the Melbourne Air Race secured by Mr. Scott's Comet, the Dutch- piloted American Douglas and the American Boeing respectively, the speed-race is decided, and interest now....

now reached the point of open secession, and if the German censor= ship had hot become a by-word by now it would be incredible that the German peoide should still be dependent...

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less fundamental than had been hoped. The Prime Minister, M. Ouzounovitch, remains, and while he has strengthened his Ministry by including General Zhivkovitch as Minister for ....

actually retired from the Indian National Congress is still a little obscure. His views, particularly on the subject of khaddar—home- spun cloth—and the fostering of village...

constitutional reform proposals, but the indications are that he will have great difficulty in getting one at least of them through. As it happens that one alone—the provision...

atmosphere in Egypt is the fact that King Fuad, who has established a firm tradition of palace government, is seriously ill, and that his son is a boy of fourteen. The illness...

monetary system conforms to that of Great Britain has its natural counterpart in the drawing together of the gold bloc countries. Their General Commission which has been meeting...

conservatism in America are far more powerful than in England. They have up to now effectually barred the way to legislation which would enable hospitals or doctors to give...

More Trade Unionists The present year marks a change in the fortunes of the trade union movement for the better. Its membership at the end of last year reached the lowest total...

event on which the Labour Party have reason to congratulate themselves. It was generally expected that their representative, Mr. Strauss, would. get in, for the strength of the...

of 'British Industries to explore the possibilities of trade development in Manchukuo has naturally been received with open arms by a Japan reduced to the extremity of...

new peace campaign obviously in mind, made some opportune observations on Tuesday on the subject of constructive pacifism. So far from accepting the doctrine that men of peace,...

situation of the fishermen engaged in the herring industry has become desperate, and it is about to reach a yet more critical situation with the approach of the short season in...

headmaster Of Eton, on the new methods which are being tried at Gordonstoun School show him as one of those masters fully alive to the problems which have been raised by so many...

T HE Mildenhall-Melbourne flight is memorable in the annals of more than aviation. On Tuesday at 5.84 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time the De Havilland Comet piloted by Messrs. Scott...

T HE opening of the new Library at Cambridge University has marked, with splendour, a stage of an important section of the history of civilization. The imparting of knowledge...

illusive, will be once more Prime Minister of Canada within a few months, has just left for home after a short private visit to this country. He has undertaken no public...

After body-line cricket we are to have dictatorship football. The Daily Mail's Rome corre- spondent has given impressive particulars of it. An Italian eleven (for the game, it...

took leave of his host with the obSetvation, " At the present time.thete are in the world only two persons to whose opinion, to whose every word, millions are listening—you and...

I am not surprised that Canon Sheppard should have had a considerable response to his appeal for the names of men who would declare for 'the complete renunciation of all war of...

Without Comment " The Tailwaggers' Club has been in touch with Mr. Hore Belisha and has been told that he is anxious to include the barking of dogs as one of the noises that...

to Mr. Henderson in both biographies is notable. For he is conspicuous in both, in Mr. Lloyd George's in connexion with his visit to Russia in 1917, the discussions about the...

T HE virtually simultaneous appearance of the second volume of Lord Snowden and the fourth volume of Mr. Lloyd George within three days of each other has the effect of throwing...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Tokyo, September. 9111E main driving force in the economic development 1 of modern Japan has been, and still is a non-economic one : the supreme...

By the REV. J. S. WHALE (President of Cheshunt College, Cambridge) L AICUS IGNOTUS causes us timely embarrassment by looking for the articulus et antis vel cadentis ecclesiae...

By T. D. RICHARDSON T HE tramp ! tramp ! tramp ! of marching feet to the tune of virile voices singing warlike songs, and the eternal drone of aeroplanes—those are the...

By ALAN MONCRIEFF T HE terms " disease " and " civilization " offer a direct challenge to the scientifically minded, who like to work from clear-cut definitions. Both terms are...

By JOHN BROWN* I T was late when the ' Tovarisch Markina ' was made fast to the Saratov landing-stage, and midnight had struck just before I returned to the ship after a brief...

By G. C. B. COTTERELL else. One avoids, for example, the conduct of my friend Blatherwiek who marked this summer by falling out of his sailing-dinghy in City clothes ; showing...

[D'UN CORRESPONDANT FRANcAIS] L A quinzaine qui vient de s'ecouler aura vu In France frappes par deux fois en plein cceur. A une semaine exactement d'intervalle, se sont...

is the most reliable of Hollywood's solo comedians. Like Charlie Chaplin, he works for himself, not for a company, preferring to choose his own stories and to arrange his own...

English Ballet Now is the winter of ballet. We balletomanes associate summer with the dazzling visitation of the Russians. For the rest of the year we attend our native...

" That's Szell—that was ! " And I can do no more than translate into the more leisurely and particular, if less irreverent, language customary in literary periodicals this...

The Crafts Delivered ONE of the many- probk•ins connected with the arts to which there appears to be no satisfactory solution is the way in which certain artists seem to work...

The Farmer's Career An old question is being asked of me with increasing fre- quency, and doubtless more often of other people with more knowledge. Is there an opening in...

Horticulture and husbandry are different pursuits ; but cultivation under glass begins to impinge on to open field. The value of the crops grown under glass in the Lea Valley is...

The farming aspirants are almost exclusively male, and it must be said at once that it is next door to impossible to succeed without a certain capital. This has always been...

Unemployed Afforesters Further progress has been made with the scheme for employing 20,000 men (such is Mr. Baske Baker's ideal) in the work of afforesting our wasted acres,...

" The Men of the Trees," who do quite invaluable work in cultivating a " tree sense " in the community, are not becoming infected with the quite excessive rage for conifers that...

in the excellent Bird Notes and News of the R.S.P.B.) has been proceeding over the heron, the biggest and most pictorial of all British birds ; and a census of its nests has...

