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the Saar described by Mr. Powys Greenwood in his article from Saarbrucken on a later page has unfortunately found expression in various minor disturbances reported since that...

go to Rome after all pre- pares Europe for the best piece of news it could well receive, for whatever may be the terms of the precise agreement reached, it is certain that...

in the United States will be set by President Roosevelt's message to Congress, and since that will not be delivered till this issue of The Spectator has appeared comment on it...

A settlethent of the long-standing differences between France and Italy in Northern Africa seems certain, but the vexed question of naval parity will no doubt be left over till...

MUSEUM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23rd, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

in connexion with the alleged murder plot of which the assassination of Kiroff was a feature is now given as 117. The number of sentences to exile—a fate awarded to Kameneff and...

Treaty by Japan, which took place on Saturday,- was accompanied by the expression of a number of unex- ceptionable sentiments regarding Japan's desire for disarmament and peace....

Archbishop of Westminster removes a notable personality from the religious life of this country, though Cardinal Bourne will be remembered as the diligent and capable head of...

like Mr. Sastri, Sir Phiroze Sethna and Sir Chimantal Setalvad to the Report of the Joint Committee on Indian reforms is disappointing. But it must be remembered that the...

some misgivings, and the desirability of getting it squarely before the League of Nations increases. The latest Abyssinian note to Geneva is still hot in the form of a direct...

to understand the Government's attitude to the proposed use of Red Star liners in a new trans-Atlantic service, and nothing that has been said by its spokesmen in the House of...

there is no strongly organized force to insist on it is exemplified by the conditions of work Which might be imposed on juveniles in shops until the new Shops Act became Iaw on...

unemployment, says a Report of the International Labour Office. is to increase the number of jobs or reduce the number of candidates ; and with the latter object it recommends...

The Times by the King and by representative persons in all walks of life on the celebration of its 150th anniversary . have testified to the prestige which that unique news-...

F OR the last fifteen years the year 1935 has been regarded as a fateful date for Europe. Various factors fixed that idea in the mind, and it has remained there even after some...

THERE is always a conspicuous gap in public life 1 at this season of the year. Parliament is not sitting ; the Universities are in vacation ; the schools on holiday. A few...

dient in connexion with geography lessons than the. arrangement (described at a meeting of the Geographical Association on Wednesday) whereby a particular tramp steamer is...

classical tags Tempora mutantur, nos et mutantur in illis. Everyone knows it as the most familiar of Horatian lines. Did not that greatest of living Horatians, Dr. T. E. Page,...

value of the collection of Chinese and Far Eastern art. treasures acquired by the British Museum and Victoria' and Albert Museum from Mr. George Eumorfopoulos. What is certain...

Vauxhall Motors, after 14 years with no dividend at all, is one of many evidences of the uniform prosperity of the motor-car industry in this country. Cars are being poured out...

of Cardinal Bourne references to his emphatic denunciation of the General Strike in 1926. That, of course, is a matter of history, but I believe the Cardinal-Archbishop's...

of the Garter to have the classical comment on that decoration quoted for his benefit ; so I refrain from quoting it. But with the greatest respect in the world for the latest...

T HE New Year's Honours list is more calculated to inspire meditation on the principle of honours in general than on the award of these honours in particular. It is a prosaic...

OF LOTHIAN T HE world today resounds with the argument that the economic system which worked such wonders in raising the standard of living for the Western world four- or...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD Saarbriicken, December 31st. I T is New Year's Eve, and Saarbriicken is in festive mood. As I have the good fortune to represent The Spfdator, and not to...

By OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT IN the session of Parliament that has just closed a nevi force has entered politics. They are the young men. This is the youngest Parliament...

By MAY YATES A GAINST a background of political unrest and mistrust, of violent individualism which, at its best, seeks regional, rather than national prosperity, Spain is...

By KENNETH INGRAM W E came to the frontier unawares. We had walked unsuspectingly through Javorina, where we had intended to find shelter for the night. As the road turned...

By ROSE MACAULAY 934 has closed in what must, I suppose, be called an atmosphere of excessive civilization. For we have recently been informed by, eminent biological...

" Three for Luck." By Mabel Constanduros. At the Westminster Theatre AN accommodating mind and an indulgent temper are expected of the dramatic critic at this time of year....

" The Painted Veil." At the Empire EvEN in these days, when nearly all films reach a high technical level, the photographic quality of Miss Greta Garbo's new picture has a rare...

Great and Queer THE periodical exhibitions organized by the Burlington Fine Arts Club fulfil many functions. Sometimes they are precise in scope and aim at showing the...

[D'un correspondant Francais] LE Chateau d'If, dont la celebrite est, depuis Alexandre Dumas, universelle, a ete adjuge, voici douze jours, pour une periode de six ans, a un...

In the summer, as I reported at the time, local sportsmen were observed shooting seals off the coast of North Wales, partly for wantonness, partly because the bodies when washed...

A Barren Problem On a common, which is also a golf-course, is a recess behind gorse bushes decorated with two heaps of earth. One is green with unnumbered weeds, every seed on...

The spring migration of birds is hardly affected by weather. Swallows, cuckoos and warblers come over, as a rule, pat to particular dates whether spring is late or early, cruel...

In one cottage garden on the edge of Oxford all four tits have been seen, but for a while they were all four equally defeated in their onslaughts on a three-quarter coconut.-...

