30 NOVEMBER 1934

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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IN these days of the general eclipse of monarchs the enthusiasm the Duke of Kent's marriage has aroused is remarkable: Of the place the royal family in this country holds in the...

Rumours from Germany Rumours of unsettlement in Germany have been

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more than usually rife in the past week, most of them postu- lating a divergence of view between the Reiehswehr chiefs and the head of the Nazi party. In a country where nothing...

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The Possible Enemy From one point of view Mr. Lloyd

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George was right in his analysis of the international situation in the debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday when he considered which of. the Great Powers of the world...

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Mr. Morrison's Dangerous Plan Mr. Herbert Morrison appeared to be

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committing the Labour Party to a very dangerous principle when he urged an organized boycott of German goods and services " until such time as complete freedom of belief and...

An Arms Traffic Enquiry - Sir John Simon did something

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to disarm opposition by admitting in the House of Commons last week that his recent speech on the arms traffic had been " un- fortunate." It would hardly be uncharitable to...

The Terrorism Question at Geneva The feelings aroused by the

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Jugoslav note to the League of Nations on Hungary's responsibility for the terrorism that culminated in the Marseilles murders, and the Hungarian reactions thereto, would have...

* * Suspense in the Saar With little more than

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six weeks to run before the Saar plebiscite the atmosphere fortunately is a little calmer. M. Laval is pursuing a conciliatory course as Foreign Minister of France, more in the...

Death at Level-Crossings Two lives were lost in the collision

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between an express train 'and a 'lorry' at a level-crossing near Broxbourne last Tuesday, and many passengers in the coaches behind were extremely fortunate in escaping without...

* * * * Mass - Production of Houses At the

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centenary dinner of the the Prince of Wales uttered . wise _ and timely words which may be commended to the attention of the Minister of Health. He pointed out that the time has...

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An Appeal from Labrador The article by Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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on a later page gives a vivid picture of the achievements of a life spent in the service of men about whom no one else was troub- ling till Sir Wilfred took his medical...

Drink on Housing Estates .% question of considerable importance—licensed houses

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on the new housing estates—was discussed at a Tem- perance Legislation League Conference presided over by Lord Lytton on Tuesday. The aggregate population of the new housing...

Motorists' Trials The way of the motorist is not being

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made increasingly easy. The decision of the insurance companies to raise rates by 20 per cent. in London and certain other areas where the accident figures are high will...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary correspondent writes :—Though it

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was only half past three on 1Vednesday afternoon when Mr. Churchill rose to move his Rearmament amendment to the address it was already dark outside and the gloom of the...

But in the debate on the Address to the King's

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Speech all that has changed. The Front Bench has been exposed to a continuous barrage of criticism from its ablest sup- porters. Mr. Harold Macmillan began it with his now...

Mr. Baldwin, in reply, was not at his best. He

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appeared not to have mastered properly his brief. His figures were difficult to comprehend and the form of his speech was unusually muddled and incoherent. But it was a fine...

This week in Parliament has been the most interesting since

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the recess. First of all there was the recantation of Sir John Simon. It must be quite unprecedented for a Foreign Secretary to describe his last speech as a " most unfortunate...

Then there has been the Revolt of the Young Con-

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servatives. For three years they have sat with almost complete docility on the back benches. One of the arguments in justification of the failure of the Prime Minister to give...

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JAPAN'S NAVAL CLAIMS

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N O one who has read the articles from Japan which have been appearing in this journal in the last six weeks will be in any doubt on one point—the part which an almost religious...

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EXPERIMENT IN THE DEPRESSED AREAS

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R EADERS of recent debates in the House of Commons may have been cheered or saddened—according to their reactions to such matters—by the somewhat severe criticism to which the...

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No one looks to the Prime Minister for lucidity, but

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obscurity at its murkiest marked Mr. MacDonald's replies to questions on Monday about the rule—or honour. able custom—precluding Cabinet Ministers (not appar- ently junior...

