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OURSELVES AND RUSSIA
The SpectatorEVASTOPOL, it is clear, is the prime objective of this phase of the German offensive in the East, and the Russians are efending the port against an almost irresistible mass of...
Felp for China
The SpectatorIt is good news that British and American air force units have rived in China, and will presumably soon participate in the heavy tilting that is developing in the Chekiang and...
A Minister for West Africa The appointment of Lord Swinton
The Spectatorto be Minister Resident of Cabinet rank in West Africa is modelled on the appointment, first of Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, and later of Mr. R. G. Casey, as Minister of State in the...
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Control of Rebuilding
The SpectatorFor the architect and the town-planner there is no more fascinatin task than the reconstruction of a city which has suffered enem damage. Here is a case where, as from the Fire...
Anglo-American Collaboration
The SpectatorThe rapidity with which representatives of this country and the United States are reaching decisions for welding the war efforts into a single whole is one of the outstanding...
Empire Federation ?
The SpectatorIt was well that Lord Selborne, replying for the Government in the debate in the House of Lords last week on post-war conditions, made it clear that in talking of " one Imperial...
The Fuel Debate
The SpectatorThe agitation on the fuel question in the House of Commo over the fuel problem has calmed down wonderfully, and thoug the division on the new Bill has not taken place as these...
" Depression Democracy "
The SpectatorIt is a proof that friendship between Britain and America has become a real thing that we should dare to take an American Ambassador to examine not our biggest successes but our...
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POST-WAR GERMANY
The SpectatorG ERMANY has not yet been defeated, but every criterion applicable makes it clear already that Germany cannot win. k is therefore only a matter of time before the question of...
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Arnold of Rugby has come to be rather a legendary
The Spectatorfigure, where he is remembered, in this the centenary of his death, it generally as a schoolmaster and not as a historian, but his Hist of Rome was important, and he was Regius...
⢠* * * There are some things in this
The Spectatorwar which, I think it may be claimed, redound to the credit of journalists. A few hours after these words appearâjust too late for any specific reference or comment in this...
Viscount Swinton's appointment to West Africa as Minister of State
The Spectatoris unexpected, but I shall be surprised if it does not turn out well. Lord Swinton (who began life under the name of Lloyd- Graeme and subsequently became Cunliffe-Lister) has...
The Brains Trust, I believe, is about to take a
The Spectatorholiday. A proper step, for the faculties of some of the members certainly n refreshing. To hear every member on Tuesday declaring -him incapable of telling a colonelâthe...
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The SpectatorI am tempted to write " What ' Janus' says today . . .", for I did in fact say months ago that Mr. Bruce should be put into the War Cabinet. Now he is there, and the Cabinet...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK I N all the controversy about this country's
The Spectatorlack of dive-bombers one rather salient name seems, whether by accident or design, to have escaped all mention. On Wednesday Sir Archibald Sinclair said in Parliament, as he had...
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The SpectatorWe are familiar enough with wage-anomalies in this war, b mainly the comparison is between miners and munition-worke or munition-workers and soldiers. What is far too rarely...
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THE ENEMY'S STRATEGY
The SpectatorBy STRATEG ICUS I N the west and in the east there are now signs of a strategy which is logical and consistent, though not yet coherent. The attack in Libya no longer stands...
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OFFICERS AND MEN
The SpectatorBy J. L. HODSON O NE of the early incidents of this war that remains in my memory of seeing a colonel in Arras tapping a private under his command on the chest and addressing...
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APPRECIATING AMERICA
The SpectatorBy WILLIAM PATON N that tremendous period at the beginning of last December, when the Russians turned the tide of Nazi advance and Japan c ked in the Pacific, the public mind...
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ARNOLD OF RUGBY
The SpectatorBy THE HEAD OF THE SCHOOL A S the centenary of Dr. Arnold's death falls this week, it seems i seasonable, and it may be profitable, to inquire into the results of his reforms...
ARNOLD AND 1942
The SpectatorBy ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE VIth O N the subject of the public schools, their past, present an future, voices have often been raised, usually in anger, an much ink has been...
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A DIALOGUE IN HADES
The Spectator" MARQUIS DE SADE? Pray pardon my intrusion Among the Shades. I seek an interview To dissipate the prevalent confusion Between the Third Reich autocrats and you." " I thank...
