O NE.definite decision appears to have come out of the conversations between Sir John Simon and Signor Mussolini, namely, that reform of the League of Nations (about which...

in Calcutta on Monday should not escape attention, for it put the three necessary aims of the Government in their right per- spective. The task of the Administration, said the...

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with its period of probation, is useless now as a basis for discussion, for Germany will have none of it, but it would be perfectly possible to go back to the earlier British...

the conflict in the Protestant Church in Germany is that while 6,000 pastors are in full revolt against the Reich Primate, and London newspapers are printing columns about their...

boldest venture yet, but no one will say a word against it. At last the President has given up the psychological method of raising the gold-price and fallen in with the policy...

political life is revealed by the use which has been made of the Affaire Stavisky to endeavour to discredit the Ministry. Serge Stavisky Was a successful swindler on the grand...

of comedy about the formation of the new Rumanian Cabinet, turning, as it did, on the offer of the Foreign Office to M. Titulescii, and M. Titulescu's refusal, acceptance,...

was imposed on foreign steel nearly two years ago, the excuse was that it pro- vided a temporary cover for the reorganization of the iron and steel industry. Since then the...

Kemal's Council of Ministers in Turkey has pressed forward with the creation of its Five Year Plan for Turkish industry without looking forward with any great complaisance to...

ground for the removal of tonsils. A most instructive verbatim report is given in the Post-graduate Medical Journal of a debate arranged by the Fellowship of Medicine on a...

created in some quarters, and referred to in last week's Spectator, regarding the connexion of the new official German News Service with the great news agencies in various other...

capable of becom- ing more intelligent, more tolerant, less bourgeois and better-looking, Sir Thomas Beecham sees no reason why they should not be capable of developing operatic...

Palace Sir Stafford Cripps' first thoughts were bad, and his second thoughts worse. A speaker who says that the Socialist Party may have to face opposition from Buckingham...

controversy in the Press about a scientific question they should not be surprised if the Press itself becomes heated about the practical application of that question to matters...

publication of a short series of articles under the general heading " Christianity and Conduct," taking the form of a consideration of how the Christian faith should express...

T HE demise of The Week-End Review, so far as publi- cation .as a separate organ is concerned, is at once a misfortune in itself and a reminder of the difficulties under which...

T HAT the National Government has no present intention of splitting into its component parts at the next General Election has been made perfectly clear by the programme of the...

vacant see will inevitably be filled by a Cambridge man, though not necessarily, and in this case not probably, by a Cambridge resident. Dr. Chase went to Ely from the...

they are often more reliable all the same than the assumptions of politicians as to what ordinary men and women in the country are thinking. On Thursday of last week Mr. Vernon...

T HE Cabinet Committee on Disarmament on Wed- nesday got nearer to definite conclusions, accord- ing to information which I believe to be accurate, than at most previous...

in this country to a rather striking disclosure made in last month's Harper's Magazine in America. According to Mr. Drew Pearson, the author of an article on the conversations...

is to be constituted a corporation sole, which might suggest vaguely a kind of piscatorial relationship to the Great Seal. Actually, of course, the condition is legal. A...

Was Who, a summary of the Who's Who biographies of persons who have died in recent years, I observe with interest that the telephone numbers of the deceased are still...

By LEWIS EINSTEIN (former American Minister to Czechoslovakia) THERE was a time during the War when a German 1 could travel by express from Lille to Riga, and journey without...

By ARTHUR L. MARTIN [In an article in last's week's " Spectator " by the same writer, himself a former legionary, the French Foreign Legion was discussed as model for a...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. T HE Dean of Liverpool recently invited a distinguished Unitarian Minister to preach in the Cathedral on an occasion which he regarded as " special "...

By R. C. K. ENSOR W HEN the history of European Socialism comes to be written, two, and only two, contributions of first-class importance to it will be recorded as having...

