the domestic affairs of Austria is a more serious matter, for in this case the German Government is involved, and Europe is presented .with the spectacle of a Great Power in...

country but of all the world will be with Austria, and in particular with her Chancellor Dr: Dollfuss, who has created an excellent impression while attending the Economic...

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under Ger- man instigation in Austria, are once more alienating effectively the . sympathy which Germany seems so anxious to conciliate_ in other countries. The outbreak of...

the past week that President Roosevelt's power over Congress has been swiftly ebbing. The President abandoned all idea of getting special powers to deal with tariffs, in the...

few of the many - writers on the subject of bombing from the air seem to appreciate the main argument-against the British proposal to retain the right of bombing for police...

Azafia is a triumph for the Prime Minister, who is thus revealed as the indis- pensable man in Spain, and something of a set-back to President Zamora, who rather abruptly...

issues involved in the proposal for a universal 40-hour week put forward by the Italian Government at Geneva, and alluded to with approval by M. Daladier at the Economic Confer-...

fruit (if any) the Four- Power Pact will bear first. As soon as it was initialled Signor Mussolini made a speech emphasizing the impor- tance of its references to Article XIX of...

of the Economic Conference 'by engaging in a new tariff war on their own account, due primarily to the flooding of the Indian market with cheap Japanese cotton goods, to the...

A decision taken by the Journeymen Butchers' Federation shows conclusively that 'the Humane Slaughter of Animals Bill, now before a Standing Committee of the House of Commons,...

so numerous that the hospitals may well desire to be remunerated for the services which they render to injured people. Mr.6.k." Power, the secretary of . Westminster Hospital,...

not take much interest in Sit Henry Better- ton's Bill to prolong the present stop-gap system of unem- ployment insurance and relief, The GOVeinment appears to have reached the...

at -Exeter, where a new. hall of residence has -just been opened, is oneof - several great institutions in this country which justifiably cherish the ambition of becoming...

of the House of Commons on Tuesday found the resources of Parliamentary procedure for once inadequate to meet the wishes of members. The whole House wanted nothing but a...

conciliatory in tone, but it supports the view of the English Test captain, arid adds a protest against barracking on the part of the Australian' crowd and the absence of any...

N OTHING could do more to stimulate confidence in the ultimate success of the Economic Conference than the arrangement regarding War Debt payments announced in the House of...

b T HAT the gambling habit is increasing and that it is having a profoundly demoralizing effect on the character of the nation is admitted in the Final Report of the Royal...

made - a mistake they ought to have avoided. They were rash enough to exhibit their works, before they had prepared the way by expounding their theories. So they were rapped...

" Are there good coulisses?" an experienced eon- - ferencehabitugwho did not get to the opening session asked anxiously. The answer is that there are. The delegates' lobby...

Roger Fry, to its Slade Profeasorship of Fine Art, may feel justly flattered that Oxford, having a similar vacancy to fill, has taken a Cambridge man, too, in Mr. H. S....

Sir Stafford Cripps andMr. Lansbury between them look like ensuring their party a protracted spell of opposition. The more they talk of overriding the veto (only a sus- pensory...

• - Peking,..hine 8th. A Japanese aeroplane landed in Peking this morning for the purpose of conveying the Japanese Army's sympathy with the Chinese over the !toss of Chinese...

- piano solo "-strikes strange to - he eye. For most of us there is only One Lord Oxford and Asquith, and the further record that " Lord Oxford took prizes for Latin and music "...

is a -form of bad manners so - persistent as to have become proverbial. But there are degrees - of dis- courtesy which still astonish me. 'A few evenings ago I went to see "...

K ING GEORGE was in what would, I suppose,' be called excellent voice at the opening of the Eco- nomic Conference on Monday, but the battery of loud- speakers ranged down the...

By H. V. HODSON. T HE World Economic Conference cannot touch the problem of War Debts. Nor need one be strangely s ceptical to doubt whether it can do much about the tariffs...

tin mat week's SPECTATOR Dr. Eric Pearce Gould will write on "-The Case Against State Hospitals.") W HEN people think and speak of hospitals, the picture that usually comes...

