T HE survey of the war situation given to the House of Commons by the Prime Minister on Tuesday left little room for criticism, addition or even interrogation, which was nd...

There is no avoiding the problem. The war has settled that. It has led to large-scale destruction of public buildings, houses and business premises in the hearts of great...

important subject within an hour or two one morning last week. One was by the Editor of the Nineteenth Century. "The whole nation," he wrote, "is becoming aware that a German...

By STRATEGICUS rII HE battle in Egypt has now left the field of tactics and become I a matter of exegesis, and even the Prime Minister has been accused of contributing to the...

generous declaration of "moral solidarity" which the Portuguese Government made immediately upon the entry of Brazil into the war may well suggest some consideration of the...

By W. J. TURNER DECENTLY, in these pages, Mr. Dyneley Hussey referred to ni two new works, by Alan Bush and Benjamin Britten respec- tively, as avowedly "political symphonies,"...

By D. W. BROGAN W HEN I first saw Washington in the golden days of Calvin Coolidge, the Plaza that stretches from the Union Station to the Capitol was encumbered with odd...

THE flower does not complain If it does not rain, But endures, endures. The scanty dews of dawn and night Suffice at need for its delight, As drouth inures. Let me live out...

By J. L. HODSON I N choosing men to be trained for officers in our army—at all events in this country—the task is made no easier by the fact that very few of them have...

By HAROLD NICOLSON O N Saturday last I was present at a demonstration organised by the Cornish-Breton Committee at Penzance. The French officers and sailors who came by train...

4 , Twelfth Night." At His Majesty's Theatre. THE International Ballet, which began its season at His Majesty's Theatre last week, has at its service some accomplished dancers,...

BE still, my Grief, and 0 my Grief, be stayed. You wanted Evening, Evening is near: The town is folded in an airy shade, Bringer of peace to mortals, and of fear ; Mortals, of...

ONE remembers with affection a film of 1938 called A Slight Case of Murder—a film which poked disrespectfully beneath the tough skin of all the gangster stories that had ever...

be allowed to produce the plays in which they have a leading part. There are exceptions to this rule as there are to everything. Otcasionally an actor of genius will have the...

your valued contributor "Janus" raises some questions regarding Mr. Harold Nicolson's remarks in the previous issue about the blockade. Will you allow me to explain very briefly...

Indian, states that Mr. Gandhi's leadership "is disowned by the 90 million depressed -and scheduled classes." A letter to The Times, however, concurrently and correctly pointed...

situation in your issue of August 28th with much surprise, for it indicates a failure to understand the position in India which it is difficult to comprehend. I do not propose,...

the present attitude of the British Government in India is that we want the con- viction of those who are at present defying it, rather than their coercion; and we do not...

would be good enough to state that the views set forth in my letter published in your correspond- ence on August 28th were my personal views and in no sense an official...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,-1%)..) discerning man would wish to find himself opposed to Dr. Edward Thompson in a discussion on India. , But I cannot find that Dr. Thompson in...

Sig,—I am asked by Mr. Maynard to state exactly what I desire to have altered. This information has already been given in my letter which appeared in your issue of August...

man, suggest a reply to the inquiry of the Rev. Bertram Maynard, as to a revision of the Creeds? When repeating the Apostles' Creed, I personally always make the following...

Sue,—In the latest of his delightful "Marginal Comments," Mr. Harold Nicolson, dealing w!th the way in which foreigners may approach efficiently the treasures of English...

SIR,—The comments of Mr. Shakespear Cooke are entirely misplaced. The youths he saw in uniform would be part-time members, as full- time members are called to H.M. Forces at...

Do we realise the populous state of our rivers? The other day on the Ouse (at a spot famous for battles by both Roman and Dane) a children's fishing competition was organised ;...

SIR,—Mr. Hughes, quoting my plea for the grant of ros. each for the third and fourth children only, rejoins that a parent of three children whose income reaches a ras. a week...

death should have been —so far as I have observed—quite overlooked is surprising. He still remains, as Housman always held, our foremost scholar. His work was germinative,...

Stn,—" Janus" says, quite rightly I believe, that men in the army are more concerned with the question of their employment after the war than with anything else. But I think...

Tins book is the first volume of a series which is designed to embrace the entire history of the Church, and, since it deals with the Church in the New Testament, it may be...

A Great Englishwoman Octavia Hill. By E. Moberly Bell. (Constable. iss.) IT is the aim of this book to trace in sufficient detail the life of a very potent woman of the...

HERE we have the mind of the author of Mein Kampf unfolded before us at intervals over a period of seventeen years through the medium of the spoken word. The speeches reveal...

Table for Two. By T. A. Layton. (Duckworth. los. 6d.) I ANTICIPATE great popularity for this pleasant little book: It con- tains interesting episodic descriptions of...

FROM Addison's knowing whimsies to the accomplished impudence of a Winchell, is a far cry—two centuries and a half of Grub Street. Yet the tortuous road of journalistic...

Out of This Furnace. By Thomas Bell. (Jarrolds. tos.6d.) The First American Gentleman. By Branch Cabell. (The Bodley Head. 78. 6d.) Women Will Be Doctors. By Hannah Lees....

As the Editor's preface points out, future generations will probably be exceedingly anxious to understand what kind of man Freud was, and his own deep reserve will have the...

By CUSTOS BUYERS are . in such superior strength that something approaching famine conditions are developing in some sections of the stock markets. It is still possible, of...

one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later...

The winner of Crossword No. 181 is Mark Bates, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., 0.B.E., 33, The Tything, Worcester.