T HE visit of the Prime Minister to Herr Hitler overshadows all other news of the Czechoslovak crisis, and supersedes all previous comment. Even Herr Hitler's own Nuremberg...

T HOUGH the Prime Minister's visit to Herr Hitler has put most of the events of the past week in a new proportion they have their importance and demand record. Three have been...

last week. Their main operation has been intended to prevent Chinese reinforcements reaching the city from Chengchow, and it is predicted that the final attack will be postponed...

They follow on the issue by the Sudetendeutsch a fortnight ago of a provocative manifesto " setting members free to make use of the right of self-defence." There was no...

Geneva in the last week ; yet it would be hard to overestimate the importance of some of the consultations made possible by the meeting of statesmen for the League Assembly. The...

in the German Press regarding the Sudetendeutsch question would be a superhuman task, but the repeated references to the 3,500,000 downtrodden Germans in Czechoslovakia must not...

the most bitter fighting, the battle for the Ebro still continues, with the Republicans maintaining their positions on the south bank of the river. Descriptions of the battle...

Polish Parliament is of peculiar importance in the present ..ondition of Europe. Since the death of Pilsudski in r935, Poland has been governed by a reactionary bloc of colonels...

the maintenance of the defence force in India is designed to 'prevent the abnormal increase of the burden of military expenditure borne by India the proposals have had a mixed...

the Manchester Guardian has just published on Abyssinia cast an important light on conditions in that unhappy country. The articles are dated from Jibuti in French Somaliland,...

the Duke of Connaught on the death, at the age of 55, of his only son, Prince Arthur of Connaught, who had rendered distin- guished service to his country as soldier and...

of Journalists do well to watch jealously any threat to civil liberties, and the Institute, which has been in conference at Keswick this week, has thrown interesting light on a...

Herr Hitler's speech at Nuremberg on Monday—what he said, why he said it, and what light it throws on his future policy. What he said is on record. He said that conditions in...

R ECENT weeks have brought the danger of war very close ; yet this country is still utterly unpre- pared for the greatest danger modern war implies—that of murderous attacks...

" D O you remember life before the War ? " a Norwegian friend asked me, and we started comparing notes-. It is not a theme one is tempted to pursue. Those days are gone ; we...

F ORTUNE has smiled rarely on Czechoslovakia through these tense days, but it was a happy chance for the Republic's President that on the day of his broadcast to his countrymen...

By MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. C. FULLER S INCE the security inflation created by the League system was deflated in Abyssinia, this country has woken up to the fact that paper compacts...

By E. H. CARR F OR the past week the tribunes of Nuremberg have resounded with well-worn denunciations of Bolshevism. About the lime this article appears in print, the...

By ANTHONY BUXTON T HE first indication that I heard of disaster came from a farmer bursting into the house at 7.30 p.m. on February 12th with the words "The sea is in, Sir."...

By NIGEL TANGVE T WENTY thousand miles of oversea air routes are flown now by British air-liners on scheduled services. With its great fleet of 18-ton flying boats, Imperial...

By ESTHER NEVILLE-SMITH A PLATONIST, bent upon planning a good citizen, could hardly find more unpromising material than the country housewife of fifty or even thirty years...

By dRAVrikm GuENP: PUSHED open the swing cantina doors of the Vice- 1 _ Consulate in Vera Cruz, and there was the Consul g oing through his weekly lottery tickets—seriously as...

Commonwealth anti Foreign By G. H. CALPIN (Editor, "The Natal Witness") IT is impossible even in this centenary year of celebration to place the Great Trek of the late thirties...

THE CINEMA A REVIEW of Blockheads must perforce be in the nature of an obituary ; for it is the last time, according to an edict as immutable as Hollywood can make it, that...

THE THEATRE "Can We Tell." By Robert Gore-Browne. At the New Thiatre THE International Horseless Carriage Corporation supplied, according to the programme, the car in Act II;...

Standards—II LAST week I suggested that the only scientific basis for judgement of values in works of art was ultimately that of history. In applying a historical standard to a...

Aspiration and Frivolity MASSINE'S three new ballets, given during the summer season at Drury Lane, are now to be seen at Covent Garden. Two 3f . them—The Seventh Symphony and...

The Famous Shearwater A photograph has been taken by Mr. LocIdey of the two most miraculous birds in history. They carry, if not bells on their fingers yet rings on their toes,...

