in the House of Commons on Tuesday over the action to be taken by the British Government in face of the repeated attacks on British merchant-ships by Spanish Nationalist...

TN Spain this week the major military operation has been .11. the final success of General Franco's attack on Castellon, 40 miles north of Valencia. Its capture will give him...

the municipal elections in Czecho- slovakia have greatly strengthened the Government's position. The victory of the National coalition over Father Hlinka's Slovak Autonomist...

The adoption on Tuesday of the Wages and Hours Bill by both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate is of considerable importance, not only for its social and...

on China the misery of war and its consequences—flood, fire and pestilence ; they are intent also in encouraging the drug traffic, on a scale which is a menace not only to China...

have served their purpose. In an admirable speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Mac- Donald, announced the immediate appointment of a...

In view of discussions on bombing on the North-West Frontier of India, the latest report of the Commander-in- Chief in India on the operations in Waziristan, in the last three...

China have by now become almost indescribable. Death continues to fall from the air ; Canton has been bombed regularly in the last week in the effort to break the spirit of the...

delivered on Sunday by Herr Hess, the Deputy Leader of the National Socialist Party, in the presence of Herr Hider is described in a message from Berlin as having created the...

which consider it useful to meet once a year for the discussion of their particular diffi- ctilties and for the drafting of international treaties governing specific problems is...

on the Board of Trade Vote with an admirable review of the effect of recent events upon the economic situation. The German absorption of Austria had, he believed, altered the...

in my brief catalogue of Ministers who have recently been conspicuously successful) fully maintained his reputation by the speech with which he opened the debate on Tuesday....

There is obviously something wrong with a social system which enables a man to obtain a larger income when unem- ployed than when in work, particularly when that income is...

American manufacturers is fully justified, provided the machines are such as meet immediate needs, and it is hard to see why Lord Austin should criticise it. He admits that...

fewer than fifteen supplementary questions were fired at the Prime Minister following his answers on the bombing of British ships and the barrage was only brought to an end by...

T HE third of the series of municipal elections in Czechoslovakia is now happily over ; and the orderly manner in which they took place completely refutes Herr Hess' astonishing...

T HE celebration on Sunday of the four hundredth anniversary of the order issued by Henry VIII that the English Bible should be placed in every English Church has a special...

was a characteristic and brilliant effort. Will it turn the scale in the Stafford election ? " asked one of the ex-Prime Minister's strongest admirers three days before the...

is my authority for a term unknown to the Oxford English Dictionary—raises the old question of how far the Fnglish Bible is read today. There is a common impressiod that,...

be played to a finish, or that at any rate they should have six days allotted to them, will be confirmed in their views by the result of the Nottingham match, which after a...

a success of Imperial Air- ways is much more certain than that the new Director- General, whoever he may be, will make a success of the B.B.C. In that field Sir John Reith was a...

T HE winning essay in the competition for the prize recently offered by the German Military Academy for the best paper on an attack on Czechoslovakia is a significant document....

By GUENTHER STEIN C HINA is trying hard, once more, to lay a new foundation for its national independence while the one which had only been half completed during the few years...

By GILES ROMILLY O N June 24th of this year the Rent Restrictions Acts, . which, since the War, have given a certain measure of protection to tenants against increases in rent,...

By VISCOUNT SAMUEL [This is the last of three articles in which Lord Samuel records some of the impressions gained during his recent visit to India.] F OR the last thirty years...

and embittered than ten years ago, or five years ago, it is still there. After more than a generation of political struggle, involving much sacrifice and suffering for all the...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT S OMETHING vital has changed in the European situa- tion since May 2oth. The Czechs, who firmly believe that they acted only in the nick of time by...

By ARNOLD PLANT [This is the sixth of a series of articles on conditions in the principal careers open to boys and girls from public and secondary schools. Next week's article...

By D. H. ROBINSON T O those who are well versed in the history of British agriculture June 21st has this year a special significance. Upon this day, two hundred years ago, died...

By JOHN RAYNOR T HE moment when the sea unrolled itself—stretch after stretch of hazy iridescent blue coming into sight from behind the massive rocks as he rounded the right...

particularly those arising out of articles in THE SPECTATOR, and dealing with fact, not opinion, will be answered on this page week by week] t. Has—and if so why—Gandhi given up...

