A GREAT deal might be said about the assassination of Darlan, but very little with advantage. He is dead, and General Giraud has succeeded him as High Commissioner for North...

Once more the Prime Minister has presented the country with a Ministerial shuffle of which the best that can be said is that it will be received with restrained enthusiasm. Much...

It is long (as far back, perhaps, as Theodore Roosevelt) since a Vice-President of the United States has figured so largely in the public eye as Mr. Henry Wallace. In the...

The problem of the future of colonies continues to be canvassed very usefully and suggestively by a variety of authorities. Reference was made here last week to Lord Hailey's...

The words which General Tojo addressed to the Japanese people last Sunday betrayed his clear realisation of the fact that the days of easy triumphs 'for Japan are over. The...

The question of air-transport after the war, to which reference was made here last week, is being discussed in the right atmosphere between Great Britain and the United States....

The condemnation of the Beveridge Report by the Industri Life Offices Association was not unexpected, is not on the whol impressive and will do little to shake confidence in Sir...

A S an old year ends and a new year begins men and nations inevitably pause for a moment in the flying present to consider their fortunes in the past and the future. Adolf...

N O one is under any temptation to glorify assassination, but there seems to be more than a touch of false sentiment about some of the comments in various journals on the death...

By STRATEC;ICUS A S the year ends it is worth while noting how badly Hitler's plan has foundered in Russia. M. Stalin revealed come time ago, on the basis of captured...

By QUINT1N HOGG, M.P. W I - 11LE attention is naturally rivetted on the dramatic events of the North African coast, the opening of the new BeirutTripoli (Syria) railway by...

By W. E. WOOSNAM-JONES I T is not often that a man can be in at the birth, the flourishing maturity and the apparent death of a complete mythology. But any officer or airman...

By AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS T HE fighting men of all arms who have been victorious in Africa have, so war correspondents seem to agree, had "plenty of everything." They describe...

SEEK not nor search those pools, slip-silver fish: No gentle river reaches will uncover But sucking whirlpools which will deep draw down Along dark labyrinthine streams to...

By HAROLD NICOLSON N his popular but discomforting study of Conditions of Peace, I Professor E. H. Carr assures us that we are passing through a silent revolution against "the...

Review of the Year 1942—a year in which British cinemas will probably be able to show the highest audience figures in their whole history—has unfortunately been also the...

"The House ot Jeffreys." At the Playhouse.—" Jack and Jill." At His Majesty's.—" Peter Pan." At the Winter Garden.—" A Midsummer Night's Dream." At the Westminster. I PRESUME...

SIR,—My appreciation of the literary qualities of the writers in The Spectator tempts me to ask your judgement on a method of expressing large sums of money which is quite...

Sia,—The passage, quoted by Sir Herbert Grierson, from the Book of Job is certainly consistent with Christian ethics. But it does not contain their essentials. These essentials...

for the quotation in Mr. Perkins' peroration, I have the quotation amongst odds and ends with this note: "Translated from Gray's Luna Habitabilis," Cambridge, 1737." But I do...

SIR,—You say in your note of December 4th that "we cannot help Jews whom we cannot reach." True, but whom can we reach? Apart from the larger question of whether an offer to...

Snt,—The letter on the County Badge Scheme signed "Unwin Fleming" and dated from St. Paul's School in your issue of December 4th merits a brief reply. In the first place I have...

Sla,—Is not the ready condemnation of clichés itself becoming something of a cliché, and, as such, often a little tiresome and unhelpful? Your reviewer of Allan Michk's Retreat...

SIR,—In spite of what "Janus" has to say about ordinary members of the play-going public who call in question the opinions of the "professionals," I cannot refrain from...

Stit,—Professor Andrade's information on Newton's theology is not upto-date. The subject has been investigated by the Rev. H. McLachlan, D.D., and the results published in his...

A Short History of Chinese Civilisation. By Tsui Chi. (Victor Gollancz. us. 6d.) WHEN this book was announced, the reviewer's first impulse, as a compatriot of its aumor, was...

From Many Angles. By Major-General The Right Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes. (Harrap. 258.) THIS book is a monument to the solid achievements, ranging over numerous fields, which have...

Channel Packet. By Raymond Mortimer. (Hogarth. I2S. 6d.) ELEGANCE—that is Mr. Mortimer's besetting virtue. No man is more highly skilled in the finer mechanics of writing. His...

Bernard Lord Manning. By F. Brittain. (Helfer. 7s. 6d.) THERE is a quiet and impressive competence about this discerning biography of a quiet and impressive man, and even those...

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By. By Simenon. (Routledge. 75. 6d.) The Case of the Tea Cosy's Aunt. By Anthony Gilbert. (Crime Club. H. W.) Night Exercise. By John Rhode....

Downfall : A Play in Three Acts. By Douglas Reed. (Cape. 5$.) MR. DOUGLAS REED has done well to put his latest prophecy on the future of Germany in dramatic form, for this means...

THosu who complain of the English climate might well correct their prejudice by making a list of the flowers that are open at Christmas, while listening to the song of thrush...

SIR HERBERT LAWRENCE'S ADDRESS THE annual general meeting of shareholders of the Ottoman Bank was held on December 23rd at Winchester House, Old Broad St., London, E.C. General...

RECORD PROFIT THE thirty-ninth annual general meeting of Carreras, Limited, was held on December 30th at Arcadia Works, London. Sir Edward S. Baron, the chairman and managing...