T HE reduced majority by which the Government secured approval of its Palestine policy is an accurate reflection of the misgivings which that policy had prompted. But any new...

T HE Royal tour in Canada is exceeding all expectations in the depth of feeling it has stirred. King George is conspicuously successful in dispensing with formality without...

third reading in the House of Commons and its second in the House of Lords. The collaboration between the Government and the Opposition in improving and amending its terms has...

Welwyn on Tuesday, Lord Dawson of Penn indicated the practical measures which will have to be taken if the decline in fertility is to be arrested. In theory few would disagree...

on the railways' power of fixing goods rates, the report of the Transport Advisory Committee, published last week, con- cedes the chief of the railways' demands for a " Square...

Kalthoff, on the frontier between Danzig and East Prussia, has very naturally caused considerable alarm. The Polish version and the Danzig version of events inevitably differ ;...

if it had not been for the international situa- tion, there would doubtless have been considerably more interest and agitation as a prelude to Monday's debate. It became...

to accept the military alliance pressed upon her by Berlin ; Japan, who can still decide her own policy, has this week finally iefused to enter into any new commitments with her...

into pro-Jew and pro-Arab as were those who spoke. The less prejudiced agreed that neither present nor past Govern- ments came well out of the sorry business. Mr. Malcolm...

the ex-President of the Rtichsbank and ex-Minister of Economics in Herr Hitler's Cabinet, has at length publicly disowned the never very plausible pretence that he is in India...

reconstruction is always a topic for discussion in the House of Commons, but The Times newspaper, on Tuesday, re- vived it in an acute form. Controversy at once centred round...

celebrated last week in Madrid by a victory march of Spanish, German, Italian and Moorish troops ; in a speech following the march General Franco made no mention of the services...

W HILE Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano were signing a political and military pact in Berlin on Monday, Lord Halifax (badly hampered in his efforts by hesitant Cabinet...

T a moment when, for the first time since 1892, LX this country is enjoying the unusual experience of having had two English Prime Ministers in suc- cession, it is not without...

M EMBERS of the Houses of Lords and Commons spent a pleasant day at the air display at Northolt on Tuesday at some small expense to the taxpayer—for they were given a most...

Times, " Boil two small live lobsters," has brought me a good deal of authoritative information regarding the pre- ferences of lobsters in the matter of euthanasia. What gives...

evening, to judge from Tuesday's paper—particu- larly a sub-editor and a leader-writer. The latter was content to borrow a tag that had already seen some use else- where about...

closures regarding Russia's internal and foreign policy in a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post by a General Krivitsky, who claimed to have been chief of the Soviet...

heavy blow to his friends in this country ; many of them find it in- credible that he should commit suicide. When I saw Toiler last, a few months ago, I was astonished by the...

was issued nine months or so ago, "may be won by a horse carrying a white jacket and possibly ridden by the champion jockey." Or may not. But a steed answering to that...

the Italo-German Pact, and have relegated the Danzig incidents to the back pages."—Dally Express, May 23rd. "Yesterday's incident at Kalthof, on the Danzig-East Prussian...

By WALTER DUFtANTY IN view of the conflicting and confusing statements about the long-drawn Anglo-Russian negotiations which have appeared in the London Press, it seems...

By LORD SNELL I N what now seems to me the Germany of long ago—that romantic, friendly Germany at whose universities some of us were privileged to study and whose scholarship...

By DR. HERMANN RAUSCHNING [Dr. Rauschning was formerly National Socialist President of the Senate of the Free City] F OR many years the National Socialist campaign in Danzig...

By MAJOR B. T. REYNOLDS IN any military " appreciation " of the situation today the 1 importance of the Eastern front is at once apparent. From the German point of view the...

By LT.-COL. C. P. HAWKES [Dr. Salazar on Monday strongly reaffirmed his loyalty to the Anglo-Portuguese alliance] A NY evening on the platform of the terminus at Lisbon you...

By RICHARD TITMUSS O N an average 118 young men voluntarily came forward every day during last year to enlist in the Regular Army, but were rejected on medical and physical...

