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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorW HILE fighting in Albania is largely held up by the weather, and Greek successes are confined in the cir- cumstances to hauls of a few hundred prisoners and the destruction of...
Peace by Mediation
The SpectatorThe Prime Minister's declaration to the Japanese Ambassador in. London on Monday, that in a cause of the kind for which we are fighting, where no question of territorial...
Anglo-Turkish Strategy
The SpectatorAs events have turned out, the visit of the Foreign Secretary and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff to the Turkish capital could not have been more timely. Mr. Eden, who...
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The Significance of Singapore
The SpectatorMr. Churchill, in his talk with the Japanese Ambassador, is said to have observed that Singapore is as far from Japan as Gibraltar is from New York—that is, far enough away in...
Mr. Menzies in London
The SpectatorThe visit of Mr. Menzies, Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, comes at a time when the splendid achieve- .meats of the Australian forces in Africa are still fresh in...
The Reply to Japan
The SpectatorThe Prime Minister's plain statement of Britain's position and British policy to the Japanese Ambassador in London on Monday has had a visibly satisfactory effect. It has not...
India's Part in the War
The SpectatorThe war effort that Australia is making is being powerfully seconded by that of India. It is not sufficiently realised that India has been becoming, especially during the last...
More Change at Vichy
The SpectatorA new Cabinet, still without M. Laval, has been formed at Vichy. There are only five principal Ministers, among them M. Bouthillier, who is a friend of Great Britain, as...
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Whatever the decision and the voting, the position of Parlia-
The Spectatorment is not satisfactory. A building without many people and . any parties is not a Parliament. Yesterday many of those who put down " Questions " on the Order Paper failed to...
Lard Samuel raised some important points of reconstruction policy in
The Spectatorhis opening speech in the House of Lords. Lord Reith outlined the framework of his Ministry. He is to give general guidance and supervision on planning ; a central planning...
But the House of Commons is less concerned with the
The Spectatorpersonal and more worried by the constitutional position. I now hear that if Lord Halifax had happened to be in the Commons, it is doubtful whether he could have retained his...
Sir Kingsley Wood has returned to the War Damage Bill
The Spectatorwith a bundle of carefully considered concessions. The small group of members who have followed the detailed amendments of this complicated measure deserve all praise....
The War Damage Bill
The SpectatorIn view of the magnitude of the measure and its highly tech- nical difficulties the War Damage Bill may be held to have had an extraordinarily quick passage through all stages...
Sunday Theatres
The SpectatorThe opening of theatres on Sundays is a controversial question, but the Home Secretary's decision to permit the inno- vation has aroused surprisingly little criticism. The...
The Week in Parliament
The SpectatorOur Parliamentary Correspondent writes: It is now clear that the issues raised by Mr. MacDonald's retaining his seat while acting as High Commissioner are more and more...
War in the Air
The SpectatorSir Archibald Sinclair gave an inspiriting account of the aims, achievements and growing strength of the air forces in an address to the English Speaking Union last Tuesday. He...
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" SPRING IS COMING"
The SpectatorW ITH an uncompromising and unaccustomed veracity Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler have in the past week made to complaisant audiences of their countrymen die assertion which...
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The camaraderie of the air is an admirable thing, but
The SpectatorI am of sure that it is not sometimes carried unduly far. Here is provincial paper's account of the funeral of four members f the crew of a Heinkel which was shot down by a...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorT HE article by Major Oliver Stewart on German Air Strength in last Sunday'i Observer was of very consider- able importance. It contained an estimate of the number of Germany's...
It is difficult to predict exactly the place Sir Frederick
The SpectatorBanting will hold in medical history, but it will be a very high place indeed, for a man whose name is inseparably associated with the cure or alleviation of some particular...
The appointment of Lord Harlech/still more familiar to many ple
The Spectatorunder his former name of Mr. Ormsby-Gore, as High mmissioner for the three South African Protectorates, utoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland, is tlie second example Ir. Malcolm...
Mussolini's speech of last Sunday gave opportunity for the B.B.C.
The Spectatornews service to display its worst characteristics. It is intolerable that a speech which listeners expect to hear in the form of a fair and competent summary should be...
