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Washington, suggested that Great Iiiitain . would make another effort " before long " to bring about an agreement on naval limitation. He said that Great Britain had delayed her...

Report coincided with the remarkable resolution passed 'by the Chamber of Princes last week declaring their unqualified opposition to all movements in British India which aim at...

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a dinner at the Mansion House on Monday to celebrate the opening of the British Industries Fair in London and Birmingham. His Royal Highness began by speaking . with feeling of...

it was a little perplexing and discouraging—at least at first sight—when the Foreign Office followed up his words with an explanation which looked like a repudiation. The...

looking forward to the Report of the Committee on Salesmanship. He felt sure that the Report would insist upon the importance of personality, knowledge of the goods, know- ledge...

in the coming development of salesmanship. There are right and wrong methods. In America salesmanship has become inseparably allied with a far-reaching and often reckless...

was in future to be solely the affair of the Ministry of Finance has already been challenged. The Peking correspondent of the Times says that the Wuhan Provincial Council has...

Northumberland was announced on Thursday, February 14th Mr. G. W. Shield (Lab.) 20,398 Mr. I. M. Moffatt-Pender (Unionist) .. 9,612 Mr. H. A. Briggs (L.) .. .. 5,183 Labour...

has announced that he will appoint commissions to report on the future method of succession to the Generalship and on the nature of the trusteeship for the property of the Army....

matter of the - criticisms directed ' last week against Clause 120. This clause empowers the Minister to modify the provisions of the Act where this may be " necessary " in...

Flying • Services Company and the Company of Air Pilots and Navigators of the British Empire, this last to be a body similar to the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. The...

on Tuesday, .when a Unionist revolt against the terms of compensation to the loyalists in Ireland developed alarmingly. Mr. Amery moved a Supplemen- tary Estimate to pay the...

Bill passed its third reading by 292 votes to 118. In the last stage of the debate the appointed leaders of the Opposition took no part, and their deputies could do no more than...

to ex-Sergeant Josling completely exonerating him from the charges which led to his removal from the Metropolitan Police. About seven years ago Mr. Josling sent a letter to Sir...

on February 7th, 1929. War Loan (5 per cent) was on Wednesday 101: ; on Wednesday week 102 ; a year ago 101)}. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on _ Wednesday 89; on Wcdne4day...

T HE answer of the principal employers' organizations to the Report of the Melchett-Turner . Conferenee was a dire disappointment, but no one ought to run away with the idea...

W HATEVER views may be held regarding the freedom V 1' of the seas there can be no question about its being a living issue at the present moment. That in itself means_pnagress,...

representative delega- tion of British industrialists is to visit . Moscow early in March. This is an extremely important step, which is bound to mark a decisive change in the...

R. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN obtained a third -kVA- reading for his Local Government Bill on Monday —cool, suave, precise, competent to the end. His has been a great Parliamentary...

TT may safely be said that in philosophical circles the' materialism which was somewhat confidently advo- cated in the third quarter of the nineteenth "century is completely...

A SWAMP and a shooting-lodge was all that existed two years ago at Maccarese, near the mouth of the Tiber. Now it is a rich agricultural district, employing over two thousand...

States for the neat and natty Rhymbel. She was born in America, but .emi g rated in early life to Australia. The new species was first noticed by The Century. It is said that...

T HE globe-trotter may spin his coloured yarns for ever. Let him come home with a score ,of tiger-skins and antelope heads, rarest orchids Snatched from under the very arrows of...

CHILDREN'S CONLmcni. AT a children's concert given about three years ago I remember that the opening phrase of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was illustrated by introducing the...

A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The result of the Glasgow Rectorial election, in which the Prime Minister was nearly beaten by ME. It: B....

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- The League and the Settlement of Macedonia SOME of the more enthusiastic but less discerning, supporters of the League of Nations are apt to stress the idealism of that...

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the Editor WHY NOT OPERATE THE SAMUEL REPORT ? - [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Whenever any action is taken in public affairs, voices are raised to declare that...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—May I express appreciation of your article entitled. " Unemployment—An Opportunity " in the Spectator of January 26th ? This article...

regard to your interesting article " Lightening Our Darkness," dealing with Low Temperature Carbonization, February 16th, 1929, in the first place I would point out that by an...

Not long ago I heard a lecture from a Bishop (not now Diocesan) whose name and fame, in scholarship and Church- leadership, are world-wide—a philosopher to whom Mea must be a...

reference to the proposal which was unanimously adopted by your Aberdare Committee that we should endeav- our to organize a party of fifty young men and boys to go out from...

