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NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE fact that the discussions between
The Spectatorthe Czechoslovak Cabinet and Sudeten German delegates on Wednesday ended in deadlock is not in itself surprising. Hard bar- gaining is in progress and neither party is prepared...
The Foreign Office and British Shipowners Regarding this, indeed, the
The SpectatorForeign Office would appear to have displayed an ineptitude past defence. The condi- tions proposed by the Foreign Office were that the enquiry should be conducted by two naval...
General Franco Replies There has been some progress in Spain
The Spectatorin the past week in both the military and the diplomatic spheres. On the Ebro the' insurgents have made repeated efforts to thrust the Republicans back from the right bank of...
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The German Transatlantic Flight It is pleasant to be able
The Spectatorto turn from other less agreeable aspects of the German situation to the visit of General Vuillemin, Chief of the French Air Staff, to Berlin and to the - remarkable performance...
The Polish Enigma Poland's decision to dispense with a permanent
The Spectatordelegate to the League of Nations- at Geneva may mean much or little. Neither France nor Great Britain has one. On the - other hand, it 'is impossible to dissociate the gesture...
American Foreign Policy Mr. Cordell Hull's broadcast last Tuesday set
The Spectatorbefore the American people—" always within the range of our traditional policies of non-entanglement "—a fairly definite programme in foreign affairs. Its points included...
Japan's Preoccupations Japan has been concerned this week with a
The Spectatortruce on the Russo-Manchukuo front, a set-back on the Yangtse front, and a rather obscure revision or galvanisation of policy at home. The truce concluded in Moscow between the...
The Hungarians at Berlin Elaborate - preparations are being made in
The SpectatorBerlin' for the reception of the Regent, the Premier and . the Foreign Minister of Hungary on Saturday. The visitors , will no doubt` feel both honoured and „embarrassed, for...
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Scientists and War At the end of his interesting presidential
The Spectatoraddress to the British Association's meeting at Cambridge, Lord Rayleigh devoted a special section to the relation between science and war. During war itself men of science are...
The Fall in Stocks All over Europe, and beyond Europe
The Spectatorin the United States, the stock markets languish and securities are marked down. Mainly the cause is war-uncertainty. Why should anyone, who has liquid cash, lock it up in...
The Nation's Forests The Forestry Commission's report gives an interesting
The Spectatoraccount of the use of tractor ploughs to prepare for planting sites previously regarded as unplantable. One of the results of using them has been to extend the plantable zone...
Mr. Noyes and the Holy Office The condemnation by the
The SpectatorHoly Office with which Mr. Alfred Noyes's book on Voltaire has been threatened, if it has not suffered, is a matter of personal concern only to members of the Church of Rome,...
The Empire's Farm Animals The meeting for tht first time
The Spectatorof an Imperial Veterinary Conference is an event of considerable interest. Animal husbandry is the most important side of farming over a large part of the British Empire. Mr. F....
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MANOEUVRES OR MOBILISATION ?
The SpectatorTN the present state of Europe it is an almost criminal -1- act so to speak or to write as to increase gratuitously the already alarming tension. The charge is made in the...
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NON-ARYAN NORDICS
The SpectatorProfessor Griffith Taylor's answer is that it has moved away. Taking the main races of the world as five—the Negroes and Negritos of Africa and the Pacific, the Australoids of...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorA REFERENCE which I have seen in an article on another page to the far from creditable record of the British Consulate in Vienna in the handling of refugees seeking shelter in...
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THE MINER'S PERILS
The Spectator. By JACK LAWSON, M.P.* [In the House of Commons on July 25th the Secretary of the Mines Department reported a substantial increase in the number of accidents in mines] T...
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AIR-ATTACK AND DEFENCE
The SpectatorBy NIGEL TANGYE T HE type and volume of equipment adopted for a nation's aerial forces rest largely on assumptions. Nobody knows with any degree of accuracy the relative...
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CENSOR'S INSTRUCTIONS
The SpectatorA N article on Greece under its present dictatorship appeared . in: The Spectator of August 5th. A document has reached us which throws an instructive light on the working of...
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WITH THE JEWS IN VIENNA
The SpectatorBy AN ARYAN ENGLISHMAN . T HEcitY of gaiety, as everyone knows, has become a city 'of persecution, a city of sadism. " Wein, Weib and Gesang " have gone, and uniforms,...
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THE NEW HOLIDAY-MAKERS
The SpectatorBy FRANK SINGLETON [An article based on an enquiry into the actual experiences of new holiday-makers will cppear next week] W ITH August well advanced, over two million more...
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SOCIAL SERVANTS : VI. THE HOSPITAL ALMONER
The SpectatorBy R. F. SCOTT T HE principal, if not sole, function of a hospital Almoner is popularly, yet none the less erroneously, regarded as being concerned with the extraction of...
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CRICKET MORE OR LESS
The SpectatorBy LAURENCE HOUSMAN Y EARS and years ago, when I was still young, I invented " Bridge," long before the Clubs had heard of it ; but doubting whether anyone would regard it as...
