forces on the South Yangtze have suffered an overwhelming defeat at Teian, losing 20,000 men, have not yet been confirmed ; but the Japanese themselves have withdrawn their...

of the peace which other countries enjoy. The areas occupied by Ger- many now exceed those demanded at Godesberg ; and purely Czech districts have had to be handed over owing to...

their heads ; and the grant of autonomy, first to Slovakia, and later to Ruthenia has proved an obstacle to Hungary's desires for the cession of Ruthenia. Equally, and...

by now there has been a complete breakdown of authority throughout the country, except at points directly controlled by the military. Largely owing to a serious lack of...

a little light on the profound mystery which surrounds the progress of this country's air defences. It must be confessed that, though the information he gave was welcome, it...

Lord Winterton has probably recognised by this time that his allegation, in a public speech at Shoreham on Monday, that in the weeks preceding the Munich meeting " Russia only...

Queen hope to visit Canada next year is extremely welcome. There was never a time when it was more desirable to emphasise and intensify the unity, spiritual as well as material,...

British Ambassador in Rome, and Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, are reported to have progressed so far that a settle- ment of the Spanish question may be expected by...

this week, culminating in an attack on the Archbishop's Palace, throw the religious conflict in the new Reich into the sharpest relief, especially because Cardinal Innitzer, at...

large towns a fortnight ago will have done some good if it brings home to everyone the pitiful inadequacy of A.R.P. in this country. All who have studied the various reports...

of National Service in the last War) in Thursday's Times contains a suggestive outline for mobilising the country's resources, human and material, without resort, at present at...

to realise that indiscipline and unchecked exploitation are two of its greatest dangers it is deplorable to be faced with such examples of the latter as are provided by the...

labour disputes has long agitated industrial opinion in this country, where the right to strike in the last resort is still looked on as one of the essential liberties of the...

improved air defence, the National Farmers' Union, representing 120,000 farmers, has now added the demand for increased assistance to the agricultural industry, " the fourth...

T HE first and most imperative task before the British Government, and equally the British people, is ;.o adjust national policy to the fundamentally changed situation that was...

I AM now in a position," said Mr. Hore-Belisha at 1 a dinner at the Mansion House on Monday, " to announce the complete reorganisation of the Territorial Field Army." It was an...

A NOTE on certain aspects of the situation reaches me from a German source in which I place reliance ; it may be summarised broadly as follows : The German people —as opposed to...

By J. L. HAMMOND [This is the first of a series of articles by writers of varying outlook discussing what British foreign policy should and should not be in the changed...

By H. G. WOOD Whatever may be the ultimate fate of his policy in Europe, Mr. Chamberlain at the moment enjoys an immensely enhanced prestige in the Near East. His dramatic...

By PRESBYTER IGNOTUS [This is the first of a series of three articles on the Episcopal Bench by a well-qualified observer. Next week's article deals, among others, with the...

BY A CORRESPONDENT LATELY IN CHINA During the past few weeks the Japanese effectives have been appreciably increased, and strenuous efforts are being made to break through to...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A DVERTISEMENTS are the antennae by which the patent-medicine industry feels its way. The advertiser, to vary the metaphor, holds out a stick to see...

By CANON F. R. BARRY I F the Prime Minister had not gone to Munich, we should now be engaged in the war to start the next war. The immediate cause of every war in history is...

I T has been said many times already, and it will be said again, that one of the most remarkable features of the recent crisis was the demonstration it afforded of a universal...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Since my article appeared in your columns last week explaining how I predicted the German war-challenge, a great many people have asked me...

.[" THE SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 13TH, 1838] At a little[Darty in Liverpool, of which the Home Secretary [Lord John Russell] was the " lion," there were no professional reporters ;...

" Pygmalion." At the Leicester Square " The Lady Van- ishes." At the Empire Boris these films are a welcome reminder that we have in this country both the talent and the...

THE THEATRE This brilliant play was first produced in Moscow in 1926. It had an instant success, but was taken off by the censor after a run of several months. I don't imagine...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] Aur seinen drei Deutschlancifliigen hat Neville Chamberlain drei Landschafcen kennen gelernt, die voneinander ganzlich verschieden sind,...

" Faust " at Covent Garden GOUNOD'S Faust has not been given at Covent Garden for many years, not, I think, since the famous performance at which Mr. Goossens shared with M....

Our Second Spring Storm and rain have not arrested the strange outbreak of spring-like phenomena. There is still apple-blossom. In one garden three young holly trees—two male...

Stit,—To me, as to very many other Englishmen, the judgement of America upon the policies of this country is a matter of great interest, not to say concern. I should like...

who spent in Berlin the week immediately preceding the crisis to express his profound distress at the tone, atmosphere and implications of your last week's issue ? Careful...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must...

