T HE announcement on the same day of Hitler's arrangements for Germany and General Eisenhower's arrangements for Ger- many forms a by no means unfortunate coincidence, which...

Less than three weeks remain before the American people will have to decide whether President Roosevelt or Governor Dewey is to be President of -the United States. With the...

General de Gaulle and his colleagues have undoubtedly an ex- tremely difficult task in restoring order in a country whose whole equilibrium is thrown out of gear by the...

All the fuss over the compensation clauses of the Town and Country Planning Bill could probably have been avoided if Ministers had resorted earlier to the simple expedient of...

The trade union movement in this country is and will be con- ditioned by the war and the solution of international problems, a fact to which Mr. Ebby Edwards showed himself...

Opinion is divided among lawyers as to the competence of lay justices, as compared with stipendiary magistrates, to administer the law in magistrates' courts. But all agree that...

Confusion reigns in Buda-Pesth, and at the moment of going to press the position was still obscure. What is certain is that Admiral Horthy, seeing Russian troops about to break...

Unbounded enthusiasm from the population , of liberated Athens greeted the British forces which arrived there on Saturday and subsequent days—the parachutists and glider-borne...

T HE White Paper on International Air Transport issued on Tuesday, combined with last week's full-dress discussion in the House of Lords on civil aviation, defines the policy of...

London's French daily paper France into a weekly. The chan g e is now in process of bein g made. With the issue of October 1 9 th the daily France disappears. On October z 7 th...

thou g h I wish they could do somethin g about the rain there. However, there is plenty else that they can do somethin g about, and they are doin g it both vi g ilantly and...

'S NOTEBOOK S IR WALTER CITRINE was at great pains on Monday to insist that the decision of the Trades Union Con g ress to admit no journalist who is not a member of the...

be ex- pected, elicited various letters, both confirmin g the stfictures of the o ffi cer from whom I q uoted and putting - a directly opposite view. I specifically repudiated...

told at the luncheon g iven him by the Town and Country Plannin g Associa- tion on Wednesday was a chestnut o r not. Nor am I. The story was of two Irishmen, brothers, who were...

pomp and circumstance, I do stand for the maintenance of certain honoured and historic traditions. As a conse q uence I applaud unreservedly some observations the Cambridge...

better cooking in En g lish country inns. Not that all cookin g in such places . is bad ; it is often very g ood ; but as a rule it is sin g ularly unima g inative. That is e q...

By STRATEGICUS I T is still in the main true to say that the fighting rages about the periphery of Fortress Germany, and appears to look away from its heart. When it is...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT B OTH militarily and politically, the liberation of Greece is going well. In his task of dealing with whatever German divisions still remain on Greek...

By PERCY DUNSHEATH W HEN the White Paper on Education Reconstruction appeared last year, and official intentions to remedy the disappoint- ment of 1939 regarding the raising of...

By CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS " How very little since things were made Things have altered in the building trade," wrote Kipling, and Sir Ernest Simon has pointed out that com-...

By KATHLEEN M. GOAD I T was a hot afternoon ; even the birds were silent, and the buzzing of the bees seemed to add to the drowsiness of the atmosphere in the narrow lane....

by the old Latin tag : " Who is to guard the guardians? " Major wars are not provoked by small Powers ; they are provoked by great Powers ; and if this vast' - machinery of...

of the League on the ground that General Tellini was technically a servant of the Ambassadors' Con- ference in Paris, and that the latter body had already been seized of the...

extent directed, the discussions in 1919 was an incorrect thesis. Having been trained and moulded by the American interpretation of history, he was convinced that wars and the...

Far from believing that they have brought to the world some new theological dispensation, they have pooled their experience in order to devise a plan which is feasible, which is...

By HAROLD NICOLSON . T HE " tentative proposals " published after the conference of experts at Dumbarton Oaks have, on the whole, received in this country an appreciative...

It Depends What You Mean." At the Wistminster.—" Carnaval." At the Princes. MR. JAMES Bemre is a dramatist from whom you may expect any- thing---from ill-digested philosophy,...

A erre of rain, in shafts With high and sharp-lined edges, Is ghosting, tower-high, To hide, then show, the hedges That, stubby, knotted, run Above the blackening soil,...