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THE WAKAMBA AND THEIR CATTLE
The SpectatorCommonwealth and Foreign By CLELAND SCOTT Nanyuki, Kenya. THE protest of the Wakamba tribe, in Kenya, against the decree that the number of their cattle must be limited,...
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THE CINEMA
The Spectator" Son of Mongolia." At the Berkeley " Battle of Broad.. way." At the Gaumont TRAUBERG, the director of New Babylon, that magnificent, ludicrous and savage version of the...
Abbey Theatre Drama Festival
The SpectatorSTAGE AND SCREEN THE THEATRE ELEVEN plays in a week, even if they are short and Irish, is at least one too many. So we must be excused for missing the performance. of The...
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ART
The SpectatorA Chinese Painter's Views on Art SOME time ago I wrote an article in The Spectator expressing my doubts about the value of Chinese art, and suggesting that the Chinese had...
RUDOLF BINDING
The Spectator[Von einem deutschen Korrespondentenl MOZART erklang an seinem Grabe, in das Bayerns Berge griissten. Rudolf G. Binding, .Dichter and Reitersmann. der Sanger des Zeitlosen, der...
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COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorFood of the Grouse The red grouse, as behoves the one bird that is the exclusive gift of this island to ornithology, has flourished in defiance of all the evil things said of...
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TEACHING RIGHT AND WRONG
The SpectatorLETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSIR,—Having but lately left a public school, I should like to take the opportunity of endorsing the truth in Mr. Veagh's article on public school religion. From personal...
PUBLIC SCHOOL RELIGION
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] _ Sta,—Mr. Veagh's indictment is substantially correct : and the fault has been largely attributable to Christians. But his solution is...
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RELIGION AND THE REFORMATION
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I tried not to evade that psychological point to which your readers' attention had been called, but to clear it. Power, by itself, is a...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] thought- for a. second
The Spectatorthat Mr. Wood was going to overwhelm me by his charity; and play the part of injured innocence to perfection. But no ; I fear, as I suspected all along, that his questions are...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — Mr. Rowse says that
The Spectatorit was a pity that Catholics " should have insisted upon dying " during the times of religious persecution. Also that they were divided among themselves as to what they died...
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WEST INDIAN COLOUR-BAR
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A recent incident in Jamaica has proved that it is no spirit of merely carping criticism which has moved to protest those who have noticed...
SLAVES UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—My attention has been called to an article by 'Sir John Harris in your issue of July 15th, entitled " Slaves Under the British Flag." It...
" ADVOCATES OF THE LEAGUE "
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Having been engaged in Geneva during the past month, I have only just seen Mr. Spender's article of July 8th, describ- ing the strange...
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GENERAL LAMBERT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Inasmuch as
The Spectatorit is the object of my biography of General Lambert (" Cromwell's Understudy ") to do justice to his character and worth, may I be allowed to defend him against several of Mr....
WHERE CAN HEINRICH GO ?
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — It is rather aggravatingly insulting to an Indian in particular and India in general for Mr. Bolton to suggest that the Jewish refugees...
" THE REBEL AND HIS VOID [Ti? the Editor of
The SpectatorTHE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In his review of Heinrich Heine in your last week's issue, Mr. Edward Sackville West says : " Goethe has, as usual, the Iasi word, with his brief dictum :...
THE GOVERNMENT AND AGRICULTURE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSta,—The apparent neglect of agriculture by the Government, referred to in " A Spectator's Notebook " of July 29th and the recent decision of the National Farmers' Union to...
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A VENIAL LITTLE PRANK
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The ponderously heavy tone adopted in the paragraph on " Vandalism and the Army " in your last issue must be a delight to those of your...
ABORTION AND MEDICAL PRACTICE
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Sir Benjamin Cohen says in his letter in your issue of August 12th that it is certain that the legalisation of abortion would not be...
THE EAST ADMONISHES THE WEST
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Joad errs in surmising that, in crediting him with encyclopaedic knowledge of China and the Far East, I was puffing your readers'...
THE PREMIER'S CATARRH
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Janus' amusing paragraph on speculations on this subject reminds me of a story about Prince Metternich. When the news of his death appeared...
DOWSING FOR OIL
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sm,—Articles have appeared in the papers lately about the test well for oil at Dalkeith, where an apparently successful bore has been made by...
GERMAN DEBT PAYMENT
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I take the liberty of traversing your reply to question 2 on page 14 of your issue of July 1st, 1938. Germany has defaulted absolutely on...
NELSON AND MALTA
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—With reference to Mr. Baerlein's article on Malta in your issue of August i2th, may I point out that Nelson's detraction of Malta was...
DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to•
The Spectatornotify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The name, _the previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.
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THE USE OF HISTORY
The SpectatorBOOKS OF THE DAY By A. L. ROWSE WHAT is the, use 9f history, say the unintelligent, the ultra- utilitarian, and do not pause for an answer. Yet there is an answer, _ a pretty...
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ON PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
The SpectatorEvidence of Purpose. By Zoe Richmond. (Bell. 3s. 6d.) Evidence of Personal Survival from Cross Correspondences. By H. F. Saltmarsh. (Bell. 3s. 6d.) Discarnate Influence in Human...
