TTALY, who, having pledged herself to non-intervention 1 in Spain, has admitted officially that she has 40,000 soldiers serving there, cannot complain if any conciliatory...

the urgent need for rapid action, and the fact that an appeal to the nine signatories of the Washington Treaty of 1922 was decided on as long ago as October 6th, the convocation...

to depend on the belief that her sweeping successes in the North will destroy the spirit of resistance in the Chinese at Shanghai. This object has not yet been attained, both...

this issue of The Spectator Viscount Kano, London manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank, gives reasons for confidence in Japan's economic and financial situation. He has none the...

serious anxiety, Arab terrorism showing signs of increasing rather than diminishing. Last Friday a detachment of police was ambushed by Arabs near Bethlehem, and two British...

of the long-awaited Republican offensive on the Aragon front, and the Nationalist forces, after severe fighting, have been driven back in the neighbourhood of Saragossa, which...

10 per cent. levy on the capital of joint stock undertakings, and the new taxes which were announced this week ; the levy, to be paid in 15 instalments by 1940, will be applied...

accurate value the outcry in the German Press about the election-meeting fracas at Teplitz-Schoenau in Bohemia on Sunday between the Sudetendeutsch supporters of Herr Henlein...

discussed by the new Parliament is that of air raid precautions. The recent Government announcement that only some ro or 12 per cent. of the cost of measures of protection...

many attempts in the past, by reorganisation, to improve its condition. But these have, in the main, failed owing to the extreme hetero- geneity of the industry, with the...

that has broken out afresh in The Times on the subject of German colonies is adding, and could add, little to a discussion that was long since worn thread- bare. The sound...

the world of perhaps its greatest physicist. Rutherford, while creating the modern view of matter, yet adhered to the nineteenth- century tradition of expressing his ideas in a...

of a declining population is by now a well-worn topic, Sir William Beveridge, speaking at Oxford last Saturday, dealt with a new and impor- tant side of the problem when he...

T HERE can be few of those who read Lord Hugh Cecil's letter in last Monday's Times who did not recognise with thankfulness that the gift of prophetic utterance had not...

T HE successful Labour candidate at North Islington last week attributed his election to working-class resentment at the rising cost of living and especially at the rising price...

T HE damages for libel awarded to Lord Camrose and the Daily Telegraph—£12,500 and £7,5oo respectively— against the Fascist paper Action are heavy, and the amount of damages in...

explanations for the slump on Wall Street on Tuesday, seem, oddly enough, hardly to mention one factor which, to judge from what I hear privately, played a considerable part. A...

London papers are doing what they can to help him. Take, for instance, headings like the following, from last Saturday's Daily Herald : MR. EDEN RUNS AWAY : DUCE LEFT A FREE...

great railways has just been opened near Paddington seems curiously belated. For years past there have been " consolidated ticket offices" in different parts of New York and...

character I gave him last week. I said quite accurately then that during his visit to Germany he had (except in response to a young gentleman of three) rather studiously avoided...

of the Bible, printed as ordinary literature, with verse and chapter divisions omitted, and the archaic spelling of the translators of 1611 brought up to date when necessary....

Express and its views, but this editorial paragraph from its issue of Wednesday seems worth quotation : " Mussolini has not paid for Abyssinia yet, orders a 10 per cent. capital...

By L. T. FLEMING F REE STATE politics, it would appear, have once again reached that stage where those behind cry " Forward ! " and those before cry " Back ! " It is true that...

[The author of this article, aged 18, has just gone up to one of the ,women's colleges at Oxford.] I ALWAYS feel slightly guilty when I think about " my generation." For one...

By LAWRENCE ATHILL [This is the fourth of-six articles in which Major Athill has embodied the conclusions he has reached as a result of a personal investigation into British...

P. SNOW By C. T HE sciences of living things are still in an unsettled condition. No one can say—as it is reasonable to say of physics—that the fundamental ideas have been...

By J. V. BRYANT to sell goatsmilk cheeses at the corner of the square, heard it among the first and cried it aloud to all corners, waving a lumpy little cheese wrapped in dried...

By MONICA REDLICH T HEREare to my mind few: pastimes more fascinating than to observe the divergence between the words which we use in our everyday speech and what we mean by...

RIVALRIES IN CENTRAL EUROPE By HUGH SETON-WATSON NOTHING strikes a visitor to Central Europe more forcibly than the complete domination of internal politics by external...

THE THEATRE " Measure for Measure." By William Shakespeare. At the Old Vic MR. GUTHRIE'S production of this bitter, rather intractable comedy has more virtues than faults,...

