the Government, and showed how essential it was that politics and justice should be kept apart. On the Government's own admission this had not been done. The danger of injury to...

T HE Government have courted rather than passively accepted their fate. Evidently they would rather appeal to the country on a legal question—or what they pretend is only a...

the Prime Minister, who said that in a previous statement to the House he had been betrayed by his strong feelings into an inaccuracy. Ile had stated, or implied, that he had...

the debate and that he would support the Liberal amend- ment for an inquiry. This was certainly the right course, indeed the indispensable course. We can understand why the...

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Labour candidates is a- new move this year, arising out of the dispute over the Kelvingrove constituency, where Labour withdrew its support half- way through the election, and...

amendment which might have made peace possible in Ireland was defeated—the amendment making it a condition that the Boundary Commission should adjust the Boundary "without...

Conference were those in which : (1) the applica- tion of the Communist Party for affiliation to the Labour Party was rejected ; (2) the Labour Party Executive was instructed to...

secret associations, back-stairs wire-pulling, mischievous stirring up of strife, are neither in method nor in ideal the Socialism that built up our Labour Party. Never - was it...

Fallodon made a characteristically courageous speech on the Irish Boundary Bill. He said plainly that previous Governments had unfortunately entered into two-contra- dictory...

speech was remarkable for its invective against both the Liberal Party and the Com- munists. The Unionists by comparison were treated with something like a declaration of...

the Communist case, based his argu- ment on the necessity of the Communists accepting the democratic standpoint before they could hope for alliance with the Labour Party. Mr....

Union in memory of the great American Ambassador, will be delivered by Sir Auckland Geddes, late British Ambassador at Washington, at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Armistice...

the furtherance of Anglo-American understanding by the founding of the Memorial Lecture and the two Page Travelling Scholarships for British Secondary and Elementary teachers. A...

any British Government could make an Irish settlement. If settlement -did not come between the Irish factions themselves it would not come at all. The Free State was in great...

an Irish Republic, and in our opinion he spoke with real insight. He thought that, if the necessity arose, this country would lose nothing by letting the Free State call itself...

his son, the Sherif Ali, Emir of Medina, has suc- ceeded him. The Wahabis who were threatening ilusein's capital, the Holy City of Mecca, had apparently made no movement for...

has been published as a White Paper. For the first time we learn exactly what Zaghlul Pasha has been asking for. His demands were impossible, and the Prime Minister's "...

July 5th, 1923' 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 102 If; Thursday week, 1021; a year ago, 1024. 84 per cent Conversion Loan was on Thursday, 771 ; Thursday week, 774} a...

NO MORE CA' CANNY IN POLITICS. T HE experiment in Minority Government has come to its end, and a General Election is upon us. It will be fraught with as grave issues as any in...

I T is difficult for those who were at Geneva during the session of the Assembly to estimate how much the public at home understands of what went on there or to what extent it...

BY STE ARBUTHNOT LANE. F " people seem to realize the remarkable benefit which results from the moderate and legitimate use of aleohol. The vast difference that its absence...

BY C. E. M. JOAD. B Y the death of F. H. Bradley, 0.M., the world of philosophy has lost one of its greatest figures. For some time past he had been in failing health, and when...

SUBLIMITY VERSUS VULGARITY. ON the theory that the public wishes almost exclusively to be entertained with rubbish the American cinema—I speak of it comprehensively, not of its...

THE SOUTH BANK OF THE RIVER. ENGLISH towns are the most haphazard in Europe. The national sense of justice and the consequent respect shown for the rights of owners have always...

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY - AND THE WORKING MAN: [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Knowing something of the organization of the Con- servative Party, in which respect I seem...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I wonder whether it would interest your readers to hear the sort of answers that Socialists might give to some of the points that have...

