T HE temporary set-back on a section of the Russian front, the standstill in Italy and the deplorable abandonment of Leros, following on the deplorable abandonment of Cos, are...

Public opinion will not be satisfied until the whole question of Cos. Leros and Samos has been cleared up. After days of heroic resistance in which 3,000 British troops and...

The blow struck by a strong force of American bombers on Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, has military significance for the Germans and political significance for the satellite...

announcement of great importance last Sunday when he said that his Ministry was setting up a fully-equipped department to prepare what he picturesquely described as a "human...

Many people, reading Mr. Herbert Morrison's speech at Bolton last Friday, may have felt that he was damning the Beveridge Report with faint praise. The fact that the adoption of...

The changes in the Government announced last week transfer Lord Woolton from the Ministry of Food to the new office of Minister of Reconstruction, and bring Mr. Willink, a...

The British Government's "Report on Mutual Aid" presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer has naturally received almost as much attention in America as in this country,...

Marshal Badoglio has formed a new Italian Cabinet m which certain persons in his former Ministry objectionable to the Allies are not included. It is to be regarded as an interim...

I T would be difficult to imagine an issue so superficially unimportant as regards the size of the territory and population involved being charged with more menacing...

pult:ng it too low. Public opinion is being silently and scientifically tested all the time on many subjects, and the test in this field reveals that in general popularity Lord...

- By STRATEG IC US S OME of the ambiguities in the present military situation are obvious ; and they have already been discussed. But there are others which do not in any sense...

By SIR GEORGE SCHUSTER, M.P. M Y article in last week's Spectator reviewed the position in the countries around the Indian Ocean, hitherto unifftd under British power, and...

By ELLIOTT BQDDS His claim to survival (contrary, to a widely-held view) is equally trong on economic grounds. The personal service which he offers as a definite economic...

By UNWIN FLEMING p OPULAR discussion has a queer way of missing the point. The Public Schools will not stand or fall on the merits of the fagging system ; nor shall we abolish...

By F. BRITTAIN " ANY people," someone said recently, "forget that Q still lvi finger lists." When this remark reached Q he raised a warning whispered: " 'Sh! he's dead—but he...

By HAROLD NICOLSON y HAVE been reading this week Eve Curie's war-time experiences I in Russia, Africa and Asia, which have been published by Heinemann under the title Journey...

MUSIC THE Sadler's Wells Opera Company, once more back at the New Theatre, haves added new productions of Hansel and Gretel and The Bartered Bride to their repertory. I confess...

CINEMA THE long-awaited film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel demonstrates two separate processes—the conversion of a politically motivated book into a film and the attempt...

MR. IVOR NOVELLO knows his business and it is not for nothing that his Dancing Years at the Adelphi has already run ,or over two rears. His new venture, in which he himself does...

Portraits and Landscapes MANY people who have collections of modern paintings would like at some time or other to commission a portrait of a relative that _would agree as a...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—I was much struck by the article on Canadian Indians in your issue of November 12th. Having come in contact with Indians of many tribes during some...

Sut,—In his article in your issue of November 12th, Mr. R. Maudling writes: "If the sacrifice of economic liberty entails the sacrifice of political liberty as well, Socialism...

Sia,—The Hon. Harold Nicolson, after his visit to Sweden, makes theq points: (r) The ideal of gentlemanly conduct is very operative in Sweden today. (2) The Swedes ask for...

beside Mr. Gladstone—I have read Mr. Reginald Maudling's article on "Conservatives and Control" with interest and considerable agree- ment. But was not the Liberal Party, if it...

Nicolson's "Marginal Comment" dealt with the feeling of " forsakenness " amongst our Forces abroad. Naturally, this has aroused much interest among the soldiers themselves, and...

SIR, —The correspondence in your columns about church parades in the Services emboldens me to protest, both as a citizen and a Christian, against what I consider an even greater...

Sik,—Your " Janus " in November 5th issue appears to have had one of his faces most _grievously misdirected. "Stamps," he says, "'nay be made a valuable medium for national...

been allusions to governing, bodies and headmasters, and it has been suggested that these are not necessarily more desirable as controllers of educatiOn than the members of...

Sta,—May I make a mild protest at the easy assumption made in the Rev. L. B. Towner's letter in last week's Spectator. He quotes from a letter "from Geneva "—no name given—which...

the Privilege of Clergy. In the presmt day the clergy has a different kind of privilege, that of being the cockshy of a certain sort of layman, such as your correspondents...

Sra,—The figures and arguments submitted by H. Towers in the issue of November rzth only serve to endorse the fact that the cost of dis- tributing electricity in the rural areas...

A GREAT deal is being said in many quarters on the need of supplyin4 country cottages with electricity ; but it does not seem to be realised that the trouble is not with the...

WHEN journalists and politicians tempt us to despair of ever bei allowed to live in friendship with America, we may remembe that they are not the only elements in the formation...

Two Saints Snihrrs, whatever else may be said of them, are never dull. Making both on their contemporaries and on succeeding generations so vivid and durable an impression of...

a most interesting and learned book on Falstaff which in the main is directed at the misconceptions of certain famous critics, including Andrew. Bradley. Mere literary men who...

Report on the Constitutional Problems in India submitted to the Warden and Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford. By R. Coupland. (Oxford University Press. 6s. 6d.) A Plan for...

Double Lives. An Autobiography by William Plomer. (Cape. 95. 6d.) WILLIAM PLOMER, born in 1903, in the interim between the two world wars quickly emerged as the most versatile...

Some Talk of Alexander. By Roger Grinstead. (Seeker and Warburg. Responsibility. By James Agate. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) 7s. 6d.) Spylight. By Walker Taylor. (Eyre and...

DECEMBER 3rd 243 is MISS MOLLIE GEORGESON,

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct whown of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 30th. Envelopes should be received not...

(Curda Press. zos.) Now that Ireland or Eire is inaccessible to most of us, we are able to prize nearer their true value the beautiful productions of the Cuala Press, of which...

Black. Kis. 6d.) Robert Helpmann. By Caryl Brahms. kBat,sford. 18s.) SINCE the late Miss Lilian Baylis concentrated in 1931 at Sadler's Wells the scattered elements of the...

By:CUSTOS AFTER last week's shakeout, •which in some of the more volatile shares aniounted to a.minor slump, markets are again lifting their head. .At this stage it is too...