Page 1
Conservatives and India The Central Council of the National Union
The Spectatorof Con- servative and Unionist Associations, by rejecting on Wednesday a motion which virtually amounted to a resolution of censure on the Government, and on the Conservative...
News of the Week R UMOURS of the imminent demise of
The Spectatorthe World Economic Conference have been foolishly pre- mature. But the difficulty about stabilization, in view of America's refusal to stabilize, is serious, in spite of...
OFFICES: 99 Cower St., London, W.C1. I. Tel. : MUSEUM
The Spectator1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office., Dec. 23rd, 1895. Postal subscription 308. per annum, to any part of the world. ⢠Pcstage.on this...
The Problem of Debts.
The SpectatorThe view that the debt problem was subsidiary to that of raising prices was forcibly expressed by Sir Henry Strakosch, who refused to contemplate a scaling down of debts, which...
Page 2
Herr Hugenberg's Exit The elimination of Herr Hugenberg had been
The Spectatorinevitable from the first. Whatever may be said of Herr Hitler and the advisers who frame his plans, there can be nothing but admiration for the unfaltering strategy whereby the...
America's Rising Prices With wheat futures passing the dollar mark
The Spectatorin Chicago (against 38 cents last December), cotton soaring on a rather less spectacular scale, employment in the United States estimate to have risen by a million and a half...
Mr. Gandhi and the Viceroy At the Indian end the
The Spectatordecision to summon the Indian National Congress for July 14th (a date not without significant associations) is a fact of obvious importance. When Congress meets the question of...
Talking to Russia The opening of conversations between Sir John
The SpectatorSimon and M. Litvinoff is satisfactory so far as it goes. H ow far it has gone and will yet go, is not yet clear. There i s some suggestion that the Cabinet is demanding the...
Adjourning Disarmament The decision to adjourn the Disarmament Conference â¢
The Spectatortill October is an extremely regrettable necessityâif necessity it is. On that point Mr. Henderson's very definite convictions must be treated with respect. There are obvious...
Page 3
The second contentious measure passed was the Metropolitan Police Bill.
The SpectatorThis measure owed its smooth passage to the general conviction that something is wrong in some places with the Police. The piloting of the Bill, however, needed courage and Sir...
Trouble in the Balkans No Bulgarian Government has found it
The Spectatorpossible, or has very strenuously attempted, to suppress the Macedonian revolutionaries, who are powerful in the southern pro- vinces and have sympathizers throughout the...
The Services of the Workless The voluntary labour of the
The Spectatorunemployed, which has transformed a Welsh mining village, could not be used to. better purpose than in building open-air nurseries for slum children. When Lady Astor opened the...
Village Slums ⢠It is not sufficiently realized that the
The Spectatorproblem of slum dwellings is one that is by no means confined to the towns. Distressing slums are to be found in hundreds of villages, and cottages that ought long ago to have...
Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Political interest during the
The Spectatorweek has been centred outside the House of Commons. Inside it two contentious measures have been completed. The firstâan Unemployment Insurance Bill which marks the inability...
. The repercussions in the House to outside events arc
The Spectatorworth tabulating. Members do not yet show any im- patience with the work of the Economic Conference, but they do not show much optimism either. As regards India, the...
Page 4
Hitlerism and Ourselves
The SpectatorH ERR, HITLER'S activities proceed apace. Within the last seven days he (or Captain Goering, acting an his devolved authority) has proscribed a meeting that was to have . been...
Page 5
An Imperial University T VVENTY-TWO years have passed since the Haldane
The SpectatorCommission on London University stated that "the University should have for its headquarters permanent buildings .appropriate in design to its dignity and importance."7 Since...
Page 6
The correspondence in The Times on the ghouls of the
The SpectatorPress, who invade every sanctity in moments of personal grief, particularly if the grief is the result of a suicide or of some spectacular accident, emphasizes what I have...
If anyone could help to break down-otir indifference as a
The Spectatornation to the foreigner's -impression of us it should be M. Mauroisâand M. Maurois more than, say, M. Siegfried, because he likes us, and I am not sure that M. Siegfried does....