Trees have also made arrangements for their great exhibition of tree.pictures at Grosvenor House from November 1st for a month. Over thirty countries are exhibiting pictures...

SIR,—The main point of the article contributed by Laicus Ignotus in your issue of October 12th is contained in the following sentence : " You people claim to say something about...

Sue,—Your reference to the report of the Public Libraries Committee of Westminster in your issue of October 19th suggests that library committees have a right when selecting...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. T. S. Eliot, in his extremely interesting attempt in your pages to cope with the curious, not to say equivocal, question, " What does...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—D is disconcerting to find The Spectator supporting, even though only half-heartedly, the demand of the Libraries Committee of Westminster...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with great. interest the recent articles of your city editor on investment, and should much like to know what you, and he,...

Major for le mot juste" pro- fessional immoralist." (2) His citation of Dr. Bosanquet is damaging to his own cause and not at all to the cause of his opponents. The quotation...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Dr. Major has such a way with him that he is quite capable of carrying on his gallant fight single handed. However, lest it should be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, I am a mental nurse, and have read the letters from Mr. Carmichael Marr and Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones. 'I think that Mr. Marr's is mostly...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt.,--In Your valuable article, " In view of a dwindling' pOpulation," you say that " we cannot contemplate - a reduction of the population by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I cannot resist writing some lines about the leading article in The Spectator, headed " Democracy and Liberty." May I point out that Mr....

Sin,—In last week's issue of The Spectator, " Janus" quotes, without comment, a passage from a sermon delivered at Cambridge two Sundays ago, by the Bishop of Birmingham. The...

SIR,—In the early days of the present regime in Germany it was realized that many thousands of Liberals, SoCialists, Communists, Pacifists and JewiSh intellectuals were being...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—So many bouquets have lately been bestowed upon the Post Office—one imagines for almost the first time in its history—that it was...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the number of October 12th of The Spectator you published an article about my new book After Hitler's Fall. Germany's Coming Reich. It...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-I was interested to see the concluding paragraph of last week's notice of Richard II at the Old Vic, where the writer gave expression to a...

• 3.15 This and That (to Unemployed Clubs): John Hilton .. 6.3o Beethoven : Professor Tovey continues his keyboard talks N. 6.5o In Your Orden : C. H. MiddletOn N. 8.5o...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Mr. John Hayward, in his review of Right Ho, Jeeves, contends that Mr. Wodehouse has never written anything which could not be safely...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Your issue of October 19th contains an article entitled " Anxiety, a Disease of Civilization," in which the writer makes a reference to...

By J. A. SPENDER AFTER reading Lord Snowden's second volume I am more surprised that he got on with the Labour Party for so long and was for so many years regarded as one of...

Ma. LLOYD GEORGE'S War Memories are developing on an increasingly expansive scale. He has needed two volumes of seven hundred pages each to cover the year 1917, and it can...

SEA power still retains its old potency, in spite of the advent of the power of the air. This is the opinion of Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, who examines its signification in...

Freedom and Organisation, 1814-1914. By Bertrand Russell. (Allen and 15s.) THESE two books are examples of the " new way," or of a return to an old way, of historical...

Things To Live For. By Francis Stuart. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) EACH of these books is an autobiography, but none of them has much in common with any other beyond that circumstance. l'U...

THIS is an interesting and valuable study of an all important phase in Gladstone's career. .In the years of which Mr. Williams treats he moved decisively and 'finally to the...

Harrap's Standard French and English Dictionary. Edited by J. E. Mansion. (Harrap. Vol. I. 42s.) The Concise Oxford French Dictionary. Compiled by A, and M. Chevalley. (Oxford....

ThE steady growth of Baron von Hfigel's influence—especially outside the Roman communion—together with the difficulty and individuality of his literary style,,made it inevitable...

By WILLIAM PLOMER NoTILING in fiction is more essential than the creation of character, but it is rarely perfected. A novel may be badly constructed, sentimental, sketchy, or...

exchange-rate, old-timers did not fail to make many sentimental visits to the - stands which showed the world's most famous Continental and American cars. To the newcomer to...

FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT NC. 5,548.1 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934

THERE must be few banking institutions throughout the world, which have not in varying degree felt the strain and handicap resulting froM world-wide depression, the fall in...

Tins article is, confessedly, written in praise both of our banking system and of the general conduct of our banking operations. Making all allowances for minor imperfections in...

ON the occasion of the recent annual Banquet given by the Lord Mayor to the merchants and bankers of the City of London, the Governor of the Bank of England, in the course of a...

Effect of Lower Interest Rates — Enhanced Investment Merits WHILE considerable prominence has been accorded to the adverse effect on the life offices, as regards their bonus-...

A POPULAR toy among children is the money box. It delights them to insert in its ever-open mouth all the spare coins that come their way. In this they are pro- bably following a...

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BRITISH FUNDS FIRM. Duruxo the past week general business in the Stoek.Markets has again been of a somewhat restricted character, so far, at all events, as the speculative and...

Nationalism or Co-operation - THERE have been two import ant events during the past week which conceivably may exert a c onsiderable influence upon developments in this country...

MR. RUNCIMAN AND THE 13:kNIES. In an article which appears to-day in the Financial Supplement I have dealt with the relations between the banks and the public, with special...

Quite the outstanding feature of recent capital flotations has been the great success which attended the issue of Central Electricity Board Stock. The verylarge amount of...

NEW CAPITAL ACTIVITY. It is probable, indeed, that the attraction of possible premiums on new issues of capital has played its part in diverting speculative activity in...

An excellent report has just been published by United Dairies, Limited. Last year there was a slight decline in the net profit, but for the year ended June 30th last the net...

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