"Les Perles de la Couronne." At the Curzon—" Le Roman d'un Tricheur." At the Academy—" Modern Inventions." At the London Pavilion — " Glock-Cleaners." At the Empire THE value of...

Specialists DURING the last thirty years or more the real innovations which have taken place in painting have been on the technical side rather than on the side of subject, if...

Church Restoration ALMOST every month some ecclesiastical fabric becomes violently in need of funds. Church restoration and building are now a matter more of church finance than...

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, which has been the target of some highly displeased critics, issues a seasonal quarterly that is always of interest ; but in its...

It is worth while remembering that an ambition of this sort was the motive of the gift of Chequers to the nation. Lord Lee of Fareham, as he told me before the gift was made,...

" Ellum " A vigorous attempt is being made by the Timber Association to encourage the wooden house in Britain. The timber houses of the United States are held up as a model, and...

sulphur butterfly ; and the pleasure its appearance gave emphasised the impression that never before had I seen so few autumnal butterflies. The odd thing is that this general...

An organ and an organisation of which more ought to be known is the Guild Gardener, an excellent monthly magazine, published by the Guild itself. Now this Guild, which spends...

Salving England Salvation proceeds at an accelerated pace. Bits of the soul of the country are made safe week after week. The National Trust has just secured a most essential...

the National Trust, Mr. George Trevelyan, launched a very definite campaign at the annual meeting of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. The Government is to be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Mr. George Blake's letter makes it clear that he meant his article to be taken seriously. His statements, therefore, call for serious...

[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 " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Not being able to quote analytical statistics regarding the number of ex-service and native-born Irishmen on the dole in Liverpool Mr. L....

SIR,—May I be allowed to thank Mr. Olivieri-Munroe for amending my article on Malta, published in The Spectator of September Toth, in a letter (October 15th) which would imply...

way of reply to Mr. Charles Wright I do not need to, and indeed, I cannot, add to any previous letters. We both seem to stick to our opinions and repetition adds to them no...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. C. F. Andrews' article on India under Congress in the last number of The Spectator seems to call for comment on at least two important...

Blunt's article on Picasso and Mr. Herbert Read's criticism of it. To me the important point implicit in Mr. Blunt's article was that Picasso belongs to a generation of...

calls attention to several important facts about Picasso, some of which were unknown to me, but which do not seem to me to affect the thesis which I put forward, namely, that...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, --AS one who also sits at a desk in an engineering works well known throughout the world and whose age and origins are very similar to those of the author of...

SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Mr. Richard Aldington in his little dialogue " Archie's Dilemma " misquotes the Catechism by substituting the past for the future tense in the clause which...

SIR,—I was interested to learn through Mr. Wilson Harris of Mr. Eden's denial of my ttatement regarding his alleged change of front at the 1936 Assembly. I had, of course,...

SIR,—In answer to Sir William Beach Thomas's query " Where is the nearest hive to Charing Cross ? " I should hazard a guess that they are the two hives situated on the roof of...

[D'un correspondant parlslen.] Nous avons eu recemment la visite de lord Leverhulme, venu a la tete d'un comite qui prepare le septieme congres de scientific management pour ran...

Sra,—Mr. A. G. Bradley's article was most welcome. There is perhaps more in London to remind us of Mrs. Carter than he suggests. She was interred (1806) in the burial ground of...

Haldane, 1856-1915 (The Marquess of Crewe) .. .. Civitas Dei (Wilson Harris) 689 Mr. Leacock Discovers the West (H. V. Hodson) .. 692 Present Dikontents (Honor Croome) 69z...

Civitas Del. By Lionel Curtis. - Vol. III. (Macmillan. 5s.) Wins a brief, stimulating, provocative and occasionally irritating volume Mr. Lionel Curtis brings to an end his...

PROFESSOR STEPHEN LEACOCK, for many years head of the department of Political Economy in McGill University, at the age of sixty-six had never visited the four western provinces...

The Way Out. By Sir George Paish. (Nicholson and Watson. 6s.) IF—if—if. If there had been no Great War ; if the Treaty of Versailles had not been made to serve the ends of...

Gustav Mahler. By BrunoValter. Translated from the German by James Galston. (Keganyaul, ts.) • .... , COMPOSERS, more than other kinds of artist, tend to be of retir-...

Soho months ago.there was published an interesting pamphlet on Charles James Fox's connexions with the town of Bridge- water. In a letter quoted therein, Fox asks a local friend...

THERE still must be many of us whose childhood was fascinated, if- not fashioned, by a strip of vivid portraiture called : The Child — What Will He Become ? The modern palate,...

