Mr. Sumner Welles's reply to a critic of American foreign policy, and particularly of the Administration's failure to mediate irr Indian affairs, is a most able and satisfactory...

Cecil on Wednesday evoked a number of valuable expressions of view NEWS OF THE WEEK I n the constitution of the post-war international authority. The *pper House contains a...

Hitler-and Mussolini, accompanied by their leading Ministers and their Chiefs of Staff, doubtless had a good many pressing matters to talk about in the four days they spent...

• The Japanese have not distinguished themselves for accuracy in their claims, but, even allowing for the maximum of exaggeration, the campaign in Burma has been disappointing...

The claims of the " living theatre " to some preferential treatment in respect of entertainments duty are now admitted by the Govern- ment, and in the present Budget the...

The debate on the B.B.C. in the House of Commons last week left that maligned, indispensable and, on the whole, reasonably satisfactory institution very much what it was before....

A proposal relating to the structure of local government which is to be submitted to the Labour Party conference at Whitsuntide is likely to meet with as much support outside...

Disappointingly slow progress is being registered in the negotia- tions between General de Gaulle and General Giraud. General Catroux, representing the French National Committee...

is a 0 d e le n ie y et T HOUGH Sir Kingsley Wood had to propose additional taxation to the tune of about itoo,000,000—a figure which in normal times would have staggered...

I HAVE found real and general appreciation of the Queen's broad- cast on Sunday night, and heard more than one comment on the youthfulness of the voice. There was no doubt about...

By STRATEGICUS HE last phase of the Tunisian campaign is about to begin. The ISth Army Group is now apparently in contact with the nemv on the forward positions of the...

By WILSON HARRIS p RINCESS ELIZABETH will be seventeen next Wednesday, which means that she is ceasing to be a child. Her life has so far, most rightly, been spent in her home...

By COL. THE RIGHT HON. WALTER ELLIOT, M.P. T HE United States of America is the only part of the English- speaking world which has a living tradition of expression in war-song....

By JANET LEEPER A REPORT published by the Central Office for Refugees at Bloomsbury House contains much useful information as to the present position of German and Austrian...

By JANET ADAM SMITH W HEN Robert Louis Stevenson was staying at Fontainebleau in 1875, at Siron's inn at Barbizon, he and his cousin, Bob Stevenson, were invited to the...

By HAROLD NICOLSON or inconvenient. Anyone who disinters these objects is regarded as guilty of crankines lack of patriotism or bad taste. In no area of public administration...

" The Quest." At the New Theatre. MR. FREDERICK ASHTON'S new ballet, The Quest, produced by the Sadler's Wells Company, is based upon the story of Una and the Red Cross Knight...

The Gentle Sex is a story of life in the A.T.S., compered by Mr. Leslie Howard often in the spirit of the penny peep-show, his com- mentary at other times suggesting a...

" Television at £15 is Peace Plan." —Daily Express, March 23rd, 1943. AFTER the war a new world, A new world and a new man. Yes, but tell me if you can What is new in your...

THE THEATRE This must be the most magnificent and superb production of Con- zreve's Love for Love that our own or any other theatre has ever known. And it is not, as may only...

Snt,—In your editorial of March 26th you made allusion to the fact that Mr. Gandhi's " teachings are an instigation to violence," and in your leading article of April 2nd it is...

Sta,—May I answer some of the misstatements about India made by your correspondents, Messrs. Bentall and Johnson? (t) India can never enjoy the freedom promised to her as long...

Spry—Earnestly desirous of avoiding another tragic misuse of a great opportunity, I read with much pleasure and agreement Mr. Arnold Palmer's witty and timely letter. While the...

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND THE NEW SOCIETY Six,-It is surprising that no answer has appeared in your columns to the two expositions of conservative faith and policy which you have...

R,-" Janus " has done a public service in speaking out frankly on the ortunate fact that " the Jewish community in Britain has a black cord " in respect of black-market...

SIR,—I read with much interest Mr. Thomas Robins' letter on the above subject, and, as a Scotsman who knows Gaelic, I would like to mike a few comments from my own point of...

published er the above heading in your issue of April 9th is unsound. A com- nson of the percentage of Jewish convictions with their proportion to the total population proves...

SIR, —Mr. A.'V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons on March zard: " The Naval Regulation which forbids officers and men to communicate to...

Sitt,—Permit me to applaud Mr. Harold Nicolson's sympathy " with those who contend that a fixed Easter might give a pagan flavour to the solemn ceremonies of the Christian...

SIR,—I am away from my library and Lord Lugard's two big red volumes on Uganda ; but, if my memory serves me, there is a picturesque touch which may be added to the account Mr....

Ste,—Notwithstanding the explanation given by the Minister of Fuel and Power, there is a general feeling in the country that this colliery company has been grossly victimised,...

LAND girls are doing a great work, which is highly appreciated even by farmers, who are not a race much given to laudation ; but it has to be recognised that there are some...

Sta,—Your reviewer, after commenting on certain slips in dates in Mr. Spender's last book, specifies also " at least two mis-statements of fact " which, he says, "need not be...

SIR,—In his admirable article on "The Chemist's Age," Professor I. M. Heilbron makes reference - to the use of synthetic .resins for " the pro- duction of artificial leather."...

The English People. By D. W. Brogan. (Hamish Hamilton. I CANNOT say what American readers (for whom this book is primari intended) will make of Mr. Brogan's account of me and...

Mr. Guedalla and France The Two Marshals. By Philip Guedalla. (Hodder and Stoughton. tos. 6d.) MR. GIJEDALLA'S choice of subject, Marshals Bazaine and Petain, is indicative of...

A Journey to Gibraltar. By Robert Henrey. (Dent. I2S. 6d.) Tins is a very unusual book. It is the account of a journey taken last year by a British journalist from England to...

Jefferson. By Saul K. Padover. (Cape. us.) " WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are treat equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien...

The Just and the Unjust. By James Gould Cozzens. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) The Devil and King John. By Philip Lindsay. (Hutchinson. 9s. 6d.) Somebody at the Door. By Raymond Postgate....

Coming Down The Wye. By Robert Gibbings. (Dent. tzs. 6d.) THE Wye is the loveliest of rivers, a stream of the most various beauties and of many characters, changing with level...

SOLUTION 0 The winner of Crossword No. e, Meirow, Guildford. N APRIL 30th 212 is MRS. LEWIS, 31, Trodd's

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct N oo n of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, Orli 271h. Envelopes should be...

By CUSTOS FROM the City as well as the broader national standpoint, S Kingsley Wood's fourth Budget must be judged satisfactory. contains no surprises and is sound to the point...

will find in this book the most comprehensive and detailed history ever recorded of an English porcelain manufactory. It amplifies and corrects the great monograph by Turner,...