HE various reputed dates for the opening of Hitler's spring offensive having been successively and uneventfully passed, the e of the war still leaves feelings of expectancy...

In the discussions regarding the prospects of opening a western rat against Germany it has too seldom been stressed that such ront already exists and that it engages large...

There has been severe criticism, and there is going to be more, about the organisation for planning and directing the war, and it is all to the good that the Government should...

It is now nearly a year since heavy enemy air-attacks on this country were frequent, and for some time the large army of whole- time civil defence workers has been...

On the day after the Germans had been surprised by the daring daylight raid of our four-engined Lancaster bombers on Augsburg the Japanese received an unexpected blow dealt at...

The Ministry of Works and Buildings, like the Board of Educat is one of those departments where continuity of policy is m important, and where, it follows, one Minister should,...

Whatever may happen to other organisations that have grown up side by side with the League of Nations, the International Labour Office, which has survived with reputation...

The Government's plan for reducing the consumption of dom coal, based on a report by Sir William Beveridge, and outlined Mr. Dalton in the House of Commons on Tuesday, has...

DE GAULLE HE manoeuvres by which M. Pierre Laval has been re- established at Vichy are tortuous and sordid, but nothing is by wasting vituperation over them. The successive...

Queen into public life has been announced with just the right amount of discreet publicity. The royal children spent their early years at a salutary distance from the Throne,...

My reference last week to monoglot Welshmen has brou some very interesting letters, which I wish I had space to rep One of them emphasises the real hardship imposed on such m...

an e of each. First, I can in no circumstances whatever make this CO the vehicle, of any charitable appeal. Secondly, the Trade missioner for Malta, 39, St. James's Street,...

of the Crown is another of the King's subjects, two years older than the King's daughter, Nora Caveney, the first member of the A.T.S. to be killed in action. The story, as told...

the annual meeting of his company last week on the need for paper for books to maintain the country's morale. I observe since then one of the firms the company controls has been...

a good work lately done in that connexion by President Roos Mr. James L. Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School and Di of Civil Defence, gave a few simple directions lately on the...

the arrest of two members of the crews of Swiss merchant-vessels on charges of espionage may have caused some minor surprise to persons who specialise in geography, a life on...

By STRATEGICUS HERE is undeniably a spirit of optimism in the air. If we attempt to identify its cause we find that it cannot be traced single event, but that it has developed...

By J. M. SPA1GHT W E have been passing through a depressing phase of the war in the last four months, culminating in the sinking of the ' Cornwall ' and Dorsetshire,' and...

By J. T. HARDYMAN HE capitulation of Petain and the return of Laval to power have revived fears of the surrender not only of the French fleet but French overseas possessions to...

By AN ANGLO-GREEK G REECE has now been occupied by the enemy for a year. During that year her people have suffered more than any other in Europe, except perhaps the Poles. It...

By MAJOR D. REES WILLIAMS 0 NE by one the strongholds of male isolation have been We rather thought in the Gunners that our bastions wo the last to fall, but we were mistaken,...

taking the romantic point of view. Titles do a great amount of harm. They perpetuate class differences, and they expose us to contempt and ridicule abroad." I do not believe...

N ICOLSON By HAROLD ()last week's Spectator Sir Robert Greig contributed a letter in which he advocated the abolition of all titles. He contended titles of nobility and...

The O.E.D. sug- that it was first used as a slang name for cobblers, and that ter it was employed by the undergraduates of Cambridge to ate that class of their fellow citizens...

the memory Frau Witwe Lokomotivefiihrer Binder." This title struck me time as over-precise, but is it so far removed from the tal, and American, habit of conferring functional,...

BIRDS have their ups and downs, and since we generally rejo the ups, it may be pleasing to believe that hawfinches are gr commoner. They have been numerous, for example, in H...

war-time, and among that may be recomm • inded, even by the greatest lover of birds, the eggs of moorhen. These birds are now excessively nume and with their increase (as...

difficulty of 13 mowing in war-time? The lawn is not only a luxury. The grass is an invaluable food for both poultry and pigs. Sonic . recommend the drying of it in greenhouses....

was seen dig with a very large fork in a cottage garden, and to a passer-by engaged him in conversation explained that he was making The too-wise elder informed him that bees...

" Full Swing." At the Palace Theatre. THE cascades of glowing colours, the nodding plumes mocking Nature's hues, the sequins glittering like the eyes of rococo birds— all these...

