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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorTHOUGH there is as we go to press no confirmation of the 1 report that the Shah of Iran has asked for an armistice, the offers he made to the British and Soviet Ministers on...
The Premier's Broadcast
The SpectatorThe Prime Minister's broadcast of last Sunday, an outstand- ing oratorical performance, contained little actually new information about the Atlantic Conference from which he had...
The Russian Defence
The SpectatorThe results of the third German offensive reflect its pace and momentum. In the north Novgorod, which was first men- tioned on Tuesday week, and was claimed by the Germans two...
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An Admirable Committee
The SpectatorIf greater matters did not make superior claims on pub . attention the importance of the successive reports of the Sel Committee on National Expenditure would be recognised f...
Casualties in Russia
The SpectatorWhile it is certain that the casualties in Russia are enormous, the estimates forthcoming from various sources must be regarded as mainly conjecture. The Russian High Command...
Feeling in France
The SpectatorThe attack on Laval and Marcel Deat at Versailles is symptomatic. News from France is scanty, and it is often difficult to distinguish fact from rumour. But there is a general...
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Politics in Australia
The SpectatorThe political situation in Australia is unfortunate, and it is hard to acquit Labour of the charge of playing party-politics in the face of a grave national emergency. The...
Dominions and War Cabinet
The SpectatorMr. Mackenzie King's decisive expression of his views the subject of an Imperial War Cabinet are likely to settle question for the present. The arguments in favour of creation...
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THE CASE OF IRAN
The SpectatorHE invasion of Iran is a disagreeable necessity. That it is disagreeable may be admitted frankly. To be send- our troops to occupy the territory of a weak neutral ate against...
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The death of Mr. A. V. A. Symons was recorded
The Spectatorin Tuesday's papers. Little more than a week ago, as it happened, I was discussing with Sir Norman Birkett Symons' unique book The Quest for Corvo—or rather was listening to Sir...
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The SpectatorOne of the odd things I have come across in Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's Poverty and Progress (I make no apology fa referring again to this notable work ; this is probably not the...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorT HE tendency to describe each of the Prime Minister's set speeches as the greatest he ever made is to be distrusted, so I refrain from saying precisely that of last Sunday's...
Now that we are fighting in what is undeniably the
The SpectatorMiddl e East it will be a little difficult to call Egypt and such PO that. Why we ever did is known only to some official 5l I suppose, found the name handy and adopted it...
There is no secret about the marked improvement of the
The Spectatorshipping situation in the Atlantic. Mr. Alexander has affirmed it in general terms, into which a good deal can be read, and Col. Knox, the United States Secretary of the Navy,...
The London daily paper, France, the organ of Free Frenchmen
The Spectatorin England, completed its first year of existence on Tuesday, and I offer it well-deserved congratulations. It has been fortunate in its first editor, M. Pierre Comert, whom...
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h e War Surveyed
The SpectatorTHE OPERATIONS IN IRAN By STRATEGICUS T scarcely needs to be said that strategically Iran is of immense importance in the Middle East. Every peril which ght arise from an...
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THE MILK-SHORTAGE AND WHY
The SpectatorBy P. LAMARTINE YATES V ERY soon, as the days shorten and grass stops growing, milk will become scarce, perhaps extremely scarce. Already a scheme of rationing has been...
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FACT-FINDING FOR PEACE
The SpectatorBy CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS ERE is a vital question about which we hear next to nothing. Is anything being done about it? The war will d in X yeah and months. As demobilisation...
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CREDO AND CREDIT
The SpectatorBy MARK STERLING I N any " new order," for Europe or for the world, one necessity is fundamental—to prevent any recurrence of the chaotic currency-conditions that followed the...
COUNTING HERONS
The SpectatorBy R. S. R. FITTER S T. JAMES'S STREET, Walthamstow, does not at sight look the right starting-point for a bird-watch expedition—words that conjure up visions of the flat t...
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THIS TURTLING WORLD
The SpectatorBy DOROTHY BLACK I KNEW an Indian poet once, who was a prophet without being aware of the fact. He was also a sanitary inspector, on a rice mill on the Banks of the great...
