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A MOMENTOUS MISSION
The SpectatorT HE visit of the Prime Minister to Herr Hitler overshadows all other news of the Czechoslovak crisis, and supersedes all previous comment. Even Herr Hitler's own Nuremberg...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorT HOUGH the Prime Minister's visit to Herr Hitler has put most of the events of the past week in a new proportion they have their importance and demand record. Three have been...
The Japanese have made little progress towards Hankow in the
The Spectatorlast week. Their main operation has been intended to prevent Chinese reinforcements reaching the city from Chengchow, and it is predicted that the final attack will be postponed...
Concerted Riots The riots of Monday night deserve close study.
The SpectatorThey follow on the issue by the Sudetendeutsch a fortnight ago of a provocative manifesto " setting members free to make use of the right of self-defence." There was no...
Rumania and the Franco-Soviet Pact Nuremberg and Prague have overshadowed
The SpectatorGeneva in the last week ; yet it would be hard to overestimate the importance of some of the consultations made possible by the meeting of statesmen for the League Assembly. The...
Some Salient Facts To counter a tenth of the misstatements
The Spectatorin the German Press regarding the Sudetendeutsch question would be a superhuman task, but the repeated references to the 3,500,000 downtrodden Germans in Czechoslovakia must not...
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The Battle for the Ebro After yet another week of
The Spectatorthe most bitter fighting, the battle for the Ebro still continues, with the Republicans maintaining their positions on the south bank of the river. Descriptions of the battle...
l'oland's Elections President Moscicki's decision, this week, to dissolve the
The SpectatorPolish Parliament is of peculiar importance in the present ..ondition of Europe. Since the death of Pilsudski in r935, Poland has been governed by a reactionary bloc of colonels...
Indian Defence Although the British offer of increased contributions to
The Spectatorthe maintenance of the defence force in India is designed to 'prevent the abnormal increase of the burden of military expenditure borne by India the proposals have had a mixed...
The State of Abyssinia A series of four articles which
The Spectatorthe Manchester Guardian has just published on Abyssinia cast an important light on conditions in that unhappy country. The articles are dated from Jibuti in French Somaliland,...
Prince Arthur of Connaught There will be widespread sympathy with
The Spectatorthe Duke of Connaught on the death, at the age of 55, of his only son, Prince Arthur of Connaught, who had rendered distin- guished service to his country as soldier and...
Journalists and Official Secrets Such professional bodies as the Institute
The Spectatorof Journalists do well to watch jealously any threat to civil liberties, and the Institute, which has been in conference at Keswick this week, has thrown interesting light on a...
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GERMANY'S NEXT MOVE T HREE questions need to be asked regarding
The SpectatorHerr Hitler's speech at Nuremberg on Monday—what he said, why he said it, and what light it throws on his future policy. What he said is on record. He said that conditions in...
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AIR-RAID PROTECTION
The SpectatorR ECENT weeks have brought the danger of war very close ; yet this country is still utterly unpre- pared for the greatest danger modern war implies—that of murderous attacks...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The Spectator" D O you remember life before the War ? " a Norwegian friend asked me, and we started comparing notes-. It is not a theme one is tempted to pursue. Those days are gone ; we...
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SALUTE TO BENES
The SpectatorF ORTUNE has smiled rarely on Czechoslovakia through these tense days, but it was a happy chance for the Republic's President that on the day of his broadcast to his countrymen...
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THE ARMY AS A CAREER: I. RANK AND FILE
The SpectatorBy MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. C. FULLER S INCE the security inflation created by the League system was deflated in Abyssinia, this country has woken up to the fact that paper compacts...
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HITLER'S GOSPEL AND STALIN'S
The SpectatorBy E. H. CARR F OR the past week the tribunes of Nuremberg have resounded with well-worn denunciations of Bolshevism. About the lime this article appears in print, the...
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SEA-SODDEN HORSEY
The SpectatorBy ANTHONY BUXTON T HE first indication that I heard of disaster came from a farmer bursting into the house at 7.30 p.m. on February 12th with the words "The sea is in, Sir."...
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EMERGENCY AIR.ROUTES
The SpectatorBy NIGEL TANGVE T WENTY thousand miles of oversea air routes are flown now by British air-liners on scheduled services. With its great fleet of 18-ton flying boats, Imperial...