R. S. Cruickshank, who condemns Mr. Baldwin " for the lamentably weak condition of Great Britain," forgotten that he, like the rest of us, was for 17 years working for...

afford a good cross-section of informed public opinion. Your last issue contained thirteen letters on the Munich agreement, twelve adverse and one favourable. However, the...

SIR,—On his return from putting irresistible pressure upon the Czechoslovak Government to accept the Munich agree- ment, Mr. Chamberlain explained to an uneasy House of Commons...

to point what seems to me the essential moral of the crucial events through which we have just passed ? Hitherto pacifists have been dismissed by practical politicians as...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I was much moved by Mr. Hobhouse's article in The Spectator of September 23rd and I wrote a letter to express my gratitude, but thinking...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—May I give you the experiences of my parish in the late crisis, which call for a much better plan from the autocrats at the Home Office in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—In view of the pressing need for accelerating our defensive and protective measures in this country, included in which is the most...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—The probably inevitable and imminent result of the Munich Conference being the rolling up—or tearing up—of the entire map of...

close student of The Spectator for the last half-century express my admiration for the sane and balanced line which you have taken all through the recent crisis ? In the last...

express my very deep sense of the excellence of the last number of The Spectator. I do not remember any issue of any weekly so filled with brilliant and most helpful articles...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Having taken The Spectator for many years I am extremely sorry to find it is now so completely changed in its views—being now far too much...

and read The Spectator for many years, but after your issue of September 24th I hope never to do so again. Anything more unfair, more mean or more completely narrow-minded and...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By E. M. GULL' A BOOK with so general and colourless a title requires prompt characterisation if it is to be read by those for whom it is , primarily...

The Air Defence of Britain. By Air-Commodore L. E. 0. Charlton, G. T. Garratt and Lt.-Com. R. Fletcher, M.P. (Penguin special. 6d.) THE emotional stress through which we passed...

The English Revolution, 1688-9. By G. M. Trevelyan, O.M. (Thornton Butterworth. 5s.) FRoM the moment of its completion the revolution of 1688 poised into legend. It was the...

Britain in Recovery. Prepared by a Research Committee of the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association. (Pitman. 15s.) Tins, the companion volume to...

Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, 1814. Edited by Jean Hanoteau. Translated by George Libaire. (Cassell. zis.) THERE is -a hiatus in the published memoirs of...

Himalayan Village. By Geoffrey Gorer. (Michael Joseph. 25 IF a writer can be a scientist and still retain the faculties of perception and expression proper to the artist, his...

John Gay : His Place in the Eighteenth Century. By Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. (Collins. i8s.) " PHOEBE FENWICK GAYE," say her publishers, " has made it her aim to do for this...

Tunas has been in recent years a revival in interest in the military history of the American Civil War. We have had, in this country, the brilliant study of Sherman by Captain...

Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers. Edited by Edith J. Morley. Three Vols. (Dent. 31s. 6d.) THESE volumes, the third of which is chiefly concerned with elaborate...

Apropros of Dolores. By H. G. Wells. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) DOLORES is the wife of one Stephen Wilbeck, a publisher. She is a high-pressure neurotic who lives, like an actress, from...

MR. MACGIBBON errs in saying that no biography of Edward IV's Queen has been written for many years as Miss Katharine Davies published one in May, 1937. But his own book is...

By FORREST REID Theme With Variations. By G. E. Trevelyan. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Growth of a Man. By Mazo de la Roche. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) The Younger Venus. By Naomi Royde...

Steady Improvement The chief thing about the Motor Show that strikes the practical motorist is the plain evidence that there is now really a form of accord between the maker and...

today staking out their tiny claims in every branch of historical research it is useful to find the writer who will essay the broad sweep. Generalisations can at least be as...

dignified of all, but it is better known to us than any other. Ptolemy, son of Lagus, who, when Alexander's Macedonian cap- tains shared his empire, chose Egypt in 323 B.c.,...

In Korean Wilds and Villages (Gifford, 12s. - 6d.) ,is a straight- forward and at times rather monotonous account of a scientific expedition to ICorea undertaken, by the...

The British anid Foreign Bible Society has cast its sixpenny annual report in an attractive form, emphasising the value of the spiritual bread that it disseminates in incredible...

THERE is still an after-the-storm look about Throgmorton Street but most brokers can tell of a slow expansion of invest- ment business. The general City view, if one may think...

COPPER DIVIDENDS ALL the chief Rhodesian copper producers have now declared their final dividends for the year ended June 3oth. As the quarterly and half-yearly statements of...

The winner of Crossword No. 315 is Miss Susan Galbraith Barnet, 9 Whitworth Road, Ranmoor, Sheffield, to.

BY ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...