B Y Sunday night the fate of the Saar will in effect be decided. The result of the plebiscite poll will not be known to the world in general till Monday night, and even after...

The meeting of the League of Nations Council now in progress will give a useful opportunity for the continuation on a larger stage of the international conversations which began...

In his Message to Congress President Roosevelt announces his far-reaching plans for further action in pursuit of National Recovery. His proposals fall under three heads :—A...

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make the United States a member of the Permanent Court of International Justice, but failed to carry the necessary two-thirds of the Senate with him. President Roosevelt, with a...

India Bill will be avail- able in a few days now, and it is to be hoped very much that in its preamble or somewhere else, it will frankly and openly admit the justice of the...

Congress in Cairo portends some new liveliness in political circles in Egypt. The Nessim Cabinet, which has been in office since November, consists of competent but undis-...

Kroll Opera House in Berlin last week was an astonishing affair even for Germany. A considerable element of mystery invests it still. That it should seriously have been thought...

Budget for the year 1935-1936 shows an estimated gross deficit of about £905,000,000. This does not dismay Mr. Roosevelt. The ordinary Budget, leaving out emergency expenditure,...

to The Times on the subject of the London Labour Party's proposal to re-write school text-books is not very reassuring. He frankly admits that his party proposes to set up a...

profitable or possible to reduce weekly hours of work in industry, and so increase the number of workers ? That is the question which the Minister of Labour is attempting to...

country and the Irish Free State is important for two reasons. It will lead to a substantial increase in trade ; and its conclusion is a first step along the path of practical...

Kenneth Lee, in Monday's Times, on the- rival -claims of the continuation class in the factory and the raising of the school age to 15 or higher, carries further the wireless...

of being well- informed in such matters, foreshadows the announcement by the Government of an extensive scheme of group land-settlement, involving the transfer of anything up to...

Kitching, of Wetherby, has drawn attention, in the British Medical Journal, to the survival of a practice •which most people thought to be extinct. It seems that the caning of...

1935 was described as " A Fateful Year " and reasons were given for the belief that it could be faced on the whole with confidence. In the week that has intervened the basis of...

A NEW Year speech, broadcast from a holiday resi- dence, is hardly the medium through which we should expect the Prime Minister to make an important new statement of national...

Khama, the young Bechuana chief who was temporarily suspended from his functions in 1933 on the charge of. flogging a white man, has made out his case against the transfer of...

always welcome. One of the memories that might have been revived when Lord Riddell died the other day was the so-called troupe of " trained seals " collected round him when he "...

not paying his tram (or 'bus) fare is getting a little muddled in the Courts. First Sir Rollo Graham Campbell ruled 'against the London Passenger Transport Board , and in...

So, with that studied avoidance of hyperbole characteristic of the modern advertiser, a certain volume is described in the publicity pages of a journal before me. It might have...

T HE Hauptmann trial proceedings in the United States provide an astonishing picture of national psycho- logy. Col. Lindbergh admittedly is *a national figure. The kidnapping...

Old Street to one month's imprisonment for breaking a. Belisha beacon at City Road, Finsbury."—Netes Chronicle. • (Or, as The Times more austerely puts it, " for wilfully and...

By SIR ARTHUR SALTER IT is useless to discuss simply whether to plan " or not. - For " planning " is a new term in economic discussions, without any accepted and standard...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD Saarbrucken, January 6th. O UTSIDE my hotel, demonstrators from this after- noon's " Status Quo " mass meeting are marching to the railway station,...

By SIR STANLEY REED T HE question which springs to all lips is " What are the reactions of India to the Report of the Joint Select Committee ? " None is harder correctly to...

By DR. W. B. SELBIE A N ingenious optician once wrote over his shop window, A "You can't be optimistic as long as you have misty optics." He was undoubtedly right. Nothing is...

By REINHOLD SCHAIRER T HE observer of human society is conscious of some remarkable new phenomena in the field of Western civilization, at the point where the clear light of...