By ARCHIBALD CRAWFORD, K.C. NTEL about the beginning of the Sixteenth Century, such laws as were administered north and south of the Tweed, did not greatly differ. Thereafter...

By BERNARD DARWIN C RICKET blooms again after its winter's sleep. Thousands are happy in the watching of it. Many more thousands are happy every morning and evening in the...

By W. B. YEATS THE Roaring Tinker if you like, But Mannion is my name, And I beat up the common sort And think it is no shame. The common breeds the common, A lout begets a...

assuredly it was not by realism alone that we founded and maintained our Empire. I can appre- ciate and even respect the grim solicitude of Mr. MacDonald. I can understand those...

of pain occasioned to different people by this White Paper capitulation. At one end of the scale were those whose respect for the party machine enables them to turn right or...

have always regarded our assumption of the Palestine mandate as entail- ing long and dangerous responsibilities, but as representing the one generous gesture which, at the time...

By HAROLD NICOLSON O N Monday and Tuesday there took place in the House of Commons a debate upon Command 6,019, known to the Jews as the Black, and to the Gentiles as the...

he startled me by a fervour of conviction alien to his tempera- ment. It was this conversation which showed me that for him Zionism was no war-time gambit, but a cause, the...

had almost attained reality. The great work went forward with unfaltering efficiency ; all that faltered was the will-power of His Majesty's Government. That aluminium...

those distant days of 1917, when, in a dark basement of the Foreign Office, Mr. Dunlop and I were charged with the task of drafting and redrafting the Balfour Declaration, en-...

THE THEATRE "Sixth Floor." By Alfred Gehri. English version by Rodney Ackland. At the St. James's Theatre.—" Of Mice and Men." By John Steinbeck. At the Apollo Theatre. Sixth...

New Documentaries by the G.P.O. Film Unit. Privately shown. — " An Elephant Never Forgets." At the London Pavilion. I AM getting a little tired of that word "documentary." It...

Beethoven and Toscanini "IT must be ranked among the major achievements of Toscanini since he came among us that he has made great music one of the most exciting things in the...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] " PFINGsTEN, das liebliche Fest, war gekommen; es grfinten und bliihten Feld mid Wald; auf Hfigeln und Hahn, in Busch- en mid Hecken libten...

who care for the preservation of our birds, especially the rarer birds, that the magistrates have just given a salient example of their defence of the law in regard to...

city and the University, is the home of coming causes: it becomes an accepted pioneer in certain lines of rural development. Its annual agricultural show, which displays...

and words of wisdom, have been put forth by the Lanca- shire branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. It is called "Posters and the Public." The special plea...

by admirers, but it is regrettable to confess that in regard to some species the whitewash is being removed. Almost all the gulls come into the new index expurgaiorius. The...

the immeasurable splendour of the Chelsea Flower Show (which is the best in the world) will confess when all is over that "one only thing remains to me "; they learnt one thing...

Set Blossom There is every indication of a bumper season in fruit, of which the humble gooseberry, always associated with Whitsun- tide, is the first-fruits. Seldom was more...

occupy your valuable space with further controversy with Mr. Reed on the subject of com- pulsory service for immigrants, especially as Mr. Reed is, in many ways, one of the last...

wonder whether Mr. Douglas Reed would care to tell your readers in what regiment of the Territorial Army he is, since he appears so eager to send others to the front

answers of your various correspondents to my letter on this subject and note that people of Mr. Salomon's mentality do not approve of people of Mr. Reed's mentality. My...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must...

SIR,—If Mr. Douglas Reed would make a personal attempt to get an alien immigrant into this country either in accordance with or against the Home Office regulations and to...

Sta,—As an attempt to avert a world war this country is practically unanimous as to the merits of at once largely increasing its armed strength. This involves raising the men...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I fear that Mr. H. Martin Leake's plan would be hope- lessly bogged by hard cases. Moreover, it only affects corn- panics; partnerships and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—What an odd country ours is. When road conditions alter and conflicting necessities of pedestrians, horse-vehicles, cyclists and motorists...

and Propaganda, broadcast- ing our aim, to remould all peoples in a regime of security and justice, would be excellent if words could be accompanied by deeds. As long, however,...

