28 AUGUST 1936

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE diplomatic aspect of the Spanish situation still' completely overshadows the military. _ AS to the :actual operations, they have left things almost precisely Where they...

The German Army Challenge— Herr Hitler can no doubt claim

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in defence of his decree increasing conscript service in Germany from one year to two years that France has already taken a similar step and that- Russia, with a peace-basis...

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—and its Repercussions This sudden military expansion, achieved by no other formality than the signatures of Herr Hitler and General von Blomberg, is deplorable in its...

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The Treaty with Egypt Though the treaty between Great Britain

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and Egypt was signed. on Wednesday it has not yet been published. But its general tenor is known, and both countries may be satisfied that it. gives them not merely peace but...

Wisdom from Dr. Benes President Benes has rendered a valuable

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public service by his speeches in the Sudetendeutsch region of Czecho- slovakia. Much more important than his wise recognition that the Sudetendeutsch had real grievances was...

A Protestant Appeal Herr Hitler has frequently represented himself as

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the defender of European civilisation against barbarism ; but the appeal which was read in the confessional churches of Germany on Sunday is a remarkable comment on his fitness...

Progress in India By his sensible decision to send political

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officers to the Indian States to discuss with the Princes on his behalf the practical problems involved in their acceptance of the new federal scheme Lord Linlithgow has brought...

The Great American Drought President Roosevelt and his Republican rival,

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Mr. Alfred M. Landon, are meeting this week in Iowa. Such encounters between presidential candidates in the cam- paign are almost unheard of, but this year the great drought...

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Flying-boat Accidents The accident to the Imperial Airways flying-boat, .`

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Scipio,' in the Mediterranean, in which two lives were lost and the lives of all the passengers and crew were imperilled, inevitably recalls the recently issued report on the...

Dr. Schacht in Paris ' • The resourceful Dr. Schacht,

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who finds means of improv- ing Germany's economic position even in the unlikeliest places, began a visit to Paris on Wednesday. Officially, he is merely returning the call paid...

Strike Action in South Wales On Monday 120,000 miners in

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South Wales handed in notices to cease work in fourteen days' time. Their decision was due to the threat of the Bedwas Colliery Company to dismiss 1,000 of its employees who...

• * * The Placing of Arms Contracts The announcement

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that a new acro-engine factory is to be built at Coventry has aroused many doubts whether the Government is being wise or fair in the allotment of rearmament contracts: The new...

Folly on the Roads The Ministry of Transport's annual report

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on fatal road accidents this year analyses the causes of the 6,477 deaths which occurred in .1935. As our motoring correspondent points out on another page, the surprising and...

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THE DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY

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T HAT the Spanish Civil War has raised far graver issues outside Spain than inside it is a common- place. Fortunately 'the immediate dangers have been exorcized by the agreement...

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THE TWILIGHT OF THE BOLSHEVIKS

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T HE trial of the Sixteen in Moscow, ending in their execution within a few hours of the death sentence, has been followed in this country with amazement. The liberal friends of...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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O N the face of it there is something to be said for the demand of Sir Stafford Cripps and others that Parlia- ment should be summoned to discuss the Spanish situation. But...

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TO AMERICA BY AIR

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By E. N. B. BENTLEY I WONDER how many people realise that in 1919 (eight years before Col. Lindbergh's flight) several dozen men had already flown across the Atlantic. The first...

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AMERICA THANKS GOD

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By D. W. BROGAN Washington, Augu.si IT was at an interval in an all-in wrestling show that I heard the standard American verdict on the European situation. " When you look at...

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HUMANITY : THE LESSON OF HISTORY

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By F. S. MARVIN NE problem more than any other about the present O .age -will tax the judgement of the future historian, and it may be interesting to attempt to forecast his...

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MORE LIGHT FOR LONDON

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By G. M. BOUMPHREY D ISSATISFACTION with the congested and generally unhealthy conditions prevailing in most of our towns and cities has led to a scientific examination of the...

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THE PULSE OF THE SEA

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By PROFESSOR C. M. YONGE HE oceans are far from being stagnant masses of T These life-bringing currents are not constant : they wax and wane. Like our own life blood, they...

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NO REST IN CIRCUS

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. By H. E. DEGRAS W ITH the Armistice of 1918 my mother acquired a permanent lover. I was only eight at the time, and I thought no harm when one among the many men who visited...