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Let us assume, therefore, that in the course of the
The Spectatorlast eig years the Germanies have been able to acquire not mere]) unitary Reich but also a unitary soul, and that this soul sickened by a restlessness which five times during...
* * * * If this be a correct diagnosis
The Spectatorof the German malady (and am sure that some such poison bubbles in every German then surely the Atlantic Charter goes some way to suggest remedy. By providing the Germans with...
There is another, and in appearance a more scholarly, falt ael
The Spectatorwhich I find seductive. It is the conception (so ably expound e d recently by Dr. Stern Rubarth) that if Prussia could to enucleated from the Reich, then we should all return to...
Let me first dispose of three further fallacies. There is
The Spectatorthe general fallacy that human nature is fundamentally the same whether at Cheltenham or Chungking, and the particular fallacy that in spite of superficial differences the...
MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD N !COLSON L ORD VANSITTART, in this week's Sunday Times, questioned with his accustomed vigour the use made in the Atlantic Charter of the phrase " Hitlerite...
* * * * There are several current fallacies which
The Spectatorblur our judge- ment. At one end of the scale there is the view that all Germans are equally evil and that the sole solution of the German problem is the extermination of the...
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THE THEATRE
The SpectatorIN spite of the title, this, like all Mr. Firth Shephard's admirable r evues, is a family-show, which won't keep the censor awake at Right. This may seem doubtful praise—humour...
ART
The SpectatorSickert at the National Gallery. THE best show of the year. Not the best Sickert show that could possibly be held, but good enough : exciting and mellow, and a brilliant...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator'Forty Thousand Horsemen." At the Leicester Square. March of Time." At the Regal. The Strawberry Blonde." At Warner's. its week the cinema presents two very different views...
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
The SpectatorSubscribers wishing to have THE SPECTATOR forwarded to a new address are asked to post their notification on the Friday preceding the week in which the change is to operate, as...
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Snt,—In your issue of The Spectator dated August r5th there
The Spectatorn letter signed E. N. Mozley under the heading " Religious Know . The writer, mentioning " the aims of the memorialists--certaml! the clergy," complains that in their letters to...
THE FURNISHED-ROOMS RACKET
The SpectatorSm,—Two of the primary needs of mankind are food and she Absence of either makes life, or civilised life, impossible. B e of this, fear and anxiety about either is highly...
INSTRUCTING THE TROOPS
The Spectatornotice with interest in your issue of August 22nd the remarks in " A Spectator's Notebook " concerning the new scheme for instruct- ing "other ranks " of the Army in current...
WHAT IS RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE ?
The SpectatorSIR,—My friend the Dean of Wells asserts the impossibility of o ing the fruits of the Christian conscience without " the system belief and practice to which that conscience owes...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorCHILDREN'S VOCATIONS Snt,—Secondary school curricula are clearly destined for immediate post-war reform ; either by internal change or by the creation of new and parallel types...
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GRIM BELLIGERENCY
The Spectator—Mr. Harold Nicolson has touched on a fundamental failing in war effort—the lack of any spirit or zest in the prosecution of this for freedom and democracy—words used so often...
THE EIGHT POINTS AND PUBLIC OPINION
The SpectatorSut,—Mr. Harold Nicolson may be right in his judgement that the Roosevelt-Churchill Manifesto fell flat. I heard it with some friends, and all of us greeted the Eight-point...
—Mr. Harold Nicolson in his Marginal Comment seems to be
The Spectatoruneasily for a truth which eludes him. No doubt his analysis tains much that is true, though I do not follow him when he that most of our people look forward to the loss of many...
" ATLANTIC HARVEST"
The SpectatorSIR,—In the article "Atlantic Harvest," published in your issue of August 22nd, I find two sentences which deserve attention and approval. Speaking about the Charter of the...
EDUCATION AND THE BIBLE —Ruskin and others hoped that filling
The Spectatorthe schools might tend to ry the g aols, hospitals and lunatic asylums. Magistrates deplore increase in juvenile crime, the hospitals' gracious work is still ted, and if...
