T HE Nazification of Austria is being carried through with relentless precision. Arrests continue, the latest public figures to be placed in confinement including General...

week may be exaggerated ; indeed their claims have already been slightly modified. Yet they are, in general, confirmed by reliable correspondents, and it is certain that a...

appears to have been held up at Fraga, about ten miles from the key city of Lerida ; his operations in Lerida province threaten to deprive Catalonia's industries of electric...

protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland is that the British Government, under whose tutelage they now are, is pledged to transfer them sooner or later to the...

again facing defeat. Last week the Senate rejected his financial bills, after vicious personal attacks on him. He is now preparing a new financial programme, of which nothing is...

Depart- ment on the situation in Mexico have not prevented strong action to defend American rights. Severe economic pressure has been put on the Mexican Government by America's...

Times is potentially as important as anything in the paper. It records that Mr. Harold Ickes, the Secretary of the Interior in the United States, has forbidden the export of...

and workers in the armaments industry con- tinue ; the next step is to be a meeting with officials of the Amalgamated Engineering Union next week. The problem is to secure a...

other journals to the exten t to which tax-evasion is at present being carried on without actual breaches of the law seems likely to have the desired effect, and there is little...

Commons, there can be no doubt that the party is admirably led in the House of Lords. The speech in which Lord Snell opened the debate on Wednesday was brief, lucid and pointed....

of the Border. In England about 3.8 of the in- habitants are now living in overcrowded conditions. In Scotland the percentage is six times_ as great. There are five Scottish...

for All " deserves closer study than it will perhaps receive at such a moment as this. It represents one more effort by the Party to show that Liberalism still has a political...

deputation from the General Council of the Trades Union Congress that the Government intended to adhere to the provisions of the recommendation concerning the welfare of seamen...

is never possible to gauge exactly what the country is thinking, except on polling-day at a General Election—and not always then. But in these times, when Members of Parliament...

I T is a rather singular fact that the only sections of European opinion conspicuously discontented with Mr. Chamberlain's statement on foreign affairs are the supporters of Mr....

T HE vital importance of minerals in modern industrial life has long been recognised, especially perhaps since Sir Thomas Holland wrote his now famous book on the Mineral...

speaking by the German minority in the Czechc- slovakian Parliament the previous day I took the trouble to ascertain precisely when last an ordinary member of the German...

apologising. I rath, like this model—from the Personal column in last Monday", Times : I N the issue of the Daily Worker, dated Saturday, March 26, we made a statement, " THE...

usually wrong, can of course on occasion be right. And in its con- demnation of a forthcoming book, which is described by its publishers as " a frank and unusual autobiography,"...

T HERE is a curiously, and in my view quite unjustly, derogatory note in a good many of the comments I have read on Colonel House. He was a remarkable man, and his quiet...

among the comparatively few literary High Court Judges— not because he has written books on Constitutional Law and Trade Union Law, but on the strength of the chapters he...

of it is. Someone has sent me the latest issue of Nea; From Germany, which is posted broadcast from Starnberg, in Bavaria, to large numbers of people in this country. It...

forthcoming, or just published, book it is more in the intere: of potential readers than of the writer. In that spirit let me commend unreservedly Insanity Fair, by Douglas...

" Another well ? dressed woman was Lady —, in go lame and emeralds."—The Sunday Times, March 27th. jANUS.

By E. L. WOODWARD W HY did the Great War break out in 1914? Could any action by Great Britain have prevented this outbreak? The answer to the first of these questions reaches...

By SIR ALFRED ZIMMERN T HE first and dominant impression of any visitor to Central Europe today is that of the revival of the rule of force and all that it stands for. It is...

By JOHN LOW S OME time before the German coup a large group of Nazis, including Seyss-Inquart and others who later became Ministers, met regularly at a restaurant in Vienna...

By DEREK VERSCHOYLE [This is the third of a short series of articles dealing with Ireland in its domestic and external aspects. Next week's article will deal with " Social...

By DR. LEONARD WILLIAMS IT is an axiom to say that the maintenance of health depends upon a due balance between intake and output. The in- take we know to consist of food and...

By HENRY WATSON I WENT down last term to John's prep. school ; he had just been given his colours and I was to see him display them before a match. I arrived in time for...

CAN I BE A CHRISTIAN [The writer is an Oxford undergraduate, aged zr] I HAVE just passed several weeks in a Franciscan friary, where for the first time in my life I have seen...

FIVE YEARS OF PERSECUTION By W. G. J. KNOP FIVE years ago, on April 1st, 1933, the official boycott of German Jews came into force, and the world learnt with horror of the...

