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defenders grows stronger. The British Charg*4 d'affaires has left the city on the reasonable ground that his proper place is where the Spanish Government at present is, namely,...

T HE Spanish conflict on its international side is moving, if not to a crisis certainly to a critical decision. It has to be taken by Herr Hitler. His diplomacy-and Signor...

his various advisers, including General Frankel, the German Minister accredited to General Franco at Burgos, when he travelled from Berchtesgaden to attend the funeral of...

was faced in Paris with a renewed outbreak of strikes. On Monday a strike took place among the packing and distributive staffs of the central warehouses, and spread to the large...

National Congress at Faizpur is what the Delhi corre- spondent of The Times describes as the drift towards constitutionalism " everywhere apparent in India. The Congress duly...

The periodical discussion of the problem of colonies for Germany has broken out afresh, but resulted in little more than the restatement of familiar dilemmas. On the merits of...

be in its effects on the equilibrium of Asia or even of the world, it is usually to Western eyes charged with a considerable clement of farce. The Chang-Chiang episode at Sianfu...

and is executing an order for the export of a number of aero- planes to Spain has caused considerable disturbance of mind at Washington over the neutrality policy of the United...

The conversations which have recently taken place at Bucarest between Dr. Stoyadinovitch, Prime Minister of Jugoslavia, and M. Tatarescu, Prime Minister of Rumania, appear to...

health on Tuesday throws some interesting light on the progress of building activity. Thus, in the year ended September 30th, the total number of houses built reached the record...

long ago broken the restrictions placed by the League on the government of the "Free City." The constitution guaranteed by the League is ignored, there have been beatings, un-...

of safety on the roads must obviously command respect. It is no doubt true that the main desideratum is to educate drivers in consideration and in road-sense, and that the...

Berlin has been discreetly silent about Sir Henri Deterding's gener- ous gift to the Nazi Winterhilfe organisation. Indeed, it must be difficult for National Socialists to admit...

the year show a small increase, of five thousand, in the numbers on the live register, this can be discounted, as it appears to be due to the fact that the count happened to be...

A MONG the many Christmas messages delivered last week, there was none more admirable than the broadcast speech of Dr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Republic. Dr. Belles,...

T HE address broadcast by the Archbishop of Canterbury from Lambeth Palace on Sunday evening had been given unusual publicity in advance. It was no isolated utterance, but...

I T is a melancholy reflection that the Washington Naval Treaty, the one considerable achievement in the field of disarmament since the War, is no longer in force. It expired on...

By RICHARD FREUND G ERMAN housewives are now filling in the customers' lists at their butchers, grocers, dairy and delikatessen shops, which will enable them, with luck, to get...

By H. D. HENDERSON I use the word " expected": but it is not altogether apt, for some, though by no means all, of the consequences that arc involved have already begun to...

By CAPTAIN LIDDELL HART jfic: Brifish Army has many points of difference from thok - ' of the Continent. While they arc large, it is sinaff ; while they arc raised by...

By ROGER HOLLIS China's internal affairs have often borne an undeserved reputation for obscurity. In the ease of the Young Marshal's revolt at Sianfu, however, the...

By C. E. M. JOAD W HAT is it that makes the wheels of evolution go round ? There are, broadly speaking, two answers and only two. The first is the so-called mechanistic answer....

By JOHN RAYNOR . • W HEN I was a small boy, and lived in London, I. used to clamour to be taken along the Embank- ment by my nurse for the afternoon walk. This was not because...

By E. L. WOODWARD T AGREE with Ovid about the New Year. His 1 arguments convinced me at sight when they were presented to me, years ago, in my first Latin reader. Of course the...

Commonwealth and Foreign [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Stu—At the coming session of Parliament, early in 1937, the Dominion Government will find itself compelled, however...

" Heart's Content." By W. Chetham - Strode. At the Shaftesbury THE curtain in Mr. Chetham-Strode's new play rises, as the curtain generally does in plays of this kind, upon a...

