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if General Smuts had also said something about the blame that rightly attaches to Germany for her reckless and unscrupulous financial policy in the period before she entirely...

never contemplated or intended by anybody at the Peace Conference. " We arc back in August, 1914, again. It is again the scrap of.paper." Something must be done to prevent...

W E cannot praise too highly the speech which General Smuts made to the South African Luncheon Club in London on Tuesday. Such a speech excites both pride and gratitude. At last...

reduced to a reasonable sum. For- tunately, there was already something like agreement on that subject, but it would also be necessary to allow Germany a moratorium, probably of...

Neither the Reparation Com- mission nor even the Council of the League of Nations should be made responsible. The business was " one for principals not for agents." lie knew...

dinner given to him by the Pilgrims on Tuesday, said that America was willing to " come in " to the affairs of Europe. She could hardly be expected, however, to smash in the...

order to prevent either deflation or inflation being carried too far should be adopted herd :=- " When unemployment is - greatly in excess of the normal we should abandon...

which was written by Mr. Wilson when he was still President of the United States to Mr. Lloyd George. This letter provides a complete justification—though to sensible people no...

have expressed confirmed so strongly and clearly by such an authority as Sir Erie Geddes. Out of the heat of the whole involved controversy it is slowly becoming plain that the...

Belfast Chamber of Commerce. After paying a warm tribute to the achievements of the Northern Government of Ireland under Sir James Craig, he passed on to a discussion of the...

which embodied so much financial good sense in so short a space that the mere reading of it must almost compel agreement. Sir Eric Geddes's first point was particu- larly...

since the famous Cunliffe Committee, whose- policy still dominates the situation, though the condi- tions on which it was based have completely changed. Naturally Sir Eric...

a generous remission of debts in principle, pointed out that it would be a fundamental mistake to remit debts if money thus gained by France was going to be used for the further...

of the situation is, of course, wireless. It is two years now since it was decided to create an Empire wireless chain of high power stations erected here for direct...

July S, .1928 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday. 10211; Thursday week, 102 /1 .; a year ago, 98k.

the Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, are the guests of the British Government. These are the two men who above all others have laboured for the recon- struction of Central...

which is itself, of course, revolutionary in origin. The news is -heavily censored, but it seems that the Government has been successful in suppressing most of the concerted...

made between several big British grain broking and shipping firms and the Wholesalers' Co-operative Society, on the one side, and Centrosoyus (the Russian Co-operative :Society)...

to take our defeats in the -world of sport with a certain resignation. Indeed, we must, for as long as America is a larger and richer country than we are, she is certain to...

DEMOCRATIC UNIONISM AT PLYMOUTH. W E must return, on the occasion of Mr. Baldwin's speech at Plymouth on Thursday, to the subject of Democratic Conservatism. What Mr. Baldwin...

I DO not know who was,, the philosopher who first stated that none preaches so well as the ant, and yet the ant utters nothing. We all require to learn from the silent sermon...

if it assumes that the doctors are threatening to resign from the medical panels merely for the sake of a shilling a patient. No doubt there are many doctors .who honestly feel...

S O France has her way. Slowly and uneasily Germany is breaking up. In all the turmoil of the last ten years in Europe, we have not witnessed this steady cracking of one of the...

CO-OPERATION IN ENGLAND. " Co-operation has succeeded in this country ; it has also failed. Success or failure is due to the presence or the absence of a united body of...

T HE taxi-driver did not try to hide his surprise and his dissatisfaction ; he went on grumbling and muttering to himself while racing along the crowded streets ; evidently his...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. By EVELYN WRENCH. D URING Mr. Harvey's Ambassadorship, as I men- tioned in the Spectator last week, three major causes of discord in British-American...

"OUTWARD BOUND" AT THE GARRICK. Tun eight characters in this play find themselves on board a small liner which, when the curtain rises, is just about to put out from the land....

THE COMING SEASON. " The only redeeming feature about British music is that in other countries music is quite as bad. Of composers there are none ; of singers there are few ;...

creator (February 5th, 1924). through his manifestations of the resourcefulness and the Sir Henry Wood's Symphony Concerts on Saturday after- appeal of timidity, I stopped short...

of them impracticable or dangerous, which ought to be pressed on the Government as immediately urgent : (1) The present Treasury Minute limiting the fiduciary issue of currency...

in the Spectator of 20th inst. with deep interest. You speak against further deflation, but is it not true that inflation has inflicted, and is still inflicting; hardship on...

