a definitely political turn in the past week, as a result mainly of the British comments on the French proposal and its rather elaborate provisions for increased security. Mr....

the Week THE fact that forty-five persons have been killed, to say nothing of hundreds injured, in political affrays in Germany since the beginning of the year is of sinister...

the far more decisive attitude adopted by the Committee of Nineteen at Geneva in the past week, the change is profoundly to be welcomed. It has now been made unmistakably clear...

- The conduct of the Anglo-Persian dispute at Geneva has shown the League of Nations at its best. There is no more resourceful conciliator than Dr. Benes, and the skill with...

the Irish Free State, both during the election and since, shows that Mr. de Valera is thinking more about the partition of Ireland and its removal than about a Republic. His...

The debates in the two Houses on Wednesday on the Kenya question brought out definitely two facts which were to most people clear enough before. In the first place, the solemn...

The debts situation is being • discussed between Sir Ronald Lindsay and the Cabinet Ministers primarily concerned in an atmosphere of profound secrecy. No objection can be taken...

economy it is easy for Mr. Will Thorne to score a debating point against the Govermnent by contrasting the decision to spend £900,000 on Territorial camps with the with- drawal...

The fate of M. Daladier's Government is still undecided, but the new Finance Minister's proposals for meeting the budget deficit haVe been framed with some dexterity,. and since...

Chamberlain's gloomy hints that the balance of his Budget may preclude tax reduction, Sir Robert Horne has adduced two authorities which tend to support the view that a balanced...

of the financial resolution to the Housing Bill. There was no weakening in the general support of the idea of enlisting private enterprise in the building of cheap houses to...

versial questions as clearly as possible before its readers, The Spectator will for the next few weeks publish several Pairs of articles by writers of authority, expressing...

The feat of Squadron-Leader Gayford and Flight- Lieutenant Nicholetts in beating the world's record in their non-stop flight to South Africa has an importance to which some...

the first day's work after the recess in the House of Commons, but the Government an- nounced a good many decisions. Tote clubs are to go, a Bill on the licensing of heavy...

of another order is worth recording. Kirkwall, familiar to so many officers of the Grand Fleet at Scapa in the War, is now a day's journey from Inverness, including seven how's...

regarding tote clubs, and totalisators on greyhound race- courses. The law, as interpreted by recent legal decisions, is to take its course. That means that the tote club will...

T HE unemployment demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday, one of the most remarkable efforts of the kind ever organized, was designed to bring the unem- ployment issue forcibly...

T REquestion of 'whether the thirty odd Liberals headed by Sir Herbert Samuel should sit on the Government or the Opposition side of the House of Commons is not in itself a...

T HAT something is fundamentally wrong with the conditions under which milk is produced, bought and sold in this country has become evident to everyone who has watched the...

cantly instructive leading article. The subject was security ; the purport was warm approval of Mr. Eden's declaration at Geneva that Great Britain could undertake no further...

and an Englishman as one of four or five (according as to whether Japan remains in the League or not) deputy or assistant secretaries-general, will be a new conception for this...

only woken up in 1933, one might understand the letter he has just written to M. Henri Bordeaux. " We have no other ally," he says, but France, " whose interests . accord with...

sup- pression of names in Court, except in the case of blackmail trials, and the procedure in an income-tax appeal case last week was so astonishing that I imagine, and hope,...

inquest on a shoeblack, that the dead man was spoken of as one of the last survivors in a disappearing industry. There is matter here for an interesting investigation into...

T HE TIMES has been following so closely the various evolutions of British official policy regarding the Manchurian question that its leading article of last Monday seems to me...

United States over the Chancellor of the Exchequer's address to the American correspondents in London the other day. I happened to be present myself as a guest, and I thought...

died at Geneva on Tuesday, was alive when Metter- nich fell in 1848. He was one of those great seigneurial figures of whom few survive in Europe to-day, and of those few not...

BY SIR EVELYN WRENCH. T more I look round the world at the moment, 1 whether it be to China or to America and Central Europe or to Great Britain, the clearer it seems that what...

