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THE TRAGEDY OF SPAIN
The SpectatorB ARCELONA is not known to have fallen at the moment these words are being written, but it appears impossible that any prolonged resistance can be maintained. With the capture...
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorD R. SCHACHT'S removal from Presidency of the Reichsbank has produced a rich crop of rumours within and without Germany; the real question it raises is whether Germany can...
Count Clans" in Belgrade Count Ciano's visit to Belgrade has
The Spectatorrevealed a curious conflict between the political and the economic aims of the Axis. Politically the two Powers co-operate, economically they compete. The political aims of...
Towards the Palestine Conference From the secret discussions that have
The Spectatorbeen going on at Cairo in the past week between members of the different Arab delegations to the Palestine Conference in London, one conclusion, at any rate emergesâthat the...
M. Chvalkovsky in Berlin Germany has rather less need to
The Spectatorshow tact towards Czecho-Slovakia than towards Poland. The Czechs have recognised and accepted the conditions created by the Munich agreement, and both in their internal and...
Herr von Ribbentrop in Warsaw Germany prosecutes with increasing energy
The Spectatorthe task of re- organising Eastern and Central Europe. The final form of her policy is not yet clear. At the present moment her energies appear to be directed to neutralising...
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Sir Stafford Cripps' Expulsion The National Executive of the Labour
The Spectatorparty on Wednes- day took the drastic and decisive step of expelling Sir Staf- ford Cripps from the party. When Parliament meets the. Party Whip will be withdrawn from him and...
The Territorial Army It is satisfactory that the Committee on
The SpectatorTerritorial Army Finance and Organisation appointed last March by the Minister of War and presided over by Lord Strathcona should have found the administration by the County...
Road Policy in the Lakes The problem of planning roads
The Spectatorin the Lake District in a way that will achieve reasonable through-communication and yet preserve the district as a refuge in a mechanical age is one that concerns alike the...
The Government and Cotton Although no official commitments were entered
The Spectatorinto on behalf of the Government, the cotton workers' deputation which was received this week by the Prime Minister at the Board of Trade apparently came away convinced .that...
The Granta, the Cambridge undergraduate journal which attracts so many
The Spectatoryoung journalists at the period when the pleasure of appearing in print is keenest and the burden of responsibility is lightest, is celebrating its fiftieth anniver- sary....
,;span and the U.S.A.
The SpectatorThe growing resentment in the United States at Japan's commercial and military policies has found both official and unofficial expression during the last week. President Roose-...
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THE SHADOW OF CRISIS
The SpectatorIN the past week the situation in Europe, bad enough already, has visibly deteriorated ; nothing is gained by disguising that. The dismissal of Dr. Schacht may be variously...
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THE CALL TO SELF-DEFENCE
The SpectatorN his foreword to the National Service handbook, Sir John Anderson has emphasised that the Government's call to the nation " is to peace and not to war." The same emphasis...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorT HE National Book Association (President: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) was founded in 1937 to give its mem- bers important new books that have a sound, moderate and...
The reminder by the Board of Education that school attendance
The Spectatoris as much required of refugee children as of any others is no doubt right and timely, but it is obvious that children of ten or twelve speaking no English can get singularly...
I am glad to see Mr. Duff Cooper, who was
The Spectatoronce in the Foreign Office himself, writing (in the Evening Standard) on the shortcomings of British diplomacy. It is a delicate subject, for it is impossible to write...
The fact that that sinister body the Gestapoâthe Ger- man
The SpectatorSecret Policeâshould be active in this country is distinctly unpleasant, but since its emissaries are, in all the cases I have heard of, doing nothing illegal, our own...
I see that an Alderman of Nottingham has declined an
The Spectatorinvitation to a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor on the ground that he understood no wine was ' to be served. This is an admirable precedent. I am all in favour of guests being...
Strindberg's " Miss Julie " is described as the "
The Spectatormeat - dish " in the triple bill that opened at the Westminster Theatre On Monday, the " cocktail " being a valueless trifle by Schnitzler, and the savoury Barrie's " The Will,"...
The Authentic Gospel " The impulse to self-preservation of oppressed
The Spectatorpeoples gives them the noblest justification for fighting with every conceivable weapon. Only recognition of this principle has produced such outstanding historical examples of...
