The Economy Discussions B Y far the most important event of the past week in the domestic field has been the emergency meeting of the Cabinet Economy Committee. The Prime...

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of the conversations between Dr. Bruning and Signor Mussolini at Rome indicates that a definite increase in the cordiality of the relations between the two countries resulted....

The report that President Hoover has the idea of pro- posing a two years' naval holiday as America's contribution to the Disarmament Conference appears to rest on no very solid...

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report is a document on which, if it had been published two hundred or three hundred years ago, civilization could not look back without a feeling of shame and revulsion. To-day...

Conference in London approaches the outlook is not improving. Both the All-India Congress Committee and the executive of the All-Indian Moslem Conference have been in session,...

at Madrid the Provisional Government is strengthening itself in another direction by its agrarian reform programme. Details of the new Land Bill are still awaited, but the...

as need it an instructive object-lesson in methods of economy. The Conversion Loan has made an excellent start, some £150,000,000 of stock being converted the first day into...

the list of commodities—among them wheat, coffee, tin, rubber, oil—of which the supply hopelessly exceeds the effective demand. That there should be a cotton surplus is no...

Appalling havoc has been caused by the flooding of the Yangtse in Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, Anwhei, and Kiangsu. At Hangkow the floods have risen above a high-water level which has...

on July 30th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1011 ; on Wednesday week, 1011; a year ago, 1030. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 92k; on Wednesday week,...

law and a strict censorship are in force throughout the island. Although Senor Menocal, a former President and the reputed leader of the insurgents, has the support of the...

and the B.B.C. regarding Mr. Churchill's request to be allowed to broadcast his views on India raises questions of some importance. The monopoly of transmission enjoyed by the...

regarding the visit of two British Members of Parliament to the Ukraine raise rather delicate issues. The relations between the Polish Government and its Ukrainian subjects may...

companions, encamped before Kamet among the Himalayan snows, 20,000 feet above sea-level, to the divers of the Artiglio, many fathoms below it and at last in sight of the...

In another column this week we publish a letter from Mrs. Trevelyan, the Honorary Secretary of the Foundling Site Appeal. We are delighted to hear that such a mag- nificent...

T HE result of the referendum held in Prussia last Sunday represents something that has not happened rather than something that has. It must be interpreted not as a ground for a...

[The Spectator does not necessarily agree with all the views of tho writers contributing to this series on the Colour Bar. Our object in publishing the series is to attempt some...

T HE Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Byng, has just issued his report for 1930, and the figures disclose that, although serious crime, including murder, remains...

BY MURIEL KENT W AYFARING men in search of the Alternative must often miss the nearest route, which is not easy to find. My visit involved a long drive, and harking back a mile...

BY A. LLOYD JAMES T HE modern world is a place of unrest ; kingdoms, creeds and alphabets are tumbling about our ears with disturbing clatter. Novelists lay bare the secret...

English Comedy, 1668-1931 BY PETER FLEMING. N O one would mistake She Would If She Could, by Sir George Etherege, for anything but a Restora- tion comedy. It has the charm of...

lonely and primitive little fishing village far off the beaten track in the very farthest north-eastern corner of Germany, but it has an inter- national reputation among...

. . and worse than death. Death, it is true, on this occasion only tapped me on the shoulder and hurried on. But some contagion remained from his passage. To this day, for...

artillery retaliation, I revisited the scene of the explosion and salvaged the mortar undamaged. The dug-out was a complete wreck, and the gun team which it had sheltered wiped...

By DENIS IRELAND. O N a sunny morning in June, 1915, during a tour of duty as trench-mortar officer in the trenches opposite Armentieres, I was standing half in and half out of...

"The world," said The Times on Monday, "has been looking for some sign that we intend to live within our means " ; and on Tuesday announced that the Board of Education had...

In recent years the popularity of the Tattoos has grown steadily. And quite right, too. For our part, we shall always be conscious of a thrill of pride and a glow of reas-...