Lord Beaverbrook, I see, is starting an isolationist , campaign. He
The Spectatorexplains what he - means by that. His policy is "the development of the British Empire as a self-sufficient economic Unity supplying - the needs of its. people from its own soil...
A Spectator's Notebook I HAVE been handed the following letter addressed
The Spectatorto 1 the EDITOR of The Spectator by Mr. Lloyd George :â Snt,âTanus finds my description of the episode which led to the fall of the Asquith ministry singularly . jejune." I...
. So,Dean Ingechooses Athens in his riper ageâassuming the report
The Spectatortrue that he is to leave St. Paul's next year and retire to Oxford or somewhere near. Oxonians are entitled to claim that Dr. Inge is making his choice with his eyes well open,...
Page 7
The Creator of the League
The SpectatorBY H. WILSON HARRIS O N the day this issue of first Secretary-General Jays down an office he has thing over thirteen years fourteen. The Spedator appears the of the League of...
Page 8
The Case for Divorce Law Reform
The SpectatorBY LORD GORELL T HE 'case for reforming our present law of divorce can be stated very simply and with irresistible force : it is that no one, whatever their shades of opinion...
Page 9
Why Young Men are Going Labour
The SpectatorBy OLIVER BALDWIN F OR the first time in the history of the Labour Party a great increase in membership is being registered among the youth of the middle classes. These young...
Page 10
The War on the Drug Traffic By SIR MALCOLM DELEVINGNE.
The Spectator[Sir Malcolm Delevingne, till lately Deputy Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office, has been the British repres-entative on the League of Naliansi Opium Advisory Committee...
Page 11
Red and Black
The SpectatorBy PETER FLENI 1NG SUPPOSE that Soviet Russia has always suffered 1. from persecution-mania. If you defy the world, there is some justification for believing that the world's -...
Page 12
Ein deutscher Journalist
The Spectator[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN.] I N England werden nur ganz wenige Hellmut Gansser kennen. Auch in Deutschland ist er dem Namen nach nicht sehr vielen bekannt gewesen....
Page 13
Art
The SpectatorShapes and Objects ALL general statements about painting are more or less untrue. But it is often convenient to make them and, if in doing so we realize that they are untrue,...
The Theatre
The Spectator"Veronica." By C. K. Monro. At the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. â " Cupid and the Don." Adapted by Frank Birch and Basil Bartlett from the French of Jules Romains. At the...
Page 14
Poetry
The SpectatorThe Babe ONCE my feet trod Nineveh, Once my eyes saw Troy town burn, Now, if Plato tells-the truth, Dipped in Lethe I return. What was old is offered new ?, What is new was...
A Hundred Years Ago
The SpectatorBELLS.âIt has been often remarked, that the ringing of bells in the heart of the city of London during the time of business is a great annoyance. Yesterday, the Lord Chief...
Page 15
Country Life
The SpectatorTUE DODIR OF THUNDER. A thunderstorm may be a very terrible thing. As some of us looked at one of the latest over a broad grass field a crash and a flash, as nearly as may be,...
The thunderstorm of which I write was accompanied, though the
The Spectatorair was very warm, with heavy hail. In some few places the ground was white as with snow. And thence another mystery. Hail has its favourite narrow belts, as most countrymen...
Professor Salisbury is particularly interested in the causes of distribution,
The Spectatorthe newer causes as well as the older. We know that the railway is a distributor of seedâhas, for example, carried a hire wall senecio from Oxford to Win- chester. Professor...
TREES IN ART.
The SpectatorThe ingenious editor of the Tree Qoarterly has been holding an exhibition . of drawings of trees at the Fine Arts in New Bond Street. It is, I think, the first time I ever saw...
SHEEP AND STAMPS.
The SpectatorHave you ever seen a sheep on a postage stamp The more or less new centenary stump of the Falkland Islands "features," as they say, a length drawing of one of the most...
FLOWER SANCTUARIES.
