The effects of a heavy blow delivered by British or American bombers cannot be so easily measured as the effects of a battle won by forces on the ground, but they may be no less...

said Mr. Churchi on Tuesday. No statement of action taken by the Allies in the West could have more sinister import for the Germans, who NEWS OF THE WEEK throughout last year...

From one point of view the most significant feature of the debate on the Indian famine last week was the fact, recorded by the Daily Herald, that when the debate was opened...

The debate in the American Senate on the Connally resolution pursued its long - course almost to the point of exhaustion, and lasted long enough to allow the Moscow conference...

Welcome news was given by the Earl of Munster last Tuesday when ha informed the House of Lords that it was the Government's intention to maintain the pre-service cadet...

Mr. Bevin is pursuing a consistent and determined policy to regularise and improve conditions of work in those kinds of em- ployment which are not easily amenable to trade union...

Last Tuesday at Washington the representatives of 44 allied and associated nations put their signatures to the agreement which sets up the United Nations Relief and...

It is doubtless due to the deliberations of the Consultative Assembly in Algiers and the influence of representatives of resist- ance movements in France that changes have been...

F words won wars the balance of victory would have tilted I considerably one way or the other in the past week. Marshal Stalin has given a broadcast address of the first...

A LEADING article of unusual length in Tuesday's Times on politics in this country after the war put a fundamental problem, and a problem that will have to be solved, very...

By STRATEGICUS G REAT names still retain their magic. The fall of Kiev is having its repercussions throughout the world, and the encouragement which the Allies feel is as...

" In the West it may be difficult to achieve general security. But at least there is visible the general shape of things that could be made to come to pass. . . . But in the...

By WILSON HARRIS The Directors of the House of Macmillan took an essentially sound decision when, seeking a fit celebrant of their century of greatness, they turned, not to an...

By HONOR GROOVE Ottawa A T the recent launching of the largest warship ever built in Canada there appeared, among other notables, a small group of men with higher cheekbones...

By HAROLD NICOLSON y WAS unable last week to contribute a Marginal Comment since I I was stuck in Stockholm with no aeroplane to bring me back. I am glad of this*, since on...

" Panama Hattie " At the Piccadilly Theatre. Vaunt some of my colleagues have so dispraised this new musical show at the Piccadilly Theatre surprises me, for it seems to me an...

" Baltic Deputy." At the Tatter.!' Now Voyager." At Warners. FILM producers are rarely able to find serious drama in the domestic scene without calling in the aid of physical...

THE most important of October's issues is the recording of Beethoven's Trio in B Flat (Op. 97) by Solomon, Hoist and Pint (H.M.V. C7588-92). It is the wonderful slow movement...

I KNEW that Christ on Calvary Redeemed my soul ; but not until My own son died knew I that He Died also to redeem my will. All out they go, these lads who die— Nothing of self...

SIR, —Your reviewer of Mr. Thompson's Voice of Civilisation : An Enquiry into Advertising ends his notice, " We can be grateful that Britain has not reached such heights of...

SIR, —At the beginning of the last war an elderly lady with whom I was taking tea introduced the subject of our Russian Allies, and declared her belief that the Russians were a...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Ste,—The article on " The Coal Crisis " in your issue of October 15th has much in it that is useful, but there are several statements with which those who...

prompt me to remind your readers that organisations for The proposed " cultural" exchanges exist both in this country and in Russia. With some experience, I would issue a word...

the men of the Red Army, " who are putting up a great fight without church parades." We can indeed learn many things from them. A letter from Geneva, quoted in Sobornost (June,...

Sm,—I have read with interest the article on the above subject by Lieut.-Col. C. Waley Cohen, in The Spectator of October 29th, in which he makes some useful and practical...

SIR, —I should like to endorse all that George Burgess said in your issue of November 5th, and to add that during the two years I served in the Army in this country I came...

very interesting Life of Charlotte M. Yonge (lately reviewed in The Spectator) with its full and discriminating estimate of the novels and of the social and religious atmosphere...

Paper has been misunderstood. May I draw attention to the following state- ment made on November 5th by Mr. R. A. Butler, President of the Board of Education? " The term 5o per...

SIR,—Paragraph 45 of the White Paper states that " the divided responsi- bilities of this system of dual control have given rise to endless com- plications in administration,...

Sm,—On the merits or defects of Basic English I have nothing to say ; but if we are seeking a universal language, would it not be wise to consult those who have already made...

Sift,—In his Marginal Comment Mr. Harold Nicolson writes that he has met no philologist who had been able to explain why Old English borrowed so comparatively -few Latin words....

SIR, —Your correspondent H. W. H. asks " what University besides Oxford and Cambridge has residential colleges of the type of Trinity? " The answer is obvious to Durham men and...

(Viburnum Fragrans) are sweet with a breath of spring that contrasts strangely with the most autumnal various toadstools that have appeared on the lawn. To drag in two more...

READERS of Famine in England will remember the Earl of Ports- mouth (then Viscount Lymington) as a forceful critic of English agriculture. If some of the lessons in that...

" The Saint American I I John Woolman, Quaker. By Janet Whitney. (Harrap. 2 Is.) To tell the life of a saint worthily cannot be easy. Unless the biographer understands from...

British Economic Interests in the Far East. By E. M. Gull. (Ox- ford University Press. 16s.) WHEN the Japanese invaded China in 1937 it was a fair guess that an international...

The Mighty Years. By Iris Morley. (Peter Davies. Jos. 6d.) Alone We Embark. By Moura Laverty. (Longmans. 7s. 6d.) IN that large, semi-educated stratum of English society which...

Birth of an Army. By A. B. Austin. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) ANYONE who attentively reads this book will come to the conclusion that Mr. A. B. Austin is a journalist who can ill be...

The winner of Crossword No. 242 is MRS. TATTERSFIELD, Glebe House, Stratford St. Mary, Colchester.

[A Book Token for one 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, November 23rd....

Literature and Authorship in India. By K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar. P.E.N. Books. (Allen and Unwin. 2s.) IT is to be hoped that the Editor will arrange for more meaty, informative...

By CUSTOS To the outside observer it must seem a trifle odd that the stock markets should be celebrating the prospect of a reasonably early victory in Europe by taking the...

THIRTY-TWO water-colours are here reproduced in half-tone, one of them in colour. Five are published for the first time. The volume is slim, but the size of reproduction...