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Great Britain and the Saar While Lord Cecil was attempting
The Spectatorunsuccessfully in the House of Lords on Wednesday to extract from the Government some explanation of Mr. Baldwin's rather unfortunate reference to the collective system, Mr....
Though the - result of Tuesday's meeting was never in serious
The SpectatordOubt so sweeping a majority could not be counted on. As it is a new situation is created. The Bill to be introduced after Christmas is secure of a smooth passage through the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorT HE vote on the India report at the meeting of the Council of the Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations on Tuesday was an event of historic importance. If...
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M. Laval's Policy The line the new French Foreign Minister,
The SpectatorM. Laval, is pursuing is interesting and hopeful. He is a member of a - Government whose policy it is to follow in all essentials in the footsteps of its predecessor, and the...
* * * Hidden Germany The smoke-screen behind which events
The Spectatorin Germany are enacted has drifted aside once or twice this week, and Tuesday's Times has been confiscated for what it containedâwhich was an analysis of the conflicting...
Atlantic Competition The Government's intentions are not as clear as
The Spectatorthey should be in regard to the North Atlantic liner services. Its discouragement of the suggested purchase and development of the Red Star Line was severely criticized in the...
* * A Reichstag Fire Echo The document purporting to
The Spectatorbe a signed declaration by the former Nazi leader Herr Ernst, that he himself and two of the men under his command, together with the Dutchman van der Lubbe, fired the Reichstag...
* * * ._ The Tramp Shipping Subsidy The details of
The Spectatorthe Government's scheme for subsidizing tramp shipping and for assisting the scrapping and replacement of old tonnage have been fully set forth in a White Paper and further...
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On Tuesday the House presented a forlorn appearance when Mr.
The SpectatorRunciman rose to open his case for the Shipping Subsidy. The Conservative Conference hod bereft it of all except the tiny Labour and Liberal oppositions and a handful of...
A 100-Miles-an-Hour Train - ⢠- There was a severely
The Spectatorpractical object ,for the amazing e xperiment in speed record-breaking Made by the London and North Eastern Railway, whose veteran e ngine, the.. Flying Scotsman, drew a train...
I find that I was wrong in suggesting that the
The SpectatorGerman Embassy had no representative present during last week's Rearmament debate. The Military Attaché and one of the Secretaries of the Embassy were, in fact, in the House.
Speculation in the House of Commons once again centres on
The Spectatorthe future of Mr. Lloyd George. The moderation of his speech in the Defence debate completely surprised supporters of the Government, who imagined that a man who could support...
The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : The
The Spectatorresult of the Putney by-election. where the Government majority slumped from 21,000 to under 8.000, a drop of nearly. 6,000 even on the 1929 figures. has had a more depressing...
Ribbon DevelopmentâGovernment Delays It is extremely disturbing that Mr. MacDonald
The Spectatorshould have given so hesitating and non-committal an answer to a question asking whether the Government would deal quickly with the control of ribbon development along the main...
The Health of Children In his annual report as Chief
The SpectatorMedical Officer of the Board of Education, Sir George Newman says that the general health and nutrition of the people were well maintained in . 1933, in spite of the economic...
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EUROPE'S NERVES T HERE are signs that Europe's nerve-crisis Is passing.
The SpectatorFor - a nerve-crisis it undoubtedly has been. Foolish, windy and irresponsible talk of war has been prevalent everywhere, with no more real ground for apprehending war than has...
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GENERAL BOOTH'S OPPORTUNITY
The SpectatorY ESTERDAY a mass meeting at the Albert Hall was addressed by the new head of the Salvation Army, General Evangeline Booth, who has come from America to take up her new duties...
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After the vote at the Conservative Council meeting on Tuesday
The Spectatorthe activities of the opponents of the Indian Reform proposals matter relatively little, and the article by Lord Rothermere in Monday's Daily Mail may in the circumstances be...
Lord Riddell found his way rather cwiously into journalism, and
The Spectatorinto rather curious regiors of itâfor the proprietorship of the News of the World certainly merits that description. He began life as a solicitor and got to Fleet Street...
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The Spectator. The deaths of. Lord Buckmaster and Lord Riddell on the same day rob the House of Lords of two very different personalities. Lord Buckmaster was in his day a brilliant Chancery...
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The SpectatorWe know so little of the inward life of the people of Japan that any chance flashes of illumination have their value. Here is oneâa letter from a Japanese correspondent...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorI N the necessary process of explaining the Report of the Select Committee on India to various sections of the people of this country Lord Halifax is most appropriately âand...
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PEACE AND THE PUBLIC MIND
The SpectatorBy SIR NORMAN ANGELL T URNING over some accumulated rubbish the other day, I came upon a number of American newspaper cuttings dating from January, 1896 â the letters of an...
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THE INDIA REPORT : A LABOUR VIEW
The SpectatorBy LORD SNELL A S an instalment of the substance of self-government, the Indian peoples should receive the proposals of the Joint Select Committee with respect, but not with...
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FRANCE ON EDGE
The SpectatorBy "LESTOR " AT OT long ago an Englishman was flying himself back to England from East Africa, , and one evening he decided that he would spend the night in a certain large...
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EDWARD IRVING
The SpectatorBy EDWARD SHILLITO E DWARD IRVING died in Glasgow on December 8th, 1834. He was only forty-two, but old before-his time, " hoary as . with extreme old age." There seemed little...
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DECEMBER SPRING
The SpectatorBy H. E. , BATES A LMOST every winter, sometimes in November but more often in early December, after the fall of the last leaves ; there are brief spells of damp, windless...
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UN NOUVEAU RAMBOUILLET [D'UN CORRESPONDANT FRANcALS] S 'IL taut en croire
The Spectatorune information tout recemment publiee par un organ parisien de la presse du soirde domaine de Rarnbouillet, qui cOnstitue la residence sutomnale . du' President de la...
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Only the Word
The SpectatorONLY the wordâa cache of coins Dug up from roots and mud, Once minted by the refluent blood That fed the brain and pliant loins. Organs that felt fatigue and thirst And...
Communication
The SpectatorA Letter from Oxford [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,âThe present term has so far produced nothing very new or strange. No fresh movements have sprung up and no novel...
The Singing Head and the Lady HE had famished in
The Spectatora wilderness, Braved lions for my sake, And all men lie that say that I Bade that swordsman take His head from off his body And set it on a stake. He swore to sing my beauty...
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" The Count of Monte Cristo." At the London Pavilion
The SpectatorTress is a picture for those who him their full money's worth of solid entertainment. " Solid " is the word, for the film is very long ; the earlier sequences are slow and...
"The Iron Duke." At the Tivoli
The SpectatorFROM a hill-top at Waterloo the Iron Duke surveys the battle through his telescope. He catches sight of Napoleon, and one of his officers calls for a musket, anxious to have a....
STAGE AND SCREEN
The Spectator"Lady Precious Stream." By S. I. Hsiung. At the Little IT is curious how I n the face of a play may be altered in exportation. In China the original of this entertainment is a...
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Art
The SpectatorPhotographic Art Ix the sixteenth century, when critics argued about the relative dignity of the various arts, one of the opinions put forward was that painting was a finer art...
Music Mr. Walton's First Symphony
The SpectatorIv spite of what is called "a favourable reception," there was a note of disappointment in the comments upon the three movements of Mr. Walton's Symphony during the inter- val...
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Defeating Drought
The SpectatorNow this Board of Green-keeping Research has just issued from Bingley Hall, Yorkshire, one of its rather rare and quite precious journals (price 2s. 6d.) ; and it has news for...
The Rock Bush A form of gardening that has many
The Spectatorattractions grows in favour. It is the rock garden that consists rather of shrubs than of the tiny plants belonging to an Alpine scree or moraine; or of the grass and rock that...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorA Fruitful Winter It will be a rich winter for many birds (though let us not on that account omit to feed them). The crop of acorns is immense, though the supply will not...
The Greedy Pike
The SpectatorA distinguished Minister of Agriculture once said in my hearing that of all the sports in which he had ever shared that which pleased him most was fishing for pike. Si fore: in...
Alien Swallows As the last of our summer visitors left
The Spectatorand the swallows, the most visible of them, were no more seen, I received a letter from a ship in the China seas, some 200 miles off Borneo. It tells incidentally of the number...
Country Crafts in London
The SpectatorRural handicrafts, which continue to flourish in many ⢠districts, begin to enjoy a vogue in the town. The Rural Industries Bureau, being a governmental, or semi-govern-...
The Importance of Grass
The SpectatorWe have many research workers whose subject is the grass of the field and common and lawn ; and recently no little fillip to this enquiry has been applied by an association of...
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THE PERIL OF CHILDBIRTH
The Spectator[To the Editor of TilE SPECTATOR.] Sin,âYOur Medical Correspondent, with almost the whole of whose wise and stinmlating article on Maternal Mortality I naturally agree,...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Corre spondents are requested to keep their
The Spectatorletters as brief as is reasonably possible length is that of one of our " News of .the Week" paragraphs. Signed letters a. re The most suitable over those bearing a...
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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
The SpectatorSns,âThe article by your Medical Correspondent is typical of much that should never appear in the lay Press. It tends to shake the nerves of the medically ignorant lay person,...
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âYour Medical Correspondent makes
The Spectatorthe interesting suggestion that the high rate of maternal mortality, among young mothers of the prosperous classes may be " because the newly emancipated woman . has yet to...
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
The Spectator[To , the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Srit, 7 -With regard to the question , of religious instruction in , schoolS,_ Your correspondent Col. R, E. Martin is evidently of ⢠the...
DEATH AT LEVEL-CROSSINGS go the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] â¢
The Spectatorlamentable deaths- in an accident at a level- crossing. move you .to a strongly worded- paragraph. You mote that during this year no fewer than.twenty-one persons ⢠have been...
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ELECTORAL REFORM
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. Frank Morris' letter from the Constitutional Club may, I hope, be taken as evidence that anxiety as to the results of our electoral...
COMMUNISTS IN BULGARIA
The Spectator[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR.,âThe news which has recently reached this country of large numbers of death sentences passed in Bulgaria on Communists calls for the...
PUBLIC OPINION AND THE ECONOMIC BOYCOTT [To the Editor of
The SpectatorTHE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âYour note in last week's issue on the economic boycott is rather bewildering. On the one hand you condemn Mr. Herbert Morrison for urging members of the...
THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
The Spectator[To. the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âThe increasing number of educated women of the professional and middle classes who are now obliged to look for paid work has led many...
HAROLD WRIGHT
The Spectator[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,âAmongst the many activities described in the Memoir of my brother Harold Wright, which is reviewed in the November 30th issue of The...
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SPANISH RAGGLE-TAGGLE [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,-Will you
The Spectatorallow me to make a timid appeal to your good nature ? Ever since I read the review of my book Spanish Raggle-Taggle in The Spectator of November 30th, I have been greatly...
A Broadcasting Calendar
The SpectatorFRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th 10.45 Launch of new Orient liner ' Orion ' at Barrow-in-Furness by the Duke of Gloucester in Australia, by means of wireless impulse. Speeches and...
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A Purge for Self-Conceit *
The SpectatorBy BONAMY DOBREE MANDEVILLE belongs to the honourable and glorious race of sceptics, of cynics if you prefer the word, a useful race but unpopular, as all must be who...
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The Planned Age of Leisure
The SpectatorThe Economic Consequences of Progress. By Roy Glenday. (Routledge. 12s. 6d.) ⢠IF contemporary literature is any guide, the outstanding qUestion today is no longer whether...
The Briefer Bell& WHAT an excellent writer Mr. Belloc is,
The Spectatorand also what an industrious one In the four â¢volumes of his History of England, which run to 1612, and in his continuation of Lingard, running from 1688, together with his...
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A Great Public Servant .
The SpectatorSir Robert Morant. By Bernard M. Allen. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) Tins biography of a great civil servant-helps to fill a gap in English political literature. On the parliamentary...
Men and Mistresses
The SpectatorFrancis I. - By Francis -Hackett. ' (1eirremanri: . 12s. 6(1.) Mn. HACKETT'S new - book is - so good . Of its kind,.and seems so surely destined for success, that it provokes...
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The Task of Egeria
The SpectatorThe Man Liszt. By Ern est :Newman._ (Cassell. 12s. 6d.) . Ix the preface to this book the author points out with some care that it has teen fiti'lrom his'intention to " debunk...
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East and South
The SpectatorMR. SACHEVERELL SITWELL and his brother are two of the very few living Endishmen who can describe architecture ; it is a very gracious gift, requiring a keen visual memory,...
From The Devil's Side
The Spectator" HE was his own worst enemy " : the little trite memorial phrase which in the case of so many English exiles disposes discreetly and with a tasteful agnosticism of the long...
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The Pleasures of Life
The SpectatorThe Major Pleasures of Life. Selected and arranged by Martin Armstrong. The Minor Pleasures of Life. Selected and arranged by Rose Macaulay. (Gollanez. 7s. 6d. each.) TftEsE two...
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Fic Lion
The SpectatorBy WILLIAM PLOMER The Seven Pillars is a Spanish novel, an unusually diverting fable, based on a profound philosophical truth, and executed with such irony that one is prompted...
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Books for Children
The SpectatorKnowledge Without Tears The Romance of Engineering. By Dr. A. D. Merriman. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) How the Airman Finds His Way and How an Aeroplane Flies. By F. V. Monk and H. T....
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Mainly for Uncles
The SpectatorCoot Club. By Arthur Ransome. (Cape. 7e. Od.) The Flying Classroom. By Erich Hastner. Translated by Cyrus Brooks. Illustrated by Walter Trier. (Cape. 7s. 6c1.) Happy Families....
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Magical All-Sorts
The SpectatorRobins. (Nicholson and Watson. Ss.) (Lane. 2s.) Patagonian Holiday. By M. I. Ross. (Routledge. 3s. 6d.) MANY and strange are the ways in which the fairy tale heroes and...
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Current Literature
The SpectatorCHEAP EDITIONS ⢠ONE of the most encoura g in g features of the contemporary book-market is the widespread success of the cheap edition. There are about a dozen well-known...
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FROM the clamour that has resounded since the first of
The Spectatorthe Belisha beacons reared its head on a London street one plain fact emerges. The walker must be taught from the beginning how to get about without endangering himself and...
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Finance
The SpectatorRailway Securities and Earnings Tins week's decision of the four main Railway Companies to make permanent the Id. a mile fare for the . double journey for return tickets...
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Financial Notes YEAR-END INFLUENCES.
The SpectatorWITH the opening - of the last complete account of the current year, the Stock Exchange has taken On - a - definitely quieter . appearance. Preparations for Christmas . ' haVe...
BANktliG OVERSEAS.
The SpectatorBritish banking institutionswith considerable foreign connexions have been met by the same difficulties as those prevailing in this country to the extent that interest rates...
* * * * - -DEMAND FOR NEW-- ISSUES. Meanwhile, fresh
The SpectatorChannels for investment are _continually being provided - through new capital issues. Most of the offers of stocks Of the - gilt-edged type haVe been taken up eagerly on their...
Scarrisu BANKING AND INDUSTRY.
The SpectatorThat Scottish industry is participating in British internal trade expansion was indicated by the accounts of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which revealed an- :increase of some...
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"The Spectator" Crossword No. 115
The SpectatorBY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the snake of the first corred solution of this week's Crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...
A Hundred Years Ago
The Spectator" THE SrEcteroa," DECEMBER 6TH, 1834. The attempt to get up a Church and King cry, to revive the days of Anti-Catholic bigotry and Birmingham mobs, has utterly failed. People...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 114
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Periodicals
The SpectatorPride of place is given in this month's Empire Review to a vigorous article by Colonel Moore-Brabazon on the Air Ministry. Colonel Moore-Brabazon feels that the Air Ministry...