The Spectatorcannot escape from the subject of flower sanctuaries. The latest news comes from East Anglia. I suppose that among the - mhst peculiar districts in England is the so-called...
This year's acreage under sugar beet is the biggest ever
The Spectatorknown in Britain ; and will probably be the biggest in history ; and where such disasters as the hail have not befallen it, the crops (as indeed almost all crops) look...
A Cucsoo's
The Spectator⢠A young cuckoo in a robin's nest in my neighbourhood, Was fortunately hatched before the robins' own eggs which now litter the approaches. It is being fed with devotion by...
Page 16
Letters to the Editor
The Spectator(Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our News of the Week paragraphs.âEd. Thu...
AIR BOMBING
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,âI welcome the opportunity, afforded by Mr. Griffin's letter of June 16th, to amplify Lord Halsbury's statement that 40 tons of...
Page 17
OUR TRADE WITH ITALY
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âAdvocates of a reduction in the " adverse " balance of merchandise trade between Great Britain and other countries will note with...
THE INDIAN PRINCES
The Spectator[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] Sm,âThe storm raised by certain die-bards in Englandâ including some who have eaten the salt of India !âagainst the introduction of...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] sig,âIn the articles that
The SpectatorI have read on the subject of training bombers one important point seems to have been missed. In time of war an open town would have far more to fear from untrained bombers than...
SUMMER-TIME [To the Editor of Tax SeEcrvroa.]
The SpectatorSut,âIt seems that the Rev. H. Somers-Cocks and Mr. H. Williamson have both strongly objected to my paragraph on "Summer-time." I have no quarrel with the Rev. H. Somers-Cocks...
TRANSPORT IN AMERICA AND BRITAIN
The Spectator[To the Editor of Tan SPECTATOR.] Sm,âIn the United States railway companies have been authorized to increase charges by 10 per cent. They have reduced wages by 10 per cent. A...
Page 18
⢠ABOLISHING THE SLUMS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âI am certain that the views of your correspondent " Clericus Audax " are shared by many of his brethren in the Church of England, both...
POINTS FROM LETTERS THE SCOTTSBORO' CASE.
The SpectatorThe case of the Scottsboro' boys must now be familiar to your readers. All who love justice will be anxious to subscribe to the defence fund, and they may have an opportunity of...
"THE NAKED TRUTH"
The Spectator[To the Editor of Tan SPECTATOR.] Sin,âAs The Naked Truth is an exposition of the bestial chn- ditions under which so many British people are allowed to live to-day, I do not...
Page 19
The Rise of Castlereagh'
The SpectatorBY E. L. WOODWARD THIS book is a full, well-informed, and most interesting account Of the life of Castlereagh . before 1802. At the beginning of this year Castlereagh had not...
Page 20
MR. E. F. BENSON'S literary activities are more than admir-
The Spectatorable, they are amazing, and his agile pen has perhaps never been more happily, or more usefully, employed than in drawing for us his " speaking " likeness of the Monarch who, in...
Prophecies of Norman Angell
The SpectatorFEW books of the present century have made more stir in the world than the work first issued as a pamphlet, by Sir Norman Angell, under the title, Europe's Optical Illusion, and...
Page 21
DmEcr subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to
The Spectatornotify THE SPECTATOR office BEFORE MIDDAY on MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent, and receipt reference nutnber should be voted.
Spacious Days
The SpectatorMR. WALDMAN has written an extremely valuable and inter- esting book. He begins with the accession of Queen Elizabeth and takes us down to the moment of climax when her fleet...
Page 22
New Country:
The SpectatorFrom Feathers to Iron - . By C. Day 'Lewis: (Hogarth Press. 38. fid.) . Mn. PAY LIKwis has published, three books of verse in the last four years, all with the HOgarth Press in...
Rome and Dr. Stopes
The SpectatorRoman Catholic Methods of Birth Control. By Marie Carmichael Stopes. (Peter Davies. 6s.) ROMAN CATHOLICS have been the most active opponents of Dr. Marie Stopes' work ; they...