BY LORD DUNSANY. W E have no record that when Newton discovered the law of gravity he incurred any hostility from angry folk saying : Now we shall have everything falling on...

By HUGH MARTIN. J UST how it is done can never be known except by doing it, which is painful. There is no such thing as a completely typical case, nor does imagination help...

By P. A. SLOAN. THE first Five-Year Plan has ended. It has been com- pleted after four years and a quarter. In many directions it has achieved considerably more than was...

BY JOHN PULLEN. S OMEBODY—it may have been a leader-writer in The Times—once described the House of Lords as the natural protector of every man who had a silver tea-pot or a...

Hitler in Office [To the Editor of TnE SPECTATOR.] STR,—The commotion produced in Germany by the nomination of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor has not yet abated. That this assertive...

€‘ Richard of Bordeaux." By Gordon Daviot. At the New Theatre. THE majority of plays command (at the best) acquiescence : not surrender. That is true to-day, and it was true...

' By Louis Verneuil. At the Globe. KIDNAPPING, for long an established industry in America and the more civilized parts of China, supplies the theme of this play. Masked...

" THE SPECTATOR," FEBRUARY era, 1833. The King's Speech at the formal opening of the Session of Parliament, on Tuesday, has disappointed every body. . . . Many expected that...

quoted. I give them merely because they were presented to my eyes this week. Any sort of repair or im- provement, however necessary for the comfort or the health of the...

deals with farm engineering for the Ministry) concerns the surprising subject of windmills as a source of electrical energy. It seems that a certain disillusionment as to the...

This season has been peculiarly rich in the discovery of individual migrations : new light has been thrown on the winter journeys of starlings (from Germany), of teal (from...

RACK RENT COTTAGES. Few people, even among those possessed of incurably urban minds, will deny that the reconstruction of village life would do Britain infinite service. Recent...

Farm Economist, a little green-covered magazine—if the word is not too big—to be published monthly by the Agri- cultural Economics Research Institute of Oxford University, in...

A succession of moderately mild winters has greatly increased the popularity of the winter flowering shrub in English' gardens. Viburnum fragrans—sweetest of all—becomes a rival...

It is not only, perhaps not chiefly in England, that the people grow careful about the preservation of their country's beauty. New Zealand, especially, has shown much foresight....

I should like to see a -woodcock sanctuary. The bird is curiously particular about his resorts and can be easily attracted by supplying the right conditions. He is a born...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I be permitted to reply to Mr. MacAndrew's letter in your issue of January 27th ? The facts are briefly that Mr. MacAndrew sold the...

[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 Week " paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have not Mr. Coppersmith's letter before me as I write, but I have that of Mr. Twamley, and there are one or two matters contained therein...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I call your readers' attention to certain features of the " Hampstead Nursery School" case, of which, judging by your comment on Mr....

to be the belief that devoted and intelligent work can never be expected from those who are not receiving pay. Even your correspondent, "A Clerk," in your January 20th issue...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—If the Bishop of Ipswich is correct in his statement, " that episcopacy is not regarded as essential to the existence of a church, at all...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] - Szn,—Please allow me to reply briefly to your reviewer's criticism of " The Sailor's Nelson." I claimed for Nelson that he was the greatest...

SIR,—In spite of the energetic and wisely directed efforts of the Housing Committee of our Bristol City Council in attack- ing the post-War housing problem, the urgent need for...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—While so much has been written lately respecting the various matters at issue between this country and Persia it is surprising to find how...

Sia,—The Spectator has always stressed the need for more and better housing and for contraceptive birth control ; and you have recently given publicity to letters from Dr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Referring to the " News of the Week in your issue of February 8rd, I am at a loss to understand your saying that the Government's Housing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his review of Mr. Dhan Gopal Mukerji's translation of the Bhagavad Gila, Major Yeats-Brown quoted two passages to illustrate the...