THE USE OF LEISURE VI By P. R. 0. STUART [The writer is an Oxford undergraduate, age 21J A FUTURE historian, after looking at the advertisement and " home " pages of our...

"L'Alibi." At Studio Onc—"A Small Case of Murder." At the Odeon MURDER, if you are going to take it seriously at all, is a religious subject : the interest of a detective story...

THE THEATRE " The Sun Never Sets." Adapted by Pat Wallace and Guy Bolton from Stories by Edgar Wallace. At Drury Lane The Sun Never Sets is described on the programme as...

[D'un correspondent parisien] DANS quelques jours le roi et la reins d'Angleterrc seront nos hOtes. Leur accueil sera digne de Paris, aussi bien que de la circonstance. Les...

The Art of Movement IN all that has been written about the art of Ballet, one aspect seems to have been overlooked, which is of greater importance than the witch-hunting of...

Most of us have been visiting our neighbours' gardens to see their irises, and I have come away from a succession of such visits with one quite definite impression. The iris is...

the underground railway at Charing Cross, becomes a famous centre of pictorial propaganda. It is about to be used for preaching the merits of that popular fruit, the tomato ;...

Not only birds find strange nesting sites. Desultory search in a clump of aucubas discovered a nest that bore some resemblance to a wren's that had half fallen forward. There...

An ingenious gardener of my acquaintance, who delighted in freakish experiments, once showed me a tomato growing on the top of a potato on which he had grafted it. The idea is...

Oxford Trees If any one wants advice as to the best trees or bushes or hedge to plant he might do worse than apply to the Oxford Preservation Trust which becomes in this regard...

I saw last Bank Holiday an odd illustration of a charming verse of one of E. V. Lucas's most charming poems, written, so far as I remember, in answer to an ecstatic poem on "...

Sul,—It appears to me that your correspondents on the subject of Mr. Clarke's article on Preparatory Schools have missed his chief point, which was that private schools are not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—A good deal of misunderstanding is still being fostered regarding the role of the Slovaks in the present Czechoslovak drama—particularly in...

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

been an assistant master in prep. schools for the last ten years, and who knows intimately a score of men who are masters at others, I should like to comment on Mr. Roger...

I, as a former resident in Jamaica and still in constant touch with the people in it, call attention to some of the complex factors in the present distress ? For the general...

Sta,—The vital problem of A.R.P. is in danger of becoming a political issue. The Government's resentment of all criticism of the official programme as a personal attack on its...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—TINO years ago you allowed us to expose, by letter, in your columns, the scheme of a Society entitled the " Anti- Babel," which was to be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—With regard to the letter of Mr. Leslie Webb on Cost of Living in Jamaica, I think it was clear from the context of my former letter that I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As a rule it is dangerous to criticise any editorial article, but The Spectator is always generous to dissidents, and its clientele the...

. [To the Editor of. THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The writer of the article on the Bar as a Career in your issue of June 3rd states : The aspiring barrister, unless more than ordinarily...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—In your Notes of June loth you quote the words of a text in support of " The International Congress of the World Union of Free Thinkers "...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Stn, —There is now pending before the Church Assembly a measure relating to clergy discipline which it is to be hoped will be rejected by...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—There is one method by which the mere impotent voter could be enabled to express his detestation of the bombing outrages in Spain and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—In your " News of the Week " notes you suggest that those who complain of the supineness of our Government in connexion with the slaughter...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The efforts which you have recently been making to help your readers to know what Youth is thinking—and, no less, the uncertainty of belief...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] StR,—Thus the contents sheet of the Sunday Times last Sunday ! Women and children, the sick, the maimed, the halt and the blind are torn apart...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The article of your correspondent, headed as above, raises the query only from the point of view of safety and comfort. Surely the major...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sift,—" Nothing is too hard for God " say members of the Oxford Group, and truly. Why should not some of them feel " guided " to go to Rome and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sut,—Your admirable article on " Family Health " in the issue of The Spectator of May 27th is certain to arouse widespread public interest. The...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—In the issue of your journal for May 27th, you published an article on " The Local Government Service," by Mr. E. L. Hasluck. Though the...

Ouida (Rose Macaulay) .. . Europe Re-housed (Clough Williams-Ellis) .. Africa Emergent (Professor W. K. Hancock) .. Roosevelt is Not Hitler (D. W. Brogan) Three Guineas (Graham...

