In Nigeria, as elsewhere, the sequence of events is for riots to lead to a commission of enquiry and, in due course, for the com- mission's report to lead to reforms. The...

T HIS week's meeting of the Defence Ministers of the twelve Atlantic Treaty Powers, preceded as it has been by a meeting of the twelve Chiefs of Staff, should prove more...

The visit of M. Paul-Henri Spaak to this country has been of great value. He comes with a unique reputation, created not so much by his notable political career in his own...

the Cost of Home Information Services is an unimpressive document. Its recommendations amount to little apart from various injunctions to economy and one rather severe remark to...

Incidents involving the arrest of diplomatic and consular repre- sentatives stationed in COmmunist countries have now become so frequent that it is doubtful whether even the...

Those who desire to regard the New Zealand election results as a portent may. Mr. R. G. Menzies, leader of the Conservative Party which is to challenge Labour at the polls in...

There is a curious contradiction between the resignation of Mr. David Lilienthal from the chairmanship of the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the publication this...

The joint resolution on China introduced by the United States into the Political Committee of the General Assembly is non- committal to the point of being evasive. It could...

The fact that 250,000 persons. out of an adult population of perhaps 3,000,000 have signed the Covenant demanding an inde- pendent Parliament for Scotland is not to be dismissed...

It will probably surprise most people to learn that, owing to the laboration of the camera-work and constant repetition of shots n the aim to secure perfection, a day's work in...

gradually subsided, and the House of Commons this week saw an unusual period of calm. An eddy fluttered the leaves of order papers when Mr. McEntee rose to answer a question...

The next election is going to be one of the dirtiest general elections this country has ever known " was presumably issuing a warning in the hope that it would be sufficiently...

unnecessary—a small but very satisfactory outcome of the original Benelux agreement, If Western Union is to mean anything the example of the Low Countries will be widely...

opponent's attorney, seems to have been adopted as official policy by most of the Cabinet in its relation to the Press—though I shall be sur- prised if the Prime Minister sees...

G ALLUP polls, straw votes, intensive enquiries and all the rest of it must be accepted with rigorous reservations. But when all that is admitted, I am bound to recognise that...

ment duty must be carried further. On the claim of concerns like the Old Vic or Glyndebourne to this privilege there is no difference of opinion But take A Street Car Named...

visitors, particularly day-trippers, had frequented various holiday resorts in this year's holiday season how would you set about it ? You may have good ideas about that, but...

By D. W. BROGAN S INCE the catastrophe of 1932 all sorts of experts have been called in to deal with the problem of the Republican Party. But after the debacle of the November...

A city paved with lozenges of light, Whose watery elongations to the sight, Trembling beneath a bridge, such shadows cast That the walls waver, and no form holds fast. Men's...

Ry LORD BEVERIDGE I N spite of its recent prominence in the headlines, the largest problem facing Western Germany has not been the question of dismantling. The policy of...

By HARLEY WILLIAMS F OR the past five years the American drug, streptomycin, which is an extract of a fungus, has been used mainly in treating tuberculosis. Its unquestioned,...

By CANON ROGER LLOYD D URING the discussions about the Revised Prayer Book, Bishop Hensley Henson interjected the remark, " Some limit must be set to this inordinate lust for...

dark and sharp, the icy frost followed by cold' drizzling rains, the cold by " muggy " gloom ; and the social prospect is almost as gloomy as the atmosphere. Some weeks before...

By It. H. CECIL A MONG all the criminological experts who now contend before us, deploring each other's public speeches and rending each other in the correspondence columns of...

No Jobs for the Boys 3 N W. R. MOSS (Manchester University) T O get a degree To the undergraduate that is the be-all and end-all of existence. For three years it sustains him...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T ODAY week, at Burlington House, will open an exhibition of Landscape in French Art, organised by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, the Arts...

MY cherished eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica says of William Cobbett that his " ruling characteristic was a sturdy egoism. . . . His opinions," continues this...

THE CINEMA Pinky." (Leicester Square.)—"The Romantic Age." (New Gallery.) IN Pinky Mr. Darryl Zanuck makes no attempt to solve the problem of racial prejudice—indeed were he...

Tim Morley College Music Society under Michael Tippctt have been responsible for some of the most interesting programmes in London since the war. They have tackled works that...

LET me recommend the R.B.A. Winter Exhibition in Suffolk Street. The R.B.A. has now become by far the most adventurous of the Royal Societies, and has staged quite the most...

That always interesting document, the annual record of the Devon Bird-watching and Preservation Society (Secretary E. H. Ware, Beech- wood, Highbury, Exeter), holds up this view...

IT is perhaps a little dangerous at the height of the hunting season to write of the destruction of foxes by chemical methods or by trapping; but the following episode is of no...