By ROSE MACAULAY IT occurs periodically that this great country of ours is rent from Land's End to John o' Groats by a fierce and bitter internecine warfare, and her...

By LEWIS SPENCE N E has always felt that the salient characteristic of the Scot is his attitude of mental and moral superiority. That this had its beginnings in a distant...

[D'UN CORRESPONDANT PARISIEN.] L ES ailes tricolores sont a l'ordre du jour. Non settlement une exposition particulierement reussie vient d'offrir au public parisien, dans les...

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12th tz Organ Recital from Downside Abbey: Dom Gregory ay .. . . • . • - • • • • 5.55 J.C. C Stobart Memorial Cot and Tablet unveiled in Charing Cross...

" Thunder Over Mexico." At the Marble Arch Pavilion. Tim approach of Thunder Over Mexico from across the Atlantic has been heralded by rumblings of controversy and flashes of...

Congreve had been a contemporary of Anthony Hope, and had collaborated with him in a study of banished Viennese aristocracy, returning from suburban villas of exile to celebrate...

"The Tempest." By William Shakespeare. Sadler's Wells. AFTER a vigorous and exciting shipwreck, the curtain rises on a scene which we conclude, on internal evidence, to have...

By ANTHONY BLUNT " AWAY with false modesty " is one of the battle cries of the exhibition of British Art which has just opened at Bur- lington House. At last, it is said, after...

that a good many of the chemicals that are useful as disease-killers and weed- killers and even as fertilizers are poisonous ; and I fear that poisoning from such causes is...

the excellent pamphlets issued in Norfolk by the County Horticulturists on this and other subjects (from the Cornhall, King's Lynn). One of the experiments is curious and has...

The ardent archaeologists who have been digging into the Roman town of Verulamium have made a discovery of wide and general interest at the edge of a village some four miles...

been full of curiosities, has been observed at several places on the West Coast, especially near Prestatyn, and a good deal of curiosity has been aroused. The shore has been...

The growth of the cult of the garden, apparent in every town, suburb or village in the country, has at last produced a Gardening Monthly Magazine of real quality ; and its first...

Healthy Trees Particular dates matter much more in rural than in urban life. The close season for partridges and pheasants which begins on February 2nd—not as was intended on...

starling roosts organized two years ago ? A good many observers have taken very great pains to collect facts and a great mass of it is in existence, but remains unpublished. The...

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

Sin,—Mr. Heath, as a pacifist, prefers to seek peace by the " steady education of mankind and the spread of the peaceable spirit " rather than attempt to organize a world...

the canning industry is rather unfortunate because, according to the chairman of an important company, the production of canned goods in Great Britain is already in excess of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Dr. Bowie's article on this subject will provoke a considerable amount of discussion, and thereby do a great service both to Scotland and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SnL—Mr. Carl Heath, in your issue of December 5th, criticizes with some scorn my suggestion for the creation of a " World Constabulary." He...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your article deals usefully with vocational training, i.e., after 15. But as to general education we are in chaos. For some hundreds of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. Bakhurst, who criticizes your editorial comment and questions the wisdom of the Government's conditional...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In The Spectator of January 5th, I read under the heading Obstacles in the Air," " If we would make air travel as safe as on the ground...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIII,—It must be a quite unaccustomed pleasure for you to observe an author agreeing with a critic who has reviewed a book of his in your...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Sir E. Grigg and Viscount Cecil have made it clear that little progress, either towards disarmament or towards durable peace,' is possible...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sin,—After reading the letter of your correspondent, Sir Claud Russell, I am forced to the conclusion that, however excellent his pronunciation...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I protest against the statements in reference to Sir John Simon made in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of the 5th instant. Even...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Perhaps you have had enough letters on the subject of Judges' Salaries, but may I just say in reply to your corre- spondent who sits at...

f To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your last issue there appears an advertisement, en- titled Ballyhoo, which indulges in some rather trite generaliza- tions at the...

