Under-Secretary for India explained in the House on Monday, be " due to the increasing scale of the fanatical and anti-British propa- ganda and the Faqir of Ipi," and the whole...

T HE endeavours of the two Oppositions to pick holes in the Government's policy regarding Bilbao are assiduous but not impressive. They failed to prove that the Cabinet had ever...

Lansbury and Herr Hitler last Monday was a brief agreed statement, a good deal of intelligible enthusiasm on the part of Mr. Lansbury and a good deal of studious reserve in...

Com- mittee on the Working Hours of Young Persons published this week shows how much there is still to be done to prevent the exploitation of child-labour in this country. Some...

at the week-end resulted, as was expected, in a vote in favour of strike action against " company unionism " in the Notts coalfield ; but two features of the ballot are of...

agitation in Bucharest at the week-end is not of great importance ; for the marital troubles of Mr. Nicholas Brana, and his quarrel with his brother King Carol are of greater...

a committee is to be appointed on the general question of oil from coal is very much to be welcomed. There have been many experiments with many processes in this field, and, it...

Butler, Director of the International Labour Office at Geneva, is largely devoted to a survey of recovery in various countries, and to an attack on the " unmitigated waste " of...

clarity and skill in presenting complicated figures. He also on this occasion developed an unexpected vein of grim humour, and sent the House into great gusts of laughter as he...

attach so much electoral importance to the events in Spain. There is no indication in their constituencies that there is any rising public support for the indignant protests of...

minority prevented Mr. A. P. Herbert's Marriage Bill from passing the Report stage last Friday ; as only two further days remain for private Members, and on these the Bill will...

a special enlarged Coronation issue, and will include, in addition to all regular features, a series of articles entitled " Coronation Milestones," tracing the changes in...

having moved to the aggressive in the matter of London Squares, the question of access to those barred domains becomes once more a living issue. Like most questions it has two...

issue of Bilbao has overshadowed even the Budget. The Opposition has hammered the Government day after day upon it at question-time, and on Tuesday night they adopted the almost...

A PART from one unexpected tax Mr. Chamberlain's sixth Budget may be justly described as non- controversial. A certain sum has to be raised, for reasons over which the...

E VER since the War Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's now classic volume, The Human Needs of Labour, first published in 1918, has been a blessing and an inspiration to social reformers. It...

L ORD RUNCIMAN has a wonderful constitution and a virile hold on life—he has been looking forward to enter- taining a large party of friends on his yacht ' Sunbeam ' for the...

By ROM LANDAU JEDDAH, SAUDI. ARABIA, March. When . I landed in Saudi Arabia after a three days' journey from Suez, I realised why I had heard Jeddah spoken of as some far...

By SIR ARTHUR WILLERT The theory of the American " melting-pot " persisted right down to the War. Over a million immigrants, mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe, were taken...

By MONA WILSON OW I know the meaning of the word ' grotesque,' " exclaimed Sydney Smith, as Mrs. Grote entered the drawing-room in a rose-coloured turban. " I like them ; I...

By D. W. BROGAN I T is one of the most celebrated of Marxian epigrams that " history repeats itself ; once as tragedy and once as farce." The career of General Boulanger, who...

By COLIN CLARK M ANY important steps in agricultural policy have been taken during the last seven years, some of which have received general support, some of which have been...

By BHA BANI BHATTACHARYA T HE imported foreign film in all its glitter does not let the average Indian audience readily enter the shells of new lives, the lives of the screen...

By E. L. WOODWARD A LTHOUGH the distance between Frejus and Valescure is short, the first mile is a little tiresome. The road is very old ; it passes a Roman theatre and...

Commonwealth and Foreign By WILLARD PRICE Y OU cannot assess the Japanese army numerically. Japanese officers have often protested to me with a smile that the Japanese soldier...

has found a safe, but terribly constricted, asylum in the Casbah, the native quarter of Algiers, from which he cannot move without arrest : a native police inspector, allowed,...

Garden. STAGE AND SCREEN OPERA Tim opera season at Covent Garden opened on Monday with a good performance of Verdi's Otello, the greatest of all Italian tragic operas, in...

La Sernaine h Paris THIS is supposed to be a dead season in Paris for exhibitions, but in spite of that there are three shows at least of the first import- ance, although one...

The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich " THE first part of an Englishman's creed must be that he believeth in the sea," wrote the Marquess of Halifax in 1649. Yet it is a...

English Primeurs The Royal Horticultural Society, which is the best friend of the private gardener, has begun to cast a wider net. It has roped in the National Farmers' Union....

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was very interested in the letter of Mr. Lindsay S. Garrett, contained in your issue of the 16th. I would remind Mr. Garrett of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Six,—It is unfortunate that Mr. Herbert Twamley, in seeking to undermine my statement that the only serious attempts at penal reform in this...

LETTERS 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"...

THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In your columns of April 2nd, Janus states that it will be a folly hardly distinguishable from crime if a trade agreement with the United States is not...

the merits and demerits of this Bill. Your correspondent of April 9th, writing from Perth, has apparently misunderstood my purpose. Rightly or wrongly, forty-seven Scottish...

(in his letter, The Spectator of March 59th) has surely done me some injustice. He writes that in my letter there was a " tinge of cankering scepticism as to the development of...

usual with Mr. Harry Price, he has once more managed to get his facts all wrong. I am not on the staff of a Spiritualist paper, but merely contribute to the Spiritualist and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S nt,—Dr. Van Praaght's argument seems to amount to this that, unless any branch of science is pursued to a fairly advanced stage, it cannot...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, With reference to the article which appeared in your issue of March 26th, under the heading " The Position in Tanganyika "—I do not know...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Graham Greene enjoys a wide reputation as the most acute and reliable film critic in this country. It was therefore something of a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Ever since the days of Bishop Heber we have been singing about . . . Ceylon's Isle Where every prospect pleases And only man is vile."...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Relative " is mixing up profit-making licensed houses with Registered Hospitals. The latter, also for private patients, are governed by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIRS I hope that I shall not appear ungracious if I point out that Mr. John Sparrow, in his able and generous review of my book The Banned...

LD'un correspondant parisien1 At, propre comme au figure, c'est de l'allumette aujourd'hui que nous vient la lumiere. Ecoutons M. Francois Milan, senateur et president de la...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—May we bring before your readers a very interesting experiment which the Lincoln People's Service Club is under- taking among clubs for...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—I am endeavouring to edit a selection of the letters of my brother, Osbert Burdett. I will be grateful if owners of any letters likely to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Dr. Barker may be interested to learn that the parallel between the Ulysses speech and Elyot's Governour was pointed out by E. E. Kellett...

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