T HERE is a satisfying fitness in the fact that the Axis should have broken in halves on the fourth anniversary of Britain's entry into the war. It was also (by no accident) the...

The seventy:fifth Trades Union Congress opened at Southport last Monday under the presidency for the first time of a woman, Dame Anne Loughlin, and it is worth noting that of...

M R. CURTIN, the Australian Prime Minister, has been making some interesting and important suggestions about the future of the British Commonwealth and the need of machinery for...

In Mr. Bevin's interesting speech before the Congress on Tuesday there were two points of special importance to trade unionists. The first was that in which he spoke of...

In his presidential address to the Institute of Journalists, Mr. Gordon Robbins paid some compliments to the Government for its attitude to the Press in war-time, and uttered...

The appeal which Mr. Bevin is making, especially to young men, to enter the mines and " build up the mining army from all walks of life " will be handicapped by the awards of...

T H E prediction that the Prime Minister would say nothing of particular importance in his speech at Harvard on Monday was considerably falsified. The speech touched on issues...

T HE five days between September 3rd, when Italy definitely surrendered, and September 8th, when the news was made known for the world, were an anxious period for the relatively...

By STRATEGICUS In the last war the surrender of Bulgaria was one of the blows that first convinced Ludendorff that all was over ; and, though it was more than a month between...

By QUINTIN HOGG, M.P. conceivable type of interest. They deal with every conceivable topic from every conceivable point of view. They vary in quality. from the best and closest...

By DR. J. H. RUSHBROOKE In the course of the interview the Metropolitan Sergius informed the chairman that the authoritative circles of the Orthodox Church had formed the...

By EUSTACE GORDON R ECENT statements in Parliament and the Press have given us in Palestine the impression that less is known in England about the state of this country today...

By THE MARCHIONESS OF LOTHIAN O N every side enlightened people are offering their solutions for a brave New World. May I, having reached the age of twenty- one, presume to try...

By HAROLD NICOLSON D R. EMIL LUDWIG, who has always possessed an acute instinct for the topical, has written a long book upon The Mediterranean which Hamisn Hamilton publishes...

" Heaven Can Wait." At the Gaumont and the Marble Arch Pavilion. —" Watch on the Rhine." At Warners and the Regal.— Ministry of Information Films. Foam or content? Lubitsch at...

NOWADAYS l it is the fashion in the theatre for the producer to take a line with accepted works of genius. The greater the masterpiece the stronger the line. If the subsequent...

HE is morose now, handcuffed to our lands, gloomy against the wingtip lights, the mainplane's glisten : observes the lost, and shrugs and understands, talks dubiously...

SIR, —You have done a service in pointing out how the example of Sweden in 1940 shows a way by which a National Government may continue in being both during and after a...

Sta,—When I escaped from France in order to reach England I went through Spain and spent three months living in small farms (in many different parts of Spain) and in the slums...

SIR, —Miss Bottome, in The Spectator of September 3rd, dealine with the problem of the re-education of Germany after the war, suggests that Thomas Mann and " the best German...

LETTERS TO THE ED TOR SIR,— Although I fundamentally disagree with the views Phyllis Bottome expresses in her article in The Spectator, " Germany as a Human Problem," I confess...

SIR, —The letter of your correspondent Mr. E. J. Killham strikes an old Victorian as a very depressing and decadent outlook on the primary virtues which constitute real worth of...

SIR,—I do not know what purpose your correspondent, M. E. Durham, had in writing the letter published in your issue of September 3rd. I believe that the British public, which by...

Snt,—Your pronouncements, even when they fail to receive my full assent, usually command my deep respect. But dare I say that to me, as a potential prospective candidate, your...

Sta,—" Simple Sailor's " letter dealing with your review of Hitler Divided France abounds with those clichés which have been so freely expressed about France since the Armistice...

Sm,—Many of your readers must have listened sympathetically to last week's broadcast talk by Mr. Learie Constantine, the eminent cricketer (now an official of the Ministry of...

has answered Mr. W. B. Howell's letter which advocated the redurtion of half the population of Germany by starvation, and I am also a little surprised that you, Sir, by printing...

THE ruin of a beautiful thing must always touch our sentiment and tend to rebellion against the Philistines, but in a mortal war we must often submit. We must even try to...

Sm,—Three and a half years ago I began to take The Spectator because I expected to find therein, especially in its correspondence columns, new and interesting presentations of...

the World. By Sir Edward Grigg, M.P. (Hutchinson. 5s.) BOOKS OF THE DAY The British Commonwealth The Dominions : Partnership or Ritt ? By Arnold Haskell. (Black. 6d.) SIR...

THE author of Tattered Battlements, who was on Spitfires in Malta, conveys his experience almost entirely in terms of the dog-fight which, in itself, is a bad medium since its...

Norfolk Life. By Lilias Rider Haggard and Henry Williamson. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) How is such a book as this to be adequately described? It is a journal of the years...

ENGLISH and American neo-Marxians applying the methods of theological modernists to the teachings of the master have concen- trated on explaining what Marx would have said if he...

Time with a Gift of Tears. By Clifford Bax. (Eyre and Spottis- woode. los. 6d.) Michael and All Angels. By Norah Lofts. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6c1.) Light from a Lantern. By...

The Twenty Years Truce, 1919-1939. By Robert M. Rayner. (Longman. In. 6d.) THIS is a useful, if not very original, account of the years between the wars. It is clear and...

SOLUTION ON SEPTEMBER 24th The winner of Crossword No. 233 is MRS. C. R. HARINGTON, Mount Vernon House, N.W.3.

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, September 2157. Envelopes should be received...

ork. y. E. Estyn Evans. (Dundalk : W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press. 8s. 6d. To anyone with a sense of appreciation of the continuity of country life and Work this is a fascinating...

Rhodes. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d.) THIS book is for the sociologist rather than for the social worker. It contains a mass of statistical information which is of the...

By CUSTOS POST-WAR recovery possibilities are still providing the main inspira- tion in the stock markets, and with such war news as is now coming to hand it would be...

by shutting our eyes to the reality of the Jewish problem. Anti-semitism is a per- manent danger to democracy everywhere, and only an honest facing of the fact of the...