As everyone understands now, no political significance whatever attaches to

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the fact that Sir John Simon, Lord Lothian and Lord Winterton did not sign the report of the Joint Committee on India. All three of them support the findings of the main body of...

Into the acrimonious discussions about the Peace Ballot I have

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no desire to enter. If the Ballot is being made a party question the responsibility must rest with the party which has—though by no means unanimously —condemned and repudiated...

The Passchendaele debate is, I hope, dying down. Pending some

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new efflux of controversial allegations, we can well afford to wait for the contributions the very responsible biographers of Lord Haig and Lord Plumer will be able to make. But...

Herr Ribbentrop, Herr Hitler's semi-official Dis- armament Commissioner, who has

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just left London, may not have conducted any very formal conversations while he was here. But he did, I understand, make it quite plain that Germany was still ready to stand by...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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r deadlock between this country and the Irish Free ntate cannot go on for ever, but since both sides have publicly taken a position from which neither is ready to recede all the...

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THE INDIA. REPORT : A CONSERVATIVE VIEW

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By L. S. AMERY, M.P. [Lord Snell, a member of the Joint Select Committee and a former Under-Seeretary for India, will write next week on " The India Report : A Labour riew."1...

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THE CLAIMS OF LABRADOR

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By SIR WILFRED GRENFELL F ORTY-THREE years ago it was my privilege to sail a small ketch from England to the Labrador coast. Thirty thousand fishermen and their families were...

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THE PERIL OF CHILD-BIRTH

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By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE outstanding fact is well known. It was plainly stated by Sir George Newman in his Annual Report for 1931. " Since the beginning of the present...

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THE RIGHT TO SEARCH

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By E. F. M. MAXWELL A GOOD deal of curiosity, and perhaps some apprehen- sion, has been aroused by the statements of various Ministers, in recent debates on the Incitement to...

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AN ENGLISH PARSON

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By LLEWELLYN POWYS F OR many years I cherished an unreasonable prejudice against the Osborne family. I traced this to a personal matter absurdly accidental. As a young man I...

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SYMBOLE MIT FOLGEN

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[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN] Betrachten wir uns einmal these Gruppen naeher. Direr sind fuenf, hauptsitchlich Tierfiguren darstellend, erinnern iiusserlich an...

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The Insurrection of the Dead

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FROM war to war the wheels of Progress gleamed, Dictator to dictator, chain to chain, Carnage to lordlier carnage ; till it seemed Men had a lust for misery. Yet they dreamed...

Communication

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A Letter from Cambridge [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The great event of the term has been, of course, the visit of the King to open the new Library. But it was so...

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The Cinema

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"The Merry Widow." At the Empire. WHEN Metro-Goldwyn were planning to film The Merry Widow they must have had one difficult problem to settle. Should they bring this famous...

• STAGE AND SCREEN

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The Theatre "Flowers of the Forest." By John van Druten. At the Whitehall Theatre.—" The Moon in the Yellow River." By Denis Johnston. At the Haymarket Theatre Mn. VAN DRUTEN in...

"Belle of the Nineties." At the Plaza.

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The purity campaign in America has evidently cramped Miss Mae West's • style. Compared with her voluptuous lion- tamer in I'm No Angel, her Ruby Carter in Belle of the Nineties...

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Art

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Bosch and Bruegel JEROME Bosco, the Encyclopaedia Britannica tells us. " may be called the Breughel of the fifteenth century, for he devoted himself to the invention of bizarre...

Music Sadler's Wells Opera As' important and critical stage in

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the history of Sadler's Wells Theatre has been reached this season. The faith of those who believed in the possibility of establishing a per- manent Opera in English at cheap...

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Norfolk Royal

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The apple is a romantic fruit with a romantic history, even if we do not go back to the forbidden fruit or the apple of discord. And the romance is not over. I saw the other •...

COUNTRY LIFE

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What Winter Reveals A great number of pleas for aid in protecting rural peace and beauty are continually being received by the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, on...

