i) T HE conclusion of peace between the rival factions in Greece on Monday, and the abolition of martial law, were fitting preludes to the unexpected and spectacular appearance...

The debates of the World Trade Union Congress held last week and this week have ranged over a vast field of international problems, for the most part political rather than...

The Socialist M. Van Acker has succeeded in forming a new Government in Belgium, in which members of the Catholic Party and the Communists will be included. M. Pierlot held the...

Speaking at the World Trade Union Conference last Saturday, Mr. V. L. Toledano, of the Latin-American Confederation of Labour, sounded a vehement warning about the continuance...

In moving the second reading of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Bill Sir John Anderson did much to allay the storm of apprehension that has been aroused, though it is...

Lord Trenchard initiated an important debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the part that should be played by air forces in the prevention of war. His remarks were...

It may well be that the same enlightenment which today compels the State to come to the financial support of the Universities may also stimulate more individual benefactions. On...

to enquire into the charges made by the Chairman of the Tower Bridge Juvenile Court against the conduct of the L.C.C. remand home at Marles- ford Lodge is a judicial and...

J HIS is Murder," is the o ffi cial German - comment on the declarations of the Crimea Conference. The German pro- pagandist is unerringly accurate. So far as German Nazism and...

T is possible to sympathise with the Polish Government in Londcn 1 in its disappointment over the decisions of the Crimea Conference regarding Poland, and yet to ask what it...

By STRATEGICUS T HE military decisions of the Crimea Conference provide an entirely new background for the final phase of the war. The outlook for Germany has now been...

By REINHOLD NIEBUHR [This article was written before the announcement of the results of the Crimea Conference, which will, it may be hoped, do something to relax the tensions of...

By D. R. GILLIE The Government stepped into a situation at the end of August in which the real power was held locally by committees of libera- tion, linked loosely to the...

By S. H. F. JOHNSTON T HREE HUNDRED years ago, on February 17, 1645, the ordinance providing for the formation of a " New Model " army was finally passed. The germ of the idea...

I COULD compare you to a thousand things That make this world a wonder and delight: The butterfly that flits with jewelled wings From leaf to flower, the friendly stars at...

By PROFESSOR W. J. ROSE In the short time at my disposal I was able to visit one " quadrant " of this vast area, whose north-south line is more or less Aleppo- Khartum, and...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE Foreign Office have for generations adopted what might seem a singular system in moving their employees from one post to another. The man who, after ten...

" Together Again." At the Tivoli.--" The Thin Man Goes Home" and " Inside China To-day." At the Empire.—" The Man in Half-Moon Street." At the Cdeon. THE exiled American...

A French Conductor M. PAUL. PARRY,- the conductor of the Colonne concerts in Paris, has been on a visit to this country and last week conducted the B.B.C. and London...

Emma." At the St. James's. PURISTS, of course, object to the dramatisation of novels, and in theory I agree with them, but only in theory, since such efforts at original drama...

READY. One shilling and sixpence should be enclosed with instructions and addressed to INDEX DEPT., " The Spectator," Ltd., 99 Gower Street, W.C. s, England.

Sue,—Too little attention has been paid in this country to the recent death of a really great plan. Sir Chhotu Ram died in the middle of last month. Half of my service was...

Stit,—The letters from Dr. Norman Sheldon and a "Young Chemist" in your recent issues raise a question of outstanding importance. The position of our country urgently needs a...

LETTERS TO THE* EDITOR Sta,—Here on the Pacific Coast, after spending fifty years as a missionary in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, I receive The...

SIR, —Mr. Hammersley's letter is refuted by facts. He says there are "over half a million Jews in Palestine " ; that "it is possible to say that the problem of Jewish...

Stu,—I see you say in your article on war gratuities that the cost of living will be appreciably higher than it was in 1919. May I point out that it is now 102 points above the...

SIR, —Why should it be necessary to take the oath or nuke an affirmation at all? It should surely be enough for the Clerk to say that perjury is a penal offence and to state...

Sta,—Having read.in a dozen periodicals, high and low, this week anent the , war that "anything may happen at any moment " it was with relief that I turned from such bathos and...

Sm,—" Paterfamilias " appears to suffer from what is an understandable misapprehension to those unaware of the details of the proposed new Burnham scales. Headmasters and...

SIR, —Dr . Kitching invites me to answer some interesting questions about moles and their ways. I wish I could respond with confidence ; but my first-hand knowledge of that...

SIR, —Constance Reaveley's article, in your issue of February 2nd, is very much to the ..point. Education should be for life in the fullest sense. Today it can rightly be said...

Sia,—In thinking about the appalling suffering of Silesian and other women fleeing through Berlin, I have been wondering how far these are women wholly under Nazi influence. My...

NUMBERS of revolutionary ideas in the art and science of cultivation have been recently thrust upon us, as that trenching or double-digging is a 'mistake or at best a work of...

SIR,—I read with interest the article on " Country Life" by Sir William Beach Thomas, and as one engaged on the production of opencast coal, I hasten to reassure him and readers...

SIR,—We have here four acres of land. We have always tried, and more especially since the outbreak of war, to make it produce as much as possible. Here are our figures of stock...

Senatus Contra Populum THERE are a good many obstacles to an effective organisation of the coming peace, and Professor Colegrove has done his country- men a service by pointing...

Persons and Places. By George Santayana. (Constable. 10s.) MR. SANTAYANA disclaims writing an autobiography, though appear- ances are against him. However, the title of the...

The English at Table. By John Hampson. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) To survey England's eating and cooking from Druid days to the present war is a formidable task. To condense that survey...

Who Dies Fighting ? By Angus Rose. (Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d.) THE author of this book gives us a plain tale of what he saw and, heard, not a complete history of the Malayan...

Ocean Odyssey is not the first collection of Merchant Navy stories to be published during the war, nor the first published in the hope that by informing public opinion the...

Home is the Hunter. By Gontran de Poncins. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Ladies May Now Leave Their Machines. By Diana Murray Hill. (Pilot Press. 7s. 6d.) The Sighing of the Heart: By...

SOLUTION ON MARCH The winner of Crossword No. 308 is MISS Mattock Lane, W. 5. 2nd W. B. MCINTOSH, 31, •

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct s,'ution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, I- bruary 27th. Envelopes should be...

By CUSTOS SHOULD a banker be compelled to disclose his customer's posi- tion? This important question is raised, directly or indirectly, by Sir John Anderson's decision to...

Shorter Notices Tins short booklet is published for the Australian Army Staff and contains an impressive record of the services of the Australian army during the present war. No...

35s.) THIS scholarly compilation comes from the U.S.A. and seems to be something of a pioneer work. It is described as a dictionary of world literature, but it is rather a...