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It is all very well to say that such opinions
The Spectatorare based upon no reasonable foundation and that they can therefore be dismissed transitory. I admit that the tides of American opinion ebb an flow according to no...
It is from him that this morning I received a
The Spectatordisturbing lette He makes it clear that " the average American mind " foresees th mass-production will outstrip America's vast home market and tha she will be forced to "...
To their anger at becoming involved in the war must
The Spectatorbe added their frustration at having suffered some initial defeats. American self-confidence has had a severe shaking, and it is but human for them to attribute some of the...
The nature of anti-British feeling in America today is not
The Spectatoreasy to define, since it arises from a multiplicity of prejudices and emotions. There is, of course, the hard core of professional anglophobesâthe Irish, the German and the...
I have already mentioned some of the causes which have
The Spectatorled t a wave of anti-British sentiment in the United States. I receive ' today a letter written by a typical American which has no diminished my apprehension. Some years ago I...
MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE never understood ⢠why the Americans (who as indi- viduals are more sensitive to criticism than most people) should allow their film industry to...
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THE SIGNPOST
The SpectatorMOST Englishmen are doing today their particular duty, and he, impassively erect on a bank at the cross-roads, as stolidly English as English oak can make him, has his no less...
THE THEATRE
The Spectator' , sky High." At the Phoenix Theatre. THE stage is bigger, the settings more elaborate, the costumes more kaleidoscopic than in those far-off days when the two Hermiones...
ME CINEMA
The Spectator"The Newsreels."â" Unpublished Story." At the Regal. " Joan of Paris." At the Odeon. " The Fleet's In." At the Plaza.â" Jungle Book." At the Gaumont. WHAT is it that one...
MUSIC Shostakovitch's Music WE were deprived of what promised to
The Spectatorbe the most interesting novelty in the programmes of the London Summer Concerts by difficulties of transport which prevented the arrival of the orchestral parts of...
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SIR,âMay I ask your correspOndent, Mr. P. A. Shaw, how
The Spectatorhe wool' describe the following? " The broadcasts are proved valuable helps t the tollowers of the Fascist faith, which is based not only on the historic fact but on the...
THE GOVERNMENT AND FUEL
The SpectatorSta,âIt is rarely that I disagree with the views expressed in your editorials, but I cannot agree that the Government should have stuck to its guns on the 'Beveridge scheme....
was amazed to learn that such intolerance and dogmatism expressed
The Spectatorby your two corespondents, Herbert Malone and P. A. Sha could still exist and find expression. Upon reading their letter promptly sent the Rationalist Press Association a...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorPARTY POLITICS Sut,âThere is, perhaps, no field in which the changes necessitated by modern conditions are more apt to be disregarded than the field of party politics. This...
INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION
The SpectatorSIR, âThe article by Dr. Dunsheath on " Industry and Education " your issue of June sth deals wisely with a problem of increasing 3 r. portance. Perhaps I may be allowed to...
RELIGION AND THE B.B.C.
The SpectatorSta,âOne wonders what ideas the writers of two letters in The Spectra° of June 5th have as to the religious and intellectual world in which w- live. One would think it was...
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52,âTo anyone at all concerned at the results of education
The Spectatorin this country, the article by Dr. Percy Dunsheath will come as an encourage- ment. Going about as I do in connexion with the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, I am appalled at...
SAVAGE LANDOR
The Spectator,âA reviewer may be as ungenerous in his judgements as he pleases ; may be derisively insulting, as Wilson was to Hazlitt, personally ,drnIous, as Lockhart to Leigh Humâhe...
BRITISH RESTAURANTS AND FEES
The SpectatorSIR,--1 have recently learnt that the Performing Rights Society proposes, with the approval of the Ministry of Food, to demand fees from Local Authorities who have installed and...
THE WAGE-EARNER'S TEETH
The SpectatorâI have read with interest the recent correspondence appearing in Spectator on the above subject, and as your correspondent, J. L. ler, rightly refers to the lack of provision...
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A MISPRINT
The SpectatorSIR, âA regrettable misprint occurs in my notice of Mr. E. M. Forster's pamphlet Virginia Woolf. In a quoted passage: " She triumphed over what are ' primly' called...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorAMONG the delights of a garden are enacted from time to time little tragedies that affect us more than the victims. This was one. Two jays had taken up their abode in the...