In a lonely part of Lambeth, the other night, a youth had. a plaster placed upon his mouth, and was at the same time robbed of his watch and a few shillings. A mischievous...

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'LIVER since the Education . Act of 1902 the nation I .4 has been trying to construct a coherent system Of secondary education, linking the elementary school with the University...

LOOKING back upon nearly fifty years spent as a teacher in elementary schools, one finds that the educational changes have been colossal. Lest anyone should deem this adjective...

Oxford THE University began the term actively with legislation, granting a licence to a new private hall to be called St. Peter's. Opposition was forthcoming, because the new...

SIR SIDNEY RUSSELL WELLS used to be troubled when he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London by the absence of any regulation or practice governing the wearing of...

IT has been very generally recognized by the public that Cambridge is faced with the problem of raising a considerable sum of money, if it is to take advantage of the munificent...

THE University of Wales is at the same time a national university and a British university, steadily increasing in prestige. Like other British universities, it is a product of...

Tax new Local Government Bill is being regarded with some anxiety as to its effects on Scottish education. The agricultural colleges, for example, are concerned because they are...

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PROBABLY there is no aspect of education in which a more marked advance has been made than in the teaching of English. The work of commissions and conferences during the last...

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his subject as Professor Taylor would be presumptuous. His translation of the Timaeus ( Plato : Timaeus and Critias, Methuen, Os.) is published in deference to the suggestions...

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Margaret Goldsmith's new book, Frederick the Great (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.), has rather spoilt the market for such subjects as the French Revolution and Frederick the Great, Carlyle...

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THE Downs are the most famous English anchorage in song and story. At the gate of the Thames estuary they are a natural resting-place not only for vessels waiting for the...

"' ABOUT the ups and down: of my career," writes Lord Haldane in his Autobiography, " I have not cared as mach as many people seem to do." Indeed, looking back upon it, " it...

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An invaluable little book for the schoolroom is Teachers and World Peace (League of Nations Union, 6d.), and we wish it could also find its way into every family in Great...

(Continued from page 287.) In the welter of well-intentioned advice now being offered to motorists on every hand, there lies the possible danger of over-emphasis on " dos " and...

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Hiram P. Cork and his motor car fell over the seabank upon that " l'il English wild rosebud," Evelyn Waterlogge, he initiated a wild farce of metamorphosis for her stately Old...

We congratulate Mr. C. G. Grey most cordially on All the World's Aircraft 1928 (Sampson Low, 2 gns.), but we doubt whether he could confirm by statistics his 8laim in the...

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Out weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. A. J. Lodge, Raglan House, Malvern Link, Worcs., for the following...

Newspaper and Other " Tips" NOTHING, perhaps, is more indicative of the spread of' speculative operations on the Stock Exchange on the 'part of the public than the manner in...

A FURTHER REACTION. As compared with a week ago, Most securities on the Stock Exchange have suffered a further reaction, and although at the time of writing prices in some...

Although the report of the British South Africa Company is always awaited with a certain amount of interest, and while latterly there has been greater activity in the shares,...

report of the Home and Colonial Stores shows some slight recovery, the net profit for the year being just over £454,000. The dividend of 15 per cent. and the bonus of 10 per...

An exception to the general dullness of speculative markets is to be noted in the section for Rubber shares where following upon the sharp rally in the commodity prices have...

published last week is an excellent one. There is expansion all along the line, and in the matter of Life Assurance policies, annual premiums showed an increase over the...

Prosperity appears to continue to characterize the great West-end stores, and the preliminary statement just published by Swan and Edgar (1927) Limited, shows that for the year...

Lord Bearsted, chairman of the V.O.C. Holding Company, had a good report to place before the shar•Jiolders at the meeting held last week. Output and profits have steadily...

Not the least interesting feature of the situation is that notwithstanding the setback in existing securities, the activity in new capital creations continues, a good response...

Although there was a slight decline in gross profits of Bovril, Limited, for the past year, net profits improved by £6,000 to nearly £367,000, and this improvement - was...

weather have had an increased feeling of appreciation of the comfort of gas stoves. At the recent meeting of the South Suburban Gas Company, the chairman explained to the share-...

In harmony with the warnings to speculators made from time to time by the chairman, the final dividend of CoUrtaiilds was at the modest rate of 10 per cent., making 15 per...

The annual report of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland) Limited, fully bears out the favourable impression created by the recent announcement of the...

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