I is unlikely that the o ffi cial statement on the Washington con- ' versations, when it comes, will add anything material to our knowledge of what has been decided. Everything...

Some of the remarks made by Dr. Benes at Chicago University last Monday were in the nature of intelligent speculation, others dealt with certainties. The opening of what he...

Accompanying President Roosevelt at the President's regular Press conference on Tuesday, Mr. Churchill told the assembled journalists everything that was possible in the...

The Ministry of Food has made some bad blunders over the dis- tribution of the new ration-cards. It is apparently unconscious of the fact that buses are crowded . and infrequent...

The history of the Tunisian campaign cannot be fully written till the war is over, but some illuminating facts were published by The Times' special correspondent in Tunisia last...

When Mr. Eden, speaking at the annual conference of the Conservative Party last week, said that " respect for tradition " was the basic prinCiple of' natural Conservatism, he...

The meeting of the international food conference at Hot Springs has been temporarily overshadowed by the proceedings at Washing- ton, the more so since the facilities normally...

At last the long-distance negotiations between General de Gaulle and General Giraud, conducted through General Catroux's faithful efforts as an intermediary, are to bear fruit,...

T HINGS have been going ill of late for Axis propagandists. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris has been oelebrating the dropping of the first roo,000 tons of bombs on Germany...

seen, has commented on one aspect of the meeting between the Prime Minister and the Duke of Windsor at Washington. Yet in both it must have awakened almost poignant memories. In...

By STRATEGICUS T HERE is no secret that the present lull in ground operations is only the prelude to invasion ; but in a very real sense it is even more. It is even more than a...

By PIERRE MAILLAUD T HE fact that General de Gaulle, accompan?ed by M. Rene Massigli, National Commissaire for Foreign Affairs, and M. Andre Philip, National Commissaire for...

By FRANZ BORKENAU HE news of the disbanding of the Comintern has caused T surprise everywhere, fierce anger among the Axis Powers and well-justified satisfaction in the Allied...

By G. W. WHITE ULPHURETTED hydrogen blackens lead acetate on a filter- paperr : the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection: s = I gt', and the equation may be...

I LAY in sheets of softest linen Sleepless and my lover spoke The word of Death within her sleep And snuggled closer and awoke And wrapped me in her snowwhite cloak, And...

By EDWARD MacCURDY Cheering also to the lover of Gaelic has been the testimony which, has already begun to come in from prisoners since An Comunn Gaidhealach conceived the idea...

By HAROLD NICOLSON L ORD WINTERTON, in a letter to the • Daily Telegraph on Monday, defended the handling by the Home Office of last week's debate upon the refugee problem....

THAT day in the city there were banners slung Across the streets, from balconies and chimneys, Swinging in the wind like smoke, and telegraph poles Were hung with geraniums ;...

Rafiq Anwar and Indian Dancers and Musicians." At the Ambassadors. — " The Sadler's Wells Ballet." At the New. As one who believes that the basis of art is the expression of...

" We Dive at Dawn " and " The Glory of Sebastopol." At the Leicester Square. — " Lenin in 1918." At the Tatter. - . — " Cabin in the Sky ' and " Food and War." At the...

Stn,—In the case of your journal, read by the most selective classes of thinkers in the English-speaking world, one wonders what the reaction will be to the immensely...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—In recent issues of The Spectator both Mr. Harold Nicolson and " Janus " have written about Lord Vansittart's latest book, Lessons of My Life. .1 do...

Sta,—I read with great interest Mr. John Murray's letter Your readers may be interested to hear of an experiment which has been carried out in a public school of 15o boys (all...

SIR,—Surely, whether £300,000 or £600,000 was lost over The Tribune is insignificant beside the fact that this represented pre-last-war values. What would such a loss have...

StR,—It must appear to many that there is a world of difference between forming "an alliance with one political party " and advocating "nationalism," one part and one only, in...

attribute to the bankers a degree of infallibility which he would not allow to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Yet, by- accepting the-bankers' advice before the war, the...

Stn,—Whilst not in agreement with the proposals contained in his letter published in The Spectator of May 21st and founded on his personal acquaintance with the various races...

SIR,—Mr. A. H. Skinner's reply to my letter shows that he has missed, or that I did not clearly state, the main point which I wished to convey, which is that the majority of...

" cheerfulness in face of vicarious torment and danger" shown by the averagewar correspondent during the last war. Other listeners may have been reminded of his words, as I was,...

Sta,—While no doubt the Churches have a duty to teach that individual greed is the negation of happy existence, it is Utopian to expect any sudden change in our whole economic...

SIR, -4 think it regrettable that the author of the most interesting article on " The Great Disruption," appearing in your issue of May 14th, did not state clearly the cardinal...

Sta,—So many cdrrespondents and public men assume that the greatest inducement to having larger families is a series of business and residential' schools wherein the mother...

land, in the farmland of England that Sir John Russell, the retiring director of Rothamsted, has been selected for special honour—the Albert Gold Medal—by the Royal Society...

SIR,— Because we have yielded some of our constitutional landmarks that is not a convincing argument for their total abandonment. Would Protestants receive the same liberal...

Sul,—Mr. Walter Worcester's grim picture of post-war agriculture raises some questions. If it is to be, as he says, " the old, old story of the comparative costs," will not...

Sit,—As a lifelong supporter of trade unions, and who saw the dockers in their march to listen to John Burns in Trafalgar Square, my point is that Civil Servants have no right...

An Unrebellious Rebel The Desire to Please. By Harold Nicolson. (Constable. 15s.) THIS is a book to be recommended. For one thing it is easily and charmingly written.. It is...

WAR technique changes quicker than the rhythm of peace. An after-dinner platitude will serve politicians for a century, where the same stratagem is scarcely good for half a...

Brought Up in England. By Prince Chula of Thailand. (Foulis. ars.) THERE is an engaging Young Visiters' like quality about much of this book. " The first time there was a...

Need Germany Survive ? By Julius Braunthal. With an Introduotion by Harold J. Laski. (Gollancz. 75. 6d.) HERR BRAUNTHAL has written two books, one candid, intelligent, valuable,...

The Mountains Wait. By Theodor l3rOch. .(Joseph. ros. 6d.) THE chairman of the Narvik U.D.C.—the title of Mayor, which appears on Op title-page, suggests a more traditional...

The Ministry of Fear. By Graham Greene. (Heinemann. Ss. 6d.) The Ship. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) Escape Into the Past. By George Slocombe. (Harrap. 9s. 6d.)...

ELLIOT was an outstanding success as a broad- caster, and his B.B.C. talks during 1942;to America and the Empire were well worth reprinting. The talks are those not of a '...

2. Books which compress the literary history of nearly a thousand years into a few hundred pages (in this case 148 pages) should ai at being informative only, but it is almost...

The winner of Crossword No.. 218 is MRS. MELLANRY, Westwood, ridge-of-Weir, Renfrew.

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of _the first correct Whal0 1 1 pf this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, u ric 8th. Envelopes should be...

By CUSTOS As I expected, the recession in the stock markets has not gone very far and most groups are already showing signs of rallying under the lead of gilt-edged. After last...