By JOHN MARKS THE ticket - inspector sounded very annoyed. It was a third-class carriage and you could hear his annoy- ance distinctly at an interval of several wooden...

By ROSE MACAULAY Wil T strange enfever'd rage does shake men's souls and hammer in their blood, when they hear their language spoken in accents that differ from their own Not...

The Theatre " The Dominant Sex!' By Michael Egan. At the Shaftesbury Theatre THE doctrinal battle for sex-equality was fought out by another generation and on other dramatic...

British International production is an assembly- of real War film extracts from various fronts and countries, with an introduction by Sir Ian Hamilton and a commentary by Sir...

Flash in the Pan THE marriage between Art and Industry, so long and so loudly heralded in the aesthetic gossip columns of our newspapers, has at last taken place, and the proud...

[Von Einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] DER Name Aschinger hat fiir den Berliner dieselbe Bedeutung wie der Name Lyons fur den Londoner. Beide and far den Menschen der Grosstadt...

In Trust A tract of land of peculiar beauty in the famous Gwynant Valley, along the shores of the lake between Capel Curig and Beddgelert, was put up to auction some little...

How rich a document the diary and notebook of a watcher can be is very apparent in this report, " Wild Bird • Protection in Norfolk," edited by Dr. Sydney Long, himself a fine...

It is, I think, no secret that the National Trust had a great desire to save this Welsh valley, and especially the farm bought by Mr. Williams-Ellis. Their frequent inability to...

The annual report of a smaller and a local Trust emphasizes one item of cost in land ownership whose object is preserva- tion. The Norfolk Naturalists Trust, much the largest...

In very many places the tits, especially the great tit, have learned to puncture the cardboard lids of milk containers ; and thereafter to enjoy the creamy surface of the milk....

The Country Diary All country diarists continue to add unheard-of records to their winter pages. In..niy garden a large bush of rue (well worth growing for the unusual bluish...

letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitahle length is that of one of our " !stews of the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters are given a preference over those...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sns,—I would be glad of a little space to draw attention to an amazing paragraph in the article contributed by Mr. C. F. Andrews in a recent...

{To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" In the public interest," and pace Mr. W. W. Paine, I think The Spectator is to be warmly congratulated on publish- ing the article, "...

have been well " acquaint " with Criminal Lav; and' Practice from my youth' up, and have conducted spores of murder cases either for the Crown or for the Defence— though but in...

SIR, — I am not surprised at your Canadian contributor's bewilderment at discovering the average English attitude towards Canada. " Complete absent-mindedness " I think best...

columns - On the above subject has, so far, been all_ from one side, and though I would-not proclaim myself a member . of the opposition, I cannot help feeling that those whO...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm-,—The publishers of journals and magazines of the "'class " type, whom your correspondent, Mr. Stokes, takes to' task for not revealing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Livingstone, a great humanitarian with an unrivalled knowledge of Native mentality, said : " Never point a gun at a Native unless, you...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When the secretary of the League of Nations Union writes welcoming the idea of a League flag " as a simple visible sign of a complex...

SIRS Mr . Wenham's letter is dangerously misleading. On the Main qUestion there is no dispute between us. We both loathed the execution of Mrs. Major. We both want to abolish...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Red Star steamers have been run on almost identical lines to those proposed by the prospective new British buyers, and have lost the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If through any mischance you become either a convict or an explorer your reading material may for long periods be restricted. On my last...

have just seen in your issue of December 28th Mr. Hackett's comments on my recent review in your columns of his book on Francis I. That Mr. Hackett's attitude to Francis is a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sur,—The loss of a subscriber is probably of no more import. to you than the demise of an ant is to an ant colony. I am an old subscriber to...

From Plato Or all nights that a man has had, Of all days too that made his throng, How many will be set beside Unbroken sleep a whole night long ? Count them together, days,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR ,—My uncle—Bunnell Lewis—himself a Latin scholar, used to tell me nearly 60 years ago that the author of the line Tempora mutantur &c. was...

Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was surprised to see how completely Mr. Joad, usually so acute-minded, fails to understand my view in The Web of Thought and Action, of the...

Too civil, courteous world, S hould one today Cast dust upon his head, Rend garb and pray For Nineveh, would Nineveh indeed Not still prevail, Smiling at one who brought so...

By BONAMY DOBRg E THE publication of Hopkins' letters is an event of great importance in the literary world, the more so, some will think, because of the persons to whom they...

The Method of Freedom. By Walter Lippmann. (Allen and Unwin. 4s. 6d.) IT is to be hoped that Mr. Lippmann's excellent little book will be widely read in this country. It is now...

I AM shy of . a method by which this book may be reviewed. To discuss it as dialectic, or history, or ethics, would be to transfer the reviewer's preferred limitation of...

India, Minto and Morley. By Mary, Countess of Minto. (Macmillan. • 21s.) • • . PHs been book's importance has immediately recognized, and it his played a part, in the...

The Way of Achievement. Compiled by Angus Watson. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 6s.) THIS is not a near edition of Self-Help. There is a dis- tinction between " Success " and...

Conservatism and the Future. By Lord Eustace Percy, W. S. Morrison, K.C., Captain F. A. A. Heilgers, Captain J. de V. Loder, P. Emrys Evans, Hugh Molson, The Earl of Iddesleigh,...

A YEAR ago,, ' writes Mr. Yeats in his Preface to the present volume, " I found that I had written no verse for two years." Various reasons suggested themselves for this...

A History of Classical Greek Literature. By T. A. Sinclair. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) Tins book compares favourably with almost all others of the kind in English. It is full of...

The Rossettis and their Circle. By Frances Winwar. (Hurst and Blackett. 158.) IN writing this new volume about the Rossettis the authoress has had access to no sources that are...

61) Tills is a disturbing book. For days after I had closed it I heard the echoes of its rhythms and their sombre import, just as memory listens in the silence after the...

By V. S. 'PRITCHETT —7rickeiliaistticrats;Topthrevolationargermtotrinntrfarb se it is perceptive and 7s. 6d.) As the comment of a Russian revolutionary upon the French...

By Eva Le Gallienne Miss Le Gallienne, succumbing to a habit which looks like becoming de rigueur among talented and successful young persons of today, has written her...

By Andre Malraux La Condition Bumaine was reviewed at length in these columns on its original publication. This excellent translation by Mr. Alastair Macdonald (Methuen, 7s....

THE SEALS By Monk Gibbon Mr. - Monk Gibbon is one of the most gifted and most satisfy- ing of contemporary poets, and this attractive and unusual book (Cape, 7s. 6d.) should...

for January : the Indian reforms and the Saar plebiscite, and its possible effects on the general situation in Europe. The Nineteenth Century gives space to the arguments...

A Good Start . So far as the City, at all events, is concerned, and especially so far as the Stock Markets are concerned, the year 1935 has made a good start. This is quite in...

STOCK EXCHANGE ACTIVITY. _IT will be gathered from the article the preceding column that the -Stock Markets lave been- fairly active and firm in tone during the past week. Home...

The profits statement recently issued by F. W. Woolworth and Company must be regarded as magnificent, the net profits for 1934 amounting, after depreciation and fees, to...

A feature on Tuesday was the further big spurt in British Government securities, the advance apparently being due to some fairly large orders by financial institutions coming...

During . the past week some further results of new life business in 1934 have been announced 'by Insurance Com- panies, and in practically all cases the figures are excellent....

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The Directors of the Friends' Provident and Century Life Office announce that the new life assurances issued during 1934 (including those of the Century Insurance Company,...

As anticipated, the year, although it has only just com- menced, has already given signs of activity in the matter of capital creations. The strength of Gilt-Edged securities...

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 " Crossword Puzzle," and should be...