has been temporarily solved by the appoint- . ment of a thoroughly representative Government under General de Gaulle ; but there can be little confidence that the solution...

While the Labour Government proceeds cheerfully with its plans for nationalisation in this country, events in Asia develop in a manner that will soon demand its pressing...

It appears impossible to reconcile the Soviet Union's latest action in Persia with its solemn undertaking to recognise and maintain the independence, sovereignty and territorial...

The report of the Evershed' Commission on the cotton spinning industry appointed rest August has now been presented to the Ministry of Labour, and gives hope 'that t solution...

Sunday in Portugal seems to have been to proclaim publicly the dictatorial nature and the restricted popular basis of Dr. Salazar's regime. Dictators often make use of elections...

There was little to surprise anyone in Mr. Morrison's statement on nationalisation in the House of Commons this week. He announced that in addition to nationalising the coal...

Monday when he addressed a joint session of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. Once again he emphasised the difficulties facing this country and the. deprivations she has...

After over two months the Belsen trial concluded last week with sentences of death on eight of the accused, and varying sentences of imprisonment on others. There has been much...

S TATEMENTS and discussions in Parliament this week have emphasised with the force of a three-line whip the need for increasing vigilance on the part, not merely of His...

ten years old. Its past is on record, but its future is obscure. The Government is at present considering the whole question of British publicity abroad, and the fate of the...

M Y note of last week on the singular failure to appoint leading educationalists and scientists to the British delegation to the recent conference of the United Nations...

left me cold and a little antagonistic ; this kind of thing—cheap and a little toadying—is so familiar. Which shows once more the folly of leaping to conclusions, for the book,...

were asked what public school he would most —." readily see abolished the unanimous answer would be Nothing on earth will induce me to supply the missing word either publicly or...

course, but they present a problem on which it would hardly be seemly to touch more than lightly. The condemned men are to be hanged, not shot, and hanging is not a soldier's...

Some information given by the Minister of Labour on Tuesday puts in their right proportions some of the Government's predic- tions about demobilisation. On July 28th great...

to fmd, say, a Balliol man in the House of Commons it is quicker to look for one on the Government side than the Opposition's. But the interest of Labour Members in the latest...

By THE REV. RONALD ALLEN A T the very first, it seems the same Holland. The windmills still turn, black and white cows still pasture on meadows some of which a few months ago...

By WILFRID ROBERTS, M.P. D URING the General Election Mr. Tom Williams published an article in the agricultural Press setting out the Labour Party's agricultural policy. " . ....

By AN UNDERGRADUATE T HE first essay I wrote for my tutor read, so I was told, like a military directive. ' He was far kinder about it than my com- manding officer would have...

By SAMUEL CARR A FTER Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Essen must be the most bomb. damaged city of its size in the world. When the Allies first arrived there, six months or so ago, it...

AN architect writing, in allusion to some mention of Corinthian and Norman columns, calls attention to the architecture of trees. After lament- ing with indignation of the...

as food has been so strongly marked and proved so valuable in a rather flavourless world that the Ministry of Agriculture has much enlarged and improved its other book on the...

when their proper flowers fail and the bareness of the soil becomes more apparent. For some while before the war experts were seeking for a good green or flowery carpet for the...

sub-soil (as practised long since by Dr. Durham) seems to be more common than I had thought. For example: A high dignitary of the Church on the West Coast of Scotland tells me...

preservation of a certain albino wild goose by whose most visible presence a problem of migration might be solved. This week I have seen a request for the slaying of geese. A...

Solf's cross-examination by Judge Freisler. Q.: "You have called our treatment of the Jews `in- human'? " A.: " Yes." Q.: " What about the Quakers? You know that they are...

capital in 1940, I should have found it difficult to decide virhether it was More honourable to resign my post suddenly or to continue to serve my country to the best of my...

that great German Liberal Dr. Wilhelm Solf. I have verified the relevant facts ; I am able to mention the names of those concerned ; the account which I give of her attitude and...

Solfkreis were assembled, more or less by chance, at a tea party given by Fraulein von Thadden. There was a young man present, of the name of Dr. Reczeh, who informed them that...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W HEN I was at Oxford i used, occasionally, to attend lectures on moral philosophy. Our teachers would inform us that the interesting problems of ethics...

