I N raising the Bank Rate to 41 per cent., the highest figure it has reached since 1932, and in restoring the restrictions on hire-purchase, the Government, so we have been re-...

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namely, deterrent.' In the most impressive speech he has made for many a day. Sir Winston Churchill saw two results from the invention of the H-bomb : that Britain depends for...

Two contrary arguments have been used against the re- arming of Western Germany (often , by the same people): that the, arms may be turned against the West, or that they are...

EGYPT'S OUTRAGED INNOCENCE On the face of it the responsibility for the ugly Gaza clash appears to lie with Israel. No matter how great the provoca- tion, the Israelis will find...

co-operation would seem to indicate that public opinion is now determined, if not to move out of the American orbit, at any rate to reinain there on Japan's own terms. Mr....

Secretary's announce- ment this week of generous new grants from Colonial De- velopment Funds to British Honduras, the Colonial Office has now published its annual report on the...

busmen will stop the regular Saturday strike which has so far taken place in two successive weeks against the employment of an Indian conductor, there is news this week of...

has brought further disappointment to Lancashire textile men. A little time ago it was hoped that the scope of the export duties on Indian cloth would be widened in a way which...

An American corresfrondent writes : The collapse of interest in the McCarthyites has contributed much to the possibility of a soberer view of the Far East. But it is obvious...

Wyatt. They are of the same generation, and they provide an interesting contrast. Mr. Wyatt clearly enjoys politics hugely. One suspects that when he tramps through the division...

By HENRY FAIRLIE on can leave aside the Daily Mirror, which has now reached the point of billing each great speech by Sir Winston Churchill as 'Positively his Last Appearance,'...

poet, gave an exhibition of sketches in the Central Hall, Westmore- land Street, Dublin. Of that exhibition the Dublin Leader found it 'a little difficult to write, because of...

their full support to the 'rule' which prohibits discussion on wireless or television of any subject that is going to be debated in Parliament within fourteen days. Great weight...

THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE'S pamphlet. The Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Korea, describes Communist brutalities, such as solitary confinement for months at a time in a...

By PENRY WILLIAMS W HEN I was in South Africa last year a number of English-speaking South Africans made remarks like this: 'The trouble with this country is all this...

By MAX BELOFF I T is not difficult to understand how Europeans should have come to misunderstand the underlying character of Ameri- can foreign policy in the post-war world. The...

By PAUL JENNINGS U NLESS something very unexpected happens, 1955 is going to see one of the most sudden and possibly, in the long term, quite fateful changes in our domestic and...

By JOHN BETJEMAN 0 one can blame the shopkeepers of the City of Lon- don for lodging a complaint to the Corporation. So far none of the immense cliffs of offices designed for...

if a stoat can swim, for he was sure he had seen one in the water of a stream, but it got out and eluded him before he could positively identify it. Stoats and weasels are not...

has a fairly warm frame or greenhouse. Sow the seed in pans at a depth of in. Shade the pans from the light until germination takes place and keep a sheet of glass over the...

By IAN NIALL p REOCCUPIED with our own creature comforts since the cold weather returned—as I write this we are still looking • -ut at a garden that seems tidy only because o...

gun-dogs, warned me from a distance that the pup was nothing but a fool, and the young Labrador seemed determined to live up to the descrip- tion, for he came diagonally across...

THEATRICAL Gossip.—Kean is once more announced as Henry the Fifth. He is anxious, no doubt, to redeem the pledges that have been given to the public on this subject; but for our...

A BONFIRE ON THE BALCONY AT this,' some character in G. A. Henty's books was almost certain to exclaim as he handed to the intrepid courier a pregnant missive, `rather than let...

SIR, — With respect to Mr. Hodgson, Thermopyhe would not have done as well. I deliberately rejected Thermopyhe as an example, about equal to, but no better than, the sacrifice...

Underpaid Professions T. G. Edwards J. T. Gregory, Sufferer, R. J. Rees Marathon Lord Ifai!sham Too Much for Tea T. Bowen-Rees Gerard de Nerval Nancy C. Harlson UNDERPAID...

last week repeated the old slander (which he calls a valid criticism) that teachers are 'narrow.' In twenty years I have met, I think, literally hundreds of teachers of all...

