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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorM R. EDEN'S proposals, published on Thursday, for solving the deadlock in the Non-intervention Com- mittee have at least the merit of offering an opportunity for compromise....
Deadlock Over Austria The Austrian Chancellor is a man of
The Spectatorcourage. The sudden breakdown last Saturday of the German-Austrian conversa- tions in Vienna was almost as much of a surprise to the rest of the world as it seems to have been...
Tha Far Eastern Danger Since July 8th, when a clash
The Spectatorbetween Japanese and Chinese forces occurred at Wangping, a few miles west of Peking, war clouds have once more been hovering over the Far East. There is fortunately no reason...
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Congress in Office It is generally recognised that the Congress
The Spectatordecision, at Wardha last week, to accept office under the new Constitution has created a new political position in India. Though the Work- ing Committee has asserted, and Mr....
The Future of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court issue
The Spectatorin the United States is gradually becoming clearer. Discussion is bringing home to American opinion the essentially political character of the right exercised by the Court to...
The Finances of France M. Bonnet, the new Minister of
The SpectatorFinance, has addressed himself courageously to the Sisyphean labour of balancing the French Budget. Short of a serious inroad into the fundamentals of Popular Front policy,...
The Greek Dictatorship The publication in a Sunday newspaper of
The Spectatora long inter- view with General Metaxas reminds us that it is nearly two years since Greece seceded, as a sequel to the Venizelist insurrection of March, 1935, from the ranks of...
The Socialist Front The international situation no doubt also helped
The SpectatorM. Blum to secure the remarkable vote of confidence which closed the French Socialist Party congress in the early hours of Wednes- day morning. Of the 5,000 or more members of...
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The Ministry of Transport has also got knocked about a
The Spectatorbit. At the General Election Mr. Chamberlain, referring to road improvement and reconstruction, declared that " we are now embarking on a five-year plan which will involve the...
There was an unexpected breeze on Monday. Clause 14 of
The Spectatorthe Agriculture Bill provides for financial assistance to local authorities to help defray the cost of land drainage. Labour Members had heard rumours of a circular, recently...
The 16-inch Gun The decision of the United States government
The Spectatorto adopt 16- inch guns for their two new battleships marks the end of limitation in big ship armaments, and may restart the trend towards monstrously large ships, which was...
The Need for Cheaper Milk Monday's debate on the Milk
The Spectator(Amendment) Bill revealed small ground for complacency. No Government speaker attempted to dispute Mr. Williams' statement that while manufacturers pay only 5d. a gallon for...
The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The
The SpectatorLabour Party grows more and more like the Tuscan Army. Sir Stafford Cripps cries " Forward " while Transport House cries " Back." This was illustrated on the second reading of...
The World Church Congress The Archbishop of Canterbury's " Recall
The Spectatorto Religion," the church struggle in Germany, and the growing tendency of the Protestant churches to establish intercommunion lend a particularly topical interest to the great...
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THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE
The SpectatorT HE unanimity of the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine, followed by the prompt acceptance of the report by the Government, has assured its almost unanimous approval...
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A LAST ATTEMPT
The Spectator1rT is impossible as yet to know what success Mr. I Eden will have in the plan by which he has attempted to solve the deadlock in the Non-intervention Committee. In the House of...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The Spectator" j AM afraid," said an Englishman to a Frenchman in 1 Paris last week, " that the Communist allies of your Socialist politicians will bring irretrievable ruin on your tottering...
A recent reference by Mr. Harold Nicolson in Parliament to
The Spectatorthe health of the population in Germany, who are popularly supposed to be undernourished, prompted me to look up some comparative figures. I found that the mortality of infants...
On my way home last week I found myself alongside
The Spectatora stranger holding a ticket for a neighbouring railway station, serving a village so small that I knew every inhabitant, at least by sight. He told me his name, which appears in...
The Palestine Commission's Report will for many years to come
The Spectatorbe a locus classicus. I do not propose in writing of its findings to dip my pen in the ample supplies of gall which it provides for critics at home and abroad. An ideal which is...
timber reaching these shores today arrives in Russian skps. Three-quarters
The Spectatorof the cargo reaching the great Indian ports is today carried in Japanese bottoms, and President Roosevelt has asked Congress to vote £32 millions to subsidise American...
