T HE British plan for withdrawing foreign combatants from Spain has been worked out with business-like precision down to the smallest details. Two international commissions will...

made a speech in which he stressed the danger that there might come into being " two standards of conduct in international affairs, with the result that, though nations used the...

publication of the withdrawal plan there appeared a characteristic statement by Signor Mussolini once again affirming the active intervention of Italian troops in the Spanish...

Spain has entered its third year ; on Thursday of last week Japan celebrated, soberly and with some fore- bodings, the beginning of the second year of her war with China. The...

Parliament this week on the issues raised by Mr. Chamberlain's Kettering speech have once again drawn attention to certain weaknesses in the Government's agricultural policy....

demonstra- tion of the national unity and immense vitality of the Czecho- slovaks, the Prague Government has returned to work on the drafts of the reforms to be introduced. If...

third year of war with some of the fiercest fighting that has yet been seen. The Republicans are being slowly pushed back along the Medi- terranean coast ; and General Franco,...

met at Evian on President Roosevelt's initiative have discussed from many points of view the urgent problem of finding a home for the refugees from Germany and Austria, and have...

as was pointed out from the Liberal benches and stressed by Mr. Churchill, it is a document of considerable Parliamentary importance. Ever since 1704 it has been recognised that...

for the most part, a restrained performance. He chaffed Mr. Chamberlain on having reverted unconsciously to Free Trade doctrines without understanding them, and there was one...

Bill occupied the House of Commons from 8.47 on Tuesday evening until 1.3o next morning. A most stimulating debate took place upon the proposal that " incurable insanity "...

House of Commons last Friday on the condition of the British mercantile marine was followed by the equally disquieting quarterly returns of Lloyd's Register last Tuesday on the...

Health Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute last Tuesday, reminded his audience that there was nothing in garden-city principles that called for scattering, nor anything in...

can a ruling from the Chair have wrought such havoc among assiduously prepared speeches as in the Privilege debate on Monday. Even if the Opposition leaders did not snarl "...

The existence of a trade recession in this, and indeed most other countries, has been recognised for some months, . but it will come, nevertheless, as an unpleasant shock to...

W HILST at Evian an international conference has been considering the plight of the German and Austrian refugees, especially Jews, the land which was earmarked as a national...

not to notice a . 1 - growing discontent with the working, and the effects, of the modern educational system. It can be seen in attacks, by competent authorities, on methods of...

T HE Conference on refugees has made evident one fact : that the British Dominions are not prepared to accept any but hand-picked immigrants. Australia seems reluctant to...

By THE BISHOP OF DURHAM G ERMANY under the Nazis presents a truly portentous blending of mediaeval barbarism and modem civilisation. Its mental attitudes and moral standards...

By MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. C. FULLER . T ODAY the aeroplane is the one all-absorbing topic in national and international politics, and though we are now diligently rearming, and...

By MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK [This is the third of a series of articles by the wife of the Chinese Commander-in-Chief. graduate of Wellesley College] • Mme. Chiang Kai-shek is a...

By MARK BENNEY A SHELTERED island washed, and in a sense secluded, by the turbulent tides of city traffic, Trafalgar Square has a spacious, leisurely charm which pigeons and...

ERE• in the vast, silent wastes of the Kalahari Desert is a tantalising problem for the British Government and people—one that touches our honour at a sensitive spot. It is yet...

By CHARLES MADGE ' What is really necessary is a continuous scientific analysis of the main news-pages of such papers as the Daily Mail, Daily Express, News Chronicle, Daily...

By R. F. SCOTT O VER a side door of the building was a sign with "Poor Man's Lawyer " inscribed upon it, and inside was a queue of some twenty men and women waiting patiently....

By WSEVOLOD GEBROVSKY DE SCHNEEUHR. T HE sisters Juliet, Julie, Julia, julietta, and Julithaa lived on the thirty-seventh floor of a Chicago sky-scraper. Not one of them...

By MICHAEL ZOSHCHENKO Y OU might be interested to know, citizens, that I had a telephone installed a few weeks ago. Because, you see, in our businesslike days, you're quite...

Under Thirty Page By DESMOND HAWKINS [The writer, who •is aged twenty-nine, is Literary Editor of " Purpose "] The national answer is the kind of answer that a statesman What...

" Yellow Jack." At The Empire— Revivals THE importance of Yellow Jack lies more in its subject-matter than in its technique. It directs our attention to a moment of vital...

STAGE AND SCREEN Lichine's " Protee" M. LICHINE, desiring to create a Greek mythological ballet, has chosen music by Debussy (the Danses sac,* et profane), set five nymphs and...

The Delectable Woolley A FEW weeks more, and the greatest left-hander who ever played cricket for his living will have retired from the game, still displaying that nonchalant...

[D'un corrzspondant parisien] IL n'y a pas que le cote politique de la visite du roi Georges ni que son cote de.coratif. L'aspect gastronomique n'est pa ; negligeable....