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AIARGINAL COMMENTS

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By E. L. WOODWARD A LEARNED anthropologist told me that statistics had been collected about the migration of people from Central Wales. This migration is a comparatively recent...

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THE OVER-TAXED NATIVE

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Commonwealth and Foreign By CULLEN YOUNG THE issue . from Geneva, in a summarised version, of the Report presented to the Government of Nyasaland by the mien Commission set...

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"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." At The Regal

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The Cinema Mr. Deeds is Capra's finest film (it is on quite a different intellectual level from the spirited and delightful It Happened One Night), and that means it is a...

The Salzburg Festival

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STAGE AND SCREEN Music TuE outstanding event of this year's Festival at Salzburg has been the production of Die Meistersinger under the musical direction of Toscanini. I have...

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Waiting the Word HALF lost between river and hill,

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On a byestream parting grass and plough Is the small Chaucerian mill ; Lonely then, and lonely now ; Where moss and toadstoolget long lives, And undisturbed the brown vole...

Devoirs de Vacances-

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[D'un correspondant parisien] LE Parlement est en vacances. . Le soleil s'efforee de briller. La politique occupe an peu moires de place dans les journaux. On pent esperer...

The Ambush

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IN human paths, delightful as they show, With &airy sunny may ablow Or wi al rose scenting, Where the unwary and the joyous go, The day brings forth a fever, hides a foe ....

A Moment's Escape

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A CONTINENT upon my back, Heavy with threats of war, Leaden with tyrannies, I crept away from man. I found a bridle-track At dusk ; heard the night41 - ...r Under monotonous...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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Burdened Orchards It is both cheering and depressing to see such superabundant crops of fruit as I have seen this week and last in the West of England. The excess of pleasure...

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THE CONFLICT IN SPAIN

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (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...

• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—The late Lord

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Balfour, writing in 1927 his introduction, to Bagehot's English Constitution, discusses the dangers to foreign countries of adopting as a form of grovernment a. parliamentary...

[To the Editar of Tam SPECTAiiilL] - SIR,—May I. be

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allowed to reply to your leading article, "The Spanish Shambles " of August 21st ? 'YOu say that - the Azafia.Government has never ceased to be the constitutional • government...

[To the Editor of TILE Svser ma.] SIR,—The letter of

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Senor Raman Muniz . Lavalle, in The Spectator of August 21st, makes a reference to the Spanish peasant continually struggling against abject poverty and begetting eight or ten...

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COLLECTIVE SECURITY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although, in your issue of August 7th, Mr. S. Tetley asks : " What is the meaning of the term Collective Security' " is not the question...

A SUGGESTED LAND SURVEY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] hope that the valuable suggestion for a National Survey. of our land characteristics and possibilities as made in the recent article by Mr....

ACROSS THE FRONTIERS [To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] Slu,—I

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have not seen any refbrence in your columns to one aspect of the International Conference of Social workers lately held in London, an aspect which is particularly inter- esting...

THE - RAILWAYS AND AIR TRAVEL

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,,, —May . I suggest that the influence of The Spectator might well be employed in removing an anomaly which is both illogical and unwise ?...

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CUCKOOS AND THEIR HABITS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Two very important admissions have now been made by Mr. Oliver G. Pike in Country Life for July 4th, 1938. He states in referring to Mr....

A TRANSPORT MONOPOLY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his review of Mr. Bonavia's book contained in your last issue, Mr. J. E. Meade finds fault - with Mr. Bonavia's analysis, but himself...

INDIA AND SWARAJ

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter on " India preparing for Swaraj," pub- lished in your issue of June 12th, Mr. J. D. Jenkins- writes that, while the Congress...

THE PALESTINE SITUATION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si a,—Now that the Government have appointed the Royal Commission on Palestine, English residents are unanimous in hoping that it will soon go...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To the small body

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of Englishmen who are sufficiently conversant with the deplorable situation in Palestine to appreciate the full enormity of injustice responsible for it, your publication of...

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RUSSIAN EFFICIENCY

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your recent review 'of Novikoff-Priboy's Tsushima recalls to me a book translated some time before 1911 and published under its Russian...

" THE SPECTATOR " IN NAIROBI

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A kind lady has been forwarding her copies of The Spectator for some years past to me in Nairobi. Unfortunately I have mislaid her name...

THE PINE MARTEN

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The only chance of preserving the pine marten in Britain, if it is not already too late, is to bring strong pressure to bear on...

MARMADUKE PICKTHALL LETTERS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the request of his widow I am preparing a biography of the late Marmaduke Pickthall. If any of your readers possess any letters from...

