Palesti ne Peace TalksWidened

Dr. Bunche Discloses StepsFor Lebanon Armistice

Israel -Egypt GapIs Closing

From OEM. SPECIAL GORRE SPONBENT

RHODES , Janua ry 15Talks have been started to prepare for a

Lebanese-Israeli armistice, it was confirmed lateto-night by Dr. Ralph Bunche, the United NationsActing Mediator.

He said that the Lebanese have one condition—thatJewish troops should evacuate Lebanese soil.

Since the Jews repulsed the Lebanese attacks they haveheld a small strip of Lebanese territory between thePalestine border and the Litani River . The fate of this areawill have to be decided before all other questions.

The negotiations for the Lebanese-Israeli armistice—thefirst positive result of the meeting here—were foreshadowedearlier to-day when two key members of the Israeli delega-tion suddenly left for "Tel Aviv . They are Elias Sasson. ofthe Middle-East division of Israel's Foreign Office , andColonel Yigal Yadin , Chief of Military Operations, GeneralStaff

Of the talks here betweenIsrael and Egypt, Dr. Bunchesa id : "We hope an armistice willbe concluded between Isr ael andEgypt , aud that this will mark theend of the fighting and a step to-wards peace in Palestine. " He.rddeci that the " spiri t is good t>nboth sides."

* Cautious Optimism 'On All Sides

Dr. Bunche. who throughout thediy had conferred repeatedly withthe Jews and then with the Egypt-ians , running from the second floorof the Hotel des Roses to the thirdfloor and then back again , is reportedin United Nations circles to havenarrowed the gap between the Israeliand Egyptian views on theevacuation of the Faluja pocket(where an Egyptian brigade has beenencircled for nearly three months!and the withdrawal of military forcesfrom the Negev—two points whichwill decide the fate of the talks.

The Egyptian and Israeli delega-tions to flie talks ere stated "to haveinstructions to be " lenient indetails " and "to bring home peacev.-ith honour "

Alt houtj n there i? cautiousopt i mism on all tnree side?—UnitedN .tUun ~ Eaypt. and Israel—manyhiv >aying tha t tik- " *nadow of theBrin^h policy baim- over the confei -ence." Dr. "Bunch e alluded to i: inhi * opening speech; others do so inprivate talks.—Copyright

Angry M.P.s DemandImmedia te Debate

By OLE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTIM MEDIATELY the House i

meets this week the Gov- ! '< ¦ [ j iment wil l be asked to find ;l .ii i o lor a debate on its Palestine . ]P»i ..^ _. -Criticism ot Mr . Bevin i» ; ,M ' widespread, both among Con- ' ;j i r \ dU \ e s and thu rank and file of \t r i e La bour Party , that the debate (1 ¦. li \ pn iw in be uj i l' nf the must ,-t- ii.Ui Minister--- have had to {ace ¦

^!¦¦: sume time U u ill certain !} bea .en angry one

Tne Opposition w i l l decide i;.-mir.ude during the next lev. da\ ?. . jMr Churchill , wh o has <*n.y jus t (.-, r rn - fd back in England , u as sec- .,:ie some of his leading supporters'• or ihe week-end. The Cuis serva-i;u' Shadow Cabinet i-. d ue :<> meetr Wednesday, al tho ugh there is .-,; M . » s i b ihty that it may be e.iiied '.o-_ «' -.hc r enrlier . perhaps lo-nvrri . aM- Thur chlU' s view s — and i '. my s"• i be f o rg mt e n thru he has a '.u riy ~: . > ¦¦-. i r i t i cai of the Go\einme:U " >r;i!e-. ' ino poli cy—v,i ,l prob.'.bl\ bont -ih n e

Tory Opinion Divided iOpinion among the Conservatives

jn 'f t i . .- Hi be divided Some uf tl^em• • , ¦1 that the Par t s c..r;:x,t possibly 't . i r - .d^ti c. e\ en m the ntost indirect iv. .»y. the shooting down of the IR AT. pilots They are prepared to I;< ~ k fo r a debate, but would not like itu see i '. pressed to a division. J