A Miracle of Growth Farmers smiled and the public gaped at a little marvel of productive capacity shown at " The Royal," held a week ago at Cardiff. Ten milch cows were fed for...

[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 " paragraphs. Signed...

article ? [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sir John deplores the Government's action in refusing to admit to this country every Jewish applicant for refuge. I think, as a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—The article in your last issue by Sir John Hope Simpson will cause many of us to wish that Great Britain had been as active in the service...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIRS I was extremely interested to read in your issue of July 8th your eminently sensible article on the subject of suicide. Although in all...

the Prime Minister's policy is wrong and there is no harm in opposing it. To question his sincerity, as Miss Rathbone does, is another matter, and if her accusations of...

SIR,—It may be true, as you say in your footnote to Mr. J. W. Armour's letter, that you cannot defend a ship lying along the quay at, say, Valencia, without defending Valencia....

SIR,—AS an old subscriber I wish to add my protest against the attempt, through your columns, to poison the wells of Truth. Possibly the following may supply an antidote. In...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Mr. Rowse, reviewing, in your last issue, Mr. Morton's A People's History of England, refers to the judgement that the Reformation was "...

feel that I must protest against the language used in your issue of the ist inst, "A Disgrace to Europe." It is just such reckless, utterly biassed, and even untrue statements...

SIR,—TO the " Hymns of Hate " against Germany, which The Spectator prints with apparent approval, there is a notable addition this week in the letter which Mr. Hamilton Fyfe...

Sm,—May we be allowed to bring before your readers the work of the London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund ? This fund, which was founded by Archbishop Maclagan, then Vicar of...

You who have not sown Will eat the bitter bread And beg the sweetness of a stone Flung at Saint Stephen's head. You who have not sung Will hear the clang of brass When fairies...

SIR,—With reference to your answer to Current Question 3 in your issue of July 1st, I should like to point out that the Emperor Charles V never ruled Bohemia. That kingdom...

Addison-Phillips is perhaps quite right in saying in her recent letter in your columns, " The parent who prefers a private school education is especially in need of some...

O wno can tell where flow the seas Or China's passive centuries 9 The heart of fire ? The will of steel ? The fortune squandered on the wheel ? O who can trail the comet's...

[To the Editor of THE - SPECTATOR] S IRS I am writing a biography of the Fifeshire Scot, Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on Mas a Tierra in the Juan Fernandez Group from...

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The Red Army. By Erich Wollenberg. Translated from the German by Claud W. Sykes. (Seeker and Warburg. los. 6d.) THIS book is in many ways remarkable, and not least in the fact...

The Open Fields. By C. S. and C. S. Orwin. (Oxford University Press. 21S.) IN effect, the authors of The Open Fields say the students ( f sociology have been putting the cart...

Tins is an utterly delightful book. I do not know to which of the Muses Mr. Willson Disher is in debt ; probably to a special Muse, and I see at once a rush of pantomime dames...

Back- ground. By W. B. Rutland. (Basil Blackwell. 2ts.) THOMAS HARDY IT is difficult for any one born, like myself, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, to assess the...

To You Mr. Chips ! By James Hilton. (Hodder and Stoughton. 5s.; ONE remembers them on the occasions of speech days and cricket matches milling anxiously and rather shyly around...

GENERAL works on economics vary in aim as well as in the success with which that aim is achieved. They may be, in the strict sense, introductions, designed to familiarise the...

Brighton Rock. By Graham Greene. (Heinemann. 73. 6d.) GRAHAM GREENE is an enterprising and accomplished writer; and his picture of Brighton, or rather of certain aspects of...

By KATE O'BRIEN Acquittal. By Gracme and Sarah Lorimer. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) You Know You Can Trust Me. By Charles Curran. (Cape: 8s. 6d.) Young Man With A Horn. By Dorothy Baker....

has drawn attention to the unsatisfactory conditions of the personrfel, particularly in regard to pay.. This book (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 9s.) submits to a very careful examina-...

Mary G. Thomas Miss Thomas's very interesting little book (National Institute for the Blind, 2s. 6d.) shows that the public school founded for blind boys in 1866 by the Rev. R....

If the four distinguished sponsors whose names appear, with that of the introducer Mr. Wickham Steed, on the dust-cover of The War Against the West (Gollancz, as.), have really...

book (Appleton, los. 6d.) is in fact " an informal account of certain particularly interesting engineering achieve- ments," whether ancient or modern. Mr. Miller reminds his...

The extravagances of American social life make pleasantly horrific reading for English escapists ; we can enjoy the scandal for its own sake, and don't have to do anything about...

A Policeman's Lot A view of road problems as seen by the official at Scotland Yard primarily concerned with them could not fail to be novel, and could not fail to be important....

, By CUSTOS WALL STREET is so obviously calling the tune in London that for the moment even important. items of domestic news count for little in Throgmorton Street. The...

*JUNE STEEL PRODUCTION THE British iron and steel industry has been like a central column supporting the whole structure of industrial recovery. It has also been the most...