ever-increasing strength in the air for persistent heavy bombing of Germany's war factories, p-building yards, transport and military stores has been carried t during the last...

In his message to Congress last Monday President Roosevelt outlined the "national economic policy" which he is asking the United States to adopt as a necessary means to winning...

In spite of the debates on India in the two Houses of Parliament, the most important discussions this week are taking place in India itself. Mr. Rajagopalachari's success in...

Mr. Oliver Lyttelton's broadcast last Sunday should do something to dispel the gloom of those who insist on taking a sombre view of our economic and social prospects after the...

When the Unemployment Insurance Fund was put on a sound financial basis shortly after the financial crisis of 1931 it inherited a heavy debt whose repayment within ten years few...

Sir William Beveridge's report on fuel rationing has been pu lished as a White Paper, and it becomes obvious to critics that limiting factor in its discussion is the necessity...

The Canadian plebiscite has resulted in a very large majority, probably about two to one on the final count, in favour of releasing the Government from its election pledge not...

The suggestion thrown out by Mr. G. M. Young in last Sunday Observer for the creation of a " grand jury " of the House Commons, or the two Houses of Parliament, to conduct...

T is not often that a speech by Adolf Hitler deserves as un- reserved a welcome as the oration he delivered to the micro- ones in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin last Sunday....

Demant, who wa installed on Monday in succession to Dr. J. K. Mozley, has acquired varied experience in the course of a rather unusual career. He was educated at Armstrong...

which a German friend who listened with me to the first reports of last Sunday's speech hailed it as the first real admission of serious trouble about German morale—seems to be...

a Chief of Staffs Committee, inftiated by Sir Edward Grigg's article in The Times three weeks ago, is assuming such volume (I believe Print lig House Square is crowded with...

General Giraud's escape from imprisonment in Germany—to has achieved that in two wars is certainly unique for a soldier of su rank, perhaps for a soldier of any rank—may be an...

the leadership of the House of Commons to Sir Stafford Cripps I hope he will be able to take up one or two departmental questions which rather urgently need attention. Chief...

Though so far I stand corrected by no one, I had better corr myself—slightly—in the matter of my reference last week to Princ ess Elizabeth as " the first subject of the Crown."...

By STRATEGICUS the gravity of the campaign in Burma is only now beginning to be appreciated it is not because the strategical importance of country has not been recognised from...

By WALTHER WESTPHAL N AZI propagandists are accustomed to paint a picture of a thoroughly united Germany, where Nazi principles are whole- heartedly accepted by the whole...

By D. W. BROGAN Montreal, April. HAD never seen the St. Lawrence except in summer, and the steel blue of the water and the snow patches on the hills de a fine contrast. It was...

By OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT A LETTER addressed to the Editor of The Spectator has been passed on to me, as raising a question which calls for extended discussion. " Many...

THEY said I am artistic—true, They did not mention you. They said that flames have died in me That little Christs have cried in me— And I was afraid for what they knew. To...

By EMILE CAMMAERTS O NE of the most difficult problems with which the peacemakers will have to deal, after victory is won, is to reconcile the promise given in the Atlantic...

Few of those who heard it will ever forget Ronald Gartland speech on the motion for the adjournment on August znd, 1939. Mr Chamberlain had suggested that the House should...

his age. He believed, as many others who were not Conservatives believed, in the feasibility of Tory Socialism. He believed with passionate intensity that with intelligence and...

Commons without becoming conscious, as Cartland became conscious, of the damage done to us by the loss of those who fell in the First German War. We have been unable, as Hitler...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T N her memoir on Ronald Cartland which has just been published,* I Miss Barbara Cartland refers to his dismay, on entering the 1935 Parliament, at realising...

"Afro-American Symphony " T last Sunday's concert in the Albert Hall the London Philhar- le Orchestra was conducted by Mr. Rudolph Dunbar, a native British Guiana, who took the...

" Let the People Sing." At the Leicester Square.—" One of Our Aircraft is Missing." At the Odeon. " Ladies in Retire- ment." At the Regal. IN these days when all virtue and...

Watch on the Rhine." At the Aldwych Theatre. ou are living rich, happy, and self-satisfied in a large house near ashington, D.C. (but it might be London or Guildford or...

titles are popular in America. But, if this be so, and if it is necessary to pen the American public of our democratic opinions, could we not, inst of abolishing titles, make...

" RECONVERSION " OR " REVIVAL " Sm,—Prayers were offered in many Anglican churches on March lath, which was the day of St. Gregory, for " the reconversion of England." The...

la to snobbery. I would suggest that snobbery is common to the adolesc mind and has its foundations on fairly sound ground, namely, the sin after something we admire in others...