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THE CHANGING COUNTRYWOMAN
The SpectatorBy ESTHER NEVILLE-SMITH A PLATONIST, bent upon planning a good citizen, could hardly find more unpromising material than the country housewife of fifty or even thirty years...
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VOYAGE IN THE DARK
The SpectatorBy dRAVrikm GuENP: PUSHED open the swing cantina doors of the Vice- 1 _ Consulate in Vera Cruz, and there was the Consul g oing through his weekly lottery tickets—seriously as...
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THE VOORTREKKER CENTENARY .
The SpectatorCommonwealth anti Foreign By G. H. CALPIN (Editor, "The Natal Witness") IT is impossible even in this centenary year of celebration to place the Great Trek of the late thirties...
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"Blockheads," At the Empirt
The SpectatorTHE CINEMA A REVIEW of Blockheads must perforce be in the nature of an obituary ; for it is the last time, according to an edict as immutable as Hollywood can make it, that...
STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE "Can We Tell." By Robert Gore-Browne. At the New Thiatre THE International Horseless Carriage Corporation supplied, according to the programme, the car in Act II;...
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ART
The SpectatorStandards—II LAST week I suggested that the only scientific basis for judgement of values in works of art was ultimately that of history. In applying a historical standard to a...
THE BALLET
The SpectatorAspiration and Frivolity MASSINE'S three new ballets, given during the summer season at Drury Lane, are now to be seen at Covent Garden. Two 3f . them—The Seventh Symphony and...
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COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorThe Famous Shearwater A photograph has been taken by Mr. LocIdey of the two most miraculous birds in history. They carry, if not bells on their fingers yet rings on their toes,...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSnt,—At the end of 1918 I breathed a sigh of - relief. My husband had come through the War safely ; my, son, was still a baby ; it was very unlikely there , would be another war...
IS THERE NO WAY OUT?
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sin,—Newspapers as innocent of extreme pacifist views as The Times and Daily Telegraph have recently been giving it as their opinion that the...
THE CHURCH AND THE NAZIS
The SpectatorLETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief al is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our "News of the Week"...
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• THE FATE OF EUROPE
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Your leading article raises some questions of capital importance. It is unthinkable that in the present age an nation can believe that the...
FRANCE AND THE SPANISH FRONTIER
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—M. Bayer can have no sons of his own that he would reopen the Franco-Spanish frontier. France has squandered her riches and given her...
FRANCE'S PERPLEXITIES
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—In addition to the points raised by Mr. Gillie in his extremely interesting article on "France's Perplexities" in your issue of September...
THE GREEK DICTATORSHIP
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The remarkable deficiency of information in this country about Greek political affairs possibly explains the absence of any further...
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"TRYING TO CONNECT YOU ' 1 [To the Editor of THE
The SpectatorSPECTATOR] Sm,—What makes our telephone service the worst in the world ? That, of course, is a rhetorical question. Personal .experience only tells me that it is worse than the...
A NEW EMIGRATION SCHEME
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As a regular subscriber to The Spectator I have not noticed any reference to Sir Henry Page Croft's visit to Canada. He has just spent one...
• TAX THE FOREIGNER
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—When reading the letter about help for Foreign Students in your paper of the 9th the old adage" Charity begins at Home," came into my mind,...
A PRAYER AT WHITELEY'S
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A stranger as I am, I yet feel sure that you will forgive my writing to you on one of the reviews given in your paper of last week. It is...
GERMAN MINORITIES
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SP* . ia . rox] • SIR,—Your article on "The Fate of Europe" suggests to me a point which I ask you to allow me to make public. ' It is stated that the...
RURAL HOUSING
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] . . SIR,—Unsatisfactory housing conditions in rural areas have received considerable attention in the Press recently. Such conditions have...
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" CRICKET—MORE OR LESS" [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSur,—May an old man who remembers many joyous days on humble cricket fields have a word on the subject ? In the first place I cannot aVoid a feeling that Test Matches are...
PLOUGHMAN IN these small fields I have known the delight
The SpectatorOf being reborn each morning And dying each night. And I can tell That birth and death Are nothing so fierce As the preacher saith. For when a life's but a day The womb and...
