T HOSE in India and this country who expected much from Lord Wavell's visit to London have not been disappointed. The broadcasts of the Viceroy and the Prime Minister on...

The Council of Foreign Ministers has achieved its first big success in its consideration of a peace treaty with Italy. In principle it has solved the problem of Trieste and...

The existence of nine million German refugees, displaced from their homes in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Eastern Germany, is the nemesis of Nazism. The forcible uprooting of...

The final report of the Financial Commission appointed by the Church Assembly is an odd mixture of lengthy pleading for obvious and overdue reorganisation of central Church...

If Professor Oliphant, who was a member of the technical com- mittee of scientists responsible for the development of the atomic bomb, is right, no security against its misuse...

The publication of the letters exchanged between General Franco and Mr. Churchill in 5944 completely disposes of the discreditable suggestion that Mr. Churchill had been unduly...

The Anglo-American agreement about oil which was made a year ago has been followed by the Anglo-American oil conference which opened in London last Tuesday. The former agreement...

The decision announced by Field-Marshal Montgomery to allow the reappearance of political parties in Germany in order " to foster the growth of a democratic spirit in Germany,...

that Londoners watched the impressive R.A.F. display which celebrated the anniversary of the greatest day in the Battle of Britain. It was the turning-point in the war against...

military authorities are clearing up barbed wire and opening up coast paths closed for defence purposes. A year before the war I mentioned in' this column a rather ominous "...

group returned only two candidates—one of them was Keir Hardie. Today the T.U.C. must look at the Labour Cabinet and at Labour repre- sentation in the Commons with something...

T HE sessions of the T.U.C. this year have been of great interest not merely in themselves but also for the relation between the trade unions and a Labour Administration holding...

up the mess, it might be better to employ our own troops -rather than keep them idle or push them to and - fro on make-believe jobs. Everyone knows instances of this sham work...

the logic of the situation gave France an important' place in the final determination of the map of Europe. In 1919, although the Germans were not invited to a place at the...

offices, not excluding that of the Minister of Labour. Among his other pre- occupations the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is now en- gaged—without the direct help of...

to send a photographer round half-a-dozen of these popular places in the early spring of next . year when this summer's litter will have .dis- integrated? Photographs could be...

beauty spots " of the West of England. Early in July the place was free of litter: Two months later, although the car and charabanc traffic is as yet on a small scale, I found...

By PHILIP CARR "THE best English propagandist in France is a Frenchman," said Jean Giraudoux to me at the beginning of the war, when he was in charge of the French Information...

By THE RIGHT REV. S. HEASLETT • 1 HE Japanese use two words about the whole range of their I National Polity and their mental attitude to it. They are murui—unique and...

By ROBERT R. HYDE VER the past period of half a century I have had opportunities of visiting hospitals and other healing institutions in various parts of the world, and for...

By JOHN FULLER TT was my lot before the war to cook in hotels. Since the war I I have cooked in the Services, and that means to have cooked with British colleagues. At first...

By AMABEL WILLIAMS-ELLIS "B READ isn't rationed in England? " " You give no coupons in a restaurant? " " Grown-up people get milk—even in the cities? " " And is it true your...

relates not to the action which had inevitably to be taken at the time of the December disturbances, but to our failure to realise beforehand that these disturbances were bound...

at this moment, and should be able by his impressive personality, his calm and powerful moderation, to convince those British and foreign statesmen with whom he comes into...

and imposing personage. Five times has the Archbishop been called upon, either by his Church or by public opinion, to bring to the solution of internecine disputes the authority...

By HAROLD. NICOLSON T HE terrible events which took place in Athens last December created such perplexity in this country that it is still difficult for us to form an objective...

bewailed " that ancient malady of the Greeks which causes them ever to be at strife with one another, by which process Hellas was weakened and became the sport of Macedon and...

" The Old Man of the Mountains." At the Mercury. " The Thunderbolt." At the Arts.—" Exiles." At the Torch. " Big Boy." At the Saville. MR. MARTIN BROWNE and the Pilgrim...

"Marie-Louise." At the Academy.—" Captain Eddie." At the Odeon.—" Duffy's Tavern." At the Carlton.—" Life on the Western Marshes " and " Chants Populaires." From the...

I thought I heard a bird— Lying in my room in the heart of the city . . ■ And then I sensed Pressing upon me in that denser air The light of all past worlds gone down in...

to be sent overseas. This will enable copies of The Spectator to be forwarded to friends of our readers, both civilians and those in the Forces, in any part of the world, except...