IN avenues deserted by the sun Summer long fled, the sodden earth receives The relics of your withered linden-leaves And buries them in silence, one by one. Honeyed no more by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] recall that in 1925 The Spectator opened a Fund to initiate the trial of the system of land cultivation and housing now known under the above...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sus,—I should like to draw attention to an episode in our history which makes an interesting parallel to the present question of our Debt to...

BY LORD EUSTACE PERCY. Tars• is not a well-proportioned book. Nearly four-fifths of it is devoted to an elementary, historical sketch of English politics, written obviously for...

.The Underworld of India. BySir George MacMunn, C.B., K.C.S.L, D.S.O. (Jarrolds. Its. 6d.) The Martial Races of India. By Sir George MacMunn, C.B., The India We Saw. By the...

Great Britain and the Law of Nations. By H. A. Smith. (P. S. King. 16s.) TIIE aim of this book, as described on the cover, is " hitherto unatterimted:" It is " to present a...

Metternich, 1773-1859 ; a Study of his Period and Personality. By Algernon Cecil. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s.) MR. ALOERNON CECIL has told the story of Metternich's life with a...

What Would be the Character of a New War ? By Sir'Norman Angell and 17 others. (Gollancr. 5s.) IT was a sound idea to issue this book—a small edition of which was published...

St. Augustine. By Rebecca West. (Peter Davies. 55.) THE character and career of St. Augustine have attracted writers of many differing schools of thought. He is, indeed, a...

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Italy in the Making, 1815-1846. By G. F. H. Berkeley. (Cambridge University Press. 15s.) TIIE Italian revolutions of 1848 which failed against the opposition of Austria and...

Reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence. By John Middleton Murry. (Cape. 7a. ed.) Reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence. By John Middleton Murry. (Cape. 7a. ed.) Ma. Wanes latest contribution...

Form in Modern Poetry. By Herbert Read. (Shoed and Ward. 2s. 6d.) Ma. HERBERT READ calls his " Essay in Order " Form in Modern Poetry. It could have been called " Personality...

Gordon, an Intimate Portrait. By H. E. Wortham. (Harrap. 12.s. 6d.) THE hero of Khartoum has been fortunate in most of his biographers, and there have been many. For his noble...

Characteristics of French Art. By Roger Fry. (Chatto and Windus. 12s. 6d.) IN French painting Mr. Fry has found a subject perfectly suited to him. His intense liking for...

OF course, it is not precisely waste paper ; for, if paper was invented, it had not come so far West. It was waste papyrus, of no interest to anybody ; so it was used in...

By GRAHAM GREENE. CONRAD'S Heart of Darkness impressed Africa as an imaginative symbol on the European mind. The shadow of Kurtz, " a shadow insatiable of splendid appearances,...

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THERE was a phrase in the speech delivered last week to the shareholders of Lloyds Bank by the Chairman, Mr. Beaumont Pease, which captures the imagination and which, it must be...

UNCERTAIN MARKETS. THE Stock Markets during the past week have again dis- played a somewhat uncertain tendency. Political develop- ments in Germany, the situation in France,...

How easy it is to overdo this education by wireless is shown by the annoying introductions which announcers some- times give before a broadcast of music. I am afraid the worst...

agricultural labourer on Friday next. This is the first of a series in which foreign workers will come to the microphone to discuss their daily lives and conditions of work with...

goes by without any celebration concert-so far as broad- casting is concerned ; but the Sunday evening Orchestral Concert is to be devoted to a programme of extracts from The...

Sunday : Song Recital by Else Rykens (Daventry National, 5.30) ; Wagner Concert (London Regional, 9.5). Monday : "Man versus Microbe : Influenza " (Daventry National, 7.10) ;...

to prove that broadcasting in this country does not depend upon the co-operation of the music halls for the success of the vaudeville programmes. It hardly succeeded. The...

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 19 is L. M. Galloway, High School for Girls, Dereham, Norfolk,

[A prize'of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's ewes-word puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Cross-word Puzzle,"...