M UCH has been made in the last few days of real and supposed differences in the Cabinet on the subject of disarmament and the line to be pursued before and at Geneva. Of...

surely the best line of approach is to face the facts realistically. Germany intends, in any case, to pursue rearmament up to a certain point, though Herr Hitler has indicated...

Sinclair and Mr. Ramsay Muir, in their speeches at the National Liberal Federation, were emphatic in denouncing the idea that the Liberal Party should attempt to enter into any...

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before Standing Committee A of the House of Commons, and much will depend upon what happens to it while it is there. The Oxford meeting held at the end of last week showed that...

relations between this country and New Zealand was based on a misunder- standing. The Opposition were apparently under the impression that the New Zealand Government had invited...

made a point which is probably a sound one from the point of view_of one who wishes to defeat the present Government. He maintains that the decision of the Liberal Party to...

the interior of Arabia. Her main concern in the present war is in the effect that it may have upon Arab relations with the Aden Protectorate. For years Anglo-Yemeni relations...

Mr. Homer Cummings, the United States Attorney- General, haS given an opinion that Great Britain and the other countries, who have made token payments in respect of their debts...

type in which news has been set out of the war between King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud and the Imam Yahya of the. Yemen, that south- west corner of the peninsula which is commonly...

policy gave rise during the week to one of the few live debates of the present House of Commons. The nominal vent was the Government's rejection of an alleged offer from New...

to keep his audience, but the critic from the opposite pole—Mr. Amery—failed to do so even though he indulged in a personal attack upon Mr. Runciman. Since Mr. Runciman had just...

vigorous letter of support to the Green Cross Society's meeting, deserves public gratitude for the stand he is making against the appalling destruction of wild flowers. There...

which was mostly a desperate wish that something could be done to save the Disarmament Conference. There is no mistaking the feeling, which found some echo in the debate, that...

the Seine steamers at Paris will regret to hear that this summer they will no longer run. The General Council of the Seine Department has decided to stop them, since for some...

the Lord Mayor's dinner to the Judges that the second report of the Business of Courts Committee naturally _invited more criticism than the first. But we shall be sorry if the...

F OR twenty-three years the Parliament Act has been on the Statute Book as an unfinished piece of legislation awaiting completion by some adventurous Government of the Left or...

N OBODY will accuse Mr. Runeiman or the Govern- ment of undue haste in dealing with the problem of Japanese textile imports. They gave Japan every facility and encouragement to...

Seton Hutchison at the Nottingham Writers Club (suggesting that the late King Albert of Belgium was the victim of foul play) if full publicity had not been given to the matter...

" The Liberal Way " and the recent decisions adopted by the National Liberal Federation, and indeed about a good many other public . questions. His silences are impressive and...

T HE commentators have been so busy in pointing out that it was rude of Mr. Adrian Stokes, as one of the hosts, to interrupt the Prime Minister, a guest, at the Royal Academy...

by requiring that EmpireDay, as celebrated in the London schools, should have its name changed to " Commonwealth Day." I am well aware of the fact that at one time the word "...

his escape from two assassins' revolvers, was regarded, until he took the Governorship of Bengal in 1982, as the nearest runner-up to Sir Warren Fisher for the title of...

I T is not surprising that there is a disposition to despair of parliamentary democracy and all that we associate with it in the spirit and the habits of tolerance. Most people...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. T HE sovereign cure for pessimism in this country is to leave the office chair or the platform and to mingle with the great company of young men and...

By SIR F. GORDON LOWE O UR Davis Cup victory last season, when Perry, Austin, Hughes and Lee brought the coveted trophy back from France, has given a great fillip to the game...

By HERBERT READ I T is a different atmosphere, one would have said a few years ago—meaning that the difference in tone and feeling which we are apt to experience when...

By HELEN SIMPSON C OMING home from some errand I went by an hotel with whose commissionaire I am on speaking terms ; that is to say, as I was passing one day he burst out, a...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN] I N Deutschland spielt heute die Frage der Mischehen eine grosse Rolle. Eine Mischehe ist nach dem heute in Deutschland gultigen Gesetz...