A LAUGHING tiger puts fear into the hearts of the Malayan natives; but we, of course, who have borne the white man's burden of sunny Southsea and the picture page, as soon as we...

Academy Vanguard Tins is the last week of an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, in which several of the most eminent French painters of the present day are represented. It...

[D'un correspondant parisien] CETTE fois encore, delaissons la politique. Ne sommes-nous pas'en periode de fetes ? Le cabinet, it est vrai, se rapproche toujours de la crise...

Enclosure Records Historians may rejoice to know that a general effort is being made in the counties to collect essential documents, especially those relating to enclosure,...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sca,—The threatened food-shortage in Germany during the coming winter provides our Government with an opportunity for a gesture of helpful...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents 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"...

prolonging the correspondence with Mr. Oldmeadow, even if you were willing to grant space for this purpose. If Mr. Oldmeadow will kindly read the letter from Sefior Enrique...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. D. V. Glass in his interesting article ascribes the fall in the birth-rate to two main factors operating in the last sixty years. "...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sir Josiah Stamp, in proposing the health of the 11.11.C. at a luncheon, is reported to have said, before uttering some emollient and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A remarkable case before Mr. Justice Bennett may be a reminder that an English husband's legal position has been changed in the last...

[To the Editor of THE SPECrATOR.] Sin,—I can also remember the days when Mr. Ivor Thomas ran the Society for Reunion at Oxford ; he ran it in a very lively and intelligent way,...

[This contribution has been awarded the prize of 12 2s. offered for the best set of answers, in not more than 50 lines of rhymed verse, to the contribution under the same...

Sin,—The quotation which Mr. Rowse gives from Herr Zweig's new book on Calvin hardly justifies his commendation of the writer's work. The greatness and the influence of Calvin...

SIR,—Your Parliamentary Correspondent's animadversions on the present holder of this most thankless and onerous office seem to me rather lacking in his usual sense of fairness....

By PROFESSOR LIONEL ROBBINS THE leitmotiv of Sir Arthur Salter's Cooper-Lectures on " World Trade and Its Future" is well expressed in the concluding sentence—r"IVe must...

Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. (Heinemann. 21s.) How pleased Boswell would have been at the delight we feel whenever we come upon anything new about him ! How lie...

. C. Wedgwood, D.S.O.,• M:P., in collaboration with Anne. D. Holt, M.A. (H.M. Stationery Office. .308.) •, COLONEL .Tostau WEricwoon and his collaborator, Miss -Anne Holt, and...

Travels in Arabia Deserta. By C. M. Doughty. With an . Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. New and definitive edition. Two volumes. (Jonathan Cape. £3 3s.) THESE two volumes are...

We, the Tikopia. By Raymond Firth. (Allen and Unwin. 30s.) Is Western Europe, with its immense aggregations of population, its ease of rapid communication and its complex...

The Higher Learning in America. By R. M. Hutchins. (Yale University Press: Oxford University Press. 9s.) Timis short book by the President of the University of Chicago contains...

6d.) AN-rnorocms are attractively individual things, and no one can ever completely share anyone else's taste in jottings. Particularly when the jottings are not selected to...

The Quest for Cathay. • By Sir Percy Sykes. (A. and C. Black. 15s.) THIS is a good introduction to the history of Far Eastern travel from Aristeas of Proconnesus in the seventh...

,I SHALL always remember the puzzled surprise expressed by an acquaintance who recently sought my advice on " the suitable investment of £1,000," when in reply I asked him some...

I have tried for a long time arc the new 14-hp..Wolseley and the new Vauxhall of the same powei. -- Without any close resemblance in design and little in character, they...

Finance WRITING a twelve-month ago concerning market pro- spects for 1936. I said : " I believe that while the prospect for Investment stocks may be moderately good, the...

THE RISE IN COMMODITIES. THE outstanding feature of markets following upon the Christmas holidays has- been the sharp rise in prices of com- modities, a matter to which I make...

BY ZEN°. IA prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

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