Britain Speak," raises the ques- tion whether Britain has anything to say. Our propaganda is mainly confined to negative statements: that we do not want war and do not wish to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sut,—On November 22nd Lord Somers, the Deputy Chief Scout, circulated newspapers asking them to give "the widest possible publicity" to a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] you kindly allow me to correct two considerable errors of fact in Miss Shiela Grant Duff's review of my book Eyewitness in Czecho - Slovakia?...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — In a few days 1,800 Spanish refugees will be sailing for Mexico in the first Pilgrim Ship, to start a new life in a new land. They have...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — In the article " Cancer : A New Approach," the author says, "The fact is we do not know what is the matter with the cancer cell" and that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—May I be permitted to answer one statement made by your reviewer of my book, Ride to Battle? He says that I "viewed the whole position of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Some years ago—it was during that now almost for- gotten era known as the Armistice—I spent some months in post-War Germany. Wandering...

By V. H. MOTTRAM THE dietitian and the social worker who as the result of a decade spent in trying to improve the standard of diet in great Britain are pessimistic about the...

The Labyrinth of Europe. By Michael Burn. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) "ALMOST anyone with a little intelligence and spare time who reads the newspapers can write a tolerable book on...

South-Eastern Europe. A Political and Economic Survey. (Royal Institute of International Affairs. 5s.) THIS survey, which covers Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece,...

The Validity of Christian Belief. By W. B. Selbie. (Nicholson and Watson. 5s.) DR. SELBIE has contributed this volume to the "International Library of Christian Knowledge," a...

MR. HONE came to know his present subject when at work upon that perpetual attraction, irritation and comic puzzle to Tonics, George Moore. Under his guidance Tonks made a last...

ONE of the many ideas which a materialistic age has weakened and depressed is the idea of personality. This is reckoned nowadays in terms of difference, even of oddity. One can...

GamiscNrric research provided Dr. Filchner with his terms of reference for this arduous journey ; it had done the same for his Tibetan expedition of 1926-28. In September, i93s...

The Struggle for Peace. By the Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) IT is a little hard to understand why this book should have been published at this moment. It...

A Journal of Reparations. By Charles G. Dawes. (Marmillan 2 IS.) REPARATIONS belong no longer to politics but to history, and to that unwelcome kind of recent history which...

Autobiography With Letters. By William Lyon Phelps. (Oxford University Press. 15s.) WHEN Mr. Phelps was a young and unknown instructor at Yale, he attracted attention by giving...

By KATE O'BRIEN The Heroes. By Millen Brand. (Cassell. 78. 6d.) The World Owes Me a Living. By John Llewelyn Rhys. (Faber and Faber. 75. 6d.) The Shepherd's Farm. By Adrian...

far. He still uses some of the cheap stylistic tricks that marred Lasseter's Last Ride, such as using "shrug" as a verb of speech, and over-using the phrase" A man could . . ."...

The murder of Lincoln has always attracted attention both by its historical importance and by its dramatic character. The cry of the assassin, "sic semper tyrannis," won the...

to Prophets (Allen and Unwin, 5s.) M. Privat has set out to explode the legend of perfidious Albion, and by way of compensation has treated us more kindly than we deserve. From...

the history of English Church ceremonial and of the changes made at the Reformation, the inventories of Church goods made by a Commission in 1552 are of high importance. Mr....

international situation, and not all of them are good. But at least most of them are up to date, and it is no surprise today to find the events of March chronicled in a book...

By MORAY NIcLAREN U NDER the guidance of a number of efficient travel agencies there arrives in Scotland every year a stream of visitors from England and overseas who have...

Time for Scotland With the beginning of June comes one of the special times of the year for the motorist, when Scotland is at its best. The days are almost as long as they are,...