THE SMALL TRADER
The SpectatorSnt,âIt is impossible in the space of a short letter to set forth exhaus- tively the case for the small firm in trade, but it would be a pity to miss an opportunity of...
The Hay Harvest The hay harvest has begun. Apart from
The Spectatorthe use of silos, which se t one sort of hay-making in action a month ago, the cutting of all grass is recommended before it is ripe. The younger the grasses, the fuller of...
In the Garden On one country farm radish seed is
The Spectatornow being sown along with parsnip, for the reason that while the main crop germinates very slowly the radish is almost as quick as cress. Consequently the rows become apparent...
THE INDIAN ISSUE SIR, âI have read Professor Eric A. Walker's
The Spectatorcomment on my letter on the above subject published in your issue of May 22nd, and lest there might be other Englishmen who share the same view may I draw his attention to the...
Wasted Wood The prospect of fuel rationing, though it will
The Spectatorhardly affect the very poor has turned the attention of villagers to wood. It is generally saidâ and I think with truthâthat the timber lying on the ground, or so old as to...
Rival Cuckoos In the same garden a cuckoo was born
The Spectatorin a blackbird's nest. The choice of such a foster parent is rare, but by no means unknown. Here, as always, the parent birds evinced no distress whatever when their own young...
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorRussia Revealed Mission to Moscow. (Light on the Critical Years, 1937-9). By Joseph E. Davies. (Gollancz. 15s.) MR. Lrrvarov, in an extensive estimate of this book, which the...
Conquistador
The SpectatorHernan Cortes. By Salvador de Madariaga. (Hodder and Stoughton THE fame of a great historic figure in the popular mind may be determined by the most irrelevant and unexpected...
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The Home Front
The SpectatorEnglish Social !Services. By Sir George Newman. (Collins. 4s. 6a, IN 1891 the State expended only some £20 million on its publi social services. Today it spends over £500...
Fishing for Commerce and Sport
The SpectatorA Little Fishing Book. By Lord Harmsworth. (Frederick Muller. 5 DR. RUSSELL, Director of Fishing Investigations at the Ministry Agriculture and Fisheries, has brought into one...
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Whole-Hearted and Half-Hearted
The SpectatorThe Public Schools and the Future. By Donald Hughes. (Cambridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) APART from technical treatises written for the teaching profession, there are two...
The New Turkey .
The SpectatorTurkey. By Barbara Ward. (Oxford University Press. 2S. 6d.) MISS BARBARA WARD has written a good book on Turkey. It lively in style, timely in appearance, and commendably short...
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Fiction
The SpectatorHOLIDAY fictionâand where are the holidays? The deck eh and the espadrilles lie forgotten in dark cupboards, but those ni goodhumoured, family novels which used to go into the...
The fact that goods made of raw materials in short
The Spectatorsupply min:. to war conditions are advertised in this journal should not be tak , "' as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.
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" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 170
The SpectatorIA B wk Token for one :wawa wall be awarded to the sonde. cf the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 168
The SpectatorSOLUTION ON JUNE 26th z The winner of Crossword No. 168 is Mr. F. ugh, Carleton, Pontefract, Yorks. SWEETING, East
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Shorter Notices
The SpectatorF S P. An N.C.O.'s description of his and others' first six months of war. By Sgt. A. Gwynne-Browne. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) Asian to state a defect characteristic of young...
FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS WITHOUT developing into a general scramble, the inquiry for shares with recovery prospects is steadily broadening. It now extends beyond the West End stores, London...
MR. STRONG'S book is to be highly recommended, for it
The Spectatorfills a distinct need. Up to now the only short history of the United States that it has been possible to offer to a general reader has been the Cecil Chesterton-Brogan History...
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NPANY mt.ETING
The SpectatorDUNLOP RUBBER INCREASED TURNOVER HE forty-third ordinary general meeting of Dunlop Ruboer Company, Mined, was held on June loth at the Piccadilly Hotel, London W., Sir George...
COMPANY MEETIN
The SpectatorMARKS AND SPENCER, LIMITED MR. SIMON MARKS'S STATEMENT THE sixteenth ordinary general meeting of Marks and Spencer, Limited, was held on June 9th, at the registered o ffi ce...