NTI-AMERICANISM in this country is stronger now than it has been for years. Mr. Julian Amery, MP, feels himself able to say : 'The British have never before been so badly...

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E VER since the Anglo-French intervention in Egypt there have been threatening noises from the direction of Syria. The last week has seen an increasing spate of rumours which...

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A WEEK ago Sir John Harding told the Cypriots that, owing to the intensification of the EOKA campaign, the Govern- ment had no option but to impose sterner penalties on...

A T the time of writing the exact extent of the expulsion orders made by the Egyptian authorities against British and French nationals and people of Jewish extraction is still...

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M R. DULLES is convalescing in Florida, and it will be several weeks before he is able to resume his duties in Washington. It may be that ill-health will prevent him from ever...

DEREK JOHNSON battled to within six inches of the Gold Medal. News Chronicle, November 27. JOHNSON misses gold medal by a foot. Evening Standard, November 26, EIGHTEEN...

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A FEW WEEKS ago the Spectator printed an engaging parody of Tom Driberg's description, in an English newspaper, of his meeting with Guy Burgess in Moscow. Never imagining that...

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BY JACK DONALDSON INDING up the conference held by ICI to discuss the place of agriculture in the British economy, Sir Alexander Fleck suggested that the time has come for a...

By JOHN BETJEMAN T HE sad death of Rupert Annand, at Bath, who used to be one of the best producers in that best of BBC depart- ments, the Western Region at Bristol, prompts me...

p ERHAPS it is because we are a maritime nation that we so seldom look at an atlas. From the huge land-masses, swarming with intransigent foreigners, we avert our eyes until...

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an older reader returning let me cheer you up. More than fifty years ago I surreptitiously read you at Eton, thereby incurring suspicion of being a pro-Boer! I have no right to...

THE revival of Otello at Covent Garden last week was the first production this season in which the performance has risen—on the first nights at any rateabove a rather dull...

Poor Show VARIETY, you would have thought, would be something the commercial boys would really know about. Every veteran operator in show business seems lined up, dinner-jacket...

SOMEWHERE in Claudel's voluminous and anguished correspondence with Gide he describes his idea of Christopher Columbus, remarking that his greatness did not lie in the discovery...

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The Saga Unfolds BY J. H. PLUMB T HIS second volume of Sir Winston Churchill's history* is every bit as good as the first and, in many ways, much more interesting. There was...

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By JOHN BOWEN There is nothing yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern or inn.— JOHNSON. T HE devastation of the last war...

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By A. R. PENTERVILLE T long last two parts of the Millard Tucker Report received the light of legislation in the 1956 Finance The most important point is that an approved...

BY CUSTOS TUESDAY saw a depressing end to a dismal Stock Exchange account. Oil shares failed to hold their weekend recovery and closed not far above the bottom of last week's...

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WE all need jolts from time to time to bring us back to economic reality. The heavy cost of the Egyptian misadventure may yet cause the Government to see...

verse for a Christmas card Wit' the words 'A merry Christmas and a happy New Year' arranged diagonally, i.e. 'A' Is first word of first line, 'merry' second wor d of second...

The BBC recently broadcast the hundredth programme of Music to Remember. A prize of six guineas was offered for a list of six items for a programme of Music to Forget (vocal,...

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Fruit trees are best planted before the harder frosts come. Bear in mind that for quick re- turns standards and espaliers are planted at three to four years old, half-standards...

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By IAN MALL IN a spell of colder weather the morning sun breaks through a haze and lasts only until early afternoon, when it fades to an orange glow and dissolves in mist. A...

With nothing to do but stand and stare one notices that when the leaves have gone from the trees in a copse or wood the larger birds generally forsake these places. The crow may...

BY PHILIDOR No. 78 W. A. SIONKMAN (Dubuque Chess Journal, 1870) WIIITE (12 men) 11. -Q 5; 2 P-B 4. WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...