HE debate in the House of Commons on the war situation covered a wide ground, but the subject which dominated most the speeches was that of the composition of the Chiefs of...

notoriously the most ificult to -conduct with success. From the moment when the linnese gained control of the sea and the utt of the port of kgoon General Alexander's little...

The Government is making a grave mistake in resisting the demand, expressed in a motion moved by Lord Davies in the Upper House last Tuesday, for an inquiry into the...

Ia Before Mr. Oliver Lyttelton became Minister of Production was strongly urged by industrialists that there should be mo decentralisation of the supply services and more use...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Convocation the Southern Province on Tuesday, referred in wise and consider language to the bombing of German cities like Lubeck and...

How long was it going to be, asked Sir J. Wardlaw Milne in last Tuesday's debate, before the Government learnt that dive-bombers were essential in modern war? Sir Archibald...

M. Laval, like his peripatetic prototype, is doing a good deal of going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it, mainly between Paris and Vichy. At Paris he gets...

Just as nothing is allowed to stand in our way in the drive to win the war, said Sir Stafford Cripps on Sunday, so nothing must be allowed to hinder us after the war in...

HE fuel-rationing controversy has died down to a strange quiescence. No one quite knows how things stand. The eridge scheme has been withdrawn for reconditioning or cement—the...

great loss to anthropology in general and to the London School of Economics, where he held the Chair in that subject. His book on the Trobrian islanders is, I suppose, his...

dra step than it sounds. Many people have .taken to small cars in interests of economy and laid up larger ones. They are ex hypol all of them people who legitimately need cars,...

nature of conversations indulged in by users of the shilling (actually Is. 2d.) evening trunk telephone calls, of which various speak themselves telephone-operators, give...

a En Dominion could merely say, like Palmerston's Don Pacifico, " C Britannicus sum," produce evidence to that effect and be app priately welcomed. By no means, apparently ;...

is derived from Horse and Hound, which quotes a Reuter message dated April 17th to the effect that "Race-meetings are still being held on the famous racecourse in the centre of...

is as to recognise, refuse to stand an alien environment at all. I been reading Philip Barres' book on General de Gaulle, of u both French and English editions have been...

I, "Janus," I am desolated to say, must—or at any rate ought t wear a double damn on my chest for a week for the phi ace ( 1 week) "one of few Englishmen who really knows and...

T HE Prime Minister's stock goes up and down curiously. At the moment it is undoubtedly down. There are no striking military achievements to foster faith in his leadership, and...

By STRATEGICUS TH EN we attempt to discover the meaning of the two opera- :ions on the Russian front it is well to remember that lever their strength and purpose they cannot...

By FRANCIS GOWER W RITERS in the correspondence columns of The Spectator and elsewhere have recently expressed anxiety in regard to what might be called the ethics of our...

By A FORMER PARIS CORRESPONDENT IEUCH political discussion is at present being conducted as though NI the reasons for which the Anglo-French alliance was sought is an essential...

By MICHAEL HUXLEY T HERE are far more like-minded people than like-minded governments, and they are like-minded about a far greater variety of subjects. In his recent book, The...

and people will never accept defeat. Their resources are still overwhelm- ing; their courage remains superb ; the hatred which the Germans have aroused is as a furnace which...

By HAROLD NICOLSON HAVE been both touched and disconcerted of late by realising with what depth of emotion the men and women of this country tee their hopes upon the Russian...

which we Id keep for ever in our consciousness. It is not merely that they e destroyed a large portion of Hitler's troops and equipment, a also that they have dealt a heavy blow...

and (as the Prime Minister pointed out in his recent broadcast) in some ways salutary. But it does not proceed from any acute understanding of the strategic or transport...

A device of extreme nicety and ingenuity has just been perfect for detecting the way of a bee in the air and the flower. The weig of the bee on passing over the floor of the...

A vouNG rook, very curiously marked, was brought to me t other day after a thinning of the rookery. Its head was black, b both wings were marked by a regular and very pretty...

That extremely popular doggerel couplet (which extracts differe conclusions from the relative budding time of oak and ash) sho give the rural weather prophets a very definite...

"The Next of Kin." At the Carlton and the London Pavilion. WITHIN the narrow limits of weekly praise and blame it is easy to lose sight of the full measure of the film's...