FRIDAY, MAY 11th il.00 Memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Westminster Abbey -Unveiling Service : H.R.H. the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury .. .. • • • • 18.25 Walker...

London Film Society THE London Film Society concluded its season last Sunday with this German talkie, a sequel to the silent Dr. Mabuse, also directed by Fritz Lang, which was...

" Viva Villa ! " At the Empire THE American producers ask us not to regard this film as history—rather, as an adventurous romance based on historical events. Villa (Wallace...

The Theatre " She Loves Me Not." By Howard Lindsay. At the Adelphi. Tins play, based on a novel inspired by real life (or by news- paper headlines : have it your own way),...

Little Women. Effective version of Louisa Alcott's novel ; fresh sentiment ; lively incident. Katharine Hepburn well cast as Jo. White Woman. Charles Laughton as a sinister...

The Academy Exhibition THERE are always numerous popular errors and misconcep- tions about all public events which arise from their very publicity. People vaguely hear them...

one but many parts of the country, is the jackdaw ; and he is very destructive, not of the farmer's crops, but of other birds. Its multiplication along the Western coast, where...

quickly as this year. It was very late, and -is no longer late. One result is that the flowers of several months are blossom- ing simultaneously. The migrant birds, too--or some...

Broadway, often held, in Goldsmith's phrase, to be the " loveliest village of the lawn," is - commended to the notice of a wide public. He and the Council .for the Preservation...

ideals of the C.P.R.E. that the old English cottage—I know one dating from the fourteenth century—has been twice blessed by recent legisla- tion. Just at first when the Housing...

Multitudinous Rooks Is there an increase in the number of rooks in England as most countrymen believe ? A certain controversy has arisen between humanitarians and game...

in many places, emerges from this example. Regional planning extends. We go to one county town end see maps and plans on which this and that bit of country is zoned or scheduled...

the preservation of wild flowers than the Bishop of Gloucester, who is an expert botanist. He called attention last week to a more or less new form of raiding. It seems that...

discussion " of the policy of British Fascists (Mosley variety). He is then obliging enough to tell us what that policy is. May I openly and honestly discuss it ? Our export...

[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.] SIRS Mr. Fortescue-Brickdale complains that I have mis- represented Sir Oswald Mosley in describing his programme as little more than the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is particularly regrettable that Sir Arnold Wilson, in his article on Industrial Assurance, states, with regard to the first six...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Cave somewhat naively tries to suggest that, unless the majority of voters see fit to vote exactly as he does, and so to elect...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with considerable interest the article in your April 27th number on the Panel System, by Dr. Roberts. I also happen to be in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, Men of goodwill in all parties are busy asking themselves how the problem of government may best be approached so that a reasonable...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—While it is interesting to hear that you have the authority of a Royal Commission for stating that £184 million left Great Britain by the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 4th you write editorially that before the anomaly of the three native enclaves under the jurisdiction of Whitehall...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—You say that teachers' " who take a pride in their profession " will not resent Lord Halifax's letter. Speaking not as a teacher but (I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Please permit me to refer to the article published in your popular paper, written by Mr. Ratcliffe, in reference to our expression of "...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wish to ask Mr. Robert Bernays, M.P., to accept my wholehearted apology for the offensive words of my letter to The Spectator of May...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have read Lord Dunsany's article on printing with much interest. I may mention that more than 15 years ago I had occasion in one of my books to...

By SIR FREDERICK WHYTE A 'YEAR ago, in a volume entitled Looking Forward, President Roosevelt gave to the world his prospectus of the New Deal. Some faint promise there was, in...

A History of Bolshevism. By Arthur Rosenberg. Translated Hopkinson. 78. 6d.) " No mortal man," runs a boastful Russian proverb quoted by Mr. Duranty, " can measure mighty...

