A TIME may come when a nation can only do what it has to do; when treaties and technicalities are swept away on the surge of events. That time, the Government decided on Monday,...

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T HE Chancellor did well in his speech at Manchester last week to try to put the economic scene into a better perspec' tive. It was a good idea, too, to do this by reminding his...

I N the long run the recent events in Budapest may yet prove more significant than those in the Middle East. The desperate heroism of the Hungarians has shown, so clearly that...

BY RICHARD H. ROVERE New York T HE Presidential campaign has only a week to run, and it is running true to form. Both sides are panicky, as both sides always are in late October...

T lIE Middle Eastern Clare-up, discussed in our first leading article, was heralded by the mobilisation of the Israeli Army and an urgent call to American citizens to leave the...

BY CHARLES CURRAN WRITE as British and French forces are moving to re- I occupy the Suez Canal. Nobody doubts that there will be resistance by Egypt. But the long-delayed...

Lenin a little more closely. 'What, generally speaking, are the symptoms of a revolutionary situation?' Lenin once asked himself* and decided 1. when it is impossible for the...

producing television programmes is mounting almost as alarmingly as the number of viewers watching them is falling. it is futile to pretend that the problem can be solved by...

Lenin who com- plainedf that the Russian Government 'not only keeps the Russian people in slavery, but also sends it to subdue other peoples which rebel against their slavery,...

Britain's) Guy Burgess. As a leading journalist's treatment of an intrinsically interesting subject they are curiously flat. Burgess, though he provides some quite cleverly...

Spectrum, a Miscellany edited by Ian Gilmour and Iain Hamilton, will be published by Longmans on November 5 at 16s. It contains a large selection of features and articles,...

THu SPECTACLE of America and Russia joining up on the opposite side to ourselves in the Security Council, as they did On Tuesday, is as depressing as it is unfamiliar. But it is...

BY ZOLTAN SZABO D ESPITE its fundamental difference, the present revolution in Hungary has, whether consciously or unconsciously, repeated the pattern of the Liberal rising in...

By IAN FRASER R EVENGE is sweet but it is also a short-lived passion and its exercise, like drinking sugared wine, is usually fol- lowed by revulsion. From 1942 to 1945 we—that...

BY LORD TEMPLEWOOD L RD BEAVERBROOK has written an absorbing thriller.* The momentous events of 1917 and 1918 give him just the right background. The figures that emerge from it...

By JOHN BETJEMAN LTHOUGH I am employed by the Daily Telegraph I cannot stifle an affection for The Times—its obitu- aries, for instance, those dim peers and dimmer baronets...

H ' ERE,' says the blurb, 'is the story* of the remarkable adventures of a young officer of the Royal Engineers, serving with Orde Wingate's Chindits in Burma.' But the blurb,...

to thousands of defenceless citizens. This Society, in which both Hungarians and Britons of various shades of opinion meet without distinction, has opened a Medical Aid Fund....

Sig,-1 believe you will receive in good spirit a protest from a keen and regular reader. Your reference on October 26 under the head 'Political Killing' to 'the Llandudno mob'...

Conscience and Constituents R. L. Travers Political Killing Patrick Campbell Hungary Prof: C. A. Macartney and others Mighty Old Artificer Evelyn Waugh Comprehensive Education...

review of Mr. J. M. Allegro's 'Pelican' on the Dead Sea Scrolls, pays de- served tribute to its imaginative quality. He remarks that the dust-cover might well have been printed...

in grammar schools not to sympathise with Dr. Eric James's plea for the preservation of their sixth forms. It may be true, as Dr. Pedley informs us, that the eleven-plus...

SIR,—Some five years ago, I wrote to the Lancet pointing out the archaic method used in the lavatories on passenger trains, viz., discharge to the line, and indicating that the...

with Yeats. Would not Millais be a happier comparison; the brilliant young draughtsman, who, through his wish to be the 'contemporary of successive generations,' reflected the...