• • The Count of Monte Cristo." At the London Pavilion- 4 . ht ad About Music." At the Leicester Square MONTE Camp, revenge in his grim eye, sets up the three of hearts as a...

THE THEATRE f' Idiot's Delight." By Robert E. Sherwood. At the Apollo Theatre Tins play acts on its audience's nerves and senses against a background of newspaper headlines :...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenien] EmEit der grossten und volksreichsten Bezirke von Berlin ist Neukilln. Hier leben fast ausschliesslich Arbeiter, von denen die Mehrzahl im...

The Return of the Prodigy AFTER a retirement of two years for rest and study, Yehudi Menuhin has returned to the concert-platform, no longer a Wunderkind with all the glamour...

with that of 17o years ago, for which Gilbert White kept a naturalist's calendar. This can be done by taking White's dates for the first appearance of certain common flowers....

It is good news that 3o,000 farm-workers in three counties— Sussex, Durham and Devon—are to receive higher wages. following the decision of the Agricultural Wages Board. Yet, as...

When the dreary records of English weather are examined by future generations the month of March, 1938, will appear like an illuminated address. The whole month, at least as far...

The Wild Tulip My query as to the existence in England of the wild tulip (Tulipa Sylvestris), made a fortnight ago, has met with unex- pected success. Many correspondents have...

One correspondent is, and perhaps justifiably, very sceptical. " My own impression is that the plant is mostly, if not always an escape from cultivation in this country." He is...

This page deals largely, and quite naturally, with English country life. For the last three or four weeks the B.B.C., whose broadcasts from English villages are too often of the...

[Correspcndents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In view of the German Government's denial of an ultimatum to the late Chancellor of Austria, may I call attention to an article which...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —Those of us who are seriously alarmed at the trend of Government policy in the world-crisis recognise that the danger of that policy is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May a humble reader venture to congratulate you on the magnificent number of March 25th ? It leads off with a staggering assault on...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Slit,—In a letter entitled " Strategy and Czechoslovakia " which you printed in your last issue, Mr. Horder criticised the Government for not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am neither an Orangeman nor an active politician, but as I have lived all my life in Ireland I understand the position here as the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—NOt being numbered among the intellectual elite of Under Thirty I hesitate to suggest that the writer of " Why I am not a Christian—I " is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As it so happens that I am experiencing almost identical difficulties in the attempted retention of reconditioned old cottages, as are so...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, I have been much interested in the correspondence in your journal on the question of " Reactions and Road Accidents." No member of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. Smith ends up his long letter on the above question with the words " Mark cannot be placed much, if at all, earlier than A.D. 70." It...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—In A Spectator's Notebook, " Janus " refers to an inter- esting passage in Sir Samuel Hoare's address to Reading Univer- sity, where he...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am aware that my good friend Virgil was in the habit of borrowing freely from the works of other poets, and no one can appreciate better...

certainly much better qualified than I to reply to the article, " Why I am not a Christian," on page 465 of your issue of March 18th, yet perhaps you will be able to find space...

Advice to Statesmen (Richard Freund) .. • The Religion of Japan (Francis Gower) • British Unemployment Policy (R. C. K. Ensor) .. Imperial Law (W. T. Wells) .. .. Feminists and...

The National Faith of Japan. By D. C. Holtom. (Kegan Paul. r5s.) IT is a pity there are so few students of comparative religion, for this book analyses a portent. Ethically...

British Unemployment Policy: The Mod.?.rn Phase Since 1930. By Ronald C. Davison. (Longmans. 7s. 6d.) ON its topic this is the most important book that has appeared for several...

Constitutional Laws of the British Empire. By W. Ivor Jennings and C. M. Young. (Oxford University Press. as.) THIS excellent book is primarily designed as a textbook for...

Women of Today. By Margaret Cole. (Nelson. 5s.) THE middle-class Englishwoman of today may easily forget how recent and how precarious is the emancipation of her sex. Of the...

The Crucial Problem of Imperial Development. (Royal Empire Society Imperial Studies, No. 15.) (Longmans. 6s.) This book reports a conference recently arranged by the Royal'...

IT has been the misfortune of Mr. Ford—if he cares for these things—while commanding the fullest respect of his con- freres, to lack the multitude of fans, the host of imitators...

Russia in Chains is the most remarkable book yet written by a Russian about the Soviet regime. MM. Gide and Cline, Sir Walter Citrine, Mr. W. H. Chamberlin, and Mr. Lyons have...

