S OME satisfaction will be felt that at length negotiations will take place in Tokyo to settle the Tientsin dispute as a " local incident." Unfortunately, it is clear that the...

Moscow negoti- ations; it is interesting, however, that by now the German Press regards the alliance as inevitable. On Thursday of last week M. Molotoff, the Russian Prime...

in at Berlin on Wednesday, to Germany's denunciation of the Naval Agree- ment as an opportunity to reply to the charge of encircle- ment. Hostility to Germany is inevitable only...

and cotton has now been concluded, though at present neither of the Governments concerned has legisla- tive power to carry through the transaction. Formal acquisition of these...

magazine, Europaische Revue, saying it is an axiom that Italy must dominate in the Mediterranean or cease to count as a Power, has not been very warmly received in the Balkans....

a deaf ear to the pleas of the motor trade, and the horse-power tax is to remain at the horrific level of 25s. It seems a pity, in view of the recog- nised handicap imposed by...

this week was remarkable for his sombre account of the dangers facing France. He spoke of 3,000,000 men in arms on France's frontiers, and of the efforts in France itself to...

Paris, in its general terms conforms to the model of the Anglo-Turkish agreement. It is directed against no other country, but provides for reciprocal aid in the event of...

Danzig was greatly intensified during the last week. The most authoritative sources report the arrival of 1,40o armed German officers and men and of supplies of arms and...

Labour Whip, rose to draw attention to the number of questions on the paper each day which were not reached by 3.45, and to ask Mr. Speaker whether arrange- ments could not be...

the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood firm. He found an unexpected ally in Mr. Harold Macmillan, and he himself vigorously defended his proposals for new motor taxation on...

on 35,000 men calling them up to report for service in the Militia on July i5th. The authorities appear to be alive to the fact that it will never do to apply the old-fashioned...

frosty reception was accorded to the new Armaments Profits Duty. Mr. Pethick Lawrence commanded widespread assent when he said that this was a political and not a revenue tax....

Paper of the House of Commons, signed by 18o Government supporters and call- ing for the setting up of a joint committee of both Houses to discuss a scheme of compensation in...

the British Homceo- pathic Congress, said that major influenza epidemics, such as that which caused twenty million deaths in 1918-19, only occur at intervals of about 3o years,...

A T Cardiff, last week, the Prime Minister once again expounded the two principles which govern British policy. The first, in his own words, is that we are always ready to talk...

T HE speakers at the annual conference of the Empire Press Union this week included many others besides the representatives of the Press and of Governments. The ramifications of...

only penny quarterly magazine in England. Edited by Patricia Whish, it is the clarion of the Octavian Society, which seeks from an address in Barnes to " combat all ungenerous...

T HE Air Ministry is dealing very gently with the small vested interest in aerial advertising. No licences are to be extended after October, 1941, so that for three more summers...

Protectorate in Bohemia would be driven to alter the name of the Wilson railway station in Prague. In doing so, however, they have missed the chance of a gesture which would...

its peak with the appearance of more than one a week. The boom is not yet entirely exhausted: but the promoters of new ventures appear to be resorting to ever more improbable...

a close a noteworthy period in the history of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Mr. H. S. Goodhart-Rendel has been President of the Institute for the past two years;...

I might move, like Mr. Compton Mackenzie, in financial circles that stand to gain from war. There are many good people who have been so anxious not to gain from war that they...

By LORD LUGARD I T would be impossible within the limits prescribed to attempt an adequate reply to the hypothetical questions raised in the excellent article on " The Claims...

By ROBERT POWELL T H E present condition of " war-peace " which rules over Europe today is generally described in conversation here as the war of nerves. Nobody knows how long...

By HUBERT RIPKA W EEK by week Nazi terror in Czecho-Slovakia is increasing, and the Germans have renounced all pretension to rule the conquered provinces by a policy more...

By E. B. CASTLE (Headmaster of Leighton Park School) W E have been slow in this country to recognise the need for a more comprehensive education of the human body than that...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NV HAT is the purpose of British propaganda? Now that the British Council, the B.B.C., and the new Press attaches appointed by the Foreign Office are...

By JOSEPHINE BLUMENFELD " N OW, with your pony, Rowena. One and two! Rise and fall! One, two and one again. In with those toes. Out with that chest. Up, down—up, down. Easy...

ARRIVED, he sees the well-remembered scene And gladly finds that all is as before, The grocer on the corner, the Gothic church, The city 'buses halting at the door, Even the...

gloomy landscape. In the first place France had suddenly regained her position as a vital factor in the European balance of power. They agreed that France's recovery had in fact...

would be to convince the Inner Cabinet of its wisdom. I suggested that our vast rearmament programme and our introduction of conscription must surely have impressed German and...

that Herr Hitler's personal supremacy within the Third Reich had been enormously enhanced since September. At the time of Munich there was still a possibility that the General...