Music Ho ! A Study of Magic in Decline. By Constant Lambert. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) Ma. LAMBERT'S approach to his subject is wholly admirable : it is not technical but...

The African To-Day. By Diedrich Vl'estermann. With a fore- 3s. 6d.) Language and Race Problems in South Africa. By Adriaan J. Barnouw. (The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff. Clld....

Festivals of Fire. By Ronald Bottrall. (Faber and Faber. Gs.)_ Tax title poem of this volume is an extreme example of what can be done - by literary in-breeding. Mr. Eliot and...

Bodkin, D.Litt. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) Tnis is a reprint of an edition de luxe issued some years ago by the Free State Government for private circulation among those who might "...

Most of us are, at some time or other, seized with the desire to write. The things we want to write about are many and various. .With some . it may be experiences,...

A Goodly Heritage. By Mary Ellen Chase. (Constable. 7s. 641.) WHERE the gods give, they also take away. The hands of science bear many benefits, but the world changes, and the...

By H. E. BATES Turf or Stone is the third novel from Miss Margiad Evans, who wrote a much-discussed book called The Wooden Doctor. As compared with Mr. W. R. Burnett's Dark...

The Naked Lady (Hutchinson, 18s.) presents a neat psycho- logical problem : Will the title sell the book, or will readers' better natures be outraged by its price ? It is a poor...

By Thomas Wood Dr. Wood's narrative (Oxford University Press, 7s. 6d.) of his journeyings through Australia—a narrative excellently written and adequately illustrated—should...

By Julie Heyneman This biography of the American sculptor Arthur Rackham (Geoffrey Bles, 10s. 6d.) moves with an undercurrent of tragedy independent of the author's processes of...

By M. Conway Turton To endeavour to reproduce the peculiar " significance and type " of a particular country in such a delicate series of descriptive essays as those which...

SPAIN : A BRIEF HISTORY By W. C. Atkinson It is surprising that the appearance in this year of a short history of Spain should fill a long-felt want : and yet before Professor...

discussed on this page, in an article on Everybody's Motor Car, the widely differing require- ments _d_those readers of The Spectator who had asked me to advise them in the...

Last week I dealt at some length with the pros and eons or the Rubber regulation plan, and in spite of the attacks which have been made upon it, I must confess that the argu-...

BOOM ix RUBBER SHARES. ACtivill , in Rubber Shares has been the dominant feature during the past week, and on Monday " boom " condi- tions characterized the Market. The prime...

The American Debt Ox June 15th the next half-yearly payment is due upon our War Debt to the United States and already the matter must be occasioning grave con- sideration here,...

the financial results achieved were most encouraging. The net profit was £1,512,866 against £860,077 for the previous year. The dividend now declared is 8 per cent. against 4...

the past year is also a good one, showing that the realized profit of £421,551 was the highest for twenty-five years, and compares with £276,095 for the previous year. The final...

The recent increase announced hi the 'dividend on North British and Mercantile Insurance Company's shires from 23s. to 24s. per share is fully justified by the character of the...

The annual report of the London Assurance for 1933 shows that in the Life Department, the sums assured amounted to £2,306,418. This not only constitutes a record in the history...

The financial results achieved by Marks and Spencer seem to justify the strength of the shares. Not only is the dividend announced at the rate of 35 per cent. in cash, but a...

In the more recently formed Fixed Investment Trusts there is now a tendency to vary their character in certain points of detail. It will be remembered that in the first Trust...

As might have been expected from the high price of Gold and the favourable conditions on the Rand, the latest report of the Central Mining and Investment Company is an excellent...

The latest report of the Dunlop Rubber Company is not only a good one as regards the results disclosed, but there are some specially interesting features. The Directors, in...

about Beethoven's last quartets, observed : " The aesthetic idea of the Sublime is alone applicable here ; for the effect of serenity passes at once far beyond the satisfaction...

Br XANTHIPPE. F A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's cross-ward puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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