...

Affiliation of Constantine the Great would send me any information about this doubtless estimable institution I should be most grateful. I might be able to do a

ways and be wise." Or, perhaps it is to the British Government that the injunction should be addressed. Anyhow the snail, travelling under his own roof, is the model. The idea,...

who was one of the British contingent at the recent economic conference at Moscow, has talked about it to the Daily Express. With one of his observations I find myself in such...

for a long time appears in the Daily Express in the reference to " petty little men like the pitiful and pompous Dawson." Nothing but sheer ignorance could dictate that. You...

T HE completion of that monumental undertaking, The History of " The Times" from 1788 to 1948, in five massive volumes, by an anonymous writer prompts many reflections. One is...

By WILSON HARRIS A T Printing House Square, abbreviated to P.H.S., The Times has been edited and printed since it evolved out of the first John Walter's Daily Universal...

By D. W. BROGAN A LTHOUGH I live near Newmarket, I am not a racing man. But I understand that one of the most poignant moments in a turf-investor's life is when he receives the...

By FRANCIS WILLIAMS I T is not the least remarkable fact about Sir Stafford Cripps that it is on what he did and how he acted in one short period of time rather than on the...

By H. BOARDMAN W E have embarked this week on what promises to be one of the stormiest sittings of Parliament for a long time. We are going to see the almost theological fury...

By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. T HE carriage, believe it or not, was empty; and when, without its once stopping, it had carried me from Marylebone to Wembley Stadium, I thought I...

By BRIAN GARDNER (Trinity College, Dublin.) H E was, of course, an inveterate drunkard. No doubt about that. I used to see him regularly twice a day, the first time when I was...

The oddest, surely, of odd tales Recorded by the French Concerns a sneak-thief of Marseilles Tried by a callous Bench. His youth, his innocency, his tears— No, nothing could...

NICOLSON By HAROLD L L my life I have suffered, more or less uncomplain- ingly, from clumsiness, and therefore incompetence, in Physical clumsiness is not, however, a defect...

The River. (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) Cry, The Beloved Country. (Carlton.)—Belles on their Toes. (Leicester Square.) THAT Miss Rumer Godden's beautiful book The River...

THEATRE The Other Heart. By James Forsyth. (Old Vic.) I TAKE it that the rushing, rustling noise which accompanies the whole of every performance at the Old Vic is, in fact,...

Where frost prevails and early potatoes are due to come up it is go-2 to have material at hand to protect the crop. Small branches of ycv. , or laurel or old bracken do very...

THE London Symphony Orchestra is having a remarkable and well- deserved success with its series of Beethoven concerts at the Festival Hall. On April 18th there was a packed...

A THORN hedge seems to break into leaf overnight. One looks at it and notes that it is green, and it seems that yesterday it was still in bud and looking brown. Such a thing...

Some men have a gift for inspiring confidence in animals and birds. 1 manage fairly well with horses and dogs, but birds have never shown any inclination to trust me although I...

but his honest opinion. He had farmed for a long time when things were not so good, and now, when they were not so bad—with a margin for improve- ment—he was convinced that...

Slowly drifting down from the frozen seas of the North, to lose themselves in the waters towards the Equator, annually come vast herds of icy rocks; crags that would be immortal...

in a wood, for when the shadows thicken the fox moves, the owl goes floating to and fro and birds come in to settle for the night. The little wood up the hollow is largely...

of £5 was o f fered for a ten-line love-lyric, of which the last three lines were to be : In the waiting-room Of the branch-line . On a wet Sunday in Hull. Any other...

Set by Mervyn Horder "Ah well, I must stop now, as the watch said when the little boy filled it full of treacle," wrote Lear in one of his letters. A prize of £5, which may be...

SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Cohan, is right. There was a Michelin guide of Britain issued before the war, and I wish that it could be reissued like the excellent Michelin maps...

SIR,—As one who in youth drove a large variety of horses, both four- in-hand and pair, may I explain about bearing-reins ? In order that a horse may be driven comfortably and...

Education and Initiative Snt,—Mr. Philip Lewis, in his article Industry and the Public Schools, asks why the modern State secondary schools no longer seem to pro- duce boys so...

SIR,—From your references to the railways in the Spectator of April 18th, one might imagine a difficult and insoluble problem where none really exists. For many years the...

SIR,—On account of the vagaries of surface mail the Spectators of the first three weeks of March have all arrived in the middle of April. I find myself plunged into your...

SIR,—The papers have all been so good in helping those who are working hard to provide hostels where old people may end their days in comfort that it encourages me to beg for a...

Sia.,—I read Colonel Van der Post's book Venture into the Interior with some surprise. The agricultural departments of the East African Territories are staffed with some...

Sul,—The letter in your issue of March 21st from the Chairman of the Central Council for District Nursing in London prompts me to cite a case of hardship, which is probably...

pos- sessions is the last edition of the Great Britain guide, which is dated July, 1930. It was a stop-gap edition, as some of the town-plans were badly printed, and a special...

SIR, —May 1 give my own reaction to Miss Laski's interesting article ? I shall not emulate her boldness in generalisation. How can she know the typical reaction of the viewer—if...

Tempora et Mores The History of " The Times." Vol. IV, Parts I and II, 1912-1948. (Times Office. 50s. the set.) Ts history of The Times is the history of the times. That is what...

EACH generation has its psychological fashions, and resurrects men who can symbolise its climate of thought. A life like Kierkegaard's suddenly, after a hundred years of...

My Friend Vassia. By Jean Rounault. (Hart-Davis. 15s.) I THE West owes a debt of gratitude to M. Jean Rounault, who, in My Friend Vassia, has given a first indication of where...

GENIUS is notoriously difficult to write about, because it is unpre- dictable. Of the laws by which it works we know only that they are different from those which govern talent....

RECENTLY in the Irish Times the distinguished doyen of Anglo-Irish letters, Mr. Seamus O'Sullivan, pleaded wittily, a propos of a bio- graphy of Oliver Goldsmith, for an attack...

AN elderly master used to start the races in the swimming-bath at my old school with a hasty preliminary warning that revealed itself— after one had detached the garbled...

The Southern Marches. By H. J. Massingham. (Hale. 21s.) Tills is a brilliant and vigorous book, loaded with knowledge and embellished with literary allusion. And, in view of the...

By CUSTOS AFTER their recent improvement, which has exceeded more cautious City estimates, markets are now in a consolidation phase. Good profits and dividends are just about...

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