for an outrageous telegram of congratula- tion to Signor Mussolini sent by Prince Starhemberg, the Heimwehr leader and Deputy-Chancellor, has proved too much for the Chancellor,...

the League of Nations Council meeting on Tuesday with marked discretion, the essential passage in the resolution adopted declaring that, while the discussion was adjourned till...

military victory. The annexation of Abyssinia (no diplomatic equivocations about a mere protectorate) has been pro- claimed and the organisation of a kind of administration...

President of the Salford Branch of the Catholic Truth Society explained that in regard to the Italo-Abyssinian dispute the Pope " has kept a dignified silence because he is...

Republic was certain once he presented himself as a candidate. He is the most powerful personality in Spanish politics ; but his decision to become President has been a shock to...

of the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of Arms was considerably increased by the vigour with which Sir Maurice Hankey, giving evidence last Friday, traversed the...

choose its presidential candidate at the national convention which: opens in Cleveland on June 9th. The assumption is that he must be a Westerner or Mid-Westerner, since it is...

Germany by the decision to publish the questions addressed by the British Government to Herr Hitler than by the questions themselves. As to the questions, it was quite essential...

has shown a considerable recovery, largely owing to M. Leon Bluni's reassuring speech on Sunday, and to restrictions on the foreign ex- change market which hampered the small...

the course of a long answer to a question from Mr. Churchill on Wednesday afternoon three times referred to him as " the right honourable gentleman " insttad of " my right...

rally to the side of the League and a continuance of sanctions. The Diehards who imagined that Sir Austen's speech had killed the sanctions policy are disagreeably surprised at...

Parliamentary competence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain. The claims on his time are prodigious. In addition to piloting the Budget through the House, he has been in charge both of...

in this country, been threatened with ruin if it persists in the ways of Mr. de Valera that the Irish Budget may seem somewhat surprising to Englishmen. As Mr. McEntee, the...

on Japanese action in Manchuria, has brought the whole future of the League of Nations into question is a matter of common agreement. The actual existence of the League may be...

striking arguments in his lively debate with Mr. A. P. Herbert on the provision of £1,200 for new pensions in the Civil List. He said that it would be improper to raise that sum...

has been a substantial rise in Mr. Baldwin's stock from the low levels to which it has recently sunk. Now that Govern- ment supporters have had leisure to consider Sir Austen...

the war. That is triumph- antly proclaimed in Rome and impetuously echoed by a limited company in this country. Has she ? The ultimate profit and loss account must he compiled...

T O comment at this stage on the evidence given before the tribunal presided over by Mr. Justice Porter would be manifestly improper ; but the enquiry is in itself as...

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By F. YEATS-BROWN (This is the third of a series • of articles which Mr. Yeats-Brown has been specially commissioned - by " The Spectator " to write on contemporary India. The...

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By FRANCIS GOWER T HE present expedition is the sixth to be sent to Mount Everest. It is the fourth expedition to enter Tibet with every other aim subordinated to the attempt...

By SIR STEPHEN TALLENTS H OW many parents, I wonder, pricked their ears when The Times told them not long since that the ranks of Mr. Baldwin's experienced colleagues, past and...

By ROSE MACAULAY T HE fait accompli : magic phrase ! One knew already that faits, once they are aceomplis, are apt to be accepted by the world pretty quickly, but surely the...

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" The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." At the Carlton —" Secret Agent." At the Tivoli—"A History of the Film, 1896-1936." At the Everyman. THE only film I have seen with real...

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Degas and La Fresnaye THOSE who in general admire the Impressionists and Post- Impressionists are apt to be scornful of Degas because of the prettiness of his subjects ; and...

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Rural History Now quietly continuous are the annals of our country places in England, even now ! For example : a very local historian in Essex has been searching in the manorial...

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[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Under the heading of " German Settlers of Tanganyika," appeared in the East African Standard's weekly Edition of March 27th, the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--T have read with great interest the Hon. Mrs. Geoffrey Youard's article in the May 1st issue of The Spectator, but I think her criticisms...

