Two _days after the entry of the Allies into Tunis and Bizerta, General Franco, speaking to a gathering of Falangists at Almeria, said that the time had now come when people...

NEWS OF THE WEEK once more at a dramatic moment ; it is enough to recall that ir. Churchill's last visit to Washington synchronised with the fall f Tobruk. Today the...

If Russo-Polish relations have not improved in the past week, but rather the contrary, the fault this time lies wholly with the Russians. The statement on the subject made a...

The Tunisian victory should have important economic as well as military consequences. The relief on the pressure on shipping through the reopening of the Mediterranean route...

When Mr. W. S. Morrison moved the second reading of the Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) Bill he made no claim to be introducing more than a first instalment of...

• In his speech at West Bromwich last Sunday Mr. Herbert Morrison repeated the necessary warning that the years following the war would bring a situation calling just as much...

The coal industry, with the assistance of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, spends £2cio,o0o a year on coal utilisation research. The Fuel Research Board...

Who would have supposed that a world war would bring int being a body such as C.E.M.A., financed by the Treasury, paternall blessed by the Board of Education, presided over by a...

HERE have been many milestones in these three years and a half of war. The defeat of France followed by the miracle Dunkirk, was one ; the Battle of Britain was another ; ad was...

1 T is difficult to single out for special pre-eminence any one I incident more than another in the tremendous final week of the Tunisian campaign ; but what, I think, gives me...

By STRATEGICUS ‘RD-DRIVEN words are entitled to be apposite at least once, and it can scarcely be regarded as inappropriate to describe c position in Tunisia as revolutionised....

By PERCY DUNSHEATH T HE approach of a new Education Bill at this time raises both hopes and fears: hopes because a public opinion, alive as never before to the importance of...

By the RT. HON. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. A NEW art, as important as the art of printing, has lately been born amongst us, and its developments are literally in full blast. The new...

By G. F. BARBOUR O N May 18th, 1843, there took place the " Disruption," the most dramatic and significant of the many divisions in the history of the Scottish Kirk. It was...

By W. M. COUSINS THE tall, wandering Arab was an image of death. Thin as a vine-pole was his lanky form, and his voluminous white robes served only to emphasise the emaciation...

By HAROLD NICOLSON O N this day, May 14th, one hundred and nineteen years ago, the news reached London that Byron had died at Missolonghi. A messenger from Corfu had arrived...

A Low mist clings To the dreaming vale ; all shape is blurred And blue and dim ; Above earth's eastern rim A slow rose flush Suffuses all the ribbed and spurred Far 'scape of...

" Chetniks." At the Gaumont and the Marble Arch Pavilion. " The Black Swan." At the Odeon.--" The Crystal Ball." At the London Pavilion.—" Miss London Ltd." At the Leicester...

LooK at that little island, moss-agate and green In a white-foaming sea the colour of a moonstone. Two thousand years ago The Child of Light* ran to and fro Over its gentle...

tusii plays are irresistible to many English people. The very and of an Irish voice has the soothing and clouding effect on y judgement that whisky or a very good dinner has on...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sta,—I venture to call the attention of your readers to the Report of the Committee on Agricultural Education, of which Lord Justice Luxmoore was chairman...

SIR,—Whilst there are many excellent administrators in West Africa itself, the actual colonial policy is directed from London. A continuous policy of appeasement towards the...

SIR,—It was careless of me to leave a stick about for Dr. Bevan to be- lalpur me with. Except for the one sentence which he quotes, and which would, I agree, nave been better...

Comment" in the issue of May 7th ? There is a conspectus of the famous conflicts that made that region for ever memorahle, illuminated by the identification of places, now...

Snt,—Unless we take a long step forward from the League, we shall take a long step backward. Already we see the outlines of the reactionary scheme whereby the hopes of the...

Snt,—Had Mr. Harold Nicolson's delightful article on the literature which North Africa has inspired been written a few days later, he might have found it not inappropriate to...

SIR,—One read Mr. Lang's article of April 3oth with great interest and hope. In September, 1941, I suggested in the Teachers' World that London and the big cities should seek...

Sna,--When Prebendary Wilson Carlile, C.H., D.D., founder and honorary chief secretary of the Church Army, died in September last there was a world-wide and spontaneous tribute...

Sta,—In her article on the above subject in your issue of May 7th Dame Georgiana Buller very rightly deprecates the establishment of a Register of Persons Handicapped by...

Sta,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's lyrical account in " Marginal Comment" of the scenes, famous in story, in which the armies of the Allied nations hdve won their resounding victory...

SIR,—The Central Institute of Art and Design has been asked to collect books on Art for distribution to British Prisoners of War to be sent through the British Red Cross and...

SIR,—In the course of his able review of my book The Daily Press Mr. Gordon Robbins questions my statement that the loss sustained by The Tribune in its brief career in 1906 and...

No two countrymen can possibly exchange letters in this year wonderful without capping each other's instances of precocity. One of the most helpful bits of information that I...

SIR,—May we be permitted to correct Miss Kate O'Brien's impression that Frossia is the first novel by Miss E. M. Almedingen? It is in fact her fourth, this firm having published...

The Elizabethan Background The Elizabethan World Picture. By E. M. W. Tillyard, (Chatto and Windus. 6s.) THE present writer recalls hearing the psychologist, George Stout,...

Over To Bombers. By Mark Benney. (George Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) Victory Production. By J. T. Murphy. (John Lane. 6a.) SIR STAPFORI) CRIPPS mentioned the other day that the...

Within the City Wall. By Margaret Mann Phillips. (Cambridge. 6s.) Maiden Voyage. By Denton Welch. (Routledge. tos. 6d.) Two quotations may illustrate the different ways in...

THE Japanese conquests of last year must be almost unique in history. An effort absurdly slight, in the space of a few months, won an empire far richer than any plunder of...

beruans. ‘Cam- The Skilled Hand bridge University Press. s 6d. VICTORIAN households of the climbing middle-class sort used to stress the " hand-painted " character of their...

Perelandra. By C. S. Lewis. (The Bodley Head. 8s. 6d.) If Ever I Cease to Love. By Frances Parkinson Keyes. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. to& 6d.) Still as a Stranger. By Marjorie...

Introduction by Edward J. Dent. (Hefter. L4 0.) THIS exhaustive work is indispensable as a reference book to all libraries. It contains details of about 4,000 operas, including...

by Robert Birley, Vol. III : 1865-1913. (Oxford University Press. 31.) FROM the end of the Civil War to the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, modern America was " aborning." The...

The Old Lion and Other Stories. By Walter de la Mare. (Faber and Faber. 3s. 6d.) THESE stories, selected from three of Mr. de la Mare's books for children, reveal his power not...

THIS is a pioneer book that is well worth reading. For Mr. Burman had the idea of going, in the winter of 194o-41, to see what was afoot in those parts of the French Empire that...

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By CUSTOS ANY hopes there may have been that the resounding victory in Tunisia would send prices soaring in Throgmorton Street have been falsified this week. Long-dated...