Snt,—At the end of 1918 I breathed a sigh of - relief. My husband had come through the War safely ; my, son, was still a baby ; it was very unlikely there , would be another war...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sin,—Newspapers as innocent of extreme pacifist views as The Times and Daily Telegraph have recently been giving it as their opinion that the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief al is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our "News of the Week"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Your leading article raises some questions of capital importance. It is unthinkable that in the present age an nation can believe that the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—M. Bayer can have no sons of his own that he would reopen the Franco-Spanish frontier. France has squandered her riches and given her...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—In addition to the points raised by Mr. Gillie in his extremely interesting article on "France's Perplexities" in your issue of September...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The remarkable deficiency of information in this country about Greek political affairs possibly explains the absence of any further...

SPECTATOR] Sm,—What makes our telephone service the worst in the world ? That, of course, is a rhetorical question. Personal .experience only tells me that it is worse than the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As a regular subscriber to The Spectator I have not noticed any reference to Sir Henry Page Croft's visit to Canada. He has just spent one...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—When reading the letter about help for Foreign Students in your paper of the 9th the old adage" Charity begins at Home," came into my mind,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A stranger as I am, I yet feel sure that you will forgive my writing to you on one of the reviews given in your paper of last week. It is...

[To the Editor of THE SP* . ia . rox] • SIR,—Your article on "The Fate of Europe" suggests to me a point which I ask you to allow me to make public. ' It is stated that the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] . . SIR,—Unsatisfactory housing conditions in rural areas have received considerable attention in the Press recently. Such conditions have...

Sur,—May an old man who remembers many joyous days on humble cricket fields have a word on the subject ? In the first place I cannot aVoid a feeling that Test Matches are...

Of being reborn each morning And dying each night. And I can tell That birth and death Are nothing so fierce As the preacher saith. For when a life's but a day The womb and...

[Van Inem deutschen Korrespondenten) DAS Dritte Reich in seiner merkwiirdigen Mischung von traditiOnelleni Aberglauben : und dynamischen Zukunftsglauben . ist em n vollig...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sist,—In your August Isoth issue, under the nthric "Heather- Foes," Sir W. Beach Thomas asks : " Why should not ladybirds be bred artificially...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By JOHN CARTER • THE fact that the inhabitants of England and those of the United States of America speak languages so nearly related that they can understand...

IN a note preceding this fourth and last volume of Lord Esher's Journals and Letters, the editor tells us that it completes the picture of a "distinguished private life." But he...

THE Roman-Irish mission in Great Britain would not rank above other minor sects if it were not for the prestige of its descent from the powerful Catholic Church of the Middle...

IN introducing Dr. Jenks' classical account of British foreig investment to the general reading public of this counts - . Messrs. Cape have done their compatriots a good turn....

The Ferrar Papers. Edited by B. Blackstone. (Cambridge University Press. 2 I S.) NICHOLAS FERRAR of Little Gidding is accounted one of the saints of the Anglican Church ; yet he...

THERE is nostalgia in the very title, and Mr. Sassoon's account of his childhood and youth owes something to the knowledge gained from his own books of what followed—the...

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— • ; - ARE there records of any human being whose life was more tragic, terrifying, and futile than the life of Francisco Lopez'? He became the dictator, or the boss, of...

World Community. By William Paton. (Student - Christian Movement Press. 5s.) . . AN anonymous German writer interprets the present crisis as meaning that "-it is the will of...

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The brief but attractive memoir of Sir Albert Spicer (Simpkin Marshall, 3i:.6a.), which members of his family-halie prepared With filial solicitude, is nevertheless as much a...

This very American production (Jarrolds, I2S. 6d.) is claimed by its publishers to be the first to be able to analyse the relationship between Potemkin- and Catherine the Great...

Thomas Hennell, artist and poet, becomes in the course of his narration of a period of insanity (Peter Davies 8s. 'ed.) the spokesman of the insane as an oppressed cl ass. Let...

has compiled this informal history of the British Constitution (Blackie, 15s.), which embraces the whole field of events from the advent of Julius Caesar to the abdication of...

AT this critical stage I feel that the less said about Swck , Markets in any general sense the better. The British investor, with stoical calm, has held on tenaciously to what,...

STEEL OUTPUT FALLS Jr was not expected that the British production of iron and steel would show any material recovery in August and, in fact, there was a further decline....