4. How Green Was My valley." At the Marble Arch Pavilion and New Gallery. NOWADAYS it is the fashion for films to cast a long glance back to the dreams and disappointments of...

THE INDIAN VILLAGER six, —We have seen the rejection of the ambitious plan which Sir Stafford capps strove to bring into being with so much misplaced ability. Its failure must...

E,—Having lived in Ireland the greater part of my life, much of what • Harold Nicolson says in his " Marginal Comment " in the issue of The Spec razor of March 27th last seems...

SIR,—In your issue of April 17th, " Janus " wants to know how many monoglot Welshmen there are in Wales. According to the last census, they numbered 77,932, out of a total...

airmen, not to mention W.A.A.F.s, to attend and take part in discussions of an intelligent kind. I was asked by Mobile Entertainments Sussex Areas to organise a local Brains...

loth is timely. The one thing which the people of India dread is to be put into the hands of their fellow countrymen ; for of course the talking mob of• half- educated Indians...

Slit,—It was with feelings of no little annoyance and disgust that I read the letter of " Another Private Soldier " in your issue of April 17th. I am afraid the letter is not a...

SIR,—In your issue of April 17th, page 384, your compositor makes say " . . the figure of Franklin Roosevelt= waste and all '—stan out . .." I wrote " warts and all" but perhaps...

Stn,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's story of George Moore has moved me see how far George Moore avoided " that " and " which" in his o writings. In less than five minutes I found this...

Sta,—Is not the teply to Mr. Harold Nicolson's question the threefold one of (1) Draughts, (2) Rheumatism, and (3) Courtesy? Those who travel often on British passenger trains...

Siat,—I am wholly in favour of Sir Robert Greig's plea for the aboliti of titles. But there are two points in his letter which I think call comment. The first is that he does...

SIR, —" Gunner, R A." writes: " Our present struggle is not—as Lord Vansittart would have it—one of peoples, nor, as Mr. Gollancz, of classes: it is a war of faiths." I must...

SIR,—The title of the retiring Primate's novel, to which " Janus" alluded, is The Young Clanroy (not Glenroy): A RoMance of the '45 by the Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, late Fellow...

SIR,-" Jana " puts his finger on one of the weakest Waces in the machinery of government when he points out the influence of the head of the Civil Service on nominations for...

Lord Liverpool and Liberal Toryism, 1820-7. By W. R. Brock. (Cambridge University Press: 8s. 6d.) ROBERT BANKS JENKINSON, second Earl of Liverpool, has been under- rated by...

Never No More. By Maura Laverty. (Longmans. cos. 6d.) Miss MAURA LAVERTY is a new writer, and her first book—memories of childhood in a village on the plain of Kildare—should...

More About Russia Tbe Kremlin and the People. By Walter Duranty. (Hamilton. 5s.) Ain. WALTER DuRANry has rendered a great service to all the English-speaking world by staying...

Food for the Future. By Josephine Terry. (Duckworth. as.) International Comparisons of Food Costs. By Robert Morse Woodbury. (P. S. King and Sons. 4s.) IN one way, at any rate,...

Spurs on the Boot. By Thomas B. Morgan. (Harrap. 9s.) MR. THOMAS B. MORGAN, of the United Press news agency, gas privileged spectator of Italian affairs from the end of the fi...

Club. 8s. 6d.) Tragedy at Law is the best detective story that has appeared for some time, and at the end of the year will undoubtedly stand as one of the class leaders in the...

even Chaucer arrn to portray one or two of them ; but Mr. Homans, an Amen sociologist, has managed to bring together a great deal about th affairs and abilities. Under the...

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guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct saloon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Emelopes ,houll be received not later than...

'Hutchinson. 158.) As a book this story of the. Queensberry family from old Q. to the present Marquess, or, alternately, from the pug. Broughton to the National Sporting Club,...

78. 6d.) THESE contemporary short stories have been very fluently translated by one Elisaveta Fen, who also contributes an introduction slightly counter-revolutionary in tone....

By CUSTOS AFTER a brief attempt to shake off their lethargy, markets h relapsed into inactivity. If it is true this*. Budget uncertainties ha been removed without any unduly...

" MECHANICS? Benches? Farms? Factories? Dammit, sir! If Bri had no merchant seamen there would be NO agriculture labourers—no benches—no farms—no factories—no progre NOTHING! "...