T HE recall of Ministers to London, the conferences with Opposition leaders and Dominion High Com- missioners, expressions of public opinion like that con- tained in the...

factors in the international situation is obviously the attitude of the United States in the event of the decision of the League of Nations to impose against Italy sanctions...

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past that serious conflicts were going on beneath the uneasy surface of Nazi politics. The unwonted silence of General Goering and the Jew-baiting field-day in Berlin have both...

personal views on the Church conflict in Germany arc remains undisclosed. But both the Roman Catholic Bishops and the Protestant Confessional Synod have been convinced by the...

oracle of internal developments in Germany, however, the most interesting . parts of Dr. Schacht's speech were those which referred to the economic policy of which he is...

persistent and disturbing tendency of new industry to neglect the old and stricken industrial area of the north and to settle in the prosperous south. Of the 87,200 persons...

of Chinese politics is that resignations should never be taken at their face-value. Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Prime Minister, has now found that his health is more robust than he...

all assenting in principle to the holding of a naval conference in London in the coming autumn, there is every prospect that a conference will be held. That the prospects of a...

Ill-Treatment of Children The annual report of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, whose work is steadily expanding, serves to show also how much...

Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, whose death was announced last Tuesday, has probably done more than any other Man to state and promote the modern British view of prison treatment,...

statistics of road accidents shows, according to the Ministry of Transport, that most of them could have been avoided if the principles of the new Highway Code had been obeyed,...

In regard to certain classes of goods, the consumer continues to be convinced that the price he pays to the retailer is far too high compared with the price paid to producers....

country to pride ourselves upon the fact that the conditions governing work in factories and mines are . equal to the best in the world • and superior to those prevailing in...

The Milk Marketing Board Poll As we anticipated in a leading article a fortnight ago, the ballot of milk producers has given a large majority for the continuance of the Milk...

F OR crisis it undisguisedly is--La crisis not merely in the destinies of Abyssinia or of Italian Fas- cism, but in the fate of Europe and the world. The breakdown of the Paris...

T HE Nineteenth Zionist Congress opened at Lucerne last Tuesday, attended by 450 delegates repre- senting more than 900,000 members of the Zionist organization in about fifty...

of Macleod can only be fully understood by those who know Dunvegan and its castle, one of the most romantic as it is one of the oldest (the oldest, I risk contradiction in...

the fifth Test Match is the reflection that if it had lasted four days instead of three England would probably have won. Why the Australian matches should be given four days and...

I T is fortunate that the Dominion representatiVes in London at this critical moment are most of them men with personal experience of Geneva. Mr. Bruce, the Australian High...

Birmingham is also experiencing a boom in Jews'- harps . . . One firm is producing 100,000 harps a week.'!

reaches me from New Hampshire, but its author is said to be,a New York stockbroker :- " I wonder if you appreciate the tremendous responsibility you and I are carrying I Note...

of a well-known swimming- pool in Kent to admit coloured bathers is an unpleasant affair. Quite apart from any question of liberal-minded- ness, if ever there was a moment for...

has left for the Continent. No one could for a moment grudge him a well-earned holiday, but his experience and support might be of the greatest value to the Government at this...

By TAPAN today is faced with a fateful and inescapable 0 problem of national reckoning. Reduced to its simplest and bluntest terms, this problem might be Phrased as follows :...

By MARGERY PERHAM R IOTING between negroes and Italians in Jersey city : huge demonstrations in Harlem simul- taneous prayers in Ethiopia and negro America for " peace and...

By JOHN GRIERSON M R. RENE CLAIR has just promised us that his next film will be " one hundred per cent. cinema." Ile complains, and with justice, that the film has been...

By I. G. P. SINGE WITH the departure of Mr. Lionel Fielden for India -V last week, as Director of the British Indian Broadcasting Service, broadcasting in India definitely...

By S. K. RATCLIFFE DUBLIC mourning, in these days of universal publicity, is too often not • what it •seems to be. But there can be no doubt at all as to the reality of the...

By DEREK VERSCHOYLE T OWARDS the end of the last century the world of popular idealism was convulsed by the arrival of a new religion. Shocks and tremors occurred throughout...

By ROSE MACAULAY A FINE example of commercial candour has been set by the librarian of a Scottish lending library, who owned at an educational meeting last week that eighty per...

Holiday Shows WE get a curious sidelight on the methods of the dealers from the exhibitions which they arrange for the mixed audience of unwilling residents and willing visitors...

The Cinema " Where's George ?" At the Leicester Square.--" Boys Will Be Boys. " At the Tivoli. " The Murder Man." At the Empire. Tins week's Grim Subject is Fun : that...

Some birds become more useful than ever in times of drought. The worm is only to be secured in moist weather. It is a beast that has the power, in a certain small degree, of...

The season has favoured such sun-lovers as the dahlia and some flowers so tender as to be regarded as exclusively 'suitable for the greenhouse are now revelling in the open air...

A good many country crafts are kept alive by sympathetic support that is quite outside the economic world ; and some easy critics assert that the little business cannot compete...

