24 JANUARY 1936

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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K ING GEORGE'S life moved peacefully to its close on Monday. Like his father he died in the last minutes of a dying day. Like him he spent some of his last hours sitting in an...

To a king for whom the burden of a crown

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would have hardly been supportable without the partnership in joy and sorrow which an ideal married life created there succeeds for the -first time in English history since...

Geneva and Oil Sanctions The proceedings at Geneva this week

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dispel any idea that, to quote certain writers who assert with monotonous incessancy what they desire, " oil-sanctions are dead." They are by no means dead. The Committee of...

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Prince Starhemberg's Austria Austria may expect considerable advantages from the

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success of Dr. Schuschnigg's visit to Prague. She cannot, unfortunately, expect much from the internal policy announced by Prince Starhemberg at the meeting of the Patriotic...

M. Herriot and M. Laval The resignation of the Laval

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Cabinet will, it appears, embarrass M. Herriot and the Radicals even more than M. Laval. M. Herriot's motives for resignation were clear ; he wished to dissociate himself from...

Great Britain and Egypt The ground is gradually being prepailt1

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for serious discussions between - Great Britain and Egypt. The British GoVernment; to judge from Cairo reports, prefers to raise the more difficult questions first. What they...

Danzig and the League Reporting to the League Council on

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Wednesday, Mr. Eden did not conceal the gravity of the situation in the Free . City of Danzig. The situation is, indeed, not only grave but complicated, and it contains three...

Japan's Foreign Policy The ambiguous relations between Japan's Cabinet and

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her General Staff make it unsafe to regard the declara- tions of Mr. Hirota to the Diet on Tuesday as a decisive exposition of Japan's intentions in foreign policy. The Foreign...

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Church and State Six years ago, within a few days,

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the Church Assembly passed a resolution requesting the Archbishops to appoint a Commission to report on the problem of Church and State. Its report is now published in a small...

Steel Coaches and Safety On two occasions recently, railway accidents

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have been caused by trucks or carriages becoming detached from a train and causing obstruction to oncoming ex- presses. The failure of a coupling may sometimes occur in spite of...

The Abolition of the Irish Senate The Senate of the

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Irish Free State is about to die. Unless Mr. de Valera agrees to a prolongation of its life, it will cease to exist on the 11th of next month. The President has given no...

The Question of Disestablishment The Commission does not advocate Disestablishment,

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but recommends instead that Parliament be asked to give certain Church Measures the effect of statutes without itself passing them. Confined though this privilege would -be to "...

In last week's engagement in Southern Abyssinia General Graziani Undoubtedly

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scored - Ei success. For months past Ras Desta, operating in arid and scrub- covered country in which any large concentration of troops is extremely difficult, has threatened...

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THE KING WE MOURN

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T HE death of no sovereign of these realms through- out their history has created more profound or widespread grief than King George V's. That is a large claim, but it is...

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THE KING WE SALUTE

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IN the person of a new King there ascends the I Throne an unknown quantity. That must nearly always - be so, for kingship is a unique office. In other capacities Edward VIII...

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RUDYARD KIPLING

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M R. RUDYARD KIPLING'S death occurred too late for mention in last week's Spectator, and today it is inevitably overshadowed for the nation by a greater bereavement. But even...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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I T has fallen to The Spectator in the course of its history to record the deaths of five British sovereigns. A study of the verdicts passed in its columns on the two earliest...

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. . . LONG LIVE THE KING

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GUEDALLA By PHILIP to be King of I T is not easy for a young man England. Even if he is not quite so young as he appears to be, the fact is slow to penetrate ; and nothing will...

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To the King SIRE, we salute you—raised above us all And yet still one of us ; you always knew To greet men without stooping ; your high call Robs not the lowly of the friend in...

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THE KINGSHIP OF GEORGE V

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By R. H. GRETTON W HEN King George came to the throne, pi.Obably the last thing that was expected of him was that he should give' a new meaning to kingship. Queen Victoria and...

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MONDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET

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By R. J. CRUIKSHANK T HE death of the King presented Fleet Street with a series of difficult problems. The official bulletin did not appear on the tape machines until 12.12...

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THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION-H. THROUGH CONFUSIONS IN THOUGHT

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By H. G. WELLS W ILLIAM BURROUGHS STEELE went so far in his imitation of The Anatomy of Melancholy as to sketch out a schedule of frustrations closely similar to Burton's...

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AIR - POWER AND SEA-POWER : A NAVAL VIEW

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By a NAVAL CORRESPONDENT his article in last week's Spectator Mr. E. N. B. I ' Bentley stated the case for the aeroplane as against the battleship. That, however, is only a...