4. I Know Where I'm Going." At the Odeon. " Our Vines Have Tender Grapes " and " Battle for Beauty." At the Empire. " Girl No. 217." At the Tatter. Am I right in supposing that...

A Beautiful Voice THE ▪ blind violinist, the pianist who has lost an arm, the crippled singer—all place the critic in an embarrassing position. He feels that it is wonderful...

Epstein—" Lucifer" and paintings of flowers and landscapes of Epping Forest : Mervyn Peake—Drawings illustrating " Quest for Sna." By Maurice Collis. At the Leicester...

YOUTH AND THE CHURCHES SIR,—I should like, if I may, from towards the other end of the human span, to endorse all that Mr. Theodore Barker has written about the young people of...

Home for the Jews, I very much doubt if the earnest wish of the majority of Jews, settled in English cities prior to and during the war, is for such a State for themselves. From...

SIR,—There seems no escape from Mr. Graham's conclusion that the Minister is hostile towards the Direct-Grant system, but it is not easy to discover the reason for her attitude....

SIR,—I shall be much obliged if you will permit me to reply to Rabbi Dr. I. I. Mattuck. 1. The native Jews of India, Abyssinia, and other similar groups, are the descendants of...

Drums Under the Windows, says he got it straight from the horse's mouth of Lord Basil Blackwood, private secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (a great man by all...

to a letter in your issue of November 2nd from Mr. Ram Singh in which he alleges that Hindustan Times and Associated Newspapers and Messrs. Birla have entered into talks with...

of this article could tell us who was the benefactor who first introduced the modern bath into this country, or at about what date bathrooms became universally regarded, at...

Sai,—The nation is committed to a social experiment, the cost of which will necessitate a very high level of taxation for at least a generation or more. High taxation, by...

letter by Messrs. French, Boulton, and Mitchell in The Spectator of November 16th. They refer to students.most of whom " are over twenty-two, have two more years' training to...

SIR, —Dr. E. Ashworth Underwood's article on the above subject will confirm the layman in his common misconception that it is chiefly, or even exclusively, in the realm of...

Sta,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, in his exquisite account of his experiences at the tender mercy of Transport Command, adds the human touch to the plea I put forward in my article of...

Sta,—As distance causes us to receive our issue of The Spectator a bit late, I may be also too late in making a comment on your penultimate paragraph of November 9th, but on the...

readers who would like to send copies of THE SPECTATOR to their friends in Italy can now do so. The post paid subscription rate is 3os. per annum. Send instructions with a...

Sta,—My intrusions into the valuable space of such journals as yours are of very rare occurrence—otherwise I should make no attempt to reply to Mr. H. C. Curwen's letter in The...

S.11,—.1 have been trained at one of the best London hospitals, and I stoutly protest against your phrase " pet sonal and professional slavery." We, the slaves you mention,...

StR,—During the ten years I was County Agricultural Organiser for Herefordshire my work often brought me in touch with Dr. Durham both with regard to fruit growing and cider...

The Directiveness of Organic Activities. By E. S. Russell, O.B.E. D.Sc., F.L.S. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) IN this book, Dr. Russell returns once more to the...

Ruritania and St. Winifred's RUDOLF RASSENDYLL or the Madcaps of the Fourth? The jolliest term on record or the moated castle of Zenda? Most children can do with both :...

THE title of this book is misleading, as is that of the series Under- standing America, of which it is the first volume to appear. The reader will find here not a general study...

Unforgettable, Unforgotten. By Anna Buchan (0. Douglas). (Hodder and Stoughton. 12s. 6d.) IT is not necessary to be a Scot, nor a reader of " O. Douglas' " novels, nor...

Early Britain. By Jacquetta Hawkes. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) THIS is not only one of the most excellent books in a series ("Britain in Pictures ") that is usually, though not...

Fiction Blow, Blow Your Trumpets. By Shamus Fraser. (Chapman and Hall. 9s. 6d.) Press. Two Guineas and one Guinea.) Blow, Blow Your Trumpets is a novel of the days of Noah,...

WAR, and the peace which follows immediately upon it, is always a time when people long for the quiet atmosphere of the country- side. That is why we are now having such a heavy...

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BY CUSTOS NEVER an altogether happy one, the position of the Preference share- holder is at present beset by new threats. In normal conditions it was often said that this type...

France and Britain. A Report by a Chatham House Study Group (Royal Institute of International Affairs.) THE moment is well chosen for the publication of this report, which 6s...