" A PERTINENT QUESTION "
The SpectatorSta,—I notice in your columns a letter regarding the non-collection of refuse in the Henley Rural District Area. In this connexion I would like to mention that representations...
ADVANCE IN INDIA
The Spectatorslit,--It is good to see Sir H. S. Gour's letter in last week's issue. Mr. Modale Philip, however, prefers to argue about " finance-control," while the obvious danger to India...
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And Sceptics
The SpectatorAlso on my desk lies a letter from a man who is perhaps the greatest authority on agricultural research in the country. el I ant tired of these soil-mystics," he says. Side by...
THE EMPLOYER'S WAGE
The SpectatorSot,—Does it not seem strange that one class of people working in the - civil defences today has been allowed no increase of wages? That is the employer. Yet, surely, after the...
A north-country farmer asks if "any definite conclusion has b ozo
The Spectatorreached on the question of artificial and non-artificial fertilisers foll ow . ing unprejudiced scientific investigation ?." The result is that I have a pile of pamphlets on my...
Mr. Rolfe Gardiner writes: " Mr. Bates in his letter
The Spectatoron the subject of Mr. Massingham's symposium, England and the Farmer, says that I advocate Land Service Camps on page 97 and ' then discusses them enthusiastically for several...
THE MILK-SHORTAGE
The SpectatorSut,—Thank you for the paragraph in The Spectator of August 22nd. Here is a concrete instance of the trouble coming to us. My grand- daughter, aged 18 months, has one and a half...
AIRMEN'S TARGETS Sta,—One of your correspondents last week deplored the
The Spectatorlowering a of our standards of conduct in this war, basing his remarks on a British airman's account of the destruction his plane carried out in a country district in Germany....
A WORD FOR LORD WOOLTON
The SpectatorSno,—As a farmer and egg-producer, I should like to put in a word in favour of Lord Woolton's egg-scheme, about which Mr. Bates writes so scathingly, but as usual, of course,...
New C_Ieese
The SpectatorEngland, by giving refuge to victims of persecution abroad, ha several times enriched her rural industries. On the Continent, cheat from sheep's milk is a common thing. The...
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COOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorEnjoying Life Jerseyman at Oxford. By Robert Ranulph Marett. (Oxford University Press. iss.) T is fortunate for those of us who like autobiography as a form f literature that...
Odious Addison
The SpectatorThe Letters of Joseph Addison. Edited by Walter Graham. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 3os.) "THIS volume contains all that can now be found of the letters written by Joseph...
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Russia and Mr. Gollancz
The SpectatorRussia and Ourselves. By Victor Gollancz. (Gollancz. 2s. 6d.) THIS little book is a rare example of balanced, objective criticism by a writer who, in spite of strong Left...
The Misery-Belt
The SpectatorQuest: The Evolution of a Scientist. By Leopold Infeld. (Gollancz. 12S. 6d.) THIS moving work lifts a corner of the curtain that shuts us off from understanding the strange and...
The Goal for Atrica
The SpectatorThe Case for African Freedom. By Joyce Carey. (Seeker and Warburg. Searchlight Books. 2S.) The Case for African Freedom. By Joyce Carey. (Seeker and Warburg. Searchlight Books....
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The Curve of Knowledge
The SpectatorA Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century. By Charles Singer. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 8s. 6d ) A COMPREHENSIVE history of science cannot yet be written, because...
An Answer to Gibbon
The SpectatorChristianity and Classical Culture. A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine. By Charles N. Cochrane. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 3os.) FROM his snug bachelor...
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A Jew Errant •
The SpectatorNORMAN BENTWICH is entitled to claim that he was born a Zionist and that his father was one before him. Bentwich pert was a disciple of Herzl, and he paid a visit to the Holy...
The German Heresy
The SpectatorThus Spake Germany. Edited by W. W. Goole and M. F. Potter. Foreword by Sir Robert Vansittart. (Roudedge. ros. 6d.) THE first, but, it is to be hoped, not the only, consequence...
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Facile Art and Difficult Criticism
The SpectatorThe White Horseman. Prose and Verse of the New Apocalypse. Edited by G. F. Hendry and Henry Treece. (Routledge. 6s.) IT is ten years since the Auden-Spender group of poets...