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THE NAZIS AND THE GERMANS
The SpectatorBy A LATE RESIDENT IN GERMANY F OR a few days after the Munich Conference the German Press contrived, as in recent years it seldom has, to reflect faithfully the feelings of...
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THE FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE : IV. IMPERIAL DEFENCE
The SpectatorBy GENERAL SIR JOHN BURNETT-STUART [This is the fourth of a series of six articles on the problems that face the constituent parts of the British Commonwealth today. In next...
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THE DEMOCRAT'S FAITH
The SpectatorBy WILLIAM BROCK* I N an age when it may be necessary to defend democracy, it is not less necessary to define it. This definition must take the form of separating externals...
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THE RETURN OF TIE STAR-GAZERS
The SpectatorBy W. E. WOOSNAM-JONES I T is now well over two centuries since Swift, in the Bickerstaff Papers, launched his famous attack upon John Partridge, the notorious Almanack Maker,...
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HOME TRUTHS FROM AMERICA
The SpectatorBy MARQUIS W. CHILDS* I F only because so many intangible values are involved, it is difficult to try to appraise the relations between one country and another, the attitude of...
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SIGNING ON
The SpectatorBy JAMES HANLEY I N the broad Square flanked by the tall buildings of the Customs House and the Board of Trade and Union offices, stand groups of men and boys. It is nine...
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THE M.C.C. IN AFRICA
The SpectatorBy OLIVER WARNER C RICKET tours in South Africa are apt to be a success. Next in importance to those in Australia, their atmo- sphere is wholly different. The Tests are not...
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PEOPLE AND THINGS
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON T HE only thing which I have in common with Napoleon is an almost morbid interest in the part played by chance in human destiny. How dull, in truth, are...
We never thought about Hitler. We thought about Wes- tarpp
The Spectatorand Hugenberg, but we dismissed Hitler from our minds. In 1928 Hitler was not taken seriously by any German of experience. I remember that for a short time I began to feel...
It is strange, upon this wet aad windy winter evening,
The Spectatorto sit gazing into the fire and to think back upon the Berlin of only ten years ago. The Locarno spirit cast its beneficent beams over all our actions. Then came the Kellogg...
It is difficult for us today to conceive of the
The Spectatorposition which Lord D'Abemon occupied in Berlin between 1920 and 1926. No British Ambassador since Malmesbury has exercised such persistent or creative influence. Superb and...
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The SpectatorThose days seem now as distant as January from June. The sunshine of Locarno is contracted into the grim clouds of Munich. The very name of Stresemann has been ex- punged from...
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The SpectatorChance, exploited with amazing discretion, guided Hjalmar Schacht throughout his career. Starting as a journalist upon a notoriously scurrilous newspaper, he transferred himself...
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Commonwealth and Foreign
The SpectatorCZECHO-SLOVAKIA SINCE MUNICH By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ir would appear from the recent interview between Herr Hitler and M. Chvalkovsky, the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Minister,...
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THE CINEMA
The SpectatorQuai des Brumes." At the Academy. ONE may guess that this film owes a considerable debt to Cavalcanti's early masterpiece En Rade, for some of the resemblances are very...
STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE 41 , Design for Living." By Noel Coward. Af the Haymarket. Design for Living is built around three glib, over-articulate and amoral creatures whose lives have a...
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ART
The Spectator6 , Nos Braves Anciens Grecs . . . " YET another attempt is being made to alleviate the unhappy position of the schoolboy who is compelled to study Greek, but can only read the...
A LA RECHERCHE DE REMEDES
The Spectator[D'un correspondent parisien] Dhs la rentree du Parlement on reparlait de crise de regime. C'est devenu une habitude. A vrai dire, il s'agit surtout de discussions abstraites....
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A Wounded Winterer
The SpectatorFrom a garden wall, composed of stone and rubble, was heard one morning last week a clear and plaintive cry on the note D (with apologies for the word). It was thought at first...
Two Old Words
The SpectatorIn a Hertfordshire parish are two places always referred to by the local population one as the Slade, the other as the Slype. The Slade or Slad is a dip in the field running...