By HAROLD NICOLSON D URING the past week I have met three elderly and experienced Europeans. The first was the son of one of Franz Joseph's Ministers and has since childhood...

EDUCATING THE AFRICAN By CLELAND SCOTT [Sir Donald Cameron, formerly Governor of Tanganyika and of Nigeria, will put the case for Native Education in THE SPECTATOR next week]...

Academy.—" This Man in Paris." At the Plaza. THE echoes of the laughter at Louise have hardly died away when M. Abel Gance pops up again with another musical film, based on the...

" Mathis der Mater " HINDEMITH'S opera, Mathis der Maier, which provided the outstanding musical experience of the Zurich Festival, tells the story of Mathias GrUnewald, the...

(D'un correspondant parisien1 Nous nous trouvons de nouveau en pleine pe:riode d'examen. Pour le baccalaureat il y aura eu a Paris 26,500 candidats contre 24,o00 ram& derniere....

Pleasing Patterns To the intelligent public, as a whole, Marion Dorn is still best known as the pioneer designer of modem carpets. For some years past, however, she has devoted...

For the second time recently a bird of the same species has been sent to me for identification. The later victim came from Devonshire. It was seen and much admired one day as it...

logic in it as well as sentiment, is to be raised on behalf of the deer in the New Forest. The place was originally, of course, a hunting- ground, especially for deer, which...

Some more details of the very minute and curious observa- tions made at Jealott's Hill in reference to the partridge may interest bird watchers in general. It is noticed that...

A Very Royal Show In the annals of the show of the Royal Agricultural Society, v‘hich is to celebrate its centenary in the Great Deer Park at Windsor, the greatest successes,...

rose ; both dog and field rose are in magnificent flower in the wild, and the garden follows suit. The Penzance briar is perhaps the most useful. If the tip of the long shoots...

It frequently happens in a cricket match, as in the latest Test, that batsmen appeal against the light ; and the decision is left to the bare judgement of two fallible umpires....

Woodpecker, which has earned it the name of Yaffle, and the very loud drum- ming of the Greater Spotted Woodpecker announce their neighbourhood to all concerned. The Lesser...

SIR, —May I comment on two points in the correspondence on this subject? First, if I suggested, as I think I did, that Jesus consciously endorsed the innocence and humility of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, Although I do not propose to comment in detail upon the many points raised by Professor Joad and his critics, I feel constrained to make...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudoriym, and the latter...

by " Inquirer's " letter in last week's Spectator ; being oneself a convert from Agnosticism to Christianity, one could not fail to sympathise with it. Mr. Joad's reference to...

admirable comment on the Report of the Inter- Departmental Committee on Abortion you speak of the strong arguments against " the infliction of successive unwanted pregnancies on...

studied the documents which he criti- cises he would have discovered a definition of the word " eternal "—" And this is life eternal: to know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou...

SIR,—Captain Harrison's letter, like his book, shows him more interested in dialectics than in realities. A work " in- tended for serious students of modern history and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIE,—Despite Mr. A. P. Herbert's stout resistance, the " groups" appear, for their private purposes, to have annexed the honoured name of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Most of Dr. Goebbels' propaganda speeches are too crude to need contradiction. But it must be remembered that Herr Hitler's theory is that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I understand that Herr Goebbels has added insult to injury by suggesting that poor little Belgium started the 1914 War by attacking...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Lord Tavistock inquires whether, in view of the large amount of money being spent annually on cancer research and treatment, it would not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Sack is not strictly correct when he states that : "(b) If a subscriber does pay Income Tax at the full rate, a seven-year covenant...

Majority Report of the Abortion Committee against the provision by public authorities of contraceptive advice except to married women to whose health pregnancy would be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — I am at work on a biography of John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century antiquary, and write to inquire if any of your readers can give me...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —We have naturally read with much appreciation Mr. D. W. Brogan's review of our publication, New York Panorama, in your issue of June 16th....

THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—I expect that every writer of a book has to endure the saddening experience of reading at least one review which consists of a long charge-sheet of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sul,—In Central Asia matters of nomenclature are complicated. A new name the traveller meets may be Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Turki, Tajiki...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —In his letter under this heading in your issue of June 23rd Mr. W. A. Millar refers to marriages hitherto styled " irregular," and says :...

Science and Politics in the Ancient World (C. E. M. Joad) ... ... ... ... ... 1135 Inside Asia (Sir Frederick Whyte) ... ... ... 1136 Palestine: The Reality (Prof. G. R....

Inside Asia. By John Gunther. (Hamish Hamilton. US. 6d.) THE appetite of the modem reader requires that the book of the moment shall give a bright, moving picture of ,modern...

