O N Tuesday, with Nanking in flames and the Japanese at the gates of the city, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek abandoned his capital and left by air for a destination believed to be...

the fall of Nanking are highly problematical. The Japanese certainly do not desire a prolonged irregular war, 'a MOSCQW campaign that may turn victory into disaster, nor any...

for a heavy air raid on Barcelona ; indication; that General Franco's offensive was about to begin have not been fulfilled. The Governments at Barcelona and at Salamanca have...

Federal Court of India at Delhi on Monday marks one more step towards the full application of the new Government of India Act. The provinces having attained autonomy, it is...

in South Africa, which was opened at Pretoria on Tuesday, is a political landmark in the history of the Union. The Council, consisting of twelve elected native members, four...

concluded his visit to Warsaw and moved on to Bucharest. His talks with Polish Ministers are said to have yielded no tangible results, which, all things considered, is just as...

that the forthcoming report of the General Committee on Production is likely to recommend that no general modification be made in the 40-hour week in France. Last week two...

section of the Sudeten... deutsch Germans in Czechoslovakia may turn out to have considerable significance. The Henlein party has suffered many vicissitudes in the last two...

ment. Though their speeches were excellent in form neither the proposer and seconder of the Labour 'resolution nor the sponsors of the amendment really got to grips with the...

Committee stage- of the Population Statistics Bill till the Ministry of Health has had time to consider the criticisms made in the Second Reading debate last week ; but it is...

the Coal Bill at the beginning of this week and the resources of the Opposition are not yet exhausted. On Monday a whole parliamentary day was spent in the dis- cussion of a...

quotations from _last week's Spectator, Lieut.-Commander Fletcher called attention on Monday night to the desirability of the Secretary of State for Air being a member of the...

M.C.C. to investigate the problems confronting first- class county cricket are more radical than was generally expected. The .authoritative bodies in the cricketing world have...

On Monday, at Birmingham, Mr. Reginald McKenna said there was no evidence of a general decline in business activity.; but the effect of his statement was a little impaired by...

O N Sunday, twenty years after the victory of the November Revolution, the electors of the U.S.S.R. will go to the polls and vote for their representatives on the Supreme...

F OR over a generation the will to lift the health of the nation to a higher plane has been increasingly manifest. "A fitter Britain," in its widest sense, is indeed the object...

have always taken the view that British citizens visiting Germany might well eschew the Nazi salute and be content with their national form of salutation—raise the hat, for...

of this country it would be Viscount Ishii, who has just arrived here with, that end in view. He is one of the few internationally-minded Japanese, and for many years...

the new Berlin which it is his ambition to construct, "the eternal capital of the German Volk," has, it seems to me, a significance to which no one has yet drawn attention. The...

Bombay from London after visiting Germany, Belgium, Greece, and Egypt, where they were received by Herr Hitler and the monarchs of the three countries. But that is not all. I...

con- siderable sympathy, reaches me. May the average English- man desiring to attend some church on a Sunday morning reasonably expect that if he presents himself at the nearest...

Mr. H. D. Harrison, from JugoSlavia, on the ground that he transmitted to foreign countries a statement that a Mickey Mouse comic strip in a Belgrade paper had been banned...

M R. ATTLEE'S visit to Republican Spain raises some nice questions. Mr. Eden stated last Monday that the Leader of the Opposition, before leaving for Spain, signed the usual...

By MAJOR-GENERAL A. C. TEMPERLEY T HE dramatic and sweeping changes carried out by Mr. Hore-Belisha in the personnel of the Army Council would seem at first blush to indicate...

By R. F. SCOTT T O a social historian the manner in which a people spends its leisure hours is of great significance. There are certain forms of entertainment—acting, reading,...

By RICHARD FREUND IN every argument on every Indian problem there comes a point when both sides have to insert a condition—" if Gandhi lives." In England we have too easily...

By FRANCIS GOWER IT has been stated recently, as evidence of the restored prosperity of the country, that there had been fewer cases of bankruptcy in this than in any year...

[The writer is one of the youngest beneficed clergy in the London area]. A BOUT ten years ago—I myself was then eighteen—a book appeared written by H. R. L. Sheppard, entitled...