An old controversy about Robert Jefferies is re-aroused by the re-publication of his Amateur Poacher (Jonathan Cape, 8s. ed.). He is generally regarded as one of the founders of...

December's Spring More and more curious results of the continuance of autum- nal warmth and damp meet both townsman and countryman. The most gullible of birds is doubtless the...

Most of us feed our tits and some of us are lucky enough to attract all the four species : ox-eye, siggy, cole and marsh. A form of food that becomes more popular is the monkey...

We have experienced the most surprising electrical storm within my memory. It was not so violent or curious in my immediate neighbourhood as in some parts, notably Merioneth,...

THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—It is surely time that some protest was made against the tendency of some of our public men to criticize the collective system embodied in the League...

their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most Suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week" paragraphs. • Signed letters' are giben`a preference over...

SIR,—In the Christmas number of The Spectator Mrs. Ray Strachey said " The women of England " have made a living force of their Institutes and other organizations " because they...

SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I was glad to see Janus's note in your issue of Decem- ber 14th, on the desirability of the League of Nations having a flag of its own. The question has been...

May I call attention to what seems to be a blot on the otherwise welcome report of the Law Revision Committee on the liability of a husband for the torts of his wife and the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] cannot believe that many of the readers of The Spectator will be misled by the wholely erroneous statements and conclusions set forth with such...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On this question I remember reading the argument of a distinguished Scot, Mounstuart Elphinstone, that the ideal form of execution was...

Sia,—The first State function of 1935 is to be the hanging of a young labourer called Rushworth for the murder of his infant child. Nobody worries much about it except those who...

is much to be hoped that some of the B.B.C.'s broad- casters who need them should read and profit by Mr. Rat- cliffe's criticisms in this week's Spectator. Why should we have...

SIR,—Mr. Paton misses the real point which animates public anger and disgust at the execution of Mrs. Major. It was that the Home Secretary hanged her in face of her jury's...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Miss Perham thinks that Lady Gerald Wellesley and I " claim too much " for Sir George Goldie. But she herself obscures the facts. " What...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It would take too long to argue with your correspondent, F. Gertrude Latham, as to whether Oliver Cromwell was a saint or not, though I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—To leave Miss Macaulay or any of your readers with the impression that her criticism of our anthology, The English in Love, could be...

SIR,—May I be allowed to point out that information as to ways in which the ideas put forward in Mr. Thomas Burns' interesting article " The Young. Capitalist". in your issue of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] would be your last. wish, probably, to precipitate in your columns a technical discussion of the points raised in your excellent leading...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—In the course of Professor C. E. M. Joad's very kindly review of The Serial Universe, he remarks, " There is a point which, I think, Mr....

By R. C. K. ENSOR The Times completed its 150th year last Monday, and its management have decided to celebrate this notable third jubilee by publishing a large-scale...

Women under Communism and Fascism. By Hilda Browning. (Martin Lawrence. 6d.) Tine more one knows the less one feels inclined to generalize about any subject. Real experts, who...

The Changing Face of Germany. By Robert Hastings. (Muller. 3s. 6d. ) The Changing Face of Germany. By Robert Hastings. (Muller. 3s. 6d. ) Ma. PASCAL has written an able...

William Morris, Designer. By Gerald H. Crow. (Studio. 7s. 6d.) ALL those arts which can in any sense be called practical have been for about a century engaged in the whole-time...

SINCE the middle of the seventeenth century, the prestige of direct, unemotional language has increased and poetry has come to be regarded as a plaything or the sugar-coating to...

LET it be said at the outset that this is the best selection from Swift that is available, that with regard to some of its contents it is also an extremely important critical...

WE are sixteen years from the Armistice. The overwhelming majority of mankind has been yearning for stability and some fixed order in world affairs for the best part of a...

:By WILLIAM PLOMER Black Girl, White Lady. By Alan Hyder. (Arthur Barker. 75. 6d.) THERE is no sign that racial problems are diminishing in importance. The Germans, the Jews,...

Statesmen have committed their part in the Great War to paper, and the reading public has not as yet had its fill. But, particularly for those who took no part in the last War,...

New Year Prospects .. A WEEK ago I was able to chronicle the many favourable features of the past year, and today if I were to write in the spirit which pervaded the Stock...

(Skeffington, 10s. 6d.) is a volume of short descriptions, by Mr. Mortlock, grouped around Mr. Maxwell's drawings. Neither the writer nor the draughts= man seems to be...

WESTMINSTER ABBEY By A. L. N. Russell Westminster Abbey is a good place in which to pick up a little history, a little gossip, a little sentiment and a little architectural...

The Legal and General Assurance statement shows that the total net Life sums assured amounted to /14,539,451, as compared with £12,118,317 in 1933.—The London Life Association...

For the triennial period ended with December 31st, 1934, the Directors of the Atlas Assurance Co. have declared a compound bonus (on sums assured plus existing bonus) on...

SOME INSURANCE RESULTS. WITH the promptitude which usually characterizes the Insurance companiei, the year has scarcely turned before a number of companies have announced their...

RECORDS OF BUSINESS. Here are some of the record figures disclosed by Life Insurance companies in announcing their results. The Atlas reports new Life business for 1934, after...

new idea, a new application of an old one, a new method of con- struction. Year after year novelties and innovations are announced and, after the correct amount of what is...

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