JOHN DOVE was well-known in a small circle, and comparatively little known outside it. The small circle was a distingujshed circle, consisting of " Milner's young men " who were...

The Three Ladles Waldegrave (and their mother). By Violet Biddulph. (Peter Davies. iss.) THE Ladies Laura, Charlotte and Horatia Waldegrave were the great-nieces of Horace...

By FORREST REID " ECKSIZE. Grey frecksize. Chiboo tson frecksize." (" Exercise. Get ready for exercise. Put your boots on for exercise.") They are the first, as they are the...

THE APRIL MAGAZINES THE Nineteenth Century prints Mr. Chamberlain's statement on foreign policy with Baron von Neurath's highly imaginative account of the Austrian affair which...

Wheare In 1933 Mr. Wheare published a short illuminating essay on the Statute of Westminster. Since then a great deal has happened, and Mr. Wheare has rightly judged it better...

Tait Professor Grierson in the preface to his centenary edition of Scott's letters has stated that David Douglas in his well- known edition of the Familiar Letters, like...

HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY TOTAL ASSETS EXCEED £122,000,000 GRATIFYING INCREASE IN EARNINGS SIR ENOCH HILL ON THE SOCIETY'S PROGRESS THE results of the Halifax Building Society's...

ASSOCIATED PORTLAND CEMENT MANUFACTURERS RECORD PRODUCTION SIR P. MALCOLM STEWART'S REVIEW THE annual general meeting of the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd.,...

By CUSTOS MASS opinion in Throgmorton Street is so rarely right that I find it hard to believe that markets can be as unpromising as they seem. From modified hopefulness the...

NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA PAYMENT AGAIN 18 PER CENT. MR. R. LANGFORD JAMES'S SPEECH THE ordinary general meeting of the National Bank of India, Ltd., was held on March 28th at...

Shrewd management and impregnable finances have rightly earned a high place in the Empire banking structure for the group of institutions generally known as the Eastern Exchange...

RECORD OUTPUT THE ordinary general meeting of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd., was held on March 30th, at Winchester House, London, E.C. Mr. R. W. Cooper, M.C. (the chairman),...

MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA SATISFACTORY RESULTS DESPITE DIFFICULTIES SIR CHARLES INNES ON THE OUTLOOK THE forty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the Mercantile Bank of India was...

The accounts a the Union Corporation do not tell us what proportion of the total income is derived from investments and how much from capital profits from share dealings. Last...

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA A DIFFICULT AND TRYING YEAR THE Eighty-fourth Ordinary General Meeting of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, was...

Whatever its critics in the supply industry may say of it, the Central Electricity Board is achieving what it set out to do. In fact, the 1937 report, which should satisfy the...

Rand Mines, which is the opposite number in Johannesburg to Central Mining and Investment Corporation in London, also shows a very satisfactory profit. Working profit for the...

RICHARD COSTAIN LIMITED IMPORTANT CONTRACT WORKS AIR RAID PROTECTION THE fifth ordinary general meeting of Richard Costain Limited, was held yesterday at Friends House, Euston...

MINING FINANCE PROFITS. AFTER a year of disastrous declines in the price of gold- mining shares, and of unnecessary misgivings about the future price of gold, the reports of...

Gone are the days when International Holdings shares were a name to conjure with in Wall Street and Throgmorton Street. The company has now settled down to the com- fortable, if...

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Tan annual general meeting of Ericsson Telephones, Limited, was held on March 30th in London. Cillonel Sir Harold A. Wernher, K.C.V.O. (the chairman), who presided, said in...

AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN INVESTMENT COMPANY. Preliminary figures are also published of the results of the African and European Investment Company which has im- portant interests in...

THE LONDON AND THAMES HAVEN OIL WHARVES LIMITED DIVIDEND TEN PER CENT. TAX FREE THE fortieth ordinary general meeting of the London & Thames Haven Oil Wharves, Ltd., was held...

Sir Enoch Hill's speech to the members of the Halifax Building Society contained, as usual, important reflections on the probable lines of development in the housing industry....

The British Aluminium Company last year increased its profits and its dividend and produced a record tonnage of its product, in spite of rising labour costs, which in the past...

LONDON AND THAMES HAVEN. Mr. Thomas C. J. Burgess, the Chairman of London and Thames Haven Oil Wharves, faced his shareholders on Monday in a fighting spirit. He showed that he...

While refusing to foreshadow the future, Mr. R. A. Costain, the chairman of Richard Costain, the public works contractors, was able on Wednesday to give the shareholders the...

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