for Dominion wheat is a triumph for the Canadian Prime Minister. But the subject bristles with difficulties, and the prospect of a period of hard bargaining between this country...

M IE Government is meeting rather heavy weather over its British wheat quota scheme, and will have another set of difficulties to face when details of the Dominion quota scheme...

moment, not excluding the Parliament at Westminster or Congress at Washington, is called on to take decisions so momentous in their hearing on the immediate future of the world...

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Germany plunges into crisis. Of the decree issued on Tuesday by President Hindenburg on Dr. Bruning's insistence all that can be said is that nothing is left after this but the...

opened with a degree of preliminary agreement which by comparison with its larger and more famous predecessor may be regarded as almost startling. The memorial which U Ba Pe...

including buying British. The general aim of the Buy British campaign has' already been endorsed in these columns, but seine aspects of the Movement have been so far too little...

President of ti United States to a Congress Democratic by a narrow majority was important chiefly for its mention of a budget deficit this year of over 2,000,000,000 dollars. A...

measures it has unhappily been necessary to take in Bengal is the observation made by Lord Irwin in his maiden speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday, that mere repression,...

the absence of some eleventh-hour hitch, will by this time have ended this phase of its labours regarding Manchuria by adopting a resolution from which every word that might...

up a constitution for the Spanish Republic, ratified its work on Wednesday. The election of Sefior Alcala Zamora as the first President on Thursday was regarded as a certainty,...

the trade unions, the wages of dockers throughout the country are to be reduced by 10d. a day from the New Year. The minimum daily wage will then be 11s. 2d. in the larger ports...

being keenly contested. For the 76 scats in the House of Representatives, and nine of the 18 scats vacated in the Senate, no fewer than 229 candidates were nominated last week.-...

of man, the Federation of the world," where " the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe," seemed to be brought appreciably nearer last Saturday night, when the...

on September 21st, 1931. War Loan (.5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 93 ; on Wednesday week, 95 ; a year info. 10211. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 79/ ; on Wednesday...

on Monday was a tribute most justly due. As President of the Zionist Organization for fifteen years, Dr. Wcizmann has borne the burden of long and difficult negotiations with...

T HE new Parliament has ended its first spell of work, and no one is likely to hail the recess with so much relief as Ministers themselves. The Government was returned to power...

H AVE you ever been in a derelict town—a town where there is no hope, and in which two-thirds of the able-bodied inhabitants arc out of work, and where there are many who have...

By SIR ARTHUR SALTER Fr HE pound is, and must remain, the basis of the economic life of Great Britain. Its future should, I suggest, be, during the present period, a main...

T HE Indian debate ended in a bigger victory for the Government than was anticipated. Stripped of all adornments, the case for the Government was that we had pledged our word to...

policy, and what lost him his case was not so much what he said—indeed, most of what his amendment asked was covered by the statement of Government policy—as the way in which he...

unwise to fall into the error of other countries suffering from currency difficulties, namely, the attribution of every difficulty to foreign machinations. We have enough of our...

Runciman's speech on Friday, in which he bluntly threatened with a tariff war those countries who took discriminatory measures against British goods. The cause of offence was...

the Upper House, where is concentrated far more experi- ence than the Commons can show. Lord Lloyd whose love for India is a passion, urged steadier progress from below instead...

BY THE HEADMASTER OF STO NV T HE Public School question is the Boarding School question, for the Public Schools, though of course there are day boys at some of them, hold their...

the R.I.B.A: T HE removal of the depressing and degrading environment which slum conditions create for the lives of a large proportion of the people, has become one of the most...

notify the SPECTATOR OAT, BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to 'which' ilia paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted:'

[We publish to-day the tenth article of our series which we hope will throw some light on some of the most disputed questions of conduct. Miss Pitt is a joint M.P.H. and has...

as these to do with the subject of " Field Sports and Wild Life," and in particular, with our duty towards animals ? They have a great deal, insomuch as such scenes—which, by...

"Flat to Let": A Light Comedy by Arthur Macrae. At the Criterion Theatre. Fon myself, I confess, or indeed I imagine for the majority of the human race, the news that Aunt...

ITTLE . has been heard in this country of the find, 14 not long ago, of a cache of more than a thousand 4,000-year old manuscripts, in an excavation under a modern city in Asia...

Mr. Kelly's Anthology and the East London Group TUE " Anthology of English Painting," from 1900 to 1931, which is to be seen at the French Gallery, 158, New Bond Street is an...