In the Garden What is there to interest in the
The Spectatorgarden in mid-winter? A few flowering shrubs, such as viburnum fragrans, chimonan- thus and witch hazel; a few humble flowers, such as the lungwort, beloved of , cottage...
An American Example
The SpectatorThe plight of farms in the United States has been much worse than in England; but some salient recoveries are recorded, and these may perhaps have sugges- tions for those who...
An Omnivorous Rat Here is ⢠another odd and unexpected
The Spectatorexperience in the winter ways of animals. Several rabbits shot in a small wood were left in a heap while other coverts were drawn. On returning later in the day the keeper found...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorA Preserved Forest It is good news that Savernake Forest is not to be dragooned or thrust into an alien uniform. It has escaped the fate of part of the New Forest and the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Spectator[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...
THE PARTY MACHINE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,âThe
The Spectatorprestige of legislative institutions depends increas- ingly on the abilities, experience of the composition of_ membership. Can we admit that we secure the best to present...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,âDr. Terry Thomas in
The Spectatorhis recent letter to you has well expressed the point of view of many headmasters. The Report, with all its provisoes and qualificationsâwhich may be forgotten or ignored when...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âAllow me as a
The Spectatormember of the race whose honour and courage Miss Savage imputes, and one who at the time of the crisis volunteered like many other Jews for service in the British Army, to...
REFUGEES : LIABILITY OR ASSET ?
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âMiss Beryl Savage suggests that I am "carried away by " my pro-refugee enthusiasm into unreasonableness. But she is carried away by her...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSta,âI am afraid it was only to be expected that the corre- spondence as to whether refugees are a liability or an asset to this country should have produced the usual...
THE ADVERTISER AND THE PRESS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, âPurely from the point of view of a film critic, I should like to comment on several of the statements made .by Mr. F. P. Bishop in The...
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THE ABOLITION OF FLOGGING [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSIR, âWhile so much has been written in the Press lately about the pros and cons of flogging as a deterrent punishment, it seems to me remarkable how comparatively little...
THE PRIME MINISTER'S CORDIALITY
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, â In the article on " The Fruits of Rome " in your issue of January loth, the fact that the personal relations between the Prime Minister...
DIPLOMATIC ASSETS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
The SpectatorSit,âMr. Harold Nicolson informs us that it is quite under- standable that the Munich agreement should be regarded as a tremendous diplomatic disaster and Mr. Chamberlain as a...
THE CANE AND THE " CAT "
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, âMr. Kittermaster says that the system now prevailing in public schools whereby senior boys art allowed to cane junior boys " does...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âMr. B. Fair, the
The Spectatorwriter of a letter in last week's Spectator, observes that " it is common knowledge that garrotting was stamped out by corporal punishment." " Common know- ledge " is an easy...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,âI have always thought
The Spectatorthe best definition of a gentle- man is " one who is at his ease in any society." Morals have nothing to do with it, manners have.âYours faithfully, Orchard Cottage, Fetcham,...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âAS to that in
The Spectatorwhich true gentlernanliness consists, Ruskin surely has it in one wordâ" sensitiveness." A wag- gish and more modern expression of the same idea is " one who can play the...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âI think the best
The Spectatorshort description of a gentleman is that which appeared in Truth a generation ago : " A gentleman is one who is never unintentionally offensive."âYours submissively, CHAS....
WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN "
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âSurely no better answer to Mr. Harold Nicolson's ques- tion can be found than Psalm 15: " Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life and...
CANAL DUES
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sia,âMr. Spencer misquotes me. The words "Egypt would probably be forced to make the Canal free" were not mine, but Zaghlul Pasha's. The...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âThe best description of
The Spectatora " gentleman " I ever heard was given me by the late Comte de Sibour : " A gentleman is one who never gives offence unconsciously."
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,âI have been wondering
The Spectatorwhether any of your corre- spondents would refer to Cardinal Newman's description of a gentleman in his Dublin lectures. It is too long to quote here, but it occurs in the...
BATTLESHIP QUALITIES
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,âMr. P. G. Libby is right about speed in warships. Our Navy is worshipping two false godsâSpeed and Range; false because both detract...
EXPANSIVENESS IN WHO'S WHO "
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,âOne point of importance emerges from the discussion in your columns - on the contents of Who's Who. It relates to the principle on which...
