support as could be got in Washington at this season, and then boldly issued his proposal. He acted with courage and promptitude along the lines which his knowledge of the world...

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at all under our pledge, given in the " Balfour Note " to our Allies, that we would only collect from our debtors what we must pay to our creditors. There would even be a small...

The Debts of the Nations S INCE Saturday last the spirits of both hemispheres have risen in a way that has no exact parallel that we can remember. The change has been almost...

the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance serious people have been depressed and even alarmed at the inaction of the Government. All that we hope for from Mr. Hoover's...

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Lord Salisbury has given up the leadership of the Opposition to Lord Hailsham, discussed the Miners' Welfare Fund, the one prosperous branch of the coal mining industry. Since...

the procedure in the Committee which is considering the Consumers' Council Bill. On Monday, the Minister of Labour moved the Resolution asking for further borrowing powers for...

of Patiala's rejection of Federation disposes of any. fear .that the Chamber of Princes might 'be stampeded into a serious - split by that ill-timed act of dissension. Not all...

engineering, has been able to adjust wages and working conditions without a stoppage. On Saturday, June 20th, the union leaders and employers reached agreement, and on Tuesday...

to put any hopes in emigration or, as it must now be called, overseas settle. ment, for the solution of our domestic problems, should be finally disillusioned by the report of...

of the Report needs courage. If the Government should show this, we believe' that there would be a great response. The self-respecting wage-earner and his womenfolk would...

for Air gave satisfactory assurances that the Imperial system of civil aviation, especially in the East, was really favoured by the Government and would not be neglected. (The...

excavations now being made, at an Athenian benefactor's expense, on the site of Plato's Academy at Athens. The philosopher, it will be remembered, was ransomed from slavery in...

of foot- and-mouth disease, widely spread- through the North of England and Scotland. The slaughtering and burning begin again after a long respite from those horrors. It is...

this week. The figures for the Ardwick Division of Manchester were as follows :- Mr. J. HENDERSON (Labour).. • • 15,294 Mr. S. L. Elbome (Conservative) • • 14,980...

June 20th, under Dr. Buresch, after the fall of Dr. Ender's Govern- ment on. the 17th. The parties supporting Dr. Buresch are, much the same as those which supported the last...

Armand Fallieres, a foimer President, whose death on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine, we record with regret. He was one of . thos e provincial lawyers—he practised at Nerac...

towards peace between the Vatican and the Italian Government. The Pope and Signor Mussolini, two very determined men, have different aims, radically different in some respects,...

Egham by-pass is not to encroach on the historic Runnymede, which Lady Fairhaven and her sons gave in memory of her husband, the late Mr. Urban Broughton, to the National Trust...

on May 14th, 1931. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 1034; en Wednesday week, 102# ; a year ago, 1022; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 971; on Wednesday week,...

tried for some time to impress upon our readers without seeming to be alarmists the gravity with which we regarded the financial position of Ger- many, knowing that a crash...

is dealing - 1 - with the Consumers' Council Bill three days of sittings to achieve this much of the Bill : " With a view of enabling the Board of Trade to obtain information in...

[The Spectator does not necessarily agree with all the views of the writers contributing to this series on the Colour Bar. Our object in publighing the series is to attempt some...

By THE REV. CANON W. R. MATTHEWS. [This article by the Dean of King's College, London, is the last of the series dealing with " The Idea of God." A further series of articles...

BY BHABANI BHATTACHARYA. A S the storm of political struggle in India begins to cease, it will be time for foreigners interested in the country to consider the more permanent...

BY DR. R. B. PHILLIPPS. T HE first International Congress on Open-Air Schools met in Paris in June, 1922, and the second congress in Brussels during the week following Easter,...

with Sophocles, full under- standing comes not from reading, but from seeing the poet in action on the stage. It is thus that the spectator feels—almost too poignantly...

BY BASSETT DIGBY. S OME time ago there was litigation in the Probate Court in London over the validity of a will alleged to have been made by a Manchester Ship Canal pilot who...

W ALKING through the Cloth Market of the Medina (Arab town) I saw a little Arab boy pulling the beard of a Jew. The Jew's face wore the sickly smile of one who knew that it...

We have always - suspected statisticians to be a mean- souled, sublunary race of men, incapable of the higher thing's. Never has our suspicion received such striking ....

NATIONALISM AND THE OPERA. Last week in the House of Commons the Duchess of Atholl, by asking how far the grant of the Opera Subsidy would result in the " encouragement and...

A contemporary alleges that the so-called " London Season " is neither more nor less than a marriage market, conducted on attractive but fundamentally mercenary lines. We have...

The other day, in Hereford, a man who claimed, through descent from the Tudors, to be the rightful king of England, was fined 104. for holding a meeting Of six hundred people to...

