3 APRIL 1936

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE German Note presented to Mr. Eden on Wednes- , day bristles with passages that invite advers e . comment, but embodies a number of proposals which' it is essential to...

The general verdict on the German Note must be that

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it provides a basis on which negot iations can be continued. It is by no means satisfactory. Germany still maintains that she was entitled to tear up the Treaty of Locum, and...

Russia, it is to be observed, is nowhere mentioned. She

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is not among the nations to which a non-aggression pact is offered. So far from any " gesture " to mitigate the violation of the Treaty of Locarno, the violation of the treaty...

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The so-called white-collared worker no longer, has any greater security

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of employment than his collarless com- rade ; and the report of the Unemployment . Insurance Statutory Committee to the Minister of Labour .recog- nises that, in this respect,...

A National Surplus The revenue's famous " resiliency " has

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surpassed all expectations. The Chancellor's estimate was exceeded by £18,000,000, and for the first time since 1930-31 revenue was greater than in the previous year ; 1935-6...

The German Elections So far as the German election results

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prove anything, they tend to prove a little too much. That Germany is solid behind Herr Hitler when he defies the Treaty of Versailles and makes a coup which removes the one...

Colonies and Emigration There is no surer sign of economic

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recovery in the Dominions than their willingness to accept immigrants from this country. They have not merely relaxed their opposition to emigration but shown a positive desire...

The Abyssinian Defeats Whether or no the Italian armies in

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Abyssinia will, as has recently been claimed, be able to carry on active operations during the rains, Marshal Badoglio has beyond shadow of doubt made both furious and...

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There was an uproar. • The unfortunate Under- Secretary tried

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to retrieve his mistake by making another speech, but except in Committee . neither Ministers nor Members are allowed to speak twice except by leave of the House, and both the...

There is also the delay in the production of the

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Unem- ployment Assistance Regulations which is causing con- siderable concern. These were promised " in the spring " and the Prime Minister airily reminded the House at question...

On Thesday afternoon Mr. Baldwin himself came under Severe fire

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from his supporters. The trouble arose over the question of grain storage in relation to national de- fence. Members demanded to know what steps had been taken to increase the...

Parliament seemed to be taking its duties somewhat lightly when

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the House was " counted out " on Friday duringthe Second Reading of the Medicines and Surgical Appliances (Advertisements) Bill designed to prohibit spurious claims- to the cure...

The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Pending

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the German reply, interest in the House of Commons has shifted from foreign affairs back to the home front. The result has been a bad week for the Government. The climax, of...

The Drug Trade Hydra The statement in the report of

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the Central Opium Board to the League of Nations Council that while control of the legitimate trade in narcotic drugs has become thoroughly effective the illicit traffic is...

On Monday the Indian Legislative Assembly . .passed, resolution giving notice to

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terminate the Ottawa Agree- ments ;._ .and since the Government, promised in 1932, and repeated its . promise last year, to abide by the decision of the Assembly, it will have...

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GERMANY AND THE SPIRIT OF PEACE

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THE temporary interruption of the process of the exchange of notes and memoranda with Germany has given an opportunity fOr some shifting of attention from the foreground to the...

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JUSTICE AND SERVICE

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" O UR Report," says the Departmental Committee on the Social Services in Courts of Summary Jurisdiction, appointed by the Home Secretary in 1934, " will draw public attention...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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T HERE is no reason to search for hidden motives behind Lord Eustace Percy's resignation. He is not the type of man to be content with a sinecure post—still less to draw f6,000...

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MOSCOW AFTER TWENTY YEARS : II. EDUCATION

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By SIR BERNARD PARES B EFORE starting for Moscow I knew of the consider- able educational changes which have recently taken place there, and I was told by one of the higher...

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THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION : XII. THE FRUSTRATION OF ABUNDANCE

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By H. G. WELLS I FIND something at once heroic and faintly absurd in the big volume in which Steele attempts to develop a summary, complete enough to allow us to make directive...