" Arms and the Woman." At the New Gallery.—" Don't Take It To Heart". At the Leicester Square. WHEN, with the first metallic notes of Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer, the silent...

SIR,—While I appreciate fully the sincerity and good intentions of the supporters of the National Peace Council, it seems to me most dangerous that a body bearing this title...

THE VALUE OF TOURISTS SIR,—With many of the comments by Sir Evelyn Wrench in last week's Spectator, and the absence of the awful word " tourism," I am in full agreement, but a...

SIR,—Mr. Richard Neilson writes that the Soviet Union is exterminating the Polish nation, and that Churchill's support for a territorial adjustment between Poland and Russia is...

SIR,—In The Spectator of October 6th, Lord Cecil deals faithfully with the duty of trying and punishing Hitler and his chief accomplices in monstrous crimes. You did me the...

Sts,—Of the relatiOns between the British and American Armies, Mr. Harold Nicolson, in The Spectator of June 2nd, writes "experience has abundantly shown that these relations...

SIR,—The article by Mr. W. Manning Dacey last week on the cost of the Social Security proposals renders a most valuable service. It is of the utmost importance that this aspect...

SIR, —In her review of the Housing Manual 1944, Miss Clephane mentions one of the fixed ideas with which housing planners seem to be obsessed. Another idea which has taken root...

Six,—While welcoming unreservedly the Government's acceptance of the main principles of universality and unification of social insurance put forward in the Beveridge Report, I...

SIR,—Who is Gordon Malet? I have read this gentleman's articles in your issues of June 16th, July 7th and September 29th with increasing surprise that you saw fit to publish...

Sta,—Your correspondent, Dr. Paul Roth, takes you to task for giving an unqualified welcome to the Government's proposals regarding industrial injury and disease. He complains...

I SUPPOSE that few people have been able to take this year's weather for better or for worse ; which is the right way to take weather. The maddening bad luck which has dogged...

made amongst the Allies' plans for the knockout blow, it has, by its caprice and surprises, given moments of almost theatrical beauty to the countryside. I was up in the West...

Now that the bustle of the swallows' departure is over, one can notice what is happening amongst the other birds. Most of them are going into their long winter conference. I...

Sta,—The attack on your contributor Mr. Gordon Malet by Dr. Homer in the last issue of the British Medical Journal both in matter and manner is hardly one of which the medical...

sunshine, have conjured the most extravagant colour schemes. In the early autumn, the jaded green took on a springtide freshness. I noticed one day, while standing at the head...

has now to be tackled, for I am a month late with it. But how unpleasant it is. One can buy sticky-bands already prepared like fly-papers, but I suspect them of allowing the...

SIR,—Under the 1925 gold standard, thin country could suspend gold payments or devalue sterling to any extent, at will. We could lose gold. Acceptance of the Bretton Woods...

Sus,—The recent statement by the Minister of War Transport on the post-war problem of a " prodigious surplus " of unusable ships leads one to enquire whether these vessels...

A Visit to India THE title of this book is a misnomer. Mr. Nichols paid a visit to India which lasted over a year. During this period he saw many things and many persons who...

A Short History of Germany. By S. H. Steinberg. (Cambridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) A SCHOLARLY short history of Germany has long been badly needed. The last book under this...

Meaning and Purpose. .By Kenneth Walker. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) MR. KENNETH WALKER is a distinguished specialist surgeon—not of the old barber-surgeon, amputation school which, but a...

THIS is an extraordinarily interesting book, and it is not surprising that it somewhat baffled Mr. Bernaid Shaw, whose letter of comment to the author is printed in facsimile...

IT .seems a very long time since Rosamond Lehmann published novel, but the many admirers of this never prolific writer will fin that her talent has gained in clarity and...

The Gospel of the New World. By Oliver C. Quick. (Nisbet. 6s. 6d. OLIVER Quicx did not live to revise these lectures for publication. His charm, his vivacity and (to borrow...

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Bath. By R. A. L. Smith. (Batsford. 12s. 6d.) THE text by the late Lieutenant R. A. L. Smith of this book is excellent. It gives a concise, informative social history of Bath,...

By CUSTOS WHILE there is plenty of money available for investment, pr cio little of it is finding its way just now into the stock markets. B. deposits are increasing more...