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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorM R. MOLOTOV'S statement regarding Russia's attitude towards Rumania fully deserved the praise the Prime Minister gave it in the House on Tuesday. It was indeed as welcome in...
The Administration of France
The Spectator' When Allied armies of liberation enter France and gradually drive the Germans from territory they have occupied, it will be of the greatest importance that a satisfactory...
Communists in Italy
The SpectatorThe decision of the leader of the Italian Communists, Signor Toglietti, to enter Marshal Badoglio's government, and his willing- ness to postpone for the present the issue of...
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Help'ng the Enemy
The SpectatorMr. Bevin made it clear on Tuesday that the War Cabinet is pre- pared to take the most drastic steps to discipline the strikers in various industries who are, as he said,...
The I.L.O. and Social Security
The SpectatorIn spite of all the dislocations and upheavals of war the Inter- national Labour Organisation not only survives but continues to make substantial contributions to...
The Negroes' Vote
The SpectatorVery great potential importance attaches to a ruling given by the Supreme Court of the United States on Monday regard- ing the rights of negro voters. By the Fifteenth Amendment...
A National Mines Policy
The SpectatorWhile it is necessary to state emphatically the wrong that has been done to the nation by miners on strike, it is equally necessary to try and understand why all this trouble...
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CABINET AND COMMONS
The SpectatorT HE vote against the Government in the House of Commons last week, and die action which the Government thought it proper to take in consequence, have been considerably...
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A SPECTATOR NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorO NE of the least satisfactory tendencies in contemporary journalism is the passion for imputing motives and assuming intrigues. Take the case of Mr. Eden's position. The facts,...
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THE RIDDLE OF BURMA
The SpectatorBy STRATEG ICUS HE Russians have entered Rumania and are apparently ad- vancing on a broad front, driving panic-stricken forces before them. This operation has been developing...
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THE PRIME MINISTER
The SpectatorBy WILSON HARRIS M R. CHURCHILL'S recent broadcast was disappointing. That was the general verdict, and we may as well be frank about it. But it disappointed for two reasons,...
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THE ALLIES AND EDUCATION,
The SpectatorBy KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. T HIS week, while the House of Commons is putting the finishing touches to a notable Education Bill, the Conference of Ministers of Education of the...
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THE MACHINE AND THE MIND
The SpectatorBy CONSTANCE REAVELEY W HEN I began to work a capstan, I enjoyed it greatly, though it was a strange transition from a don's life. I tried to analyse this pleasure, and seemed...
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REALLY NECESSARY ?
The SpectatorWAITING on the station, holding bags and cases, Looking down the line to find a train that's two hours late ; Going in the buffet, to get some tea and sandwiches (All they've...
HUSSEIN THE TALENTED
The SpectatorBy GERALD E. SCHLUTER Hussein must have been about 30. He always stated his age confidently if asked, although he admitted he could not compute it to within five years. He was...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON I N my early equestrian days I was taught that it was on reaching the bottom of the hill that the horse stumbled. While actually engaged upon the steep...
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THE CINEMA
The SpectatorSHOWING at the Taller is The Battle of the Ukraine, a film more publicised for its cuts than for its content. The commercial exploita- tion of horror for its own sake in such...
" Uncle Harry." At the Garrick.
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE AFTER commenting last week on the tediousness of murder plays in general, I have to record this week a striking exception, which I strongly recommend readers to...
From the New World.
The SpectatorMUSIC MESSRS. BOOSEY AND HAWKES have extended their enlightened patronage of contemporary European music—mainly British—to the productions of American composers, and while they...
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DULL TOWN COUNCILS
The SpectatorSin,—I read Alderman Tiptaft's article with interest, but I thought his gibe at fossilised councillors rather out of date, and he failed to deal at all with what seems to me the...
THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM
The SpectatorLETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—While discussing the future of Conservatism, Mr. Harold Nicolson strikes at the root of many of our present discontents. Few are satisfied with...
THE GOVERNMENT DEFEAT
The SpectatorSIR, Perhaps you will permit an admirer to express his regret that The Spectator should have lent itself to the exaggerated campaign of ballyhoo about the recent vote on equal...
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THE FAMINE IN BENGAL
The SpectatorSIR,— Knowing for certain how long it will take this letter to reach you, if it at all reaches, I cannot help writing a few words about " The Famine in Bengal" published in your...
DOCTORS AND THE PUBLIC
The SpectatorSIR, —You say in your paragraph under this heading that the White Paper on a National Health Service has " stolen a little of the B.M.A.'s thunder " and infer that the B.M.A....
Snt,—As a Southern Irishman who, in the last war, volunteered
The Spectatoron August 4th, 1914, and who, in this war, has two sons in the Allied Navies, may I say that .I have just returned from fourteen months in Southern Ireland? During that time I...
DOMESTIC SERVICE SIR, —Mary Upton accuses me of suggesting that after
The Spectatorthe war " forced labour " (to use her expression) should be pressed into domestic service. This is an occupation to which, if she will re-read my article, she will see that I...
EIRE—NEUTRAL OR HOSTILE ?
The SpectatorSIR,— Briefly in reply to Mr. J. W. Dulanty: (a) " Irish now hard at work for Britain." Surely not for Britain, but for themselves, as in the past sixty years. If working for...
EDUCATION IN ARCHITECTURE
The SpectatorSIR, —Considering that the science of building and planning is so closely connected with, and indicative of, social betterment, could not an active and lasting interest in it be...
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WOMEN MEDICAL STUDENTS
The SpectatorSIR, —As a medical woman, I am interested in your correspondent's reference in a recent Spectator to the need for the London medical schools to open their doors to women...
IRONING OUT THE COUNTRY
The SpectatorSIR,—A speaker on the wireless recently mentioned the longing of the townsman for buttercups and daisies, but in the Paradise of the Ministry of Agriculture will there be any...
MOTOR TRANSPORT AND ROAD COSTS SIR, —The claim of the Road
The SpectatorFederation that £79,000,000 ought to be avail- able for expenditure in the interest of motor traffic on the roads is unsound. (t) Cost of collection should be deducted ; (2)...
THE FACTS ABOUT BOMBING SIR,—In the review of Bombing Vindicated,
The Spectatorby J. M. Spaight, you state: " At last we shook ourselves clear of this unworthy motive and British bombs fell on the German mainland before German bombs fell on ours. This was...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorTHAT curious group of international biologists, who concentrate on what they call phenology, have advised farmers to sow barley when the blackthorn opens. Those who like to...
THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
The SpectatorSIR,—The statement by the reviewer of Professor Hayek's The Road to Serfdom that Tolstoy " could attack with complete impunity the Tsar and the Holy Synod and persistently...
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The Roman Joyce
The SpectatorJames Joyce. By Harry Levin. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE shade of James Joyce is probably smiling rather sadly up its sleeve at this quite excellent study, because, although...
BOOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorGreat Trees IN this book Mr. Richard St. Barbe Baker tells a vivid story of his visits to the wonderful forests of California. It is illustrated by 42 most striking and...
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Rich-Hearted Countryman
The SpectatorIN Sir William Beach Thomas's own words, his task as a journalist has been to bring the breath of the country into English newspapers ; and certainly he fulfils this task in a...
Our Coastal War
The SpectatorWe Fought Them in Gunboats. By Lieutenant - Commander Robert Peverell Hichens, D. S.O., D.S.C., R.N.V.R. (Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d.) WAR is reported in many ways ; there are many...
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Little Reviews Anthology. By Denys Val Baker. (Allen and Um,
The SpectatorSs. 6d.) IN Mr. Val Baker's competent account of the little review sinc 1914 he claims that they reflect the spirit of a literary period f more accurately than the popular...
Shorter Notices The Letters of Evelyn Underhill. Edited with an
The SpectatorIntroduction be Charles Williams. (Longmans. nos. 6d.) UNLIKE Evelyn Underhill's study of "Mysticism " and her edition of the mediaeval Cloud of Unknowing, which can be enjoyed...
Fiction
The SpectatorChildren of Abraham. By Sholem Asch. Translated by Maurice Samuel. (Rout ledge. tos. 6d.) At Bay. By James Hanley. (Faber and Faber. 3s. 6d.) The Three Sneezes. By Roger...
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" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 265 COMPANY IA Book Token
The Spectatorfor one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct ,elution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 4pni ash. Envelopes should be...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 263
The SpectatorSOLUTION ON APRIL 21st The winner of Crossword No. 263 is THOMAS CARTER, Denc View, Heaton Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS IN happier days a revenue total of £3,038,000,000, no less than LI31,000,000 above the Chancellor's estimate, would have conjured up visions of remissions of...
Judaea Lives Again. By Norman Bentwich. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) PROFESSOR
The SpectatorBEhrrwtat was for some years Attorney-General of Palestine and has since 1932 held the Chair of International Rela- tions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has set...
WE have here a translation of the first part of
The Spectatorthe memoirs of a Russian soldier who began his career as an officer in. the Tsar's Chevalier Guards and who is now a general in the Red Army. This part deals with his early life...