TILE first London performance of Mr. Walton's Belsktc.:ar's Feast* was in every sense an event. The B.B.C. orchestra, the National Chorus and the soloist, Mr. Stuart Robertson,...

Some December Records Tut: recent reductions in the price of gramophone records will no doubt, recommend them to those searching for Christmas presents. They provide, moreover,...

THE " SPECTATOR," DECEMBER 10TH, 1831. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Parliament was opened on Tuesday, by the King in person. The following is a copy of the Speech addressed to the two...

MORE ALLOTMENTS. It is a common curiosity, if that is not a contradictory phrase, that the same subject is raised simultaneously from different directions, without any causal...

A happy feeder of hungry birds—and great numbers I% ill soon be in this class—asks me where she can purchase a bird-bath that is quite proof against cats. The best thing to...

And what is characteristic of the present date—of mid- December—in England ? Certainly, little that is, wintry. In all the diarists, new or old, not least in Gilbert White and...

has been produced as the special year book of the British Empire Naturalists' Association, or Bena as it is fondly called. The association was formed by Kay Robinson, the...

has never quite earned the reputation it deserved. Its contribution to the national food supply in the War was on a really astounding scale ; and it has given—and continues to...

Ruskin's Guild of St. George, which still flourishes. It has acquired and is prepared to accept as gifts in trust agricultural land a nd cottages for the use of the working...

A once rare or rather rare finch appears to be growing much more common, the large and splendid hawfinch. In one neighbour's garden a number are seen continuously ; and some...

A tour of the world has just been completed by Mr. Barbe- Baker, the founder of "The Men of the Trees." He may be called a traveller in trees though his samples consist in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your issue of December 5th there appears an erudite and recondite letter signed H. C. M. This gentleman does his unlevel best to...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

accuses me of making an astonishingly rude remark about Mr. Harold Nicolson's voice—I made no remark about it—I did not even call it a " deprecating drawl," but merely...

shows that our Lord appears to condone fighting in certain texts in the Bible. But it is a very different thing to fight small personal battles, than to allow oneself to be...

SHL—Along the lines suggested, under the above heading in your issue of December 5th, there seems to me little hope of advance towards world peace. Isaiah's vision, founded on...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Herbert Green's attitude on the question of Christianity and war contains such obvious fallacies that it is strange that it should...

may help us ; our 'Lord and His Mother (let us suppose) " went down from JeruSalem to jericho and fell among thieves." Would our Lord have stood quietly by, while they "...

you published last week on this subject criticize Mr: Green for - suggesting a parallel where none exists and the criticism is fair, but they do not notice the best part of his...

Woolley, V.C., and Clayton ignore the real issue, the actual personal authority of Christ to the individual believer. I personally cannot believe that He who went unresisting to...

Ines—if one may judge from the final paragraph of his letter in your issue of December 5th—does not appear to know his Bible as well as he should. The advice to the " soldiers...

SIR, —To the questions with which Mr. Yeats .Brown has so aptly illustrated the miseries and dangers of slum life, may I add another—How would you like to live in a basement...

you have good grounds for the statement which is given a very prominent place in your issue of December 5th : . " Encouraged by the increases in prices it has been possible to...

SIR,- -Among the mortality statistics of the leading nations the British are universally considered to be the most reliable. Drawing upon the British mortality statistics...

SPLYTA TOR.] SIR, —It is rather difficult to reply to Mr. Gardner's sym- pathetic letter about my Indian friend who was able through Raja Yoga to bring back his dead wife so...

" Canon Green's definition of gambling is distinctly helpful," as your correspondent in the Spectator of November 28th, writes, is no doubt correct, but when Canon Green...

the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Your editorial footnote to my letter, which you were good enough to publish in your issue of the 5th inst., was " Colonel Storr is against us : the Oxford...

SIR,—There is an obvious difference between the principle justifying moderate drinking and that on which your corres- pondents try to justify moderate gambling. In drinking you...

of The SOciety of Friends, Friends House, Eiiston Road, N.W. 1; - send tis a letter about their appeal for £30,000 to continue the work of - providing allotments for the...

The Star ONE silver star seen through a latticed pane Shines like - a jewel in the velvet sky— Its small magnificence divinely formed By God's great hand. One lovely star...

• Sin,—Mrs. Janet Trevelyan's appeal for the purchase of the Foundling Site may well lead us to recall -certain facts in the history of the institution which seem to be writ...

RULES AND CONDITIONS Entries must be typed or very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and...

