M R. EDEN'S proposals, published on Thursday, for solving the deadlock in the Non-intervention Com- mittee have at least the merit of offering an opportunity for compromise....

courage. The sudden breakdown last Saturday of the German-Austrian conversa- tions in Vienna was almost as much of a surprise to the rest of the world as it seems to have been...

between Japanese and Chinese forces occurred at Wangping, a few miles west of Peking, war clouds have once more been hovering over the Far East. There is fortunately no reason...

decision, at Wardha last week, to accept office under the new Constitution has created a new political position in India. Though the Work- ing Committee has asserted, and Mr....

in the United States is gradually becoming clearer. Discussion is bringing home to American opinion the essentially political character of the right exercised by the Court to...

Finance, has addressed himself courageously to the Sisyphean labour of balancing the French Budget. Short of a serious inroad into the fundamentals of Popular Front policy,...

a long inter- view with General Metaxas reminds us that it is nearly two years since Greece seceded, as a sequel to the Venizelist insurrection of March, 1935, from the ranks of...

M. Blum to secure the remarkable vote of confidence which closed the French Socialist Party congress in the early hours of Wednes- day morning. Of the 5,000 or more members of...

bit. At the General Election Mr. Chamberlain, referring to road improvement and reconstruction, declared that " we are now embarking on a five-year plan which will involve the...

the Agriculture Bill provides for financial assistance to local authorities to help defray the cost of land drainage. Labour Members had heard rumours of a circular, recently...

to adopt 16- inch guns for their two new battleships marks the end of limitation in big ship armaments, and may restart the trend towards monstrously large ships, which was...

(Amendment) Bill revealed small ground for complacency. No Government speaker attempted to dispute Mr. Williams' statement that while manufacturers pay only 5d. a gallon for...

Labour Party grows more and more like the Tuscan Army. Sir Stafford Cripps cries " Forward " while Transport House cries " Back." This was illustrated on the second reading of...

to Religion," the church struggle in Germany, and the growing tendency of the Protestant churches to establish intercommunion lend a particularly topical interest to the great...

T HE unanimity of the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine, followed by the prompt acceptance of the report by the Government, has assured its almost unanimous approval...

1rT is impossible as yet to know what success Mr. I Eden will have in the plan by which he has attempted to solve the deadlock in the Non-intervention Committee. In the House of...

" j AM afraid," said an Englishman to a Frenchman in 1 Paris last week, " that the Communist allies of your Socialist politicians will bring irretrievable ruin on your tottering...

the health of the population in Germany, who are popularly supposed to be undernourished, prompted me to look up some comparative figures. I found that the mortality of infants...

a stranger holding a ticket for a neighbouring railway station, serving a village so small that I knew every inhabitant, at least by sight. He told me his name, which appears in...

be a locus classicus. I do not propose in writing of its findings to dip my pen in the ample supplies of gall which it provides for critics at home and abroad. An ideal which is...

of the cargo reaching the great Indian ports is today carried in Japanese bottoms, and President Roosevelt has asked Congress to vote £32 millions to subsidise American...

By WICKHAM STEED A T the end of his first speech (as Prime Minister) upon foreign policy, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said that we are " in the condition " when an incautious move...

By CAPT. J. R. J. MACNAMARA, M.P. F OR some time the British public has been congratulating itself on the progress of the country's rearmament programme. The student of history...

By A HEADMASTER T HERE was a time when learning was considered the main aim of education—perhaps the sole aim, seeing that it was assumed that learning brought with it a...

By A MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE advance of medical science within recent years, the growing activity of the State in preventive medicine, and the popular campaign for physical...

By E. E. KELLETT " S UNT lacrunae rerum : it is sad to think that, like so many noble dwellings and ancient porticoes, an. institution which, but a few years since, one...

By KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY B ERG fanned the bonfire. Deep night hung over the wood, and summer lightning played over the lake. In the thicket, the air was so full of the smell of...

By ROSE MACAULAY -A COMMITTEE of Enquiry to whiCh I belong explored at its last session • avenues by which our Foreign Secretary might be given information on foreign...

What fragile manna 'Tis The North Wind yields ; Falling from heavens Earth knows little of, Yet mantling winter As. with a crystal love— The shining cloak It to the naked...

