It is just because there has not been complete unity in South Africa on the war-issue that the General Election normally due is not postponed—and even at this stage the issue...

Wednesday the Prime Minister I presented the Germans with an addition to their growing list of invasion-dates. There will be heavy fighting, he predicts, before the leaves of...

It is all to the good, so fa: as it goes, that the attention of com- mentators in Algiers should have been fixed somewhat more on the meetings of the French Committee of...

It is a notable fact that Mr. Herbert Morrison, who, as a member. of the War Cabinet, might be supposed to be constrained by his posi- tion in the Government, has been the most...

The situation which has necessitated a dissolution of Parliament and a General Election in Australia is very different from that in South Africa. So far from any party being...

The immediate danger of a stoppage in America's coal supplies is averted, and with the calling-off of the strike by Mr. John L. Lewis the miners are drifting back to work....

No system of representation or of voting can be made completely satisfactory in the midst of total war, but at least—as the Govern- ment has recognised—the more glaring...

Mr. de Valera, not for the first time in his life, finds himself in a difficult position which is to a large extent of his own making. He has insisted upon a war-time General...

HE importance of civil aviation in the future is seizing public T attention increasingly, and it is none too soon. The subject is of capital importance, and the difficulties and...

B OMBING, which fills so large a proportion of the B.B.C. news bulletins, is the outstanding visible activity (how constantly we forget the invisible, indispensable activity of...

By STRATEGICUS I T is not only the Axis Powers who are bewildered by the present phase of the offensive. The Allied peoples are equally adrift from their moorings. It might...

By ROBERT POWELL A FTER two unsuccessful attempts a new Yugoslav Government was formed last week-end, with M. Milos Trifunovich as Prime Minister. Whether this reconstructed...

By PETER MATTHEWS Unless a new General Election gives a different verdict, the young Irish democracy will experience the compromises and party pacts which, on the Continent,...

By ROSE MACAULAY I T is probably presumptuous for someone who has only spent two recent months in Portugal, and only part of that time in Lisbon, to attempt even the most...

By DR. NORMAN MACLEAN So far from there being too large a population already, the fact is that it is far too small for our safety or for the security of the British Empire. No...

I saw in the fire's red blaze The mask of a black fox Stare with malignant gaze From a cave of flaming rocks. He had taken shape from the blind Chance of the tumbled coal, But...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE Air Ministry, with their accustomed ingenuity, organised last week an educational course for Members of both Houses of Parliament. Having obtained the...

This Land is Mine could have been a great film. Here is a piece of anti-Nazi propaganda courageous enough to quote a reasoned case for Nazism and for collaboration with the...

THE THEATRE " Ghosts." At the Duke of Yorks'. " The Master Builder." At the Westminster. Ir was not surprising that G. K. Chesterton should have written one of his only two...

Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony VAUGHAN WILLIAMS has always been stimulated to symphonic composition by some literary or pictorial theme—Whitman's poetry of the sea, his own...

article on " Healthy Agriculture," I think it may be useful to set out afresh and, I hope, with more clarity, some of the fundamental economic propositions on which my...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—I think we are all indebted to Mr. Naylor for his letter. He puts his points admirably ; the only difficulty is that he has not read some, or most, of...

Sts,—The article of Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr which you published in your issue of June 18th, is so full of substance that one is the mare temp'ed to query the points where one...

leading article, " Wavell's Oppor- tunity," in' your issue of June 25th. While your summary' of the present situation is one with which many of very different views can agree,...

SIR, —One no more expects strict impartiality in a tri- or any other multiple centenary article, but I cannot help thinking that it is rather a pity to find so distinguished an...

SIR,—Your correspondents talk of bringing the topic of the doctor's pay "down to brass tacks," so may I, a mere layman who counts a number- of doctors among his intimate-...

SIR, Please accept my sincere congratulations upon your 6,000th issue. May I be allowed a word upon the 5,999th issue in which, in common with many others, you do less than...

SIR,—Your review of Mr. Sandburg's Storm Over the Land is in error in saying that the words of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech have been " mutilated " by him. There are three...

Sta,—I am glad to reply to Mrs. Sykes who asks an explanation why an increase in the birth-rate is essential. From the point of view of this country it isn't. Wit . taker's...

WE all know how unwise it is to generalise about England, so various are " the coloured counties." It would seem to most of us that this year, at any rate, we could all safely...

Sur,—Mr. M. O'Brien's comparison between Eire and other neutral countries greatly assists the argument of my article. He refers to an article in The Times about a country which...

E. Denison Ross. With a Foreword by Laurence Binyon. (Faber and Faber. 215.) Denison Ross DENISON Ross belonged to the company of the Orientalists. It is a most fascinating...

A Second Marathon Ma. Comvrox MACKENZIE has produced an interim history of the Battle of Greece. He brings special qualifications to the task, having served in Greece during...

The Christian Failure. By Charles Singer. (Gollancz. 3s. 6d.) DR SINGER'S challenge—an indictment not of Christianity, but of Christians—would appear to rest upon a...

Brox reached her 5ooth year since the war came and made celebra- tions out of place for the present; though gratitude to her saintly founder and to the spirit which moved him...

Pushing Together To write contemporary history is never an easy task, but the author of this volume has had to triumph over two particular handicaps-k- the over-riding need for...

MR. FIELDEN'S little book is a plea for a more dispassionate effort to understand the Indian 'problem. His experience as controller of broadcasting has convinced him of the...

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By CUSTOS IT often seems, after a prolonged period of inactivity, that investors return to market for no better reason thasi that they have become tired of doing nothing. This...

This book does not live up to its title. It is not a general survey of the American scene, but a not very acute account of the American political' system ; an enthusiastic,...

WHEN life is unusually precarious and eventful, it is not so dasy to sympathise with a hero or heroine's inner scruples and sensations, unless we are made to feel them as real...

for one guinea will be awarded the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 78.ay lath. Envelopes should be...

The winner of Crossword No. 223 is MRS. K. W. GEE, 5 Richmond Road, Stockton-on-Tees.