Miners' Executive and the coal-owners are still in progress as we write, but it is clear enough that the men will not accept the owners' offers, varying from a shilling a shift...

ment do ? It should by one means or another secure some breathing-space. It is worth a very great deal to avert a strike at this juncture. The crux of the situation is the...

T HE League of Nations Council meets on Monday week, and some decision will have to be taken on , the question of petrol sanctions. The repeated postpone- ments of a decision...

The suggestion for a general discussion of Anglo- Japanese relations is, under present conditions, a bold one, but it may also be a wise one. The spokesman of the Japanese...

the report of their expert investigator, Mr. A. W. Menzies-Kitehin, on the subject of land settlement in this country, find . his conclusions adverse to the idea of any...

Lord Bearsted. and Mr. Simon Marks to the United States is a sign of renewed efforts to rescue the German Jews from the fate so vividly described in Mr. Macdonald's letter of...

by the Board of Education on Monday marks a strikingly progressive attitude on the part of Mr. Oliver Stanley and his colleagues. And it is to be observed that the advances...

tions in Germany have succeeded in competing with Herr Baldur von Schirach's Reich Youth League. But now a message from Herr von Schirach foreshadows legislation which will...

Associations at Cambridge on Tuesday rejected a resolution appealing to Mr. Baldwin to " broaden the basis of the Conservative Party " to include all those who are neither...

conference, has lately emphasised the need for co-operation between the schools, the Press, the wireless, and the cinema. Certainly, in the use of both cinema and wireless for...

to Dr. S. M. Berry's trenchant words on the refusal of the Pope to put himself at the head of a great Christian appeal for peace. He had a great opportunity. He would have been...

" As is indicated in a leading article on a later page, The Spectator has acquired, and will begin to publish in its issue of next week, a series of articles by Mr. H. G. Wells,...

the investor is already such (though the idea was only introduced into this coun- try from the United States three years ago) that it was quite time the Stock Exchange took...

more ab amico, and there is something that strikes the imagination vividly in the account given in Wednesday's Daily Telegraph of the £2,000,000 hospital city at present under...

past week has struck out a new and challenging line in the sphere of foreign policy, and sustained what is described as a smashing blow in the domestic sphere. In the one field...

B EGINNING next week, there will be published in these columns a series of articles which have unusual claims on the interest of our readers. Mr. H. G. Wells is now in his...

T HE conflict raging round the slight (physically) and attractive (in every way) figure of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald will have repercussions far beyond Ross and Crotnarty. National...

By MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK MAURICE T HERE is general agreement amongst those who have studied the problems of Imperial Defence with knowledge and care that the creation of...

By It H. S. CROSSMAN T HE English tourist who crosses the German frontier moves at once into an entirely strange world. But he does not know it. The railways, the hotels and the...

By THE HON. MRS. ALFRED LYTTELTON I AM hazarding an attempt which may well be abortive to summarise the impression made on me personally by five articles which have recently...

By GORON'IVY REES "T HE significance of the Stakhanov movement," said- Stalin, at the first All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites in Moscow, in November, 1935, " consists in...

By FRANCIS GOWER W HAT happens to the further education of the girl who leaves a secondary school at eighteen, puts in a few years at secretarial or other work, then marries a...

By JAN STRUTHER L ITERATURE, that assiduous foster-mother of falla- cies, has long kept alive in us the belief that we are a sea-faring, or at any rate a sea-loving, nation. We...

By ROSE MACAULAY A MONG the minor quarrels which are warming up the cold new year, there appears to be one on hand about whether or not young poets should be (a) angry, (b)...

Ballet Tun vogue of Ballet continues unabated, in default of real competition from the " legitimate " stage ; for even a poor ballet, given one or two good dancers, , is better...

"Reifende Jugend." At the Forum.—" The Bride Comes Home." At the Plaza. —"King of the Damned." - At the Tivoli THERE is a delightful moment in Reifende Jugend, a film which is...

[Von einem Deutschen Korrespondenten] KINDER sind das dankbarste Publikum der Welt. Sie bringen mit sich zwei ffir das Theater wesentlichc Dinge, namlich die Begeisterung der...

