W HILE the military situation in Spain has remained static since the fall of Badajoz a week ago, time is working—in the absence of external intervention--on the whole in favour...

a French Note on the subject is an opportune reminder that the reform of the League is the most important item down for consideration when the Assembly meets in September. At...

of the collection of Nazi documents discovered in Barcelona, from which copious extracts have been published in this country by the News Chronicle and Manchester Guardian. They...

The announcement that the U.S.S.R. is to reduce the recruiting age to 19 over the next three years, giving her 1,000,000 new recruits by 1939, has had its inevitable reaction in...

The overwhelming defeat of the Liberals in the Quebec provincial elections is a strange business, for which a number of different factors, personal, racial and political, are...

French General • Staff, has left Warsaw, and it is difficult as yet to discover what is the outcome of his talks there with General Rydz Smigly. It appears indeed that there is...

a signal victory over the " anti-Japanese " movement prepared in the Southern Provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung. Now for the first time in ten years at Canton, he has sent an...

Chautauqua a week ago was well timed for his own country. The rebuke to covenant-breaking nations was, of course, badly needed, and Mr. Roosevelt linked it with an unequivocal...

July are more encouraging than had been expected. The rise in imports continues steadily ; at £69,000,000 they were £7,000,000 higher than in July, 1935, and in the first seven...

We have too many national shortcomings of our own to be under any temptation to adopt a complacent attitude in commenting on characteristics of national life elsewhere. It is...

The results of the two important by-elections held in Galway and Wexford this week show that Fianna Fail, Mr. de Valera's party, is in no danger of losing support. In Galway,...

least attractive form in the ban imposed by the Ministry of Labour on the season of ballet which was to be given by M. Rene Blum's company in Glasgow. The effect. of the ban is...

to. the Modem Churchmen's conference at Oxford on Monday the Dean of St. Paul's admitted frankly that the influence of Christianity in the world was steadily waning. It is hard...

offered to contribute, during the next three years, up to £2,000,000 towards the acquisition of lands to form part of the Green Belt around London ; and it is gratifying that...

E VENTS in Spain still threaten to create a situation as chaotic and menacing outside the Spanish frontiers as within them. Of the internal situation little need be said. The...

Great Britain has done itself great credit in the Olympic Games. In the final results we were placed tenth among the nations of the world, below Germany, the United States,...

T O describe the attitude of the Daily Mail in regard to the Spanish Civil War as outrageous is to practise an almost quixotic economy of language. I am not speaking of the...

P UT it this way : What is the proper place, the proper function of force, in organised society ? Confusion on that point continues to give us not only war, but, increasingly it...

By A. BARRATT BROWN (Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford) In the first place there is no question that the machine has eliminated a large amount of sheer toil, or heavy and...

By J. A. SPENDER I bear away with me from those times the memory of . one or two thrilling moments—a night at Tantah when a little Egyptian boy led me to safety through...

By F. G. H. BACHRACH A WEEK ago I was in my native Amsterdam—looking at pictures of England and Englishmen. The pictures were part of the British Exhibition at the Municipal...

By E. L. WOODWARD W E are half way through the summer oratory. The school speech days are over. The great mett have had their say (how well I remember, years ago, a speech by...

By MARTHA GELLHORN W E got off the day coach at Trenton, New Jersey, and bought a car for $28.50.. It was an eight year old Dodge open touring-car and the back seat was full of...

Commonwealth and Foreign By GEORGE SOLOVEYTCHIS THE Trade Pact that has just been concluded between Germany and Lithuiania will no doubt somewhat relax the acute tension that...

"The Ante-Room." By Kate O'Brien. At - the Queen'i Tms is not so much a distinguished play as a play (in the house-agent's horrid phrase) of distinction. A Kneller and an Allan...

" Everything is Thunder." At the New Gallery—"D Kribbebijter." At the Academy A CANADIAN officer escapes from a German prison camp. after killing a sentry who has double-crossed...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] Von einhundertfiinfzig Jahren ist Fridericus Rex, Friedrich der Grosse, wie ihn sein Volk nannte, gestorben. Was von ihm blieb, ist das...

had begun, I was dis- mayed to read. in an English paper that Falstaff was a frost and ini a German one that Don Giovanni was utterly miscast, misplayed and misunderstood—though...

A Lazy Cuckoo An ancient doggerel says of the cuckoo, " In August go he must." The trouble is that he can't. For instance, in a Warwickshire garden (where three cuckoos were...

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"...

Sra,—Your readers have been given answers from distin- guished writers to the question, " What is worth fighting for ? Perhaps others besides myself have been' waiting for an...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Spt,--I am a life-long Fabian and was 'a Liberal-Socialist M.P. for nearly twenty years, and agree with Mi. Rowses aims, but I admit to some...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —In your Special Correspondent's interesting article on Olympic Berlin there is an error which, in fairness to the Germans, should be...

the verse of the hymn of which he quotes the first two lines, he will find that his position respecting the out-of-date and fatal policy of Isolation is condemned. Among those...

