D EMOCRACY has lately come to be regarded in Europe ' as a static!, e v en a reactionary force, vet no dictator- :hip has shown so intense an activity as the new French...

and in the appointment and dismissal of Ministers he has often shown a capriciousness which may be regarded as the prerogative of dictators. But it is not customary with him to...

appearance before the House of Commons as Colonial Secretary on Tuesday, was able to give of the situation in Palestine was not reassuring, and there will be general approval of...

oppose Mr. Roosevelt will be made after these pages are in the press. At the Convention at Cleveland Senator Steiwer of Oregon delivered the keynote speech, which con- tained in...

to initiate no prosecutions in regard to the Budget leakage was inevit- able, for the very good reason that a prosecution in the ordinary Courts where the established rules of...

its threatened declaration of war on Japan, but its armies are moving northward into Honan. Despite the anti- Japanese banner under which they march, it seems certain that it is...

try to increase popular support of his Government by a general amnesty, including both Socialists and Nazis, is to have no early realisation. The mass meeting of the Fatherland...

the conversations between Great Britain and Egypt appear to be due to differences in Whitehall, not in Cairo. The question at issue is the degree of military security to be...

Tribunal has placed the Labour Party in an embarrassing position. They had expected when they first raised the issue that all that would result would be a whitewashing enquiry,...

on the increase in the Tea Duty, upon which any Opposition Member could produce a diatribe on the iniquity of making the old age pensioner pay for battle- ships, less than half...

for the amendment of the law of libel prepared by a committee of the Empire Press Union is a document of great importance. That libel laws are needed admits of no dispute. Men...

Members are disposed to agree with The Speclalor in the comments that it made on the - findings of the Budget Tribunal. They are convinced that there is no evidence of a...

year are a very satisfactory evidence of industrial prosperity: as compared with previous years. At 1,705,042, the total of unemployed is lower than at any time in the last six...

meeting in London for the first time in thirty-five years, is discussing the. difficulties and problems of the trade on the only proper basis for discussing anything to do with...

Mr. Eden discussed the League of Nations in a week- end speech. On the main issue the Foreign Secretary was decisive. The League of Nations, he admitted, had suffered a...

IN his declaration to the French Chamber on Monday, M. Blum, as head of the new Govern- ment, promised to introduce immediately one of the most sweeping programmes of social...

T HE return of Sir Samuel Hoare to the Cabinet sooner or later—preferably sooner rather than later—was a foregone conclusion, but it cannot reasonably bear the construction put...

By SIR ARTHUR SALTER ,W E must keep the League of Nations in existence." said Mr. Eden last week. " and approach any modifications in its structure with the desire to make that...

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By DR. C. P. SNOW T HERE is a pleasant surprise which conies to most of those professionally engaged in science : that is, the odd, the widespread, the almost reverential...

What caused these strikes ? Sporadic effervescence which proved contagious ? - Claims for better paid labour in better hygienic conditions ? Economic aims concealing political...

By ROGER B. LLOYD " I N all our great cities," thundered a speaker in the Church Assembly the other day, " many of the people are just as heathen as people living in the...

By JAN STRUTHER I T is twenty years, all but a few months, since " Saki " was killed at Beaumont-Hamel. How many people, I wonder, read him now ? Most of his short stories are...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH .1. HAVE before me a photograph of three determined young women making the best Of what must be a remarkably comfortless couch. The counters in the...

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Freunde and Schuler aus der ganzen Welt. in der hessischen Metropole vereinigt. Es ist die beste Zeit. ma Feste zu feicrn. Denn das Land Hessen and seine Haupt.- stadt prangen...

Unproductive Summer June-like days were a very long time in coming ; and the coldnesses of May had some unhappy results. A number of birds of all sorts deserted their nests ;...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S►a,--The Duke of Montrose has added to his error regarding Lord Selborne's views, which I corrected in your issue of May 22nd, a much more...

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SIII,—The Budget Inquiry Tribunal has found that Mr. Thomas disclosed inforMation as to new taxes to Mr. Bates and Sir Alfred Butt before their proper announcement by the...

dangers threatening the Arabs of Palestine as a result Of Jewish immigration," although he does not and cannot disprove the following facts : (a) that since the beginning of the...

accept the correction of " Your Parliamentary Correspondent " and tender apologies for misreading him ; but he does not come to grips with the main point of my letter. Pacifists...

in your last week's issue drew attention to the desirability of a more definite effort on the part of this country to cultivate the friendship of the United States. A great deal...

Sin.—The Press here, and its correspondents abroad, have certainly been generous in their news regarding the Palestinian situation. Unfortunately, however, they have presented...

most important at the present moment that the aims of the L.N.U. should be understood by the public. Would you inform your readers what particular aims and teaching of the...

despair. India's need is not additional arma- ments—not even the imaginary enemy Mr. Jenkins fears but modestly does not name—but simply rapid reforms in the matter of extended...

SIR,—It was not my intention to cause any misconception about the curriculum of sociological studies in Oxford ; indeed, the main point of the criticism that I made was directed...

Sin,—I have read with interest the paragraph in A Spec- tator's Notebook " in your issue of June 5th, concerning the Battle of Jutland. Why does no one ever point out the fart...

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The winner of Crossword No. 193 is Mrs. C. R. A. Howden, Mayne, Elgin, Scotland.

Mt ZENO pri:r of one guinea will be given to the sender of the field correct solution of this 'reek's crossw]rd puck to be opened. Envelopes should be marked Crossword Puzzle....