BY C. DELISLE BURNS. T HE real .issue in most countries today is not merely political,_ nor economic, but moral.. The question is not merely who shall rule nor how wealth shall...

By JOHN Purr "F'N' .4 E UCLID of Alexandria, a famous: geometrician; whose book of Elements, revised and improved, still holds its place as an English school-book, although...

[D'UN CORRF-SPONDANT FRANVAIS.] A TORT ou a raison, on nous attribue, &nous, Francais, un sens critique tres developpe. Eloge ou blame, admettons que ce soit.vrai. On va...

the Committee on Wild Bird Protection in Norfolk (issued some little time ago and procurable from Dr. . Long, Surrey Street, Norwich) contains one of the best accounts of local...

' LAND IN TRUST. I was asked-the other day whether the National Trust would be glad to have • a certain grove and valley (where buzzards and ravens nest) bequeathed to them at...

nationally or semi-nationally owned is that it is the only home in Britain of certain plants, lowly plants but of peculiar value to the scientific botanist ; and I should think...

Householders may like to know of the extreme punctuality of one of the least popular of domestic insects, the wood and wicker boring beetle, known to science as anobium...

tends to preserve - rather than destroy ; but it is apt to suffer from a fatal tidiness. I knew exactly one place in North Devon where the bee-orchis grew ; and grew in...

the last generation ; and incidentally is the subject of the very best local guide to natural history that I have ever come upon. If anyone doubts the except- ional value of the...

The Empire Marketing Board, which has just , published its yearly report, has also issued a revised pamphlet giving the addresses of British bulb growers and diStributors, in...

There is one bit of England beyond all others that, for myself, I should like to see in the hands of the Trust at once. • It - is unique, in the strict sense of that ill-used...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their leiter* as brief as is reasonably possible.- -The most suitable length is that of one of our NeWs of the Week' paragraphs.—Ed. THE...

Cecil G. Oakes has raised several interesting ques- tions which seem to call for some observations. Mr. Oakes seems to be on very firm ground when he states that the Judge's...

Snt; , --It is difficult in the present slogan-ridden state of Indian diseutsion -for the sober facts of the Indian situation to be appreciated at anything like their true...

18th, is Hospital Sunday, the annual opportunity for the citizens of London and Greater London to give, of their charity, financial aid to the Voluntary Hospitals of - London...

. Sin,—Not many months ago you allowed me some words of protest in these columns against "The -disfigurement of London " by new and abnormal modes of building. Today I would...

8134—Although the Irish. Yamada dispute may not come before the Economic Conference .in the same way as War Debts due now to America, yet the minor matter perhaps could be made...

is leisure ; and leisure is an oppor- tunity to do many excellent things which employed people have but little time for ; Grith Fyrd Camps is an organiza- tion that enables...

the attention of the public is unfortunately all too frequently drawn to such lamentable exhibitions of slow motion cricket as that to which Janus drew attention in your issue...

Sea,—In your issue of April 21st Janus wrote : "The principal daily papers have been very variously served in regard to the trial at Moscow. . . . The Times, which has...

I underline the point made by Major Yeats-Brown about the attitude of some—he might have said many— Christians to the question of birth-control and the com- munication of the...

SPECTATOR.] -Sea,—In your review -of Six -to - Sixteen; in your issue of June 2nd, you quite rightly criticize the sections dealing with ,poetry- and elementary biology. May I...

Sin,—In his courteous and tolerant review of my new book, which I highly appreciate, Sir Andrew McFadyean asks my authority for the statement that France " demanded that Germany...

reached, so far, in the case of ex- Inspector John Syme is of public interest, more especially by reason of the State not compensating Mr. Syme in respect of his broken career,...

am engaged in collecting materials for a life of Thomas Moore, the Anglo-Irish poet, I shall be obliged to any of your readers who can put me in touch with unpub- lished letters...

A Warning MAID, would you keep your heart Smooth as unprinted snow ? Are you afraid to know The turmoil and the smart, The shocks and hazards of The long campaign of love ?...

BY H. WILSON HARRIS. President Wilson dominates the stage. And how inevitably every historian of the Peace Conference pounces on the President's Presbyterianism. Mr. Lloyd...

