declarations. What is in question is the capacity of the Chancellor to grapple with the responsibilities now resting on him. He is clearly carrying the chiefs of the Reichswehr...

to normal conditions, and the fact that the Chancellor, Dr. Schusch- nigg, is about to pay a visit to Hungary demonstrates a certain confidence in the stability of the...

T HE obsequies of President Hindenburg have so completely filled the public mind in Germany in the past week that the actual political situation has received surprisingly little...

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of hauliers defined last week by agreement between masters and men afford an admirable example of what a Conciliation Board can do. There are minimum scales for the weekly wages...

to Germany .is a serious thing for both countries ; and we can only hope that the reported agreement between the British and German Governments regarding trade payments will set...

little higher than in June. Last year it was so by 4,067 only. This year the difference is 33,674. 'It is nothing to cause alarm. Factory holidays and an influx of...

of the Select Committee on India is sufficiently in accord with general expectation to deserve some atten- tion. It is stated that the Report will be signed about October 25th....

stout heart and a smiling face through the difficulties of the world economic crisis, is now assailed by the quite distinct problem of the American drought. It is purely a...

the United States, before which, it will be remembered, a number of eminent bankers had to make sensational avowals, has presented a strong report on the methods employed for...

behalf of the Hotels and Restaurants Association in a letter to The Times that the Government should increase its grant of £4,000 to the Travel and Industrial Development...

meeting this week at Oxford, seems to maintain a vigorous existence in spite of the evil days on which the Liberal Party has fallen. Judged by the calibre of its lectures and...

distance and for height, were broken during last week-end is very much like news that the Endeavour' had set up a new time-record in the race for the America's Cup. In other...

cen- tenary this month, has a very interesting record as a craft trade union. It was started in the days of wooden ships,. while the Shipwrights' Union, naturally enough, was a...

some reservations Sir Hilton Young's recent statement that " of the 120,781 houses built by private enterprise in the six months to March 31st, 1934, no less than 44,754 were ....

S PEAKING at the opening of Portsmouth Navy Week last Saturday, Lord Beatty declared that the best method of preventing war was for this country to have a navy strong enough to...

W ITH general exhortations upon this subject we may assume our readers to be sufficiently familiar. It is one in which public action has lagged far behind all the best public...

clients' interests, have not lost a moment in challenging Mr. Hore-Belisha's comments on the cyclists he saw riding three and four abreast on Bank Holiday. On one point at least...

been passed about the reception given to the athletes who came from all parts of the Dominions and Colonies to compete last week and this in the Empire Games. The first Empire...

I N the various counts against the present administra- tion in Germany none is more damning than the deliberate suppression or distortion of the truth through the operation of...

including one from that eminent cruri- tractor's putative wife, I am asked to say that Mr. Tizzard must henceforward be regarded as dead and done with in the absence of any...

so crisp and crushing a repudiation of published statements as was contained in the letter to The Times in which Mr. E. F. Hunt, writing on behalf of the present Jam Sahib of...

to see his own country beaten in the final Test Match. But I come within an ace of wanting that myself. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory, after what happened at Leeds, than...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD T HE innumerable fl: gs of the Third Reich were already at half-ma: when I crossed the frontier on the morning of August 2nd. So it had happened. The "...

By SIR ARCHIBALD HURD A NEW race in naval armaments has begun in circum- stances which would move men to incredulous laughter in a normal world, in which respect was paid to...

By BOSWORTH GOLDMAN W HILE the storm clouds over Central Europe seem at the moment to be less threatening, no one could contend that they are altogether dispersed. Though the...

By RAY STRACHEY O F all the Blue-Books published by the Government the occupation volumes of the Census are the most complex, and at the same time the most fascinating when...

By EDWARD SHILLITO T HE holiday season is meant to provide a lucid in- terval in the life of the Church, and of all other associations of serious people. It gives a pause in...

By E. L. WOODWARD F ROM my windows I have seen, yesterday and today, a Union Jack flying at half-mast above the gate tower of Brasenose. The morning wind has tossed and...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN1 A LT einem Sandlifigel in einer Barackenstadt steht tin Galgen. An dem Galgen hangt kein Mensch, sondern ern Symbol es ist ern Paragraph,...

Tins musical entertainment is one of the oddest films I have ever seen. The idea is that prosperity is to be revived in America by making people laugh. There is a scene at the...

Russian Ballet at Covent Garden THE season of Russian ballet at Covent Garden ends this Saturday night. Once again success has been unqualified. For the past seven weeks or so,...

It has been said—and my experience coincides—that the hornet is becoming a rarity ; but it appears to have migrated to the towns. The following is the authentic experience...

Britain has produced a Trust for Ornithology ; and the latest object of research is the wood- cock. A questionnaire is being sent forth on behalf of the Trust from the...

the partridge coveys indicate that the cause is starvation and not thirst. The drought is a secondary cause. The primary is the astonishing paucity of insect food. It is not at...