Page 23
Sir Oliver and the Ether
The SpectatorMy Philosophy. By Sir Oliver Lodge. (Benn. 21s.) TIIE ether is in danger. Oceain's deadly razor is at her throat. But at the last moment Sir Oliver comes riding to the rescue....
London Life
The SpectatorA London Year. By H. V. Morton. (Methuen. 6s.) WHEN a man has decided not to write historically of a great city, he seems to be faced at once with two main difficulties, either...
Page 24
Modem Religious Thought
The SpectatorA. Study of Religious Thought in England from 1850. By Clement C. 3; Webb. (Oxford University Press. 8s. 6d.) THE lectures which form the substance of this book were delivered...
Page 26
A Glastonbury Romance
The SpectatorA Glastonbury Romance. By John Cowper Powys. (Lane. 1.1/6_, I THINK Mr. Powys's novel so fine that I am sorry that it must offend so many people. Some of this offence is, I a n...
Page 28
Fiction
The SpectatorBY GRAHAM GREENE Little Friend. By Ernst Lothar. (Seeker. 7s. 6d.) bEEILDHOOD is life under a dictatorship, a condition of perpetual ignominy, irresponsibility and injustice....
Page 30
OUT AND ABOUT ⢠⢠By Archibald Marshall
The SpectatorWe think ; of Mr. Archibald_ Marshall as the novelist who pictures' the placid life of the country and the humourist wh o tells -" simple stories." But Out and About : Random...
Current Literature
The SpectatorH. M. STANLEY By A. J. A. Symons The Victorian Age stands now for something which is the opposite of romantic. But Stanley -was a man of action in days when action could, be...
ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS, 1641 to 1649 By D. A. Bigby
The SpectatorIt seems strange at first sight that France should have done little or nothing to help Charles I and his French consort against their rebellious subjects But, as Miss Bigby...
PARLIAMENT AND THE ARMY, 1642-1904 ⢠By Lieut.-Colonel J. S.
The SpectatorOmond Before the Crimean War, the British Army was seldom popular and excited suspicion among the politicians. Such appears to be the lesson of Colonel J. S. Omond's...
BUCKLEBURY By Arthur L. Humphreys Some years ago Mr. Arthur
The SpectatorL. Humphreys produced a sub- stantial monograph on East Hendred, as an example of what a parish history should be. He has now done a similar service, on an even larger scale,...
CANADIEN : A STUDY OF THE FRENCH CANADIANS By Wilfrid
The SpectatorBovey Nearly a third of the population of Canada are of French descent and adhere firmly to their language, their faith and their. traditions. The high interest and importance...
Page 32
Traver ,
The SpectatorTravel in Sweden You may go all the way by sea from England to Gothenburg, or you may: Choose from a variety of routes across north Germany, which, once - the ⢠continent has...
Page 34
Motoring How to Tour , in Comfort ONE would suppose that
The Spectatoreverybody who owns a car today would as naturally and inevitably use it for touring as he does for the regular week-end outing and to increase the comforts and amenities of life...
Page 36
FinanceâPublic & Private
The SpectatorDevaluation IT is quite impossible at the moment ti? _know *hat will be the final policy - pursued - by this country and by the United States with regard to the possible...
Page 38
CONTINENTAL FACTORS.
The SpectatorSomething in the nature of a flight from currencies has also been occurring on the Continent, particularly- with regard to the Dutch guilder, which has been -heavily sold, and...
Financial Notes
The SpectatorUNCERTAIN MARKETS. THE general attitude of financial and business circles in this country to the developments of the Economic Conference has been well expressed during the past...
Page 40
SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD No. 39 11130131i111013161 131153121M
The Spectator13 IM II 31 El 13 13 MIZ113MOME3 01111111181315 IM 13 13 13 GI 13 11 13 tICIUM3 Old11101301M1313 LI : DDm M PI 123M131113 1110135111131 ri - OrA:U[10 13 U ilIMMIMAMI11313 iarii...
"The Spectator" Crossword No. 4
The SpectatorBY XANTHIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the fi re correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened . Envelopes should be marked "...