for Wednesday, was still holding out on Thursday morn- ing, but it appears impossible that resistance can be con- tinued much longer. The deciding factor is not man-power but...

has been on the verge of defeat and has survived because no one is willing to take the immense responsibility of breaking up the Popular Front. On Tuesday it was the Communists...

that the British Government should have invited Baron von Neurath to London and that he will spend two days next week in discussion with Mr. Eden. The discussion is the more...

President of the Indian National Congress, is as uncom- promising as such an utterance could well be. The chief purpose of the Congress, he repeats, is to abolish the new...

policy do not satisfy everybody, its general tendency, as revealed in Monday's debate on the Education Estimates, is distinctly healthy. Mr. Lindsay, so recently translated from...

Board, and specified in the' agreement concluded between the Board and the Transport and General Workers' Union on Tuesday, amount to little more than what was offered to the...

new form is so immense an improvement on its generally (rather excessively) execrated predeceisor that it is bard to know what the Treasury was thinking of when it drafted the...

continue to shine like good deeds in a naughty world. Last week it was announced that the Netherlands Government had decided to extend to Great Britain and Germany the...

proposal to abolish night baking He has been agitating for this reform for many years, and the most skilful advocate in the whole House could not have made a more effective...

the Factories Bill. It is on occasions of this kind that the House of Commons most nearly resembles a Council of State. Speeches are short. Members contribute the result of...

by-elections so far. Hillhead, North Bucks and Drake are an inauspicious beginning for the Labour Party's great recruiting campaign. Only the Liberal Nationals are uneasy. At...

Certain letters read by Mr. Justice Luxmoore last Friday, in the course of a judgement on an application for an injunc- tion restraining the publication of further letters of...

of trade union activity are revealed this week by the warnings issued to their members by two great unions, the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the General and Transport...

Chamber- lain's fledgelings continue to do well. On Monday it was the turn of Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, who after a period as Civil Lord of the Admiralty now has the more congenial...

vr H E execution of the eight Soviet generals in Moscow on Sunday defies rational explanation, though the sinister routine of arrest by secret police, secret cross- examination,...

T HE number of motor-cars on the roads of Britain has now reached a total of roughly 2,750,000. The owner of every one of those vehicles is, very properly, under a legal...

T HE murderer of Carlo and Nello Roselli is as yet undetected, and it is hinted in certain Paris papers that the French police authorities may, out of a desire not to embintr...

By A DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT T HE Imperial Conference ended on Tuesday. Its principal delegates have met in plenary session on 21 occasions since the opening of the Conference...

By HENRY W. NEVINSON But let me rather turn to my recent visit to Greece, which is too likely to be the final one. During this last April, by an accident of good chance, just...

By G. M. YOUNG [The Victorian age may be regarded as having begun with Queen Victoria's accession on June 20th, 1837.] r rIOSE who have had occasion to adjudicate at some...

By W. M. CROOK A N I rishman, revisiting his native country after an absence of two years, could not but be struck with a subtle change in the atmosphere since 1935. It is a...

By BARON VON RHEINBABEN (Former Secretary of State) W HEN I was in London again after the Coronation I heard anxiety expressed with regard to the further development of...

By CEDRIC WALLIS All unsuspecting, the world slept. The clouds, pendulous with unshed rain, awaited the sign from a justly indignant heaven that should reduce the sound and...

By JAMES HANLEY T HE wagons move slowly away from the black mountain, the thunderous sounds have ceased, yet whilst their reverberations still hang in the air, they move...

By CHRISTOPHER SYKES N O reputation- is so at nadir, I suppose, as is Thackeray's at this moment. His demi-centenary a few years back passed gloomily enough. There were no...

Commonwealth and Foreign By GI. ENTHER STEIN JAPAN, today, is confessedly harassed more than ever by her economic limitations, as well as by the unfavourable effects which...

THE THEATRE " To Have and To Hold." By Lionel Brown. At the Haymarket NEXT to Mr. Rice's Judgement Day, this slight but agreeable little comedy deserves recognition as the...

" Storm in a Teacup." At the Leicester Square—" Mister Flow." At the Curzon " COME home to men's business and bosoms," wisely remarked Bacon, who knew very well that it was not...

Hollywood rather than to history ; but the authors of this play have avoided all the temptations, if not all the pitfalls, implicit in the modern technique of dramatising...

A Great Isolde THOSE who attend musical performances with assiduity must often suffer the disillusionment of shattered ideals, when the impact of a new personality has lost...

[D'un correspondent parisien] LE bruit await couru que les chanteurs ambulants ne sefaient plus toleres a Paris. II n'en cst• den, heurcusemcnt. Sans ordonnances de police,...

Recovered Crops The British climate has many compensations ; and often frightens us without reason, especially if we are farmers. For example : in April not one farmer but...

[To the Editor of TI1E SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The letter of Mr. Arthur T. H. Smith, of Crowborough, is important because it calls attention to an educational scheme in East Sussex,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R,—The fact that " non-commissioned officers have of late figured more prominently in the list of deaths " does not necessarily imply that...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As the destruction of Guernica has been sedulously' advertised as the barbaric deed of the Insurgent air-force, an article on the subject...

SIR,—All those who fly and those who, though they walk, have their heads in the air, must share the concern, expressed in your issue ..of June x 1th, at the recent accidents to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In a Mite in your issue of June 4th you express regret that " a document " of mine should, through the medium of The Spectator, have been...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Dr. Raymond B. Cattell, following the grave revelations of his intelligence test investigations, rightly urges a reduction of fertility...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am much distressed to have given an impression of " arrogance " by my comment on the ephemeral nature of the large majOrity of Bentley...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have read Mr. Hone's review of my sister Mary Butts' book, The Crystal Cabinet, with great interest, but his notice raises one or two minor...

