better that NEWS OF THE WEEK they should be lotion's than Spaniards. For the Italians have no conceivable business in Spain at all. Englishmen and Frenchmen and Russians have...

from outside gets in to either side in Spain, and on whether the foreign forces already there are withdrawn. Both Germany and Italy long ago declared themselves in favour of the...

definitely that Congress will accept office in Iniia in those provinces where it holds a majority, the probability that that will happen increases daily. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru...

struggle in Germany, the conflict between Christianity and National Socialism becomes more acute, and the desire of moderates on both sides to patch up a compromise grows...

of the conditions to which censorship and State control have reduced the German Press. After the attack of Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, on Herr Hitler in an address to the...

to obscure in the public mind the active preparations that are being made for the coming elections under the new constitution. Last week the Government published the decision of...

an industrial suburb of Paris, on Tuesday night gives some indication of the passions aroused in the Paris workers by Fascism in France. The Patti Social Francais, which is the...

Tokyo con- firm the impression that the tendency towards a modification of Japanese foreign policy referred to in these columns last week is genuine and is continuing. The...

tions of the Army, though welcomed in all parts of the House, failed to satisfy the supporters of the Government. There was an insistent demand, led by such responsible Parlia-...

of those who are likely to resign public life. It is known that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will follow Mr. Baldwin into retirement, but there is uncertainty whether Mr. Runci- man...

continues a feature of the session, the discussion of the Army Estimates produced a keen debate and a remarkably high level of speeches. Mr. Duff Cooper wisely abandoned his...

this issue Mr. E. M. Forster gives effective and characteristic expression to the growing and widespread feeling that the Coronation arrangements are in danger of being...

intro- ducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons on Tuesday- he announced the reforms to be introduced in the Army. They are not in any way surprising ; as the Secretary...

probably at any time in post-War history has the death of an elder statesman caused such a sense of personal loss as the passing of Sir Austen Chamberlain. He was no legendary...

to seduce a member of the Royal Air Force from duty he is sent to prison for twelve months. - Since that sentence is - being appealed against there can be no-comment on it here....

O N March nth Sir Samuel Hoare introduced in the House of Commons Naval Estimates amounting to £105, 000p00. On March i6th Sir Philip Sassoon introduced Air Estimates amounting...

Like other industries, flour milling suffers at times from stoppages, and reduced production, the effect of conditions for which the industry is often not in any way...

N O man living was better qualified to pay fit tribute to Sir Austen Chamberlain than Mr. Baldwin, and no man living could have done it better. The verdict of The Times...

By WILSON HARRIS I N Sir Austen Chamberlain the world has lost an outstanding example of all that was best and most characteristic in English public life. Characteristic,...

By J. A. SPENDER F ROM my experience of Royal Commissions I should say that there is a time-lag of anything between sixteen and twenty-five years before the reports of these...

By E. M. FORSTER These creatures are the nations of today as they may perhaps appear to some philosopher or poet in the future. He will regard them with pity rather than...

By the DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S A candid retrospect, however, must disclose a deep obligation of the Christian Church to the Modernists of every period—even to those who have been...

By BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR VVYNDHAM DEEDES WHAT are Community Centres, where are they to be V ' found, what goes on there ? When a new term suddenly comes into use, you may be...

, By MARK BENNEY Rarely, indeed, did sinners prove themselves as penitent as the young man in Jeremy Taylor's anecdote ; nevertheless it was on the pious hope that they might...

By HELEN SIMPSON T CAME to England first in April, 1914. We had broken 1 the journey in France, which meant that the approach to London was made through Kentish gardens ; and I...

By LAWRENCE ATH ILL R AMBLING through my Buffon, I came the other day upon the Sloth, an animal widely condemned as dull. Realising, as I read, the gross injustice of this...

IT might be the day after the last day, The trumpets still, the nations gone away, The visiting deities left in a crowd, And the sun itself wrapped in a single cloud. Even a...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Federalism has been loosely described as democracy applied to States. Today, like democracy itself, federalism...

"The Luck of the Irish." At. the New Gallery--" The Sequel to Second Bureau." At the Curzon-" Thunder in the City." At the London Pavilion-" Head Over Heels." At the Gaumont...

