States, though arranged some time ago, comes at a moment when the attention of the world has been called to proposals for consultation between America and the United Nations....

In his speech on the Air Estimates in the House of Commons Sir Archibald Sinclair gave some impressive figures which indicate the weight of the blows dealt by the R.A.F. at...

The five-point plan introduced in the American Senate by two Democratic and two Republican Senators raises in a direct and concrete form the crucial question of America's...

Sir Richard Acland hit on a novel device for calling attention to the staleness of the electoral register when he divided the House of Commons on the motion for the issue of a...

The very success with which some war-time economic problems have been solved will create fresh difficulties after the war unless steps are taken to avert them. Rubber presents...

A good deal of active patrolling is going on as a preliminary to the battle of next Whitsun, when the Communists will renew their application for affiliation to the Labour...

The House of Commons on Tuesday engaged in a debate on the Colonies, and the West Indies in particular, in a spirit which showed how far this country has moved in its attitude...

HE speech General Giraud delivered at Algiers on Sunday fully deserved the tribute paid to it by the Prime Minister on Wednesday. Its full importance and implication can only be...

I T is always pleasant to know what Cabinet Ministers think of one another. Probably they think more than they say, but even what they say has its interest. I have just been...

By STRATEGICUS HARKOV has been evacuated, but Russia's loss is not yet Germany's gain. That seems to be the gist of the situation the southern sector of the Russian front. It...

By DR. HUBERT RIPKA (Czechoslovak Minister of State) Dr. Benes, as the first Foreign Minister of the new Czechoslovak Republic, made a bold bid for the friendship of Poland....

By S. S. HAMMERSLEY, M.P. W ITHIN the limits of a short article it is not possible to assess exhaustively the relative qualities of all the tanks of the Allied and Axis Forces....

By J. R. MARRACK, D.S.O. From time to time reports have told of severe privations on the Continent ; but we know, from experience of the stories of the food- supply in the...

By BARBARA WARD T HE obituaries have given the full details of Cardinal Hinsley's long life. Anyone who cares to read them can follow the successive stages of his apostolate...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T is a comforting thing, in war-time, to read again those books I which were familiar to one thirty years ago, especially those books which deal with the...

I POINT to the North. I watch the wind Beat from the Pole the snows like driven game ; But there is no gun on the empty moor of the soul ; No wealthy southern body, sleek as...

" Operational Heights." At the Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion. --" Social Enemy No. I." At the Leicester Square. Operational Heights, though a short, unambitious film, makes...

" What Every Woman Knows." At the Lyric Theatre.—" Brighton Rock." At the Garrick.—Anglo-Polish Ballet. At the Winter Garden.—" It's Foolish But It's Fun." At the Coliseum. AN...

SIR,—It would seem that the wider issues involved in the reconstruction of our educational system after the war has tended to develop into an embittered and indecisive wrangle...

SIR, —To the British Empire, in normal times, the importance of Ceylon lay in its capital, Colombo, and the availability of the great natural harbour of Trincomalee as a naval...

week's Spectator, being reluctant to believe that any member of the Yugoslav Government could have authorised one of its officials to make so unwarranted an attack upon Dr....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—In The Spectator of March tzth you print a letter from Dr. P. Yevtich, a press officer of this Department, concerning Dr. Matchek, the Croatian...

Sia,—The poet Longfellow was quoted to fine effect by President Roosevelt in a message to Mr. Churchill, which the Prime Minister broadcalt in a memorable speech. Just a century...

Sot,—" Janus " is usually interesting and often provocative. On March 5th he contrived to suggest, without saying it, that the British Broadcasting Corporation on March and at 9...

gra,—"Fifteen knots an hour " is clear English. It conveys the fact that a ship can pass through or over fifteen nautical miles of sea in one hour. Mr. J. Burroughs' letter is...

SIR,—I am obliged to Mr. Weinstein for calling my attention to the official report of the incident in the House of Commons on February loth to which I made reference in my...

sin,—Much has been written lately about the " servant problem." May I add one brief letter on the subject? It is quite beyond the physical powers of any woman to do all that is...

G. Lyall's letter in last week's Spectator is very much to the point. The liquidation of Hitler and Co., including subsidiary concerns in Italy, Rumania, and elsewhere, by...

Sur,—In his delightful article in The Spectator of March tath Sir Stephen Tallents does not expect anyone to love the stinging nettle and recalls no poet who has praised it in...

SIR,—Wise and fair as you usually are in your judgements, I think you have been less than just in your recent comments on Indian affairs. You agree with the Viceroy that Mr....

Stephen Tallents on " Nettles." I think it might interest you and Sir Stephen that after making cream cheeses the Sussex farmers' wives always laid them on nettles to ripen—they...

An unusual sight in England has been almost a commonplace this won_ derful season: stock grazing on the wheats. The winter-sown corn had become—in that delightful...

Sta,—In writing in " Marginal Comment " of the great Speakers of the past, Mr. Harold Nicolson omits one who was perhaps the greatest of them all—Sir Thomas More. More was one...

" Cloudcuckooland " Jr is not too much to say that if the Conservative Party were doing its duty in the matter of speaking and writing the things which require to be spoken and...

THIS very delightful and refreshing book has at first glance the appearance of a classified anthology. If it were this, and nothing more, it would still be delightful. But the...

Underground Europe. By Curt Riess. (John Long. los. 6d.) Children in Bondage ; Child Life in Occupied Europe. (Long 3s. 6d.) AT this critical juncture of the war there is a...

a Preface by Dr. Wellington Koo, Ambassador of the Republic of China to the Court of St. James. (Gollancz. 6s.) HERE is a handbook, put out by the Chinese Ministry of Informa-...

THERE is, of course, no reason why Lord Londonderry should n have written a book like this, but just as little reason why he shoul A great deal of the ground was covered in his...

The Day Must Dawn. By Agnes Sligh Turnbull. (Collins. 9s. 6d.) Polonaise. By Doris Leslie. (Hutchinson. 9s. 6d.) As food analogies are nowadays among the most vivid, let me...

Psychology. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Cambridge University Press. 2ts.) Shorter Notices Bird Display : An Introduction to the Study of Bird Psychology. By Edward A. Armstrong....

based on a free and pleasantly imaginative interpretation of familiar nursery rhymes. The stories are well told, with plenty of good detail, and the appropriate nursery rhyme is...

(A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of thi. week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, March 3oth. Envelopes...

winner of Crossword No. 208 is MRS. C. MARCH, Hillcrest, Llanishen, Glam.

By CUSTOS UNTIL the promised White Paper is issued one must reserve judge- ment on the Keynes and other post-war currency plans. Two things seem certain. One is that the old...

story of Beryl Markham's life in Africa can be highly recom- mended to readers who appreciate adventures that range from being mauled by a lion in childhood to training...