THE attention of Life Members is drawn to a change in the time of the Annual Meeting on Thursday,. October 23rd. It will take place at 3.30 in the afternoon, in the Princes'...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] would like to endorse your "Working Man" corre- spondent's statements re "How Labour Agitators are Made." If anything, he is too modest in his...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was very interested in the letters of Mr. W. -E. Nickolls Dunn and Miss Ann Pope on the subject of" Domestic Science" which were...

[To the Editcr of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—As one amongst the millions of persons insured under the National Health Insurance Acts, I should view with alarm the prospect of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] trust that you will permit me to offer some remarks upon your suggestion - last week of "an impartial inquiry into a scheme for buying out the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This is a cause with which the majority of people sympa- thize, yet how many care enough to investigate facts, and then work to stop the...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Re Professor Scott's admirable letter in your issue of October 4th, much that appears under his name has been accomplished by the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I venture to join issue with the Editor of the Spectator ( n his ruling that William Smith, Esq., Junior, is correct. The title " Esq. "...

ORPHEUS IN THRACE. A GHOST Of memory's ghosts He comes again to willows, meads, To dusky waters, dusky reeds And painted lilies. Fancy's poor wailing fool, He mumbles still...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —A few days ago one of our typical Irish tramps went to the house of a friend of mine to beg. After his customary long and leisurely...

Professor Scott has not personally put his theories into practice upon one-third of an acre of ground (less building site). It would be an easy thing to do, and we should then...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his delightful article, Mr. Percy Ripley says that on one occasion he found a plant having white flowers with crimson veins. It is...

SIR,—In spite of the rather acid suggestion in a. letter from "An Anglo-Italian " of a lack of accuracy in English journals, Italian newspapers, as well as all those who are...

THE ART OF KINGSHIP. [COPYRIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE New York Times.] A King's Lesson in Statecraft. Louis XIV.: Letters to Hi3 - Heirs. Introduction and...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. WE are staggering under a vast load of critical books. Earlier in the month Mr. Gerald Gould published a volume on The English Novel of To-day (John Castle)...

Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W.C. 2. 6d. net.) " MANy have undertaken," Mr. E. Herbert Stone quotes from John Wood at the beginning of his book, "to...

What's Wrong with the Movies ? By Tamar Lane. (The Waverley Co.) What's Wrong with the Movies ? By Tamar Lane. (The Waverley Co.) Ma. TAMAR LANE writes at the top of his lungs...

WHEN it was possible to walk along a quay under the bowsprits of the clippers with the attractive names—they were all in a row—we never did it unless it had to be done. They...

A LITTLE WRONG AT - HEART. SOMEHOW Miss Stella Benson keeps her readers in a continual sight. To begin with, she will engage our sympathy for a character; she will show him....

THESE sketches of travel in Italy are slight as to matter but luxuriant in manner—literary meringues. Of the places visited little can be gleaned beyond Mr. Golding's breathless...

ENCOUNTERS AND DIVERSIONS. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 6s. net.) ENCOUNTERS AND DIVERSIONS. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 6s. net.) We look at Mr. Lucas's new book and see to our...

net.) A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS. By Houdini.' (Harpers. 12s. 6d. net.) "After twenty-five years of ardent research and endeavour," Houdini writes in his introduction, " I...

7s. 6d. net.) LONDON INNS AND TAVERNS. By Leopold Wagner. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.) There is almost too much information in Mr. Wagner's new book. He has been exploring...

net.) Mr. Compton Mackenzie is here very frivolous and worldly. He has collected a great number of nursery rhymes, and has fixed them, "in scramble-sort," into a long,...

Allan. 6s. net.) From the very title of Mr. Edwards' book we can see that it is, on the whole, a work of negative criticism. Nothing so transcendent as spirit or afflatus in...

During this week the Stock Exchange has been under the influence of the political uncertainties and the inci- dence of the settlement, but though business for "new time" has a...

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] THE NEXT BUDGET—INEED FOR ECONOMY. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Seeing that at the earliest the next Budget state- ment will not be delivered...