"DEAR Smith "—No I won't, once again I decide, (You've been waiting, you say, for a year more or less) I know I've not answered, I've not even tried, (Dear, dear ! And you...

ARMADO : How haat thou purchased this experience ? Mom: By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) HOLIDAY TASKS. In these days the popular Press is now so fatuous...

Good Will in India BY DURGA DAS. [The writer is a well-known Indian publicist, holding a detached, non-political position as Editor of the Associated Press of India at New...

carried through in the North, whither our social world is now itself migrating. One is centred in the Orkneys, and concerns fish. Thanks to such stalwart workers as Mr. Nall...

Twice of late in the wall gardens of country houses I have come upon broad patches of flowers grown for sale. In one, summer chrysanthemums and pyrethrums were held to be the...

As the fate of a jest, however good in itself, "lies in the ear of the listener," so the success of these marking schemes lies as much with the receiver as the producer. It is...

MARKED MIGRANTS. The marking of animals in order to trace their movements is being extended in new directions. It would be good news if these new lines of activity would divert...

Can the new world "redress the balance of the old" in the following small particular detail. A letter reaches me from G. F. Richardson, South Pender, B.C., Canada, containing...

narrow a slit is made at the surface of the soon it levels itself. Golf secretaries as may be urged to "think mechanically." It is a favourite theory of some of us that the...

found. They had built, this time well above the river's most extravagant excesses, in the grass under a large dock, the leaves of which hung down and made a good screen. But...

May I put a query to migrationists about a bird whose movements have long seemed to me peculiarly" eccentric " (an adjective especially applied to snipe by the mediaeval monks...

in your issue of August 1st, Mr. F. M. Avis states that the Mental Deficiency Committee of 1929 sums up definitely against sterilization. This is scarcely accurate. The report...

SIR,—One of the recognized problems tangled up with the main unemployment issue is the risk of deterioration— physical, moral and spiritual—following long enforced idle-...

[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...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. William A. Bone, in writing on the above subject, has seen fit to ignore the very important question of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Professor Rushbrook Williams' denial of the existence of slavery and forced labour in the Indian States is emphatic but unconvincing....

on the danger of" planting the seeds of hatred and fear" in coloured people—a cruelty from which he was himself saved by the fortunate circum: stances of his early...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Paul Robeson's delightfully expressive contribution on the subject of the Colour Bar gives a comprehensive outline of the other "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I shall be grateful if you will allow me to reply to Mr. Charles W. Buckby's letter contained in your issue of August 1st. In my...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator has taken so kindly and, what is more, so effective an interest in the Foundling site Appeal, that I venture to ask you to...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] S1R,—I am not as sure as I would like to be when the author of" A Penny of Observation " is being sarcastic at my expense, and when he is...

Tudor of whom " Moth " wrote in the Spectator of June 27th is not the only one of that name and alleged lineage I have known to be fined for causing an obstruction. In my...

SIR,—Your correspondent Mrs. Binstead refers to a pamphlet by the late Mr. Walker King in which he advises that the Exmoor deer should be kept down by shooting with a rifle as...

In reply to the query in last week's Spectator, the above is an old saying, current generally in the North Country. In Northumberland they say (or did say) "As flirting as...

SIR,--I trust that you will not allow yourself to be influenced by the cynical verse of Jan Struther. Without in any way detracting from the excellence of the rest of the paper,...

SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your correspondent who appeals for an age limit for the sale of working horses brings up again the question of our treatment of worn animals—one, unhappily,...

Your two correspondents and many others on this issue may like to be reminded of a saying of a French wit that "the early Church ate Bread and worshipped God but the later...

in your issue of July 11th appears an extract from a letter from Mr. Edgar R. McGregor, of Wheeling, W. Va. regarding American slang. I am always ready to enter the lists in...

There are two classes of visitors at watering places—those who flock to the crowded haunts of fashion, whether high or low, civic or courtly ; and those who seek out some...

On Friday night, nine acres of wheat in the Isle of Thanot were unbound and scattered abroad, because it had not been reaped. Similar scenes have occurred in tho neighbourhood...