By LUIGI PIRANDELLO H ONESTLY, the more I think of them the less I am able to find out who of those to has lost his reason, Signor Ponza or his mother-in-law. One of them must...

By ANTHONY POWELL W E are informed that among the more majestic projects recently emanating from Hollywood was a scheme for a film with life in the Royal Air Force as a...

SETTLING DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA By SYBIL VINCENT IF " he little knows of England who only England knows" he also knows nothing of British settlers who has only seen them in a...

"tin Carnet de Bal." At Studio One--" Stand-in." At the Tivoli THE cinema's unique ability to create its own geography and its own time-factors is bound to lead not...

MUSIC The Little Season at Covent Garden BALLET on ice having proved more of a frost than its promoters designed, the management of Covent Garden has summoned a company of...

From Anarchy to Abstraction Mn. WYNDHAM LEWIS is in a state. There is no denying that ; and his state is keenly expressed in his paintings, of which about. fifty are to be seen...

[Von einem deutschen Korresponlenten] DIE Parteischule 1st keine Erfindung des Dritten Reiches. Lange vor dem Kriege hatte die Sozialdemokratische Partei eine solche Schule...

Selbome is still under threat from the disciples of speed who are without respect for f` the delicate and gentle art of never getting there." We may hope and, indeed, expect...

An intense love of the country, such as Wordsworth's- he and Coleridge delighted in Somerset not less than in West- morland—does not necessarily involve any particular know-...

he supposed no one read Wordsworth now ! The readers of poetry are not legion in these days, but Wordsworth still extracts a passionate devotion hardly given to any other poet....

A Gloucester Example Community Councils, whose good work in Galloway was recently referred to, are doing not less notable service in Gloucestershire. They produce a modest but...

Most of us in the country have noticed from time to time the nice punctuality of birds. How often, for example, have I first heard the nightingale in a particular clump of...

From a garden beside the Thames near London, comes a humanitarian plea for the earthworm, as a member of the intelligentsia ! The description of a particular colony would have...

to convince Mr. H. B. Wilion, Hon. Secretary of the Temperance Legislation League, of anything which may be derogatory to State Control of publk-bouses, or nationalisation of...

[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 Week "paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Snt,—Mr. Whitbread has replied to me very fairly and amiably. It is an occasion perhaps for acknowledging other amiabilities. More than once...

is no emotional alarmist when he warns us (December 3rd) that, until some surrender of sovereignty, some "give-and-take," is made by Governments, and an international tribunal...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] hope that you are right in your expectation that Herr Kerrl's speech heralds considerable relief to the churches in Germany, but the report of...

Sta,—Mr. H. B. Wilson misrepresents the position as to my saying that the ordinary licensee needs no instructions as to how to conduct his business, whereas, according to Mr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Colonel Myers in his letter states : "We disarmed it is true, but France did not," referring to the post-War period. This, though a general...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I welcome Mr. P. C. Loftus' letter in your issue of November 26th. But he need not have appealed to the League of Nations Union to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On the adjournment last Monday I raised the question of the Air Minister being in the House of Commons and' put forward the following...

crave space for a personal explanation ? Sir Francis Acland has done me an unintentional injustice, and I am sure he would wish to see the innocent vindicated. He has entirely...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—One of your correspondents recently referred to the Italian conquest of Abyssinia as "unashamed brigandage." How then will he describe our...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is all very well for Paymaster Lieut. Warren Tuke, with his safe job in the fi g htin g forces, and pensioned retirement at a convenient a g e, to tell the...

Oxford and now studyin g in Vienna, I should like to extend the remarks made by the writer of your, leadin g article in your issue of November 26th on the sharp contrast...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is quite true, as Mr. Howe suspects, that the price of the branded article is "out of all proportion to the cost of production reckoned...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I observe with regret that one of your correspondents, Mr. Rowland Towers, has formulated a new variation of an ancient and disastrous...

read the article by your contributor, "The Voice of under Thirty—VI," who found life so futile, so hopeless, so depressing. If we can find no Purpose, no Design in life, if...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—When I read Mr. Vyvyan Adams' review of Volume I of my book I thought his treatment was merely a lapse, but as he deals with Volume II in...