THE THEATRE ■ • The Road to Rome." By Robert Emmett Sherwood. At the Savoy Theatre. WE live in an age which will take its history from any source but from historians. The...

MUSIC FAUST, the man to whom superior knowledge has given power over his fellows and to whom that power brings with it the temptation to do evil, has excited the imagination of...

ART THE word " abstract " is still constantly evoked in reference to visual art. I take it that the most durable use of the word in this context points to those aims that are...

Torrents of Spring It is March 13th when I write : the wind in the south-west, storm clouds, a watery white sun, hail in the night, altogether the promise of a bad day. At nine...

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

Sm,—One is glad that Mr. Behrens has again drawn attention to the grave public scandal implicit in the present system of voting in the University parliamentary elections, a...

' [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was most interested to read, in your issue of March 5th, Sir Arthur Salter's views on the sort of opinion which sent him to victory in...

_ tTo the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] • Sia,—The question whether this country has a duty to take independent action against transgressors in, international affairs is important...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sul,—Some twenty months ago I, with other medical men, a physicist, and numerous Press representatives, was invited to " investigate " the...

SPECTATOR.] - SIR,—In your issue of March 12th the Bishop of Jarrow, in criticising Mr. Castle's article, states that poverty and war are not primary evils, and that if the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, — In his article on finance, "Our Railways and the Investors," published in The Spectator of March 5th, your contributor, Mr. Arthur W....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S1R, — The quotations given by Miss Sturges from the last Report of the Board of Control are very striking. Much sympathy must be felt for the...

• [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin, — " Curiouser . and curiouser." Mr. W. Smith's second lettet is even more remarkable than his first, remarkable, I mean, for the way in...

(To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] .Snt,—Mr. Bates in his column "Country Life" refers to the Bedforeqhire lacemakers' celebration known as Cattern Tea, and wonders why it is...

in Addis Ababa . . . were carried out with a savagery almost beyond 'description. For three days . after the attempted assassination' of the Marshal every able-bodied Italian in...

Civilisation, makes two mistakes which I must beg leave to correct. Firstly, he says that I took no notes on Malekula. Actually my notebooks fill a small trunk. I did do one...

method of granting a "compassionate allowance" or " pension " (both terms are used on the War Office forms), to widows of Regular Officers in the British Army ? On the death of...

SCHULUNGSWERKSTATTEN • [Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] Dm deutsche Wirtschaft leidet noch immer stark unter der Arbeitslosigkeit. Obzwar es den deutschen Machthabern...

SPRING BOOKS By ROSAMOND LEHMANN "You would hardly believe about families," said Edith. "Or many people would not." To those of us who already know what to expect from Miss...

The Years. By Virginia Woolf. (The Hogarth Press. 8s. 6d.) AFTER - The Waves, it was impossible not to wonder what Mrs. Woolf's next book was to be. In The Waves—probably her...

Ina Corinne I3rown. (Student Christian Movement Press. 5s.) THE names of the publishers of these two books suggest a sufficiently different approach to the Negro problem in...

in World Politics. By G. F. Huds3n. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) POLITICAL relationships in the Far East have recently engaged the attention of many writers, but .most of...

DR. MCCLEARY has produced a most timely and readable volume. Despite the recent appearance of a number of learned works which make clear the nature of the existing problem,...

Europe in Arms. By Liddell Hart. (Faber and Faber. 12S. 6d.) MILITARY, like political, affairs move so fast in Europe today, that a book which attempts to picture and criticise...

Gibbon. 1737-1794. By D. M. Low. (Chatto and Windus. 15s.) THE scope of Mr. David Low's distinguished biography is ingeniously and effectively suggested in a short opening...

Freud and Marx. By R. Osborn. With an Introduction by John Strachey. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Is there any logical connexion between the doctrines of Freud and Marx ? According to...

Mr. Sludge, The Medium. By Horace Wyndham. (iles. izs. 6d.) THERE are four reasons why we should be sceptical wh' ere medituns are concerned ; two general, two particular. There...