The AmeriCan Political System. By D. W. Brogar. (Iernisik : Hamilton. 18e.) - - - a A nuNna.m . ) times in writing this 'book,'' said Lord Bryce in /888, in the first chapter...

Courts and Judges in France, Germany, and England. H. C. K; Ensor. (Oxford University Press. 6s.) • THERE are many indiCations that the 'pendulum of public opinion is swinging...

THE Russian tourist season is on us once more ; and in a few weeks gangs of " the heterogeneous citizens of that State within a State which is Intourist" (the 'phrase is Mr....

Studies, reviewed by Mr. Edmund Blunden in The Spectator of June 9th, was published by the Cambridge University Press. This book is published by Messrs. Nichobion and Watson.

Marie Stopes : Her Work and Play. By Aylmer 5iaude. (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.) The Naked Truth. By Joan Conquest. (Werner Laurie,. 3s. 6d.) Ma. AYL7dER MAUDE has been well...

• YisriSel : The First Jewish Omnibus. Edited by Joseph Leftwich. (John Heritage. 10s. 6d.) . ONE meets all sorts of people in an omnibus, and therenre all sorts of stories' in...

The Art of Henri Matisse. By Albert C. Barnes and Violotte This is not a book to put into the hands of a generally intelligent person wishing to be converted to Matisse. Its...

Tiger. By Brigadier-General R. G. Burton. (Hutchinson. 12a. 6d.) H un teea moRp. By Major L. M. H. Handley. (Macmillan. 15s.) Tuouon the tiger figures largely in these two...

The Tractarian Movement. By Bishop E. A. Knox. (Putnam. 108. 6d.) Tins book is intended to be an indictment of the Movement whose centenary is to be celebrated this year. It...

The Fall of a Throne. By Alvaro Afeala-Galiauo. (Thornton Butterworth. 10s. 6d.) ALTHOUGH Spain has had good Constitutions before 1931, from the Constitution of Cadiz of 1812 to...

Les Idees Politiques de la France. By Albert Thibmpiet. (Stock. 15 fr.) Ames et Visages. du XXe. Siècle. By Andr6 ROILSSeallX. (Grasset. 15 fr.) Journal — Paris, Saint...

75. 6d.) Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) AFTER consuming a shelf-ful of new thrillers it occurs to me that the purveyors of this death-feast zieseive sympathy. They deserve sympathy, that-...

BY GRAMM( GREENE - Short Stories. By Per Hallstram. (Cape, 7s. 6d.) - Rubber. By Madelon H. Lulofs. (Cassell. , 7s. 6c1.) " SATURATION " has always been recognized as one of...

volmne of that versatile and comprehensive series 'known as " The Travellers' Library ", is, in its way, a milestone igthe progress of the Cheap- Edition: It might also, no...

*1833. If a measure were complete without details—if the mere passing of resolutions, arst . tlie sanction Of a .Principle, were sufficient to set great, question's at rest 7...

Never would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground "—(with apologies to Shakespeare). IT would perhaps be an. inaccurate use of speech to say that the...

" White and Off-White " IT is a little strange that the idea of an all-white room has not found popularity before the present clay. ' One _would have thought that its obvious...

time since the buying and possession of a serviceable motor-car became a general commonplace the lure of the second-hand car has been so potent, and, in consequence, the risks...

The City and the Conference To appreciate or, at all events, to understand the attitude of the City towards the World Economic Conference it is necessary to realize that...

POLITICS AND MARKETS. INTEREST during the past week has been focussed upon the Economic Conference, and especially upon the problem of War Debts ; the latter point has pressed...

The interim statement of Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas) is thoroughly good. The divi- dends are maintained at the full rate upon the Cumu- lative Preference...

I am glad to note that a strong committee has been formed for the protection of holders of long-dated German External Loans. There will be no desire here to press for German...

The statements made at the annual general meeting of Boot's Pure Drug Company confirm the favourable impression which had been created by the annual report to which I referred...

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Not the least interesting part of the remarks of Lord Trent, the Qtajrman of Boot's Pure Drug Company, ?vas his referenee to the problem of unemployment. Referring to the...

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