Press reports from the United States very naturally concentrate - on . the catastrophic effects of the drought, for its devastations are even worse than anticipated. The maize...

T HE strategic situation in Spain is hard to discover with any accuracy from the reports which the rival forces are issuing. There are practically no foreign journalists now in...

revolt have reached stalemate ; we may congratulate ourselves it is not worse, for at least the threat of inter- vention, which would- mean ._war, has been averted....

French General Staff, to Warsaw is an event of some importance. His principal contact there will be with General Rydz- Smigly, the General Inspector of the armed forces of...

to a most satisfactory conclusion. Agreement having been reached first on the military clauses of the proposed treaty and then on the Sudan, there remained the complicated...

as German Ambassador in London is in accordance with expecta- tions, and, it may be added, with the general desire in this country. The long delay in the choice of a successor...

is scarce and rigidly controlled. As might be expected it is in complete contradiction to the stories which from time to time emanate from Gore, which is the main centre of...

satisfaction in the ending of the League of Nations' financial tutelage of Austria. Dr. Rost van Tonningen, the League's financial representative at Vienna, has decided that,...

concluded on Sunday, and left no doubt of the supremacy of the United States, the rise of Germany and Japan as athletic as well as political Powers, and the eclipse of Great...

it was expected that bread, which rose on the same day from 74d. to 8d. per quartern loaf, would go up another id. this week. Actually flour has dropped back to 86s. ; but there...

of Alberta, last week made his first issue of " velocity dollars," certificates with a nominal value of the dollar, and valid for one year, at the end of which they may be...

last week was sudden but not unexpected. It was directly caused by the calling of a general strike by the Communists, which General Metaxas called "a threat of bloodshed." There...

Estates Company of a site for development in the Team Valley, near Gateshead, is tangible evidence that the Government means to fulfil one of its most attractive election...

G ERMANY'S desires and Italy's attainment, fol- lowing on Japan's, have beyond question brought the subject of colony-owning very much into the foreground of international...

T HE . last unemployment figures showed the number of unemployed in Great Britain in a certain day in July to be 1,650,000—a deplorable total, though the lowest since 1930. The...

impending contest for a successor to Lord Hugh Cecil as Mem- ber for Oxford University could not then be made more explicit without breach of confidence. Now that it is known...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON ; M.P. [The NM:and last of the articles in this series is by Sir Norman Angel!, and will appear next week.] I AM not pacifist either. by temperament or on...

From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Vienna, August Thus the Nazis proper—those who want the Anschluss, the whole Anschluss and nothing but the Anschluss- have recovered from their...

By SIR JOHN HARRIS T HE West Indian Islands are commemorating this year one of those 'strange romances associated with ' British colonial development of which there are at least...

By ROGER B. LLOYD L ARGE-SCALE unemployment has been so constant a phenomenon for several years past that it has now gathered to itself a technical language of its own, of...

By YONE NOGUCHI T dawned at Siliguri three hundred and fifty miles to I All the travelling outfits fastened at the back of a motor-car, I was now ready to run up a mountain...

By E. L. WOODWARD I HAVE 'been- told by Londoners that in their mazy, petrol-stinking streets there are still to be found six hansom cabs. We discovered one of the six last...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] life:bourne, July. Sin,—One should not be surprised if the attitude of Australians towards international affairs, and...

evolved an exquisitely unconvincing plot, ' has given it an Oriental setting ; since his knowledge of China appears to be nil, and since at the same time he lays on the local...

THE trouble about Dr. Clitterhouse is that he never existed, that we know he 'never existed, and that his adventures have accordingly only an academic ingenuity. How easily it...

CROSBY as a cowboy : Bing Crosby crooning . a prize bull to' sleep on a freight car : Bing Crosby more than ever like Walt Disney's Cock Robin : it needs some stamina 0 be a...

[D'un correspondant parisien] D'AL•CUNS pretendent que In chute du cabinet Blum est proche. Certaines feuilles en indiquent mettle la date. Ce serait pour Ia mi-octobre, is la...

Russian Ballet at Covent Garden AN aspect of ballet of which I have made little mention in this column is the one of decor and costume. The omission has been partly deliberate...

The Grouseward Migration • The great social migration to Scotland is at least as vigorous as ever, though the sudden bout of popularity among Americans for the sport of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sur,—For many years now I have read the very inter- esting Insurance Supplements in The Spectator, and have been struck by the oft-repeated...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As I write, Portugal is quiet and on the whole con- tented. Spain is ablaze with civil war. It is said' that Portugal went through and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your readers will be profoundly grateful for your leader " Christian Statesmanship." They will also thank Lord Beaverbrook for the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your readers may be grateful to Lord Beaverbrook for his convincing demonstration of the hopeless futility of attempting to achieve...