• The other day I came up a little narrow valley cut by a hill stream ; and towards the top of it, while yet the water had six miles to cut a yet deeper passage to the sea, I...

Drought Influences The effects of such a drought as we have experienced in the life of the country have often been indirect. While Plants may suffer directly from lack of...

Gardeners may be divided into two classes : those who are followers of Ha and those who are complete heretics. Ha or Amber Giant stands as a type—immense, lusty, full of robust,...

One advantage of the survival of this sort of local factory is the maintenance of inherited skill. This craftsman comes of a family of craftsmen and one at any rate of his...

'Criminal Weeds Some influence, perhaps a succession of dry years, has been peculiarly favourable to the growth of certain weeds, especially those on the index expurgatorius....

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The world has lost something rare and valuable by the death of Will Rogers. He had an attitude towards life which never seemed to falter....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,-111r. Binney admits that I am " legally and logically c orrect." As far as my reply to Dr. Stopes was concerned, that was all that I aimed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I notice in the Country Life page of your issue of August 9th Sir William Beach Thomas says " Time was when there was grouse in Surrey. "...

[To the Editor of TIM SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is becoming increasingly clear that in the Rake Abyssinian question it is the deliberate intention of. Italy to challenge the whole...

[To the Editor of TirE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sorry if the jokes I seem to have made about Spanish national customs struck your correspondent, Senor Escudero, as misplaced. I do...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. St. John Ervine is not quite such a simpleton as some of your readers may be led to imagine from his letter in last week's issue of...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since you published my letter on July 19th, urging the necessity of founding a chair of English Literature at Athens University, I have...

By L. A, G. STRONG IT is close on twenty years since I stopped short one wet afternoon in Oxford and stared incredulously at a playbill. ' The bill advertised the week's...

A History of the Anglo-Saxons. By R. H. Hodgkin. Two Vols. (Oxford University Press. 3,03.) .ENGLISII HISTORY did not, in fact,, begin in 1060. That engraver date comes more...

Extra-Sensory Perception. By J. B. Rhine. (Faber. 12s. 6d.) nip: matter of this book is of such interest and importance that I cannot do better than summarize it with the...

The Poet's Tongue. An Anthology chosen by W. H. Auden and John Garrett. (Bell. es.) VEIti , little of the ordinary thought of life can be carried on without a poetic use of...

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ANYONE who sets out to write a scientific account of a native tribe has nowadays two classes of reader to satisfy. He is expected to provide detailed information for experts on...

Feminine Attitudes In the Nineteenth Century. By C. Willett Cunnington. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d. ) AIR. DENNIS BRADLEY has already written a history of the feminine masquerade from...

Men of Good Will. Book VII : The Lonely. Book VIII : • Provincial Interlude. By Jules Romaine. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. (Levet Dickson. 7s. ed. each.) As M. Rornains' great...

By SEi(N O'FAOLAIN Full House. By M. J. Farrell. (Collins. 7s. Gd.) Not for Heaven. By Dorothy 1Vieeleary. (Barker. Is. Gd.) Or a futility like that of the scholastic who...

THE BROADSHEET NO. 5 Edited by W. B. Yeats and F. R. Higgins The broadsheet ballad had an important function in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It circulated, through...

By Ch. Guignebert, translated by S. H. Hooke This book (Kegan Paul, 25s.) is the reductio ad absurdum of the historical method whose history Albert Schweitzer outlined from...

Californian banalities (Chapman and Hall, 7s. ad.) though -described by its blurb as being a frank exposi- tion in naked relief of the Hollywood mind, is actually a very casual...

ddisonISTRESSES Mr. E. R. Eddison needs a large canvas to work upon. In Mistress of Mistresses (Faber and Faber, 10s. ad.) he employs one almost as large as in his masterpiece,...

of the early Renaissance in Italy to the middle ages is a problem still full of difficulties, and any new light on the subject is welcome. In her book, Neo-Platonism of the...

Some Recent Recordings Tim summer months are always a lean time for gramophone- addicts and the only advantage of the situation is that. ; un- embarrassed by any surfeit of...

The Radio Show THE Radio Show is smaller this year : it could well be-smaller still. The vapourings of certain sections of the Press about the enormous public interest in this...

War and the Markets A FORTNIGHT ago when dealing in these columns with 'the general investment outlook and admitting the probability that during the next week or two there...

The excellent profits secured by the Associated British Picture Corporation for the past year exceeded market expec t tations. The trading profit showed an increase for the year...

RISE IN BANKING DEPOSITS. JUST before markets began to be adversely affected by the Abyssinian crisis, a fresh impetus was given to the investment markets by the disclosure in...

At the recent general meeting of Covent Garden Properties Com- pany, Limited, the Chairman, Mr. Philip E. Hill, had a favour- able report to place before the shareholders so far...

THE LATE SIR BASIL BLACKETT. I need scarcely say that the sad news of the tragic death of Sir Basil Blackett came quite as a shock to the City, where there was a very clear...

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