Birds and Berries Of all the berries that have been

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produced in their multi- tudes by the warmth of the two last summers, none is more splendid than the Crataegus pyracanthus. I have especially admired two walls of two old...

Alien Stares

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The continental birds are often slightly different in plumage or the colour of their plumage from our residents. Last year hundreds of robins (not usually migrant at all)...

A Pioneer County

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The enterprise of Norfolk farmers was seldom more in evidence than today ; and may we take it as evidence that the art of husbandry begins to flourish again in this pioneer...

Norfolk is of course a county famous for its birds

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and its sanctuaries ; and at the moment a nice problem in bird migration is puzzling some of the keepers of the sanctuaries. Among the hosts of winter visitors are great numbers...

Winter Visitors

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Birds are probably a good deal more numerous in England in winter than in summer, or is it that they are so much more obvious ? Any visitor to Norfolk or Suffolk and, indeed, to...

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EUROPE AND WAR

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[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] Stn,—The reports relating to the alleged Franco-Soviet agreement last week presented an opportunity of studying the view-point of various...

ENGLAND'S FINANCIAL RECORD [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I

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think we should be very unworthy readers of The Spectator if we allowed Lord Snowden's complacent account of our financial record for the last fourteen years to pass without...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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[Correspondents ate requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The Mit suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

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THE INTERDICT OF INNOCENT III

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The Rev. Thomas M. Parker criticized my picture of the woe laid upon England by this Interdict, and asked for my authority. I gave it—a...

MR. CHURCHILL AND THE CAUSES OF WAR [To the Editor

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of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In his broadcast last week, Mr. Winston Churchill, referring to the condition of Europe today stated, inter alia : " Only a few hours away by air there...

THE INCREASE IN DRUNKENNESS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] your comment on the increase in drunkenness convictions in 1983, you conclude with the suggestion that it is particularly desirable that the...

ASPECTS OF ENGLAND

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It was a sound instinct that caused you to preface your series of articles on " Aspects of England " with an apologetic note, but your...

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THE EXPANSION OF JAPAN

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[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sin.—To an onlooker the letters appearing in The Spectator of August 31st and September 7th under the heading " The BXpansion of Japan " are...

HOMECROFTING COMES OF AGE

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[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—You laid your finger with admirable exactness on the outstanding feature of the Distressed Areas Reports when you said that they were...

EGG COLLECTING

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The observations by Sir William Beach Thomas in your issue of 16th inst. in connexion with the wholesale robbery of the eggs of rarer...

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• ELECTORAL REFORM

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[To the Editor . of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-The approaching General Election, say in 1936, makes little appeal to the average citizen absorbed in the details Of his everyday life....

A Broadcasting Calendar

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3oth /.15 Friday Midday Concert from Birmingham-Quartet by 6.3o Beethoven-Professor Tovey's Keyboard Talk .. 6.5o In your garden : C. H. Middleton .. 7.15 Ripe...

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Mr. Yeats as Dramatist

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By DENIS JOHNSTON A FEW years ago, it is told of Mr. Yeats that he was deputed by his- fellow Directors to explain to one of Dublin's many garret dramatists what was wrong with...

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The Future of the Saar

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The Saar. By Margaret Lambert. (Faber. 7s. exl.) WHICH way will the Saar vote on January 13th ; and, which is equally important, what will happen when the plebiscite is over ?...

A Veiled Counsellor.

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THE second volume of Lord Esher's Journals and Letters covers the years 19034910 ending with the death of King Edward VII, and thus lying wholly 'within his reign. In the main...

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Democracy Made Positive

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Tums essay is an interesting attempt to uphold democracy by re-stating it in more positive terms than the traditional ones. Fascism and Communism, says the author, attract the...

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The Nook-Shotten Isle

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The English Smile. By Christen Hansen. (Gollancz. 6s.) MR. HANSEN, a Dane, and Miss Keun, a live wire, are two more of those bright discoverers of F. gland who actually discover...