DEADLOCK IN THE FREE STATE By R. B. D. FRENCH Dublin. THE result of the general election in the Free State was a severe shock to the supporters of Mr. de Valera. His party,...

THE THEATRE "Women of Property." By Hella Wuolijoki." Adapted from the Finnish by Frank Davison. At the Queen's Theatre . THE Masters of Niskavuori, the country estate in...

" God's Country and the Woman." At the Plaza—" Call it a Day." At the New Gallery THE attitude of most film producers and consumers towards the cinema closely resembles that...

Globe THIS dexterous, entertaining, unimportant drama shares to a striking degree the virtues and the limitations of its author's earlier success, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse....

[D'un correspondant partsienj MiNtE si l'Exposition restait inachevee le jour de sa fermeture, meme si certains pavilions n'ouvraient jamais, it y a des main- tenant une...

Stage Designs THE exhibition of stage designs by Alexandre Benois at Tooth's is well timed for the ballet-goer, but not so well timed for the scene designer. It is agreeable to...

Save Selbome ! If there is one village in England which has a supreme . claim to be left to its pristine calm it is Selborne in Hampshire. The proposal to drive a great main...

sanctuaries. Queen Mary's rose-garden - at Regent's Park grows every way better and better. More commercial growers send - their roses and the arrangement improves. It may be...

it was proposed to drive a railway through the middle of the camp where the Boy Scout movement started. The grounds (at CoscOte) were very lovely_ in themselves, were a...

their subject, and some two hUndied persons, repreieriting 37 different nations, are at the moment touring England 'chiefly to - study its grasses. These two groups of our...

is more stir-' prising in it than the number of wild creatures. .that find a permanent or temporary home within its circle: Somethirig of this marvel appears in. the annual...

One plant above others and one method of farming have, above others, captured the interest of many of our visitors. The plant is not a grass or mixture of grasses but a...

or variety of grass or clover, it is a common belief, strongly corroborated by recent research, that the best and most economic method of restoring fertility to a too barren...

Sta,—Sir Arnold Wilson disputes the Archbishop of York's , . statement that " the Germans will worship Germania," and mointains that the predominant German view Lk that God...

Heinrich Peters is so manifestly suffering froin chronic oppositionisrn to Hitlerism and everything associated with it that one feels assured that his absurdly naïve assertions...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suita5le length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is good that The Spectator should interest itself in the training of our nurses, and, having been associated with nurses in hospital...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sirt,—May I commend to your readers a notable article appearing in the current number of the Nineteenth Century, written by. John Scanlan,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—My breath was taken away upon reading the Rev. Mr. Murray Walton's letter on Japanese Expansionism in The Spectator of June Iith. I...

stated a very strong case for reform, but I feel that he has missed a point which calls more urgently than any other for revision. I refer to night- duty. A fortnight ago a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sna,—The " short " which did not appeal to your Film Critic's taste in these matters ran to minutes, and not " close on half an hour " as...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, It is to be hoped that the appeal under the above heading will result in sufficient funds being forthcoming to achieve its objective, but...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Kenneth Ingram is so intent on demolishing his own fancies that a protest becomes overdue. When he suggests that the new...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. C. R. V. Coutts, has tO3 high an opinion of Mr. Gladstone to believe that he was capable of sending a Home Rule...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—May I _ once again use your columns to reply to the onslaught of Mr. Henry Wilson ? I do not see that Mr, Wilson's letter throws any...

THE DAY The Colonial Problem (Professor W. K. Hancock) .. Ito The Colour Line (D. W. Brogan) . . . . Iii International Relations (C. Delisle Burns) . . . . Public Utilities and...

Caste and Class in a Southern Town. By John Dollard. (Yale University Press : Oxford University Press. t6s.) DR. DOLLARD reminds us that, in some ways, his book is based on the...

IT has been well said that it is useless to discuss whether the next war will destroy civilisation, until we are more certain that civilisation will survive the last war. The...

THE three experiments which Mr. O'Brien takes as the subjects of his study are the Central Electricity Board, the B.B.C. and the London Passenger Transport Board. He approaches...

Vain Glory. A Miscellany of the Great War. Edited by Guy Chapman. (Cassell. 8s. 6d.) WE had reached a point at which no more War-books of any originality were to be expected,...

