I T was in accordance with a policy that has been emphatically stated by General de Gaulle that the French should raise objec- tions to the creation of central administrative...

General Eisenhower's second monthly report on the Military Government in Germany (for August) deals with political, economic and social questions. It is concerned mainly with...

The situation in Java requires handling with more firmness and decision than has yet been revealed either by the British or the Dutch authorities. On the military side the Dutch...

Power in Argentina rests on a balance of forces which are not easily comprehensible to people who live under orthodoidemocracy. Colonel Peron, who resigned last week, maintained...

Mr. Aneurin Bevan's speech on housing on Wednesday in no way detracted from his reputation as a rhetorician, but it hardly satisfied the expectations aroused by the promises...

October ath (Thursday) was the day fixed for the, renewal of national negotiations on the dockers' claim, and up to the last moment the leaders of the unofficial strike movement...

The Government having stated insistently that they do not desire "controls for controls' sake," it is astonishing that they should i have taken precisely the course which...

The enterprising spirit in which Sir Stafford Cripps is pressing on with his plan for setting up "working parties" in industry is meeting with a good response. He started with...

HAT the debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the atomic bomb should be inconclusive was inevitable, for the overnment is known not to be in a position to announce its •...

is an invaluable feature of the House. It is about the only chance the private member gets nowadays of making his voice heard at all on subjects of his own choosing. It often...

Russia of Nicholas I has its charms. In his posthumous book Water Under the Bridges published this week,. Sir Nevile Henderson, our last Ambassado at Berlin, tells how when he...

P ARLIAMENT is getting into its stride. The opening sittings, in August, were unreal. There was the ceremonial of the royal opening, there was the universal relief and rejoicing...

I understand, is Oxford. The trouble is that there aren't any, o at any rate not nearly enough. During the war the demand was small that the supply was equal to it. Now it is...

possibility for the Secretary-Generalship of the United Nations, the zhances of so admirable an appointment being actually made are worth weighing. No one living, probahly,...

by bit. Th story can be told now, —it is, I believe, to be at least touched o c in a semi-public document—of how the Cambridge Union wa suddenly commandeered for a week in the...

By G. R. DRIVER M UCH has been written for and against the Zionist claim to Palestine, and there are now settled there some 5oo,000 Jews (as against t,000,000 Arabs) who can no...

By B. 1FOR EVANS T HE announcement that the Government is to take a decision on the future of the Ministry of Information should draw attention to the complex problem of the...

By GUY HADLEY I N a few days time I shall be leaving Paris to be demobilised, after spending over a year there with a Military Mission. To a Londoner like myself, the most...

By NIGEL TANGYE T HE prospect for British commercial air transport is bleak indeed, unless public opinion is roused to take an intense interest in its development. Relative to...

Sweden are anxious to know more about what is happening in world affairs and particularly the British vicw on the subject. Unfortunately the blocking pf currency in most of the...

By A CAMBRIDGE TUTOR T HE last fortnight has opened a new era in the life of both our ancient residential Universities—the era of post-war problems in their most. acute form....

and labels, denoting either approval or disapproval, are attached to every - packet of experience ; in an age in which the actual content of experience is of less importance...

By HAROLD NICOLSON N OW that demobilisation is in full swing and that the age and service groups of the Bevin scheme are being released with commendable rapidity, there are two...

to Exporters No. 6, something of my initial irritation revived. I dis- liked being called an " exporter " when I was nothing of the sort. I disliked my dear little carbon copy...

first identified as red tape. I had despatched by reg i stered post, for the consideration of a publisher in New York, a carbon copy of a book which I had just completed. This...

" Surrealist Diversity." At the Arcade Galleries. LITHOGRAPHS FOR "SCHOOL PRINTS, LTD." To the expert astringency of Ben Nicholson's "reliefs," reviewed last week, the...

Hamlet." At the Arts. — " Fine Feathers." At the Prince of Wales. WE have seen so many good Hamlets recently that I confess I went with little alacrity to this new production...

"State Fair." At the Gaumont.—"Journey Together." At the Odeon.—" The House on 92nd Street" (not fixed). A SHORT memory is an asset to the filmgoer. Hollywood once made a film...

Sta,—Dr. Shackleton Bailey is greatly daring in arguing for an abbrevia- tion of secondary school holidays in future. Whether he is right or wrong on that point I do not know,...

in The Spectator on October lath, we would like to say that from the public school boy's point of view his statement that there is one whole holiday a week, apart from Sunday,...

Sta,—I would like to express my profound agreement with the comments in your leader of October 12th on the London deadlock. As you say, the difference is fundamental. This need...

