HE greatest danger-zone of the war at the moment is still in the Far East, where the Japanese are still pressing on whole front in Malaya. The Australians have been putting a...

The Prime Minister's reply on Tuesday to a question regard- ing the proposals put forward by the Indian Moderates at any rate closed no doors, though Mr. Churchill observed, a...

relief that the country learnt Mr. Churchill's safe return by air last Saturday. With grad- cation and pride it had heard of the unstinted welcome given hira and of the...

Lord Trenchard made a powerful speech in the House of Lo last Tuesday, in which he put in a proper perspective the q tion of the defence of airfields, and what have been called...

Welfare work was long ago introduced into factories and m —and Mr. Lloyd George had a good deal to do with that— never till lately has it been brought into agriculture, where it...

The article by Mr. R. G. Menzies, formerly Prime Minister of Australia, entitled " An Empire War Cabinet? " in Wednesday's Times, raises a question which Mr. Churchill must soon...

b h The luncheon given by Dr. Benes on Monday in honour of King Peter of Yugoslavia is of very considerable symbolic importance, for it marks, particularly in the light of the...

The conclusion of complete agreement between the twenty- one American republics of North, Central and South America on the rupture of diplomatic relations with the three Axis...

MONG the wider problems of the war which Mr. Churchill will doubtless discuss when he makes his state- nt to Parliament, there is one that has long been staring in the face, but...

T HE members of the House of Commons who reacted so vehemently against the idea that the Prime Minister's coming statement on the progress of the war should be broadcast have...

been expected for some years, though there were those who believed that in view of the maintenance of his physical vigour Dr. Lang might remain at Lambeth (I am not sure whether...

in the current Contemporary states so crisply succinctly an often-ignored political truth that I quote for the benefit of any who may care to lay it up in their minds: " Sonic...

sane comment on Captain Harold Balfour's dictum that " constant ruthlessness is the quality we must adopt," and that when it is a question of "how to deal with the Hun after the...

cast on Sunday night, on memories of the Victorian music-hall, regarded as the very pattern and model of how such things should be done. The matter was altogether admirable, but...

NEW WORLD." This grammatical outrage is most libellously attributed to the Archbishop of Canterbury by the Evening Standard. Th S.P.C.E. has the matter in hand. Jews.

in Cairo with Churchill in the chair." (Transocean News Service (Berlin), 22.12.41.) " Winston Churchill left the American continent on Sunday night aboard a heavy British...

By STRATEG ICUS N some ways the position in the Far East resembles that of aerodrome-defence: the central nervous system has been • ealed, but the body and limbs which it must...

By ERWIN D. CANHAM By Air Mail. A MERICA is now drinking its share of the bitter tea brewed in these words: " Too little and too late." We, too, are having a slow start. Or,...

By PROFESSOR HERBERT DINGLE HREE hundred years ago this month there died in Arcetri, " blind, old and lonely," a man who gave to Italy and the orld an empire infinitely greater...

I SAT, and while my heart was in the skies I wrote my love ; The sun in me was myriad disguise And the words were warm with my happiness. Caught in the beauty of a crimson...

By THE VERY REV. J. S. MACARTHUR F one may judge from the number of advertisers with sermons I to sell who offer their wares in the columns of ecclesiastical newspapers, the...

qualities produces in the professional diplomatist a habit of colourless scepticism which is highly irritating to all who meet it. He dreads zeal so acutely that he comes to...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T is a curious fact that although women have now enjoyed political power for over twenty years they have not yet ecided to what political function they are...

that the specifically feminine qualities of zeal, sympathy and intuition were useful qualities for a diplomatist to possess. I assert that these' three qualities, unless kept...

the news- apers a statement attributed to Miss Thelma Cazalet in regard the entry of women into the British Foreign Service. Some five onths ago a deputation of women called...

ALONG the ledges of the rock I saw the salamander slide, Across the plains of asphodel The snorting centaurs fiercely ride And from the Egyptian flames arise The phoenix with...

" The Little Foxes." At the Gaumont.—" The Two-Fac Woman." At the Empire.—" World Premiere." At Carlton. FILM-MAKING as a business is deeply concerned with acto whereas...

" Comus " MR. ROBERT HELPMANN'S first, or at any rate his first important, ballet, was produced by the Sadler's Wells company last week. His translation of Milton's masque of...

THE ALLIES AND FRANCE . Simon pleads, in your issue of January 16th, for Allied -ognition of the Free French Comite National as " the representa- on of France with the Allied...

am not unduly " ecclesiastical " nor do I wish to be hard on an erring fellow-creature, even if he is a member of the Government, but I cannot help thinking that Captain...

answer- ing Mr. Harold Nicolson's "Marginal Comment " in your issue of January 16th, 1942? r. Mr. Nicolson regards any forecast of the future design of Central Europe in 1942...