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THE " POISED SNOW "
The SpectatorBy WICKHAM STEED A T the end of his first speech (as Prime Minister) upon foreign policy, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said that we are " in the condition " when an incautious move...
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SHORTAGE IN THE ARMY
The SpectatorBy CAPT. J. R. J. MACNAMARA, M.P. F OR some time the British public has been congratulating itself on the progress of the country's rearmament programme. The student of history...
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THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS -I
The SpectatorBy A HEADMASTER T HERE was a time when learning was considered the main aim of educationâperhaps the sole aim, seeing that it was assumed that learning brought with it a...
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THE NURSE'S TRAINING : H. THE PATH OF REFORM
The SpectatorBy A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE advance of medical science within recent years, the growing activity of the State in preventive medicine, and the popular campaign for physical...
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MUM'S
The SpectatorBy E. E. KELLETT " S UNT lacrunae rerum : it is sad to think that, like so many noble dwellings and ancient porticoes, an. institution which, but a few years since, one...
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THE COPPER PLATES
The SpectatorBy KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY B ERG fanned the bonfire. Deep night hung over the wood, and summer lightning played over the lake. In the thicket, the air was so full of the smell of...
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MARGINAL_ COMMENTS
The SpectatorBy ROSE MACAULAY -A COMMITTEE of Enquiry to whiCh I belong explored at its last session ⢠avenues by which our Foreign Secretary might be given information on foreign...
SNOW" Tilts meal-white snowâ Oh, look at the bright fields,
The SpectatorWhat fragile manna 'Tis The North Wind yields ; Falling from heavens Earth knows little of, Yet mantling winter As. with a crystal loveâ The shining cloak It to the naked...
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Commonwealth and Foreign
The SpectatorDEADLOCK IN THE FREE STATE By R. B. D. FRENCH Dublin. THE result of the general election in the Free State was a severe shock to the supporters of Mr. de Valera. His party,...
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STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE "Women of Property." By Hella Wuolijoki." Adapted from the Finnish by Frank Davison. At the Queen's Theatre . THE Masters of Niskavuori, the country estate in...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator" God's Country and the Woman." At the Plazaâ" Call it a Day." At the New Gallery THE attitude of most film producers and consumers towards the cinema closely resembles that...
" They Came by Night." By Barre Lyndon. At the
The SpectatorGlobe THIS dexterous, entertaining, unimportant drama shares to a striking degree the virtues and the limitations of its author's earlier success, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse....
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L'ART FRANCAIS
The Spectator[D'un correspondant partsienj MiNtE si l'Exposition restait inachevee le jour de sa fermeture, meme si certains pavilions n'ouvraient jamais, it y a des main- tenant une...
ART
The SpectatorStage Designs THE exhibition of stage designs by Alexandre Benois at Tooth's is well timed for the ballet-goer, but not so well timed for the scene designer. It is agreeable to...
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COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorSave Selbome ! If there is one village in England which has a supreme . claim to be left to its pristine calm it is Selborne in Hampshire. The proposal to drive a great main...
Popular Roses The Royal Parks are gardens as well as
The Spectatorsanctuaries. Queen Mary's rose-garden - at Regent's Park grows every way better and better. More commercial growers send - their roses and the arrangement improves. It may be...
An American Parallel A good many years ago in America
The Spectatorit was proposed to drive a railway through the middle of the camp where the Boy Scout movement started. The grounds (at CoscOte) were very lovely_ in themselves, were a...
Grass Tourists . A group of Americans,. all distinguished in
The Spectatortheir subject, and some two hUndied persons, repreieriting 37 different nations, are at the moment touring England 'chiefly to - study its grasses. These two groups of our...
Rural London London is a wonderful place ; and nothing
The Spectatoris more stir-' prising in it than the number of wild creatures. .that find a permanent or temporary home within its circle: Somethirig of this marvel appears in. the annual...
Wild White
The SpectatorOne plant above others and one method of farming have, above others, captured the interest of many of our visitors. The plant is not a grass or mixture of grasses but a...
Popular Leys Apart from the value of a particular species
The Spectatoror variety of grass or clover, it is a common belief, strongly corroborated by recent research, that the best and most economic method of restoring fertility to a too barren...
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THE WORSHIP OF GERMANIA [To the EditOr Of THE SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSta,âSir Arnold Wilson disputes the Archbishop of York's , . statement that " the Germans will worship Germania," and mointains that the predominant German view Lk that God...