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SKI-ING IN A FORTNIGHT

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By. MICHAEL ROBERTS O NE summer's day, a yedr or two ago, Paris enjoyed the spectacle of a type who skied clown the steps below the Sacre-Coeur, and the same indiridd" distin-...

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THESE YELLOW SANDS

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By E. L. WOODW N.RD A I. S a child had always been a little afraid of Swanage. I was told that Special Services for Children were held on the sands. On week-days. Now I may say...

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MARGINAL COMMENTS

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By ROSE MACAULAY P ERUSING the articles in my daily and weekly . journals, I read very frequently of shrieks and cries. The other day, having learnt from various news- papers...

Andromeda

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LONELY the long watch and the water's Music on the enormous shores, Lonely the isles and eastern stars, ' Vega, the Lyre, the Seven Sisters : Under her hair, her ivory hands,...

A Hundred Years Ago

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" THE SPECTATOR," jANITARY 23RD, 1838. LONGEVITY OF ENGLISHMEN. SIR—However fatal the severe weather of winter generally proves to individuals of advanced age, the present...

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STAGE AND SCREEN

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"No Exit." By George Goodchild and Frank Witty. At the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage No Exit is an ingenious and entertaining play. It embodies an innovation in its method of...

" Koenigsmark." At the Tivoli.--" The Three Musketeers."

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• At the Plaza.—"I Give my Heart." At the Regal IT hasn't been a good' week for films and none of these three has any real value, but I enjoyed the first, because it is well...

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Konig und Kaiser

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[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] Air Weihnachtstage des vergangenen Jahres, als die Stimme des Konigs seinen " lieben Freunden in alien Teilen des Belches " freundliche...

Music

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Dr. Weingartner and Brahms THERE were two opinions, apparently, about Dr. Weingartner's handling of Brahms at the Royal Philharmonic Society's concert last week. One party...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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Skokholm Skokholm is a remote island of 240 acres of rough grass and leather and sea pink and bracken off the coast of Pembroke- shire. I mention this because there may still...

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Sra,—Commenting recently upon " Reprisals in Memel " you find

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it disturbing that " neither side in Memel intends to respect the rights of the other " on the ground that the present Ministry has dismissed 40 Lithuanian officials and has...

AN IRISH NAVY AND THE TREATY OF 1921 [To the

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Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] 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...

THE WEST INDIANS OF INDIA [To the Editor of THE

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SPECTATOR.] SIR, —There are, as Mr. Philip Cox states in his interesting article, many " West Indians " in India. There can be no doubt, too, of their social value, though Mr....

ICE ON AEROPLANE WINGS

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[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In " A Spectator's Notebook " it is suggested that it is odd that no remedy has been discovered for the formation of ice on aeroplane...

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THE CONSUMPTION OF MILK

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATORS] SIR,—In an article entitled " Health and the Farmer," the importance of a much larger consumption of milk is stressed, and the writer concludes...

THE SUBURB WIFE

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, With all respect to Mr. Francis Gower, I would like to point out that he has written without his book. He has written upon adult...

HYMNS ANCIENT AND EARLY VICTORIAN [To the Editor of THE

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SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Can you find space for a few reflections that came to me at church on the first Sunday of the New Year—a day from which surely our hymn writers might draw some...

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THE LAW AND MOTOR - CARS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—Miss Rose Macaulay should have paused and remem- bered, before making her comment on the trial of Lord de Clifford, that the onus is upon the prosecution to prove the...

SUSPECTED PERSONS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One may qualify to be a " suspected person " in either of two ways—by acting so suspiciously that even a n:erc civilian concludes that you...

Sm,—In considering the problem of widening the interests of the

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woman in the suburbs overmuch emphasis is perhaps [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] being placed upon the function of such institutions as the B.B.C., cinemas, &e. To keep...

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NATIONAL IDEALISM AND RELIGION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—As one of the so-called Bright Young Things who has' thought about this question of religion, I was very interested in Dr. Relton's...

RESEARCH. IN BRITISH ART

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—For many years now it has been generally recognised that we are more behindhand in our researches into English Art than in other phases of...

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AN ERRATUM

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To the Editor of Pun SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am an incurable sloven at proof reading. In my article last week, at the end " objections " should be " objectives." The sentenee remains...

COUNT ST. AULAIRE'S TALLEYRAND

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[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I do not want to make a controversial answer on points of detail raised in M. de Saint Aulaire's letter—perhaps he will allow me to use...

