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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorB EFORE these words appear the marriage of the Duke of Windsor will have taken place, and the long and in many respects painful drama that broke on the world last December will...
Stalemate in Spain In the past week the Spanish conflict
The Spectatorhas resumed its now familiar aspect of stalemate. Bilbao remains the chief theatre of the war, but the rebel offensive appears to have degenerated into abortive attacks...
Japan's New Premier General Hayashi has at length been driven
The Spectatorto resign his position as Prime Minister of Japan by his obstintcy in hoping that the two great Parliamentary parties, the Minseito and the Seiyukai, would finally abandon their...
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The Marriage Bill Mr. A. P. Herbert had every reason
The Spectatorto claim the passing of the Marriage Bill at its third reading in the House of Commons last week as a great victory for the democratic principle. For it is clear that the one...
The meeting of the League of Nations Council which ended
The Spectatorat Geneva on Saturday was followed by two useful discussions. In its first meeting since the spring of 1935, the Bureau of the Disarmament Conference on Tuesday decided to ask...
The Alexandretta Settlement A welcome reminder of the ability of
The Spectatorthe League of Nations to deal successfully with certain types of disputes is provided by the settlement of the Franco-Turkish dispute over the Sanjak of Alexandretta. Turkish...
The Oslo Powers and Freer Trade - The British Government,
The Spectatorlike many others, has recently made frequent professions of its desire to secure a reduction of trade barriers. That being so, there is clearly a moral obligation on the...
The End of N.D.C.
The SpectatorMr. Chamberlain as Prime Minister has, by surrendering to the critics of his National Defence Contribution, shown himself a more prudent politician than Mr. Chamberlain as...
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Both Mr. Attlee and Sir Archibald Sinclair have added cubits
The Spectatorto their stature since assuming the leadership of their respective parties. In particular, they have both come to excel on formal and ceremonial occasions, and the tributes...
The onslaught on the new tax and its withdrawal have
The Spectatoroccupied so much attention that the other features of the Finance Bill have been rather overshadowed. But the Labour front bench did not forget to direct some of their fire at...
By next week N.D.C. will be forgotten. But it has
The Spectatorraised one interesting point of constitutional practice of which more is likely to be heard. It seems clear that only Mr. Baldwin and Sir John Simon were consulted in advance...
The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The
The Spectatorgreat capitulation is almost universally welcome. Mr. Gallacher, it is true, complains that the Prime Minister has thrown him over and Mr. Wedgwood, who is never so happy as...
The Future of Grass Drying The Agricultural Research Council is
The Spectatornot letting the grass grow under its feet. It has this week published a report on a process which may well revolutionise one department of agriculture not much less radically...
Maternal Mortality The statistics of maternal mortality have long exposed
The Spectatorthe fact that this was the most backward of our public health services, and the one in which comparison with foreign countries was least creditable. It is therefore satisfactory...
A Great Psychologist Dr. Alfred Adler, who died in Aberdeen
The Spectatorlast week, will be known to history, if for nothing else, as the coiner of the ubiquitous phrase " inferiority complex." Once a pupil and colleague of Freud, he found himself...
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AFTER ALMERIA
The SpectatorG ERMAN ships in the Mediterranean having bom- barded the sleeping population of the Spanish port of Almeria, killed between 20 and 3o and wounded an unknown number, in...
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THE NEW CABINET
The SpectatorM R. CHAMBERLAIN'S new Government has been received with acquiescence rather than enthusiasm. Most, indeed, of the changes in the Cabinet were so well prepared that when they...
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THE NATION AND ITS FARMS
The SpectatorS INCE England became an industrial, not to say an urban, country it has never been so near to a common comprehension of the needs and of the value of our greatest industry,...
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⢠A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorXT ONE of the Cabinet changes has caused more surprise than the move of Sir Samuel Hoare from the Admiralty, where the rearmament programme is just getting going, to the Home...
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THE PRIME MINISTER
The SpectatorBy WILSON HARRIS IT is an odd thing that what most people know about the new Prime Minister consists in the main not of what he is but of what he is not. He is not of the landed...