The published accounts of the Revenue to the 5th January, exhibit a decrease on the year as compared with 1832, amounting to 442,4941; on the quarter, of 91,5471. The...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • Sin,—Let me assure Sir Karl Knudsen that my letter was not written in any spirit of prejudice and to suggest to him that the legend is of his...

IT is not what they acted, Nor their scenes so often said, Nor what our sensible eye repeats, Performing on its mental screen. Such photographs we forget : Significance eludes...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My long-held conviction that malnutrition and mental illness are correlated—that is, that malnutrition itself is a direct cause of...

[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am writing a book on the subject of Children and Literature, and I should be most grateful if you would permit me the use of your...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. J. A. Spender, in The Spectator of December 1st, in his review of Lord Oxford's Letters to a Friend, refers to a copy of Macaulay's...

By H. W. NEVINSON CECIL SHARP was a very remarkable man, and the results of his life have been even more remarkable than himself. If of anyone, it can be said of him that his...

IT is difficult for the reviewer, who is himself unemployed and knows all that unemployment means in a distressed area, dispassionately and neutrally to review this timely and...

Education for Industry and Commerce in England. By A. Abbott, C.B.E. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) This e x cellent little book is misnamed. Its subject is what everyone...

Tim publishers claim that this is the first book in English which examines in detail the economic aspects of National Socialism. It may be the first book on the economic...

them putrefy in Cranbourne Alley."—" If a man does not vote for the Bill [the 11(...Orm Bill, he is unclean—the plague spot is upon him—push him into the lazaretto of the last...

An Outline of English Painting. By R. H. Wilenski. (Faber. 2s.) A Short Account of British Painting. By Charles Johnson. (Bell. 3s. 6d.) British Painting. By C. H. Collins...

MA. POUND'S anthology is aptly named. In the compiler's Preface alone are enough active likes and dislikes 7 —chicfly dislikes—to justify the title fifty times over. Dislikes of...

reader at least can never take to her kindly—she is too foreign to his whole intellectual atmosphere for that—but that she has her students is testified by the very _project of...

William Garnett. By Bernard M. Allen. (Hefter. 3s. 6d.) Tins is an all too brief account of a man whose life of eighty years was full of work the effect of which is likely to be...

THE first principle of Grey's foreign policy was the maintenance of friendship and confidence between England and France. From this there grew up his second principle, the...

BY BONAMY DOBRiM • Men Against the Sea. By Charles isTordhoff and James Norman Hall: (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) . Miss JARRETT has nearly succeeded in a very difficult task....

by the Post Office London Directory (Kelly's Directories, 70s. and 55s.). For the first time the County of London is presented as a single area, instead of being divided into...

Reference Books For 1934 Whitaker's Almanack (6s. and 3s.) is at once the most compact and the most comprehensive of reference books, and the .present volume, the 66th annual...

The Railway Outlook IN about a month's time long-suffering stockholders in English railways will know how far the recent recovery in gross receipts, as shown . in the weekly...

WILL BE READY ON JANUARY 19TH. One Shilling (or 25 cents) for each copy should be enclosed with instructions, and addressed to :- INDEX DEPT., " THE SPECTATOR," LTD., 99 COWER...

BANKING DIVIDENDS. The Banking results for the past year are proving not only equal to but slightly in excess of market expectations. With the exception of Lloyds and the...

If the results announced by the joint stock banks may be regarded as entirely satisfactory I think that the managers of the leading Discount Houses must be congratulated still...

there is a tendency at the moment amongst investors to enquire for industrial shares as a kind of hedge against the possibility of a revival in trade with its possible effect in...

(Continued from page 64.) WOOLWORTH PROFITS. During the past week a feature has been the announce- ment by F. W. Woolworth and Co. of profits of an almost sensational...

On one or two occasions I have referred in these columns to the creation of what are known as Fixed Trusts, and among the latest of these is one described as the Third British....

BY XANTIIIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword pu=le to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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