W HAT may be the last prolonged battle for Tunisia began when the Eighth Army launched its attack on Monday and gained its first objectives, breaching the enemy lines in the...

S It would be profitless to ignore indefinitely the unfortunate strain in relations between the Soviet Union and Poland. The principal causes of friction are three—differences...

The dispute over the acquisition by Indians of property in South Africa comes at a particularly unhappy moment. Its rights and wrongs are hard to disentangle, the more so since...

The Labour members of the Government see just as clearly as Conservative members the great advantage of unity under a National Government for the prosecution of the war, and no...

Last week Major Lloyd George drew attention to the serious fact that coal-production, so far from having increased, is less each week by too,000 tons than it was a year ago in...

In China, as in Australia, it is appreciated that Germany must be defeated before Britain and the United States can direct an all-out attack on Japan. But it is natural enough...

The Anglo-American Conference which opened at Bermuda last Monday was arranged to explore the possibilities of joint action to meet the urgent need of refugees from German...

It is not in the least surprising that the Labour Party should be uneasy about the proposed continuation of National government after the war, since it sees the obvious danger...

rp HERE is no better forum in the world for a discussion on I y r international affairs than the House of Lords, for no cham- ber in any Parliament commands a greater store of...

'S NOTEBOOK I T would be a mistake to go too far in drawing inferences about the appointments of new German Ambassadors to Madrid, the Vatican and elsewhere, but the choice of...

By STRATEG ICUS HE wide range of speculation about the character of the problem 1r tg 7. Taking merely this aspect of the battles, can it be said that the loss inflicted was...

By QUINTIN 1106G, M.P. A T the point where the Desert Road between Cairo and Alexandria meets that between Cairo and Mersa Matruh the Western Desert may be said to begin. From...

By ISOBEL HUTCHISON HERE came a knock at the cabin-door. "Captain says, would you like to come up on the bridge? They've sighted Kiska." attling my way through flying spray—for...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT M ANY kinds of battles have taken place during the past three and a half years ; battles on land, sea and in the air ; battles of political warfare...

By F. J. SALFELD T HE tall, muscular commander of a British warship was once seen running round his own quarter-deck with an undersized rating in pursuit, and the chase lasted...

HAROLD NICOLSON By L ORD VANSITTART is the victim of his own sincerity. To an age which yearned for solace he prophesied danger ; to an age which longs for relaxation he...

THE THEATRE Tins play is a dramatisation by a Mr. Stemheim, who died recently, of the story Jacques le Fataliste, by Diderot, and the English version is by Ashley Dukes, who...

THE recording, under the auspices of the British Council. of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast adds a large-scale work to the examples of contemporary British music now...

" The Story of Stalingrad." At the Plaza.--" Air Force." At Warner's.—" The Bells Go Down." At the London Pavilion. A GREAT temptation besets the propagandist whose task it is...

a refreshing reminder of the fact that Liberalism is still alive and active. Perhaps it is not too late to hope that some of the leaders of that great party may realise the...

on Spain, by a little-known author, contains yet another propagandist version of con- temporary events. I will not discuss each of your reviewer's rather curious statements...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —As a convinced Conservative, I should like to reply to some points raised in the interesting letter of Mr. D. G. Pumfrett. Conservatives believe in...

Sta,—I snould like, if I may, to protest against certain statements made by Professor Allison Peers in his review of my book The . Spanish Labyrinth. He accuses me of Left Wing...

Sm,—I am convinced that the problem of transport and communications is being tackled on far too small a scale in the various exhibitions and articles on reconstruction. So far,...

Sul,—In your issue of April 16th you have drawn attention to "The New Axis Propaganda " which is now being set on foot by Berlin. In your opinion " it is a change that has some...

Snt,—An entirely adequate answer can be given to all Mr. Hickman Johnson's questions on this subject in your issue of April gth. I confine myself to two. He asks wherein...

SIR, —Mr Macintyre asks what Americans would understand from a sentence like "I am after having lunch." They would understand that the speaker had just had lunch. But the...

the great majority of Englishmen (not Scottish or Irish!) who cherish their speech are with him in deploring the debased sounds given to our fourth vowel when it is long or...

Sta,—In April, 1939, with the help of my gardener and my six-year-old grandson, I sowed 35o black walnuts (7uglans nigra) and 35o French (juglans regia) in the open nursery. The...

SIR,—Janet Adam Smith's illuminating article on the Auld Alliance contained many interesting points which will command general agree- ment. One statement she makes, however,...

question of nature reserves is of great interest to the National Trust. This beneficent body is not primarily concerned with natural history, but it has been almost forced into...

The Senior Service World War at Sea. By Brian Tunstall. (Seeker and Warburg. 12s. 6d.) " SINCE land and sea conditions are so utterly dissimilar, men who earn their living at...

John Ray, Naturalist : His Life and Works. By Charles E. Raves (Cambridge University Press. los.) WITH great scholarship, with deep Understanding, with sympathy and religious...

Report from Tokyo. By Joseph C. Grew. ;Hammond, Hammond and Co. 28. 6d.) IF Madame Bovary is to be believed and this is one of my favourite practices—Ambassadors move in an...

Man and Boy. By Sir Stephen Tallents. (Faber. 2 Is.) SIR STEPHEN, I feel, has been just a little copious. He speaks in his preface of. "the rather formidable task of writing...

Christian Behaviour. A further series of Broadcast Talks by C. S. Lewis. (Geoffrey Bles : The Centenary Press. 2S. 6d.) WHEN, in one of the Talks included in this book, Mr....

The Empty Bowl. By David Hussey. (Methuen. 5s.) The Pandervils. By Gerald Bullett. (Dent. los. 6d.) No Surrender. By Martha Albrand. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.) Reprisal. By...

The winner of Crossword No. 253 llington, Mahon, Yorks. ON MAY 7th is Mr. DOUGLAS HAwsoN, The Mount,

).4 Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct 5 .-!,,gion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ‘!•••' 4th....

love for the League, and as the disciple at least of Bjornson in his sympathy for the historic oppressed peoples of Central Europe, Mr. Hambro n well qualified to expound what...

The Literature of England. A.D. 500 to 1942. By William J. Entwistle and Eric Gillett. (Longmans. 7s. 6c1.1 To attempt to cover the whole field of English literature in 282...

By CUSTOS WITH the Budget hurdle safely behind them, markets have got ba quickly into an easy stride. The pace is no longer hot, but priee as a whole move steadily upward, and,...