A gui de, whether in person or book, is usually a cheat. Tin legged impostor is usually some idle and very ignorant person, who, knowing nothing himself, lives upon those who...

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...

Henry Kingsley, 1830-1876. By S. M. Ellis. (Grant Richards. 12s. 6d.) THE sub-title of this volume is "Towards a Vindication." Henry Kingsley was born on January 2nd, 1830, and...

Cripps-Day, to which are added Reprint Facsimiles of the Boke of Husbandry . . . and the Boke of Thrift. (Quaritch. 36s.) HERE is a book which should please, say, Mr. Orwin and...

Ma. PERCY BROEMEL has thrown together rather carelessly a glittering heap of wit and wisdom ostensibly about Her and incidentally about Him. The present reviewer has read the...

Our Superconsclous Mind. By Edith Lyttelton. (Philip Allan. 10s. 6d.) A Study of Conversion. By the Rev. L. Wyatt Lang. (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.) BOTH these books discuss,...

ONE of the aims of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, under whose imprimatur this book is published, is to enable Africans to become articulate....

The Slum, its Story and Solution. By Harry Barnes, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I. (King. 18s.) JUDGED by the ordinary standards of reviewing, this book has almost every imaginable fault....

A New Novelist Seventh Sin. By Joy Baines. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) Two Thieves. By Manuel Komroff. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) DEVON has found a new novelist. Miss Joy Baines does not...

well with volumes on Middlesex and Kent, is continued in a first-rate Archaeology of Berkshire (10s. 6d.) by Mr. Harold Peake, who combines an intimate know- ledge of his county...

is something of a surprise. Most people would have been prepared to bet that they knew what Sir Malcolm's greatest adventure was, but they would have been wrong. It was...

were unsuccessful. But Mr. P. Brendan Bradley shows in his Bantry Bay (Williams and Norgate, 10s. 6d.) that the French plans, encouraged by Wolfe Tone and other Irish...

weathered the difficulties attendant on the production of a quarterly in a small country, but has kept a high standard and maintained a distinct personality. One cannot help...

wE approached The Grass Roof (Scribner's, 10s. 6d.) with high hopes. It was the autobiography of a Mr. Younghill Hang, a native of Korea, who entered this life in 1903 under the...

6d.)—This is the story of an irresistibly beautiful Syracusan girl of noble birth, who is carried off by pirates a few days after a love marriage. She is bought by a certain...

hard of late to save the old bridges that are threatened with destruction by the Ministry of Transport and the local authorities, anxious to provide for motor traffic. To assist...

Professor Paetow's Guide to the Study of Medieval History has been revived and enlarged by a committee of the Medieval Academy of America (Kegan Paul, 21s.); It first appeared...

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task, for they are, as a rule, too conscious and too descriptive : they merely tell an old story in a new and laborious manner. But Lady Frazer, perhaps because she has lived in...

the promise of Mr. Frank Ward's Lakes of Wales (Jenkins), the trout-angler of modest aspirations will find the book well worth the half- guinea which is its price. It is a...

But for the great confidence felt all over the world in our banking and monetary system, the effect of these unsatisfactory and unsound conditions upon the Foreign Exchanges...

A National Crisis I THINE that to the most superficial observer it must have become evident that record figures of unemployment in this country, record low prices for Home...

Scarcely at any time has there been a stimulating lead from any of the political parties which, for the most part, have vied with each other in bribing the proletariat with...

Now there are certain basic facts from which we cannot escape, but which have received wholly inadequate recognition for many years past. One of these is that the people of...

With intent I have headed this article "A National Crisis." I have done so not in the alarmist sense but because I believe that we have just about come to the turning point when...

In what follows it must not be supposed that I am for- getting that we are now passing through what may fairly be described as a world depression, amounting almost to a world...

As a consequence of the four years of war, the direct financial losses suffered, and the losses suffered through disorganization of our manufacturing activities, this balance,...