Mr. Henry Wallace, the Vice-President of the United States, in a speech last Monday named a number of conditions which must be satisfied if we are to avoid World War No. 3....

of Lords on Wednesday regarding the treatment of Germany is very much to be welcomed. The Bishop of Chichester, in appealing IAL )rm. NEWS OF THE WEEK for an official and...

The destruction of the Japanese convoy by American aircraft in the Bismarck Sea last week was a victory even more complete than that won in the Solomons last November. The...

Viscount Cranborne took the opportunity afforded by a question in the House of Lords last Tuesday to state that the Government welcomed the proposals for an economic conference...

The supply of electricity in the London and Home Counties District comes from no fewer than 75 separate undertakings. This division of service is extremely uneconomical in...

No industry in the country can survey its recent record with greater certainty of essential work well done than that carried on by the four main-line railway companies. At the...

Mr. Morrison has promised to probe to the utmost the causes of the appalling London shelter disaster in which 178 people were killed and 6o injured. His decision that the...

In a speech at Bristol on Tuesday Mr. Leslie Runciman dealt with a subject of some delicacy and great importance, on which a state- ment may have been made in the House of...

the United States today about naval bases and airfields on British soil, Japanese andated areas in the Pacific, the larger question of the future of olonies generally and the...

T HE new Speaker, Col. Clifton Brown, lacks one desirable, though by no means indispensable, qualification for his high office—com- manding stature. That matters more than might...

By STRATEGICUS HE Russian announcement of their retreat merely confirms what the Germans have been recently claiming It lacks, of ourse, the Wagner touch without which German...

By KENNETH LINDSAY, M.P. i. Equality of access to an agreed minimum standard of physical provision. 2. Maximum freedom of each individual school. 3. The abolition of dualism,...

By DAVID THOMSON T is five years ago this week-end since Hitler made his first armed conquest of a foreign country, and that country was Austria. The Austrian people have...

THE sun is slain, the clouds are scattered sheep So red that no Good Shepherd can delight In this vainglorious triumph of the night. A dog barks faintly. Do not angels weep...

By RALPH CRISPIAN M UFFLED in clammy mackintoshes, our hands ice-cold in wet, stiff gloves, our feet freezing in too big gum-boots, with colds in our heads and raindrops on our...

LAY hand on hand, bow low the head My heart, again the blackbirds sing. Take, hungry spirit, wine and bread, The blessed Sacrament of Spring. ANNF. RIRRV.

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS “ "OUT why do nettles grow?" A little town girl on her first D visit to the country, being stung by a nettle, put that question to her parents. I...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE House of Commons on Tuesday was able—without violating tradition, good feeling or common sense—to solve a constitutional problem of some complexity. The...

The Merry Widow." At His Majesty's Theatre. I. Aaciu - r thirty years ago The Merry Widow was one of the greatest theatrical successes ever known in London, and as one who saw...

Desert Victory." At the Odeon, Tivoli and New Gallery.- -" The a Magnificent Ambersons." At the Astoria. "Star Spangled a Rhythm." At the Plaza. esert Victory is a very moving...

Professor P. H. Winfield, in his review of Georg Schwarzenberger's International Law and Totalitarian Lawless- ness suggests that Hitler should be sent to St. Helena. Almost...

article "Life As It Is" sent me hastening to my carbon copy to see exactly what I had said. As I thought, she had jumped to conclusions that really had no foundation in anything...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —Referring to the position of Dr. Matchek, in his article in The Spectator of February 25th, Prof. Seton-Watson has overlooked some facts which make...

issue of February 19th could have some experience of life as it is on farms. She seems to think "double jobs" (her own professional career and looking after "a nice little flat...

snt,—It is often asked why the Church has lost its hold on the common people. The answer is to be found in the point of view put forward by Sir John Inskip. As trades-unionists...

Sta,—Mr. Reginald L. Swaby, in his letter supporting the publication a People's Hansard, makes some references to an incident which tined in Parliament on February toth, when...

Snt,—Mr. R. Williams sticks to his guns, but like three out of four of those who write to you, and other editors, about schools in general, fails to realise how obsolete they...

Sin, — Following are extracts from a letter just received from an R.A.F. officer in India. He lived for some time in South Africa. "I am often quite disgusted with my...

sis,—In the course of the article on "A United Nations Conference" which appeared in your last issue, the writer, in' referring to Lend-Lease, describes it as the supply of...

SIR,—" The Magic Flute as music is not notably or at all inferior to the religious music of Mozart." Professor Brogan, like a good historian, does not forget music. But most...

Snt,—As far as he goes, I agree with every word which Mr. Oscar Hobson writes under the above heading in your issue of March 5th. With the exception of Major R. A. C. Radcliffe,...

Sta,—A point that has repeatedly struck me since enlistment is the lack of interest, shown almost universally throughout the "lower deck," for anything except the headlines of...

SIR,—" Janus" has rendered a service fully in accordance with the traditions of The Spectator in expressing concern about the treatment of recent air-war events by the B.B.C....

SIR,—For some years I have been a regular, careful and interested reader of The Spectator and do not remember having noted any departure from good grammar, but this week you...

are n a little frightened, for many of their ideas are urban) will do well to consult sympathetically with Women's Institutes. And for this. reason. The women will add "the...

The Heritage of Symbolism. By C. M. Bowra. (Macmillan. ass.) IT is a startling and a shocking thing that Mr. Bowra's publishers are justified in claiming that his book of essays...

You Have Been Warned i s is a good book, with a special interest for English readers . . use it shows the difference between English and American types self-criticism. Modern...

What Does Gandhi Want ? By T. A. Raman. (Oxford University Press. 35. 6d.) Letters on India. By MUlk Raj Anand. (Roudedge. 6s.) RECENT events in India lend an additional...

Hardy. (Constable. 'Gs. 6d Mrs is not a good but yet not a worthless book. The author ha taken great pains, she has studied Donne's writings with diligence if not always with...

The Doctrine of Our Redemption. By N. Micklem, D.D. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 4s. 641.) DR. MIcKLEm has made a wise choice in the selection of Redemption as the subject of his...

Havoc by Accident. By Georges Simenon. (Routledge. 8s.) Lord Edward. By Magdalen King-Hall. (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) Cover His Face. By Neil Bell. (Collins. 95. 6d.) IN Havoc by...

THE receipt of four new volumes in the admirable "Britain in Pictures" series—British Craftsmen, by Thomas Hennell • British Engineers, by Metius Chappell ; English Cities, by...

THIS is the second volume of an annual miscellany with for most tastes. Most remarkable, perhaps, are the two accounts of flying disasters—" Shot down over Malta," by...

Press. vas. 6d.) THIS book represents a type of historical material that needs imme diate safeguarding from the effect of waste-paper appeals. I consists of the letters and...

IA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct o lunon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, !arch 23rd. Envelopes...

t S SOLUTION ON MARCH 26th The winner of Crossword No. 2437 is MRS. LONSDALE RAGG, St. James Square, Bath.

surprising that satire does no flourish in an age when the rapier has given place to the rubber truncheon, and her fans must therefore be all the more grateful to Sagittarius...

By CUSTOS WINGS For Victory Week in the City, was bound to intensify th stagnation which already enveloped the stock markets, and turnove has suffered a further decline. Once...