T HE Conference of Mediterranean Powers convened by Great Britain and France to concert measures to suppress submarine piracy in Mediterranean waters meets without the...

considered by the British and French Governments. The fact that both Mr. Eden and M. Delbos are being accom- panied to Nyon by the chiefs of their Naval General Staffs is...

difficult to divine, from the resolution on the subject adopted on Tuesday, precisely what the Trades Union Congress would do about the Spanish situation if it could have its...

changed surprisingly little in the past week. The Chinese resistance at Shanghai has been unexpectedly effective, but it is not yet clear whether the Japanese have been engaged...

been evacuated from Shanghai to Hong-Kong should have returned to the city whence they came, preferring to face the shells and air-bombs of a war-theatre rather than the cholera...

to undergo a complete " black-out " from dusk to dawn. No street lights will be allowed, and all indoors light must be completely obscured. London experienced something like...

varied this week by reports of a naval engagement between Nationalist and Repub- lican vessels off the north coast of Africa, but nothing definite is known of the result. Naval...

who is the pivotal man in the Chautemps Cabinet, is putting up a brave fight to stabilise, not merely the Budget, but the economic conditions of his country. If M. Blum, while...

Belgian Parliament M. van Zeeland is said to' have intimated that, whatever their outcome, he should resign his position as Prime Minister. Let us hope• that the subsequent...

vocal public opinion in a dictatorship country is so rare that there may be a danger of attaching exaggerated importance to it. A rather striking telegram from Tokyo in...

British Association was well justified in devoting an hour or two of its time on Tuesday to the subject of industrial insurance, and in particular the waste the system...

Claud Mullins, the Magistrate at South-Western Police Court, arraigned the Churches before the Modern Churchmen's Union at Cambridge last week as the principal obstacles to...

the land of Britain," in which no fewer than six sections (geology, zoology botany, geography, economics, and agriculture) took part, was a remarkable example of creating...

military commands will be much greater during the next war than it was in the last, owing to the much greater pace of movement in mechan- ised war, and also the constant...

does not go in for giant speed-ships —and cannot, because they could not navigate the Suez Canal—its record for a hundred years forms, nevertheless, a great chapter in the great...

T HE international maelstrom becomes more -turbid still. Japan, resolved to pursue her aggression in China till she has beaten that country to her knees, has had additional...

T HE Trades Union Congress has met this week ; the Labour Party Conference meets next month. The decisions reached at the two go far to determine Socialist policy for the year...

Legion before it is too late. JANTs.

of this issue containing a publisher's advertisement consisting of one poem from a book of verse just published. It happens to be a poem I like (actually, I believe, it first...

this column last week quoting a reference in a daily paper to a sausage breakfast arranged by a London vicar, "as an experiment to encourage the parishioners to attend the early...

givings, when I see what alcohol can do to some of my own friends) that temperance is on the whole to be preferred to abstinence. But I feel considerable sympathy with the...

by only a handful of the population and the import of foreign books reduced to almost nothing through exchange restrictions, what possibility is there of Germans seeing the...

I ask for informa- tion, not being able myself to supply the answer. The ques- tion, I am assured, by one who had to cope with it, has just been put in an examination for...

TT seems a pity that the Inter-Parliamentary Union has never somehow found its feet in this country. The Union has just been holding its 33rd annual conference in Paris, though...

Standard on Monday to proclaim in a four-column heading : LACK OF ABILITY HIDDEN BY MOUSTACHE but surely hardly tactful to print underneath it a photograph of the President of...

By MICHAEL LANGLEY A BOMB bursting over the Mediterranean is as immediate and disturbing in its effects as a stone dropped into an ornamental pond. That being so, those factors...

By LEO HLTBERMAN N OT the least of the achievements of Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal is the roving spotlight it has turned on the shadier aspects of American business practice....

By N. P. MACDONALD A NATURAL consequence of the anti-semitic policy of the National Socialists is the antipathy felt in the Third Reich for the coloured peoples. This aspect of...

By T. F. COADE (Headmaster of Bryanston) W HAT, if anything, should parents say to their sons on the eve of the new term, especially on the eve of the first term at a public...