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorSocial Service in India (Sir Stanley Reed, M.P.) ... ... 135 The Social Function of Science (C. P. Snow) ... ... 136 Denmark's Day of Doom (T. G. Barman) ... ... 136 The Mozart...
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THE ORGANISATION OF MAN'S FUTURE
The SpectatorTHE day after the publication of the recent honours list, the New York Times said something to this effect : " We all know England is dead. But for some extraordinary reason it...
DANISH FOREIGN POLICY
The SpectatorDenmark's Day of Doom. By Joachim Joesten. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Tins is a singularly mischievous book. Mr. Joesten's exag- gerations are so palpable, and his conclusions so...
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THE MOZART CORRESPONDENCE
The SpectatorThe Letters of Mozart and His Family. Translated and .edited by Emily Anderson. Three vols. (Macmillan. 54s.) MR. Polar of Punch has made comment with his pencil upon various...
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A PLEA FOR AMERICA
The SpectatorNEAR the five-hundredth page of this book comes a section called " Random Portraits and Snapshots," and this title might have been used a little earlier, for the first...
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THE WORLD'S EXILES
The SpectatorThe Refugee Problem. Report of a Survey. By Sir John Hope Simpson, K.B.E., C.I.E. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) In any ill-seeing spirit gazing down like the Pities in The...
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THE BLACK GHETTO " THE American Negro problem is and
The Spectatormust be the centre of the Negro American university . . . You are teaching American Negroes in 1933, and they are the subjects of a caste system . . . and their life problem is...
LOG CABIN TO WHITE BOX
The SpectatorTHE buildings of a nation (said Goldwin Smith) are an important part of its history, but a part that has been neglected by all historians because the historians themselves have...
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BOY LOSES GIRL
The SpectatorA Heart for the Gods of Mexico. By Conrad Aiken. (Secker. 6s.) TEN years ago the Great American Novel seemed really under wayâMr. Hemingway and Mr. Faulkner appeared set for a...
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FICTION
The SpectatorBy FORREST REID THOUGH I have not read many of Mr. McFee's novels, I remember, years ago, reading and reviewing Captain Mace- doine's Daughter, and pointing out how greatly the...
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SURVEY OF LONDON Old St. Pancras and Kentish Town
The SpectatorNow that the London County Council is giving generous support, the work of the London Survey Committee proceeds apace. The nineteenth instalment of this remarkable topo- graphy...
A HISTORY OF THE EXPANSION OF CHRISTIANITY
The SpectatorVol. I: The First Five Centuries By Kenneth Scott Latourette This is the first instalment to be published of a work in six volumes by the Professor of Missions in Yale...
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND THE FUTURE Edited by H. V.
The SpectatorHodson The editor of the Round Table is to be congratulated on producing a little book in which the many grave and complex problems confronting the British Empire are very...
THE 1938 BOOK OF THE FRIENDS OF DUNBLANE CATHEDRAL
The SpectatorFor the ninth year in succession Dr. J. Hutchison Cockburn has produced a substantial pamphlet (published by the editor at Dunblane) containing articles on the cathedral of...
CURRENT LITERATURE
The SpectatorMY LLOYD GEORGE DIARY By Tom Clarke Since Mr. Clarke did not meet Mr. Lloyd George for the first time till 1926, when the latter's days as a primary political force were over,...
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MOTORING
The SpectatorRailways Into Roads An Interesting suggestion was made the other day by Colonel A. S. Redman, lately chairman of Traffic Commis- sioners for the West Midland area, in an address...
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Travel Notes
The SpectatorMOROCCO THE development of Morocco during the last few years has been so thorough and so rapid that it is almost incredible. Where, comparatively recently, only a camel cara-...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT RATHER sooner than most of us expectedâalthough
The Spectatorwe did expect itâstock markets have surrendered to another bad attack of political nerves. This has happened not merely in London and the Continental centres but also in Wall...
EXIT DR. SCHACHT
The SpectatorJust what has induced this attack of the jitters at this particular time it is not easy to define, but there can be no doubt that Dr. Schacht's dismissal from the Reichsbank,...
