T HE Indian situation has become both confused and dangerous as the result, first, of the disclosures of Mr. Gandhi's general 'attitude in the Congress Party documents seized by...

T HE controversy about whether we can afford, at this supreme crisis of the war, to be discussing the post-war world is, in the strict sense of the word, impertinent. The...

references in American papers and in a private letter from New York, to a volume by ex- President Hoover and ex-Ambassador Hugh Gibson on Problems of Lasting Peace, just...

By STRATtGICUS A BOUT Kletskaya and Tsimlyanskaya the Russians have been fighting with amazing stubbornness for a fortnight. Until Monday night they had been holding their own...

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG, Jr. H ITLER'S great summer offensive is nearing its peak. He is making his supreme effort to create a military situation which would guarantee him at least...

By MARK BENNEY O F the many thousands of workpeople who have gone into the engineering industries in the past two years the vast majority have been used to a regular weekly...

By D. WELSTEAD WILLIAMS There is very little doubt in my mind that Mr. Roger Clarke is the only writer who has, in The Spectator, said anything at all about the real British...

By PETER MATTHEWS URING the past few months the outside world has become aware of a part, at least, of the price which Eire is paying for her policy of neutrality. The shortage...

By HAROLD NICOLSON F OR people of my generation the date of August 4th echoes always with a deep reverberation of memory. For in truth the fourth day of that summer month of...

WE sit within this moth, She, Fraulein, reads to me Ballads of German wars And German chivalry. Down from their golden frames My Father's fathers look, Right proud to...

"Volga-Volga." At the Tatler.—" Holiday Inn." At the Plaza. " Eagle Squadron " and" The Art of Skiing." At the Leicester Square. It is interesting to remember that Soviet film...

- Light and Shade." At the Ambassadors.—" No Orchids for Miss Blandish." At the Prince or Wales.—" The Merry Wives of Windsor." At the New Theatre. MR. HERBERT FARJEON'S new...

SIR,—The swift collapse of discussion upon the Rev. K. L. Parry's plea for a National Church of England does not suggest that it has been received with enthusiasm. One reason....

SIR, -It is not difficult to agree with Mr. Clarke's able statement of the mutual distrust between parent and teacher. Nor will one find serious fault with the reasons that he...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—I had sincerely hoped that my letter, which you very kindly pub- lished three weeks ago, would produce a constrt.ctive discussion. Unfor- tunately,...

Sm,-I have no right to question the authenticity of Mr. Lodwick's article on Spain, as far as it goes, which appears in your issue of July loth, but there are one or two points...

Sta,—In your issue of May 29th, 1942, there is a letter from Mr. Norman Douglas complaining of an article by me in the Queen (April 22nd). I know nothing of this article, which...

Sm,—Reports have for some time been circulating that Laval is trying to arrange with the Nazis to deliver loo,000 Spanish Republican refugees living in France to work in...

Sitt,—I was amused at the comments of your correspondent, Mr. Quentin Edwards, on the subject of my father's works. Far the edification of Mr. Edwards I would point out that,...

SIR,—How kind of " Soldier " to make use of the Church for his baptism, marriage and funeral! No doubt, too, he confers an incalculable benefit on the Church by deigning to...

"Don't Forget the Parent." It may be too late to do anything about it now, but it has always seemed a pity not to give the wage-earner better wages, so that he could, like the...

Sm,—We believe in democracy; we claim to be a democracy; we declare that we are fighting for democracy. At the same time we are continually belying our professions. In war time,...

THE fact that some German prisoners clamour for black bread, as we call it, may give a hint to our agricultural and social reformers. Rye is an admirable cereal crop. It will...

Stn,—I have read with interest the letters appearing in your columns on the subject of the " Head of the Civil Service." Surely the facts are as suggested by Sir Walford Selby...

Soviet Economy BOOKS and booklets about U.S.S.R. are in full flood, and it would be a pity if Mr. Hubbard's book were submerged by the torrent. It may not be as eulogistic as...

The Ground We Stand On. By John Dos Passos. (Routledge. as.) THE authorship of The Ground We Stand On is almost more significant than its contents. The student of the American...

A Strange Storyteller THESE lyrical and terrifying stories exact the compliment which the Angelic Stooge paid Blake : " Thy phantasy has imposed upon me, and thou oughtest to...

R. Glover (Cambridge University Press. 12S. 6d.) Cambridge Humanist The Challenge of the Greek and other Essays. By T. R. Glover (Cambridge University Press. 12S. 6d.)...

Trouble at Wrekin Farm By Josephine Bell. (Longmarts. 7s. 6d.) Murder Comes Back. By H. Ashbrook. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 75.6d.) The Unfortunate Murderer. By Richard Hull....

Places. Essays by Hilaire Belloc. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) SOME new fashion, says Mr. Belloc, is long overdue in literary travel. " Will it," -he asks, " be mere merchandise: travel...

Financial Times. By Ronald Fraser. (Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d.) Mrs. Morel. By M. H. Tiltman. (Hodder and Stoughton. Ss. 6d.) Our Little Town. By Adelaide Phillpotts. (Rich and...

The winner of Crossword No. 176 is Miss F. E. GUEST, Cliff Cottage, Stoke Gabriel, S. Devon.

one Emma will is cwarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not later...

By CUSTOS THERE is still the seeming paradox of good markets in Throgmorton Street in face of far from good news from the war fronts, and so, I am convinced, it must continge....

Shorter Notice THE preparation of a volume like The Statesman's Year-Book at a time like the present is a perplexing as well as a laborious task, for conditions are changing...