The other? believe tha. the Opposi-t i . i n -tu .uld move n \o\c of censure,1 t-lt ¦, lL :r p r t -p . i red to argue that itis Si: Be\ in .-> pohev . more thanIs: .ei - . th.it is to blame for theshoutma dow n of the pilots. They.i!.- think that the Government is Int .ich n vulnerable position that tbeOpnosition has nothing to lose by ar.et i-imined attack

A \ ote of censure would put Mr.] ' , i '\ in s Labour critics in an awk-

> ..: d position. It can be taken for.;; t ed that they would .not Vpte;

. ..ii nst the Government Feeling M*;t - . s e circles is so stron g. btfwevfcr ffi . n they would certainly ifeit^.jr ole;: • M r. Bevin's policy . They WtM g:• . i s be forced either to abstain £Ttn ..--.coura ge a lightning attack Of.u. - i .it- nza on the day of the debate.,

The Rebel Ranks<.'.' .m so many M.P.s in their con-

!¦. wencies or still on holiday, it ist. r*-,cult to say how many Labour

e mbers are prepared to desert the'¦.avernm ent on this issue. Poten-

• .l!y the rebels include all them embers of the old Keep LeftHr rup . with those who, at one time'¦¦ .mother, have supported them in[¦ -¦ debates on foreign affairs^"i. . le opposition to Mr Bevin hasr i ied down during the past 12¦ (?¦tth.s—largely owing tct the Berlini' ckade—most observers would be- ; .,sed if fewer than ~..i V P = r.b-

-•'1 on a vote u£ cornierT'-.o '.acticp and numbr: > ¦ : Mr

R. in « critics will tu some exten tdepend on Mr R H S Crossman .

who w;i ^ one of tne lea flets ot theKeep Left Group, and who hn< beenspending the last few weeks in Israel .Mr. Crossman ii (lying tn Englandnow and is expeoted home to-morrow. There will thus be time forMr Bevin's critics to consult him andto decide on their policy before thedebate, and even before the Parlia-mentary Party meets on Wednesdayto discuss this issue

Ministers AlarmedIt must be said that Mr. Bevin has

never changed by a hairsbreadth be-cause of criticism from his rank andfile , and it would be too much to ex-pect that he will do so in this case.What would influence him is a splitin the Cabinet, and there is goodreason to suppose that some Mini-s'.e:-*—including the powerful Sir.Sta ifnr ri Cripp? — are seriouslyI'.n mt'ri i3\ the present course ofe\ i' :u< .

The cr iM * mav we'l p ro \e to be a:m m-.j p u i n t >' ¦ the ("nn-erv ,ime.ii '.i ' ii ni' :n Mr Be\ in The Opposi-'.. n I- l ike v 10 be \ e r \ m uch morecr . 'm.i uf him in the tu tu re

i C o p u r i q h t R ef e r r e d *

Washin gtonAttitudeClar ified ,By Our Diplomatic

CorrespondentBRITISH-AMERICAN mis-

understandings over Pal?»-tine have been cleared away1by Thursday's interview between:President Truman and the WritingAmbassador in 'Washington, Sir;Oliver Skunks. For the montfip jSi any rate, 4haKj0sngeF -of iepenBritish-American antagonism In fileMiddle East has been removed.

At the same time, it has clarified ,the American attitude towards thePalestine question beyond any doubt .This attit ude, as defined by Ameri-can circles in London , can besummed up in the following fivepoints:

1 In the American view, thereshould be no change in the territoryallotted to Israel under the UnitedNatio ns partition decision ofNovember 29, 1947, without Israeliconsent. This territory includes theNegev , where the recent fighting hastaken place.