This hospital, after a period of 297 years, was re-opened yesterday. for the purpose of affording advice and medicine to the sick poor, without any distinction of country or...

the Avon, from Clifton Heights to Leawood, was commenced under the superintendence of the Trustees and Mr. Brunell junior, their engineer.

General' Diebitsch died on the 10th instant, at Kleczeco, near Pultusk, a town about thirty miles north of Warsaw. The cause of his death has been variously assigned. The first...

Traigh Road TIIE old man talking to himself beside the sea Lost in his fierce, proud dreams, Heeds not, nay, scarcely sees the graceless three Jeering and grinning there to...

[RUSSIAN : FRENCH : AMERICAN.] WHEN I arrived at the Academy Theatre a notorious agent provocateur, cunningly disguised as a bourgeois of some sixteen summers, was selling a...

[TEE NATIONAL SOCIETY.] THE second annual exhibition of the National Society at the Royal Institute Galleries, 195 Piccadilly, which closes at the end of this month is a great...

The figures of a recent effort by the Empire Marketing Board are worth the notice of every student of economics. Agents of the Board have recently completed a tour in Yorkshire...

schoolboys say, " on tick "—is to be kept quite virgin from gunfire in winter as in summer, in the open time as in the close time ; and the sacrifice that this entails should...

On the subject of sport, Lady Warwick's refusal to permit otter hunting on her property is interesting in itself and for its popular reception. Personally, I believe that the...

A notable gathering of the Community Councils and those they represent takes place this week at Cambridge, and will, I hope, emphasize a local achievement on which Lincoln-...

what the National Trust is to the relics of great architecture ; though the National Trust possesses some famous sanctuaries as well ; Scolt Head, for example, and Blakeney,...

produced the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. Characteristic areas —the Cley Marshes, Aldersfen fen, the Starch grass marsh— have been acquired by acts of great faith and daring,...

A NATURALISTS' TRUST. Of all the schemes and ideas for preserving the animals and flowers—and, indeed, scenery of England—I know none that seems to me more quietly...

Hickling Broad, founded by Lord Grey and Mr. Montagu, and now controlled by Lord Desborough. Its manager, Mr. Jim Vincent, is a genius in his craft. I have seen there within a...

[In view of the length of many of the letters which we receive, we would remind correspondents that we often cannot give space for long letters and that short ones are generally...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is always depressing to find that one's readers have taken not the slightest notice of the main argument which one has advanced. In...

coincidence that Professor Robert- son's article on " The Idea of God " should appear in the same number of the Spectator as Professor Elliot Smith's criticism of Sir Arthur...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srn,—I hope that your readers will support you in your admirable appeal for Burma, and if they are not acquainted with Burma they might do...

printed in your issue of the 80th May, by Mr. John Strachey, on the above subject, requires little comment, except on the economic side. The following, therefore, should be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sni,—In the letter which you publish from Mr. Edward H. Harby in your current issue, he writes that he has drawn the attention of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be allowed a concluding comment on the letters of Mr. George Lutton and Mr. McClure Campbell supporting Lord Charlemont's...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] outstanding fact in India now, as in every other country, is that something must be done for the relief of unemployment. But what is it to be...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was much interested to read Mr. Russell's theories on education in your issue of June 13th, but remained unconvinced on certain...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your article, " Another Fiscal Campaign," you say, " We search vainly in the speeches of the Free Traders for any suggestion of how...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn,—I have always thought that the cult of the spinning- wheel was the best part of Mr. Gandhi's campaign. However small the remuneration...

PHARMACY AND POISONS BILL. • Although chemists very naturally dislike losing the monopoly they have enjoyed so long of selling poisons, they must realize that the situation...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,—Those who have read Lockhart's Life of Scott will re- member a delightful description of a scene at Abbotsford in its Palmy days, when a...

The Law's Deductio ad Absurdum with regard to explosives found in a Gladstone bag reminds one of the story, told by Henry Leach in Fleet .Street from Within, of two New Zealand...

It is proposed to hold a Shipping Week in Liverpool,: August 29th/September 5th, of this year, under the auspices of the municipalities of Merseyside and in co-operations with...

May I appeal to those of your readers who are owners of gardens and lovers of children to send me. roses and flowers for a Buttonhole Sale to be held in aid of the Time and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of June 18th Mr. Leckie states that the only way by which the railways can hold their own is by greater speed, and he...

SIR,—As so many people, at • present, seem unable to distin- guish humane furs from others, I send you. the, following list, under three headings, of those which may be...

very clearly written on one side of the paper only. The name and address, or pseudonym, of the competitor must be on each entry and not on a separate sheet. - When a word limit...

Tim English are still a good-tempered race, and they do not mind being abused by foreigners. They feel that a foreigner must cheer himself up somehow, considering what he is and...