Yoga (Monk Gibbon) .. Mr. Keynes Interpreted (Honor Croome) The Citizen's Choice (Canon F. R. Barry) The Peopling of Germany (G. F. McCleary) Great Britain and Palestine .....

Yoga. A Scientific Evaluation. By Kovoor T. Behanan, Ph.D. (Seeker and Warburg. ros. 6d.) KEYSERLING calls Yoga the practical foundation-stone of all Indian wisdom. Whereas the...

The Citizen's Choice. By Ernest Barker. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press. .75. 6d.) _ " THE Christian State," said Lord Baldwin, in his last public utterance as Prime Minister,...

Introduction to the Theory of Employment. By Joan Robinson. (Macmillan. 4s. 6d.) WHEN Mr. Keynes launched the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money on the world last...

THIS book of 76 pages is the latest of a series of writings through which Dr. Burgdoifer has exercised an important influence on German -public opinion. In previous books he...

(Simpkin Marshall. z5s.) DR. Harsort has become a sort of fairy godmother from the other side of the Atlantic, who every year or two descends upon our public archives and, with...

Creat Britain and Palestine. By Herbert Sidebotham. (Mac- millan. los. 6d.) Tim earlier chapters of Mr. Sidebotham's book contain facts about the Zionist policy which will be...

The Golden Century of Spain. By R. Trevor Davies. (Macmillan. 6s.) THE sixteenth century can be praised or blamed, but at least must be accepted, as the forcing house which...

Continual Dew. By John Betjemp. (John Murray. 75. 6d.) IN the company of modern poets Mr. Betjeman presents an unusual figure. In his limpid, rhyming verse there is no word...

Seventy Years Young. By Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall. 2IS.) THESE are the memories of the Dowager Lady Fingall, as told to an Irish novelist, Miss Pamela Hinkson, her...

fogs and damps of American city life, Mr. Holdridge and his wife fled to the Caribbean. Here, on St. John, one of the Virgin Islands, they idled away a couple of years, bathing...

Tins "authentic biography," as it is called, is the second book to be published within the last few months centring on the life, character and achievements of the present Pope,...

By FORREST REID IF we are to regard fiction as an art, none of these novels provides muchfood for discussion. Mr. Mason alone is thinking primarily of his story, and though...

sets out the few facts recorded by Tacitus and Dio concerning Boadicea's revolt against the Romans in the year 61. The rest of a long book (Robert Hale, i2s. 6d.) is an...

Wakeharn Should have remem- bered that comparisons are " odious before he adopted a thoughtless-phrase of Fortescue's as the title for his memoir (Blackwood, Ifs. 6d.). - Rolld...

of a Scotti3h seaman which Mr Alexander Laing has reprinted (Cassell, zos. 6d.) from a forgotten volume of 1822 are interesting, though the discoverer exaggerates their literary...

half a century, is beginning to show an interest in the mediaeval monuments of Cyprus, Mr. Casson's scholarly and readable essay (Methuen 7 5 . 6d.) is designed to show that the...

Henriques The value of social service, especially • when it- has a religions basis, is - *ell -- shown in Mr. Henriques' modest and absorbing account of his twenty years' work...

By George Jennison As a classical scholar who long had the direction of the Belle Vue zoological gardens at Manchester, Mr. Jennison was fully qualified to write on the animals...

Miss Curtis and Mr. Townshend have made a determined and, on the whole, successful effort (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) to bridge the gap between the existing elementary' textbooks of...

1937 By Alfred Fellows Mr. Alfred Fellows has written a book (Watts, 2s.) of extreme value to lawyers ; but it is rather surprising to find it described as a Popular Divorce...

Mr. MacLehose does not sce eye to eye with Conservatives, Socialists, or Scottish Nationalists ; he pleads for a non-political outlook on Scotland, but many of the changes that...

L. Burn When Parliament in 1833 freed the slaves in our colonies and voted £2o,doo,o30 as compensation to their owners, it pro- vided for a transitional period of appren-...