CHANGING GERMANY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Slit, âHerr
The SpectatorHeinrich Peters is so manifestly suffering froin chronic oppositionisrn to Hitlerism and everything associated with it that one feels assured that his absurdly naïve assertions...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Spectator[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suita5le length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...
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THE NURSE'S TRAINING
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âIt is good that The Spectator should interest itself in the training of our nurses, and, having been associated with nurses in hospital...
LIBERALISM AND LABOUR
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sirt,âMay I commend to your readers a notable article appearing in the current number of the Nineteenth Century, written by. John Scanlan,...
JAPANESE EXPANSIONISM
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âMy breath was taken away upon reading the Rev. Mr. Murray Walton's letter on Japanese Expansionism in The Spectator of June Iith. I...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âYour contributor has undoubtedly
The Spectatorstated a very strong case for reform, but I feel that he has missed a point which calls more urgently than any other for revision. I refer to night- duty. A fortnight ago a...
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THE BERKELEY CINEMA
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sna,âThe " short " which did not appeal to your Film Critic's taste in these matters ran to minutes, and not " close on half an hour " as...
LONDON POOR CLERGY HOLIDAY FUND
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, It is to be hoped that the appeal under the above heading will result in sufficient funds being forthcoming to achieve its objective, but...
IS CHRISTIANITY LOSING GROUND ?
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âMr. Kenneth Ingram is so intent on demolishing his own fancies that a protest becomes overdue. When he suggests that the new...
QUEEN VICTORIA AND MR. GLADSTONE
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âYour correspondent, Mr. C. R. V. Coutts, has tO3 high an opinion of Mr. Gladstone to believe that he was capable of sending a Home Rule...
CHANGING IRELAND
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,âMay I _ once again use your columns to reply to the onslaught of Mr. Henry Wilson ? I do not see that Mr, Wilson's letter throws any...
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BOOKS OF
The SpectatorTHE DAY The Colonial Problem (Professor W. K. Hancock) .. Ito The Colour Line (D. W. Brogan) . . . . Iii International Relations (C. Delisle Burns) . . . . Public Utilities and...
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THE COLOUR LINE
The SpectatorCaste and Class in a Southern Town. By John Dollard. (Yale University Press : Oxford University Press. t6s.) DR. DOLLARD reminds us that, in some ways, his book is based on the...
THE BARE FACTS
The SpectatorIT has been well said that it is useless to discuss whether the next war will destroy civilisation, until we are more certain that civilisation will survive the last war. The...
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PUBLIC UTILITIES AND THE STATE
The SpectatorTHE three experiments which Mr. O'Brien takes as the subjects of his study are the Central Electricity Board, the B.B.C. and the London Passenger Transport Board. He approaches...
THE ENGLISH SOLDIER
The SpectatorVain Glory. A Miscellany of the Great War. Edited by Guy Chapman. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) WE had reached a point at which no more War-books of any originality were to be expected,...
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MR. DE FOE Defoe. By James Sutherland. (Methuen. I2S. 6d.)
The SpectatorMODERN writers on Defoe have mainly devoted themselves to criticism of his work ; for biography we have had to turn to useful but cursory shorter lives or grope with lagging...
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A SCRUTINY OF STEVENSON
The SpectatorPresbyterian Pirate. By Doris N. Dalglish. (Oxford. 8s. 6d.) MISS DALGLISH'S study of Stevenson has no rhapsodies about the heroic invalid, and no giggling research into his...
ANTHROPOLOGY AND SUPERSTITION
The SpectatorThe Rengma Nagas. By J. P. Mills. (Macmillan. 25s.) IF you look at the map of the world, Assam is a little triangular strip of country stretching from the north east of Bengal...
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SERIOUS APOLOGY
The SpectatorWilliam Penn : A Topical Biography. By William I. Hull. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) WILLIAM PENN is a difficult subject for the biographer. He is a man exuberant in words...
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THE " SUSSEX " KIPLING
The SpectatorIN their admirable prospectus of the Sussex Edition of Rudyard Kipling's works Messrs. Macmillan confirm an-opinion not long ago expressed in these coluinns when theirsay- - --...
PARIS IN 1930
The SpectatorThe Spirit of Paris. By Paul Cohen-Portheim. (Batsford. 7s. 6d.) WffH the franc at a hundred and twenty-five, one can afford to renew acquaintance with what used to be the most...