INSIGNIEN UND KLEINODIEN
The Spectator[Van Inem deutschen Korrespondenten) DAS Dritte Reich in seiner merkwiirdigen Mischung von traditiOnelleni Aberglauben : und dynamischen Zukunftsglauben . ist em n vollig...
LADYBIRDS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sist,—In your August Isoth issue, under the nthric "Heather- Foes," Sir W. Beach Thomas asks : " Why should not ladybirds be bred artificially...
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BEST SELLERS AND THE ATLANTIC
The SpectatorBOOKS OF THE DAY By JOHN CARTER • THE fact that the inhabitants of England and those of the United States of America speak languages so nearly related that they can understand...
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AN ENIGMA
The SpectatorIN a note preceding this fourth and last volume of Lord Esher's Journals and Letters, the editor tells us that it completes the picture of a "distinguished private life." But he...
THE EXCLUSIVE CHURCH
The SpectatorTHE Roman-Irish mission in Great Britain would not rank above other minor sects if it were not for the prestige of its descent from the powerful Catholic Church of the Middle...
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ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM
The SpectatorIN introducing Dr. Jenks' classical account of British foreig investment to the general reading public of this counts - . Messrs. Cape have done their compatriots a good turn....
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THE SAINT OF LITTLE GLDDING
The SpectatorThe Ferrar Papers. Edited by B. Blackstone. (Cambridge University Press. 2 I S.) NICHOLAS FERRAR of Little Gidding is accounted one of the saints of the Anglican Church ; yet he...
A LOST ARCADIA
The SpectatorTHERE is nostalgia in the very title, and Mr. Sassoon's account of his childhood and youth owes something to the knowledge gained from his own books of what followed—the...
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LET'S BE SHADOW-BOXERS
The SpectatorSo Kind To Youth. By Evelyn Bell. (Michael Joseph. los. 6d. In My Time. By Sisley Hudclleston. (Jonathan Cape. 125. 6d. Thrice a Stranger. By Vera Brittain. (Gollancz. los. 60.)...
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- A SUSSEX YEOMAN
The SpectatorA Sussex Farmer. By William Wood. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) THE decay of rural life remains something of a mystery. Outwardly the causes are obvious enough—farming depression,...
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AROUND THE WORLD
The SpectatorBeyond Horizons. By Lincoln Ellsworth. (Heinemann. tzs. 6d.) Beating About the Bush. By Brian O'Brien. (Cape. los. 6d.) In the Steps of Moses the Conqueror. By Louis Golding....
THE HANGMAN OF PARAGUAY
The Spectator— • ; - ARE there records of any human being whose life was more tragic, terrifying, and futile than the life of Francisco Lopez'? He became the dictator, or the boss, of...
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HE RETURN TO THE CHURCH
The SpectatorWorld Community. By William Paton. (Student - Christian Movement Press. 5s.) . . AN anonymous German writer interprets the present crisis as meaning that "-it is the will of...
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FICTION
The Spectator- By FORREST REID Doctor Dido. By F. L. Lucas. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) Green For a Season. By Derrick Leon. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d.) The Monument. By Pamela Hansford Johnson. (Chapman...
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CURRENT LITERATURE
The SpectatorThe brief but attractive memoir of Sir Albert Spicer (Simpkin Marshall, 3i:.6a.), which members of his family-halie prepared With filial solicitude, is nevertheless as much a...
THE ROMANCE OF CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN By Jerome Dreifuss
The SpectatorThis very American production (Jarrolds, I2S. 6d.) is claimed by its publishers to be the first to be able to analyse the relationship between Potemkin- and Catherine the Great...
THE WITNESSES By Thomas Hennell
The SpectatorThomas Hennell, artist and poet, becomes in the course of his narration of a period of insanity (Peter Davies 8s. 'ed.) the spokesman of the insane as an oppressed cl ass. Let...
From the resources of an immense experience, Sir John Marriott
The Spectatorhas compiled this informal history of the British Constitution (Blackie, 15s.), which embraces the whole field of events from the advent of Julius Caesar to the abdication of...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorAT this critical stage I feel that the less said about Swck , Markets in any general sense the better. The British investor, with stoical calm, has held on tenaciously to what,...
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FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorSTEEL OUTPUT FALLS Jr was not expected that the British production of iron and steel would show any material recovery in August and, in fact, there was a further decline....