IN these two volumes Lord Russell has given an impression of the middle years of last century, seen through the letters and diaries of his father and mother, Lord and Lady...

HAVING written the title of this review, I have misgivings about it ; for the usual meaning given to the word" rhetoric "- the art of manoeuvring people, by means of words, into...

The Pageant of Persia. By Henry Filmer. (Kegan Paul. 15s.) Allah Dethroned. A Journey Through Modern Turkey. By Lilo Linke. (Constable. 15s.) Road Through Kurdistan. By A. M....

Gieen Legacy. By Stanley Snaith. (Cape. 5s.) A Further Ratige_ . By Robert FrOst. (Cape. 5i.) Noramo is easier than writing rhymed couplets or octosyllables or blank verse ;...

Men Were Different. By Shane Leslie. (Michael Joseph. 12S. 6d.) Two statesmen. are included in Mr. Shane Leslie's studies in Victorian 'biography, Randolph Churchill . and...

An Irishman and His Family. By Maude Wynne. (John Murray. res. 6d.) IF in a Victorian childhood in Ireland one's elders had a name to conjure with, it was that of Lord Morris,...

78. 6C1.,) MR. BAKER follows up his excellent book Jesus by a more im- portant and definitely theological work on the doctrine of the Incarnation and its relation to the...

(Robert Hale. 12.s. 6d.) THIS is an unpretentious book by a former newspaper corre- spondent in Tirana, who has known Albania since 1924, when King . Zog was an exile. Mi. Swire...

For Lawyers and Others. By Theobald Mathew. (William Hodge. los. 6d.) For Lawyers and Others consists of a delightful series of essays illustrated with the author's pen and ink...

Let's Learn to Fly. By C. St. John Sprigg. (Nelson. 3s. 6d.) Tins book, as the publishers proudly announce on the dust-jacket, is bound in a cloth which will not fade and which...

By LOUIS MacNEICE Very Heaven. By Richard Aldington. (Heinemann. 75. 6d.) Time to be Going. By R. H. Mottram. (Hutchinson. 78. 6d.) The Dance Goes On. By Louis Golding. (Rich...

Land of the White Parasol (Rich and Cowan, I25. 6d.) is the account of an expedition under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History into the interior of...

must go and live in. Sweden for six months. So with little .rponey, a Swedish grammar, a few introductions and a lot of illusions they went to Stockholm. Cheap lodgings in...

I SAW SPAIN By Bernard Newmah Mr. Newman here describes Spain as lie saw it a few months before the revolution. On his much-travelled bicycle " George " he rode from the...

By Captain F. C. Hitchcock, M.C. Captain Hitchcock's War-diary (Hunt and Blacken, xis.) was worth publishing if only because it covers the part played in the War by his...

and with his usual excellent photographs the world's fauna. He has recently visited, for the first time, Australia and New Zealand; and his latest book records his literary and...

musical life of the last generation will be mainly of interest to those who belong to it. They will share his pleasure at the mere mention of a once-familiar name or place, even...

Mr. Savage has written a useful little guide (Barker, is.) for the prospective visitor to Barbados, and anybody going to that pleasant island should take a copy with him. The...

Mr. Cattell has written an original and useful 'guide—for those who have some sailing skill—to South Devon. In Under Sail Through Red Devon (Maclehose, us. 6d.) he tells in...

bends, roads with crossings which cannot be dangerous to any but suicides ; roads that prevent skidding, roads that are divided into as many tracks as may be necessary for the...

UNDERSTANDABLE as it is, the fresh slither in gilt-edged prices is a disappointing movement. I do not know how much French flight-money is invested in British Government stocks,...

BuDG,Et,sepretA are usually well preserved, and in z tllis artip10, which will. appear fully three weeks befote.. the Btidg4t statement, I shall . certainly not attempt to...

FINANCIAL NOTES GREAT speculative activity in commodities, and especially in Rubber and Tin, has contrasted during the past week with general dullness in most departments of...

The winner of-Crossword No. 233 is Mrs. Clark, Farway, Avondale Road, Exmouth.

BY ZENO [A prize of 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 " Crossword...