N his address to Congress last week, and in his Budget Message on Monday, President Roosevelt disclosed the immensity of the roduction and financial burden which his country is...

Some three months ago Britain and America declared their inten- n of renouncing the extra-territorial rights which they have exer- sed under treaties of over a century's...

One of the unsatisfactory features about the political situation in North Africa is the mystery which is allowed to cloak the action of the French authorities in regard to...

Party publication, represents P the official views of the Conservative Party is a question probably a not admitting of a precise answer, but the comments in its curren t a(...

There is still little hint of major operations in North Africa. The Eighth Army is obviously preparing to attack. Indeed reports from Axis quarters suggest that it is already...

Everything continues to go remarkably well in Russia. The German Command, still hoping that it may not need to announce the capture of Velikie Luki, is continuing its...

The Sunday opening of theatres is one of those questions on which argument can be infinite because there is so much that is valid to be said on both sides. The theatrical...

The Government of Argentina, which does not desire to be isolated among Latin-American countries in its insistence on neutrality, is watching Chile with some anxiety ; for...

I T is a significant and encouraging fact that two of the soundest contributions to the discussion of the colonial problem in the past week have come from prominent members of...

FIND from various recent conversations that the impression still University Press in 1939. The subject is too complicated to go into at length here, but two or three important...

By STRATEGICUS ISIrdominant position as e the basis of Allied strategy. The con- THING has occurred to displace sea-power from its pre- lied strategy. of a rivalry between the...

By RICHARD HILLARY* I T has been said that the artist, the scientist and the truly religious are the three greatest bulwarks any country can have against Fascism and Hitler. Of...

By R. A. SCOTT-JAMES M R. LLOYD GEORGE will be eighty on Sunday—an anniversary which tempts one to look back on some less remem- bered moments in his career. There is one...

By SIR CECIL HARCOURT-SMITH* OIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS in one of his lectures stresses suit- Obviously, some conversions may be harmless, or even consonant with the designer's...

By HAROLD N1COLSON D R. MARCEL DE BAER, chief of Belgium's judicature, in collaboration with Professor Glueck of Harvard, has drafted a "ten-point plan" providing for the...

"Crimson Sails." A New Soviet Production Kuibishev, December 30th, 1942. WE went to the first night of Crimson Sails with more fears than hopes. We knew only that this new...

THE CINEMA Wake Island. A patch of sand just breaking the otherwise empty surface of a great tract of the Pacific Ocean, an island without a trace of natural defences, a...

Music lovers will welcome the records of Benjamin Britten, "Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo," set for tenor and pianoforte, sung intelligently and with appropriately clean tone by...

unwise to withhold from ABCA the pamphlet which Sir William Beveridge wrote for it on his report. For since when must citizens refrain from discussing till the Commons has...

SIR, —Since Lord David Cecil accepts the view as to the teachers which I expressed m the closing paragraph of my letter, but for which I had not written, it is needless to argue...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—How forcibly your issue of January 8th brings out the principles involved in the ban imposed on the ABCA pamphlet dealing with the Beveridge Report....

Sta,—I cannot read Mr. Hsieh's review of my Short History of Chinese Civilisation without a chuckle. Mr. Hsieh says he is my "compatriot " and claims to have made "a perusal" of...

Sut,—Miss Olive Bennett calls Mr. Harold Nicolson "a propagandist" who "stretches the bounds of human credulity" in saying that 433,0 00 Warsaw Jews have been "congregated in a...

Sm,—The prophecy quoted by W. E. Bromel is remarkable indeed, especially in its language, which is modern English and cannot date to within 50 years of the death of Chaucer. Are...

The Spectator, I think Mr. Nicolson's view is unnecessarily generous. I think the facts, eon- sinuously confirmed confirmed by official statements ' given by war correspondents,...

Sul,—A further fact about the adjective Arian, unknown to many lay folk and some clergy, is that the second syllable of the name of the heretic Arius is long. The word...

Sus,—The contributor to your issue of January 8th who poses this question seems to presuppose an entirely new organisation to police the world against aggressors after the war....

Sta,—On the facts Mr. Harold Nicolson is certainly right in doubting the story that the Archduke Maximilian was General Weygand's father. But there is more than "some foundation...

the saying (quoted from memory) of Sir J. J. Thomson, "Though science is for ever drawing back the curtain, so that half-wonders disappear, the wonder still remains," confess to...

Sul,—Professor Julian Huxley evidently does not bring to his pronounce- ments on education the accuracy which distinguishes his scientific work. In your issue of January 1st he...

Melanesian Culture Stone Men of Malekula. By John Layard. (Chatto and Windus. 505. Tans is a truly magnificent book. It is over Soo pages long, and beautifully produced,...

Scottish Diaries and Memoirs, 1746-1843. Arranged and Edited by J. G. Fyfe. (Eneas Mackay. 128. 6d.) HERE is a panorama of Scottish life, almost as rich, varied and humorous as...

France in Torment. By Madeleine Le Verrier. (Hamish Hamilton. 6s.) MADAME LE VERRIER left France last spring to join General de Gaulle as the "high symbol of resistance,...

ONE of the most notable features in almost every department of science has been the recent trend away from the materialism of the last couple of generations. It seems to have...

What Democracy Meant to the Greeks. By Walter It Agard. (Humphrey Milford. as. 6d.) The Colossus of Maroussi. By Henry Miller. (Seeker and Warburg. 8s. 6d.) Salute to Greece. An...

Chinese Philosophy in Classical Times. Edited and Translated by E. R. Hughes. (Everyman's Library. 3s.) CHINESE philosophy sounds too recondite and remote to have meaning for...

Norma Ashe. By Susan Glaspell. (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) Work Suspended. By Evelyn Waugh. (Chapman and Hall. fis. 6d.) Who's There Within ? By Louis Golding. (Hutchinson. ros. 6d.)...

The winner of Crossword No. it is Miss MARGARET SPARROW, New Barn, Ferry Hinksey, Oxford.

will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later than first...

IN looking over the records of the famous Norfolk diarists (who found "indications of spring" in November) I could not but notice that a good many of their records were this...

Hannaboys Farm. By Marjorie Mack. (Faber. 8s. 6d.) THIS book, which begins at the end and unrolls to the beginning, contains a lively description of the vicissitudes and...