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W. H. Smith 0" preserving period shop-fronts. I am glad theY have turned over a new leaf, as one of the most charming Regency buildings in the West Country, the Royal Library at...

SIR,-1 read with interest the article by Mr. John Betjeman in the Spectator of October 5. SIR,-1 read with interest the article by Mr. John Betjeman in the Spectator of October...

HARVEST. (Academy.)---HousE OF SECRETS. (Gaumont.)---NIGHTFALL. (Astoria.) MARCEL PAGNOL'S nineteen-year-old Harvest, censored off our screens when it first appeared and now...

SIR,—Mr. John Amis in his review of Lennox Berkeley's recent opera Ruth speaks of 'those interminable four-bar phrases that modulate in bar three only to creep back to the...

comments on the housing scheme for the Corporation of London in Golden Lane and directs the full weight of his personal dis- Pleasure on a feature topping the highest block. As...

Mother Tongue ONE of the unspoken aspirations of ITV seems to be to get away from the standard English developed and defended by the BBC since its foundation..I am sure ITV is...

HAVING produced a steady flow of abstract instrumental works for the last twenty years , Alan Rawsthorne is now making his second contribution to each medium. His two most...

HENRY JAMES'S taste in the visual arts was natural and well educated; it was also wholly conventional, being no more adventurous than Stendhal's and certainly less so than...

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) I REALLY could not have believed that any person with even a moderate amount of discrimination left in his palate...

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Knowing the Void BY IRIS MURDOCH T HERE is a persistent conception of the philosopher as one who perceives the unity in different branches of knowledge and offers out of his...

READERS of his earlier books know Mr. Taylor as an historia n who can . write with learning, imagination, wit and decision. Sortie of these essays (which are mainly...

A LOST PARADISE: Early Reminiscences. By Samuel Chotzinoff. (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) A LOST PARADISE: Early Reminiscences. By Samuel Chotzinoff. (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) A IEN...

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b F OR nearly forty years Charles V ruled a greater empire than a lY man before him. He does not fit into any of the easy categories So dear to the English historical...

DR. JOHNSON was forcibly removed to a mental hospital n October, 1950, and detained there involuntarily for six weeks He suspected at the time that he was a victim of a drug :...

VISA FOR PEKING. By A. de Segonzac. (Heinemann, 21s.) THE period of non-partisan reporting of the new China seems to be beginning. M. de Segonzac, a French journalist who is...

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with strips of sacking six inche s or so in width. A heavy grease should be use d and it is a good plan to renew this grease from time to time in case it hardens and allows the...

There is not quite the same thrill in noting the arrival of winter migrants as there is i n discovering that the first swallows hav e reached us, that the wheatear is on the...

BY IAN NIALL Comm down a tree is such a positive thing —the tree cannot be put back, nor can it be replaced in much less than thirty years—that anyone who is fond of trees...

Heads and Tales, by Aage Thaarup (Cassell, 21s.), is the story of a young man who learnt hat-making the hard way, rose to great eminence in his profession, designing hats not...

mill this fourth volume, East Norway and its Frontier (Allen and Unwin. 25s.), Frank Noel Stagg has covered all Norway in his series of histories; they are based on wide...

BY NICHOLAS, DAVENPORT h imself Archbishop of Canterbury exposes rumself to the rudest of attacks when he condemns a flutter in the new Premium Bonds as a 'cold, mechanical,...

By CUSTOS THE stock markets have maintained a remarkable calm in the face of the disfurb- ing news from the Middle East but, of course, everything has been marked down —oil...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 348 Report by Barbara Smoker Bonds, The usual prize was offered for a Civil Service letter to withdrawers of Premium based on the letters of...

Code words, from 'Overlord' to the 'Hat- rack' of Private's Progress, are the preserve of the Forces, though they could be adapted to civilian requirements. Competitors are...

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