By BASIL WRIGHT M OSCOW is bright with the outward and visible signs of prosperity—shop windows crammed with food- stuffs, clothing, books, and fancy goods, streets crowded...

By GORONWY REES P ERHAPS I should explain that I am not a member of the Welsh Nationalist Party, and have no claim, except that of being a Welshman, to speak or to write for...

By H. PEARL ADAM I N the supplement to the 1933 edition of Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary appears the word " kitchenette " ; bright signal, of course, that into the...

By E. L. WOODWARD I) ANTE, who crowded almost too much incident into the earlier parts of the Divine Comedy, was reduced to a good deal of descriptive allegory when he came to...

To readers on holiday, who normally receive THE SPECTATOR through a newsagent, we shall be glad to forward a copy of the paper each week to any part of the world, post free, at...

SWASTIKA AND SIGMA IN BRAZIL By WILBUR BURTON Rio de Janeiro. THE two dominant features of Brazil today are German penetration on one hand and the increasingly strong bid for...

THE THEATRE "Richard II." By William Shakespeare. At the Queen's IT was a brave decision of Mr. Gielgud's to start his season with Richard II. It is a play that is dangerously...

New Educational Films. At the British Association " EDUCATION is rapidly becoming more natural, more biological. Most young children are ready to learn a great deal more than...

A New Light on Ottavio THE stoutish gentleman in the black suit, having at some length requested the lady with the mannlla to go and console his treasure, turns his profile to...

[D'un correspondant parisien] AVEC louable persistance M. Georges Bonnet cherche a retablir l'equilibre des finances publiques, ce qui, par ricochet, aiderait singulierement les...

nor will the old activity be resumed at any foreseen date ; but here and there the surface begins to blossom as the rose and the worst attribute of depression to be absorbed. A...

The Valleys They are called "the Valleys," as if there were no others in the world ; and indeed there are few like them. They are cut in limestone, a material that has no fellow...

It is always a marvel how the late-hatched broods of swallows grow strong enough for the migratory flight, which may be as long as five thousand miles. This year the latest...

the co-operators get food, and indeed clothes, that are quite first class in quality. The farm and the factory produce the best. The bread is better than most baker's bread and...

in more ways than one. The sum of national production is increased. It is a treat to visit one of the farms, especially an upper farm, if the mere spectacle is in question. From...

Some observer the other day expressed a certain astonish-. ment at sight of a cock night-jar attending to the young while the hen was brooding a second clutch. The number of...

Are sportsmen too conservative over the question of the breed of dogs that they use for game ? Something like consternation was aroused in one group lately by the appear- ance...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the holidays I have read with much interest the correspondence about Unemployment amongst University graduates, as well as letters...

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

SIR,—May I be allowed a word in reply to the courteous rejoinders of your two correspondents of last week on the subject of " Ourselves and Italy " ? I have seen them with all...

J. B. Jones seems to have rather strange ideas of the part played by Italy in the Great War. Before entering the War, Italy carefully tested the direction of the wind and with...

Si,—The jaunty sarcasm of Colonel Butler's opening sentences is somewhat bewildering. Certainly opinion on present-day affairs is hopelessly complicated, but even so I was a...

SIR,—I have been reading Mr. Jones' "Welsh Nationalism" of September 3rd. In it he refers to the Welsh wanting Wales for themselves. Do not the English want England for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Dr. J. D. Jones' article demonstrates an ignorance of the facts which casts a large shadow of doubt on his qualifications for writing on...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—NO one can read unmoved the earnest letter of Colonel P. R. Butler. Will you allow me to say that I am not of those who have waved aside...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Under the new Regulations by which Tuberculin-Tested milk comes under the aegis of the Milk Marketing Board, a Committee is to determine...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Armed with the knowledge that several thousand more boys than girls are born in Britain every year I have been trying for some...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Memories of Mr. A. P. Herbert's famous "Word War" prompt me to protest violently against the horrible word " Decasualisation," which I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—With reference to the last paragraph of "A Spectator's Notebook" in last week's issue of The Spectator, the actual facts are as follows :...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his "Marginal Comments "(September 3rd), Mr. E. L. Woodward remarks that "the English people have forgotten everything about" the...

Sta,—After an absence of some weeks in a country where such questions are forbidden or settled by an order from Party Headquarters it is something of a joy to find your readers...