SIRS I am delighted to see the stand you have taken in this week's Spectator against the suicidal policy which the Treasury officials have been pursuing for the past 21 years,...

with your statement, " Deflation Means Unemployment," if you would accept the corollary " and inflation means more unemployment in the future." That is, the aim should be...

articles in the Spectator on this subject with great interest, and I think my experience may possibly be instructive. In the year 1873 I was the President of the Liverpool...

most illuminating article, and I think your diagnosis of the situation entirely correct. You say, truly, that there is only one fiscal ideal—stabilization. Deflation and...

Sin,—It is sincerely to be hoped that your striking article on "Deflation Means Unemployment" will lead to a nation- wide discussion of the currency problem. As a slight...

very disappointing. He asks " Can the farmer save himself ? " He puts aside Pro- tection as " not a practical policy " and labours the point of economic organization. Of course...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Philip Morrell's remarkably able article under the above title in your issue of October 13th errs only in treating Messrs. Christopher...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—One result of the policy of M. Poincare in the Ruhr is the serious effect it is having on the British dye trade—a result which, as the...

the Spectator of October 20th on farming in Denmark does not mention the fact that about seven millions sterling's worth of cereals and seeds are imported into Denmark annually...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I notice in your issue of October 13th a letter from Mr. Ernest H. Gates on the subject of an inquiry under the S.O.I. Act into the...

old reader of the Spectator, say how much I and my family have enjoyed Mr. Philip Morrell's admirable articles on agriculture ? When the series is completed, will he have them...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, I am glad to see that Mr. Limmer, speaking from his intimate knowledge of Christ's Hospital boys, has advocated the provision of better...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—There must be many others like Lieutenant-Commander Astbury, M.P., who, while convinced Free Traders in a general sense, wish to see a...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sue,--It has been for some time noticeable that our old towns are beginning to be beset by " skyscrapers." Some capitalist buys a bit of...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] think you will be interested to know how matters are progressing in connexion with the opening of museums and picture-galleries in the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Perhaps you will kindly permit me to comment upon the " two or three weak points " mentioned in your kind notice of my book in your issue...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I had been a reader of the Spectator for many years and a regular subscriber for quite half of the time. In the ordinary course I suppose...

THE CHEST. ONE day, leaning over the chest In the musk-scented dark of my mind, My fingers, trembling, at last Will learn there's no treasure to find. When the god who moves...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In answer to the query on page 500 of your issue of October 13th, I suggest that the motto may be as follows :— " E MELIORIBUS MELIORA...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Curls. Szn,—I see that it has required two Cabinet meetings to decide finally whether the Memorial Service for those who gave their lives in...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reference in the Spectator of October 13th to the choir who sang " Take Thy pil - , take Thy pil - , take Thy pil - grim home,"...

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. A MOST magnificent volume, weighing as much as ten ordinary books, has been received from Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. The title is Game Birds and...

[COMMUNICATED.] To review, in the pages of the Spectator, a book by Mr. Strachey may appear to some of his readers well-nigh savouring of presumption. Probably no other editor...

Ma. H. W. NEVINSON has one great quality as a journalist.; None of his contemporaries stands out from the crowd of Fleet Street with a sharper note of distinction, of being and...

we hope, the last of Mr. Mathieson's valuable series of historical studies, discusses the ecclesiastical side of the Reform Movement of 1832. No writer has treated the subject...

IN this book the Astronomer of the Paris Observatory has provided such mental food as would have served even Cole- ridge's insatiable mind for a lifetime of poetic...

Mn. WITHERS is already known to a select few, both as an intimate interpreter of the Lake Country and as the master of a pure and pondered style. His latest book should widen...

A NEW NOVELIST.t IT was unwise of Mr. Liam O'Flaherty to publish his reasons for writing this novel. He wrote it, he says, in the first place because Synge's book about one of...

Tins popular account, by a competent archaeologist, of Roman Britain was very much needed and will be welcomed by many readers. Much has been done, especially in the last twenty...

Philip Gibbs is more at home in describing conditions and events which he himself has witnessed than in fiction. For this reason his present book, Heirs Apparent, is not nearly...

novel has a hurried, breathless air : it reads like a translation from the Scandinavian, and particu- larly like a translation of Hans Andersen. It is a strange (Continued on...

in England and India. He fails of it, but the story ends well and the interest is maintained.

