The new plan for Jerusalem which the Israeli Government has submitted to the Trusteeship Council differs only in detail froln the plan submitted to the Assembly last November....

Governments on M. Schuman's proposal for the joint control of the coal and steel industries of France, Germany and other countries have reached a positiim which is unfortunate...

There was never any reason to apply the term "cold war " to events in Indo - China. A situation which ties up the bulk of the French army and involves, 4 s. it has this week,...

The Government has done what it said could not be done, the number of cars on the road during the Whitsun week-end con- stituted a record, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

Most parents have a fairly clear mental picture of the ideal school ; all teachers have a very definite picture of the ideal parent —an efficient, kindly agency, which...

The wave of optimism about the country's economic prospects which, this year as last year, has temporarily swamped the larger and grimmer realities of the long-term situation...

One of the by-products of the Foreign Ministers' meeting in London is understood to have been a review of the means by which the Western Powers can attempt to make their point...

CC E have before us,"said General Marshall at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, " the greatest task ever faced by any generation of men in the preserva- tion of peace."...

on Tuesday (in connection with a sad drowning accident). It is a very small villag-e. in Bedfordshire, and probably thousands of people, like myself, have never heard of it...

Caucasus for the ascent of Mount Everest. Will they get to the summit? Quite unquestionably they will. Who is to prove that they did not—if anyone should contemplate anything so...

if the Labour Party remains in power and some of its members have their way. A Left- Wing weekly which reckons to speak with some authority on Labour policy had this to say last...

the scrolls discovered near the Dead Sea in 1947, describes as " new light on Habakkuk " seems to be no more than a further addition to the various interpretations that have...

Watch, who was sentenced to death by a court-martial for the murder of a German whom he shot after challenge when on duty, is strange and distressing. There was a strong...

Truman or Eisenhower or even Dean Acheson ? Ridiculous. There could be only one answer, and the Daily Worker gives it—Paul Robeson. The result, I suppose, of living in a little...

about the auto- biographical articles by the Duke of Windsor which the Sunday Express is publishing. There are few people who will not regret that a former King of England...

By MARK ARNOLD-FORSTER Berlin, May 30th T HIS sixth post-war Whitsun was the first occasion on which Berliners and the world in general have been able to judge the effect of...

By OSCAR R. HOBSON T HE time seems ripe to attempt some sort of judgement on the success of the Labour Party's industrial nationalisation policy. It seems ripe, first, because,...

By ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. The leading identifiers of ugly facts, among whom are some of the most widely-read columnists and radio commentators in the United States, have...

By SIR JOHN MARSHALL* D R. MORTIMER WHEELER, the distinguished secretary of the British Academy, is to be congratulated on the discovery of another and exceptionally...

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS 64LLUM hateth mankind and waiteth." The old saying had 4 come to haunt my mind and trouble my conscience. Of the ancient elms that grow about my home...

Tri pos Blues By - LAURENCE ADKINS (Downing College, Cambridge) B OUT this time each year the greater part of the eighty thousand-odd undergraduate population of the country is...

By HAROLD NICOISON T HERE have been times when we have envied, all of us, the lives of dons. How easy and how pleasurable, at those moments when we fall among the thorns of...

Tins, on the other hand, is an unusually silly play. Its plot however is so improbable, its characters are so firmly denied any semblante of reality and its dialogue is so...

WE know that things like this happen, but we know with an almost greater certitude that they do not happen like this, and it is to be feared that Jan Masaryk, on whose tragedy...

"Orpheus." (Rialto.)—" In the Name of the Law." (Curzon.) Stage Fri g ht." (Warner.) ORPHEUS is M. Jean Cocteau at his most eerie, abstruse and symbolic. He has translated, ang...

new Italian film, In the Name of the Law, which concerns the efforts of a newly-appointed magistrate to' replace the rough justice of the Mafia in Sicily with the laws of the...

THEATRE fig Excellency." By Dorothy and Campbell Christie. (Princes.) THE Mediterranean island of Salva is a colony with easily traceable affinities. It has for its new...

MASSENET'S Manon, which has just been revived at Covent Garden, is one of the small band of work-:Carmen is another—which seem to please the public and the pundits, though...

B.B.C. has given during the last week was a performance at the R.C.M. of the composer's fourteenth and fifteenth string quartets by the Aleph and Martin String Quartets, who...

suspense with comedy, and if, in Stage Fright, the suspense is barely notice- able and its suspenders unconvincing, the comedy has no defects whatever. Mr. Alistair Sim...

AMONG the works by Degas on view at the Lerevre Gallery (at its new address in Bruton Street) are several unfamiliar masterpieces of the first importance. An upright race-course...

ORDINARY EDITION by post to any part of the World ... AIR MAIL (World-wide distribution by Alr) To all countries in Europe except Poland ... . . Aden, Bahrein, Cyrenaica...

for a letter (of not more than 200 words) offering guidance in his choice of a new career to your erstwhile Regional Petroleum Officer. Entries must be addressed to the...