Tim Editor of the Spectator offers a first prize of £io 109. and a second prize of is 5s. for a short story of not more than 1,500 words, written in English. Entries should be...

Original Engraving and Etching. By Herbert Furst. (Nelson. 42s.) The . Paradise of Tintoretto. By J. Howard Whitehouse. (Oxford University Press. 10s. 6d.) The Post...

from t ho text of L. F. Benedetto by Aldo Ricci. With an Intro- . duction and Index by Sir E. Denison Ross. The Broadway Travellers. (Routledge. 21s.) IVIIILST Dante wrote his...

GENERAL Goren's book covers the whole of his career in the Great War, fromhis command of the Third Cavalry Brigade in the retreat troth 'Min's to that of the Fifth Army in the...

VERSES of Keats have been likened to " sea-nymphs luxuri- ating in their own beauty." Mr. Carthill's prose abounds in deft innuendo and nice collocation, and wallows in its own...

Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Costume. By Mary G. Houston. (Black. 10s. 6d.) WE have here two books likely to be of particular interest to art students, theatrical...

make readable a short popular life of St. Augustine qnly one thing is needful—the writer must be an accom- plished quoter. Herr Lesaar has that qualification. The miraculous...

C. Fox Smith. (Methuen. 6s.) The Poetry of Neil Munro. Edited by John Buchan. (Black - woods. 5s.) Round the Camp Fire in East Africa. Sixth edition, with six new poems. By...

laxandi causa," would, no doubt, have also read fishing books just as we do, in season and especially out of season, for the same reason—if such things had existed. He might...

Two New Novelists IT is one of the pleasures of reviewing, which experience in no way diminishes, to come upon a first novel of real quality. There are two on the list to-day,...

6d.)—In spite of the startlingly black and white characters of hero and villain, and all the mis- understandings and agonizings, the first story in this volume is as readable...

STEP TO A DRUM. By Betty Inskip. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.)—Noel Carter was beautiful, and fascinated all who came . in contact with her, but always remained an inscrutable...

Greeks. By Rosalind Murray. The Life of Birds. By T. A. Coward. The Story of tivilization. By C. E. M. Joad. (How and Why Series.) (A. and C. Black. 2s. (id. each.) Foa a long...

Technical Books for Boys Boons of this type may be divided into two sub-species ; those which are really technical books written simply, and those which profess to explain the...

—Rosemary's passion was ballet dancing, but after she married and had a child she was told she must never dance again. Life became meaningless ; she hated her child, despised...

Our attention is first drawn to three large bound volumes which should keep the most avid schoolboy or girl reader happy from one year's end to the next. The 58rd volume of The...

IN this year's school books there are not quite so many replicas of the old-fashioned girl heroine who begins by being a hoyden and ends as the pride of the school. There is not...

grateful to the Studio for adding him to their list of Modern Masters of Etching " (Modern Masters of Etching, by W. Russell Flint, A.R.A. With an introduction by Malcolm C....

to the charming little pageant play. It is full of " overseas " enthusiasm, fun, singing, action and imperial sentiment. The "urchin adventure" " whispernspires and controls"...

NATIVITY plays so seldom contain verse having any relation to poetry that Miss Mary D. Stock's King Herod (Sidgwick and Jackson, 3s. 6d.) is particularly welcome. The three chi...

shrinking " market " for poetry, the London Mercury shines forth as a generous exception to the rule. From its files of the last twelve years The Mercury Book of Verse...

a memorable figure, though his murder must be remembered while Europe knows its history. Perhaps a mans doctor is not the best person to write his life, especially one who, like...

has written a book of a type which is very diffi- cult to do well, but very attractive when it is successful. It is a leisurely, scholarly book which is neither quite a...

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Before considering the position of our investments in countries further afield, it may be well to point out the importance of these holdings to our national balance of payments....

The European loans floated in Britain have been made chiefly to industrial countries, whose future is very in- timately bound up with that of Europe as a whole. Among the...

Oversea Investments ALTHOUGH this week's meetings of the Committees appointed to examine Germany's financial position are not dealing with direct debts to the investing public,...

SUGAR REFI N I NG PROFITS. AMONG the relatively few really satisfactory reports recently issued by industrial companies, that of Tate and Lyle stands out very prominently, the...

Although, at the moment, conditions in the " newer " countries of the world show little sign of improvement, their position should have been improved by the deprecia- tion of...

(Continued from page 832.) PRIMARY PRODUCERS. Consideration of the factors which have brought about this decline in our oversea income will at the same time reveal the...