be the last phase of the Organised 'war in Spain, is now beginning. General Franco is moving . with deliberation, and the cordon round the capital is not yet complete ; the...

by M. Blum and warmly supported by this country, has unquestionably justified itself. The opposite policy would have caused serious trouble even here, and would have split...

for colonies is being damped down, if not called off altogether, finds confirmation in the undoubted fact that an important "Give Us Colonies rally, to have been held at Breslau...

Wales next Month will Seivea , - valuable purpose if it concentrates public attention once more on the depressed areas. King Edward has shown himself consistently sensitive to...

Press at the speech delivered by M. Thorez, the French Communist leader, at Strasbourg on Sunday has no . semblance of justifieation,, and on the diplomatic side a...

Dr. Schuschnigg is probably' the most intelligent and efficient One she could choose. Under his administration she has made remark- able financial and economic progress ;...

Demeeratic Party at Danzig on Wednesday still further aggravates the intractable problem With Which the League of Nations is saddled. In some respects' the League's position is...

with a balance on the right side. It did nothing spectacular—unless the decision (approved and supported, contrary to common report, by -the British Delegation) to allow the...

number of desirable reforms which owe their origin to correspon- dence in The Times. . Among the latest and the most desirable will be, it is hoped, a revision of the Govern-...

Commission on the Manufac- ture of Arms is completed. As was rather to be expected, the Commission' is said to declare against nationalisation. but it advocates the fullest...

the long-con- tested claims of certain classes of departmental clerks in the Civil Service to an increase of salary brings to a satisfactory end a dispute which in its various...

com- menting on the Government's plans for improving our national health services, has lately emphasised some serious deficiences. Of these one of the most remarkable is the ....

Alexander Maxwell, of the Home Office, made some interesting comments on recent criminal statistics, which, he said, are only too easily misinterpreted. He pointed out that of...

the East End has grown to such an extent that no Government could afford to ignore it ; certainly our 'present Govern- ment does not wish to, but the problem has many...

F OR the 'first time for close on six months com- parative peace reigns in Palestine. What was described as a strike when it was declared by the Arab leaders in April developed...

It is significant that One passage in Mr. Neville of the population live in unhealthy and insanitary , conditions ; the reports of medical officers have revealed graN-e and...

T HERE have been few cases in late years of a Cabinet Minister dying while in office. The last, if I remem- ber rightly, was that of Sir Donald Maclean in 1932. Sir Godfrey...

A FTER the Democratic deluge of 1932 one lonely Republican plateau emerged in the American Middle West. The State of Kansas had elected a young, vigorous Republican Governor in...

Christianity and Communism [The Rev. M. C. D'Arcy, S.J., Master of Campion Hall, Oxford, will write next week on "Roman Catholics and . - Communism."} "TfI1E facts," wrote Dean...

By MICHAEL SPENDER T HE tent was of a coarse black canvas woven on some hand loom. To make it many small pieces had been sewn together just as they came to hand and then the...

By JOHN A. F. WATSON THERE is a proverb which tells us that there is no sense in barring the stable door after the horse has bolted ; and its corollary is that if the horse is...

By L. HADEN GUEST ELIGION in the U.S,S.R., it must be remembered, - 'means not only Christianity but also Muhamedan- ism, Buddhism and various primitive cults. And Christianity...

By DR. C. B. SNOW I T is unfortunate that the scientifically -minded public should seldom have a chance of following the actual process of discovery. At present results are...

By E. L. WOODWARD T HE worst I knew about him was that he sang, , or was it whistled, comic songs at breakfast ; but a friend of mine told me that, years ago, he heard two of...

By ROSE MACAULAY S OMEONE has written to a weekly paper -saying that he has a dossier, carefully indexed, of some 700 happenings in the Spanish civil war, and often reads in ,...

"Ix happy hours, some hours, I spring ; From dense unhappiness I sing ; I dance up like a meadow lark Just where you thought there was never a thing. I am not to be snared or...

Commonwealth and Foreign By S. F. VAN OSS (Editor, Haagsche Post) %VITEN looking at a map of Asia one sees its south-eastern part, opposite Singapore, covered by a vast group...

The Country Wife." By W. Wycherley. - • At the Old Vic . IT IS still customary to quote Lamb in discussing a Restoration comedy. "These sports of a witty fancy," Lamb Wrote,...

Tms play is enlivened throughout by Wilde's wit ; it has a brilliant first act, overshadowed by a sense of doom to come, and with a most moving scene between Wilde and Charlie...

TheCm . ema. WE are apt to forget, among the gangsters and the grand, passions, that the cinema has other uses than fiction, and yet it is the Gas Light and Cake 'Company which...

Discoveries in Greece and Crete THE exhibition at Burliniton House of the work of a single archaeological school during fifty years is bound to be rather heterogeneous. Further,...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondentenl Ream , : ist keine use! *mehr: Das gias.4.e deutsche Eiland. im Norden von Berlin vor der pommerschen Kiiste in der Ostsee gelegen, ist nun...