No Pressure2. If Israel wants to keep Western

Galilee, which was not allotted toher in the partition decision , Americawould not regard it as inequitabletor her to give up some territory else-where in return. This should, how-ever , be done by free negotiation, andAmerica is not prepared to exertpressure on Israel for this purpose.The question , in any case, does notar ise until the future of Arab Pales-tine, which is at present a no-man'sland, has become clearer

3. On the other hand, Americawill not permit Israel to infringe,even temporarily, on the territorialIntegrity of Egypt or any otherneighbour State of Palestine, andhas warned the Israeli Governmentaccordingly. The warning has been

, followed by the withdrawal of the¦ Israeli force which had crossed the¦ Egyptian border.4. America does not attach the

same present importance as Britainto the Security Council cease-fire

I resolution of November 4, which,i inter alia , called on Israelis andi Egyptians to withdraw to theirI October positions. She regards theI main purpose of the Security Coun-; cil action as achieved by the pre-sent cease-fire and armistice negotia-tions , and looks to the UnitedNations partition decision ofNovember 29. 1947, as the basis ofthe final settlement.

Defence Factor5.—America regards as the most

I important immediate objective thesuccessful conclusion of the armisticetalks and disfavours any action , orthe raising of any issues, that coulddisturb their progress.¦ The background to this attitude is

' an American appreciation of the! overall position in the Middle East. which differs from the British one.i America does not regard Israel asI a Russian outpost in the Middle East,; and she does not believe that theArab countries—or, for that matter,

i Israel—could play any appreciablepart in the defence of the MiddleEast against the Red Army, if theneed for that should ever arise. Shebelieves that this defence wouldhave to be provided substantially byAmerican und British soldiers,

' sailors, and airmen, and that there is,therefore, no need to appease the

1 Arab States and buy their allianceat the expense of Israel.—Copyri ght.¦ British Policy in Palestine

"a Crime "—Page 5

Durban CalmAgain ; 100Riot Deaths

DURBAN, January 150URBAN was quiet to-night

after 48 hours of Indian-African rioting, ' which havecost at least 100 dead and 1,000injured , and troops are patrollingthe riot areas, but .observers herefeared -fregK rW&nfe1;; nJ ter ^shoWand businesses" had closed for theweek-end. The South Afr icanGovernor-General , Mr. Van Zyl,' to-day authorised the use of any Uniontroops, including Territorials , toquell the riots. Mr . C. R. Swart ,Minister of Justice , and Mr. FrancoisErasmus , Minister of Defence , areflying here to-night from Cape Town.

The riots broke out on Thursdaynight , when an Indian market stall-holder was alleged to have assau ltedan African boy. Underl ying causesof the riots remained to be deter-mined, but Dur ban observers said ageneral sense of under- privilegeamong the Africans was a contribut-ing factor

ReinforcementsGene ral Smuts , former Prem ier , in

a speech to-day, said South Africawas " tasting the first frui ts " of thepresent Government' s '* racially re-pressive " policy. " The small firewhich the Government is fanning to-day may lead to a terrible conflagra-tion ," he declared.

Two hundred police arrived inDurban by air to-day from theTransvaal , and more were on theirway. Other reinforcem ents werearriving by road. Territorials ofthe Royal Durban Light Infantrywere ordered to-da y to report toheadquarters immediately witharms and a day 's rations. TheDurban section of the NatalMounted Rifles, also Terr itorials ,Were told to report to-morrow.

Police char ged with fixed bayonetsto-day when rioters made a suddenraid on -a refugee camp. Policesquad s, who opened fire on Africansin the Umbiln and Jacob area ofDurban to-day, killed and woun deda number of people.—Reute r.

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France DelayingRecognition

r rom KoDert mepneiisP*ms, January 15.—The talks be-

tween Mr. Bevin and M. Schuman inLondon have confirmed the desiresof a powerful section of the FrenchCabinet to avoid embarrassing theBritish and antagonising Arabopinion bj a precipitate recognitionof Israel . " That is the interpretationplaced by political circies here onM Schuman s references to Palestineat his Press conference in Londonyesterday.