SIR,—I am greatly pleased to find an increasing amount . of space in The Spectator devoted to the enunciation of the fundamentals of Christian Revolution. In the editorial...

• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—The letter from the London COrrespondent of the Madrid Herald, which appears in your last issue is not only deplorable in itself, but...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article, " Europe and Spain," in last week's SPectator says that " before the rebels, on their side, can establish a new Government...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of the 7th instant Mr. Honey makes the good suggestion that broadcast appeals should be made for motorists to report cases...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reference of " Janus " to the work of the Speech Therapists recalls that The Spectator published a Supplement, on March 80th, 1929, in...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,– -May I, through your columns, ask for new supporters of the Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary to take the place of those whom, from time to...

[To the Editor of Tim SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As one ponders over the problem of Empire, one's mind turns naturally to the children, the leaders of tomorrow, and the importance of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. A. H. Oliver agrees that beer is " abominably overtaxed " and argues that that is the cause of the poor quality...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The reference in your columns last week to M. Bleriot's flying the Channel, and to the sense thereby evoked in other countries that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] beg to call your attention to the enclosed cutting from last week's The Spectator. It cries out in challenge to our. Faith. Is it possible...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As a housemaster at the Doon School, I am grateful to Mr. Yeats-Brown for his able description of what he saw during his welcome visit to...

By ARTHUR WAUGH RATHER more than thirty years have passed since the after- noon when, sitting at my office desk in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, I was handed a telegram...

Tsushima. By A. Novikoff-Priboy. (George Allen and Unwin. las.) . • By the end of the Tsarist regime the Russians had developed (nor have they yet by any means lost) a genius...

Parnell. By Joan Haslip. (Cobden Sanderson. 15s.) THE tragedy of Parnell was so terrible in its personal and pulAic consequences that it is still today poignant reading for...

IN recent years many, authors have described social conditions and economic organisation in Russia. At the same time theoretical economists have discussed fully the problems of...

Bowen. (Dent. 5s.) Musk, My Love ! •By Charlotte Haldane. (Arthur Barker. 7s. 6d.) Music's Handmaid. By Harriet Cohen. (Faber and Faber. 5s.) MRS. HALDANE and Mrs. Bowen...

Infant Speech. By M. M. Lewis. (Kegan Paul. 12s. 6d.) THE purpose of this book is to give an account of the process by which children arrive at the use and understanding of...

THE second volume of this publication is mainly technical ; but the first is one of the most interesting surveys published by the economic section of the League for a long time....

By WILLIAM PLOMER Men in Arms. By George Slocombe. (Heinemann. 7s. Oda Choose a Bright Morning. By Hillel Bernstein. (Gollancz. 6s.) Think of the Earth. By Bertram Brooker....

Current Literature By H. N. Brallsford The reform of the League of Nations is essentially a topic of the day, and no one's views regarding - it awaken keener anticipation that...

Edited by P. Malevsky-Malevitch Russia — U.S.S.R, (Williams and Islorgate, 21s.) first apPeared in the United IStates three years ago, appendices Ifavinebeen added '-to the...

history of the War has been badly needed, and in this opportune and admirable volume (Faber, 5s.) Captain Liddell Hart has met the need so completely that he need fear few...

S. Smythe, member and leader of Himalayan and other expeditions, is almost equally well known as a writer on mountaineering and as a climber with a brilliant record of...

, To-day (Oxford University Press, 3s. 6d.) is Soinethingniore_than -a-handbook for amateur photographers. Yet it does not quite reach the standard of a source of know- ledge...

and economically-minded seeker after a really cheap car' gets his best chances. At most Wiles of the year, nowadays, one can pick up soimder second-hand cars' than was possible...

Finance FROM the correspondence I receive front time to time from readers of The Spectator I gather that a good many readers of these financial- columns would consider it...

THE great public interest shown in the approaching new coins of King Edward VIII, the designs of which are said to have been approved by His Majesty, is indiCative of the...

RISE IN RAILS. Nor for the first time the month of August looks like belying its reputation for stagnation of business during the height of the holiday season. This year the...

YIELDS ON PREFERENCE AND ORDINARY SHARES. To those unaccustomed to the vagaries of market movements, it may seem strange that the Ordinary shares of a company —usually an...

" THE Seecreroa," Averusx 13m, 1836. On Sunday last, Mr. Thomas Riddell, of Felton Park, High Sheriff of Northumberlinid, attended public worship at the Catholic chapel in...

BY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correc solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes shoulo be marked " Crossword...

of Crossword No. 202 is the Rev. J. S. Phillips, Highbrook Vicarage, Ardingly, Sussex.