A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including a talk by Professor E. M. Butler on world peace and the Buddhist anniversary in Burma, and a report on the visit of the Comédi-Française to Moscow.

Piano Trio in A minor
Modéré: Pantoum: Passacaille; Final played by the Loveridge-Martin-Hooton Trio:
David Martin (violin)
Florence Hooton (cello)
Iris Loveridge (piano)

Humphry House speaks of the recently published ' Letters of Sara Hutchinson ,' edited by Kathleen Coburn
It was to Sara Hutchinson , Wordsworth's sister-in-lawthat Coleridge addressed Dejection: an Ode. The present volume contains all of her lenten that are known to have survived.

(' Heimkehr aus der Fremde')
Liederspiel in one act
Text by C. Klingemann
Music by Mendelssohn
English version by Geoffrey Dunn
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodga 'te)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra (Leader. Granville Jones )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer, Geoffrey Dunn
Repetiteur, Gwen Williams
The action takes place on the green outside the Mayor's house in a village of Bav&ria: early nineteenth century
Another performance: May 23
Harry Croft-Jackson writes on page 7

THE EIGHTS WEEK' DEBATE
The Motion:
'This House prefers the White Rabbit to the Red Queen'
Proposed by Mr. Robin Gregg
Christ Church
Seconded by Mr. Kenneth Harris
and Wadham
Mr. Max Beloff
Corpus Christi (Ex-Librarian)
Opposed by Mr. Roy Dixon
Exeter
Seconded by Mr. Anthony Walton Hertford (Ex-President) and Mr. Gillie Potter
Worcester In the Chair : The President
Mr. Raghavan lyer Magdalen and Nuffield
Commentary by Harry Middleton during the Division of the House
From the Oxford Union
The ' Eights Week ' Debate is being held, according to tradition, in the fount week of term, but the actual races this year are being held in the fifth week.

Nina Milkina (fortepiano)
Variations in F (K.64) Sonata in D (K.576)

This is the first of a series of ten recitals of piano music by Mozart in which all his piano sonatas are to be broadcast. They will not be given in chronological order; the sonata to be heard tonight is in fact, the last that he wrote; and although this is played on a fortepiano made about 1775, the remaining sonatas will be performed on modern instruments.

A selection of his poems made and introduced by Robert Graves
Reader, John Laurie