"The maximum of self-government within the Empire at the earliest practicable time "—that, said Colonel Oliver Stanley, and not "independence," as urged in America under a...

desired that the Foreign Secretary should from I time to time give an exposition of British foreign policy in the country as well as in the House of Commons, and Mr. Eden's...

nmenes plan for civil aviation were made by Viscount Swinton in the Houge of Lords last week and by Sir Stafford Cripps in the Commons on Tuesday. On the whole the debate in...

The Prime Minister did well to put the plain facts about the food situation in this country before the House of Commons on Wednesday. It has been suggested in certain quarters...

One of the immediate effects of the coming into force of the Education Act, on April 1st, is that from then on all children deemed capable of profiting from secondary education...

In the trial of Reginald Gough, found guilty of manslaughter, and his wife Esther sentenced to prison for neglect, much more was at stake than the condemnation of a singularly...

There is nothing in the White Paper on housing issued by the Government this week to allay public anxiety. The estimate of immediate post-war needs will be thought by many to be...

O NE sentence in the Prime Minister's recent speech to the Conservative Conference deserves quotation for a particular reason. " At the head of our mainmast," said Mr....

ability in 1919, and he has acquired wide and varied experience since then. General Smuts, it will be recalled, was the originator of the mandate principle, though the mandate...

By STRATEGICUS HE opening shots of the decisive phase of the battle in the west may well be heard before this article is read. No one can have failed to recognise that the...

By DR. GILBERT MURRAY, O.M. I T was often said at Geneva that, to have a fair chance of success, the League ought at least to start in a peaceful world. The old League did not...

By PROFESSOR A. C. PIGOU The enquiry, which covered a wide field of industry, showed a general overall increase of money earnings per head of 82 per cent. as against October,...

By E. M. GULL One of the chief differences is to be found in the combination of popular representation with a distinction between political and governmental power—ehing...

In November, 1944, " The Spectator" published an article from a Captain in the British Liberation Army on the atti- tude of the average soldier—officer or other ranks—on the...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The story of the case, as reported at length in the Press of the colony, is briefly this. A native potentate, the Odikro (or sub-thief) of Apedwa, was...

By HAROLD NICOLSON W ALKING last week in the streets of my constituency,—wearing upon my face that fixed but ambient smile with which one seeks to mitigate by general benignity...

THE - most important of the month's recordings is that of Schubert's early C major Symphony No. 6 played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Thomas Beecham (H.M.V. DB...

THE CINEMA IN his recent book, Presenting Scotland, Norman Wilson briefly examines on behalf of his native land a question which is of present concern to many nations. The...

One day, when guns have ceased to roar And once again the world is clean, The memory of these tortured years Will seem as distant as a dream; And listening to old soldiers'...

MY darling, be brave, Come, live with me: I am the white cherry bough That sways over thee. I am the shining green star, In the East I abide: I am the cold billow washing...

Tins play will appeal to the same audience that enjoys Esther McCracken's suburban comedies. It is human, all-too-human, unsophisticated and not too silly. Also it is topical,...

Snt,—May I try to answer the query with which Mrs. Bentwich con- cluded her article on "Voters' ideas" in your issue of March znd? She had expressed the view that the majority...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sia,—Mr. Loveday has always taken the rosiest view of Falangist Spain. Neither Franco's declaration that he hoped Germany would win the war nor the...

Stn,—As one who has close business and personal ties with the Argentine, I read with the greatest interest Mr. Brandt's article in your issue of March 9th on "A German Schemer."...

Slit,—May I point out in reply to Dr. David Thomson that it is only on matters of procedure that the agreement of at least two of the smaller numbers of the Council of the World...

let us have lay benches, but not I combination of both, reducing the lay justice, as at Quarter SessionS, to mere surplusage. Attend to the theorists, and which of our...

under " Coalowners and Coal Plan," your correspondent Mr. Cecil F. Pike writes: "Under any cir- cumstandes the 'Foot Plan' would be infinitely better than the miners'...

week Flying Officer Krammer calls in question my statement that, as far as can be seen, the Cost of Living Index figure will be lower in the years after this war than it was in...

as reported, the Minister of Agriculture stated in Manchester on the 6th instant that dear food need not be a menace to our citizens with prudent legislation, he is only...

Sta,—I was most disappointed to find no reference in The Spectator to the death of Dr. A. E. Garvie, one of the greatest Christian leaders of our time. A man of encyclopaedic...

LAST week, as once before this year, I saw a rainbow of a most tm- orthodox pattern. As some of us looked towards the sun (not away from it) A rainbow quite perfect in prismatic...

Sta,—A very large number of people in this country would like some intelligible explanation of the strict no-fraternisation order issued to soldiers in occupied Germany. It...

SIR,-Mr. Arnold Brittatn, in his letter purporting to correct Mr. Harold Nicolson, suggests that the only " contact " between the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon was at...

The New China China Looks Forward. By Sun Fo. (Allen and Unwm. 12s. 6d.) The Making of Modern China. By Owen and Eleanor Lattimore. (Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d.) I See a New...

The Condition of Man. By Lewis Mumford. (Seeker and Vi , arburg. 25s.) Tins impressive volume is the third of a series which Mr. Mumford opened in 1934 with his Technics and...

Sea-Power in the Machine Age. By Bernard Brodie. (Princeton University Press, $3.75 and Oxford University Press. 25s.) MR. BRODIE has firmly established himself among the...

Road to Calvary. By Alexei Tolstoy. Translated by Edith Bone. (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.) " On the Side of the Angels. By Betty Miller. (Robert Hale. 8s. 6d.) This Is the House. By...

Ten Composers. By Nevile Cardus. (Cape, 8s. W.) IN his love of both cricket and music, Mr. Nevile Cardus seemed in Manchester in the period between the two wars as a man born...

The winner of Crossword No. 313 is DR. J. F. S. Ross, 3, Conyers Avenue, Birkdale, Southport.

.. May be worn or drunk, at the same time. (8.) 5. Most of a sad situation is that the cigar's come back. (6.) 9. An optimistic bird; perhaps it never heard of crackers. (8.)...

British Soldiers. By Major S. H. F. Johnston. (Collins. 4s. 6d.) THIS little book is an admirable addition to the 'series of Britain in Pictures. It confines itself, except for...

By CUSTOS AurHoucti it has been a foregone conclusion that Austplia would seize the first opportunity to deal with its 5 per cent, loans in London, the plan now announced for...

Catholic scholars has the qualities of the first volume, which was reviewed at length in The Spectator, with the difference that, having left behind the New Testament, the...