N EWS about the internal situation in Italy is scanty, but there is every sign that for the moment at any rate Marshal Badoglio means what he says when he announces that the war...

In his broadcast last Sunday Dr. Soong, the Chinese Foreign Minister, spoke not only of China's war problems but also of the future which her statesmen and economists are...

Teachers attending the course on British Empire subjects at York were rewarded with a thoughtful, constructive and timely inaugural address by Mr. Amery on Monday night. After a...

the House of Commons stressing the urgent need of a Government declaration of post-war policy on agriculture. Up to now the responsible Minister has been at a disadvantage when...

Federal elections in Canada by no means always follow the same lines as those in the provinces, but the results of the Ontario elections are so striking that they can scarcely...

Since no national health service scheme can be worked except through the medical profession it is important that the Government in laying its new plans should have the backing...

In the Turkish newspaper Vatan Husein Jahit Yalchin has exposed the meaninglessness of German suggestions that Britain is pressing Turkey to abandon her neutrality. In fact the...

One of the factors which have made heavy air-raids on this country unprofitable to the enemy is the existence of a well- organised fire-watching system. Our recent comparative...

O N the day when one Anglo-American meeting—in Sicily, between General Montgomery's Eighth Army and General Patton's Seventh—was announced, the announcement was also made -of...

T is inevitable, I suppose, that we should all be speculating on I how long the war in Europe will last, and doing that, I hop; with a firm resolve to keep an instinctive...

By STRATEGICUS T is just over a month since the Allies invaded Sicily and only I a few days more since the Germans launched their heavy attack upon the Kursk salient ; but what...

By SIR ERIC MACFADYEN D O people want to live on top of one another? The L.C.C. seem to assume that we do, to judge from their 50-years plan for London. In many ways the plan...

By WILSON HARRIS The fact that Mr. Lippmann is writing primarily for his own countrymen about his own country's foreign policy does not appreciably diminish the importance of...

By HONOR CROOME A S I write, Two Months sleeps in his pram, Not Quite Three mauls some plasticine on the porch, Seven plays with her gang in the garden, and Ten is, I hope,...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE other day, in a garden near my home, we held the village fête. Notices in red and blue chalk were hung along the drive indicating with crude arrows...

MR. JAMES &urges new play is a great deal better than his The Holy Isle, which I reviewed here some months ago. To raise the Devil successfully, then to give him the best of the...

THE quality which the .average film most often lacks is solidity. We cannot expect every week to see a masterpiece but there seems no good reason why the alternative should be...

MUSIC IT was good to see a large audience at the Wigmore Hall for Mr. Gerald Cooper's concert of English chamber-music last Saturday. The new works in the programme were a Trio...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—Hilda Oakeley has raised a very important point in urging that parents should be represented on the boards of managers of elementary sc hools. May I...

6th Mr. Kiely seems to assume that Christianity is primarily if not entirely an ethical or moral system. I do not think that any accredited teacher of it would agree with him....

Sm,—Mr. A. P. Kiely does not believe in Christianity, and therefore he does not wish it to be taught in our schools. That is very right and proper, for no good can result from...

Sm,—We cannot escape from regarding " The Industrial Choice," the subject of Professor Pigou's interesting article, as secondary. The outrage, not only to our feelings, but to...

Six,—" Czechoslovak Soldier " has made an important point, with which I am sure Mr. Harold Nicolson will wholeheartedly agree. The problem is not only to overcome the...

to those of Mr. Shackleton Bailey for the retention of an improved system of public examinations for secondary schools. r. My own experience in three very similar schools shows...

replies sent me in answer to my letter of July 23rd that I should be very grateful if you could find room for me to answer the letter of July 3oth from Mr. Purton, Director of...

of my approaching absorption into His Majesty's Forces, I might take a little of your limited space, I should like to comment upon your correspondence from Sir Norman Bennett...

of Christianity condemned unchastity or promiscuity (" fornication ") in His teaching, and He specifically accepted the Jewish teaching on the same subject. There are no fewer...

had he knowledge of the State public-houses at Carlisle, would have paid such tribute to them as Mr. R. L. Reiss would have us believe. Mr. Pickwick would have missed the genial...

Mr. Dyneley Hussey for his expression of appreciation of my performance in the Barber of Seville contained in your issue dated July 3oth. Unfortunately, however, he attributed...

Wars. By Maxwell Geismar. (Seeker and Warburg. 16s.) BOOKS OF THE DAY America Growing Up Writers in Crisis : The American Novel Between the Two Wars. By Maxwell Geismar....

John Philip Kemble By Herschel Baker. (Milford. 225. 6d.) SINCE his art dies with him, what is it in an actor that lives? Something does. Otherwise why should any number of...

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his Forebears. By Joan Evans. (Longmans. 2Is.) Evans of Knossos I ALWAYS think of archaeology (fully aware of my indefensible prejudice) as a typical English occupation—almost...

Brazil, Land of the Future. By Stefan Zweig. (Cassell. los. 6d.) THE practical British reader will be more than a little shocked by the exuberant enthusiasm and candid...

Escape in Vain. By Georges Simenon. Translation by Stuart Gilbert. . (Routledge. 8s. 6(1.) Men in the Same Boat. By J. D. Beresford and Esme Wynne-Tyson. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d,)...

ACROSS 1. Face crisis to make them. 8. Paid in pounds? just the other way about. - 9- " A goodly - rotten at the heart, 0 what a goodly outside falsehood hath! "...

The winner of Crossword No. 229 is Miss 6 Compton Road, Winchester, Hants. M. E. SHAW,

OF all Protestant denominations there is probably none that is richer in records of its origin and history or more careful in their pre- servation than the Society of Friends. A...

ENGLISH weather is, of course, unpredictable, a thing of shreds ant patches, of samples, of sudden sallies; but a few prophecies may be mach with some confidence. One is that...