New English Painting THE weeks after Christmas are usually barren of painting exhibitions of the first rank. The galleries are back on their second line of defence and their...

Swan for Dinner At least one distinguished novelist has eaten an unusual Christmas dinner—a swan. The bird—whether a cob (male) or pen (female) I do not know—was very large and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a short article on a large subject the different points have necessarily to be compressed into single sentences, and the risk of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I feel a natural interest in the suggestion of Janus that should I in future attempt to deliver in America lectures of which he...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Sixth Form of Bembridge School appear to have a sound appreciation of the grim truth that old men make wars and send young men to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The New Year dawns with heavy war clouds over- shadowing the international situation, and a possible storm threatening the industrial...

SIR,—The letter in your issue of December 27th, sent by the Sixth Form of Bembridge School, appears to refer to a resolu- tion which was passed by a substantial majority at the...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In an article entitled " The Diving of Whales," which appeared in The Spectator of August 2nd, 1935, Professor C. M. Yonge asks the...

SPECTATOR.] .Sia,—An unnoticed revolution is taking place in the country districts of England. The Education Authorities in closing more and more of the village schools are...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am unable to accept Mr. Penrice's invitation to enter Brixton Prison as a debtor—but were I sent there I should know that I could appeal...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sni,—" Traffic-consciousness " is a horrible word : " Greater' traffic-consciousness " is worse. I suggest that you repeat the word aloud...

. [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 3rd Captain keiinedy criticises a passage in my_ review of his :book, The Problem of Japan. He says that I was...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have not yet had an opportunity of reading the pamphlet An Examination of Examinations, reviewed by Mr. Verschoyle in your issue of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Numbers of fur farms are springing up in England, ' which, because they arc privately owned, are not subject to examination. Brutality of...

By H. V. HODSON THE international crisis has exposed some serious weaknesses in the present structure of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Dominion Governments were not...

War Over Ethiopia. By W. J. Makin. (Jarrolds. 18s. ) Abyssinian Adventure. By Geoffrey Harmsworth. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) The Last Stronghold of Slavery. By G. C. Baravelli....

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IT is easy to picture a great period of history, but not so easy to imagine it. A true imagination of such a period as the discovery, conquest and settlement of the New World,...

The Press. By A. J. Cummings. (Bodley Head. 3s. (id.) Tnis volume is one of a series " on problems of today viewed in the light of the changing ideas and events of modern...

by EDWARD ANTON T HERE are a number of everyday words which are capable of producing varying—and often totally opposite—effects upon different individuals. In most cases, no...

the less generally known navigation of the _ Amazon, to the Puritan attempts at colonisation in the south and the battering of the buccaneers against the Spanish monopoly in the...

Portrait of My Family. By Derek Patmore. (Cassell. , 10s. 6d.) " The desire of mind to mind is never satiated but rather increased by inter-communion : when this desire of soul...

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. Dreams of ..P.rinutive Men (Cresset Press. 1Ss.) ' Tax application of psycho-analysis to the dreams of primitive people is clearly an interesting matter, and we need not...

Tax careers of publishers, theatrical impresarios, and picture dealers often provide excellent material for autobiography, but though they all tend to write the stories of their...

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Current Literature By H. B. Thomas and Robert Scott The Government of Uganda is to be congratulated upon its new handbook (Oxford University Press, 15s.). The standard for such...

Finance I CANNOT help thinking that some of the holders of Fixed Trust Units and Sub-Units, or those who may be thinking of acquiring them, must be a little puzzled by the...

By Sir Alexander Gibb Telford was one of the most interesting and characteristic figures of his age, It has often:been remarked that the eighteenth century was distinguished at...

ACTIVE INDUSTRIALS. THE year on the Stock Exchange has commenced in cheerful fashion, even if we allow for the fact that there has been a slight reaction in British Funds and...

BY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's r,ossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " ( ossword...

The winner of Crossword No. 171 is Miss McFadyen, 82 Rossiya Avenue, Rutherglen, Glasgow.