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SIR,—The recurrence of trouble and bloodshed in Palestine, trouble that has been endemic ever since Great Britain accepted responsibility for the government of the country and...

[To the Editor of TILE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--I have read with interest Mr. S. L. Bensusan's article and subsequent correspondence on this subject. It is possible that the experience...

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Italian difficulties—real dangerous ones—in Abyssinia will perhaps date from now. It is one thing to facilitate an advance by the new...

to wrest Abyssinia from Italy, has overlooked one point—the Suez Canal. It is hardly to be expected that France, having found legal reasons for allowing Italy free passage,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have been interested by the review in your issue of May 8th by Miss Macaulay of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Plare Names....

8th, states " At 'Waterloo his (i.e., Wellington's) voice and presence rallied retreating companies again and again ; unlike our commanders in the last War." What exactly your...

SIR, — In connexion with my recent letter about church services, &c., I was interested to note the suggestion that one difficulty which arises when changing services is that in...

FIRST in the North : The black sea-tangle beaches, Brine-bitter stillness, tablet strewn morass, Shawled women against the sky with heads covered, The witch's house below the...

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IT may be not uninstructive, and possibly more amusing. to regard this, the concluding volume of the Cambridge Medieval History, as the prelude to the modem age no less than the...

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in his article on Trollope in this book, has a sentence which well expresses the difficulty in which the modern novelist finds himself. Speaking of the nineteenth century he...

A Candid Revolutionary PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEn/C` has written an exceptional book. Product of Harrow and Cambridge and the English Bar, stormy petrel of the Indian political...

IF I were asked to choose the pivotal sentence in this excellent and encylopaedic book, I should point to Dr. Elliott-Binns's quotation from Mandell Creighton, that " religion...

Wanderings in Yugoslavia. By Nora Alexander. (Skeffington. 18e.) AN interesting essay might be written on the British habit of eccentric foreign travel and the ways in which it...

Break the Heart's Anger. By Paul Engle. (Cape. :is.) Poems. By Michael Roberts. (Cape: 5s.) Ix the noise of the loud buzzes that greeted Mr. Paul Engle's American Sang, echoing...

THE author, who writes in German, has already published in English a picturesque life of Stalin, the merits of which depended mainly on a liberal use of local colour and a vivid...

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Mr. Buchanan has continued the journal and commentary of which his Passage through the Present gave a first instal- ment some years ago. Some of the paragraphs in his new book...

By Major G. Harrison and F. C. Mitchell Statistics have become the indispensable instrument for the study of social changes and movements : in this book (George Allen and Unwin,...

In his introduction to Lasseter's Last Ride (Cape, 7s. 6d.) Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood writes : " The annals of Central Australian exploration are tragic and heroic, but...

often more illuminating than the clever productions of the bright young things of modem letters. Mr. Price has had the good idea of publishing together the travel diaries of two...

This book (Longmans, 15s.) is a reprint_ of the Tamer lectures delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge, last year, by Mr. A. D. Ritchie. Its purpose is to study the mind from...

By Fedor Stepan As a consequence of the persecution to which the majority of the Russian intelligentsia have been subjected since the Revolution, some of the most profound of...

By H. P. Price Under the catch-penny title, When Men Wore Muffs (Dent, as.), Mr. Price has put together a_short history of men's dress, and some notes on correct modern wear....

' dovni. A Vdrkshireinan by birth, he has lived and worked in various parts of the- globe, mostly. as a fanner, and at odd times turned his restless hand to writing. He has a...

• By J. G. Hides • Papua is fortunate in its administrators. Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor under the Commonwealth mandate, in his treatment of the natives, has set a...

Finance AT the annual banquet of the British Bankers' Associa- tion, which took place last Monday evening, the President for the year, Mr. J. Beaumont Pease, Chairman of Lloyds...

DUNLOP RUBBER. THAT shareholders will do well to give careful attention to the remarks of chairmen at the annual meetings of companies is evidenced by the recent report of the...

BY ZENO 1.1 prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this rroutrord puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword Puzzle,"...

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