PEEK s soon as it can be got into working order will be a valuable ddition to disembarkation facilities in northern France. Up to the resent the invasion of the Riviera has...

Delegates from Great Britain, the United States and Russia have treacly assembled at New York for the conference on post-war eeurity which opens at Dumbarton Oaks next Monday,...

While the failure of M. Mikolajczyk to bring back a definite agree- ment from Moscow is disappointing it is clear that his conversations with Marshal Stalin have been of solid...

The General Election of next year may or may not be Mr. Mackenzie King's last, but it looks very much like being his hardest. Provincial polls are no infallible guide to the...

The organisation of civil aviation after the war has become a subject - of discussion fro-n both political and technical angles. During June and July American and Russian groups...

The report which Sir Herbert Emerson presented to the Inter- governmental Committee on Refugees last Tuesday was an en- couraging document ; encouraging no less for its evidence...

correspondents to The Times for combining the tasks of church fkn interesting suggestion has come from a group of distinguished restoration with the provision of fitting...

The oil agreement _concluded last week between Great Britain and the United States is of value not only in itself but as a model for similar agreements regarding other...

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT returned last week from a journey Jr in the Pacific which compares with the war-time Odysseys of Mr. Churchill. These two leaders of the English-speaking p...

T is satisfactory to learn from the Minister of Health that the j fatalities from flying bombs are only a third of what they were when the attacks began ; the relative smallness...

Bible at 1 0 of the principal bookshops in a University town produced no Bib le ' and no suggestions as to where one could be acquired. Yet ono* the shop, paper—with the...

of Berlin have been printed for the use of the British troops no doubt argues a wise prevision, but there seems little likelihood that the maps will ever be required, except...

blow to the small Liberal Party in the House of Commons. That party, like Con. servatives and Labour, is weak in young members, and in Captain Grey a recruit who added to youth,...

135 fewer than in May gives no particular ground for encouragement. Variations from month to month are of little consequence ; all that is relevait is the average taken over a...

the perpetual misuse of the word " shambles," so consistently invoked by war correspondents as a fitting description for villages reduced by bombing and shelling to piles of...

him to Normandy? Or has he a number of them by heart? In his address to his troops a month ago after D-Day he quoted most of Sir Francis Drake's prayer penned before Cadiz in...

• By STRATEGICUS HE news of the Allied landing in the south of France can have come as a surprise to few. The air-attack had been roceeding for over a fortnight, and, though its...

By Z. A S one who has recently returned from India, I have been troubled to find how little the average intelligent citizen of this country knows of the events which are taking...

great mistakes in the First World War was to spare the lives of civilians in enemy countries. We Germans st number at least twice the population of our neighbours. There- e we...

IT is not the music alone, but the strange commingling. The drawing together, entwining of separate threads To form one luminous pillar, vibrantly tingling, Beneath the...

took his famous oath at Bayeux promising to secure the Throne of England for Duke William he was the victim of a deception, and that the sacred relics upon which he swore had...

By HAROLD NICOLSON OTHING has so far transpired regarding the fate of the Bayeux tapestry: From 1913 onwards it had been displayed, enclosed a double glass case, upon the first...

view that the broidery was executed in England and by English fingers. On e one hand,. the style of the drawing is similar to that of English ok-illustrations ; on the other...

a journey Normandy, and that he landed near the mouth of the River nche: we know that he was then taken prisoner by Guy de onthieu and interned in the castle of Beaurain: we...

unsolved. It is generally supposed that Harold brought with. him to Normandy his sister Aelfgifu or Aelfgiva, whom he consented to affiance to a - Norman. baron. A regrettable...

4 4 The White Cliffs of Dover." At the Empire.---‘ , The Story of Dr. Wassell." At the Carlton.— , ' Christmas Holiday." At the Leicester Square. THE Cinematograph Film...

The Sadler's Wells Opera. At the Princes Theatre. IT is not many weeks since it was announced that the Sadler's Wells Opera was to make the New Theatre its permanent home, at...

Lord Vansittart's policy invites us " to throw the reins on the neck of our quite natural desire .for punishment and revenge," and again " anything like calculated revenge opens...