By ASHLEY COURTENAY I T is now two years since I was in Scotland, yet I have the most vivid and the happiest of memories, particularly of every one of the hotels I then...

WE are back once again to convalescent markets in the City and there is no doubting the patient's will to recovery. Every day that passes without any shock from the political...

Another Scottish company in the news just at present is James Finlay and Co., which has extensive interests in India ranging over jute, cotton and tea. The 1938 accounts have...

Current Price Dividend Rate Yield p. c. £ s. d. Bank of Scotland Li units ... 65s. od. 12 per cent. 316 o Royal Bank of Scotland stock 428 17 per cent. 3 19 5 Union Bank of...

The 1938 accounts of the Edmundsons Electricity Cor- poration amply confirm the favourable view I have often expressed of the positional prospects of this undertaking. Income...

a speculative standpoint, of the i i per cent. non-cumulative los. preference shares of W. H. Dorman & Co., the Staffor ,1 firm of oil engine makers. The price was then 8s. 9d ,...

square deal has had many ot its edges rubbed off in the protracted discussions of the past few months, but the Transport Advisory Council's report concedes as much as has...

DIVIDEND AGAIN INCREASED THE nineteenth ordinary general meeting of the company was held on May 24th at the Holborn Restaurant. Sir Theodore G. Chambers, K.B.E. (the Chairman),...

TIMOTHY WHITES AND TAYLORS A DEBENTURE ISSUE THE tenth ordinary general meeting of Timothy Whites and Taylors, Ltd., was held on May 19th at the May Fair Hotel, London. Mr....

DISAPPOINTING ABSORPTION OF RUBBER THE thirty-fourth annual general meeting of The Kepong (Malay) Rubber Estates, Limited, was held on May 22nd in London. Sir Francis Voules,...

ODHAMS PRESS EXPANSION OF TRADING TEE nineteenth annual general meeting of Odhams Press, Limited, was held on May 2.4th at the Connaught Rooms, London. The Rt. Hon. Lord...

The presidential address at the annual meeting. of the Society of Incorporated Accountants - and Auditors usually gives the public something well worth thinking over. This year...

that it so seldom has to cross swords with the Republic of Cuba. The controversy over the stocks and prices of sugar has ended in a compromise by which the British Government...

The decision of Timothy Whites and Taylors, the chemists and hardware store proprietors, to issue L500,000 5 per cent. (Continued on page 939) - FINANCIAL NOTES (Continued...

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. 94th ANNUAL REPORT SATISFACTORY RESULTS RECORD NEW LIFE BUSINESS STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION AT the ninety-fourth annual general meeting of the...

Mr. A. Kentish Barnes did not address the members of the Royal Insurance Company on Monday. He circulated the speech which had been prepared by the chairman, Mr. A. E....

HARLAND AND WOLFF, LIMITED IMPROVED RESULTS FOR 1938 THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT AT the annual general meeting of Harland & Wolff, Limited, held in London on May 24th, the Chairman,...

on those con- cerns whose business is the ownership and management of real estate in the big cities, and it is not surprising that London County Freehold and Leasehold...

already expressed their doubts about the proposed barter deal by which large quantities of rubber and tin would be supplied to the U.S.A. against American cotton and perhaps...

One of the most pleasing surprises among recent company results is provided by Madeley Collieries of Stoke-on-Trent, who show a net profit for the year ended March 31st of...

Lord Southwood explained to the shareholders of Odhams Press on Wednesday that the reasons for the fall from £340,192 to £260,067 in the company's net profit were the higher...

Welwyn Garden City seems now to be firmly established in financially better times. At Wednesday's meeting of the com- pany Sir Theodore Chambers, the chairman, announced a fur-...

Shareholders of Harland and Wolff, the Belfast and Glas- gow shipbuilders and engineers, must have left Wednesday's meeting in a happier frame of mind than they have enjoyed...

The winner of Crossword No. II is A. McDonald Gordo Bridge House, Gerrards Cross.

[A prize of a Book Token for 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...