Two Liberals Look at Germany The Meaning of Hitlerism. By

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Wickham Steed. (Nisbet. 5s.) Ma. GREENWOOD and Mr. Steed are a curious study in contrasts. Roth start from a fundamental agreement withthe principles of English Democracy. Both...

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The Alps

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An Alpine Journey. By F. S. Smythe. (Gollancz. 16a.) TIER titles of these two new Alpine books are a fair indication of the difference in their contents. A great pilgrimage...

Iberian Excursions BY posterity the present age should be remembered,

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if at all, as the Age of Imitation. The aim of each and all is to be bad copies of what they are not, rather than good examples of what they are. In literature as in life the...

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Salute to a New Poet

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The White Hare and other Poems. By Lilian 13owes Lyon. (Cape. Ss.) The White Rare is Miss Bowes Lyon's first published - book of verse, and in the ordinary course of events it...

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Fiction

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By V. S. PRITCHETT Ma. O'DomsELL's new novel describes the successful attempt of an emigrant, returning in destitution to his native village, and filled with Socialist ideas, to...

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The essays which are collected in this volume (Allen and

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Unwin, 3s. 6d.) were originally published as a series in -the Fortnightly Review, and bear many of the marks and disad- Vantages of having been written to order and a settled...

Harold Wright was best known as for many years assistant-

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editor, and for one year editor, of the Nation. But he had numberless other activities, particularly in connexion with the Education of Seafarers, Country Industries, the Adult...

Current Literature

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Mr. Kingdon Ward's primary purpose in making the journey to Tibet, which is the subject of this extremely able book (Cape, 12s. 6d.), was the philanthropic one of collecting...

There is a case to be made for this book

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as the perfect Christmas present. No disrespect is intended to its enduring qualities—quite the reverse, since there is no reason why it should not become a classic in its way,...

This book is an adaptation " for the complete understanding

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of the English-speaking public " from the French of Al. Tristan Bernard's Aux Abois, carried out with highly commend- able tact and skill by Virginia and Frank Vernon and—but...

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Financial Notes

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REACTION IN GOVERNMENT STOCKS. • LAST week's reaction in Stock Exchange quotations for British Government securities has since developed into a steady decline, which has...

Finance

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Fixed Trusts . THE spreading of investment risks over a larger number of securities than can conveniently be done by the investor of moderate means has long been possible...

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INVESTMENT IN INDUSTRIALS.

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Sales of gilt-edged stocks have been effected partly in a search for higher yields than those recently obtainable ou first-class investments. Many private holders of British...

ADVANTAGES OF THRIFT.

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Meanwhile, the worker was being urged to save by public men and by the savings organizations themselves, including the building societies, the Post Office Bank, National Savings...

REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

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As an able and lucid account of the redistribution of wealth in Great Britain since pre-War days, and of the counter-balancing influence of thrift, the address recently...

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SOCIALIZATION OF BANKING.

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Mr. Williamson devoted part of his address to a thoroughly effective reply to the agitation which arises from time to time for nationalization of banking—of course, in the hands...

DIRECT subscribers who are changing their addresses are asked to

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Financial Notes

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(Continued from page 853.) in Britain, while it has made good the gap in national saving caused by the heavy taxation of the wealthy, has also been a valuable stabilizing...

A Hundred Years Ago

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" THE SPECTATOR," NOVEMBER 29m, 1834. MONEY MARKET. STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A sudden and unexpected change has taken place in the Money Market. Instead of the...

AUSTRALIA'S RECOVERY.

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Mr. Andrew Williamson, Chairman of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, gave the shareholders of that institution a most able and masterful survey of Australian conditions...

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"The Spectator" Crossword No. 114

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BY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

Travel

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Wintering in Egypt " EGYPT," said Herodotus 2,500 years ago, " contains more wonders than any other land," Much has happened since then, so much that we have almost lost our...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 113

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