HE abdication of the Shah of Persia is the sequel to his futile- attempts to evade the terms -of the agreement with itain and Russia, and was forced upon him by Persians, h o...

Step by step President Roosevelt's administration is feeling s way towards implementing the promise to deliver the goods Wade for Britain in the United States. Germany has...

Bulgaria has long been recognised by this country as an active ally of Germany, who has lent her territory for the use of the German army and air force for attacks on Yugoslavia...

The announcement that Ioo,000 tons of Axis shipping have been sunk in the Mediterranean by the R.A.F. and submarines in the first half of September is of considerable...

Sir George Schuster's book on India, discussed on a later page of this issue, comes at a moment when some construc- tive proposals are more urgently needed than eyer. Nothing...

The reorganisation of our fire-fighting , services is now co w pleted. Mr. Morrison announced at the week-end that the 1.4 separate fire brigades that formerly existed in...

The arrival on Soviet territory of a wing of the Royal Air Force, complete with fighting personnel, ground-staff, spare parts and ammunition, is a further instalment of that...

The appointment of a triumvirate, consisting of the Fore' Secretary; the Minister of Information, and the Minister Economic Warfare, to control political propaganda, pri...

a telegram circulated to tank-factories last Monday, Lord Beaverbrook told the workers that from now the tank-factories of this country must supply the armies Russia as well as...

but they can on occasion be rather deplorably mis- conceived. Is there really any sense, for example, in asking the average man whether he is satisfied or dissatisfied with the...

have been talking—an able economic journalist engaged on the dullest of routine manual work—has made one suggestion (among many others) which is worth passing on. The men of his...

is to say what it means ; the other is to get the t dropped in favour of good plain English. Well, Panzer In armour, and since the German armoured divisions have been more...

I HOPE some thought is being given by the Prime Minister 1 and Mr. Eden to the handling of the German peace-offer, whose imminence is so persistently rumoured. When Hitler has...

far as I know, but the number of people sleeping in pub , shelters is surprisingly high, in view of the fact that Load has had no raids for something like two months. The curt...

By STRATEGICUS r HILE Leningrad still fights heroically against the almost unceasing attack of the Germans, and it is impossible to in any satisfactory picture of the conditions...

By H. G. RAWLINSON 0 F the urgency of finding a solution to the Indian problem, with Japan knocking at the gates of Singapore and Nazi infiltration into Iran and Afghanistan,...

By DAVID THOMSON • HE second of the Eight Points has laid down that Britain and America " desire to see no territorial changes that do of accord with the freely-expressed...

FROM A GERMAN CORRESPONDENT W HILE most people in this country and in the U.S.A. are agreed that a mass-psychosis has infected the bulk of the German nation, there are still...

By A. E. DAVIS s HOUSANDS of words have already been written on pro- duction and distribution after the war. It is well that we hould think now about these factors in post-war...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T. PETERSBURG remains always in my memory as a S lonely city, striving in vain to live up to its own vast scale. That scale was set by the Neva, widest and...

the society of St. Petersburg during those nine years between the Russo-Japanese and the First German War. I am myself averse from large parties or late hours, and my view may...

They still preserved in those days the little but where Peter the Great had first laboured upon the building of his " paradise." Across the river, the small summer-palace which...

that I was not seeing Russia at all. I took Russian lessons free a young student who had been recommended to my fathe (and this makes me laugh) by the Procurator of the Hell...

heard a loud bang in the middle of the afternoon. On rennin! home we learnt that a bomb had been thrown into Stolypifn villa on the Apothecary Island and that some of his famill...

on the balcony looking down upon the Neva and reading Crime and Punish- ment. It produced upon me a disturbing effect. I did not feel somehow that the Russian temperament...

al those untidy pavements and past those dull red frontag Even as I write von Leeb's armies are battering at the gat in a desperate attempt to find their winter-quarters. I nev...

perhaps the greatest work on the history of the English farm-labourer was written by a German- Hasbach. Yet it seems hardly surprising when we consider the deal that the...

Two Centuries Young Two hundred years ago this month was born the man who has been called " the first of English agricultural writers." Arthur Young, born in London, was the...

Shepherd of the Hills." At the Carlton. — " Tall, Dark and Handsome." At the Regal. RE is a sequence in Shepherd of the Hills when a whole mired community believes that its hope...

high-light of September. Among the first, Aster Thomsonii, huge, almost blue, in flower for weeks, has been the finest of the species ; among lilies there was no doubt of the...

wireless tells us and the world that it is up to the factory-workers to win the war. Almost every day some Cabinet Minister visits some industrial centre and speaks to the...