SIR, —When a controversy raged in The Times about the use of the term " Esquire," Mr. Osbert Sitwell reduced the question to the absurd by pointing out that it was not...

gage flung dos by Sir Robert Greig In The Spectator, may I give a different, and venture to think more useful, turn to the discussion by urging the disu of the quite meaningless...

IR.—May I reply to one phrase in Mr. R. W. Cooper's review of my Bless 'Em All, which concerns my being " shielded by an anony- us pen." Surely Mr. Cooper is aware that serving...

with me I value his opinion. On two points, however, we do agree, that there uld be no more titles created after April 24th, 1942, and that the suffix Esquire " should be...

SIR,—I was very much interested in the article of your April 3rd issue, " Willows of the Brook," by Sir Stephen Tallents. I cannot lay claim to be any such connoisseur of...

SIR, Why should Mr. MacDonagh suppose that Mr. Harold Nicolson, or anybody else, thought he heard his grandmother say : " That's Kitty O'Shea who killed Home Rule " if what she...

a,—Mr. Victor Gollancz tells us that we are fighting for the right of every human being, in every country, freely to develop his personality," that this objective can only be...

April loth under the signature of " Private Soldier " and " Another Private Soldier," might I be allowed to say a few words? With regard to the complaint of "Private Soldier "...

sut,—In the second of the two letters which appeared under this heeding in your issue of April 24th it is said that one of the matters discussed was: Is money the root of all...

LETTERS have descended on me from many counties and many classes observers protesting against " tall," as applicable to a story concerning rat that carried off a hen's egg by...

SIR,—Having been informed that the performances of the Brains Trust were probably the most popular items in the programme of the B.B.C., I made up my mind to see whether I could...

SIR ; Which are the great diaries of the 19t4 war? There must be more than Repington, Wilson and Riddell. Perhaps Mr. Harold Nicolson

English weather is the frost often falls about the Festival of the Three Icemen in the second Iv May. Its worst effects are on fruit blossom, but it is to be remem that such...

hotels dem ded squash pie. After a great hue and cry the caterers found a srr holder who had grown a good crop of pumpkins, and a seducti‘e was served and approved. Now in...

SIR,—In view of the Government's declared policy on aerial warfare the published description and photograph of the bombing or Lubeck seem to call for some explanation. During...

trees is an old hollow plum which was occupied till recently by grey squirrels. There is a big at about six feet up, and a small hole connected with the same ho much higher up....

Life and the Poet. By Stephen Spender. (Seeker and Warburg. 2s.) THIS book is a sort of apologia in which Mr. Spender tries to explain to his political friends how they have...

Dubliner res in the Hallway. By Sean O'Casey. (Macmillan. Iss.) N would seem to have, as a city, a particular way of imprinting on the tender imagination. When to the...

THREE more books on a subject which some people (many pec` still consider one of the most immediately dramatic in the war the Air Forces in action. Two of them, The High Courl...

Design and Purpose. Frederic Wood Jones, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. (Kegan Paul. 5s.) IN Life and Living Professor Wood Jones has given us one of the most notable books of our...

Letters from Paris, 1870-1875. Written by a Political Informal the House of Rothschild. Translated and edited by Robert Hen (Dent. 15s.) IN the year 1882 Sir Charles Dilke...

Defence Will Not Win the War. By W. F. Kernan. (Heinemann. 6s.) Tins little book by a lieutenant-colonel in the U.S.A. Army has been very widely read and discussed in America,...

Sunset Over France. By Stephen Lister. (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.) IF for the constant novel-reader there is now nothing new under sun, and one week's library list has become...

for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct own 'oi this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. ,,ropes should be received not later...

MIA 2 14.E 1, E r 141.,■111' AMARA Lilo C .. . ■ S T E , RiS E '.1; 1 hi ns SOLUTION ON MAY 15th winner of Crossword No. 162 is R. W. ROBERTS, 14, Queen's Oswestry.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE SATISFACTORY UNDERWRITING PROFITS THE 132nd annual general meeting of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., Limited, will be...

SIR WALROND SINCLAIR ON THE OUTLOOK THE annual general meeting of the British Tyre and Rubber Company, Limited, was held on April 23rd at the registered office of the company,...

By C USTOS WHILE they are not unmindful of the approaching storms of spring and summer battle season, the stock markets have ten as they were bound to do, the hopes kindled by...

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE 222nd ANNUAL REPORT koir by the Rt. Hon. Lord Bicester, Governor of The Royal ge Assurance, on the occasion of the publication of the annual and...

THE ROYAL LONDON MUTUAL INSURANCE SOCIETY LIMITED ASSETS EXCEED £50,000,000 Tim eighty-first annual general meeting of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society, Limited, was...