According to well-informed sourceshere, the French Cabinet someten days ago decided in principleto recognise Israel, but left thedate fur recognition open It wasunderstood, however, that it ought.if possible, to precede recognition ofIsrael by Brrtdin. At that time itwas widely believed here thatBriiain w.is secretly preparing torecognise Israel before the Israeliclprtions —Covuriaht.

Mr. Harriman OffTo Washington

From Our Own CorrespondentPaws, January 15.—Mr. Averell

Harr iman , US. Marshall Plan Am-bassador in Europe , is due to leaveParis for Washington by air to-morr ow to help prepare the presenta-tion to Congress of the request fornew EJU. appropriations. Hearingsare expected to begin before theForeign Affairs Comm ittee of bothHouses on January 24.

Mr. Harrima n's brief includes ageneral review of the short and longterm prospects of E.R.P. made duringhis recent series of talks with Mr.Bevin in London , M. Spaak inBrussels , and M. Schuman here.

Eros Man Freed :Wrongly Tried

William Painter , >w ho on January3 ^"" frf i1 the Eros statue in Picca-irilly-circuE and was later sentencedto three months ' impriso nment, wasreleased from , Wormwood Scrubslast night- HiiArelease was orderedby the Home Secretary, Mr. ChuterEde, when it was brou ght to bisattention that Painter should havebeen tried by a jury and notsummaril y.

Painter was sentenced to threemonths' imprisonment for maliciousdamage to the statue , and wasordered to pay £48, the cost ofrepairs. He was also fined 40s. forbeing drunk and disorderly.

He elected to be tried summarily ,and was so dealt with Certainoffences unde r the Malicious DamageAct of 1861 may only be tried sum-marily if the amount of damageAnne* rfo**R not evr&tHi £2n.

Partition Pled geTo Ulster

Safeguard Clause In BillBy OUR POLITI CAL

IT is. und erstood that the Brivery far in allaying Northe

A clause will be incorporated ieftec* tha * there can be nochaSix.C6nn ti» without their cor"¦¦h The importance . of thisexaggerated Northera Ire-lana ^illiowhave a statutor y!O #m IT Jill fr rf^O -f1 jthfit . ^l*1r Fiy|Tl Wlx£

ting. 49ressu£G.«on-.the United KtoiB*dontt£lt S not a final guarantee forall- .time since this Governmentcannot Und future Governments,bu( Northern Ireland win be in avery "much stronger position thanshe has ever been before

Plan to RestrictImmigration

The Bill, with its vital pledge, willbe introduced by a Labour Govern-ment, and the Labour Part y—whichhas never understood NorthernIreland' s position or appreciated herdifficulties—will be morally com-mitted to support the North in acrisis. Sir Basil Brooke, the Stor-mont Premier, gained far more dur-ing bis recent visit than his suppor-ters could reasonably have expected.

He is to pay another visit toLondon - Qua week tor further talkswith the British Government It isunderstood that the main questionon the agenda will be the problemof Irish immigrants Into NorthernIreland , Sir Basil Brooke is expectedto bring proposals either for restrict-ing immigration into the Six Countiesor for limiting the rights of the" Eireann Irish " to vote.

As soon as these negotiations withthe British are over. Sir Basil isexpected to announce the dissolutionof the Northern Irish Parliamentand the date of the General Election.Plans for an election nave been readyfor some time, and it seems likelythat there will be a short campaign,with polling day to the second orthird week of February.

Industrial Teamsto Visit U.S.