THE FORTUNATE ISLES
The SpectatorFuir, let-bas fuir . . . Most people have some sort of private Utopia to which, had they only the power, they would like to reshape their surroundings. Those who have combined a...
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THE MAKING OF A NATION
The SpectatorThe Canadians : The Story of a People. By George M. Wrong. (Macmillan. 18s.) No one has made a greater contribution to historical knowledge in Canada 'Omit Professor Wrong, the...
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WILLIAM IRELAND AND THE SHAKESPEARE PAPERS
The SpectatorFORGERY is a fascinating subject, and it is surprising that its history is not more frequently exploited. Skilful imposture is always engaging ; and even when, as so often, the...
The History of the English Novel: The Day Before Yesterday.
The SpectatorBy Ernest A. Baker. (iWitherby. 16s.) MEN AND MESSAGES The History of the English Novel: The Day Before Yesterday. By Ernest A. Baker. (iWitherby. 16s.) THIS is the ninth...
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THE SOUTHERN STATES
The SpectatorThe Old South Struggles for Democracy. By William E. Dodd. (Macmillan. 16s.) Timm was wide-spread regret among American historians when Professor William E. Dodd, of Chicago,...
BAROQUE SCULPTURE
The SpectatorCONSIDERING the wide popularity of the German Baroque in England, and the constant stream of English tourists which can be seen passing through the major Bavarian churches, it...
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A DRAM OF POISON -
The SpectatorNot To Be Taken. By Anthony Berkeley. (Hodder and Stoughtt.a. 7s. 6d.) The Fashion in Shrouds. By Margery Allingham. (Heinemaaa. 8s. 6d.) Trent Intervenes. By E. C. Bentley....
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TWO NOVELS
The SpectatorNo novels could have less in common than the two I have selected from this week's batch. Mr. Cooper's is modern, and cynically gay ; Mr. Mason's Konigsmark belongs to the school...
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CURRENT LITERATURE
The SpectatorThe Introduction to this book (Macmillan, 8s. 6d.), in which the author tentatively describes himself as " a banker who believes in God," rouses the gravest misgivings. One has...
WARSHIPS AT WORK
The SpectatorBy Commander J. Hunt and Allan Baddeley For every British warship that leaves the slips a new book on warships seems to leave the press. In this latest work (John Miles, 7s....
SCIENCE AND MECHANISATION IN LAND WARFARE By D. Portway
The SpectatorThis extremely lucid discussion _ of the application of scienc e to war (Heller, 6s.) should appeal to all who are interested iu an exposition of the technical problems of...
Since Mr. Dobb first, in 1928, embodied in book form
The Spectatorhis " Sceptical view of wage theory ' I much water has flowed under the bridges, and economists of many persuasions have admitted - with more or less good grace to the faults of...
• The Unusual featUre about this latest addition (William Hodge,
The Spectatorto& 6d.) to the seemingly endless output of old sailor- men's reminiscences is that the author has enjoyed a fuller education - than most brassbounder-authors. His narrative is...
ST. CHRISTOPHER
The SpectatorBy Christopher. Johnson • Mr.' Johnion's Well-illithrated little boa " (published by himself at To Stafford Street, Edinburgh, 2s. 6d.) is designed to show how widely Si....
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LETTERS TO JANE FROM JAMAICA (1788-1796) Edited by Geraldine Mozley
The SpectatorMrs. Mozley has made a pleasant little book of the letters that her great-great-grandmother; Mrs. Brodbelt, wrote from Jamaica to a daughter at school in England (West India...
Mr. Jepson has produced a handy pocket guide (Times of
The SpectatorIndia, Bombay, 6s.) for the use of travellers by the overland route from Bombay to London. Few regular travellers use this route from choice, and most of those who have to...
Books which consist largely of accounts of big-game hunting are
The Spectatorobviously of very limited appeal, unless they happen to possess such qualities of style and matter as give them general interest. Death by Moonlight (Collins, r5s.) has a small...
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN FORCES IN THE GREAT WAR
The SpectatorBy Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid Canada is late in' beginning to produce her official War history, but Colonel Duguid's first volume (Ottawa : Patenaude) shows that the work,...
Forty years ago Mr. Kearton began his career as a
The Spectatornature photographer by taking some of the earliest photographs of birds in a wild state in the woods of Kenley in Surrey. And now, after a lifetime of wandering in nearly every...
The Week-End Book was too• good an idea to be
The Spectatorleft alone. We have had week-end books for horsemen, for motorists, for golfers, for anglers, and now—why not before ?—for yachtsmen (Seeley, Service, 8s. 6d.). There are notes...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorKicking their heels and waiting for an autumn business rally which may still be many weeks off, if indeed it comes at all, market men have been left to their thoughts. It has...
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FINANaAki FS JULY STEEL P IT was expected that the
The SpectatorBritish Steel Federati,n' s figures of production for July would be 4, , " there were holidays to be allowed for, an accumulation o. ;ainnrted stocks datin g from the beginning...