fallen short of expecta- tions, though there are signs that important decisions are on the point of being taken. Mussolini's fall has not as yet affected Italian foreign policy...

The last difficulty to be surmounted by the French Committee Of National Liberation was the decision regarding the control of the armed forces at the disposal of the committee....

The attack by zoo American Liberators on the Rumanian oilfields and refineries at Ploesti last Sunday was a well-planned, daring and startling achievement. It proved that a...

The Government's proposal to register women of the age-group 47 to 5o inclusive has produced emphatic protests in the House of Commons, and a strongly backed motion has been...

In a speech at Edinburgh on Monday, Mr. Bevin outlined some of the measures which the Government have been studying to ensure an orderly transition from war to peace. The...

Mr. Butler may be congratulated on achieving a record in the present House of Commons. In opening a debate on the White Paper on Education it fell to him to expound on behalf of...

Certain persons who have conspicuously disappeared from the public view—Mussolini, Farinacci, Ciano, and a number of other prominent Fascists—will soon be officially " wanted "...

The South African General Election has resulted in a victory for General Smuts and the supporters of his war policy far more sweeping than the most sanguine prophets had...

to be known as the southern front is changing almost hourly, but it is changing con- te sistently in one direction, and there is little risk in predicting that within a week at...

to the House of Savoy, it is not unnatural that readers of the papers should ask why the Italian Royal House takes its name from a French Depart- ment. The question recalls the...

By STRATEGICUS HE elimination of Mussolini is already beginning to wear the appearance . of history, and the sequel which was expected as not developed. It is this that...

By MARGERY FRY While each State looks after the majority of crimes, Interstate offences (such as stealing a car and crossing with it into another State), and offences committed...

By PROFESSOR A. C. PIGOU OPULAR interest in post-war conditions in Great Britain seems to be concentrated on the problem of how to prevent . recurrence of mass unemployment.*...

By R. L. REISS L EISURE and social intercourse form a large part of life. After the war, the more successfuily we plan for full employment and industrial organisation the...

By W. J. FERRAR ISTORIANS, and indeed all teachers of history, however high their status or humble their scope, would do well to take ull account of the archaeological work done...

MY husband " fell " in forty-two: The Jerries bombed him out. I did what most brave women do: Yes, Sir, I did without. Next year I " gave " my only son ; He was shot down in...

By HAROLD NICOLSON HIRTY-SEVEN years ago today Persia received her first con- stitution. The imperial rescript which created the first Persian Majlis was signed by the dying...

presented in the programme of American music at one of last week's " Proms.," American com- posers are overcoming the tendency to eclecticism which was their besetting weakness,...

A TEN-1NEEKS' season of English comedy has opened at the Arts Theatre with Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Constant Couple and Sheridan's The Rivals. These will be followed in...

" Strange Incident." Generally released.---“ Undercover." At the London Pavilion. IF it had not been for the vigilance of that distinguished critic, Miss Dilys Powell, I for...

Stn,—I should like to thank Mr. Nicolson for his Marginal Comment of July 16th ; his marvellous analysis of that problem of "We" ; and his making a start with the cure (exposure...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Six,—Mr. Neil Jordan's letter on " The Submerged Generation," based on Harold Nicolson's rather pessimistic, if rot morbid, article, doubtless expresses...

Sin,—The White Paper on Educational Reconstruction, which you justly regard as promising a " new era in education," omits one principle which would add to the novelty of its...

SIR, —Canon Robins in his survey of war-time morals has only touched upon the main subject which is exercising the mind of the Church today, i.e., sexual morality. He rightly...

Sut,—The courtesy with which your correspondents rebuke me is more disarming than are the objections they advance either relevant or cogent. BOth read into my letter things that...

Sta,—The watchword everywhere in this country today is " security?' Economically, there must be security against poverty, no matter how this may have arisen: industrially, even...

issue errs at all it is in the direction of understatement. There seems to be a wave of self-indulgence and immorality attacking, most particularly, girls from thirteen upwards...

SIR, —At the end of the interesting article in The Spectator of July 23rd I read " A solution of the problem of the great public schools has still to be found." What, I should...

AN early harvest has one advantage of which, as far as I know, nothing has been said: birds, especially sparrows, have not quite reached that definite period in seasonable...

SIR, —In your issue of July 3oth Mr. Hamilton Kerr mentions that " No Russian reference library exists in this country." If exclusively Russian is meant this is no doubt true,...

The Pilot of 1942 The End of the Beginning. War Speeches by the Prime Minister in i94z. Compiled by Charles Eade. (Cassell. us. 6d.) IT is a moving experience to read, or to...

To be quite candid, this book is rather a hotch-potch. It contains a preface by Lord Horder, an introduction by Sir Humphrey Rolleston, 47 pages of dicta by Varrier-Jones,...

Red Moon Rising. By George Rodger. (Cresset Press. ns. 6d.) The Future of South-East Asia. By K. M. Panikkar. (George Allen and Unwin. 5s.) The British Pacific Islands. By Sir...

IT is impossible to exaggerate the importance of popular education in relation to the social and economic aspects of post-war recon- struction. The test of our democracy will be...

Daniel Cavour. By E. S. Evens. (The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d.) Rainbow. By Wanda Wassilewska. Translated by Edith Bone. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) A Garland of Straw is a collection of...

IN this book there is collected a good deal of miscellaneous and disjointed information concerning the sufferings of troops during and after a number of famous victories. The...

America in the New Pacific. By George E. Taylor. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d.) THIS is a very useful, realist and objective little book. It will not please either the old-fashioned...

6s.) DESIGNED with one eye on the schoolboy and the other on the general reader, this convenient little " dual utility " book first appeared in 1940, and has now gone into a...

unassuming autobiography will doubtless please amateurs of first nights and of anecdotes which could safely be printed in Punch. Plainly, 0. B. Clarence is a good actor and a...

P. Mayer. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) Political Thought in France from Sieyes to Sorel. By J. P. Mayer. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) Tins book is less than one hundred and fifty...

The winner of Crossword No. 228 is MISS HARRIS, 45 Fairfield Lane, Barrow-in-Furness, Lancs.

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 17th. Envelopes should be received...

By CUSTOS IF there is anyone in Whitehall waiting with a big stick for the first signs of any rip-roaring boom in the stock markets he must so far be disappointed. While there...