THE Anglo-American Counci l onProductivity is to meet again in

March, this time in the unitedStates. A great deal of quiet , use-ful work has been going on since itwas first set up. and arrangementsare now nearly complete lor sendingover teams of. workers, tnanager» aajemptasewf. to 'study aatiSflsmethods in America. These Dailies

CORRESPONDENTtish Cabinet has agreed to gorn Ireland' s fears ontPartition.in the new Irel and Bill to theinge in the Constitution of theisent.concession could hardly bewill ba draws, tram whole Indu striesin Brtttin v.a&d not'^Ntfe fira * end

lives of the Council were in Britainthey made an intensive study ofBritish industrial conditions. Theirmain ' Impress ions have now beensummar ised by Mr. Phillip D. Reed,chairman of the General ElectricCompany and one of the membersof the Council. The Americansseem to have come to three con-clusions^—

That the level ot mechanisationIn British Industry is very muchbelow America 's;

That the gap between the mostefficient Britis h firms and the leastefficient is far larger than in theUnited States. (The number ofInefficien t firms in Britain is alsovery much greater );

That the speed at which Britishlabour works, and the physicalenergy expende d, is about equalto what is found in well-operatedAmerican slant s.

The British DoWork Hard

" This is not to say," Mr. Reedadds, " that the Britis h workman pro -,duces as much. He does not But heworks a 44-hour week and applieshimself more energetically than wehad been led to believe."

The last sentence is parti cularlyrevealing. Before the Coun cil wasset up ther e was a general feeling inAmerica tha t Biitiah Industry wasnot only out of date but that Britishlabour was not working hard enough.It is already clear that the reportof the American repres entatives hasdone a great deal to educate opinionIn the United States. —Copyright.

Polit ical Diar y

Greek PremierResigns

Athens , January 15.—Mr. Themis-tocles Sophou Bs, 88-year-old GreekPrime Minister , resigned to-nig ht.

King Paul has summoned ameeting of party leaders for to-morrow to try to find a way out ofthe crisis.

The Premier had ear lier agreed totry to form a new " strong " Cab inetafter attempt s to broaden hiscoalition had faiI«>H —T?miter .

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4 Final Terms'In TransjordanNegotiations

From Clare HolhngwortbBEIRUT. January 15

: \^HILE it is not yet clearhow far the Egyptian

j delegation at Rhodes is( 'empowered to go, there is no doubtj t hat if agreement between the: Egyptians and Jews is reached the1 war in Palestine will be over.' No other Arab Army is likely toresume the fighting.

The Trans)ordan Army and theJews are far nearer general agree-ment than is generally recognised.Beginning as military talks in Jeru-salem, which rapidly led tp a localarmistice, meetings between therepresentatives of the two countrieswere continued elsewhere, and havereached a stage when each side has¦ formulated its " final conditions forpeace " These are reliably reportedto bt> r For Abdullah, an outlet to theMediterranean, feir the Jews, an out-let to the Red Sea.

There should be no difficulty inmeeting Abdullah 's demand, bu * theJewish conditmn propounds a mu>tweighty question—and one which

. Transjorda n is unlikely to be able to' answer bv herself.—Copyrig ht.

'^ " Neto"" Yorie' Time's

Defence PactHopes FadeIn Sweden

From Our SpecialCor resp onden t

STOCKHOLM, January 15PROSPECTS of a united de-

fence plan for the Northseem more remote tha*i~everthis week-end . The declaration -)by a U.S. State Departmentspokesman , that countries which !will not join in a Western defencesystem cannot expect arm ed aidfrom America , has damped risinghopes that a formula could be foundto save Scandinavian unity by agree- jing on a limited defence alliance,outside the Atlantic Pact , but within :the framework of the United Nations , jBut every kind of formula wiE bejexamined before hope of unity isHabandoned. —Copyrig ht. / :|

Euro pean |pti | rDisappoints U.-S.

From NORA BELOFFWASHINGTON, January 15

THERE is widespread and outspoken disappointment hereat the scale, effectiveness, and speed of European economicrecovery.Although the rout of the isolationists and the Democraticvictory in the November elections were expected to ensure

the continuation of MarshallAid, European and> EconomicCo-operation Administration(E,C-A.) officials predict intensivecriticism and possibly reductionsin the dollar aid when the Euro-pean Recovery Programm e (E.R.P.)appropriations run the gauntle t ofthe Congressional committees nextmonth.

