which will be obtained under the Dawes Scheme the matter would be simple enough. They would only have to distribute the amount—the annual £50,000,000—accord- ing to the Spa...

Minister of Finance, - has proposed to America that France should be granted a moratorium. The British Government is believed to have declared that they will raise no objection....

ten years. M. Clemente' further suggests that the French payments should be spread over eighty years and that the interest paid should be only one-half of one per cent. It...

the prior charges should be as small as possible, as there will then be more money left over to pay in reparations. France, however, may well think that her " real " share of...

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Tr HE inter-Allied Financial Conference in Paris, where Mr. Churchill arrived on Tuesday, is dealing with a series of exceedingly ticklish- problems. Nominally, it is concerned...

Mussolini made a statement on- his policy and methods, but no vote was taken and the Chamber was indefinitely adjourned. Once again Signor Mussolini won, a great Pyrrhic....

the Cologne Zone was handed to the German Cha,n- cellor on Monday. The reasons for the postponement are substantially those which we mentioned last week. The Allies point out...

the relation of the Dominions to foreign affairs, has been published as a White Papers It will be remembered that it was proposed to hold a Conference but that the project - was...

dares to appear with candid criticism of the Government is seized. For the time being the Duce is undoubtedly successful. His opponents are not only powerless but are divided...

that we cannot leave the French who occupy the Ruhr suspended in mid air, and that we defer too gently, as we think, to the French theory of how she can obtain security. Her...

Paris about inter-Allied debts, however unofficial they may be, should definitely lead on to formal negotia- tions and the clearing up of the whole matter. Too long this dark...

Italy. "I declare before this Assembly," he added, " that.I alone assume the moral, political, and historical responsibility of all that has occurred." His most ominous...

articles by Lord Hugh Cecil on currency and debt. Lord Hugh Cecil is strongly in favour of an ingenious plan for over- coming the notorious disadvantage of repaying debts in...

but ultimately, as the result of Mr. Thomas's - visit, accepted it. Finally the correspondence shows chat by October the Labour Government were unable to find a convenient date...

• by correspondents in the Times against the removal of John Gibson's statue of Queen Victoria from the Princes' Gallery in the House of Lords. The removal is proposed in order...

his design by the Prince Consort, who suggested that the niche, which was rather too big for a single figure, should be filled up with two allegorical figures. The why and the...

they were too busy in winding up the session to give Mr. MacDonald's dispatch the attention it deserved. Later, however, they sent a considered reply, and the effect of it is to...

run of Mr. Bernard Shaw's play St. Joan has suddenly been ended at the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow by order of the Soviet. This action is evidently a retort to Mr. Shaw's recent...

July 5th, 1923. 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 101* ; Thursday week, 1011; a year ago, 99. 81 per cent. Conversion Loan was on Thur9day, '771 ; Thursday week, 772 ; a...

THE CRIME OF THE SLUM T HE slum problem is still with us, but I am delighted to see what a strong and wholesome movement of public opinion there has been on the whole matter...

.ONDON is full of rumours that drastic action A is about to be taken by the Bank of England and the Treasury in regard to the Gold Standard, the resumption of real instead of...

BY STEPHEN GWYNN. • would inevitably fail on the stage. Mr. Shaw was the crucial case. No intelligent person, no moderately amusable person, who read Shaw could deny that he...

removed the question of the greatness of the smoke evil from the region of surmise to that of ascertained fact. Systematic examination and measure- ment of pollution of the air...

T HOSE who saw the All-Blacks, New Zealand, Rugby Football XV. in any one of their victorious matches — for they were all victorious—saw the best Rugby side that has ever taken...

UNLIKELY DRAMA Almon' every Sunday night in London now all through the winter you can, if you know where to go, see an interesting play pretty thoroughly produced. There are...

Academy ought to be At times I have been able to praise the Academy for the technical proficiency which was displayed on its walls ; I have condemned it as a devitalized piece...

STEEL HOUSES AND THE AMENITIES OF CONSTRUCTION [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sending by to-day's post a copy of Country Life of January 3rd, and would refer you...

who in earlier years had experience in slum life, your letters on that subject and emergency houses, together with the letter of Mrs. Sophia Baker, of Meopham, Kent, in your...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The claims of others to your space on this subject may well be greater than mine. My excuse for coming in again 'must simply be the...

one would have thought that, if it were possible, where 'man interfered With Nature he would have done his best to improve upon her'; but one moment's reflec- tion, after a...

SPECTATOR.] . SIR,—S0 far, two nations engaged in the Great War have arranged to pay reparations or War debts (economically, they are the same) to other nations. One is Germany...

[To the Edit& of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the several obituary notices of William Archer which have appeared in your own and other journals, all of which deal with his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of last week "I. L. P.," in a reply to the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy, says : "Do they, for instance, consider it is moral...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At intervals, the heavy fog that hangs over Russia lifts for a moment, but seldom to disclose those , Utopian visions, which apparently...

A MEMORY I HAVE no memory of his face, A bearded man or smooth and bare ; I never heard my mother call My father either dark or fair. All I remember is a coat Of velvet,...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the last issue of the Spectator Mr. Moss gives some interesting figures and concludes "that if these are anything of a guide the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Miss Hudson will look at my article again, she will see that I did not deny Mark Twain natural talents. My objection is to the way in which...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Mr. Hugh I. Dutton will be good enough to make further research he will acquit me of having "fallen into a very serious error" in...

SEVEN BOOKS OF ESSAYS 12s.) THERE is clearly a great deal to be said against casting general observations on events and persons in the form of an essay. You will be tempted...

TWENTY years ago Gorki enjoyed a reputation of which little more than a shadow remains. Some of it, no doubt, he owed to his politics. Nevertheless we find Tchehov, a just...

THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " OFFERS A PRIZE OF £5 FOR AN ORIGINAL FOUR-LINE EPIGRAM ON "THE MODERN WORLD." RULES. 1. All entries must be received on or before Friday,...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS PROBABLY the Battle of Jutland will set historians by the cars in a hundred years' time. To begin with, the Germans are quite convinced that they gained a...

DR. ADDISON has always been regarded as a philosophic Radical of the gentle school, but in this apologia and record of his War experience he is out to split heads rather than...

ITALY is a fruitful field in which to study problems of nationalism and internationalism. The centralization of the Roman Empire was the only kind of internationalism possible...

No other country in the world has so doggedly resisted Europeanizing influences as Tibet, and even to-day the European is scarcely admitted within its borders. Sir Charles Bell...

.Contemporary Personalities. By the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead, P.C., D.L., D.C.L., LL.D., High Steward of Oxford University, Lord Rector of Glasgow University, Treasurer...

PROUST II. PERHAPS " aphorism " is too narrow a word for the type of judgment in which Proust excels ; for his judgments arc certainly, in a manner, distilled from experience....

" THE political historian, following the path of the conqueror, observes everywhere signs of triumph, of subjection and of change, but the student of economic conditions sees a...

the country has been reduced by twenty thousand, while the population has steadily grown. The legislation which has brought this about may, therefore, be counted as successful...

INTER-ALLIED DEBTS 'To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The year has not advanced far before two of the important factors I referred to when outlining the prospects for 1925...

Denison Fisher is trying to take refuge from "the dogs of want," which have followed him since the War, in a marriage with Marie Louise Syme, to whom the War has left pleasanter...

January 14th.—ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, JOHN STREET, ADELPHL—Lieut.-Colonel G. M. Richardson on "Dogs in Peace" .. 3.0 [Holiday lecture for children. Tickets from the Society.]...