10 AUGUST 1934

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There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of these

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declarations. What is in question is the capacity of the Chancellor to grapple with the responsibilities now resting on him. He is clearly carrying the chiefs of the Reichswehr...

Quiet in Austria Austria, after its ordeal, has returned rapidly

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to normal conditions, and the fact that the Chancellor, Dr. Schusch- nigg, is about to pay a visit to Hungary demonstrates a certain confidence in the stability of the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE obsequies of President Hindenburg have so completely filled the public mind in Germany in the past week that the actual political situation has received surprisingly little...

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MusEuM 1721. Entered as second-class Mail Matter at the New York, N.Y. Post Office, Dec. 23n/, 1896. Postal subscription 30s. per annum, to any part of the world. Postage on...

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The Road Wages Agreement The wages and conditions of employment

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of hauliers defined last week by agreement between masters and men afford an admirable example of what a Conciliation Board can do. There are minimum scales for the weekly wages...

Yarn Export to Germany The stoppage of Lancashire's yam export

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to Germany .is a serious thing for both countries ; and we can only hope that the reported agreement between the British and German Governments regarding trade payments will set...

A Check in Trade Unemployment in July is often a

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little higher than in June. Last year it was so by 4,067 only. This year the difference is 33,674. 'It is nothing to cause alarm. Factory holidays and an influx of...

Parliament and India The Daily Telegraph's forecast of the recommendations

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of the Select Committee on India is sufficiently in accord with general expectation to deserve some atten- tion. It is stated that the Report will be signed about October 25th....

America and the Drought President Roosevelt, who has kept a

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stout heart and a smiling face through the difficulties of the world economic crisis, is now assailed by the quite distinct problem of the American drought. It is purely a...

Dishonest Flotations The Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in

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the United States, before which, it will be remembered, a number of eminent bankers had to make sensational avowals, has presented a strong report on the methods employed for...

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The Foreign Tourist Traffic The suggestion of Mr. Reeves-Smith on

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behalf of the Hotels and Restaurants Association in a letter to The Times that the Government should increase its grant of £4,000 to the Travel and Industrial Development...

Liberals in Council The Liberal Summer School, which has been

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meeting this week at Oxford, seems to maintain a vigorous existence in spite of the evil days on which the Liberal Party has fallen. Judged by the calibre of its lectures and...

Gliding Achievements The news that two British gliding records, for

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distance and for height, were broken during last week-end is very much like news that the Endeavour' had set up a new time-record in the race for the America's Cup. In other...

A Trade Union Centenary The Boilermakers' Society, which celebrates its

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cen- tenary this month, has a very interesting record as a craft trade union. It was started in the days of wooden ships,. while the Shipwrights' Union, naturally enough, was a...

Houses for the Poorest There are grounds for receiving with

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some reservations Sir Hilton Young's recent statement that " of the 120,781 houses built by private enterprise in the six months to March 31st, 1934, no less than 44,754 were ....

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THE NAVAL OUTLOOK

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S PEAKING at the opening of Portsmouth Navy Week last Saturday, Lord Beatty declared that the best method of preventing war was for this country to have a navy strong enough to...

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SAVING THE COUNTRYSIDE

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W ITH general exhortations upon this subject we may assume our readers to be sufficiently familiar. It is one in which public action has lagged far behind all the best public...

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The cyclists' organizations, always conspicuously active in defence of their

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clients' interests, have not lost a moment in challenging Mr. Hore-Belisha's comments on the cyclists he saw riding three and four abreast on Bank Holiday. On one point at least...

I am not surprised that some rather acrid comment, have

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been passed about the reception given to the athletes who came from all parts of the Dominions and Colonies to compete last week and this in the Empire Games. The first Empire...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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I N the various counts against the present administra- tion in Germany none is more damning than the deliberate suppression or distortion of the truth through the operation of...

Various letters having been received regarding Professor W. B. Tizzard,

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including one from that eminent cruri- tractor's putative wife, I am asked to say that Mr. Tizzard must henceforward be regarded as dead and done with in the absence of any...

It is rarely that one has the opportunity of reading

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so crisp and crushing a repudiation of published statements as was contained in the letter to The Times in which Mr. E. F. Hunt, writing on behalf of the present Jam Sahib of...

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I suppose no one but a hardened criminal would want

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to see his own country beaten in the final Test Match. But I come within an ace of wanting that myself. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory, after what happened at Leeds, than...