SIR,—Your analysis of the results of the B.M.A. questionary brings out clearly three important points: (i) Slightly over half the replies were unfavourable to the White Paper as...

have aroused ming:ed dismay, indignation and amusement in my household. Ten years or so ago, when Hitler and the Germans were not so universally unpopular as they are now, Miss...

for the guilty? No doubt many Germans are shocked beyond measure at deeds done in their name. There are also British shocked beyond measure at Munich, and days before Munich....

me with opinions not express in my letter for the pleasure of demolishing them, 'aril/ as we seem fundamentally of the same opinion. Sir Her- ?glees that we must take steps to...

THE GERMAN PROBLEM —In reply to Lord Vansittart: I never suggested that anti-Nazi rmans had shown as much courage as they should, though more than credits them with. My point...

n all nations and in every section of society two types of people can distinguished, an active group, who largely arrogate initiative and trol to themselves, and a less active...

StR,—In the recent proposals for educational reform, and the comments on them that have so far appeared, there are two matters whose importance has been far too little...

SIR, —Is it pedantic to point out that when Ovid wrote "Video proboqut, deteriora sequor " he was not describing his own state of at all? The words are part of a soliloquy which...

have recently bought this small disused farmhouse, to turn a home for myself and my family and thus reduce by one the ho shortage. As electricity mains run along the end of my...

SIR,—Mr. St. Clare Grondona suggests the setting up by the British Government of a Price Stabilisation Corporation to keep price fluctua- tions within narrow limits. Isn't...

SIR,—In his review of Professor Laird's essay, " The Device' of. Gov ment," Professor D. W. Brogan, commenting on the Gettysburg Ad suggests that. Professor Laird has not...

Sn1,—The wooden scaffolding and platforms, whose erection "above sea on a western bay " is criticised by your contributor "Nurna pilius," are not for the use of " marine...

contra- dictions and inconsistencies, and totally valueless, particularly as less than 5o per cent. answered. This new profession of obtaining opinions by means of...

W is the only an it contains—." - Thus Mr. C. S. Lewis in his article published in issue of July 28th. But does -he personally know all the other men the platoon, their daily...

Snt,—Mr. J. V. Walker replies to Mr. Patrick Henson by putting a number of questions, of which two are cardinal to the rest. He asks for a definition of Fascism. A historically...

The Church and the Papacy. By Trevor Jalland, D.D. (S.P.C.K. 25s.) BAmvrort lectures are- almost always important. Dr. Jalland is to be congratulated on .having made a very...

An Impressionist Master nine Pissarro : Letters to His son Lucien. Edited with the Assistance of Lucien Pissarro by John Rewald. (Kegan Paul. 35s.) HIS is an excellent piece...

Milton, Man and Thinker. By Denis Saurat. (Dent. 15s.) THE first part of this book is a reprint, with only slight alterations, of a volume published' under the same title in...

A Plan of Economic Development for India. (Penguin Special.. 01 THE object of this little book is to put forward a scheme, sponsord by. a group of leading Indian...

Men of Branber. By Edward G. Thompson. (Frederick Muller. 7s. 61) IN the preliminary chapter to his witty and racy book, Mt Thompson follows, doubtless undesignedly, • the...

Miss MARGARET LANE is a novelist who publishes only infrequensis which is a pity, for she is much better company, a much nu sympathetic writer than many of our bright and hardy...

Colonies : No. zo of Current Problems Series. By Eric A. Walker. (Ca bridge University Press. 3s. 6d.) WIDE knowledge and experience are compressed into this modest book on "...

one guinea will be awarded to the sender • of, she first correct Own of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, gun 29th. Envelopes should be received...

le 'sinner of Crossword No. 282 Is Captain L. E. THOMAS, c/o Fort Farch.tm, a.m. Hams.

THE harvest field has lost little of its pictorial quality by the c of the cutter-and-binder, which after all is often horse-dra Contrariwise, the harvester-thresher, never...

A GLIMPSE into the workshop of a talented young poet is always of interest, especially when the craftsman has so sensitive and receptive a spirit as David Bourne. We cannot,...

rate have been an extended cultivation of endive. Doubtless the reason why best of all winter salad plants has not been popular in this (where many amateur gardeners are a...

harvest is the supposed n. of leaving the sheaves for a considerable period in the open, the grain may dry and mature. Each sort of cereal has had traditional period, and...

reached me (from Indian neighbourhood) about a certain genius in the life of jungle, who incidentally has been educating some of our t in woodlore. In August, 1918, General...

THE Penguin New Writing •is always extremely good value for 9d. This is a good number for criticism but poor for rapportage and creative work, with the exception of Louis...