CAN THE LEAGUE BE IMPARTIAL ?

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Sir Norman Angell says that " the place of force in organised society is to enable reason, discussion, third party judgement, to take the...

A LATIN QUOTATION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--When reading Mr. Bonamy Dobree's delightful review of " The Poems of Ben Jonson," I was reminded of a Latin verse, of the first two...

INFORMATION WANTED

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Could you or any of your readers supply RIC with information with regard to Rev. Philip Harwood (1809-1887), a Unitarian Minister,...

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Emily Bronte BOOKS OF THE DAY

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By E. F. BENSON Miss VIRGINIA MOORE has added another specialised volume to the Brontë Saga. Her subject is Emily, and there appear in it three new poems by her. These are...

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A Man of Storms

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himself) writes that " anyone called upon casually to count our best writers on his fingers' would probably have left out Osage ; because he was so important." The sentence...

Portrait of a Lady

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No Place Like Home. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) I FOUND myself thinking of Guy Walsingham, the author of Obsessions. Readers of The Death of the Licm will remember how...

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The Call of the East

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than that of Andre Maurois, and abroad he is, perhaps, the most widely read of living French writers. His name recalls the late twenties when, with his New York, he reached...

Christianity and Life

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To make Christian Morality the subject of a course of Gifford lectures is in itself a bold innovation. The terms of Lord Gifford's bequest, which direct lecturers to deal with...

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A Crusader

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Between the Wars. By Henry Woodd Nevinson. With an Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) " JOURNALISM may rank as high as other forms of literature, if only it...

The Date of Hamlet

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THE problem of Hamlet, which Dr. Cairncross assails in this fascinating book, is not the old problem of Hamlet's character and alleged madness. He is concerned with the...

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The Pleasures of Poetry

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Son g s and Incantations. By W. J. Turner. (Dent. 2s. 6d.) Sir Hugh in Barbary. By E. B. W. Chappelow. (The Charming Press. 2s. 6d.) Work for the Winter. By Julian Bell....

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Fiction

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By WILLIAM PL OMER Peter the Great. By Alexei Tolstoi. Translated by Edith Bone and Emile Burns. (Gollancz. las.) The Snare of the Fowler. By Gerald Bullett. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)...

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SHAPING THE FUTURE Mr. Basil Mathews makes so effective' an

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appeal to a wide circle of readers, and has so much that is sound and con- structive to put before them, that it is a pity his latest book (Student Christian Movement Press, 3s....

ALIBI PILGRIMAGE Current Literature

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By F. J. Harvey Daiton • Since the trial of Mary Squires in 1752 for the abduction of Elizabeth Canning, the serving-maid of Aldermanbury, the mystery of the gypsies' alibi has...

THE NATIONAL ROAD 'BOOK

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By R. T. Lang The :motor-ear has varying uses. • For .one-driver it is a -chicle to get there in; and getting there, wherever there,may be, is the sole objective. For another,...

PORTRAIT OF T. E. LAWRENCE

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By Vyvyan Richards The impression one gets from reading this latest book (Cape, 8s. 6d.) on T. E. Lawrence is that Mr. Vyvyan Richards is ' rather concerned to defend his...

DEAR SIR: A SELECTION 'OF LETTERS TO, THE EDITOR OF

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" THE TIMES " Edited by Douglas Woodruff TIM fame of The Times correspondence columns being what it is, there was much to be said for the idea of this yoking: (Methuen, 8s....

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Motoring . The Cause of Accidents THERE is no blinking the

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fact that the figures given in the Report on Fatal Road Accidents published last week are extremely depressing. The Minister of Transport deserves well of his public for having...

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The Hunt Tor- Investments

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Finance A FORTNIGHT• ago in these columns .1 promised to deal from time to time with investment opportunities for those who were seeking not simply- an appreciation in capital...

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Financial Notes

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spEcuLATioN INCREASING. WHILE the Stock Markets as a whole continue to present a firm appearance, and while high-class investment stocks keep firm on the cheapness of money,...

Investment Notes

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FOR those seeking an investment giving a yield of nearly 4 per cent. on the "spot„anek only a few shillings less after allowing for redemption, the - Siamese 4 per cent....

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SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 204 is

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Miss Marcella Cowan, Monk Shcrborne, Basingstoke.

"The Spectator" Crossword No. 205

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BY ZENO [A prize of 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 " Crossword...