GERMANY AFTER HINDENBURG

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By H. POWYS GREENWOOD T HE innumerable fl: gs of the Third Reich were already at half-ma: when I crossed the frontier on the morning of August 2nd. So it had happened. The "...

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BANKRUPTS AND BATTLESHIPS

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By SIR ARCHIBALD HURD A NEW race in naval armaments has begun in circum- stances which would move men to incredulous laughter in a normal world, in which respect was paid to...

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THE VATICAN AND EUROPE

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By BOSWORTH GOLDMAN W HILE the storm clouds over Central Europe seem at the moment to be less threatening, no one could contend that they are altogether dispersed. Though the...

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WOMEN AND MEN'S WORK

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By RAY STRACHEY O F all the Blue-Books published by the Government the occupation volumes of the Census are the most complex, and at the same time the most fascinating when...

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LUCID INTERVALS

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By EDWARD SHILLITO T HE holiday season is meant to provide a lucid in- terval in the life of the Church, and of all other associations of serious people. It gives a pause in...

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WIND AND COLOUR

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By E. L. WOODWARD F ROM my windows I have seen, yesterday and today, a Union Jack flying at half-mast above the gate tower of Brasenose. The morning wind has tossed and...

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JURISTENLAGER

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[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN1 A LT einem Sandlifigel in einer Barackenstadt steht tin Galgen. An dem Galgen hangt kein Mensch, sondern ern Symbol es ist ern Paragraph,...

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" Stand Up and Cheer." At the Regal

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Tins musical entertainment is one of the oddest films I have ever seen. The idea is that prosperity is to be revived in America by making people laugh. There is a scene at the...

STAGE AND SCREEN

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Russian Ballet at Covent Garden THE season of Russian ballet at Covent Garden ends this Saturday night. Once again success has been unqualified. For the past seven weeks or so,...

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Chelsea Hornets

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It has been said—and my experience coincides—that the hornet is becoming a rarity ; but it appears to have migrated to the towns. The following is the authentic experience...

The Way of a Woodcock The cult of birds in

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Britain has produced a Trust for Ornithology ; and the latest object of research is the wood- cock. A questionnaire is being sent forth on behalf of the Trust from the...

Vanishing Coveys Investigations made this week into the diminution of

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the partridge coveys indicate that the cause is starvation and not thirst. The drought is a secondary cause. The primary is the astonishing paucity of insect food. It is not at...

COUNTRY LIFE

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Defence of the Lakes The Lake district of England is a national playing ground, a scenic reserve, glorious in itself and its associations. It is the English Banff, that most...

Which Process ?

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In Germany and Denmark, where similar conclusions have been reached, the grass is dried on what is known as the Rema- Rosin process, which has peculiar virtues in uniformity of...

Multiplying Rabbits Some curious facts of biology have emerged from

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the enquiry undertaken by the Animal Welfare Society of London Univer- sity. A questionnaire was sent out containing a number of queries about local methods of trapping rabbits....

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The New Haysel A considerable advance in the art of drying crops has been made in the South of England, under the lead of the agricul- tural colleges at Wye, East Malting and...

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[To the Editor - of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sm,—If Mr. Talbot will have another look at my article, I think he will find that there is little 'real difference of opinion between us. We do, however, differ in our...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Wesp." paragraphs. Signed...

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HOUSING AND ITS PITFALLS [To the Editor of Tar. SpEcrmron.]

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SIR, —Apart from the social drawbacks of Becontree described in the article under the above heading it would seem that this estate, London's greatest effort for the provision...

THE MERCHANT NAVY [To the Editor of THE SPECT,ANOR.] SIR,—I

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am afraid that I must dispute the accuracy of Sir Archibald Hurd's statement, in your last issue, with regard to the National Maritime Board. It emphatically does not reflect...

THE TITHE BILL [To the Editor of Tug SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Mr. W. J. Wenham, in a letter in which a descent to personalities is not entirely concealed, charges me with running away from " the argument." I failed to discern any...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIP.,--I am grateful to

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Mr. Coombs for his correction of my slight error regarding seamen's wages, but in fairness to myself must point out that the error was passed on to me by an R.N.R. commander. It...

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DOGS OF WAR [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Owing

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to absence from England I have only just seen Mr. Beverley Nichols' letter in your issue of July 27th, protest- ing against a brief allusion that I made to him in a review of...

