T HE issue of _thet-neVr White Paper on War Pensions shows the Government to have been properly responsive to the strong representations made to it in Parliament, notably by...

The County of London Plan, x943, prepared by Mr. J. H. Forshaw and Professor Abercrombie for - the L.C.C., is the subject of an article by Sir Charles Bressey on another page....

It has long ceased to be credible that Germany can be brought to her knees by economic pressure alone ; but it is abundantly established—and on this subject Mr. Dingle Foot's...

The birth-rate in the first quarter of this year was higher than it has been in any first quarter since 1928, the increase as compared with 1940 being from s5.o to 16.8 per...

This week's meeting of the interim committee appointed by the United Nations Food Conference which sat at Hot Springs in May should carry an important enterprise a necessary...

Mr. Dalton's statement last Tuesday about the Government's attitude to monopoly in the film industry will do something to allay uneasiness. It is of immense national importance...

The White Paper outlining the proposals to be embodied in the coming Education Bill may be published at any moment now. Probably the largest single issue it will deal with will...

Colonel Oliver Stanley's statement in the House of Commons list Tuesday shows that under his guidance swift as well as solid progress is being made in the direction of a...

H AVING as a nation habitually shown ourselves capable of look- ing bad news firmly in the face, there is no reason why we should close our eyes to good. And the news from...

is he? That question can be read as prose or verse, and if anyone desires to answer it in the latter medium I see no objection. Mine the low level, and on that level I repeat...

By STRATEGICUS But, when these which form the basis of the invasion have been recognised for the great things they were, it is the actual landings that hold the imagination. It...

By SIR CHARLES BRESSEY* T HE well-printed and handsomely illustrated book of 200 pages, I issued by the London County Council under the title County of London Plan, 1943...

By ROGER FULFORD " HERE were not wanting strong temptations to any who I desired only their own comfort and freedom from toil and responsibility to abandon a defeated army to...

By H. S. L. POLAK America is entering on a new world-:era. She sees more clearly the part that she is destined, as a leader of a new world, to play in reconciling the solid...

By THE REV. JOHN R. H. MOORMAN service in an equally humble capacity. This time last year I was rector of a parish in the suburbs of Manchester ; but last September I resigned...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I WAS talking the other day to a young officer who, after two years with the Eighth Army, had returned home to nurse his wounds. He had for long been...

Three English Novelties LAST week provided an informal festival of English music—two new Symphonies and a work by Benjamin Britten at the " Proms," and the first of Mr. Gerald...

" Five Graves to Cairo." At the Plaza.---4 , The . Moon is Down." At the New Gallery and the Tivoli. THE stickler for historical accuracy and the expert in military feasi-...

THE centenary of Grieg's birth has naturally' induced some new recordings of his music. Admirers of this gifted but very unequal composer will be glad to have his Quartet in G...

SIR, —Mr. Ervine suggests " that this country should invite, say, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium . . . to give us the right to defend them." United Kingdom Governments have...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sut,—A short time ago there appeared in the Press extracts from a letter written, before leaving England, to his parents by a ydbng Englishman who was...

what it is I died for, and for that reason I am going to try to express my feelings and hopes. There is, I feel, both in England and America a tremendous surge of feeling, a...

Snt,—I was grateful to Dr. Norman Maclean for his article on " The Unborn Millions." Since each of the correspondents in your issue of July 9th writes more or less in criticism...

The Unborn Millions " in your issue of July 2nd. I must, however, take exception to some of his statements. He says that " a very brief examination of the facts reveals that the...

" Does ' Layman' realise how much of their income some doctors have to pay as interest on borrowed money to buy practices? " &c.. Supporters of the Beveridge Scheme do not...

"Layman " expresses so clearly the view of the man in the street: and no less for the replies published in your issue of July 9th, which illustrate so strikingly the justice of...

limited to two or three, racial impoverishment ensues," quotes among other eminent names those of John and Charles Wesley as the fifteenth and eighteenth child of their parents...

Fivy instances the case of a typical doctor who. earns L1,5oo a year, but who has expenses of ,C500, so that his net income is only £1,000 a year. The following typical...

Stst,—I notice that " Janus " refers to the commonly made statement that " about to per cent. of the people of this country attend places of worship." While this may be true of...

Sig,—Mr. Dixon Grubb's article in your issue of June 25th was timely, and his restatement of the principles which must underlie any form of good government in a democratic...

Sm,—Major Sheppard is, of course, right in his statement about the text chosen by Mr. Sandburg. It is doubtless nearer than any other to the speech as delivered by the President...

SIR, —Sir Beach Thomas's " Country Life " notes are always interesting, but they more often give information than arouse speculation. As one who has made a lifelong study of...

I don't agree with F. J. 0., I'll tell you why in " half a mo'," But I don't agree with F. J. 0., You can plan man. Religion's always doing that, And so is Science—nice and...

SIR, —May I suggest that Mr. Scott-James is guilty of an ignoratio elenchi when he points out that Miss Sayers's " They are the stuff of which the Kingdom is made " is less...

with the cutting of a field of winter oats ; and neither by its soil or climate is the shire earlier than others. Hampshire, Wiltshire and even Norfolk often anticipate it. On a...

Near East. By Cecil Beaton. (Batsford. 125. 6d.) How rarely an the spectators of great scenes invoke their memoryI, To our hungry questions they only answer, " It was a hell of...

Behind the Times Keep the Lamps Burning. By Dr. J. Van Den Tempel. (Robert Hale. los. 6d.) THESE books overlap, since each is concerned with the general problem of world...

New Reading Modern Reading. Nos: 6 and 7. (Wells, Gardner, Darton. 9d.) Modern Reading. No. 6. (John Bale and Staples. zs. 6d.) WE have been told that the present time is...

War Without Guns. By George Sava. (Faber. 6s.) THE application of psychology to war is a subject that in skilled hands might make an excellent book, but Mr. Sava is certainly...

Social Security. Edited by William A. Robson. (George Allen and Unwin. ass.) AFTER studying this most timely and suggestive book one feels inclined to congratulate Dr. Robson,...

one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 7tily 27th. Envelopes should be received...

SOLUTION ON JULY 30th The winner of Crossword No. 225 is Miss L. PRESCOLL, 88, Graham Road, Wimbledon.

Cahiers du Silence. (Hachette. 3s. 6d.) THIS short story is the first of a series of publications in the original French in this country of recent underground publications in...

Tambourine, Trumpet and Drum. By Sheila Kaye-Smith. (Cassell. zos. 6d.) WAR and/or escape make themes for each of the novels listed this week. Two deal with the fall of France...

By CUSTOS LAUNCHING of the offensive in Sicily and the early successes achieved have been followed, as is logical enough, by good but not exuberant Markets. , While some of the...