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DEAR LAND OF GHOSTS-4
The SpectatorBy HENRY W. NEVINSON I think the very idea of visiting such scenes did not occur to me tlll, one afternoon in the Parks Museum of Oxford, Ruskin was giving his courses of...
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WHY WAS LINCOLN MURDERED ?
The SpectatorBy S. K. RATCLIFFE T HE assassination of Abraham Lincoln was the most momentous political crime of the nineteenth century. We can say of this event, as surely as of any in the...
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ECCENTRIC ENGLISHWOMEN : VIII. MRS. CHARKE
The SpectatorBy HELEN WADDELL 00/VIE time in the autumn of 1755 Mr. Samuel Whyte (" of Dublin "), future editor of The Art of Speaking and of a book of poems called Hibernian Cresses, went...
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LATTU RAM'S ADVENTURE
The SpectatorBy BHABANI BHATTACHARYA Mother Durga watched from her shrine with red lips and painted elongated eyes. She had ten arms, and rode a tame- looking lion. One arm held a spear...
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MAY IN MOSCOW
The SpectatorCommonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stn,âMay in Moscow is traditionally the busiest and liveliest month in the Soviet calendar. It is also one of the...
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THE CINEMA
The Spectator" Shall We Dance?" At the Regal.âThe June issue of " The March of Time " " I WISH we could combine the technique of the ballet with the warmth and passion of this other mood."...
STAGE AND SCREEN
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE "lie Was Born Gay." By Emlyn Williams. At the Queen's. THE time of this play is the summer of 1815 ; its place a house on the cliffs near Dover ; its theme the...
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ART
The SpectatorModern Tapestries ONE'S first reaction on visiting the exhibition of modern tapestries at the Lefevre Gallery is one of astonishment at the ingenuity of man. Here is a set of...
MUSIC The London Festival
The Spectator" THE London Music Festival " is the title arrogated by the B.B.C. to the six orchestral concerts conducted by Signor Toscanini. I hope I shall not be thought to belittle the...
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COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorA Threat to Devon North Devon, with its grand and infinitely varied coast, has endured many threats, and here and there has grievously suffered. The latest threat seems to me...
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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. Signed...
COMMUNITY OF RELIGION [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] -
The SpectatorSut,âProfessor Relton's letter must not go without a response from "the other side." I endorse his plea ex' aninio. We .are not called to create the unity of Christ's Church...
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" OUR MILITARY BRASS-HATS " [To the Editor of THE
The SpectatorSPECTATOR.] SIR, â Colonel Mozley accuses me of attempting to emulate MunchausenâI wish I had a little of the ability of the authors of the Baron's Memoirs and of Alice in...
JAPANESE EXPANSIONISM , [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, â We
The Spectatorare asked by Mr. W. H. Murray Walton in his letter (The Spectator, April 16th) " How is Japan to solve her population problem by peaceful means if she is not allowed to expand...
" PRE-EMINENTLY A SAINT " [To the Editor of THE
The SpectatorSPECTATOR.] SIR, â Mr. Nevinson, in his very interesting and appreciative sketch of the late Dr. Horton's life and character, describes him as " pre-eminently a saint," and I...
SIR,âI recently had the privilege of speaking about the women
The Spectatorowner-farmers' point of view with regard to the discrimination in income limits laid down by the proposed Pensions Bill for meri and women. Briefly, the points are as follows...
EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSIR,âThe comparison at the end of Mr. Horsfall-Ertz' letter on prices is apparently based on the prices prevailing in a high price suburb. There are some millions of people...
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" WHAT SHADOWS," CRIED BURKE . . .
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,â" What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue " occurs, as Dr. Childs says, in Burke's " Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll,"...
" THE SONGS OF SCHUBERT "
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âSince a serious charge has been brought against me in your review of my book, The Songs of Schubert, perhaps you will allow me to...
THE NAMES OF WARSHIPS
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âJanus, in last week's Notebook, has an interesting reference to the names given French warships. I fancy, however, that the intention...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âAfter a moment of
The Spectatorperplexity I have identified " Austin " as the sometime Poet Laureate. But at first I thought Janus was crediting the Admiralty with a desire to make an excursion into...
L'EMPIRE FRANcAIS
The Spectator[D'un correspondant parisien] ON inaugure chaque jour un nouveau pavilion a " Expo. 37 " âle titre officiel est vraitr.ent trop long de cette exposition qui a fait coulcr...
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THE GENERATION OF GENTLEFOLK
The SpectatorBOOKS OF THE DAY By HAMISH MILES IN stout wooden boxes with japanned metal hasps, they were trundled by horse-van from Mr. Mudie's to the nicer homes of London ; and all over...
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NEW POETRY
The SpectatorSpain. By W. H. Auden. (Faber and Faber. Is.) The Lemon Tree. By Margot Ruddock. With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. (Dent. as. 6d.) The Disappearing. Castle. By Charles...
THE MODERN MIND
The SpectatorThe Modern Mind. By Michael Roberts. (Faber and Faber. Ss. 6d.) NOTHING is more difficult than self-knowled g e and, as we have g ood authority for believing, nothing more...
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SOCIAL CREDIT IN CANADA
The SpectatorTHIS little volume has a twofold fascination. It illustrates the tendency of cross-purposes and inhibitions to come into play when an attempt is made to set out upon uncharted...
MARY BUTTS
The SpectatorThe Crystal Cabinet. By Mary Butts. (Methuen. los. 6d.) MARY Burrs died suddenly on March 5th this year, leaving the readers of her historical romances and of her sensitive...
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A FRIEND OF LAWRENCE
The SpectatorSteel Chariots in the Desert. By S. C. Rolls. (Jonathan Cape. los. 6d.) MR. ROLLS is a contributor to the biography of T. E. Lawrence which has recently appeared. This book,...
SIR CHRISTOPHER
The SpectatorWren. By Geoffrey Webb. (Duckivorth. - 2s.) IT is by no means easy to write the life of a great architect without the aid of illustrations : to cover an extremely active career...
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OLD NEW ENGLAND
The SpectatorTHE number of soldiers who served in the Confederate army has long been a matter of controversy among historians, but whatever may be the final decision, it seems probable that...
THE STAGE IRISHMAN
The SpectatorThe Stage Irishman. By G. C. Duggan. (Dublin : The Talbot Press. London : Longman. iss.) MR. DUGGAN'S record does not actually deal with what is commonly meant by the words...
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FICTION
The SpectatorBy ADRIAN BELL Star Begotten. By H. G. Wells. (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) A House in the Park. By Ronald Fraser. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) The Happier Eden. By Beatrice Kean Seymour....
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GRAMOPHONE NOTES
The SpectatorTins month's coincidence (to the gramo- phone companies comparisons are demonstrably the reverse of odious) takes the form of a recording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata...
THE JUNE MAGAZINES
The SpectatorThe Fortnightly gives prominence, to a somewhat caustic criticism of British trade policy by an American, Mr. W. Y. Elliott, under the title of " Lion and Unicorn Today." Mr....
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WISE INVESTMENT NEITHER the -investor- nor the speculator will shed
The Spectatorany tears at the passing of N.D.C. What was, at best, a clumsy tax gives place to some new arrangement, as yet undefined, which will at least have the merit of spreading the -...
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THESE FAST CARS Mot o ring THOUGH it might seem odd that
The Spectatoras the roads grow more congested and it bece5mes more and more difficult to driVe fast, makefs should continue to increase the maximum speed of their Cars and, in their...
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RAILWAY INVESTMENTS
The SpectatorFINANCE AMID the depressing influences which have lowered security values in nearly every market, Railway stocks have made a gallant attempt to respond to the favourable...
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FINANCIAL NOTES
The SpectatorIMPROVING COMPANY PROFITS. REFLECTING the improvement in British trade during the past year, many important companies have shown good advances in profit. At the meeting of...
" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 245
The SpectatorBY ZENO ⢠tit prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to der sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...
SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
The SpectatorThe winner of Crossword No. 244 is Miss Compton, Wynyates, Bridport, Dorset.