THE VICTIMS OF INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE [To the Editor of THE

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SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Sir Thomas Neill, in his attempt to rebut the damning facts cited by Mr. W. E. Mashford under this heading, had devoted less of the three-quarters of a...

DAMNING THE OLD SCHOOL [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sin,—As a contributor to The Old School, I read with attention the article by Sir Arnold Wilson. He concludes by saying that " the best tonic for those who feel inclined, in...

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GREAT BRITAIN'S FRONTIER [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

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Sni,-It was surprising but interesting that Janus " in " A Spectator's Notebook " in your issue of August 3rd, should have made so elementary a mistake as to discuss Mr....

A PETERBOROUGH PATRIOT [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SrR,-A

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very damaging statement concerning the City of Peterborough appears in last week's issue of The Spectator, under the signature of " Janus," one of your regular con- tributors....

THE PERILS OF AIR WARFARE [To the Editor of TUE

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SPECTATOR.] Sut,-M. Cot in his excellent article on an International Air Police Force states that such a force is perfectly practicable provided that the peoples of Europe...

A Broadcasting Calendar

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FRIDAY, AUGUST loth. ts.00 Organ Recital : Dom Gregory Murray from Downside Abbey .. 1 7-40 Here and There : Stephen King-Hall to Children .. 19.00 Royal National Eisteddfod...

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The Satirist and the Physical World

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By WYNDHAM LEWIS To the outsider the " shop " of any man is bound to appear somewhat cynical. Familiarity may not breed contempt, but it develops a matter-of-factness, and an...

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Art and Work

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Art and a Changing Civilization. By Eric Gill. (Lane. 2a. 6d.) Ma. GILL has written a good deal on the subject of art during the last few years, and always from the same point...

Coleridge Studies

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Coleridge : Studies by Several Hands on the Hundredth Anniversary of His Death. Edited by Edmund Blunden and Earl Leslie Griggs. (Constable. 10e. 6d.) CENTENARY volumes are...

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The Texts of " Hamlet "

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i The Manuscript of Shakespeare's " Hamlet " and the Pro- blems of its Transmission. By J. Dover Wilson. Two volumes. (Cambridge University Press. his. ) PROFESSOR DOVER WILSON...

American Literature

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The Great Tradition. By Granville Hicks. (Macmillan. 10s. 6d. ) TAKEN purely as scholarship, this book provides an excellent, if superficial, interpretation of the growth of...

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Outposts of Ocean

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Beside the Seaside. Edited by Yvonne Cloud. (Stanley Nott. 7s. fid.) I HAVE always considered that people who frequent so-call e d " seaside resorts " do so in a spirit of...

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Fiction

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By GRAHAM GREENE HERR WASSERMANN'S . novels have been appearing in English in a curiously haphazard way (The Goose-Man was published in Germany in 1915) ; and not until the...

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Gramophone Notes

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SCHUMANN'S music, like the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson, suffers today from that kind of neglect which does not often permit us to make any effort to study it, even though,...

Current Literature

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The Periodicals THE majority of the August Reviews contain an article or two which would make them dangerous documents to carry into Germany. The " distortion, calumny and lies...

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Finance

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Speculation or =Investment ? WHILE the steady rise in British Funds and kindred securities brings benefits in certain directions, the position is also attended with some...

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COVENT GARDEN PROPERTIES.

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At the recent annual meeting of Covent Garden Properties. the Chairman, Mr. Philip E. Hill, spoke in optimistic terms with regard to the outlook. He expressed the view that a...

SOME GOOD BREWERY REPORTS.

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During the past week the reports have been published of Guinness' Brewery, Watney Combe Reid, and Friary, Holroyd and Healys. In all three cases the results disclosed are...

GUINNESS.

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In the case of Arthur Guinness, Son and Company the dividend was unchanged at 22 per cent. plus 5 per cent. bonus, and the report disclosed an increase of profit of no less than...

Financial Notes

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CHEERFUL MARKETS. ALTHOUGH we are now at the height of the holiday sea son August is already belying its old reputation for stagnation of business in public securities. Some...

FRIARY, HOLRd ' YD AND HEALY. Further evidence of improvement in the

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Brewery trade is given in the report of Friary, Holroyd and Healys, the result for the year ending June 30th last showing that the trading profit increased from £145,054 to...

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"The Spectator" Crossword No. 98

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By XANTHIPPE. [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 97

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