A WEEK ago there was despondency at San Francisco when it appeared that there was no way out of the deadlock over the veto. The atmosphere was suddenly lightened when it became...

Not less important than the ending of the deadlock at San Francisco is the discovery of a solution of the hitherto insoluble problem of Poland. Indeed, these two questions were...

Yet another obstacle to friendly relations between the Allies has been - removed by the agreement signed at Belgrade between the British and American Governments on the one hand...

Some figures given by Mr. Law in the House of Commons, on Monday, show how unwise it would be to force the pace for raising the school-leaving age. April t, 1947, is the date...

There 'are no party differences about the Family Allowances Bill, and there was deep satisfaction in all parts of the House of Commons that it was found possible to carry it...

While the world awaits the, news of the meeting of the heads of the three States which have borne the main burden of the war, the com- manders who have achieved victory on land...

The Canadian General Election has resulted in the return of the Liberals as the largest single party, and with the support of the small group of Independent Liberals they will...

The welcome that was given to General Eisenhower, not only by privileged guests at the Guildhall, but by the massed crowds who greeted him in the streets on his way to receive...

W ITH the General Election now no more than three weeks off, it might have been supposed that the various Party leaders would have thought it well to concentrate on the funda-...

I DON'T know where the idea that Mr. Churchill may before long move to the House of Lords comes from. Someone has ascribed to it an American origin, and Mr. Bevin, following...

By DAVID THOMSON What is the choice before us? On one hand there is the policy' of making separate but harmonious treaties of alliance with other countries. Just over three...

By JAMES LANSDALE HODSON T AM writing in Blackpool, this key that winds up Lancashire for 1. its slogging hard work. The Labour Party, which has lately been holding its...

By PATRICK LACEY That, however, is not the reason why I stilt like the Cripps proposals. They were recommended by much else I had seen and heard during those eight years in...

By NOEL F. HALL T HE nationalisation of the Bank of England is one of the issues selected by the Labour Party for submission to the electors. So much has changed since this was...

By THEODORE BARKER First and foremost, we believe that the struggle to provide a decent standard of living for all in a world at peace promises to be an even more formidable...

AUGUST, 1944 IT was only a small place and they had cheered us too much, A couple of allies, chance symbol of Freedom new-found. They were eager to beckon, to back-slap, even...

By HAROLD N1COLSON O N the day this article appears the Parliament elected in Novem- ber, 1935, will have completed almost ten years of life. On Friday morning we shall file...

FIRST light from night's chill void gives hint, The pale precursor of grey morn's despair ; The while the Sun, sure harnessed, Climbs the course ordained, the pattern Fixed ;...

THE film industry often proves more wonderful than its products, the studio fabrications more humdrum than the extravagant fantasies by which they are publicised. This week the...

• MUSIC THE Sadler's Wells Opera Company returned to its own theatre last week after an exile of nearly five years, and the occasion was celebrated by the production of...

SIR, —Mr. Wiener has misread my letter, but I must reply in a sentence to his four questions. (1) I should agree that Dr. Niemoller, with very many others of the Evangelical...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sin,—Dr. Charles Singer would like to think well of the Congressional leaders, and he proposes a test, if they are to acquire his esteem. His test is the...

SIR, —During the last few years Victor Gollancz, Limited, has caused many of our bookstalls to be adorned—if that be the right word—with slim yellow-jacketed booklets containing...

The Spectator of June 8th, I enclose an extract from a protest which the Confessional Church addressed to Hitler. This is only one example— others could be quoted—which proves...

Sia,-011 page 516 in your last issue you state that there is no reason for State interference with the railways on grounds of efficiency, but that there may be on other grounds...

SIR, —The contribution entitled "Dear Milk and Poor," published in your issue of May 4, 5945, shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the veterinary profession and the tremendous...

SIR, —In his recent electioneering broadcast the ex-Secretary of State for Scotland laid great emphasis upon the necessity of State control of medi- cine in order to produce a...

Sts,-1 wrote explicitly in my pamphlet, in the hope that there could be no possible misunderstanding: "By accusing the ordinary Englishman I put in its most extreme form the...

NA'TuR8 is like an .expert display-manager in the big store. Each yes: she singles gut one, or more itemi of her stock and puts it over in a big way. This year it began very...

Sue,—Sir William Beach Thomas must not be too hard on his village friends for pronouncing siren siren. So did Homer:— ciA.kci re npiives A.tyvpu OkArvo-tv leouSp.

Sra,—I was glad to observe that Janus took occasion to criticise Mr. Attlee's reference to Professor Hayek's " admirable "- The Road to Serfdom. Professor Hayek, an Austrian by...

Snt,—I am sorry that Miss Rebecca West has failed so completely to understand the aims and arguments of my article. The " explanation " which she gives of the lack of success of...

Sta,—Spare me, of your charity, room to correct a misprint in a small poem by me which you printed today. For Existed amid the boundless dark read Enitled amid the boundless...

The Left Was Never Right. By Quintin Hogg, M.P. (Faber and Faber. 4s. 6d.) THERE is room for two opinions about the desirability of- what is commonly known as "muck-raking...

America's Illusion MR. HODGE belongs to that oppressed class, the war-time British lecturers in America. He shares most of the views bred in the class, has suffered some of the...

"A STUDY of Misunderstanding," Professor Peyre adds as a sub- title, and the publisher ask on the cover, "Why are scholars and critics so generally blind to the merits of...

THIS book is in its general character a simple study in comparative religion, from which the reader will obtain much clear information, well expressed, as to the central tenets...

The Open Mind. By Georges Berinnos. Translated by Geoffr Dunlop. (The Bodley Head. 8s. 6d.) The Shadow Falls. By Georges Simenon. Translated by Stuart Gilbert (Routledge. 10s....

The winner of Crossword No. 325 is Mks. E. HUGHES, Beacon View, Mathon, Malvern.

ACROSS I. It certainly speeds the parting guest. (9.) 5 Pretty little thing, but it came to nothing. (5.) 5. Richard II described how he bored through a king's castle-wall with...

MR. WARREN writes of the Northern " uplands " of Essex with great sensitivity. He writes of people who "come into the village but do not really belong to it,' who live in those...

By CUSTOS 11 C C THE British Treasury's decision to increase its buying price gold from 168s. to 172s. 3d. an ounce was a well-kept secret. Th was no inkling of what was afoot...