Sit,—You allowed Mr. A. L. Rowse two columns in which to tell us that he is willing to fight for his party but not for his country, and another column or so in which to express...

Snt,—Sir 'Arnold Wilson, M.P., says in his article, " Life is precious few men will offer it except in the service of a cause in which they really believe—a moral issue must be...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sni,—Mr. 0. Pirow, Minister of Defence of the Union, who startled British opinion last year by his warm endorsement of the return to Africa of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—In his interesting article, in your last issue, on William Sharp (" Fiona Macleod "), Mr. Waugh has missed the prosaic reason which was at...

is common ground that in the exercise of our dictator- ship as Lords of Creation, pursuing our own advantage or amusement, we upset the balance of nature and even tilt the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] S un,—When Lord Beaverbrook writes on What Should We Fight For ? " he compels a Canadian to do some hard thinking. His isolationist ideas may...

Sia,—In your issue of June 5th Sir William Beach Thomas, in his ,eVer delightful ",Country Life " notes tries to put across a good.double. "The glorious Cork mountains." In the...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—If Mr. Sydney E. Watson's figures are correct---and I have no means of checking them—what do they mean The years 1981 and 1932 were crisis years when the con-...

is interesting to note how once again the Utopian ideals of Sir Thomas More are taking place, and not in one connexion only. In the letter of your correspondent in relation to...

SIR, --In your August 14th issue Lieut.-Colonel P. R. Whalley remarks that " the large majority of the population [of Spain] are still Catholics," and that therefore they are...

SIR,—I would like to ask the military gentleman who wrote in your last issue if he has ever worked as an agricultural labourer from sunrise until sunset for the sum of sixpence...

By R. F. HARROD IT is probable that there is no subject about which the majority of educated men and women are so profoundly ignorant and the prey of such serious misconceptions...

The Peace Settlement in the German-Polish Borderlands. By Ian F. D. Morrow, assisted by L. M. Sieveking. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) THE dispute over Danzig (the most...

Tins early draft of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding has never previously been published. According to its present editors, whose scholarship in such a matter...

UNTIL this year the only detailed source for the facts of De Quince2,'s life was a full-length biography, issued in an augmented edition in 1890, by Alexander Japp. This is in...

The Economics of Transport. By M. II. Bonavia. (Nisbet. -5s.) THE Cambridge Economic Handbooks provide a most useful series, written by economists for the layman with full...

Gangways and Corridors. By Winifred James. (Philip Allan. 12s. lid.) • Gangways and Corridors (an alluring title fully realised by a book of lively and very human...

Predicaments, or Music and the Future. By Cecil Cray. (Oxford University Press. ie. 6d.) Tots is the final volume of a critical trilogy planned by its author many years ago, and...

Church and State on the European Continent. By Adolf Keller, D.D. (The Epworth Press. 6s.) THE signs accumulate that the age-long tension between the Christian Church and the...

By GORONWY REES Summer of Life. By Beatrice Kean Seymour. (Heinemann, 8s. 6d.) Andreas, or The United. By Hugo von Hofmansthaal. Trans- lated by Marie Hottniger. (Dent. 8s....

was Sculptor of great talent and a man of positive character; At the age of 21 he gave up business in Glasgow, came to London determined to follow his bent, and encountered...

lie has begun to write in New Zealand. The longish essay which constitutes .this book (Allen and Unwin, 3s. 6d.) • is not only the best short 'history of its kind that New...

By Louis Martin Sears, Ph.D. In the first edition of this excellent survey (Williams and Norgate, 15s.), Professor Sears took heart when he contem- plated the discrediting of...

By Boris Sokoloff The nineteenth century in Western Europe and the present century in Russia and Japan have been the climax of the endeavour to live from the will and the...

This volume (John Murray, Os.) contains twenty-two hitherto unpublished letters from. the Barrett-BroWning family correspondence, which found - their way last year to a New York...

THE trouble in Spain has turned the thoughts of travellens towards northern and central Europe. Judging by letters which have reached me recently, a very large number are...

Unit Trusts THKRE is so much of detail and also of importance in the Report: published last week an Fixed Trusts by the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade...

APART from the expectation of further demands by the N.U.R. for increased wages next year should the accounts of the railway companies be satisfactory, I am not surprised that...

MARKETS STILL FIRM. THE Stock Markets continue to give little heed to the Spanish revolution, a circumstance mainly due to the belief that political complications will be...

BY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the firm correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be minted " Crossword...

The winner of Crossword No 203 is Mr. H. O. Mary, Bingley, Yorks, *rho is asked to 'supply addficji: