HORSE-POWER FOR INDUSTRY EECE by piece a programme of social reconstruction has been - unfolding itself before us, in the form of ideas, or paper plans, or more Zoncretely in...

ODD JOBS IN CHINA By CLEMENT WHITE HE -newcomer to the Kutsing hostel of the Friends' Ambulance Unit's China Convoy witnesses much coming and going. He is aware of constant...

CAMP THOUGHTS By PRIVATE X E settled down on the bags of grain, and perched our cigarettetin paraffin lamps on piles of kit. We could hear the rain on the tiles, the mules...

THE GOSABA EXPERIMENT SIR,-In his interesting and valuable account of The Gosaba Experiment, the distinguished Anglo-Indian educationalist, Mr. H. G. Rawlinson, C.I.E.,...

SIR,-In his comment on Mr. Gerald Brenan's letter to The Times, Janus expresses the view that " outsiders have no more title to try to save Spain from Fascism than they have to...

RELATIONS WITH SPAIN LETTERS TO, THE EDITOR SIR,-Mr. Brenan's letter in your issue of March 2nd gives a very inaccurate picture of Spain, which is painful to Englishmen who...

SUFFERING WOMEN SIR,-I should much like to point out to your correspondent, Jessie S. Boyd, that, in suggesting that after the war some German women might be absorbed into a...

CAROLINE FOX SIR,-In reading this book a chord in my memory was struck by Caroline's report of discussions between Westmacott and John Sterling (p. 303) one Government feeling...

POST-WAR PRICES SiR,-Mr. Assheton Pownall, M.P., in The Spectator of February i6th, not only disputes your contention that the cost of living will be considerably higher after...

ALLIES OR RIVALS ? TR,-Professor Brogan, in his most interesting article on Anglo-American economic relations, says that our commercial system, with its price-fixing combines,...

SOUTH WALES SiR,-Being a Socialist, I have very seldom found occasion to be jubilant over any articles included in The Spectator week by week. But I must take this opportunity...

COUNTRY LIFE Is there any good reason for calling Oxford "the home of lost causes"? It is certainly the home of some winning causes, and I hope its championship of the...

I Martial India: The Story of Two Million Volunteers. The Indian Army Today By Major F. Yeats-Brown, D.F.C. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 8s. 6d.) MAJOR YEATS-BROWN, whose...

Independent People. Fiction I By Halldor Laxness. Translated by Andersonl Thompson. (Allen and Unwin. 12s. 6d.) The Only Door Out. By Mary Wilkes. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d....

Scotland. Has Scotland a Future ? JI By Ian Finlay. (Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d.) 1i " SCOTLAND today," writes Mr. Finlay, " is characterised by a medlei of hopes and...

Romanticism Comes of Age. BOOKS OF THE DAY "Who gaf me Drink? " By Chven Barfield. (Anthroposophical Publishing Co. 8s. 6d.) SEVENTEEN years (years chronicled with an...

CONDITIONS IN PORTUGAL SIR,-Commenting recently on Fascism in Spain and Portugal, Janus says that " no one has much complaint to make of the state of PortugaL. Having recently...

LONGEVITY SIR,-Miss Johnson's letter in your issue of February 23rd is interesting but some of the facts she mentions may be more than matched by those of my own family...

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY SifA,-Though not myself a Conservative, I am really shocked to hear that the party is thinking of rejecting its great traditional name. At a time when...

WAR MEMORIALS SIR,-In the rush of events too little notice has been taken of the report of the War Memorials Advisory Council, which urges that the war memorial should not only...

BRITAIN AND FRANCE SiR,-Roger Wilson's article, "What France is Suffering," together with the letter under the title of "Conditions in France," merely emphasise what most...

FRANCE AND THE FUTURE Smj,-Your attitude towards France has been so considerate and fair Mhat the verdict in your issue of February 23rd to the effect that General de Gaulle's...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT I By .CUSTOS 11 ALTHOUGH, from the Stock Exchange standpoint, the speeches of the railway chairmen have proved something of a damp squib, they afford a...

The Poems of a Countryman. Shorter Notices By Sir William Beach Thomas- (Michael Joseph. 6s.) To the town-dweller, Winter-a dead period in which nothing happens -stretches...

New French Ffilms. THE CINEMA - Hangover Square." At the Tivoli.- The Keys of the Kingdom." At the Gaumont and the Marble Arch Pavilion. ' DURING the past months two batches...

" Three Waltzes." THE THEATRE At the Princes Theatre. THE problem for a theatre management who has at disposal an outstandingly brilliant " star " is to know exactly what to...

Feliks Topolski. ART At Wildenstein's. Religious Paintings and Drawings. At the Leger Galleries. -Young Painters. At the Peter Jones Gallery. English Paintings. At the Feaux...

THE BATTLE OF THE RHINE By STRATEGICUS ITH the capture of Cologne and the prospect that the whole left bank of the Rhine may soon be-in Allied hands we have another...

MARGINAL COMMENT By HAROLD NICOLSON HERE are few more interesting studies than the confrontation of contemporary with historical opinion. To what extent, for instance, is our...

A GERMAN SCHEMER By ALBERT A. BRANDT N a spacious office on one of Madrid's main streets, a German General, still tall and lean at seventy-three, often draws from his desk a...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK 'OT many people, I imagine, wilf quarrel with the Home Secretary's decision to reprieve the woman Elizabeth Jones, concerned with the American soldier...

Secrets of Industry. British and American Business II By Lewis C. Ord. (Allen and Unnwin 8s. 6d.) I I MR. ORD conducts a slashing attack on British business - efficiency from...

The Anatomy of Courage. Courage in Battle By Lord Moran. (Constable. 8s. 6d.) IN this interesting and important little book Lord Moran is dealing with courage of one...

CHILDREN WITHOUT HOMES By GORDON MALET HILDREN may be deprived of ordinary home care in several ways. They may be born into the world without the benefit of legal fathers ;...

A NEW PLAN FOR INDIA By SIR MUHAMMAD ZAFRULLA KHAN * tHE last attempt made by His Majesty's Government to resolve the Indian political deadlock was the Mission undertaken by...

YALTA AND SAN FRANCISCO T is unfortunate-for France-that France should have decided not to associate -herself with the invitations being sent out for the San Francisco...