Sut,—The controversial method of presentation of the Paris van Gogh exhibition, which seems to have provoked more discussion than the paintings, is less of an innovation than is...

SIR,—I wonder if any of the readers of your paper can help in a most deserving case in which I am interested locally : a boy, one of a working class family of six children, won...

Sta,—While fully sympathising with the point of view which prompted the remark on page 366 of your issue of September 3rd that "the conclusion of the pact makes it more certain...

SIR, —Mr. H. G. Wells's address on Education was supposed to be a disquisition by a scientific man to the Educational section of the British Association for the Advancement of...

his comment on an item in the News Chronicle which reported the provision by an incumbent of sausage breakfasts after his early service, rightly deplores such popularising of...

PAGE Men and Things (Wilson Harris) .. .. 427 Methodism and Radicalism (A. P. Wadsworth) 428 Collective Insecurity (C. Delisle Burns) .. .. 428 The Omnicompetent State (The...

Sum admirable work has been done by Mrs. Swanwick in the cause of peace that her new book will be welcomed by all who have that cause at heart She has always maintained that "...

Methodism and the Working Class Movements of England, 1800-1850. By Robert F. Wearmouth. (Epworth Press. 8s. 6d.) THE late Professor Halevy found in the Methodist Revival the...

Religion and the Totalitarian State. By Sir Charles Grant Robertson. (Epworth Press. 2s. Ed.) THE dictatorships that have become so prominent a feature of European life arouse...

The Changing Scene. By Arthur Calder-Marshall. (Chapman and Hall. los. 6d.) MR. CALDER-MARSHALL'S docile title and the quiet bad taste of the wrapper, an ugly pink shading...

Chinese Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. Collected and translated by Wolfram Eberhard. Translated from the German by Desmond Parsons. (Kegan Paul. los. 6d.) THE publishers have put...

A Century Between. By Robert Henrey. (Heinemann. iss.) ON April 29th, 1839, Hannah the pretty and determined daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the English branch...

Forbidden Journey. By Ella K. Maillart. Translated by Thomas McGreevy. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d ) MANY readers of News from Tartary found themselves intrigued to desperation by the...

man could see it plain, From five miles off; a golden . bird Upon a glittering vane. No common fowl ; you'd swcar it was An eagle come to roost, That once had clapped heraldic...

Mr. De Vane is like "every scribe" in the Gospel ; he has a large storehouse, and brings out of it, in great profusion, things new and old. Beginning with a short but sufficient...

By E. B. C. JONES MR. SWINNERTON'S title is misleading ; his new long novel is not concerned with agriculture, Harvest being the name of its chief character. As is so common...

IF the trend of stock market prices remains, like the face of Katisha, plain and unattractive, Throgmorton Street can at least boast an undertone which, like Katisha's left...

With Japan out of the buying side of the market it was perhaps too much to expect wool prices at the latest Sydney sales to hold all the extensive ground gained in the past...

There is an old saying on the Stock Exchange : In critical times, watch gilt-edged. The theory is that the approach af any really serious shock to confidence is invariably...

My correspondence steadily bears witness to the state of nervous unsettlement now prevalent among holders of shares in the provisions group of companies. Recent reports have...

is practically non-existent, a modest inquiry for fixed-interest securities from investors seeking income with safety of capital is helping to keep the machinery of the markets...

SENSIBLE CARS THE two cars I have for review this week have, apart from their special qualities, commendable or the reverse, one principal point of interest, academic rather...

A NEW MINING COMPANY. ONE of the brighter spots of the Stock Markets during the past week was that for gold-mining shares, and an interesting event in the market has been the...

At a moment when investors are on the look-out for any securities .promising an increase in capital values, Shipping shares have commanded attention by reason of the rise in...

INFLUENCES RESTRAINING INVESTMENT AMONG the many enquirers who profess to be seeking an investment I wonder how many could be put down as seeking, not a permanent safe income...

The foregoing reference to Lord Craigmyle prompts a recollection of the fact that this week the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company is celebrating its centenary,...

Yet another institution which last week celebrated its centenary is the Union Bank of Australia, and here again there is a very general recognition in the City of the great...

[A prize of a Book Token for 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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