MODERN writers on Defoe have mainly devoted themselves to criticism of his work ; for biography we have had to turn to useful but cursory shorter lives or grope with lagging...

Presbyterian Pirate. By Doris N. Dalglish. (Oxford. 8s. 6d.) MISS DALGLISH'S study of Stevenson has no rhapsodies about the heroic invalid, and no giggling research into his...

The Rengma Nagas. By J. P. Mills. (Macmillan. 25s.) IF you look at the map of the world, Assam is a little triangular strip of country stretching from the north east of Bengal...

William Penn : A Topical Biography. By William I. Hull. (Oxford University Press. 21s.) WILLIAM PENN is a difficult subject for the biographer. He is a man exuberant in words...

IN their admirable prospectus of the Sussex Edition of Rudyard Kipling's works Messrs. Macmillan confirm an-opinion not long ago expressed in these coluinns when theirsay- - --...

The Spirit of Paris. By Paul Cohen-Portheim. (Batsford. 7s. 6d.) WffH the franc at a hundred and twenty-five, one can afford to renew acquaintance with what used to be the most...

By ADR,1AN BELL Anna By Boris Zaitsev. Translated by Natalie Duddingten. RATIV literature tends to be restricted two form; - obediently fills it. Some ideas naturally fit...

John Drinkwater's last book (Methuen, 8s. 6d.) should please those young people who like facts served up with a mild flavouring of fiction, after the manner of The Swiss Family...

Hugo E. Czerwonky This work (Scribners, 12s. 6d.) is a lengthy exposition of a scheme to prevent depressions by a system of currency control. That achieved, certain gross...

SIGNS AND TAVERNS ROUND ABOUT LONDON BRIDGE By Kenneth Rogers Dr. Rogers has long made a special study of the old London taverns and the tokens which they issued. To his mono-...

Though experienced readers tend to dismiss books with such a title as likely to be romantic rather than useful, Mr. Wilson's volume (Allen and Unwin, los. '6d.) presents in a...

First thoughts on the Palestine report do not suggest that this judgement of Soloinon need cause investors much worry. The only trustee investment involved, the £4,475,000 5...

Is Mr. Chamberlain trying to help investors .to forget ? His forecast, which nobody can suppose is derived from" any easy optimism, of continued trade expansion and - no return...

of readers are attracted . towards • Preference shares in recovering companies whore there are still some arrears of dividends to be cleared off. The Appeal Of this'ti"ndlof...

1931, thet 4 per cent. dividend on the 8 per cent. cumulative los. preference shares of Tankers,Ltd., seems disappointing in the light of the freight market improvement. Having...

It is good to see that there is still a kick left in the gilt-edged market. Even a slight turn of the official screw has brought a rally in cfnotations, and with War Loan over...

reports upon the design, build and behaviour of new cars . that I have to describe two models that differ so widely from their immediate predecessors as the new 25-h.p. Vauxhall...

HOME RAILWAYS AND THE INVESTOR WE have now reached the period of the year when expecta- tions of investors in Home Railways - centre upon the interim financial statements to be...

MR. EDMUND L HANN'S SPEECH AT the annual general meeting of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Limited, held on - July 14th, the Chairman, Mr. Edmund L. Hann, after dealing...

The report of Richard Thomas and Co. gives an account of the position of the eompany and the group of which it is the centre. The gross profit of the parent company of £759,4...

In examining the annual reports of the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, it must be remembered that this is now a holding concern for the merged undertaking of Powell Duffryn...

The difficulties with which the Anglo-Spanish Construction Company has had to contend through defaults in regard to the sums due on the construction and working of the...

INVESTMENT STOCKS BETTER. THERE can be no doubt that, but for the disturbed political situation, we should be witnessing a renewal of the upward movement in Stock Exchange ,...

owing to drought and other adverse conditions, the Australian Estates and Mortgage Company, now known as the Australian Estates Co., Ltd., has experienced happier conditions for...

The prosperity of South Africa, which has owed much to the activity of the mining industry during recent years, in its turn, has stimulated trade activity generally in that...

ANGLO-SPANISH CONSTRUCTION WORKING OF THE RAILWAY CONDITIONS UNDER THE FRANCO ADMINISTRATION AT the twelfth annual general meeting of the Anglo-Spanish Con- struction Company,...

prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

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