T HE constructive statement of policy made in Parliament last week and broadcast by Lord Wavell in India has met with a promising reception, even in circles whose first reaction...

It was one of the happiest features of the Belgian constitutional monarchy in the past that it was able, like our own, to keep above party politics, and so represent national...

Arrangements have now been announced for the trial of ordinary war criminals, whose victims have been British prisoners of war or other British nationals. Four or five military...

An ifluminating account of the war that has been fought in Manipur and Burma, and that remains to be fought before the Japanese will be disposed of, was given by General Slim,...

The speech of General de Gaulle before the Consultative Assembly last Tuesday did little to clarify either the Syrian-Lebanese dispute or the immediate prospect of more...

If the Belgian deadlock has just formed, the recent deadlock in Italy has, for the moment at least, been broken. It has been broken largely by the force of personality of Signor...

Demobilisation of men and women from the Army, Navy and Air Force began last Monday, and from now on a steady stream of persons from the Services will pass into civilian life....

AST week saw the winding up of old Parliament, the le King's Prorogation Speech, and the full opening of the election mpaigning_ in the constituencies ; and the people of this...

* * At all events, the noisy exhibitions in the last days of the modern Long Parliament have made it clear that, once Mr. Churchill's pro- posal had been rejected, the date of...

By STRATEGICUS ITH the landings in Borneo the Allied deployment in the Pacific has been carried a step further. The operation took ace against the customary background of...

By " Z " I T will bring satisfaction to all friends of India that before the dissolution Government should have seen their way to reaffirm their policy in regard to the future...

py NEVILL BARBOUR T HE five Power conference requested by General de Gaulle, representing Great Britain,`the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., France and China, was to be one that would...

By EVELYN SIMPSON J UST before Christmas I received a letter from John, with whom I had lost touch for some time. " I hope," he wrote, " that you will be pleased to hear that...

By A. L. KENNEDY A BEGINNING is being made with the cutting down of Govern- ment Offices, especially those which were created or greatly expanded during the war. Of these the...

A PEBBLE plumbing in a mountain pool, The wind of warning shining through the black Circling outward, ripple wide and cool Echoing ever to the poles and back, It blows the...

By HAROLD N I COLSON A T the dinner given last week to Dame Myra Hess many fining compliments were paid to the organisers of the National Gallery concerts. Being myself one of...

" Thunderhead, Son of Flicka." At the Gatimont.—" Experiment Perilous." At the Tivoli.—" To Have and Have Not " and " Penicillin." At Warners. — " Stricken Peninsula." For...

WHAT more is there to be said about Blake? Nothing in the five hundred words at my disposal. It has been established by posterity, backed by voices of far greater authority than...

MUSIC IT is odd that Britten, so aware of all the accessories of successful operatic composition, and so astonishingly clever in his use of all those musical devices that make...

THE THEATRE Tuts play.by Franz Werfel and S. N. Behrman is good theatre and has the Merit - of improving as it goes .along. Characteristically it is weakest where it is most...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—The Dean ofChichester, in expressing his admiration of bravery, honours me by his assurance that he would like to think well of me. Therefore, I...

between Mr. Gollancz and myself seems to be this. He wrote in his pamphlet that be "rut a heavier burden of responsibility (i.e., for the horrors of Buchenwald, &c.) on the...

SIR,—A Minister is entitled to .defend himself from attack, especially when that attack is charged heavily with personal imputations ; but if he wishes to ridicule his...

a statement to Press correspondents on June 5th, in which he admitted that " he had never quarrelled with Hitler on political grounds," and that he offered in t939 to serve for...

hit the point. I am afraid that the average soldier is not concerned at all with how it hurts the German people—if it does at all—but how it is hurting him himself. To...

Snt,—May I endorse " Janus's " conclusions on fraterhisation in your issue of June 1st, and, at the same time, question whether he is right in assuming that the soldier in...

SIR, —Nationalist India has, during the last few months, grown to look upon your paper as an objective source of information, constructive in criticism and possessing that...

that he " spoke of restrictive prac- tices" not "of the rules of the building trade unions" hardly lifts the imputation he has laid upon a hard-working and responsible section...

Stn,—I read in your issue of May 18th, which I have just received, that Strategicus's weekly articles are about to cease. Unless a more able pen than mine has already publicly...

SUCCESSIVE journeys that any . Englishman_ may envy have been made in his vacations by Mr. J. A. *eta, the Dean of St. Catherine's College, Cambridgp...He,peregrinated a great...

Sm,—In his letter to you on Dentistry and the State, Mr. Edward Samson says that " Between the two wars dentistry has been available to nearly every person in Great Britain."...

Sta,—Having moved from a bombed South London vicarage to rural Herefordshire last autumn, the primitive conditions of life are a revelation to me as they probably would be to...

Man, Morals and Society. By J. C. Flugel. (Duckworth. 21s.) PSYCHO–ANALYSIS grew up as a method for dealing with mental diseases, but the theories and principles which the...

John Tyndall JOHN TYNDALL. was cast in the same mould as many other great Victorians: a very hard worker ; a great controversialist, fearless when fighting for what he held to...

The Ships of Youth. By Geraldine Edge and. May E. Johnston. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) THE idea that it is unfair to shoot at the wounded had taken deep root in the...

THIS essay seeks to develop the thesis put forward in the author's former work, The Future of South-East Asia. Indians have failed to realise the decisive influence of sea power...

Little Coquette. By Renee de Fontarce McCormick. (William Heinemann. 9s. 6d.) Out of the Dust. By Ruth Cokayne. (Hurst and Blackest. 8s. 6d.) Not Expected to Live. By Marten...

sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 7141y" 3rd.' Envelopes should be received not later than first post that...

The Winner of Crossword No. 326 is F. C. GEARY, ESQ., Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

To the traditional view of Scotland as a poor country, Dr. Lamont opposes sixty pages full of facts, from tomatoes to granite. "Unde- veloped potentialities" is the keynote:...

APART from some activity in Canadian Pacific and other Canadian dollar securities prompted • by reports of a rise in the exchange rate, .the stock markets are following the...