A T the British Commonwealth meeting last week General Smuts said that the Dumbarton Oaks plan giving a special position to the Great Powers corresponded with the realities of...

Japan has come into the forefront of the news during the last week with a series of disasters in the military sphere and an ominous 'yarning in the diplomatic. Her awareness of...

The remarkable statement issued by the Polish Government in London last week that fifteen Polish Resistance leaders were " missing " created a mystery which has not been...

It is hard to believe that the proposals of the Sapru Conciliation Committee, which have been published this week, will carry the Indian problem far towards solution. The...

The House of Commons was justified in devoting some time last Tuesday to the consideration of steps to ensure the safety of passen- gers carried by Transport Command of the...

It has long been realised that one of the most serious problems after victory would be the re-settlement of the displaced workers— some ten millions or more of them—whom the...

To be the head of a Greek Government in this period of transi- tion is a thankless task, and General Plastiras, having been the object of persistent attacks, more especially...

No Englishman probably had done more in the last half-century for the constructive development of the British Empire than Lord Lugard, who died on Wednesday after a short...

S O Mr. Bevin has answered Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Bracken has answered Mr. Bevin, and Mr. Greenwood has forged some rounded and minatory phrases on the best but-by-jingo-if-...

T HERE is talk, I see, of the selection of candidates for the universi- ties at the coming general election. This is a more important question than it seems, for if mistakes are...

By STRATEGICUS G ENERAL EISENHOWER'S letter to President Roosevelt gives the first authoritative forecast of the manner in which the war will end. Speculation as to when "...

By THE EARL OF PERTH* N the last days of July, 1914, the thoughts and endeavours of Sir I Edward Grey were mainly concentrated on an effort to bring the great Powers chiefly...

By THE RT. REV. BISHOP HEASLETT T O cover the main aspects of the Japanese mind would demand detailed studies by many well-read and experienced groups, each of which would...

By H. D. WALSTON A GRICULTURAL workers have recently been awarded a 5s. a week increase, bringing the minimum wage to 7os. a week. This, however, does not satisfy the claim of...

By H. G. RAWLINSON 1 NDIAN history, The Times declared over half a' century ago, has never been made interesting to English readers except by rhetoric. The remark,...

NICOLSON By HAROLD It is even more difficult to decide upon the comparative effective- ness of activity or inertia when examining the evidence already accumulated around some...

THERE is not much left to be said about either Mathew Smith or Henry Moore, both of whom are substantially represented at the Berkeley Galleries and also contribute two of the...

IN Noel Coward's screen version of Blithe Spirit Kay Hammond, as the wife returned from the grave carrying an aura of past cocktail- parties, and Margaret Rutherford as Madam...

Easter." At the Gateway, Chepstow Villas, .South Kensington.— " Appointment With Death . " At the Piccadilly. " The 'Gaieties." At the Winter Garden. ANOTHER active Little...

Stu,—The President of the National Association of Schoolmasters recently pleaded that boys (presumably all those above the "infant " stage) should be taught by men. This has...

StR,—The Spectator numbers very many readers among the medical profession and most of us are surprised, one may say bewildered, at the attitude you have taken towards the...

Siu,—I notice that Mr. Frank Walters in your last issue desires more information regarding the right of veto proposed for the Great Powers at the Council of the World Security...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Sir Francis Wylie has done well to refute the fable that Rhodes was an ignoramus about important facts, especially of geography. He was, like all...

2. Mr. and Mrs. Kipling resided for about four years (1892-96) America, in the State of Vermont. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Kipling were on terms of dose friendship with Rhodes who, from...

SIR, —I notice in your issue of April 6th that " Janus " reproves the Daily Telegraph for the flippant tone of its leader on the appointment of Miss Sybil Campbell as the...

SIR,—F. A. Hayek asks in his article about the "Future of Austria " whether Austria deserves so much consideration as his reflections sug- gest. If Austria really is the...

SIR,—In Sir Richard Livingstone's admirable article in your issue of March 30th, on the new Education Act, there are two points I should like to make. (a) " An education which...

I am a fully qualified welfare officer of fairly wide experience. In 1940 I read of Mr. Bevin's desire for good personnel management in industry and the necessity, in view of...

SIR,—II has been stated once again that, in 1917, the late Lord Lloyd George enforced the Convoy System upon the Admiralty. This is only half the truth, and—as the widow of...

SIR,—I should like to add a note to Mr. D. B. Marshall's recent comment on the Dutch State Coal Mines. Many of us in the B.L.A. have, through force of circumstances, been...

SIR,—A Society in the sixtieth year of its existence, founded by a circle of friends (men and women) for practice in writing and criticism, has four vacancies. Papers are...

EVERY one knows that the fruit crop—with apples as a partial exception— depends chiefly, not on the number of blossoms, or even bees, but on the degree of frost experienced...

SIR,—Your reviewer of my book, Service Pay, said that my historical introduction will be found of " little value to the general reader ; no one can hope to treat the complex...

SIR,—In addition to the arguments on merits adduced by the Rev J. H. Shackleton Bayley against the draft Regulation 23, it raises a constitutional issue of some importance....

Sta,—In your issue of March 23rd contributor Nicolson under " Marginal Comment " appears vexed and confused about General Eisenhower's dictum of " Unconditional Surrender "...

Right Hand, Left Hand. By Sir Osbert Sitwell. (Macmillan. 15s.) - IN embarking upon an autobiography a longue haleine, of which this volume is, so to speak, only a preliminary...

The German Problem Bones of Contention. By Lord Vansittart. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) I ONCE heard M. Georges Bidault, now Foreign Minister of France, and then a professeur de...

The Queen Thanks Sir Howard. By Mary Howard McClintock. (John Murray. 18s.) IT has often been observed that no biography is wholly dull. Yet it must be admitted that some lives...

A Soldier Looks Ahead. By Captain "X." (Routledge. 6s.) Ir is good to see an interest being taken outside professional circles in the future of the army. The author of this book...

The Future of Indian States. By V. B. Kulkarni. (Thacker & Co., Bombay. Four rupees, twelve annas ) Tint Oxford University Press has laid the public under a heavy debt of...

Odd Man Out. By F. L. Green. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) Descent from Nowhere. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d.) The Steep Ascent. By Anne Morrow Lindbergh. (Chatto...

The winner of Crossword Puzzle No. 316 is L. ADAMSON, Esq., Redinays, Bovey Tracey, S. Devon.

ACROSS a. Evidently Raleigh was determined that Queen Elizabeth should not. (5, 2, 3, 3.) to. "He takes this window for the East And to - your light he sings." - (Davenant.)...

By CUSTOS GONE are the days when home railway stockholders drew fresh encouragement from figures showing that the Treasury was reaping a handsome profit out of its war-time...

Pacifism and Conscientious Objection. By G. C Field. (Cambridge University Press 3s. 6d.) THIS latest addition to Sir Ernest Barker's " Current Problem " series is in every way...

Unwin. 6s.) IT is impossible to read this book without recalling C. S. Forester's The Ship. Lieutenant-Commander Taylor describes the passage of a convoy to Murmansk by the same...