Defence of the Lakes The Lake district of England is a national playing ground, a scenic reserve, glorious in itself and its associations. It is the English Banff, that most...

In Germany and Denmark, where similar conclusions have been reached, the grass is dried on what is known as the Rema- Rosin process, which has peculiar virtues in uniformity of...

the enquiry undertaken by the Animal Welfare Society of London Univer- sity. A questionnaire was sent out containing a number of queries about local methods of trapping rabbits....

The New Haysel A considerable advance in the art of drying crops has been made in the South of England, under the lead of the agricul- tural colleges at Wye, East Malting and...

Sm,—If Mr. Talbot will have another look at my article, I think he will find that there is little 'real difference of opinion between us. We do, however, differ in our...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Wesp." paragraphs. Signed...

SIR, —Apart from the social drawbacks of Becontree described in the article under the above heading it would seem that this estate, London's greatest effort for the provision...

am afraid that I must dispute the accuracy of Sir Archibald Hurd's statement, in your last issue, with regard to the National Maritime Board. It emphatically does not reflect...

SIR,—Mr. W. J. Wenham, in a letter in which a descent to personalities is not entirely concealed, charges me with running away from " the argument." I failed to discern any...

Mr. Coombs for his correction of my slight error regarding seamen's wages, but in fairness to myself must point out that the error was passed on to me by an R.N.R. commander. It...

to absence from England I have only just seen Mr. Beverley Nichols' letter in your issue of July 27th, protest- ing against a brief allusion that I made to him in a review of...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Sir Thomas Neill, in his attempt to rebut the damning facts cited by Mr. W. E. Mashford under this heading, had devoted less of the three-quarters of a...

Sin,—As a contributor to The Old School, I read with attention the article by Sir Arnold Wilson. He concludes by saying that " the best tonic for those who feel inclined, in...

Sni,-It was surprising but interesting that Janus " in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of August 3rd, should have made so elementary a mistake as to discuss Mr....

very damaging statement concerning the City of Peterborough appears in last week's issue of The Spectator, under the signature of " Janus," one of your regular con- tributors....

SPECTATOR.] Sut,-M. Cot in his excellent article on an International Air Police Force states that such a force is perfectly practicable provided that the peoples of Europe...

FRIDAY, AUGUST loth. ts.00 Organ Recital : Dom Gregory Murray from Downside Abbey .. 1 7-40 Here and There : Stephen King-Hall to Children .. 19.00 Royal National Eisteddfod...

By WYNDHAM LEWIS To the outsider the " shop " of any man is bound to appear somewhat cynical. Familiarity may not breed contempt, but it develops a matter-of-factness, and an...

Art and a Changing Civilization. By Eric Gill. (Lane. 2a. 6d.) Ma. GILL has written a good deal on the subject of art during the last few years, and always from the same point...

Coleridge : Studies by Several Hands on the Hundredth Anniversary of His Death. Edited by Edmund Blunden and Earl Leslie Griggs. (Constable. 10e. 6d.) CENTENARY volumes are...

i The Manuscript of Shakespeare's " Hamlet " and the Pro- blems of its Transmission. By J. Dover Wilson. Two volumes. (Cambridge University Press. his. ) PROFESSOR DOVER WILSON...

The Great Tradition. By Granville Hicks. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. ) TAKEN purely as scholarship, this book provides an excellent, if superficial, interpretation of the growth of...

Beside the Seaside. Edited by Yvonne Cloud. (Stanley Nott. 7s. fid.) I HAVE always considered that people who frequent so-call e d " seaside resorts " do so in a spirit of...

By GRAHAM GREENE HERR WASSERMANN'S . novels have been appearing in English in a curiously haphazard way (The Goose-Man was published in Germany in 1915) ; and not until the...

SCHUMANN'S music, like the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson, suffers today from that kind of neglect which does not often permit us to make any effort to study it, even though,...

The Periodicals THE majority of the August Reviews contain an article or two which would make them dangerous documents to carry into Germany. The " distortion, calumny and lies...

Speculation or =Investment ? WHILE the steady rise in British Funds and kindred securities brings benefits in certain directions, the position is also attended with some...

At the recent annual meeting of Covent Garden Properties. the Chairman, Mr. Philip E. Hill, spoke in optimistic terms with regard to the outlook. He expressed the view that a...

During the past week the reports have been published of Guinness' Brewery, Watney Combe Reid, and Friary, Holroyd and Healys. In all three cases the results disclosed are...

In the case of Arthur Guinness, Son and Company the dividend was unchanged at 22 per cent. plus 5 per cent. bonus, and the report disclosed an increase of profit of no less than...

CHEERFUL MARKETS. ALTHOUGH we are now at the height of the holiday sea son August is already belying its old reputation for stagnation of business in public securities. Some...

Brewery trade is given in the report of Friary, Holroyd and Healys, the result for the year ending June 30th last showing that the trading profit increased from £145,054 to...

By XANTHIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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