lines of Government effort were (1) unemployment insurance; (2) trade development; (3) relief schemes. New expenditure was to be undertaken to the extent of about £50,000,000 on...

there was believed to be about a million and a-half tons of iron and steel in the Ruhr which were ready to be dumped in this country as bankrupt stock. In his opinion the...

Hicks. He said that, ultimately, he looked to the Dominions for a great increase of trade, but that could not come at once, and in the meantime work must be found at home. The...

to reconsider the rejected plan for admitting 50,000 ex-Service men into the industry. Housing was being hindered by an acute shortage of, skilled men. There is, we fear, no...

T HE Government are gradually adding to their pro- gramme for the relief of unemployment. Although we are not satisfied that the task of overhauling the nation's industrial...

historic, effect of uniting factions which if left to themselves would never have found common cause, and although Dr. Stresemann's Government has consequently acquired a...

most important crisis since the passing of the electoral law. The Grand Fascist Council met on October 12th. At it the dispute in which Signor Mussolini supported Signor Massimo...

of the Ambassadors' Conference, after seeming to agree with the League of Nations, bolting off with the bit between its teeth and requiring Greece to pay to Italy the , full...

of Englishmen are really intent upon securing respect for the principle that there must be a Public Law in Europe, and that no Public Law is possible unless the signatories of...

of the necessity of dealing with France. It is only a question of who shall be responsible—the Govern- ment or the magnates. The German Charge d'Affaires in Paris made his bid...

letter to the Times of Wednesday in which he said that he had been misunderstood as having promised a Government scheme of currency inflation. There was no such scheme. If that...

Fallodon, which we summarized last week, has caused a strange outburst of indignation in Italy. The Secolo, .which is now, of course, a Fascist newspaper, makes some remarks...

a nice round sum, but it is desirable, if not necessary, to point out that a large part of this sum would have been spent in any case. For instance, the expenditure of the Roads...

the whole question in a pamphlet. Their recommendation is . roughly that the conditions of panel practice should be improved from the patient's point of view, and that a free...

High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, is still making efforts to induce the Arab popula- tion to take part in the government of their country. It will be remembered that the...

the Ministry of Health and the doctors may lead to a deadlock and a wholesale resignation of doctors from the panel. It will be remembered that the Minister of Health has...

a triumph for II Duce, but a triumph which he had to buy at a considerable cost. Although he had his way against the extremists at almost every point at issue, yet he had to...

when the Fell and Rock Climbing Club handed over the title deeds of some of the most beautiful mountains in the Lake District to the National Trust. The gift represents the...

a generous gift to the British nation. No. 10 St. James's Square, which has been in turn the house of Chatham, Derby, and Mr. Gladstone, has been presented to the British...

the new broadcasting licensing scheme. When the scheme was put into operation it was computed that there were 200,000 unlicensed " listeners." Already, in answer to the...

July 5, 1923 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 10211: Thursday week, 102{ ; a year ago, 100f.

PRESS COMBINATIONS. T HE public mind has been greatly perturbed by the purchase of Sir Edward Hulton's group of news- papers. The transfer of these newspapers from one...

I. • MR. McKENNA'S ENDORSEMENT. W E have Mr. McKenna's leave to publish the correspondence which has passed between him and Mr. St. Loe Strachey in regard to the following...

I F we do not misjudge public opinion there is a reaction from the first and very natural desire to consider favourably schemes laid before the Imperial Conference for making...

T HISphrase is said to be current at the moment in Europe. It represents fairly accurately this week's phase of the interminable Franco-German conflict. To each new turn of...

FARMING IN DENMARK. W HATEVER be the answer from our own country, the answer that comes to us from Denmark is plain enough. Not only can the Danish farmer save himself, but he...

[By A PATIENT.] T HE diabetic patient gradually drops out of things; he cannot command energy or concentration for work. He has no " steam up," and becomes progressively weak....

O N Fri October 12th, the first meeting of the Spectator's Life was held at the Hotel Cecil. Mr. Strachey opened the proceedings by asking Major John Astor of the Times to take...

ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, By EVELYN WRENCH. TN last week's Spectator Mr. John S. Ewart, K.C., the distinguished Canadian publicist and lawyer, asks me exactly what I mean by the...

BRITISH PRIMITIVES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. WE are all grateful to Lord Lee of Fareham and his com- mittee. In organizing the exhibition of British Primitives they have...

" THE LIE " AT THE NEW THEATRE. IF anyone at Shale Abbey or the Dower House had ever been allowed to finish a sentence it would never have happened. But as sure as square-jawed...

the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—There is, unfortunately, a growing intolerance in Germany of the English attitude towards her suffering. I have just returned from an eleven weeks' stay in...

THE NEW DIPLOMACY AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Open diplomacy by Conference and the League of Nations as the highest court of reference...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sea,—I have been a very regular reader of the Spectator for more than thirty years, and have almost always found it most fair as regards "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—To one familiar for many years with the History Text Book Controversy, which has again come to a head in American Educational circles,...

Sin,—Before the Overseas Premiers return from the Imperial Conference to their various Dominions it would be useful if we could all come to a clearer understanding about the...

• [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—May I briefly comment upon Mr. Strachey's article in your issue of October 13th ? I, like him, have recently returned from a delightful...

Mr. T. E. Limmer's letter on the subject of migration within the Empire for Public Secondary School boys, which appeared in the Spectator of October 6th, while worthy of the...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—This important question has been raised periodically in the Press and has invariably elicited a number of suggestions enlightening and...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For the sake of accuracy—if for that only—Mr. Wrench will, I feel sure, welcome a correction of his...

ASPENS IN SPRING. BLESSED be he who set you there To wave your boughs in the blue air ; To whisper ever, night or noon, Under the sun, under the moon.; To weave a music, where...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The New English Dictionary should be heard on this subject. Under the word " Mend," §12c, it says : " To mend or end : either to improve...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Srit,—May I be permitted to draw the attention of your readers who drive up and down Reigate Hill, and also those who enjoy the beautiful...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—As one who has read the Spectator continuously for well over fifty years, may I be allowed to protest against your review, in your issue...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—It is quite true, as Mr. Hay says, that our " Secrets of Nature " films, which are those to which he refers, have been found interesting...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Re " Taking in Each Other's Washing." "Zero's" quotation will be found in Dr. Johnson's Tour in the Hebrides. Boswell, of course, was in...

WE have received several replies to the letter we pub- lished last week from a " Stipendiary Magistrate." We have sent them to " Stipendiary Magistrate."—Eu. Spectator.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. So many books on the table appear sober and full of learning that it is again difficult to choose between them for a short list. Some of them should...

THERE are three different manners very well represented in these three new volumes of essays, for Mr. Chesterton' is, as always, extravagant, witty and imaginative, Mr. Walkley...

Six new books relating to India have just appeared and each, if space permitted, would deserve to be noticed at length. Here we can but indicate the characteristics of these...

IN the first hey-day of analytical psychology, when all the world went " complex "-hunting in their neighbours' preserves, there was a fairly large section of extremists who...

THE journey described in the first of these volumes 1 lay through regions about which Europeans in general know very little, though it is richly endowed with all kinds of...

THE HUMAN BOY YET AGAIN.* SOME years ago Mr. Eden Phillpotts introduced into modern fiction a Human Boy, who so far justified his title by being a considerable advance, to say...

JUDGE PARRY, in a moment of very commendable enthusiasm —" uplift " they call it over the Atlantic—has ventured to talk of ideals to the lawyers, who are more ready to listen to...

Tars is a volume addressed to men of good will amongst us who have no particular knowledge of the aims and achieve- ments of adult education. Because of their sense of the...

made a translation under the title of Three Tales,' represents the work of Flaubert in miniature, for in " La Legende de Saint Julian L'Hospi- taller " and " Hdrodias " we find...

7s. 6d. net.) Mr. Ernest Bramah's new book is a collection of detective stories. Max Carrados is blind—a sort of blind Sherlock Holmes—but his lack of sight is more than...

Garahan chooses to confine the title of " stiff " to the upper strata of tramp society : this is not quite correct, for there are plenty of stiffs outside the doss-house—plenty,...

(Black. 7s. 6d. net.) Those who like to take their topography and local history in diluted form will find this account of Northumberland pleasant reading. It is a book of the...

The World as Seen by Me. By T. Simpson Carson. (Heath Cranton. 30s.) It is difficult without undue emphasis, such as capitals or headlines, to indicate the intrinsic masculinity...

The Conquest of Cancer. By Robert Bell, M.D., F.R.F.P.S. (G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.) The Conquest of Cancer. By Robert Bell, M.D., F.R.F.P.S. (G. Bell and Sons. 3s. 6d.) Dr....

Francois Coillard : A Wayfaring Man. By Edward Shillito. (Student Christian Movement. 5s.) Francois Coillard : A Wayfaring Man. By Edward Shillito. (Student Christian Movement....

of facetiousness to an ounce of humour, a heavy touch, and an assumption of almost compromising familiarity with his readers. This is how he introduces his heroine. The other...

The work of distributing Bibles in all languages throughout the world still goes on incessantly, as it has done ever since the Bible Society was founded in 1804. An annual...

(Sheffield.) Local history is always stimulating to those with a sense of the past. The parish of Hope in Derbyshire is unusually rich in records, documentary and otherwise,...

108. 6d.) Those who liked Mr. Lawrence's book Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious will come again for more in its sequel A Fantasia of the Unconscious ; but their number must be...

retained at least a semblance of their former ways of life, Mr. McClintock was adopted into the Blackfeet. This is a most interesting account of his life with them....

Service and Co., Ltd. 3s. 6d. net.) This addition to Messrs. Seeley, Service and Co.'s excellent little " Things Seen " series is, like the rest, pleasantly written and...

M.A. (Kegan Paul and Co. 10s. 6d.) Folk-lore and anthropology are becoming more and more the province of the psychologist who seeks in his science a rational interpretation of...

[BY OUR CITY EDITOR.] FINANCE AND UNEMPLOYMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—No small amount of interest has been taken in City circles, and probably in much wider...

21s. net.) Mr. Jerrold has written a very good account of the dis- tinguished part played in the recent War by the Royal Naval Division, to which . Mr. Winston Churchill has...

The Australian Flying Corps, 1914-1918. By F. M. Cutlack. (Sydney : Angus and Robertson. 24s.) This eighth volume of the official Australian War History is one of the most...

A WHITE CEMENT.* Ax invitation to a trade cinema show demonstrating certain uses of cement and the technicalities of stucco work (with lecture accompaniment) at eleven o'clock...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was probably wise to discourage in advance any premature hopes of an early reduction in taxation. Indeed, a fortnight ago in these columns I...