Masaryk
The SpectatorNo one remembers the makers of Yugoslavia or of greater Rumania ; and the greatness even of Pilsudski was of a limited sort. But the figure of Masaryk gives the central European...
The Reverend Joe Miller
The SpectatorTHE sound of church bells, so he assured us, enabled Mr. Froude on occasions partially to bridge the gap separating him from the Middle Ages ; in much the same way Dr. Hill's...
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Not Such Good Company
The SpectatorAt Odd Moments. By Bernard Darwin. (Oxford University Press. 55.) Good -Company. By Arthur Stanley. (Gollancz. 3s. 6d.) AN anthology of poems needs no apology apart from the...
Reporting on China
The SpectatorChina Shall Rise Again. By Madame Chiang Kai-shek. (Hurst and Blacken. ][25. 6d.) MADAME CHIANG KAI.-SHEK'S contribution to this useful book comprises its lively head and tail....
Entertainment-Business
The SpectatorRingside. By Trevor Wignall. (Hutchinson. nos. 6d.) MR. WIGNALL has had a very large experience of professional boxing, and, now that he does not expect to return to his job as...
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Cornwall a Generation Ago Cornish Tales. By Charles Lee. With
The Spectatoran Introduction by " Q," (Dent. 8s. 6d.) IT was a good idea to bring together these stories of Mr. Leto for though known and appreciated by a select number of the older...
The Civil Service
The SpectatorThe Growth of the British Civil Service. By Emmeline W. Cohen. (George Allen and Unwin. los. 6d.) Miss COHEN'S book gives one the comforting feeling that there are spheres in...
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Shorter Notices
The SpectatorI Liked the Life I Lived. By Eveleigh Nash. (Murray. 9s.) MR. NASH was attracted towards publishing by reading at the age of sixteen a book about Scott's publisher called...
Occupied Territory. By Polly Peabody. (Cresset Press. 8s. 6d.■ Tins
The Spectatoris far and away the best picture we have yet had of France since the capitulation. Miss Peabody combined an American' freedom to move about much as she wished with a mature...
Fiction
The SpectatorBy the way of novelty the hard-drinking hero of Mr. Patrick Hamilton's book, Hangover Square, suffers from schizophrenia. In his first personality George Harvey Bone is a mild,...
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OMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorSANGERS, LIMITED ADVANTAGE OF WIDESPREAD INTERESTS E twelfth annual general meeting of Sangers, Limited, was held on ednesday, August zoth, at the Holborn Restaurant, London,...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS APART from a sudden revival in home railway stocks, markets are understandably quiet. Even in these days the usual holiday influences are at work in August, and the...
A Farm in Normandy. By Robert Henrey. (Dent. I2S. 6d.)
The SpectatorMR. HENREY, who appears not to be a farmer, purchased a lam, in the Val d'Auge, which, amateurs of cooking will recall, breec, some of the best cooks and the finest chickens in...
Serial Map Service, August 1941. 25s. per annum.
The SpectatorSERIAL MAP SERVICE is to be congratulated on producing for August a couple of maps, with commentaries, that are up-to-date and at a glance help to answer certain questions that...
An Anthology of German Poetry, 1880-1940. By Jethro Bithell (Methuen.
The SpectatorJos. 6d.) IT might seem rather hazardous in war-time to publish, in the .original, a collection of modern German poetry. But both Mr. Bithell and his publishers have ample...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorTHE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA, LIMITED Da one hundred and twenty-eighth ordinary meeting of shareholders was held at the head office of the Bank, to Clements Lane, London,...
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COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorBRITISH LION FILM CORPORATION THE thirteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the British Lion Film Corporation, Ltd., was held on August 21S1 in London. Mr. S. W. Smith (...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 127 SOLUTION ON SEPTEMBER 12th
The SpectatorThe winner of Crossword No. 127 is Harold C. Chapman, Tit Abbey School, Tadcaster, Yorks. •
" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 129 [A prize of
The Spectatora Book Token for one guinea will be given to the se n d, of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to b, opened. Envelopes should be marked with the words...