HE Russi and the German reports of the battle at Kerch, which ha --going_on_through the whole of this week, differ widely that it is difficult to form any Clear judgement as to...

attempted to avoid an open breach with Vichy, and till recently has not thought it necessary to take measures to deal with the danger latent in the French colony of Martinique...

clear picture of the war in Burma owing 0 the movements of the Japanese from several directions and the [ merging lines of retreat of the British and the Chinese. The British...

Lieut.-General Sir William Dobbie returned to England on Sunday from Malta, where as Governor and Commander-in-Chief he has been the organiser of a defence that has already had...

In the rebuilding of London (and equally of the " Baedeker " dike ravaged by recent raids) the aim should be to strike a happ balance between the restoration of the old that can...

Mr. Churchill has the fullest backing of the nation when he warns Germany that if she uses poison gas against Russia we shall retaliate just as if she had used it against us....

The representative industrialists who have been appointed the Board of Trade to sit as a Central Committee of Export Group have the duty of examining some of the problems which...

Whatever the inherent rights and wrongs of the fuel-rationing controversy, the Government have gained nothing in reputation by their handling of it. The Government spokesman in...

EVERAL Ministers, notably Mr. Churchill, Mr. Eden and Mr. Herbert Morrison, have within the last few days been rig statements which admirably complement one another the subject...

Mr. Harold Butler, the former Director of the In national Labour Office, to go to America as head of the Bri Information organisation there. The need for someone of first rank...

from Burma while there was still a gap through the Japanese lines and reached India by land after an incredible twelve days' journey in an American " jeep," a squat and singular...

said that if discrimination against his paper Picture Post was not removed must be a demand for the resignation of Mr. Brendan Brack Ridiculously inadequate. Nothing less than...

A CONVERSATION about Turkey with one of the few English- men who really knows and understands that increasingly important country has raised the question whether we - are doing...

of his Leatherhead house by fire. It is stated, I see, " the Bonar Law- papers bequeathed by Bonar Law to Lord Bca brook are safe." There is, it may be assumed, unpublished matt...

sound journalistic practice is so important a thing -that serious departures from it ought at least to be discussed. What I have immediately in mind is a strange action by a...

By STRATEG ICUS flE naval battle in the Coral Sea throws a new light on the possible development of the war in the Far East. We are pently urged not to underrate the strength of...

By B. S EEBOHM ROWNTREE I N the White Paper on Family Allowances issued last week by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the cost of alternative schemes is estimated. The gross...

By JENNIE LEE* URNS, Oregon, U.S.A., is a small western town lying in the folds of the Oregon hills. Its main industry is a sawmill employing several thousand men. There is...

By SIR EVELYN WRENCH New Delhi. A CONVERSATION with Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru on any sub- ject is a stimulating experience, for the Congress leader has an alert and incisive...

By W. J. TURNER HE musical and mathematical gifts seem to be more generally inherited than any other kind of talent, and Sullivan was no pion to the majority of famous composers...

cent) who was the first to realise that it was not sufficient to improve a perfect the food of the rich, but that it was also necessary to ere a higher standard of cooking among...

In his excellent and informative book Good Cheer, Frederick Hackwood has traced the origins and cdhsequences the fork. Until the dawn of the seventeenth century, forks were f...

for the art of cooking. On Tuesday last, a young Austrian came to see me on this eternal problem of our propaganda abroad. He was serving in the pioneer corps and I asked him...

By HAROLD NICOLSON L ORD WOOLTON, on Tuesday afternoon, informed the House of Lords of the Order issued by the Ministry of Food on the subject of luxury feeding. He and Major...

supply owing to war conditions are advertised in this journal should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.

Will Dawn." At the Leicester Square. YOU consider how much energy is being used in putting propa- a into our fiction films you may well wonder whether the s justify the effort....

I Top." Revue by Herbert Farjeon. At His Majesty's Theatre. CoCHRAN's new revue is not likely to be acclaimed by his rs as one of his best, although there are good things in...

THOSE who fly out on polished wings, Across the sightless gaps of space, Who see the way the cosmos swings As stars turn in their circled place. They summon lightning at their...

Sm,—My article was not " a plea for the protection of the German bureaucracy," as Mr. Strauss suggests, but a statement of facts. After having credited me with the most sinister...

article on India by Sir Stanley Reed, M.P. In it he says that among the minorities there who dread a government entirely dominated by Congress, "or in other words caste Hindus,"...

SIR, —Sir Hari Singh Gour, in his letter published in your issue of May 8th, seems concerned to justify the Congress in quarrelling with the British Government on the question "...

Sm,—The article " The Wage-Earner's Teeth " in your issue of May contains the sentence: " The worker, under N.H.I., may belong to an approved soc that provides dental benefit...

gr te SIR, — In your note on " Labour's Plan for Coal Production in issue of May 8th you state that " The coalmining industry, handica as it still is by a multiplicity of...