Palestine : the Reality. By J. M. N. Jeffries. (Longman:. 25s.) Tins book, though its style and manner occasionally betray it as the work of a journalist, is a serious...

International Monetary Economics. By Michael A. Heilperin. (Longmans. 15s.) FROM a perusal of Dr. Heilperin's solid, forceful, well-written but by no means easy book, one...

IF Mr. Winston Churchill's advice had been accepted, Ger- many would have been our friend today. He was, in the first place, one of the very few Englishmen who dared to ask for...

No doubt an ordinary simple text of Keats's poems will serve very well for many occasions, and many readers ; but it was perceived in the poet's lifetime, by his philological...

Democracy and Socialism. A Contribution to the Political History of the Past 150 Years. By Arthur Rosenberg. 12s. 6d.) THE announcement of a book by Professor Rosenberg on . so...

The Diary of Dudley Ryder, 1715-1716. Edited by William Matthews. (Methuen. 16s.) FEW diarists possess the essential virtue of candour. Fear of prying eyes, or a conscious...

G.P. By G. K. Rainow. (Blackie. 7s. 6d.) DOCTORS, more often than members of other professions, feel from time to time the yearning to unburden the soul, and, like the pots of...

IN contrasting the verse of today with that of thirty years ago it is often noted that the range of subject-matter has greatly increased. In addition to " high seriousness," the...

6s.) THERE are no surprises in the spring issue of New Writing, and that, according to the reader's temperament, is its greatest merit or its greatest fault. It means, on the...

a most able and stimulating challenge, with a title that could hardly be im- proved upon in this eleventh hour of the old civilisation. The alarm is sounded from an exceptional...

By FORREST REID MR. GILLIGAN'S Boundary Against Night is by no means a perfect novel, but it is an unusual one. Its faults are a loose- ness of construction (by the elimination...

By Aylmer Valiance Mr. Aylmer Vallance's little book (Nelson, 2S.) is an admirable contribution to an admirable series. The subject is particularly apt for group discussion,...

San Francisco in 038o, spent a few months in the hills of Napa County, north of San Francisco, at the deserted mining camp of Silverado. His experiences during this rest - cure...

Is British sea-power obsolete? What are these foreign navies like? How much has our relative position been altered by the changes in the distribution of power since the War?...

SINGLE-TAX GEORGE • By Arthur Birnie Half a century ago Henry George and his Single Tax occu- pied a position not unlike that, in our own time, of Major Douglas and his Social...

The 1938 results of Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries are much as I expected. Trading profits, at £296,529, show virtually no change from 1937, net profit, after debenture and...

AT last we are getting evidence that, politics or no politics, financial markets are going to get on with their job. How otherwise can one explain the steady succession of new...

I suppose it was inevitable, but it is none the less a pity that New Zealand's financing problems should be discussed in the heat of politics rather than the cool—I will not say...

On the technical side of the company's operations Lora Cadman's review at the Anglo-Iranian Oil meeting is as informative as even the most inquisitive stockholder could desire....

ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL COMPANY SATISFACTORY RESULTS THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT THE 30th ordinary general meeting of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Limited, was held on June 26th in London....

THE barter arrangement between Great Britain and the U.S.A. so earnestly desired by certain American interests has in part materialised. About 600,000 bales of American cotton...

of the British import duties on zinc and the new effort to obtain an inter- national agreement on that metal, Lord Home's speech at Wednesday's meeting of the Zinc Corporation...

ROLLS-ROYCE, LIMITED LT.-COL. LORD HERBERT SCOTT (Chairman) presided over the thirty-second ordinary annual general meeting of Rolls-Royce, Limited, which was held at Derby. In...

THE 67th ordinary general meeting of the Neuchatel Asphalte Co., Limited, was held on June 23rd, at the offices, 58 Victoria Street, Westminster. Lt.-Col. P. D. Ionides, D.S.O....

It is good to see a company like Banister, Walton, the Manchester constructional engineers, whose prospects I out- lined in these notes some months ago, building up a really...

ZINC CORPORATION THE twenty-eighth ordinary general meeting of the Zinc Corpora- tion, Limited, was held on June 26th in London. The Right Hon. Viscount Home of Slamannan (the...

time accustomed to an economy of information in their chairmen's speeches which the present situation demands. Nevertheless, Lord Herbert Scott's address at the Rolls-Royce...

occu- pations which flourish most in times of peace. A war might very well bring home to the authorities, if nothing else would, the inadequacy of many of our main arteries, but...

the buffer pool on a conservative basis-a necessary precaution, even though the pool is at the moment batting on a very favourable wicket. Thus Mr. Kenneth 0. Hunter, chairman...

be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "Crossword Puzzle," and should be received not...

The winner of Crossword No. 16 is Mrs. Boase, 24 Draycott Avenue, S.W.3.