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FICTION
The SpectatorBy ADR,1AN BELL Anna By Boris Zaitsev. Translated by Natalie Duddingten. RATIV literature tends to be restricted two form; - obediently fills it. Some ideas naturally fit...
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ROBINSON OF ENGLAND By John Drinkwater
The SpectatorJohn Drinkwater's last book (Methuen, 8s. 6d.) should please those young people who like facts served up with a mild flavouring of fiction, after the manner of The Swiss Family...
IN DEFENCE OF CAPITALISM By James H. R. Cronwell and
The SpectatorHugo E. Czerwonky This work (Scribners, 12s. 6d.) is a lengthy exposition of a scheme to prevent depressions by a system of currency control. That achieved, certain gross...
CURRENT LITERATURE
The SpectatorSIGNS AND TAVERNS ROUND ABOUT LONDON BRIDGE By Kenneth Rogers Dr. Rogers has long made a special study of the old London taverns and the tokens which they issued. To his mono-...
THE ROMANCE OF THE CALENDAR By P. W; Wilson
The SpectatorThough experienced readers tend to dismiss books with such a title as likely to be romantic rather than useful, Mr. Wilson's volume (Allen and Unwin, los. '6d.) presents in a...
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PALESTINE GROUP PROSPECTS -
The SpectatorFirst thoughts on the Palestine report do not suggest that this judgement of Soloinon need cause investors much worry. The only trustee investment involved, the £4,475,000 5...
WISE INVESTMENT
The SpectatorIs Mr. Chamberlain trying to help investors .to forget ? His forecast, which nobody can suppose is derived from" any easy optimism, of continued trade expansion and - no return...
PREFERENCES . WITH ARREARS My correspondence shows that quite a number
The Spectatorof readers are attracted . towards ⢠Preference shares in recovering companies whore there are still some arrears of dividends to be cleared off. The Appeal Of this'ti"ndlof...
V enturers' Corner Although it is the first payment since
The Spectator1931, thet 4 per cent. dividend on the 8 per cent. cumulative los. preference shares of Tankers,Ltd., seems disappointing in the light of the freight market improvement. Having...
â FROM 41 TO 5 PER CENT
The SpectatorIt is good to see that there is still a kick left in the gilt-edged market. Even a slight turn of the official screw has brought a rally in cfnotations, and with War Loan over...
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Motoring NEW TYPES IT does not often happen in these
The Spectatorreports upon the design, build and behaviour of new cars . that I have to describe two models that differ so widely from their immediate predecessors as the new 25-h.p. Vauxhall...
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- FINANCE
The SpectatorHOME RAILWAYS AND THE INVESTOR WE have now reached the period of the year when expecta- tions of investors in Home Railways - centre upon the interim financial statements to be...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorMR. EDMUND L HANN'S SPEECH AT the annual general meeting of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Limited, held on - July 14th, the Chairman, Mr. Edmund L. Hann, after dealing...
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RICHARD THOMAS PROGRESS.
The SpectatorThe report of Richard Thomas and Co. gives an account of the position of the eompany and the group of which it is the centre. The gross profit of the parent company of £759,4...
POWELL DUFFRYN.
The SpectatorIn examining the annual reports of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, it must be remembered that this is now a holding concern for the merged undertaking of Powell Duffryn...
ANGLO-SPANISH CONSTRUCTION.
The SpectatorThe difficulties with which the Anglo-Spanish Construction Company has had to contend through defaults in regard to the sums due on the construction and working of the...
FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorINVESTMENT STOCKS BETTER. THERE can be no doubt that, but for the disturbed political situation, we should be witnessing a renewal of the upward movement in Stock Exchange ,...
I am glad to see that, after many trying years
The Spectatorowing to drought and other adverse conditions, the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company, now known as the Australian Estates Co., Ltd., has experienced happier conditions for...
PROSPEROUS SOUTH AFRICA.
The SpectatorThe prosperity of South Africa, which has owed much to the activity of the mining industry during recent years, in its turn, has stimulated trade activity generally in that...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorANGLO-SPANISH CONSTRUCTION WORKING OF THE RAILWAY CONDITIONS UNDER THE FRANCO ADMINISTRATION AT the twelfth annual general meeting of the Anglo-Spanish Con- struction Company,...
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