A Bibliographical Tribute. By Bertha Coolidge -Slade. (Con- stable. 42s.) MARIA EDGEWORTH, then twenty-eight, began het writing with Letters for Literary Ladies in 1795 ; she...

O'BitIEN The Antagonists. By Paul Hervey Fox. (Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d.) •• The Man Who Started Clean. By T. 0. Beachcroft. (Boriswood.' 7s. 6d.) " He would not listen to me...

Skilled diggers since the War have added much to our knowledge of early Palestine and Syria and confirmed in many details the historical narratives • of the Old Testament: Sir...

THE PASSING OF THE STEWARTS By Agnes Mure Mackenzie Dr. Mackenzie's able sketch of Scot- tish history from the Covenant to Culloden (Maclehose, I2S. 6d.) will have a novelty...

The Bishop-designate of Bath and Wells has produced in , Sr. Peter (Cen- tenary Press, 7s. 6d.) a very full and readable study of one of the most significant of Christian...

In this book (Chatto and Windus, 7s. 6d.) the author continues the experi- ments in self-examination which she began in A Life of One's Own. The aim of her investigations is to...

The Chief Scout here records incidents and impressions of his recent trip round Africa. He is writing for Scouts and other " young creatures " in the hope that they will be...

By Edin G. Schary . Mr. Schary is a young Californian who became convinced that the truth about life was to be learnt from the holy men of Tibet. He was not sure who these wise...

In 1804 Jefferson decided that it was time he knew the sort of country there was in the unknown North-West. He sent an expedition to follow the Missouri to its source and if...

Dr. Wales is Field Director of the Greater-India Research Committee, and in the course of his official duties he has travelled extensively in particularly remote and unexplored...

Mrs. Barkas was a member of the Gaumont-British unit which made the Indian scenes for Soldiers Three and the- African scenes for Rhodes of Africa. In this book (Blackie, rots....

SECOND REVIEW BETTER - CARS FOR 1938 ALTHOUGH this year there are even fewer novelties in design or construction at the Motor Show, there is no doubt that the general average of...

Financial Supplement No. 5,704] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937

, - Financial Outlook IF I were to take as a basis for consideration of the general banking and financial outlook the line pursued by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the...

OF recent years China has been passing through social, economic, and political readjustment without parallel in history. For centuries she had clung characteristically to...

As the-Financial and Economic situation of Japan is somewhat obscure to many Westerners who are not acquainted with the Far East, it is perhaps useful for me to indicate a...

PERHAPS one of the most important effects of the world crisis was that it compelled each country to choose between two fundamentally different economic policies. On the one hand...

Policies Tax-Free Income Benefits THE combination of difficult investment conditions and high rates of income tax has resulted in the formulation of a type of policy designed...

few months on the Stock Exchanges of the world has emphasised afresh the great value of life assurance as a means of meeting the onerous death duties. For the purpose of...

some six years since " Unit Trusts " came into being in the form of " Fixed Trusts," a principle from which experience has dictated some departure to the advantage of the...

ARE London stock markets over the worst, or is it safer to assuine that fresh storms are gathering ? Frankly, nobody who is honest will pretend to give a confident answer while...

Fixed interest securities are holding their ground well in face of the political risks, many investors having doubtless decided that while the weather is too stormy to justify...

UNIT TRUST STRENGTH Stockbrokers should take off their hats to investors in the unit trusts. In the search for whipping posts Throgmorton Street has been far too ready to name...

Investors who took my 'advice in June to buy the income debentures of the A.W. Second Stock Trust will be pleased to see matters working out according to plan. It will be...

Cinema shares are out of favour with investors, and balance- sheets like that of Gaumont-British do not help. There is still a chance, however, that the industry will get on to...

EMPIRE EXCHANGES AND PRICE LEVELS EXCHANGE rates between London and the principal British Dominions drew much attention to themselves during the earlier post-War years by a...

Shareholders of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation gave unmistakable evidence at last week's meeting of their strong support for the directors. Mr. Isidore Ostrer, who...

INDUSTRIALS AND AMERICA. PRICE movements in the industrial share market during the past week or so have revived questions whether the prolonged decline in quotations has at...

CURRENT YEAR THE annual general meeting of the Gaumont-British Picture Corpora- tion, Ltd., was held on October 15th at the New Gallery Kinema, Regent Street, W. Mr. Isidore...

The winner of Crossword No. 264 is Dr. H. J. Paterson, The Whins, Gravel Path, Berkhamsted.

BY ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...