O NLY one complaint figured at all conspicuously in the debate on the Army Estimates on Tuesday—apart from Mr. Stokes's hardy annual on the subject of tanks—that regarding the...

The moment it became certain that the air policy it had advo- cated at Chicago was unacceptable to America it became incumbent on the British Government to complete a national...

It is in more ways than one that the British forces in Burma have, in Sir James Grigg's phrase, "established ascendancy" ever the Japanese. They have thrown the enemy back from...

Television was already making rapid strides before the war, and after the ivar this country should be in a favourable position for developing it for our own use and in the...

No sensible person wants controls for the sake of controls, but it is a matter of pretty general agreement that many of the war- time controls will have to be continued for some...

There has been much disappointment at the Government's decision not to extend war annuities, granted on a reduced scale to members of the Civil Defence Services, to workers of...

It will take years before all alai is intended in the new Education Act can be fully translated into terms of work and teaching in the schools. New draft regulations issued' by...

1 I T is on the face of it a little disturbing that no more than a month after the conclusion of an Inter-Allied Conference which appeared to have attained a more than ordinary...

Ip HE to-ton bomb whose existence is made known this week repre- sents the realisation of a long dream. Some four or five years ago a friend living in a Surrey village rang me...

By STRATEGICUS OIR JAMES GRIGG, in the debate on the Army Estimates on Tuesday, administered a timely corrective to the wild specula- tion which has swept some of the Allies off...

By ELEANOR F. RATHBONE, M.P. • Oilr little volume fell rather flat, but several women's societies took the matter up, and one by one practically all the larger women's...

By J. R. GLORNEY BOLTON OIX years ago the Germans entered Prague. They are still in full control of Bohemia and Moravia, as they are of Austria. Each of these regions has been...

By SIR HENRY SLESSER T HE report of the Conservative sub-committee on legal reform, advising, among other matters, the appointment of a "legally qualified and paid chairman" to...

Night. Sunset-dwellers in these Western isles By Atlantis lost (swallowed by the waves) Out of your bright houses with the blinded window-frames Step carefully, blinking, into...

By SIR HENRY BASHFC■RD I SUPPOSE it would be true to say that, as far as the general public was concerned, and during the period between the last war and this, Dawson of Penn...

In November, 1944, "The Spectator " published an article from a Captain in the British Liberation Army on the atti- tude of the average soldier—officer or other ranks—on the...

By HAROLD NICOLSON and American troops on board in the hope of discovering what effect these programmes had upon the men for whom they had been prepared. I have always felt that...

"Moscow Skies." At the Tatler.—" Tonight and Every Night." At the New Gallery.—" Tomorrow the World." At the London Pavilion. I WAS interested to receive some extracts from...

ideas with laughing gas, the suggestion being that it was all he could do for us. So many dead ideas are' extractedfrom our heads during a performance of The Simpleton of the...

open that of being a false nail in his approach to still life and the figure, this and an irritating tendency to fiddle around with a small brush charged with black oilpaint....

of the French Government's decision not to be an "inviting Power" to the San Francisco Conference? You attribute the French attitude to sensitiveness in the matter of her status...

suggest that your Editorial Comment on the Yalta plan for voting-procedure in the Security Council goes a little beyond what the actual -terms of the announcement seem to...

Foot's plan for coal and state that "to the criticism that the plan provided no adequate safeguards for consumers he simply retorted that the most effective assurance that...

no peace-time international security after all except against Germany and other nations outside the Big Five. If one of the Big Five should plan world domination whether by...

Sta,—You were recently good enough to publish a reply from me to certain of your own criticisms of the "Robert Foot Plan for Coal," and following your most recent (March 9th...

Sia,—Soon after the Great War, a movement was set on foot in Lancaster to found a War Memorial Village on a site near the L.M.S. Railway Station in this city. It was designed by...

Sia,—Arising out of Mr. Wakinshaw's interesting letter in your issue of March 9th, in introducing his one rupee currency note, Sir Daniel Hamilton had two things in mind. (t) He...

Sta,—Dr. Brandt's revealing article on German activities in Spain and Spanish America is pedlar the best comment upon Mr. Loveday's astonishing and self-contraaictory apologia...

that Spaniards should be allowed to choose their own Govern- ment without dictation from abroad, because if this had been done instead of allowing Hitler's and Mussolini's...

Sra.,—It is a good omen that Sir Zafrulla Khan's contribution to the discussion of the Indian political problem ins been so widely and so Warmly welcomed. He has the support of...

defence among the old fortifications of Cologne I could think only of one inhabitant of those grassy forts and glacis. Not once but many times just after the last war I wandered...

Sta,—I was interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's Marginal Comment in your issue of March 9th, and his reference to Napoleon. He asserts "it was only men like Lord Whitworth, or...

Party could find a new name. Conservative sounds much too embalmed and hermetically sealed against everything new and fresh. Progressive might be suitable, suggesting a steady,...

St,—Readers of The Spectator have rubbed their eyes these days. First we get " Janus " little puffs for Franco and Salazar, now a description of Dr. Bernard Griffin's...

SIR,—Private X and his companions discussing Education on their bags of grain were perhaps a little hard on the pedagogues, to whom, though they do not seem to realise it, they...

Sut,—With reference to Viscount Hinchingbrooke's happy metaphor of "the twin pillars of Freedom and Order" (The Spectator, February , znd), may I suggest that Freedom and Order...

4e- Sut,—I do not think Professor duoert Murray need be anxious. Not even if the Party goes down at the polls shalt we change our name. But we shall change the present public...

The End of. Nationalism ? Nationalism and After. By Edward Hallett Carr. (Macmillan. 3s. 6d.) This brief survey of the changing character of nationalism shows Professor Carr's...

IF one thinks about some of he good books on flowerti' let us say Reginald Farrer's The High Hills or On the Eaves of the World, any gardening book by Jason Hill, any book by a...

Ernest Dowson. By Mark Longaker. (Humphrey Milford. 24s.) IN his Introduction to Dowson's Poetical Works, Mr Desmond Flower makes out an ingenuous case for the eighteen-nineties...

THE ambiguous or, at any rate, puzzling impression made by Mr. Hodson's title conveys very well the special flavour of the book, as the long sub-title conveys its general...

The Commodore. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 9$. 6d.) IN the days of my childhood, before the last war, days when man's inhumanity to man was not taken complet l ely for...

ACROSS 1.." Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell of his country's blood." (Gray.) (9.) 6. Seaside souvenirs, sometimes sweet. (5.) 9. One might expect...

The winner of Crossword Puzzle No. 312 is: B. HAGGIS, ESQ., 48 Hale Lane, London, N.W. 7.

By CUSTOS As the war in Europe draws to its close City opinion as to the neat'-term probabilities in the stock markets is becoming more divided. While the incorrigible...

he has demonstrated by his earlier writings, Dr. McCleary is one of the sanest and soundest authorities on what is commonly known as the population question. His new book...