Now that the Historical Monuments Commission has improved the pro- duction of its reports while also cheapen- ing them, it is immune from criticism. Its eighteenth volume, on...

The late Lord Craigmy!e's many friends will welcome his son's interesting little book (Nicholson and Watson, 2s. 6d.), for which the Prime Minister has written a preface. It...

MALAYA MANY people have grown weary of the usual kind of holiday at recognised centres, and to these Malaya has much to recommend it. It is 8,000 miles from England, and it is...

It is odd that the demand for prior charges so frequently passes over the home railway m'arket. The reason is presumably that these stocks have never quite recovered investment...

1 SUPFOSE it would be an axiom in the policy of any well-planned financial system that when investors are feeling nervous tlieSr should be spared any bad news. It certainly...

The recent history of golcimining development in Australia is not such as to inspire much enthusiasm. Too many doubtful propositions have been financed through the London market...

I wish I could hold out solid comfort to readers who have inquired about their holdings of Chinese customs loans. Until the outbreak of hostilities these loans were the touch-...

and, if so, how soon ? My own view is that it can be checked effectively at a very early stage provided we get tangible evidence of a recovery in the United States within, say,...

Now when we have conditions such as those which have prevailed during recent years, when buyers have predomi- nated, there is an inevitable tendency, with each transaction...

BARCLAYS (D. C. AND 0.). THE latest annual report of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) gives good results for the year ended September 30th last, indicating...

AFTER THE STORM AFTER the severe shake-out of recent weeks the Stock Markets are showing some signs of settling down and ending the year in fairly quiet fashion. Nevertheless, I...

I referred lastweek to the fact that- the figures in the annual Report of the P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company justified the note of caution sounded by Lord Craigmyle in the...

Moreover, the effect of this change in sentiment on the part of the public was further increased by the discovery that much of the previous purchases by the public had been on...

DORMAN, LONG AND CO., LIMITED Tan forty-eighth ordinary general meeting of Dorman, Long and Co.; Limited, was held on Tuesday, December 7th, at Winchester House, London E.C....

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION MORE PROFITABLE OPERATIONS LORD CRAIG MYLE ON THE POSITION THE ninety-seventh ordinary general meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental...

It may be recalled that this Trust was formed about eighteen months ago to enable the investing public to take an interest in the shares of electrical supply equipment and...

There would seem to be no Intik to the expanding tendency of profits in the tobacco industry, and for the past year Carreras have again established a fresh high record. The net...

The latest profit statement of Turner and Newall, the asbestos combine, shows remarkable progress, and a fresh high record of earnings has been established. For 1936 the net...

• In view of the good results achieved during the past year, it is scarcely surprising that at this week's annual meeting of Dorman Long and Co., the Chairman, Lord Greenwood,...

At the recent annual general meeting of the South West Africa Co., Ltd., Sir Edmund Davis, the Chairman, stated that - the company's interests in concerns operating in Germany...

SOUTH WEST AFRICA COMPANY DIVIDEND AND BONUS AGAIN 15 PER CENT. THE annual general meeting of the South West Africa Co. Ltd. was held on December 6th at Southern House, Cannon...

BRITISH TYRE AND RUBBER COMPANY DISTRIBUTION OF 10 PER CENT. MAINTAINED SIR WALROND SINCLAIR'S ADDRESS THE thirteenth annual general meeting of British Tyre and Rubber Company...

NET INCOME £38,000 HIGHER THE tenth annual general meeting of Tobacco Securities Trust Company Limited was held on December 8, at the registered offices of the Company,...

ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT COMPANY EXPANSION OF BUSINESS MR. C. W. REEVE, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, addressing the twenty-sixth annual general meeting of the Associated...

A year ago the Australian Pastoral Company, which has passed through some very trying years, showed good signs of recovery and the latest accounts, covering the year ended June...

ScHuBERr's piano Sonatas have for so long been neglected by the gramophone that when one is at last recorded, pleasure may tempt one to exaggerate. It is true that none of the...

Presiding at the recent annual general meeting of the Associated Equipment Company, the Chairman, Mr. C. W. Reeve, referring to the higher profit secured on trading as a r.tsult...