SIR, —When I had read Canon Roger Lloyd's article "Peace through Fear or ...?" I remembered what Jowett said to Margot Tennant (Asquith) in her girlhood: " My child, you must...

SiR,—Your article " Rational Farming " states: " Labour is only another aspect of the same problem." Though born in London, I have spent, for over 5o years, all available...

SIR, —There is I have thought for some time no striking difference between Tory Reformers and Liberals in Home Policy. The question to my mind is who should join who (or...

INTERNATIONAL TRADE Snt,—In your editorial " . The Washington Talks " of September 14th, I find the following statement—" It (the Ottawa Plan) has produced an expansion in...

SIR,—If Mr. Heckstall-Smith feels he can produce oats to compete in price and quality with Norfolk and Aberdeen, or potatoes with the Carse of Gowrie and Cumberland, or sheep...

your issue of September 7) to my review of his book The Blackbird. It is clear that while he and I may share each other's respect, we do not share the same views on the nature...

of the 7th inst. fails to distinguish between a retailer of essential food commodities and a sale of property b3t, auction. The shopkeeper is compelled to sell any goods, not...

of Septem- ber 14 contains the statemeni: " It is not in accordance with the tradi- tions of this country to let children—even the children of ex-enemies- starve." I would...

There are so many things, not merely commodities of all kinds, but public and other services, trans- port, broadcasting, &c., in which the suppliers, employers and employees,...

SIR, —I had hoped that some poet would write a worthy appreciation of Judyth Monnickendam's arresting poem " The Blind Girl" in your issue of August zoth. As one who enjoys...

appeal, tempting one to send the required post-card to the distinguished body of men and women sponsoring the " Save Europe Now " appeal. May I try to show another side of this...

I happen to own a house on the borders of Middlesex and Hertfordshire. It has been used by the Army for most of the war period, and is now occupied by four families. I am unable...

Sta,—Having read your correspondence upon this subject, may I add a few suggestions based upon by personal experience. Unless a trade of "Education Instructor," carrying...

Snt,—Mr. Barr asks for an explanation of some words used by myself in a review of fiction in your columns, " . . the very attributes of scientists, which make for the common...

MR. MACARTNEY'S book on this crucial and topical subject had unfortunately to be written before the liberation of Northern Italy, the more vigorous and serious part of the...

Kipling Rudyard Kipling. A New Appreciation. By Hilton Brown. With a Foreword by Frank Swinnerton. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) IT is a singular fact that Kipling has fared...

A Psychologist Looks at Sex. By H. L. Philp, Ph.D. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) A Psychologist Looks at Sex. By H. L. Philp, Ph.D. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d.) " SEX " is a word nowadays...

A PUZZLING thing about Soviet reports on the areas of Russia liberated from the enemy is the reiterated accusation that the Germans destroyed factories, power-plants, public...

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. By Elizabeth Smart. (Editions Poetry London. Nicholson and Watson. 6s.) IT would perhaps be easy to criticise this book—and it...

THIS week's fiction all comes from America. Robert Ardrey, who made a name for himself with a single play, Thunder Rock, has now produced a first novel, World's Beginning. It is...

one guinea will be awarded to the tender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 2nd. Envelopes should be...

SOLUTION ON OCTOBER 5th The Winner of Crossword No. 339 is CAPT. C. B. CAMPBELL, M.C., 28, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate.

To see good food destroyed on a large scale gives a very melancholy feeling, especially at a period when food is not plentiful. The farmer loses his money and has wasted his...

Walking last week in the beautifully treed garden of a country house, I came upon two trees that were apparently in the sere and yellow leaf. Every leaf on a vigorous young...

Are we gradually becoming a little more catholic in our taste for that delectable and most wholesome form of food which has the pleasant names of mushroom and toadstool, and the...

in general sends fruit and vegetables first to decorate the Church, and then to supply the cottage hospital. One of my contributions will be a pumpkin of Falstaffian...

Trollope, A Commentary. By Michael Sadleir. (Constable. 10s.) IT is fortunate that Mr. Michael Sadleir has been able to persuade Messrs. Constable, over whose activities he...

Every day I have walked about a heather-covered common, and, so far as I can remember, have never yet seen a hive bee enjoying the crop. Yet the species of heather is the ling,...

SIR ISAAC' PITMAN AND SONS, LTD. AN ENCOURAGING YEAR THE forty-ninth annual general meeting of Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Limited, was held in London on September 14th. Mr. I....