American critics concentrate onthree major issues : —

1. The failure of European co-operatio n to move from the techni-cal to the political level. Newspapercolumnists and politicians still clingto the belief that Europ eans 'economic troubles would vanish andsolvency return with the wave ofthe wand of political unity.

1982 D«fioit^i" 'f*2. ' Thef O.EJElc ' <6r~eanisatk>n ; for

European Economic ' Co-operation ,with H.Q. in Paris) ' admits that

i unless present national policies are~ re versed , Europe will still be run-

ning a $3,000 million (£750.000,000)deficit in 1952—the year in whichMarsha l Aid ends.

3. The " aluminium controversy "rem ains a sore point betweenBritain and the United States. Itopened when the Americans allegedthat Brita in was using Marshall Aiddollars to purchase Canadianaluminium , and reshipping scrap toAmerica at black-market rates -

Mr. Thomas Finletter , E.C.A. chiefin London , is expected in Wash-

. ington next week with detailed re-, por ts of the investigation into the

aluminium affair. E.C.A. admini -r str ators who first alleged " shadyft-| dealings " ar e now anxious to cleart the British record since the con-H ! troversy threatens to discredit thee E.C .A. itself.

& Detailed Account.. j The E.C.A., assisted by O.E.E.C.», chiefs in Paris , is now preparing inn I the minutest detail an account of thes- ij economic and financial progress .yEsfid prospects of the participatingTcountries. This is to be submitted' I to Congress next mont h.

The campaign for obtai ning nextj year 's appropriation opened to-day1 with the publication of the pre-liminary report claiming favourable

[progress of European recovery,I although admitt ing that , there are

' " many difficulties to overcomebefore satisfactory bala ncing of

a, internati onal accounts is achieved. "i- {Copyright Reserved)iy

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Generals Agree finKashmir Truce

Froifa Our Own CorrespondentNEW DELHI, January 15

The first task of General Cariappa,who became the first Indian Com-mander-in-Chief of the Indian Armyto-day, was to lead his country's de-legation in talks here with Pakis-tan Army leaders on the Kashmirtruce

The conference, which lasted onlytwo hours was officially described ashaving been held "in a friendlyatmosphere of give and take "

The cease-fire from January 1 wasformally confirmed, and recommen-dations to the two Governments con-cerning the truce were agreed upon.

It is understood that . Pakistanitroops and " foreign tribaf elements,"will withdraw from Kashmir as soon.-]= the Commission gives the word,and lh.it the Indian Army will thencarry out any orders received fromIhp rVtmmi^tnn .

Dr. Gr uber forLondon Talks

From Our SpecialCorrespondent

VIENNA, Jan uary 151~|R. GRUBER , the Austrian•*" Foreign Minister , is to go toLondon for the resumed Austri antreaty talks on February 7, accord -ing to official sources here.

The prospects of achieving a treatythis time are viewed in Vienna withguarded optimism.

Hopes are mainly .based on tbeindications of a changed Russianattitude towards 'Austria. TheRussian occupation authoritie s havein recent months , in contrast to theirearlier practice , refrained from inter-ference in Austrian internal affairs,and Russian occupatio n forces havebeen considerably reduced. Theyare now reliably estimated at about20,000 men.

There have been hints that Russia,seeing no chan ce of success torAustrian Communism in any fore-seeable time, now rather wants, asa second-best, to neutralise Austriaand establish relations similar tothose she has with Italy .- ^Copvr iaM.

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Kdim , Then Colder

Eire for Wheat TalksK i t e hu f accepted tne united Matp*.

Gmernmenl s inwla tinn to Uike partin the International Wheat Confer-ence .it Washingto n i>n J anua ry 25.

The Haoub, January 16.—Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery, militarychairman qf the Western UnionDefence Commitee, arrived her * ona 48-hour visit from Germany , Itwj^Mnder stood he would begin talks»m^s«3ndescribed as rtwffite^lwutef.