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YOUTH AND WAR: AN OXFORD VIEW

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By C. R. CRUTTWELL (Principal of Hertford) I T is not for a member of the sister University to question the conclusions at which Dr. Raven has arrived as to the sentiments of...

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CIVILISATION COMES TO IIARRAR

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By LAWRENCE ATHILL F ROM the roof-garden of my house you could look down on Harrar where it lay, a toy city, straddling a low-spur and flanked on three sides by a fruitful...

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YOUNG GERMANY AND "MEIN KAMPF "

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By R. C. K. ENSOR N OBODY who wants to understand the policy of Nazi Germany can afford to neglect its Bible— Herr Hitler's Mein Kampf. In England it remains little known, and...

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THE NEW MODERNISM

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By Dr. W. B. SELBIE T HIS title is not a tautology. It implies that there is an old Modernism and that it is not a mere contradiction in terms. That there is nothing new under...

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MASTERS AND MEN By RANJEE G. SHAHAN' A FEW days after

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my arrival on my estate, I set out on a shooting expedition with Karim, reputed to be the best huntsman for a hundred miles round. My companion was no servant of mine, or, for...

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NATURE'S TRIUMPH

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By • J. S. COLLIS I T always holds my attention—a certain spot on the Maidstone Road. The floor of this earthly site is not made of soil. Bolts, screws, nails, nuts, broken...

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Trudi Schoop and her Comic . Ballet. At the Embassy

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STAGE AND SCREEN The Ballet Theatre, Swiss Cottage • " CHARADES," word of ill-omen in a theatre-manager's ear, was the one that came to the lips when the curtain rose and...

The Cinema

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"Merlusse." At the Curzon "The. Day. of the Great Adventure." At the Film Society "Desire." At the Plaza • FRENCH schoolboys supervised in their small asphalt yard, in their...

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Music The Operas of Berlioz

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Furs has been a good spring for the Berlioz-fancier. Within a few .weeks it has been possible to hear the Requiem, the Symphonie funebre et triomphale, L'Enfance du Christ and...

Niemandsland im Friihling

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[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] JETZT ist das ganze Rheinland ein einziger bliihender Garten. Von Enunerich im Norden, der Grenzstadt gegen die Nieder- lande, bisnach...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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A Great Observatory The Skokholm bird observatory (which was equipped largely through the generosity of readers of The Spectator) has - been well established. -Altogether the...

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THE ILLUSION OF DEFENCE

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The advisory function officially exercised, as Major- General Lethbridge Alexander says, by the professional heads of the Navy, Army and...

NATIONALISM AND ECONOMICS

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[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Davy's letter on " Nationalism and Economies " seems to me to bear as important relation to the excellent article entitled "...

SELF-GOVERNMENT IN PALESTINE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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...

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YOUTH AND WAR [To the Editor of THE SeEcr.seron.] Sin,—In

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his article headed " Youth and War," Dr. Raven condemns the policy of the present Government in the follow- ing words- - But when they see a Government given an unequivocal...

MR. HERBERT'S MARRIAGE BILL

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely the matter in question in the significant corre- spondence printed by you under the above heading, is not whether the working...

THE RHINE AND AGREEMENTS

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,--From Le Malin of March 28th : " Britain ought to appreciate not only the position of France but also her foreign obligations....

THE TITHE QUESTION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR" STR,—It is to be hoped that Mr. H. G. Lys, if he will reconsider the Government's tithe proposals in the light of all the facts, will revise his...

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THE ROOT OF THE MATTER

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R. —One would hope that the recent news of the destruction by bombing of Abyssinia's second largest city. will induce our Government to...

MULTSAI

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of March 27th you publish--doubtless in good faith—a series of misconceptions regarding the mui-tsais or so-called " child...

`l AN APPEAL TO MR. WELLS "

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Siu,—May I make a small correction to my recent reference (in " An Appeal to Mr. II. G. Wells ") to Mr. G. N. M. Tyrrell's valuable book,...