Intelligence officers of good-quality, large-scale photographs obtained from cameras in the flying saucers of one the following : the Cup Final, the Boat Race, a golf course or...

Sta,—Whatever Canon Luce may deduce of the Minister of Education's intentions about the new age-limit for external examinations, it is surely more fruitful to examine its...

Britain and Europe Stit, — At a time when the Government, the Opposition, and so much informed opinion recognise and agree that the social and economic structure which directed...

SIR,—ln the course of the inquiry into higher fares on buses and trains which is now taking place in London, a financial expert of the British Transport Commission stated that...

his own opinion, but it is Likely that the great majority of your readers will endorse what Janus has written on this subject. Personally, I should like to know if the Dean of...

that W. G. Grace broke all records by scoring 1,009 suns , in May.—Yours, F. H. VINEY. Compton, Knowle, Warwickshuv.

SIR,— Readers whose interest in undergraduate magazines may have been aroused by Colin Cross' article in the Spectator of May 26th might also be interested to learn th4t editors...

Sta,—In view of Professor Brogan's erudition and of his chiding Mr. Nichols in the fourth paragraph of his criticism of Mr. Nichols' bock Uncle Samson in your issue of May...

SIR, — As I expected, the Information Officer of the British Road Federa- tion does not deal with my chief points. (1) Steel-tyred trucks running on steel rails along engineered...

Sta,—On my return from a 1,000-mile tour of rorth-west, north and central Scotland, I find in your issue of May 19th a statement by a correspondent, J. Reid Christie, which in...

SIR,— High in great Albion's roll of fame Stands Dr. (Samuel) Johnson's name. Concerning him the feeblest print I love to read, because he's in't, And in his wake all prospects...

Silk—Mr. G. L. Jessop's fascinating memories should settle once and for all the comparative velocities of the leading fast bowlers of the vintage period of their craft. But...

SIR, — Orr March 29th I travelled to France, much depressed by your article asserting that, if I were very careful, £50 might last me a fort- night. Now Mr. Rees, after giving...

a useful plant, generally known as asparagus-kale, which should be more freely grown ; but I write of it not chiefly for its dietetic virtues. In the midst of a plant—indicating...

SIR, — Mr. Frank Swinnerton in his contribution to Books and Writers on May 12th, makes frequent use of the statement, " The answer is a lemon." Whilst the meaning of this...

THE DERBY DAY NEVER perhaps did the grand day at Epsom draw forth such vast multitudes by all the outlets of London. The spectacle in town was very peculiar: the points of...

weeks' absence from my garden, I found flowering very freely was a recently planted climber nick-named " Mr. —'s potato crisp." Its proper title is Solanum Crispum. It is a very...

IT is a remarkable fact that in this most crowded country, which is said to suffer from nothing so acutely as " the urban mind," there flourish the finest flower-shows and...

THE beech is a cliff, resting upon the sky, The oak a rock, around which seas of grain Rustle and recede, the birch is rain Even in seasons of drought, when fissures crack Open...

The singular success of the ' duck adoption " schemes has had several satisfactory results, or accompaniments To begin with, it has brought in over £500 to the " International...

Stn,—It would seem that, if his words have been rightly reproduced by Miss Gardner-Brown, Bishop Hensley Henson was guilty of a slip of the pen. Retractiones certainly sloes...

44 NCE you have thought of big men and little men," said Dr. Johnson, " it is very easy to do all the rest." This was his table-talk judgement of Gulliver's Travels ; more...

Buoyant G.B.S. Buoyant Billions. By Bernard Shaw. ' Limited Edition. Illustrated by Clare Winsten. (Constable. Six Guineas.) MR. SHAW, who will complete his ninety-fourth year...

Thy People, My People. By Elizabeth Hoemberg. (Dent. 12s. 6d.) IN 1938 Elizabeth Sims, a Canadian girl, married a young German historian, Albert Hoemberg, and went to set up...

The Story of the Pall. Mall Gazette. By J. W. Robertson Scott. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) How is this always interesting, often entertaining, almost incredibly discursive...

Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Molesworth and Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. By Marghanita Laski. (Arthur Barker. 6s.) A DISTINGUISHED and fastidious - historian whom I once knew used to argue with...

ONE morning in the month of May, 1920, I woke up in the sump- tuous guest-room of the Master of one of the Cambridge colleges. The maid (there were still maids) brought me an...

English Medieval Wall Painting. By E. W. Tristram. The Thirteenth Century : with a catalogue compiled in collaboration with Monica Bardswell. Two vols. (Published on behalf of...

The Scout Movement. By E. E. Reynolds. (Oxford University Press. I Ss.) WHEN an institution has successfully survived the passage of over forty years and firmly established...

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage. By Myrtle Johnston. einemann. 95. 6d.) The Mudlark. By Theodore Bonnet. (W. H. Allen. 95. 6(1.) What Comes After. By Mary Dunstan. (Heinemann. •...

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By CUSTOS INSPIRED by a conjunction of good news items, the stock market opened cheerfully after the holiday. The end of petrol rationing has had an exhilarating effect which...