National Liberals tended to appeasement when the Independent Liberals denounced that policy." He omits to add that the Liberal Nationals, on the other hand, supported rearmament...

with interest " Jan us , • suggestion that the Liberal Party should permit the return to i t , ranks of those who now accept the leadership of Mr. Ernest Br ew , and the...

? " Snt,—The actual value of good propaganda increases undoubtedly with the duration of the war. Is there still room for improvement in our propaganda-campaign against Germany?...

SIR, —There is excessive advertising by firms engaged wholly or mainly on Government contracts. Here are a few examples. Sixteen recent issues of one journal connected with the...

Europe through many centuries, and was good enough for Cicero, Pliny, Chardin, Burton, Curzon and the British Government. Nor was it rejected even by the followers of Zoroaster....

SIR, —The Spectator's leader last week on " The Europe of Tomorrow " contained the suggestion that we must abolish impedi- ments to trade as rapidly as is consonant with the...

SIR, —Your contributor's article on bombing policy reminds the public, whose memory is short, that night-bombing was started by this country as a long-term policy and British "...

Sts,—Mr. Harold Nicolson in his interesting article on Iran in your issue of September 5th told us how Teutonic ruthlessness had succeeded in making the hard scarlet of the...

SIR,--A8 I am the writer whom Mr. Siodia quotes in his letter in your last issue, perhaps you will allow me to explain why I prefer " Persia " to " Iran." " Persia," like "...

Make and Break with the Nazis. By Hermann Rauschning, Translated by E. W. Dickes. (Seeker and Warburg. 8s. 6d.) LYING propaganda, deceitful diplomacy, political treachery, a re...

The Theology of Politics. By Nathaniel Micklem. (Oxford University Press. 7s. 6d.) " EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep...

Children's Play The lirontes' Web of Childhood. By Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford. (Columbia University Press. Humphrey Milford. 23s. 6d ) Web of Childhood suggests answers to a...

Lioness of the Seas. By George H. Johnston. (Gollancz. res. 6d.' War for Britain. By Donald Cowie. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d: Women and Children Last. By Hilde Merchant....

Tins is real popular theology. It is quite definitely theology. an exposition of Christian doctrine with full reference to a sources and history, and no less popular in the...

Never Mind, Mr. Lom ! By Alfred Lomnitz. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) MR. LOMNITZ is a German artist who has spent the last eight years of his life between Paris and London. After the...

The Search for Susie. By George A. Birmingham. (Methuen 7s. 6d.) As four of the above novels are the work of habitual, automatic best-sellers, and as the fifth, by Miss Large,...

AT this moment the isolation of the Continent makes the idea of travel irresistibly attractive and one picks up the literature of the days of free movement with the liveliest...

Subscribers wishing to have THE SPECTATOR forwarded to a new address are asked to post their notification on the Friday preceding the week in which the change is to operate, as...

The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. By George Sampson. (Cambridge University Press. iss.) MR. SAMPSON has potted the famous Cambridge history which was in 14...

by not a few people, neither the history of Palestine, nor archaeology, nor the non-canonical literature can allow that decisive break we are apt to find between B.C. and A.D....

By CUSTOS AFTER such a breath - taking rise there should be no surprise that stock markets have now paused. Technical influences alone would have called a halt sooner or later,...

MR. HOUSMAN'S preface is disarming, but the impression remains that his Potage a la Reine has suffered a good deal of thinning. It is difficult to define why this criticism...

EASTWOODS LIMITED PROGRESS OF PARENT COMPANY THE twenty-first annual general meeting of the company was held on September [9th in London. Mr. Horace Boot, M.Inst.C.E.,...

FURNESS, WITHY AND COMPANY LIMITED JUBILEE YEAR HALF CENTURY OF EXPANSION LORD ESSENDON'S REVIEW THE fiftieth ordinary general meeting of Furness, Withy and Co., Ltd., was...

2. One of the stones with which Antony might almost have started his best speech (4)- 3. The wheelwright's conver- sation piece (6). ACROSS 1. Is the coast clear? Ask me (2...

13o Old Vicarage, Moulsford, Berkshire. is Miss Annis Abbott, The