SIR, —You have referred in your paper to a suggestion regarding a City of Nations to be founded, on the territory of which the future inter- national organisations may be...

retired Headmaster to suggest a shortening of school holidays for the weary members of the profession who are still carrying on. Only those actually doing the teaching can...

Sul,—The list of newspapers which your contributor " Janus " sets out as being under my control fs inaccurate in the sense that it is incomplete. That, no doubt, is pure...

Sut,—Various incidents in the administration of British justice during recent years make one question whether the almost fanatical pursuit of fairness has not at times involved...

Sta,—Your contributor, W. G. Moore, quotes a sentence we often hear: "If they can spend millions a day on a war, why can't they do it for the things we need in peace?" and says...

SIR, —In the course of Canon Cockin's interesting review of The Philosophy of Jesus he writes: "It would be hard to find a more typical illustration of the liberal...

Sus,—Amid the rejoicing over the so-called " speed-up " from the Forces it seems to have 'escaped attention that the proposals are in the nature of a "slow-up" so far as the...

con- cerning demobilisation of the Forces, I must disagree very strongly with your statement: "the acceleration is to be effected without abandoning the fundamental principle...

Sus,—Before the war I was a schoilmaster. I am now a Territorial Army officer and have nearly spent over three years in India and Burma, nor do I expect to be repatriated until...

Sits,—In all the articles and correspondence which have dealt with the falling birth-rate one aspect has not, as far as I know, been touched upon. It is rather an elusive thing...

Sia,—In his condemnation of both the national and private sale of alcoholic drinks to the public, Mr. Cecil Heath writes that the making of any profit out of drink—in other...

SIR, —In the article on the ," Future of Malta h " Canon Nicholls refers to a "notorious occasion (when) a parcel of books . . . was quietly destroyed by the post-office...

AN astonishingly gloomy account of English villages is sketched in an else charming little book by Mr. Orwin, who sees salvation for rural England only in much larger villages,...

Sta,—Dr. Percy Dunsheath's article on the electrical future in your current issue prompts me to inquire whether the attention of electrical experts has yet been turned to the...

Siat,—I have been much interested in the article in your number of August 31st entitled ' Peril in Palestine," by Brigadier Stephen H. Longrigg. There is one point which never...

Controversy as to the best apple (Cox always excepted) can never be settled ; but it seems that of apples immune to frost, Edward VII excels others, chiefly thanks to its...

One of the most highly honoured of plants by the modern school of gardeners is the once scorned nettle. The leading authority on fruit trees, for example, the highly...

Snt,—Mr. Gardner in his witty article was concerned with the problem of swinging cats, and the inevitable indignity to that proud and reserved creature. Surely, the old saying...

a good many animals, and there are some hair-raising escapades. The other day, for example, a young rabbit was tossed on to the canvas moving platform as the blade of the...

the British Museum or some part of it, may I put in a special word for students in the reading room? I have recently been granted a ticket to carry on research and labour in the...

The best berries at present on show are on the loaded boughs of a wilsonae barbery, the best of all the dwarfs. Blackbirds, which cleared the mountain ash before the berries...

Lively Disputations Essays on the Eighteenth Century. Presented to David Nichol Smith (Oxford University Press 21s.) THIS admirable volume consists of eighteen essays,...

Greece. By A. W. Gomme. (Oxford University Press. 3s. 6d.) " WE have never before known so much about Greece "—this 'remark was made to me by a British officer while the German...

Tins is one of the few books which everyone without exception ought to read. In 1938, van Dusen was a typically liberal American theologian with a conventional interest in...

IN some respects Sir Nevile Henderson has been hardly judged. He was sent as Ambassador to Berlin in April, 1937, and conceived it as his supreme duty to avert, or at the least...

Peony. By Keith West. (Cresset Press. 8s.) Gin and Bitters. By Jane Lane. (Dakers. 10s. 6d.) Peace with Honour. By Derek Walker-Smith. (Chapman and Hall. 9s. 6d.) Vagabond...

A History of Medicine. Douglas Guthrie, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Nelson. 30s.) To write a history of Medicine, from its vague prehistoric begin- nings to the present day, that is at...

guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first convect solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 30tis. Envelopes should be received...

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BY CUSTOS WrrHour in any way modifying its views on the general principle of nationalisation the City has accepted the Government's scheme for bringing the Bank of England...

Subscribers are reminded that notification of change of address should reach the office of The Spectator seven clear days before the alteration is to take effect.

Venice : An Aspect of Art. By Adrian Stokes. (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) LOVERS of art know that a book by Mr. Adrian Stokes will be worth reading, for he is no conventional...

ODEON THEATRES SUCCESS OF BRITISH FILMS THE eighth annual general meeting of Odeon Theatres, Limited, was held on October Toth in London, Mr. J. Arthur Rank (the chairman)...