T HE San Francisco Conference, having experienced all the difficulties that had been expected, and some that seemed insurmountable, has now completed the Charter of World...

W HEN on Thursday the electors of Great Britain cast their votes in a General Election for the first time since 1935, many millions of them will vote faithfully—or as the more...

T HE election Brekekekex continues. In my constituency the name (misspelt) of the Labour candidate is scrawled on walls in a blackish chalk or paint which reminds me of...

By EDWARD DALE HE latest Press reports from Chungking indicate that a settle- ment of the quarrel between Chungking and Yenan is as far off as ever. Much has been written on...

By CONSTANCE REAVELEY S ONIE women were working on bomb-containers. Their work had been skilfully broken down into small easy operations, and the welfare officer suggested that...

By EDGAR STERN - R U BARTH W E who went through it ate inclined to call " unique " the tragedy and the farce of Adolf Hitler's assault upon the sur- rounding world, and the...

By GEOFFREY RAWSON HE air reconnaissance of the North Magnetic Pole last month, and the report that it had moved some distance from its position as defined a century ago, seems...

The woman I am going to wed Will be as rare as rubies red. No common, lumpish maid for me, No blue-eyed blonde, dumb, empty, free; No lady of the saloon bar, - No luscious bint...

By HAROLD N ICOLSON O N Saturday last a statement was published on behalf of the British Government explaining the reasons for which this country had been obliged to intervene...

IT would be interesting to see more exhibitions in which modern paintings were not carefully segregated from the old masters. I would like to see a Rembrandt between two...

PROFESSIONAL etiquette inhibits actors from refusing—if otherwise unengaged—to accept parts in a play of which they have a very poor opinion, but I should be surprised if any...

MUSIC THE last concert of the Contemporary Music Centre's series last week afforded the opportunity of hearing two new string quartets by Benjamin Frankel and Samuel Barber....

THE CINEMA Au. that has been said and written about the deadening effect which official sponsorship might have upon the arts is challenged by Our Country. Here is a film made...

THE EDITOR Sta,—I should like to make one comment on Mr. Nevill Barbour's informative article on the Arab world. Dealing with the future of Palestine, he appears to think that...

SIR, —Captain Quinton Hogg, the Conservative candidate for Oxford City, was reported in the Oxford Mail of June 23, 1945, as saying that "by decent Indians, he meant those who...

make one observation regarding Mr. Nevill Barbour's article in the last issue of The Spectator. Dealing with the Middle East Mr. Barbour alleges that Jews have not chown...

no fair-minded person would accuse Congress of complicity in the Communal disorders which took place in their rigime. But this is beside the point. The Moslem case is put...

lose sense of proportion and of equitable judgment when something relating to the Jewish issue comes into debate. So, for instance, Mr. Nevill Barbour in his recent article in...

statements below made by two English students of contemporary Indian affairs. Of the two, the first, Sir Reginald Coupland, is Beit Professor of Colonial History in the...

Parliament which has just been dissolved, Mr. Harold Nicolson in your issue of June 15th Writes: "It has been a great Parliament" I do not propose to ask for enough - valuable...

mistaken in thinking that I have failed "completely to understand the aims and arguments" of his article on "Women and Parliament." He began his article by pointing out that,...

Sia,—Disraeli, rightly proud of his Tory party, would have admitted much lack of imagination among the rank and file of his followers. The failing persists, and when Mr....

Snt,—I have noticed during the past few dais two statements the - related importance . of which seems to me so great that I - should to see them in print together. The first,...

Sin,—Always ready to lap up the artistic pronouncements of those who know, a visit to the National Gallery was but a natural sequel to a perusal of your "Marginal Comment" of...

Snt,—Close observers of the position of the Church in Germany during the present war recorded certain characteristic facts. They stressed that the Protestant churches in Germany...

Shakespeare's Politicians ONE would like to take this opportunity of paying tribute to John Palmer, who died while this book was printing. He did great service to the...

The Road to Liberty. By Jean Brilhac. Introduction by D. W. Brogan. Illustrations by Louis Mittelle. (Peter Davies. 12s. (d.) THIS is an epic of 186 men-186 out of two million...

MR. SITWELL is a " pointillist " in prose. He assembles a vast palette of facts and names which he then places close to one another in small dots, but since it is difficult to...

We Planned the Second Front. By Major John Dalgleish. (Gollancz. MAJOR DALGLEISH has written a valuable book. Its Value is en hanced . . by its brevity and the consequent...

Making a Better World. By Carl Becker. (Hamish Hamilton. 8s. bd.) Making Peace. By Quintin Hogg 4The Christian Looks Ahead Series. 2s. 6d.) BOTH of these books are timely, and...

English Public Schools. By Rex Warner. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) THIS is an admirablt example of succinct narrative. Mr. Warner traces the English public school from its origin,...

The Weeping Wood. By Vicki Baum. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) 1, Said the Fly. By Elisabeth Ferrars. (Hodder and Stoughton. 8s. 6d.) An Inch of Time. By James Norman. (Michael...

The winner of Crossword No. 327 is SQUADRON LEADER G. R. KEEP, 32 Eastcote Road, Ruislip, Middlesex.

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct ichitiort of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, j■tly.. loth. . Envelopes should be...

was three times reprinted in that year. It was then issued in a cheap edition in 1933 and again in 1938, but during the war it has been unobtainable. It is a book mainly about...

THE owner Of a most lovely and historic country house and garden who has been revisiting Kew Gardens at leisure after an absence of nearly a generation writes enthusiastically...

6d.) THIS book is about all the violent manifestations of nature, hurri- canes, tornadoes, waterspouts, meteorites, earthquakes, &c. It is a book by a man as much interested in...