In My End is My Beginning. By Maurice Baring. (Heine- mann. 10s. 6d.) THERE are some true tales which never lose their power to move us, and one of the chief is that of the...

THE term " novel " is now used to describe a thousand different things. Since its false start in the age of Elizabeth and its true start in the age of Charles II, this form of...

Facets of the Chinese Question. By E. Menke Gull. (Bann. 10s. 6d.) _ . China—the Collapse of a Civilization. By Nathaniel Puffer. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) . . - IT is...

Lassalle. By Arno Schirokauer. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. (Allen and Unwin. 15s.) A NEW life of Lassalle was needed, and we must welcome Mr. Arno Schirokauer's book,...

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THE modern art critic is not, taking him all round and considering the peculiar nature of his profession, a very industrious traveller. Critics of an earlier age may have...

Head. 78. 6d.) The Partner. By Jenaro Prieto. (Thornton Butterworth. 78. 6d.) " HE writes the stuff that rings true, does Robert Service," says Jim Maitland, making a rather...

to C. R. Leslie, R.A. (Constable. 15s.) The Letters of John Constable, RA., to C. R. Leslie, R.A., written between 1826 and 1837, show us the great landscape painter as a very...

I Went to Russia. By Liam a - Flaherty. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) Tioublous Times. By Captain A. H: Brim. (Constable. 12s.) Russia apparently means all things to all then. Juit before...

The Animal Year Book. By C. M. Knight and C. W. Hume. (University of London. 2s.) OF most new commercial productions which are put on the market, the advertisement announces...

All Sorts To Make a World The Thief. By Leonid Leonov. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) The Cross of Carl. By Walter Owen. (Grant Richards. 5s.) Child : Auntie, what is a novel ? Auntie : A...

will thereafter value every detail that he can collect, about the life of whale .fishermen_ and of :Whales themselves. - Whaling in the Antarctic, by A. G. Bennett (Blackwood,-...

WOrld Disarmament, by Maurice Fanshawe (League of Nations Union, 2s. 6d.), is described in the sub-title as a handbook on the reduction and limitation of armaments. Considering...

in A Glance at Gallipoli (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s. 6d.). He describes a visit to the Straits and Constantinople in 1930, discusses the strategy and tactics of the campaign of...

on the econorrile life of the Jukun-speaking - peoples of Nigeria, described by Mr. C. K. Meek in A Sudanese Kingdom (Kegan Paul, 25s.). Here we have concrete facts carefully...

the history of theology last August and September must have admired the expertise with which he gave human interest, to this somewhat formidable theme. These, and others who...

The Times Book Club have been :— NoN - FicrioN : — The Soviet Five Year Plan and its Effect on World Trade, by H. R. Knickerbocker ; Most Women, by Alec Waugh ; After Ten...

On Wheels EIGHT feet by six may seem a moderate amount of space in which to make a home. For odd week-ends, possibly ; but not for months at a time. Of course, there are the...

the 'aim of Mr. - J. G. Crowther in An Outline' of the Universe (Kegan Paul, 12s. 6d.). He modestly describes his book as " . an essay in scientific journalism.," 1 We regret...

SOMETHING BEYOND : A LIFE STORY. By A. F. Webling. (Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d.) MEMOIRS OF A POLYGLOT. By William Gerhardi. (Duckworth. 18s.) IN THE END IS MY...

; as we read, the novelist seems the chief character in the book. This is remarkably true of Mary Webb. Indeed, ft is impossible to read Precious Bane without feeling acute...

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Reparations and War Debts IT is seldom that the Stock Markets experienced such a sharp revulsion of sentiment as that which has been shown during the past week as a consequence...

Moreover, added to local influences, the world-wide depression of trade and finance has affected markets for a long period, and anxiety with regard to conditions on the...

I might easily fill considerable space by describing the excited nature of the rise in prices during the past week, but it would probably be more to the point if I state briefly...

On Sunday came the announcement that President Hoover had made the offer—subject to consent of Congress—to forgo all War Debts due to her during a period of twelve months...

" SEMIS. TRANSPORT. AT the recent annual meeting of the Shell " Transport and Trading Company Viscount Bearsted gave an assurance to the shareholders—though we fancy that the...

The Report of the General Electric Company for the past year is a satisfactory one, having regard to the general con- ditions of depression, the profit being £1,122,000,...

The Report of Patons and Baldwin, Limited, for the past year is a good one. A - year ago the necessity of writing down stocks, owing to the great rise in the price of wool,...

If, however, I am asked to say to what extent I con- sider the financial outlook has been affected by the developments of the last few days, I am obliged to speak with some...

Looking at the matter, however, not merely from the standpoint of actual debt payments during the year but -from the much larger standpoint, stress is laid by- the City upon the...