THE RUGBY BY-ELECTION Sts,—Your correspondent, S. F. Mott, in the letter you published on May 8th, states that the " local Press showed a party oias in favour of the...

your other correspondents, it seems to me, has hit upon the shortest way to " please the Americans," if they must be pleased. I have known a good many dozen Britons who have...

Curate." May I, as a try rector of many years' experience, add my witness to his ny? There is hardly anything to which country people of all ees more readily pay deference and...

be learned from the past ; nothing whatever from the future? Moreover, the state of the world today (for which, of course, those now alive are responsible) hardly justifies his...

can only con- clude that the " Harold Nicolson." whose weekly comments are among the best and most enjoyable of Spectator features, is not identical with the Honourable Harold...

to Sir Robert Greig's suggestion about the suspension of title-making. After the last war an order was allotted to my company, and one member eventually was chosen for it. I do...

interesting light on the value attached to " Esq." by the electorate? Some years before the war a vacancy for a rural district councillor occurred in a certain parish. There...

have just read and enjoyed the letter froni Mr. Lionel James on bbery and titles. He has spared your readers what I think is the cal conclusion of his trend of thought. Why...

asks leave to " recall to some of your correspondents that Rome at her best, e.g., under Augustus, could find no better title for him than—' God.' " I will not attempt to...

MANY comparisons have been made of late between the islands of But and Madagascar, which has a much bigger area; but they have no , eluded one strange contrast. At this date, as...

SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's comments on Vansittartism in The Spec-. tator of May 8th seem to me to reflect a very dangerous tendency That is the assumption that there are no...

in their holidays a amusing their instructors, if not always pleasing them. One of them. very thin, weedy boy, boasted that he was going into the Navy, u which a companion, not...

a plea fru the proper pronunciation of the word " allies "? M:. Churchill, President Roosevelt and the English Dictionary unite in reminding us that the accent is on the last...

very efficient grower of cucumbe to be obliged by a drastic order to destroy his go:ants when in full bea ing, in order that he might put in tomatoes. though the plants were not...

SIR, —Most of us, I feel sure, agree with your correspondent, Mr. F. W. Bevan, when he says that Gilbert was such a great comic poet that he deserves to be quoted correctly....

subject dis- cussed under the title of " Is Money the Root of Al! Evil? " Arguing that there had been a scriptural misapprehension involved in the theme, he reminded the...

The latest (and it must be the last to to quoted on this subject) of letters to reach me on the intelligent views of the rat on transport pr lems is the most precise and...

more toss of than the paucity of threshing machines• I watched this week I threshing of a stack of wheat which was alive with mice They we almost continously emerging long...

A German Protectorate : The Czechs under Nazi Rule. By Shiela Grant Duff. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) MISS SHIELA GRANT DUFF has chosen a tragic theme. The Czechs were heavily armed,...

Mussolini Out-manoeuvred tun perished in a three-cornered fight between the Catholic Ey, the Socialists and the Nazis. PrinCe Starhemberg, who had wed politics in Hitler's...

DR HARBAGE has given us a brief but concentrated study of the audience at the Globe and other London theatres during the half- century which followed the first production of...

The Psychology of C. G. Jung. By Dr. Jolan Jacobi. (Kegarl Ps x2s.) WHEN I was at school the Freud-Jung psychology was new s and heady at that. We adolescents devoured Freud •...

MR. HYAMSON has credentials which entitle him to a hearing. is a serious student of Jewish history and—a more unusual qua! cation—he is one of the few British Jews who have held...

I TAKE it on general evidence that the author of Tiger, rig by profession a painter, not .a writer ; and by lively imPli throughout his book he makes clear his view, shared by...

The Lite and Times of Sir Robert Peel. By Sir Tresham (Al!en and Unwin. x2s. 6d.) THIS book, which does not pretend to be a work of de research, is a sensible, interesting and...

Night Shift. By Inez Holden. (John Lane. The Bells Go Down, Diary of an A.F.S. Man. (Methuen. 5s.) THESE two documentaries of life in war-time both have the assu interest of...

THE LONDON ASSURANCE THE annual general court of The London Assurance will be held on May loth at the head office, t King William Street, London, E.C. Mr. R. Olaf Hambro has...

The winner of Crossword No. 164 is Miss Melton Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 16. S. M. Groves,

14 B , ok Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct clown of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on TuesdaY week. E ge lopes should be...

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES FACTORIES AT FULL CAPACITY THE fifteenth ordinary general meeting of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, will be held on 28th May in London....

By CUSTOS ONE hears little in these days of weight of money in the s markets for the good reason that for the time being large- requisitionings of American, Canadian and other...

PROFITS MAINTAINED ordinary general meeting of the National Bank of India, Limited, Id in London on May izth. following statement by the chairman, Mr. R. Langford James, has...

THE UNITED MOLASSES COMPANY, LIMITED MR. F. K. KIELBERG'S STATEMENT A3 a convenience to stockholders who, owing to war conditions, may not find it possible to attend the...