Africa Emergent. By W. M. Macmillan. (Faber and Faber. 5s.) A MIXTURE of good intentions and- interested piopaganda, of sound theories and fallacies, has destroyed the...

THE outcome of eight years' practical experience of slum- clearance and re-housing at home, followed by a year's intensive investigation of post-War working class housing...

Roosevelt. A Study in Fortune and Power. By Emil Ludwig. (Hamish Hamilton. zos. 6d.) " EVEN today we have this ridiculous situation, that the traveller in a transcontinental...

Three Guineas. By Virginia Woolf. (Hogarth Press. 7s. 6d.) THERE is a mythical quality about Mrs. Woolf. It is sometimes hard not to believe that she is a character invented by...

Among Others. By Lord Elton. (Collins. t5s.) THERE is something slightly invidious about reviewing an auto- biography, for neither author nor reader can regard it purely as a...

G.P.U. Justice. By Maurice Edelman. (Allen and Unwin. 6s.) THE spring season has brought the usual efflorescence—rather less abundant than in recent years—of books that tell...

IN this large volume of nearly five hundred pages, Dr. Closs shows us what German industry and thoroughness can accom- plish. The erudition is immense. The amount of studious...

THERE seems to: be a fashion in writing books about South Wales. As a social worker says in Mr. Mais' novel, " We're becoming news. The newspapers are finding our misery good...

Lament for a Maker. By Michael Innes. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Murder by Burial. By Stanley Canon. (Hanish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) " I HAVE always felt," says that astute if pedantic...

By KATE O'BRIEN The Crowning of a King is an immense and detailed novel dealing with German military life on the Russian front in 1918, after the peace of Brest-Litovsk. It is...

of his leisure," and he reveals himself as a scholar with wide interests, but suspicious of anything modern, and patronising in his attitude to the working-classes. His critical...

Harriet Monroe died in 1936. In 1912 she founded her magazine Poetry, which published the work of most of the American poets well known in England today, among them T.. S....

The Prevention of Accidents Of all the widely variegated -evidence that has been heard by the House of Lords Select Committee on the Prevention of Road Accidents during the six...

THE Treasury has lost none of its skill in the art of conceal- ment. Ten days ago Lombard Street and Throgmorton Street were buzzing with rumours of a new Defence Loan. Some of...

CITY AND AUSTRIAN LOANS THERE is no denying the strength of City feeling over the Austrian loan situation. It is now realised that, at any rate as a starting-point in any...

It is quite a noteworthy event in these days when a profit and dividend statement, however encouraging, succeeds in raising the price of the-, shires. Evidently, the General...

Without wishing to be enthusiastic about immediate market possibilities, I suggest that patient investors should keep an eye on rubber shares. With exports curtailed as from...

a spirit of hope, the prospects of Argentine railway debentures—and one or two selected preferences—some weeks ago, I welcome the sudden demand which has lifted prices rather...

Like every other key commodity tin is tied to the wheels of American industry. I feel, however, that the statistical position is such that only a modest recovery in American...

At the annual meeting of the Venezuelan Oil Concessions, Lord Bearsted emphasised the important influence on earnings of the bolivar exchange and of other important items on the...

Expansion and consolidation have been the keynotes of the policy of the Great Universal Stores undertaking for many years, and expansion is now being carried a stage further by...

Tnz twentieth ordinary general meeting of the Great Universal Stores, Ltd., was held on June loth at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, London, E.C. Sir Archibald...

A rise of some £20,320 in expenses, due partly to the higher price of coal and partly to the 74 per cent. increase in car miles, was cited by Mr. Frederick W. Kerr as the...

LISBON ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS RECORD PASSENGER TRAFFIC THE fortieth ordinary general meeting of the Lisbon Electric Tramways, Ltd., was held on June 13th at 4 London Wall...

VENEZUELAN OIL CONCESSIONS PROCEEDS OVER £1,960,000 HIGHER THE twenty-second ordinary annual general meeting of the Venezuelan Oil Concessions, Ltd., was held on June loth at...

Some striking figures of the progress were cited by Sir Theodore Chambers in his survey at the annual meeting of Welwyn Garden City. Between March, 1934, and December, 1937, the...

WELWYN GARDEN CITY LIMITED DIVIDEND AGAIN INCREASED RISING PROSPERITY OF THE TOWN THE eighteenth annual general meeting of Welwyn Garden City Limited was held on June 15th at...

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