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Mr. Eliot's Poetry BOOKS OF THE DAY

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By EDWIN MUIR THE first eighty pages in this volume are taken up by the poems which have already appeared in Poems 1909-1925; the remaining hundred pages contain Mr. Eliot's...

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Mr. Hoover ' s Apology WHEN Mr. Hoover entered the White House,

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he bad Lincoln's own study transformed from a bedroom back into the presiden- tial Workroom, and " it was in this room, so filled with the spirit of Lincoln, that Herbert Hoover...

The Eastern Question England and the Near East. The Crimea.

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By Harold:- Temperley. (Longman. 25s.) No British scholar possesses a wider or deeper knOwledge'oe European history in the nineteenth century than Professor 'remperley. The...

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Vindicating the Victorians

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As I Remember. By E. E. Kellett. (Victor Gollanez. 16s.) Evicar generation has to endure the challenge of its immediate successor ; and, having endured it, recedes into its...

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Speakable Scots

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Scottish Eccentrics. By Hugh MacDiarmid. (Routledge. 15s.) " IT is no joke being a Scottish genius," remarks Mr. Mac- Diarmid in the course of this abounding narrative ; and Mr....

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A King's: Mistress

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end of last century, you got to know Louise de la Valliere from the interminably - thrilling pages of Dumas' Vicomte -de Bragelonne—a pale, demure and passive miss against a...

Artists' .Memoits

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Self and Partners. By Sir Charles Holmes: (Constable. 1/18,) Oil Paint and Grease Paint. By Dame Laura Knight. (Nichol- son and Watson. 21s.) - - THERE are two kinds of...

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Fiction

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By SEAN ,0 Sparkenbroke. By Cliarrers .Morgan. ' (Macmillan. 6s. 6d.) Creed. By Margiad , (Blackwell. 7s. 6d.) • - A Mari Forlhld. 'By Else Reed. (Cape. , 6d.) • Sparkenbroke...

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With A Daughter Of The Nohfu (Hurst and Blackett, 12s.

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Gd.) Madame Sugimoto completes the trilogy, begun so auspiciously with A Daughter Of The Samurai, of novels dealing with family life in modern Japan. The Nohfu are small...

" Deauville, in 1929, was the Mecca of the world's

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gamesters, with play higher than has ever been known before or since. It was a place where almost anything was possible. I have seen a crowd of bright young people leave the...

PAPUAN EPIC

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By Keith Bushell Mr. Bushell, who has served as Native Police Officer and Magistrate in New Guinea, has made a praiseworthy attempt to strike a new line in records of colonial...

UNCLE GIVE US BREAD

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By Arne Strom Arne Strom, a Danish poultry expert, accompanied by his wife and small son, went as adviser to a large collective poultry-farm a day's journey from Moscow. He was...

BY AND LARGE

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By Admiral Sir Barry Domvile Admiral Domvile has produced a very readable book (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.), well stocked with good stories and by no means devoid of solid...

CONQUESTS AND DISCOVERIES OF ,HENRY THE NAVIGATOR • .

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Current Literature Edited by Virginia de Castro e Almeida , This book (Allen and Unwin, 10s. 6d.) is an-. abridged translation of. the Chronicles of Gomes Eannes de Azurara,...

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The April Magazines

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The Contemporary Review offers variotn readings of the European situation. Mr. Wickham Steed's " Outlook " is definitely anti-Hitler and alarmist ; Great Britain cannot condone...

A Hundred Years Ago

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" THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 2ND, 1836. INCREASE OF CATHOLICISM. The Duke of Newcastle, in the }Ionic of Lords on Wednesday, called the attention of the Peers to the danger to...

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Finance

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The Nation's .Surplus Tim City is delighted with the wind-up of the Nation's financial year, which ended last Tuesday night. Indeed, having regard to all the circumstances of...

Financial Notes

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ME Stock Markets during the past few: days have been qUiet and dull. Nor, of course, is the reason far to seek. Uncer- tainty as to political developments has had the effect of...