THE EXAMINERS EXAMINED

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[To the Editor of Tin SeEcraroa.] In,—An examination of An Examination of Examinations suggests that Mr. Verschoyle has not completely answered Mr. Mackenzie. It is true that,...

MINK FARMS

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[TO the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is a great pity that some of your readers who express their opinions in Your columni do not first of all take the trouble to ascertain...

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Wings Over Wardour Street BOOKS OF THE DAY

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By GRAHAM GREENE IN a few months now it will be possible for us to sit in our own homes and watch a film by television. Neither sound nor the improved colour in Becky Sharp...

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Before the War. Studies in Diplomacy. Vol. I. The Grouping

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of the Powers. By G. P. Gooch. (Longman. 10s.) The Calamity of 1914 A REVIEWER who remembers the pleasure and excitement of reading, and re-reading, History and Historians in...

An Interpretation of Japan

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THE author of this book spent four years as a teacher of English in a Japanese High School, and later paid a second visit to Japan, when he met the leading statesmen and indus-...

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The Inside Story Inside Europe. By John Gunther. (Hamish Hamilton.

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12s. 6d.) Sawdust Caesar. By George Seldes. (Arthur Barker. 12s. 6d. ) WHAT we read in the papers every day is interesting because it is news. But it is significant only if it...

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Preface to European Letters

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Aspects of Modernism. By Janko Lavrin. (Nott. Bs.) THE purposive " ideas " of an artist are the most perishable part of his art. All overt intention, from straight propaganda to...

Uffa Fox's Second Book. (Peter Davies. 35s.)

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Uffa Fox A YEAR has passed since Mr. Uffa Fox published his first book, Sailing, Seamanship, and Yacht-construction. The interval has established it as one of the few books...

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The Legalisation of Abortion

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Anozeriorthe artificial ending of pregnancy before the child is capable of survival—is illegal in this- country in all circumstances. It is nevertheless performed occasionally...

Listen to my Tale of Woe A Peck of Troubles.

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Collected by Daniel George. (Cape. 7s. fici.) MR. DANIEL GEORGE has assembled (using the arrangement, now becoming popular, of alphabetical order with separate sub-headings)...

South Sea Memories

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Siidsee. Travels in the South Seas. By H. A. Bernatzik. Translated by V. Ogilvie. (Constable. 10s. Oct.) IN Sufism Dr. Bernatzik describes the indigenous inhabitants of the...

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New NoNiels

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Christina. By Claude Houghton. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Old Soldier. By Frederick Niven. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) Hester and Her Family. By H. W. Freeman. (Chatto and Windus. 8s. 6d.)...

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THE SPIRIT OF GENEVA

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By Robert de Traz Geneva, for the unhistorical or short-memoried, is the City of the League of Nations. M. de Traz, in- his quite admirable little book The Spirit of Geneva...

WHO'S WHO IN BOSWELL ?

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- - By J. L. Smith-Dampier Take the people mentioned in Boswell, give each of them, regardless of varying interest or importance, a complete page to him or her self, and the...

MONUMENTS AND MEN OF ANCIENT ROME

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Current Literature By Grant Showerman The advertisement on the wrapper of Professor Showerman's Monuments and Men . of Ancient Rome (Appleton-Century, 21s.) tells us that the...

ENGLISH DRAWINGS

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By M. T. Ritchie The series, Life and Art in Photograph, is keeping up the high level at which it began. The new Volaine,Eng/ish Dra c= ings (Chatto and Windus, Ss.), edited by...

THE NEW ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE

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By W. R. Agard Functionalist tendencies carried to their extreme point have almost expelled sculpture from 'architecture altogether, leaving structure in a figleafless...

BALKAN HOLIDAY

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By David Footman Like Russian Ballet and Byzantine Art the Balkans are fashionable. We have had latterly a fair number of . books on the subject, and we may be sure that more...

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Barclays Bank Meeting

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Finance I Am always glad when that period of the year arrives when I am able to present to readers of these columns the carefully considered review of-the financial...

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Martins Bank

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ADDRESS BY MR. E. B. ORME. ALTHOUGH a considerable proportion of the operations of Martins Bank are carried on in localities which have suffered in special degree from the...

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Financial Notes

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SUBDUED MARKETS. IT should be unnecessary to say that the Stock Markets during the past week have been completely dominated, first, by the Illness of King George, and , later...

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"The Spectator" Crossword No. 174

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BY ZENO fd prize of 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 marked " Crossword...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 173

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SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 173 is Mr. Alexander A. Woodend, Ailsa Villa, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone.