26 JANUARY 1945

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE immediate fate of Germany—her ultimate, and not very distant, fate is not in question—will be determined by her own morale and Russia's supply-problem. That the Russian...

King Peter's Intervention

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Whatever May have been in the mind of King Peter or his advisers about the agreement between Marshal Tito and M. Subasitch, the Yugoslav Prime Minister, it is certain that he...

Towards Settlement in Greece

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The Greek situation continues to clear in a way that must be rather disconcerting to the Prime Minister's varied assortment of critics. judgement must no doubt be to some Lxtent...

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Financing Industry

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Details of the plans announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Tuesday for the financing of industry are set out in our City columns on another page. There are many great...

Lublin and London

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The question of Poland must inevitably figure largely at the forth- coming meeting of Heads of States, but unless Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt are more successful than...

The Fourth Term

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The inaugural of an American President could never be negligible, but there can have been few inaugurals in history so brief and unambitious as President Roosevelt's last...

Politics in Canada

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Though Mr. Mackenzie King successfully weathered the con- scription storm in the House of Commons last month, it is clear that his troubles in that respect are by no means over....

The Burma Road Reopened

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"The land route to China is open." The message sent by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten to the Combined Chiefs of Staff refers only to one dramatic incident in a long series of...

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THE COALOWNERS' TRUST

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THIS week the Mining Association of Great Britain has issued a statement that was much needed—" A Plan for Coal." It is presented as a report to the colliery owners by the...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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TN speculating, as everyone is doing and must be, about the possi- bilities of the Russian advance (if that mild word may be used for a steam-roller turned Rolls-Royce) it is...

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RUSSIA SWEEPS ON

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By STRATEGICUS T HE Russian offensive continues to sweep forward. There is no sign of any slackening in its pace, no sign of any effective measures to check it. The German...

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WHERE IS CHINA HEADING?

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By E. R. HUGHES N England, as in America, China for a long time had too good I a Press. The people I have been living with (1942-44) in China shrugged their shoulders and said...

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"GENIUS FOR COMPROMISE"

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By F. A. HAYEK F OR some months now I have been constantly reminded, by -one well-meaning friend or critic after another, of the English genius for compromise. The occasion for...

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WHAT FRANCE IS SUFFERING

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By ROGER WILSON W ITH two colleagues I recently made a visit to France on behalf of the Friends Relief Service. It was our business to investigate the relief needs of France...

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BRIDGE DANGEROUS

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By TREVOR ALLEN A NOTICE in the drive tells you that the bridge is dangerous : lorries and other heavy vehicles must enter the park by another gate. I am glad it is dangerous...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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NICOLSON by I.AROLD W E read that Marshal Koniev's armies have reached Silesia, and the name of that disputed province awakes in us memories of distant wars and more recent...

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THE CINEMA

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"Since You Went Away." At the Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion. Sunday Dinner for a Soldier." At the Tivoli.—" The Rainbow." At the Tatier. AFTER two and three-quarter hours of...

THE BOMBED SUBURB

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So, by night, How welcoming the summer-flowered garden breathes In this suburban home, where the house will never wake; The. plants are massed in unparticular, dim shapes,...

THE THEATRE

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THOSE who are seeing Tchekhov's Uncle Vanya for the first time in the present production at the New Theatre, in which the cast it first rate, the acting superb all round, and...

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OPINIONS ON GREY

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —I should normally hesitate to enter into disputation with my friend, Mr. Harold Nicolson, on a question of Foreign Policy, because he is an expert...

THE PALESTINE MANDATE

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SIR, —In your issue of January 59th, Mr. Israel Cohen quotes what he describes as the "more authoritative views of those mainly responsible for the Balfour Peclaration." There...

CONDITIONS IN FRANCE

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SIR, —Many people in this country were aware of the distress and suffer- ing which immediately followed the invasion of northern France ; few of us, I believe, realise how much...

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THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE PRIMATE

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SIR,—The enthronement (the correct word is, I believe, inthronisation) of a bishop is a picturesque and impressive ceremony. I speak as one to whom it has fallen to arrange two....

Sta,—In the interpretation of documents we are not to be

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guided by what people, however eminent, tell us afterwards that they meant when they wrote them, but by what in fact they wrote. No "interpretation" can make the words "a Jewish...

THE TEACHER'S REWARD

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Sin,—May I make a few comments upon the article contributed to The Spectator under the above heading, by Mr. F. R. Hurlstone-Jones?. During the last fifty years there has been...

A RUSSIAN ON POLAND

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SIR,—Mr. Czeslaw Poznanski in his letter, published in The Spectator last week, seems to have hit the nail on the head. He says: "The actual dispute is a dispute between Poland...

COAL TROUBLES

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SIR,—AS another optant for coal mining I should like to confirm the facts given by " Optant " in his recent letter. I am employed in the Stirlingshire area in what is also...

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LITHIUM siR,—If I have guessed right, the learned composer of

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your crossword No. 304 has helped to perpetuate a danger8us Victorian superstition. He seems to assert that lithium "helps to put the out in gout." At a large store I was told...

FRIDAY MORNINGS SIR,—Sir Ernest Barker, in his generously and justly

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appreciative review of Mr. Harold Nicolson's Friday Mornings, takes Mr. Nicolson to task for saying that: "After the last war the young men who returned to the Univer- sities...

THOUSANDS OF MOLES

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Sta,—In his delightful article on moles Sir Stephen Tallents mentions as a notable achievement that a well-known Frenchman once caught 600 of the animals. This is striking, but...

THE "TEMPER OF EUROPE" SIR,—I am afraid "A. B. C."

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has misunderstood my use of the phrase "bad citizens," although I put it in inverted commas to emphasise that it had a special significance. As a matter of fact, the phrase is...

COUNTRY LIFE

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WHEN the war is over there is likely, as definite enquiry proves, to be a great excess of men who want to commence farming ; to this enormous tally has to be added an army of...

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The Riddle of Life

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BOOKS OF THE DAY THIS I take to be one of the most valuable books ever issued by the Cambridge University Press in its importance to educated men and women. This enormous...

Why Hitler ?

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Der Fuehrer. By Konrad Heiden. (Gollancz. 10s. 6d.) Tms is the first full-'length, critical biography of Hitler to be pub- lished in English. Six hundred pages are full measure...

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Popular Psychology

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Man and His Fellow Men. By Samuel Lowy, M.D. (Kegan Paul. 15s.) Invisible Anatomy. By E. Graham Howe. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) IT must surely be one of the hardest tasks in...

Introductions to Burma

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Burma Pamphlets : No. 1. Burma Background. By B. R. Pearn. No. 2. Burma Setting. By 0. H. K. Spate. No. 3. Buddhism in Burma. By G. Appleton. (Lcngmans. Is. each.) Burma. By Ma...

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Fiction

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Soon Bright Day. By Mary Baird Aitken. (Mac!ellan. 9s. 6d.) Amabel and Mary Verena. By Mrs. Hicks Beach. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) Fire-Weed. 'By Naomi Royde Smith...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 305 SOLUTION ON FEBRUARY 9th The

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winner of Crossword No. 305 is E. P. DONALDSON, 33, Upper Addison Gardens, W.14.

"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 307

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[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, February 6th....

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Shorter Notices

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Morning Will Come. By Gordon Waterfield. (Murray. 10s.6d.) MR. WATERFIELD has written an account of his travels during the period between the fall of France and October, 1943....

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS AFTER the promising start in the stock markets in the first fortnight of the new year investors have now been pulled up sharp by a sudden reaction. Dramatic...

Parachutist. By "Pegasus." (Jarroid. 10s. 6d.)

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THE author of this book, one of the early volunteers for the Para- chute Regiment, has tried to answer most of the questions about the training of parachutists and their use in...