[ To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — Sir W. Beach Thomas will find a very interesting article on this Peak in the Oxford Dictionary. Sir Jas. Murray is sure it has no...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The fight for Bilbao by a people in arms against foreign airplanes and mechanised armies has cost the Basques thousands of their bravest...

agreement with Mrs. G. M. Peach's letter of June nth about the paragraph in " A Spectator's Notebook " on June 4th, about the Duke of Windsor's marriage, and I, too, am ceasing...

" THE SPECTATOR," JUNE 17TH, 1837. WE are informed that there is now in London a small farmer from Shetland, who gives some curious particulars of the manner in which the...

in " A Spectator's Notebook " of June 4th about the Duke of Windsor's marriage, I am • continuing to subscribe to The Spectator.—Yours faithfully, 0 E. M. BUNBITRY.

the paragraph regarding the Duke of Windsor's marriage in your issue of June 4th, I am confident that the majority will agree with the spirit embodied in that paragraph: However...

SIR,—I was much amused at the letter of a Mrs. G. M. Peach, announcing that, owing to your paragraph about the Duke of Windsor's marriage, she was ceasing to subscribe to The...

the first time on record your Spectator has succeeded in avoiding the 'wrong use of " England and English," and has used the correct " British, &c.," throughout. Your June 4th...

that those who approve of the disinheritance of the King's elder brother overlook the real , point at issue. The right to remarry, after the dissolution of a former marriage on...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By WICKHAM STEED SIR NORMAN ANGELL is a national asset. He reminds me of a brainy lady whose younger and less brainy sister once said to her in a tone of...

Tunbridge Wells. By Margaret Barton. (Faber and Faber. 15s.) Miss BARTON has wisely and adequately done for Tunbridge' Wells what she and Mr. Osbert Sitwell between them had...

Rowse. THE ELIZABETHAN SPIRIT (Jonathan Cape. 12S. 6d:) • - - OTHERS will have dealt with Mr. Rowse's book from the detached positions of the historian and the literary...

.IN.the early autumn of 1935, when Belmonte's admirers flocked taMadrid and Seville to attend the latest and probably the finest of his several rumoured or intended farewell...

After Many Days. By Frank Fletcher. (Robert Hale. 12s. 6d.) SIR FRANK FLETCHER cannot, like Busby of Westminster, boast of having flogged all the Bishops on the Bench; but even...

Tins quiet, sensibly-written book contains more real infonpa- non about Gauguin than any of the highly-coloured biographies that have yet appeared. Brought up by his mother in...

Busman's Honeymoon. By Dorothy L. Sayers. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Dancers in Mourning. By Margery Allingham. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) Who Killed Robert Prentice ? By Dennis Wheatley and...

The Ascent of Nanda Devi. By H. W. Tilman. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) NANDA DEVI, 25,645 ft., is the highest summit in Garhwal, and indeed the highest in British...

By ADRIAN BELL Lois in Love. By Lewis Gibbs. (Dent. 7s. 6d.) Sunset at Noon. By Ruth Feiner. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) The Late George Apley. By John P. Marquand. (Hale. 7s. 6d.) Alas,...

Filming wild elephants in the jungles of Mysore combines, the excitement of hunting and the nervous tension of stage-management. Robert Flaherty was sent to India to make a film...

Hitler is most often compared. In this short essay (Cambridge University Press,' 3s: 6d:), originally delivered as a lecture • to a German audience, Professor Barker ana- lyses...

commended, for he describes with equal livelinegs and accuracy the Northern countryside and the towns that constitute the industrial North. His brief chapters on iron, coal and...

YEAR BOOK, 1937, Edited by 'M. Epstein • CURRENT LITERATURE -. The 178th issue of The Annual Register (Longmans, 3os.) is as useful and informative-as ever. The first part of...

The photographs alone would make this book (Batsford, 7s. 6d.) worth buying. They are numerous, excellently reproduced, and well chosen, and anyone who knows Wales at all must...

not been written before. Mr. Blake, the Clydeside novelist, was dearly the right man for the job. :In Down to the Sea (Collins, 22s. 6d.) he has written a fascinating tale, all...

6d.), whose very title suggests a promising theme, contains plenty. There is the brilliant and horrible study of madness closing in like a net in " The Yellow Wall- Paper," a...

Mr. Casson has set out to discover the reason for the switchback nature of human progress. In this book (Hamish Hamilton, 7s. 6d.) he discusses Paleo- lithic man, Neolithic man...

charming sketches (Collins, 8s. 6d.) really as English as all that ? Or, rather, is England so like the England of American novels, that tranquil, unchanging country where it is...

The fact that Mr. Wickham Steed's well-known book (Nisbet, 4s. 6d.) has reached a fifth edition within three years is sufficient testimonial to its value. The latest edition is...

BROKERS report that clients, are showing a little more interest in investment matters, but _markets remain in the'doldiums.. " isl.D.C." is a thing Of the past, the gbld scare...

sort of warrior who takes his car across the Channel today, landing on some foreign quay with that splendid prospect of ffie perfect escape before him. Time was when the...

FINANCE To many people the sagging tendency of British Government stocks is a rather puzzling phenomenon when there has been no change in money rates and no sign of any drying...

OVERSEk FACTORS IN MARKET - DEPRESSION. BOTH business and prices on the Stock Exchange have left much to be desired during the past week, and events overseas have emerged as...

prise of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 246 is Mr. C. C. Green, IA Strand, Torquay.