, October 17th In my records—so far as I have kept any—the sharpest change in the year, following the , first hard frosts, comes round about October 17th, exactly six months...

substance of Professor Ernest Barker's most interesting article, "Christianity and Communism," is that while Communism uses force' as a means - of asserting itself, "an enforced...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR •• 1 - c..,.orr. elsPondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitabte . length is that of One of our...

limits unduly the Meaning of " faith " when he says "the whole philosophy of Cunrunimism is opposed to faith," and defines faith as "belief in the Invisible." Communists have...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I will not attempt to follow Mr. W. H. Worsnop in his highly controversial statements regarding the Carlisle Experiment, but the facts can...

, [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a letter on Spain in your October 9th issue, Lord Clonmore draws attention to the encyclicals Rerum Novarunt; of Pope Leo XIII, and...

THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the review of Count Sforza's Europe and Europeans in your issue of October 2nd occurs the following passage : "Count SfOrza also offers us a few...

extraordinary article on the Fascist march brings out three elements not previously associated with your paper. First, it reads like a blood-and-thunder editorial of our more...

Sta,—Professor Berriedale Keith's letter ignores the funda- mental danger of giving a militaristic Germany overseas terri- tory from which she could, and assuredly would, menace...

[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The paragraph headed "The Plight of the Liberals" in your "News of the Week" of last Friday affected at least one reader with the same...

happen to possess a copy of" The Form and Order of Their Majesties' Coronation" used for King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. (I presume that a generally similar proce- dure was...

. [To the Editorof TEE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It SeeITIS to me that your reviewer of Lord Darling's Famous Cases does less than justice to the Judge's wit and humour. Certainly he...

[To the Bditor of Tilg SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In her discussion with Mr. Peter Fleming as to which, if either; of them hitcl spent forty-eight hours in Samarkand, Miss Ethel Marann...

in "A Spectator's Notebook," on October 2nd, invited suggestions in response :to the- request of a reader of The Spectator for advice as to what book he could most appro-...

BOOKS OF THE - DAY By VYVYAN ADAMS. Mn. NOEL-BAKER gave important evidence before the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of Armaments: - During its sessions, lieJuis....

Bowdon. With an introduction by R. W. Chamb6is. . (Jonathan Cape. 10s. 6d.) THE discovery of the long-lost book of Margery Kempe of Lynn is an event almost equally important to...

NOT the least tragic result of the decline of independent Liberalism in this country is the liuMber of first-class men who, in consequence, are 'shut out irom the service of...

The French Republic, 1870-1935. By Sae : Claes tainville. Trans. lated from the French, with an introductory note by Hamish Miles. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) IT is nearly -forty years...

A German Liberal To E ng li s hme n with any knowled g e of forei g n affairs . Count Bemstorff is known in two connexions, as German Ambassador in Washi ng ton durin g the...

ed.) Poor Little Rich Girl MRS. MCLEAN'S father invaded the United States as a penniless immigrant from Ireland. Like most Irishmen in search of a fortune he took to...

" I TRINE if I were a minister, writes Mr. Watson in the essay which gives the title io'ihi.ileferesting collection of papers on various subjects, "my first question when...

The Anatomy of Neptune. By Brian Tunstall. (RoutlerIg.-. 12s. 6d.) . • • Ships That Have Made History. BY Gregory Robinson. (Peter Davies. 156.) The Flower of England's...

Poems: 1911 - 1936. By John Hall Wheelock. (Scribner. fl2s. 6d.) 'Poems. By Villiers David. (John Heritage. 3s. 6d.) Public Speech. Poems by Archibald MacLeish. (Boriswood....

The Myrtle Tree. By R. G. Goodyear.- (Boriswood. 7s. - 6d.) Flowering Nettle. By Harry Martinson. ,Translated by Naomi WaHord. (The Cresiet Press. 7s. fid.). . The Brothers...

• By Lord 'Maughani - Lord Maugham's masterly account of The Tichborne Case (Iiodder and Stoughton, 15s.), which for the seven years from 1867 to 1874 intrigued and",exelted ....

In this short pamphlet (G.ollanez, 6d.) Mrs. Williams-Ellis tells the story of Carl von Ossietzky, the German pacifist, founder of the No *re War inovement, editor of the...

The restoration of the Stuarts proceeds apace. Miss Carols Oman's excellent biography of Henrietta Maria (Hodder and Stoughton, 18s.) brings to life the charming, tragic figure...

Monetary and Economic Conference in .1933..spelt the abandonment for some time to come of the ' large-scale conference method of attempting to resuscitate world _trade. The...

story of a Canadian river, with illustrations by Mr. C. F. Tunnicliffe. To say that it should have a wide appeal to juvenile readers docs not mean that adults will not like it....

By JOHN THE thirtieth Motor Show, which opened yesterday and will remain open until tomorrow week, follows the lines of its immediate predecessors in that its chief...

Finance NEARLY_ :three Weeks. have now elapsed since the French Franc was deValued and the important announcement was made of the readiness of the monetary authorities in New...

HOPEFUL MARKETS. Avraoccu business in the Stock Markets has slackened a little when compared with the extreme activity of last week, the general tone on the Stock Exchange...

BY ZERO TA prire of one guinea trill be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to - be opened. Envelopes should be marked-" Crossword...

211, whose address is Incents, Beacon Road, Crowborough, Sussex, is asked to send his name. SOLUTION NEXT WEEK -