Montgomery at The Hague

Mr. Bevin with M. Schuman ,French Forei gn Minister , be-fore the latter left VictoriaStatidn yesterday for Parisafter his London talks. In afarewell message M. Schumansaid : " I am more satisfied

than I could have hoped."Britain's Foreign Secretarysaid : " We have had a mostremarkab le conference , withgreat agreement which augurswell , not only for Franceand . Britain , but f o r Europe

and the world."D. W. BROGAN

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MOD ERN LOVEBy ED WIN M UIR

Modern Love. By George MeredlDay LewU. (Rupert Hart -Davt

I N his admirab le introduct ion

Mr. Day Lewis points out howmodern this poem was whenit appeared in 1862, and howmoder n it stiU remains. Its themewas common enou gh in Victorianitera ture : a faithle ss wife, and ahusba nd driven to despair by hercondu ct. Wha t was new, andshocking to contempora ry re-viewers, was the attitude to the

?air. In Victorian fiction a faith-less husband was likely to be adashin g young blood like GeorgeOsborn e, and a faithless wife, anad ventu ress like Becky Sharp.The married couple in Mod ernLove , on the other hand, aresensi tive , in telligen t , and in anunusual degree scrupulou s. Butscru pulou s in a new way. They dono t appe al to the marri age sacra-men t. Their unhappines s springsnot from the knowledge that theyhave violated their marriag e vow ,but from the fact that their rela-tion to each other has gone wrong,and cann ot be put right.

Like sculptured effigies they mightbe seen

Upon their marriage-tomb, thesword between; ¦#

Each wishing lor 'the sword thatsevers all.

The y are no longer husband andwife , thou gh married. They aretwo individuals with an inner ,need to be true to themselves ;which makes it impossibl e for ]them to be faithful to each other.Yet the wish to be faithful re- 1mains, and binds them in spi te of :their faithlessness , so tha t they Ibecome

rapid falcons in a snare ICondemned to do the flitting of

the bat.I t is understandable that Vic-torian reviewers should find insuch lines an aspersio n on theinstituti on of marria ge, and should ,censure Meredi th for meddl ing '" causelessl y, and rather . pruri- 'eritly. with a deep and painf ul 'sub ject " Nevertheless the idealof marria ge implicit in the poemis a moral one. and the tre atmentis on a higher level thanThackeray 's treatm ent of thehinted infidelities uf GeorgeOsborne which made li t t le Ameliacry her eyes out , and caused nodiscomfor t to the reader.Thackera y really accepts maritalinfideli ty as a banal fact , whileMeredi t h does not ; he shows bythe very forc e of contras t howdesirable fid elity is . bu t at thesame time how rare and difficult.

Mr Da y Lewis holds that themoral ideal run ning thro ugh thepoem is ¦¦ the ideal of equality be-tween t he sexes " I t is rather thatof an honest, sensitive and intim aterelation betw een husban d andwife ; wh ich 15 an image in thehi ghest sense of genuine marriag e

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" Modem Love " is Meredith 'sgreatest poem, and perhaps hisgreates t work. Its main fault isthat it came before ite time, before ,that is to say, there existed avocab ular y which could expressnaturall y what he wanted to say .We are struck by the modernity oftreatme nt and disconcer ted by theonmod ernit y of expressio n. Butwhere the poem is garish or melo-dramatic , the fault is gener ally dueto an incompatibility between thefeeling and the diction . Meredithadopted the conventional dictionof Mid-Vi ctori an poetry, and hetried to twist it to uses it couldnot perform. The consequen ce isthat he is most successfu l whenhe expresses general emotions, asin the lovely " We saw the «wa3-lows gatherin g in the sky, " or themagnificent " Mark where thepressing win d shoots javelin-like ."with its concludin g lines whichsum up the whole situation -

I see no sin:The wron g is mixed. In tragic life,

God wot.No villain need be! Passions spin

the plot:We are betraye d by what is false

within.Yet " Modern Love," as Mr. DayLewis insists, does not stand or fallby a dozen or so of the fift y son-nets which make it up. We aredrawn on by the unfolding of thetragic tangle itself , expressed in asuccession of subtle and commontouches, the common sometimes aswonderful as the subtle. No otherpoem of the Victorian age followswith such ima ginative concentra-tion a drama so intimate. In allthe sonnets , even the least success-ful , there are lines opening intonew reaches of tragedy; imagestouchin gly reali stic like

The strange low sobs that shooktheir common bed,

or strange and sinister , as inThe gold-eyed serpent dwelling in

rich hair.or despairing, as in

But as you will! we 'll sit content-edly

And eat our pot of honey on thegrave

Meredith' s imagination fa ils nowand then , but there is a lift andswell of greatnes s running throughthe poem, giving an intensity oflife to everythi ng.

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By SEBASTIAN HAFFNERJ ^T this moment i t looks as

:f | failed, in fusin g several nations,the idea of collective security, I or fragment s of nations, into

on which both the League of |Nations and the United Nationswere buil t , is fa i l in g at its secondtest , and mankin d is uncertainlygroping for other forms of super-national or ganisation and insur-ance against war. This gives thesetwo authoritative books a hightopicality and ought to assure themof a wider public than that ofpolitical scholars to which they are )primaril y addressed. |

Dr. Evatt 's three Holmes Lee- 1tures on the formation , the work-ing, and the future of the UnitedNa tions were delivered at Harvardin au tumn 1947. Critical thoughthey are , thev appear somewhatoptimistic in The light of after- jeven ts. Dr. Evatt . who has since \laboured hard , though without ;much success , to add to the iprestige and authority of the iUnited Nations , is candid about Jtheir shortcomings , but perhaps .less than profound in probing into |the reasons of those short-comin gs.

He belon gs to what one might :call the " if only " school ofcriticism. " If only " the vetowere res tricted , the GeneralAssembly given more power , betteruse made of the Economic andSocial Council and the Inter-national Cour t of Justice , " if only "member States would show moregenera! restraint and good will, allcould still be well. Dr. Evatt doesno t seem to suspect that there may !bf sume fundam ental , incurable Ilau lt of construction in the whole Ist ructure The main and enduring 'merit of his book lies in its lucid iexpus.u on of facts. j

Pru t essor Rappard is more stimu- !la tin g He does not directly speak \abou ; " tno piob'.em facin g man- 1kind a> a ¦-vn o Le in this atomic age " iexcept in the last five pages of his [book . But indirectly he is speaking j.about i t .ill the time , while hequietly di-se^ -.s the political Ianatomy o. that extra ordinary jsu pernationai organ.sm , Switzer- 'land , in it? variou. - stages of growth ,over the centuries. f

Switzerland has succeeded, jwhere lar ger attempts have '

one conscious political whole ,wi thout overriding or destroy i igtheir na tional individualit ies. Whatis the Swiss secre t? And can it beapplied to larger intern ationalfields?¦ Briefl y, Professor Ra ppard 'sanswer is that Switzerland triedwhat he calls " collect ive security "—the method of loose confedera-tion—fo r five centuries withuncertain success, a successlar gely due to geographical andother special conditions which are" not suscepti ble of being dupli-ca ted on the international planeto-da y " ; but that , after the catas-trophe of 1798, when she was over-run by Na poleon , she turned to fullfederalism as the only " solutionwhich combines unit y and diver-sity, wh ich reconciles order andliberty and which guaranteessecurity withou t oppression. "

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The Jacaranda Tree ! For it issurely ingratitude, when Mr.Bates gives so much , to ask forsomething more. The merits ofthis excellent writer are clearenough in this new novel, a narra-tive of a group of English menand women making a long anddangerous journey out of Burmaat the time of the Japanese in-vasion. In an age that under-estimates the narrator , here is onepar excellence : no Kipli cgesqueRoad to Mandalay went more gal-lantly than this road away from it.

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