MR. CAMPBELL ON TRADE
The SpectatorThis week's markets have scarcely presented the bank chairmen with a helpful atmosphere for their annual speeches, but these authoritative reviews have a certain quality of...
WESTMINSTER CHAIRMAN BACKS EXPORT DRIVE
The SpectatorIt is good to see the bankers offering whole-heartedâand one hopes open-handedâsupport for Mr. Hudson's pro- posals for reviving the export trade. At the Westminster Bank...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorNATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED CONTINUED EXPANSION OF BUSINESS IMPORTANCE OF MAINTENANCE OF LIQUIDITY AND STRENGTH MR. COLIN F. CAMPBELL'S REVIEW THE annual general meeting...
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FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorCOPPER EARNINGS RISE THE interim reports of three big Rhodesian copper mining companies show that the decline in earnings has been arrested and that there was substantial...
MANAGED CURRENCY â NEW STYLE Those who delight in currency dialectics will
The Spectatorfind pleat:, to ponder in Mr. McKenna's stimulating address to th,2 shareholders of the Midland Bank. Here is Mr. McKenna', advocacy of a managed currency brought right up to...
Venturers' Corner At long last Sheffield Steel Products is to
The Spectatorcarry through a capital reconstruction scheme, as a result of which its Lioo ordinary stock, now quoted around £12, will be written down by two-thirds of its nominal value....
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorWESTMINSTER BANK LIMITED DIVIDENDS MAINTAINED THE ECONOMIC SITUATION THE HON. RUPERT E. BECKETT'S ADDRESS THE Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Westminster Bank Limited was...
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The SpectatorAMALGAMATED COTTON MILLS TRUST Investors will not be surprised to find that the results of the leading cotton spinning and manufacturing companies make a worse showing than...
ASFIANTI GOLDFIELDS PROGRESS
The SpectatorAshanti Goldfields, the outstanding company in the West African gold field, have added to their long record of progress another year of record tonnage and profits. Tonnage mined...
TURNER AND NEWALL OUTLOOK
The SpectatorMuch of the success of Turner and Newall, the big asbestos company, must be attributed to the directors' policy of ignor- ing short-term industrial fluctuations and planning...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorMIDLAND BANK LIMITED THE RT. HON. R. McKENNA'S ADDRESS THE Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Midland Bank Limited was held at the Head Office of the Bank,...
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RESTRICTION AND RECESSION The chairman of Martins Bank, Mr. F.
The SpectatorA. Bates, developed at Tuesday's meeting an instructive analysis of the essential differences between the trade recession of 1937-38 and its predecessor of nearly to years ago....
MR. ERIC MILLER ON RUBBER PROSPECTS The estimate of the
The Spectatorrubber position given by Mr. H. Eric Miller at Wednesday's meeting of United Serdang (Sumatra) (Continued on page 156) Rubber Plantations Corresponded almost exactly with the...
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OMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorMARTINS BANK LIMITED EXPANSION OF BUSINESS THE one hundred and eighth annual general meeting of members of Martins Bank Limited was held at the head office, Liverpool, on...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorUNITED SERDANG (SUMATRA) RUBBER PLANTATIONS MR. ERIC MILLER ON THE OUTLOOK THE 31st ordinary general meeting of the United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, Limited, was...
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The Spectator" CHARTERED " COMPANY'S DISTRIBUTION The British South Africa Company's fortunes are intimately bound up with those of the Rhodesian copper mining industry. As a landowner it...
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The SpectatorD. NAPIER RESUME DIVIDENDS It is good news, though not unexpected, that D. Napier and Son, the engineering firm, are resuming ordinary dividends with a payment of 5 per cent....
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The SpectatorINVESTMENT TRUST UNITS The fall in Stock Exchange values has borne hard upon the shares of investment trust companies. In many of these com- panies the present market value of...
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OMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorWILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK, LIMITED MR. GERARD POWYS DEWHURST'S SPEECH THE annual meeting of the shareholders of Williams Deacon's Bank, Limited, was held on Thursday, January...
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FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorSedenak Rubber Estates have been fortunate in obtaining increased standard assessments for their rubber just at the time when the exportable quota was low. During the past year,...
THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 331
The SpectatorBy ZENO prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first corr., t solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 330
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