SIR,—Pharos is a little out in his topography when he says that Gerard de Nerval hanged himself in the lie de la Cite. Thc actual spot where the amateur of lobsters met his end...

it is very pleasing to know that something is being done to bring this pathetic state of affairs to light. The state of their pensions also needs atten- tion, for their...

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SIR,—As the high cost of tea is once again in the news, I wonder if the position could be helped any, by the same type of enthusiasm which many people showed during the war when...

social and economic standards of bank staffs and teachers could be applied equally to the conditions of local government officers. We speak only for a somewhat specialised...

THEATRE The Bishop's Bonfire. By Scan O'Casey. (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin.) 'Luca an International night,' said somebody, 'when Ireland has been beaten I2-3.' That is a fairly...

FOR want of high vocal quality, Sadler's Wells rightly makes a brisk and truly vernacular style the first aim of its performances. This is the characteristic virtue of the new...

continues. I had thought that the transatlantic competitor had gone down for the count with Pal They, but here he is coming up lighting in a story of two simple mid-western...

'PHENOMENAL' is a large word but it can con- fidently be used of Antonio, now at the Palace Theatre heading a troupe of Spanish dancers. His phenomenal quality is twofold; as a...

Col, Columbia; D, Decca; DT, Ducretet-Thomson; F, Felsted: H, HMV; LI, London International; M, N.onarch; S, Supraphon; T, Tclefunkcn.) National Music-1 but with too little...

ANY cops-and-robbers game we played when I was a child was always called French-and- English. Adults could talk about the entente till they were hoarse, but we knew better. Our...

The End of the Affair. (Empire.)—The Long Gray Line. (Leicester Square.) Ir is very difficult to he objective about a film in which religious views contrary to one's own play an...

to her heart. They wept when she refused her bed. Leeches, they swelled on what they ate. She, weakening, knew it time to part. They loved her, worshipped her, they said. Too...

Quelle est cette ile triste et noire ? C'est Cythere . . Regardez, apres tout, c'est une pauvre terre. Baudelaire, 'Voyage a Cythere: It lay open on a beach of Cythera The...

The clear sky drank us up. Sleep could not so confuse Our shared and separate days With such forgetfulness As'then possessed your face. For I vas first to slip Back into bodily...

By ANGUS WILSON ' I N the latest edition of the Soviet Encyclopedia Catherine II appears as the supreme type of eighteenth-century auto- crat. Aristocratic and bourgeois...

Man and the Land. By L. Dudley Stamp. (Collins: New Naturalist Series, 25s.) ANOTHER well-polished piece of natural history has slipped off the Collins production line. Like...

BOOKS about Russia are usually by diplomats, journalists, escaped prisoners or 'friendly delegates.' It has long been the practice of the last of these to refuse to believe the...

Nicholson. (Robert Hale, 18s.) THE LAKE DISTRICT has been written about endlessly and its literature is well stuffed with anecdotes and philosophisings about the figures,...

Robert Estienne: Royal Printer. By Elizabeth Armstrong. (C.U.P., 55s.) ANTHONY TROLLOPE, when congratulating himself, his mother and his brother in his Autobiography for...

Australian Government and Politics. By J. D. B. Miller. (Duck- worth, 15s.) HERE is a useful book, not only for the student of political science, for whom it was primarily...

The Pilgrimage. By Francis Stuart. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) THE two chief characters of Mrs. Jessey's novel spend most of their time in a war-deranged train dragging its sultry,...

By CUSTOS I HAD expected to fill these notes this week with shares on an attractive new yield basis. But the remarkable recovery from the 41 per cent. Bank rate slump makes the...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT All this, in my opinion, is too good to be true. I am prepared to believe that dear money will cure this particular crisis in the balance of payments—the...

tor's activity that is welcome (6). kitchen? (3, 4, 5). 26 Red axe found in the annexe (6). speak (7). devotion (8). , 2 •'She brought forth butter in a - 5.0ne of Elia's....

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 261 Report by Joyce Johnson Competitors were asked to imagine that by the next General Election man will have learnt how to control the weather; a...

upon the recent suspension of a Hull schoolboy for criticising one of his headmaster's speeches in a letter to 'the press, a prize of £5 is offered for a letter. castigating...

Century Dictionary and ti book token for one guinea will be awarded to the .en ler. or the first trso correct solutions opened after noon on Mardi 15 and add' I'M( d . (...