The Criterion, at the opening of its second year, shows no lowering of its standard of excellence, and the list of contribu- tors to the present number, which includes the late...

Professor J. Arthur Thomson, who writes on " The New Biology," always holds the attention ; for him science is romance, and he makes it so for his readers. He is fascinated by...

reality, bringing to mind all that we are striving to forget.

with the devious tactics of that arch-intriguer, Brougham, in the years between Waterloo and the death of George IV. Brougham was trying at one and the same time to curry favour...

purports to be the history of a " virtuous vampire." Her sister, the second heroine, who has all the sympathy of her creator, strikes the reader as a selfish and conceited...

(Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.) It seems strange that nowadays someone should venture on the difficult technique of telling a story by means of a series of letters without better...

net.) The Jacobite plot to seize Edinburgh Castle in 1715, on the eve of the rising under Mar, is related in highly interesting detail by Major K. A. Moody-Stuart, who has made...

(Black. 5s. net.) It is a pity that somebody does not write better stories of Wales than those exemplified by this book, which consist of a good deal of local colour, much...

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. The first article of the new Edinburgh, by Mr. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, is an informing survey of the progress of Czecho- slovakia, which comes opportunely...

6d.) The Antiquity of Proverbs. By Dwight Edwards Marvin. (Putnam. 12s. 6d.) Mr. Marvin has studied the proverbs of every language deeply, and in this book he takes fifty...

Stevenson and Orr, Ltd., Belfast. 2s. net.) The author of this excellent little book begins by discussing the recent developments in religion and science. As a result of the...

Talks and Traits. By H. C. Minehin. (Dent. 6s.) Mr. Minchin browses in those pleasant pastures that lie around the dark tower of literary criticism ; he gossips in the...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] MARKET UNCERTAINTIES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To all outward appearances the stock markets are entirely unperturbed by the fact that the...

The general aim of this very admirable volume is to bring classic poetry into touch with modern criticism—a thing which is not often done. This is the only means by which the...

A Bee Melody. By Herbert Brown. (Melrose. 6s.) One subject, properly studied, involves all the rest of the universe, or so at least we had been told without seriously accepting...

Mr. Philip Graves was peculiarly well qualified, as the Times correspondent at Constantinople before and since the War, and as a staff officer at headquarters in the Near East,...

21s.) Mr. Bartlett is at his best in descriptions of the events in which he actually took part, such as the Bolshevist revolution in Hungary and the capture by Royalist...

: The Macmillan Company. 10s. 6d. net.) Popular Poultry Pointers. By Ralston R. Hannas, M.Sc. (New York : The Macmillan Company. 10s. 6d. net.) Even a city man " possessed by...

In Memoriam : Charlotte M. Mason. (P.N.E.U., 26 Victoria Street, S.W. 1. 3s. 6d.) All who are interested in the work of the Parents National Education Union will welcome this...

Rawlinson. (Melrose. 25s. net.) This book (which is illustrated with many excellent photo- graphs) gives an account of the work of Colonel Rawlinson, as Special Service Officer,...

to show that Plautus echoed in his verse—notably in the hiatus—the everyday talk of a Roman in the second century before Christ, and that Plautine metre, a pre-adaptation of the...

one brief remark made at the recent meeting of Raphael Tuck's concerning possible postage reforms rather diverted attention from the satisfactory financial statement which the...

at pains to interest its employees further in the welfare of the bank by presenting them with a certain number of new shares, and I am glad to record both of these developments...

Who would not be a member of our banking staffs to-day, when to salaries on a fairly high basis—especially for the younger members of the staff—are added sub- stantial bonuses,...

S S. MOOLTAN: IT is the engineer who rules the waves .to-day, and, to be honest, Britannia should no longer posture with a trident, but with a twelve-inch spanner. It is a...

some slight advance in the total of deposits which in the previous year had fallen con- siderably, but we should imagine that, owing to the depression in trade, it cannot have...

PLAYS. EVERYMAN, HAMPSTEAD.—What the Public Wants 8.15-2.80 [Mr. Bennett's successful play.] GLOBE.—Our Betters . . . . .. 8.15-2.15 [There is talk of the licence of this play...