,—The correspondence under this heading is rather disheartening. s origin was the story of an English lecturer in the U.S.A. who was ked why Britain did not give Australia its...

Sul,—Mr. Harold Nicolson, in 'tour issue of the 16th, recounts that Jewish refugees in this country scolded him " because our General Staff is not always as efficient as General...

January and number, in his criticism of the B.B.C.'s music, I think that Mt Kenneth Adam has failed to appreciate a number of important pointi. n. In order to appreciate...

SIR, —In her letter published in The Spectator of January 16th, Mr. Evelyn Munro refers to the lack of precautions taken by Bring] architects against creezing pipes I have...

write to add my support to the recent criticisms of " Janus " on the subject of B.B.C. music and hope he will continue to press them until the appropriate authority is moved to...

SIR, —A feeling of patriotism has so far prevented me, and others known to me whose houses have been requisitioned, from writing to the Press about the treatment these places...

Sta,—" Janus " has gently reprimanded me for the use of the word infinitely " in an article on Napoleon and Hitler which I contributed to The Times on January 13th. I said that...

AN agreeable amusement if the ground is ever covered with snow is the study of spores or slots. They disclose much that may be un- expected. One day this century, for example, I...

An old-fashioned garden at the edge of a rather town-like village is inhabited by a too-flourishing family of grey squirrels. They are too pretty and engaging to be disturbed by...

SIR, —Mr. St. John Ervine's protest against the custom of sponging on artists was long overdue. I get requests from all over the country, and it is quite the exception to get a...

S1R, —The following statements, published in The Spectator in January, 1936, are, I think, worth repeating today: First, from an article, quoting the official report on some...

Extremely, learned letters on the etymology of the word " Ley " and its earlier meaning continue to reach me. They are interesting, but omit the point of my complaint against...

at Navan in which he said " We will defend ourselves from attack from any quarter." But the people of Eire are not defending themselves; neither have they been doing it for many...

the weakest link in the chain of fortresses against Totalitarianism. Eire has always looked towards U.S.A. for salvation—if something is not done soon some of the Irish poor...

the garden almost to a stand- still it is a frequent habit to spend the vacant hours in cutting off the dead shoots of catmint s michaelmas daisy, or what not. This seems to me...

A True Story The Darkest Hour. By Leo Lania. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) LEO LANIA, Austrian playwright, scenario writer and author, fled from Vienna at the time of the anschluss and...

The Nazi Attack on International Science. By Joseph Needham. (Watts. 6d.) THAT the Nazi system is the enemy of the intellect is now too evident to need demonstration. It...

Literary Scholarship : Its Aims and Methods. By Norman Foerster, John C. McGalliard, Rend Wellek, Austin Warren and Wilbur L. Schramm. (University of North Carolina Press....

The Nature and Destiny of Man, a Christian Interpretation. Vol. I. By Reinhold Niebuhr t D.D. (Nisbet. r5s.) DR. REINHOLD NIEBUHR is one of those writers on religion who are...

Here is America. By Phyllis Bentley. (Gollancz is.) 17s. 6d.) America in World Affairs. By Allan Nevins. (Oxford. 25. 6d.) INTEREST in the United States is naturally even...

N or M? By Agatha Christie. (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.) Stop on the Green Light! By Maurice Barrington. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) IT is a striking feature of the war that the...

Seven Tempest. By Vaughan Wilkins. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) THE mixture as too often before. Four pieces of fiction, all up to entertainment standard, one supposes—if that depends on...

answer this question without discovering what it meant to be a Christian in the early centuries. In twelve short studies, Dr. Glover suggests the different ways in which the...

IN these days when the pattern is so much more highly regarded than the patterned this book is sure of a wide reading and for the nonce it is thoroughly justified. It never...

By CUSTOS ALTHOUGH it is again the fashion in some quarters to accuse the banks of exploiting a money monopoly for the benefit 01 their shareholders, I cannot discover any...

a Morality ; A Country Zodiac with Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick ; The Hunting of the Snark. By Lewis Carroll, illus- trated by Mervyn Peake. (Zodiac Books, Chatto and Windus. as....

MIDLAND BANK LIMITED STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN, THE RIGHT HON. R. McKENNA INSTEAD of delivering a speech at the annual meeting of shareholders to be held on January 29th, 1942,...

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NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK, LIMITED STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN, COLIN FREDERICK CAMPBELL, ESQ. IN vises of the continuance of conditions which prompted me to circu- late my...

WESTMINSTER BANK LIMITED STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN FOLLOWING the procedure which was adopted last year it is my in- tention to give, in the form of this printed statement, the...

TAX INCIDENCE ON EARNINGS BUSINESS AND TURNOVER ACTIVE MR. FREDERIC ALAN BATES, :halm - Ian, has issued a statement to shareholders of Martins Bank, Limited, in place ot the...