Queries have reached me on the exacter meaning of "The Festi of the Three Icemen." Three Catholic saints occupy on calendar the three successive days, May 12th to 14th; and are...

"Hardening off," one of the special duties at the time for gardeners who have any glass, is an especially needful practice growing out-of-door tomatoes. The tomato is not a...

,—It seems to me that you have written a very important sentqice in week's leading - article, " P.eace and the Nazis ": "But the world may be a better place than it has ever...

Sta,—Following up Mr. Harold Nicolson's remarks on Vansittartism in The ,Spectator of May 8th, you published in your issue of May 15th a letter from Mr. N. S. Gower, in which he...

THE BACKBONE OF GERMANY Sts,—If Mr. Westphal shares the opinion that it is essential to break power of German generals, Junkers and big business, it must be said that his...

Snt—I suggest that this wotd should (and most commonly and co does) follow the general habit of verbal nouns derived from a dissylla compound verb, e.g.—to convict, a convict ;...

Sut,—You ask whether the action of a paper in reprinting portions of work produced by Major Gimlet for private circulation was legid journalism. May I suggest that if it was...

is correct—viz., that other countries (e.g., France) have had their " Black Record," but have nevertheless "got over it "; and so on. Is it not obvious, all the same, that there...

SIR, —I have read Dr. Edwyn Bevan's comment on my letter publi in your issue of May 8th. I am not Congressman, but if my view shared by the Congress it is because of our common...

gives in his profession'al capacity, I am not here concerned. Much of what he says is true and useful. He has, however, been sadly misin- formed in what may be called the...

in yo issue of May 1st, my mind suddenly switched on to the Preface Hawbuck Grange, one of Surtees's lesser-known works. It is not in to Mr. James's experience on the Berkshire...

Snt,—Your correspondent, Sir Wm. Beach Thomas, has just got point. It never seems to have struck the authorities that rule us tit if you break up more land and grow more...

Walter de la Mare : Collected Poems. (Faber. 12s. 6c1.) IT is becoming to pay a small tribute to a real poet in the days when he is still living among us. Amid the clamour of...

he Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin sader in Crinoline. The Life of _Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Forrest Wilson. (Hutchinson. as.) MS is a fascinating book. It is, in a sense, too...

Here's Richness. An Anthology of and by James Agate, with a foreword by Osbert Sitwell. (Harrap. los. 6d.) Preludes and Studies. By Alan Dent, with a prefatory letter by Sir Max...

Private and Official. By Nourah Waterhouse. (Cape. as.) LADY WATERHOUSE has attempted, with considerable success, experiment in what may be termed autobiography by proxy. M...

German with Tears. By Peter F. Wiener. (Cresset Press. 6s.) IT is not Mr. Wiener's fault — not much, anyway — that this is of the most distressing books to be published during...

IN the autumn of 1917 there was opened at 32 Russell Square, as a memorial to the men from the universities of Great Britain who were giving their lives in the war, a club which...

Fenella. By Margery Nugent. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) The Sampler. By Richard Church. (Dent. 75. 6d.) Aunt Auda's Choir. By Humphrey Pakington. (Chatto and Win 9s-) The Tapestry Men....

Review of the Report, Accounts and Balance Sheet for the year 1941 by the Chairman, Mr. Richard Durant Trotter THE board of directors have come to the conclusion that it would...

the sett& of the first correct loon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. tietopes should be Yet - eked not later than first post that day and must...

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supply owing to war conditions are advertised in this tournal should not b. taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export.

By CUSTOS WHILE there, are no signs just yet of any rush to buy in the st markets, the news from Russia has induced some of the bo investors, with surplus funds to abandon...

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ordinary general meeting of William Beardmore and Co., Limited, held on Thursday, May 14th, at the offices of the company in sgow. Sir James Lithgow,...

a statement circulated with the 97th annual report of the Royal In- ance Company, Limited, the chairman, Mr. A. Kentish Barnes, icated that fire premiums totalled L5)754,087,...

AUDITORS AND E.P.T. CREDITS Ai the annual meeting of the Society of Incorporated Accountants held at Incorporated Accountants' Hall, London, yesterday, the president, Mr. Percy...

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND LOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED a statement circulated with the moth annual report of rhe Liverpool • London and Globe Insurance Company, Limited,...

NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY NEW BUSINESS FIGURE “A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT" THE 134th annual general meeting of the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society was held on...