The controversy about Sir Robert Vansittart's authorship of Black Record
The Spectatorrages unabated, and there is so much to be said on both sides that there is no reason why it should die down for some time. The quite separate questions whether the views and...
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THE WAR SURVEYED : THE SPRING CAMPAIGN
The SpectatorBy STRATEGICUS I T is still very difficult to discuss the Balkan theatre in any detail because we do not yet know which armies are likely to be engaged ; but there are certain...
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A NEW START WITH FARMING II
The SpectatorBy C. S. Olt ‘N I A PRELIMINARY measure essential to any re-equipment of A the land, and to any reorganisation of the farming system is the reform of the system of land-tenure....
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NATIONAL CHARACTER
The SpectatorBy PROFESSOR L. B. NAMIER W HENEVER the German national character is discussed, someone will invariably remark that he has known such decent, kindly_Germans, and will protest...
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CONSERVATE SOCIALISM
The SpectatorBy CANON ROGER LLOYD T HE governing factor in the reconstruction of politics after the war will be the victory of Labour doctrine. It has not been brought about nor accompanied...
THE FRIEND OF LAMB
The SpectatorBy DEREK HUDSON T O honour the centenary of Lamb's inimitable George Dyer, who died on March 2nd, 1841, may seem to some like commemorating the death of Pickwick or any other...
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WITHOUT COMMENT
The SpectatorI " As has often been argued in these columns, the war cannot be won without the encouragement of revolutionary movements in Europe, and they cannot be encouraged unless the...
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STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorOPERA " The Beggar's Opera " Again EXCEPT during the nicer years of the late nineteenth century, The Beggar's Opera has never long been absent from our stage. The perennial...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator" The Long Voyage Home." At the Gaumont.--" Seven Sinners." At the Odeon. THE cinema and the theatre have little more in common than their rows of seats, and the consequence is...
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" BLACK RECORD " Sta,—Miss Minehead repeats simply in far
The Spectatorcruder a form Miss Buller's argument. It would thus be waste of your valuable space if I restated my point of view. Miss Minehead includes, however, two personal attacks against...
PUBLIC SCHOOL RELIGION
The SpectatorSla,—I feel that your correspondents who write so glibly, in a recent issue of The Spectator, about the evils of compulsory religion in public schools have completely failed to...
" THE BILIOUS WEEKLY "
The SpectatorSta,—The New Statesman, Nation, &c., commenting upon (but not printing) a letter I sent to its editor last week, says: "I cannot guess why Mr. Herbert thinks that the readers of...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Spectator[In view of the paper shortage it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but unless they are shorter they...
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AFTER CAPORETTO
The SpectatorSta,--There must be many among your readers who took part in the Battle of Piave as I did, but as none have come forward to reply to Captain Dale's letter in The Spectator of...
LIFE UNDER A TYRANNY
The SpectatorSIR—Professor Harvey misunderstands and misquotes my letter in which I said that the gulf which divides the supporter of a tyrannical Government—whether German in peace or...
PROPAGANDA AND SALESMANSHIP
The SpectatorSta,—In your issue of February 21st you say that I have " not quite convincingly shown that the man who is practised in estimating the response of the masses to a patent...
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VENISON SAUSAGE
The SpectatorSm.—In your issue of January 17th, 1941, Mr. H. E. Bates, in the " Country Life " column asks for enlightenment upon the appearance and subsequent fate of the venison sausage....
THE PIPER HERESIES
The SpectatorSIR,-1 did not accuse Mr. Williams-Ellis of indifference to the claims of Regency and Georgian buildings: nor, having read several of his excellent books on architecture, was I...
In the Garden Melons are normally regarded in England as
The Spectatorluxury food, and the price in the late summer of 1940 rarely fell, in London shops, below six or seven shillings for. small fruit. Yet melons are, in my exPeri' ence, as simply...
Mole Catching The news that ten million moleskins are needed
The Spectatorfor export will recall the days when, during and after the last war, mole-catching was one of the most profitable of country crafts; Pelts fetched high prices ; a man and a boy...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorShrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday, originally a day of shriving and confession, be aux for many centuries the strangest and most boisterous day i n t h e English calendar. In the...
Storm Colour Almost any year, on a day in February,
The Spectatorsnow-clouds of indigo. blue come up from the North and thicken beyond the hills in the late afternoon while the sun is still strong in the South-West. Suddenly the stark light...
4,000 TONS OF BIRDS Sta,—Mr. Bates's letter in your issue
The Spectatorof February 7th prompts me to enlarge upon the subject of eating small birds from the purely statistical point of view. The breeding land-bird population of Great Britain is,...
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Books of the Day
The SpectatorScience and Society r is generally agreed that Dr. Julian Huxley (as his grandfather as before him) is one of our greatest scientific writers, in that e can express the...
The Jesuits
The SpectatorThe Origin of the Jesuits. By James Brodrick, S.J. (Longmans. los. 6d.) THIS book is published for the fourth centenary of the Society of Jesus and is, as Father Brodrick tells...
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Mr. Valiant-for-Truth
The SpectatorThe Gestapo Defied. Being the last 28 sermons by Martin Niemoller. (William Hodge and Co. 6s.) THAT the author of these sermons should now be n a concentra- tion-camp is the...
The R.A.F. in Action
The SpectatorWings of Victory. By Ivor Halstead. (Lindsay Drummond. 65.) THE Royal Air Force is the most phologinique of the fighting services. The Navy is a good second, now that cavalry...
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Money up to Date Outline of Money. By Geoffrey Crowther.
The Spectator(Nelson. los.) editor of the Economist Mr. Crowther is exceptionally well 'aced for watching recent developments in theory and practice pplied to money, and in this timely...
King Corn
The Spectatorrn Country, By C. Henry Warren. (Botsford. rag. 6d.) HE subject often - makes the writer : so Mr. Warren's Corn rurY, which discusses a thing of immemorial, eternal and yet 'cal...
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Circus-Fan
The SpectatorThe Circus Has No Home. By Rupert Croft-Cooke. (Methuen. I2S. 6d.) MUCH has been written about the circus, and Mr. Rupert Croft- Cooke has given us the latest contribution, a...
Mr. MacNeice on Yeats
The SpectatorThe Poetry of Yeats. By Louis MacNeice. (Oxford. 8s. 6d., THE poetry of Yeats, in its continuous development, its concern with the problems of politics, scientific materialism,...
Through American Eyes
The SpectatorMRS. MILLER is a popular American novelist; her novels hay' such titles as Forsaking AU Others, Five Little Heiresses, Le' Than Kin—a play of hers called The Charm School, I...
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Shorter Notices
The SpectatorWith The Foreign Legion At Narvik. By Capitaine Pierre 0 . Lapie. Translated by Anthony Merryn. (John Murray. 55.1 ALTHOUGH the general public lumped them together, there were ,...
Fiction
The SpectatorTHE historical novel is one of the hardest forms, in the under- taking of which the novelist should decide between two courses: me first, to take the reader back to the time of...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorTHE ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO., LTD. MR. G. H. NELSON'S ADDRESS THE twenty-second ordinary general meeting of the English Electric Co., Ltd., was held on Thursday, February zoth, at...
FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS MARKETS are back on the defensive but they are putting up I stout resistance. No speculative position has been built up durin g the recent recovery movement, and...
Unusual Vegetables. ,Good Housekeeping. 6d.) FOOD-GROWING has now become a
The Spectatorgreat part of our lives, and to the fortunate people who possess gardens a never-ending topic. This small and extremely well-planned book on unusual vege- tables will be of...
Hell Came to London. By Basil Woon. (Peter Davies. 65.)
The SpectatorTins melodramatic account of the first fourteen days of Hitler's blitz on London is written by a film scenarist. It isn't easy to " write up " an aerial bombardment, but Mr....
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorTEMPERANCE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY SUBSTANTIAL RESERVE FUNDS The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the Temperance Permanent Building Society was held on Wednesday last at...
" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 103
The Spectator[A prize of a Book Token for 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 with...
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