Correspondents make it quite impossible not to return to the subject of tits. Perhaps the strangest—and most harmless — example of their activities is an attack on the tops of...

We are advised to make more and more compost on scientific prin - ciples, putting careful layers of soil or lime, adding such " starters" as sulphate of ammonia or Adco or one...

derisive about The Pleasure's Mine, a new programme in which Mr. Wilfred Pickles introduces poetry to the Light Programme listeners ; but I fancy that looking down one's nose...

There is still a good supply of hedgerow berries, that should serve as food—for mice as well as birds—in the hungrier months.' Perhaps they will not last long. Our home-birds...

Another German Tragedy ? Sta.—The latest tactics of the German Social Democrats in the Bundestag at Bonn suggest the urgent necessity of an unprejudiced examination of the...

that more people do not become members of the National Trust has brought to actuality a letter oftea mused upon. As I am by trade a research worker, it is my habit to enquire...

SIR.—As the peroration of his defence of the groundnuts scheme in the House of Commons the Minister of Food quoted Francis Bacon as saying in an essay on plantations: " It is...

SIR, —As a Post Office employee with some twenty-nine years' ser%iee , may I be permitted to point out that the critics of Post Office effideney whose letters have appeared in...

SIR,— Whatever opinion one may hold about the acts of the Metaxas dictatorship. Mr. Athanassoglou's attempt to belktle Metaxas's role as the leader of the national resistance to...

Si .—The last chapter of Snowdonia, the volume so eloquently reviewed in the Spectator of November 18th by Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis, is beaded: Can Rural Wales Survive ? " It...

SIR,—In the Spectator of November 18th, 1949, on page 655 under this heading, I feel that you do less than justice to the Catholic community (of which I am not a member) on this...

of the few people in' this area who could answer his correspondence immediately he got it.• The letter-box opposite my house is cleared at 8.45 a.m. My first post arrives just...

SIR,—I wish to protest yet once. again against the attitude expressed in such a sentence as, "The only ultimate guarantee of peaceful policy lies in the German conscience," on...

SHL—It may be a small matter, but is it necessary to spend dollars on copies of British reference books ? There are on sale in London photo- graphically reproduced American...

Sic —In the Spectator of November 25th you pay proper tribute to a great man—Dr. Weizrnann. It seems a pity to spoil this with slurring remarks on Zionism, of which Dr. Weizmann...

SIR.—Mr. C. H. Lewis, quoting Ian Hay, describes teachincas "the most responsible, the least advertised, the worst paid and the most richly rewarded profession in the world." Is...

A True Picture John Ruskin : The Portrait ul a Prophet. By Peter Quennell. (Collins. tss.) RUSKIN is fair game for the psycho-analysts and the sociologists ; indeed, there...

My Philosophy. By Benedetto Croce. (Allen and Unwin. sss.) " ESSAYS on the moral and political problems of our time " is the sub-title of this selection of thirty-seven short...

The Sacred River. An Approach to James Joyce. By L. A. G. Strong. (Methuen. los. 6d.) MR. S'IRONG'S approach to Joyce is sane and sound. He recognises that, since the work of...

McAnally. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 213.) IN retrospect the second half of the eighteenth century seems almost a golden age in Ireland. The Irish had a parliament of their own, a...

Tommy Handley. By Ted Kavanagh. (H uddler and Stoughton. 7s. 6(1.) OUR greater drolls always get themselves much loved. When Tommy Handley died of cerebral haemorrhage in...

The Ancient Glass of Canterbury Cathedral. By Bernard Rackham. (Lund Humphries. Li 2 I 2s.) THE first impression received from an exploratory examination of this fine volume on...

Four Centuries of Scottish Psalmody. By Millar Patrick. (Oxford University Press. I 2 S. 6(1.) IT is hardly possible to exaggerate the hold which their metric:1 i version of...

A Yeoman of Kent. Ry Ralph Arnold. (Constable. I 2/1. 6d.) Ir is partly continuity which interests Mr. Arnold, and partly character. His book, which is enlivened by many...

I lie Language of Painting. By Charles Johnson. (Cambridge Uni- versity Press. 2 SS.) MR- CHARLES JOHNSON, who has served for seventeen years a+ official lecturer at the...

MALFICELI was a dog in a French reader. He owed his singular name to the fact that he alone of his mother's litter appeared badly built and loosely tied together. The rest had...

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Tills latest of several books on Parliament consists for the most part of a conducted tour round the Palace of Westminster, and to those who like eighty-odd pages of " Over the...

By CUSTOS IN the gilt-edged market nothing succeeds like success. Employing boosting tactics worthier of his predecessor than the austere Chancellor, Sir Stafford Cripps has...