Signor Mussolini and Dr. Schuschnigg on Tuesday was a good deal longer than is usual on such occasions, but not for that reason necessarily more instructive. What principally...

Germany,seems resolved.at any cost to isolate herself in .the fields of culture and religion as well as of politics from the rest of Western civilization. Reich Bishop Miller's...

S O long as Herr Hitler can claim that virtually 90 per cent. of the population supports him in a national plebiscite he may be content to regard with some indiffer- ence the...

The decision of the United States of America to enter into full membership of the International Labour Organization at Geneva is most encouraging. The ground has been in...

Soviet Union published by the London School of Slavonic Studies is not to be summarily dismissed on the ground that the authors of it have no recent personal experience of...

Scottish Home Rulers The Scottish National Party has been able to present what on paper at any rate look formidable arguments in support of its case, as result of the despatch...

Britain which have been harder hit by the depression than the fishing industry, or have so great a claim on the consideration of the country. The men most vitally affected—the...

been a pronounced movement throughout the world in the organization of better air mail services, and this country has been much behind- hand in starting inland air mails. It was...

the General Council of the Trades Union Congress is, on this occasion, the not very sensational preliminary to the meeting of the Congress itself, on September 3rd. Today, the...

at Lanark last. Saturday, alluded to the effects of War Loan Conversion and the lowering of the price of capital for local and industrial purposes. Some of the more reliable...

Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, in this country is a matter of some importance, for though Sir Miles is coming primarily on leave, he will certainly discuss the Egyptian situation...

of the League of Industry explain quite frankly that they are " not social reformers." It is their function to investigate in a purely business-like spirit " all schemes for the...

half-hearted salute, not because anyone will grudge the better side its victory, but because the victory has been achieved in conditions so depressingly unsatisfactory. The Test...

offer to the foreign tourist, perhaps, as any country in Europe, in the past we have had less than our share of visitors travelling for pleasure ; and even the stream from the...

the Monday of last week, the fatal shooting by plain-clothes police, and the subsequent demonstrations of mourning and bitter accusations against the Government may well prove...

T HE appointment of a professor of some distinction as News .Editor of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration raises the expectation of various developments in the B.B.C.'s news...

at first at any rate, and 11.30 is to my mind too early for the silence-period. By midnight the theatre traffic has pretty much dispersed and that extra half-hour would make all...

rather widely since the question of tomb- -stone design was raised last week by the . Dean of West- minster and others. It is satisfactory to find stress laid on simplicity of...

last met Sir Nigel Playfair, when he was returning from rehearsals in the open-air theatre in Regent's Park. He was cheer- ful and apparently well, and interested in plans for...

again in pamphlet form. To a brochure entitled mildly " Fascists at Olympia," and dealing with the_ alleged violence of the Fascist stewards, the British Union of Fascists has...

the Mercure de 1 France an important—and very disturbing—article on defence against air-attack.. The writer, Colonel Bons, was among other things commander of the ....

through writing newspaper articles or giving newspaper interviews, come even within distant range of its vague but. stringent regulations regarding publicity has more than once...

By H. POWYS GREENWOOD Munich, August 214. H OWEVER surprising it may appear to a liberal Englishman, the Nazis take their plebiscite very seriously. On Monday, in Munich, I...

By THOMAS F. WOODLOCK I N a previous article I described the impasse at which President Roosevelt's Recovery campaign has arrived, as a result of his Reform campaign having...

By C. H. JOHNSTON T HE battle of Mons (August 23rd and 24th) and the hard fighting which marked the first part of the Retreat have left little visible trace on the countryside...

By E. H. JEFFS A T first sight " the High Council of the Salvation Army " may seem a rather too imposing title. But the forty-seven veteran officers who meet at Clapton next...

By ERIC HARDY A UGUST brought much evidence that after a success- ful nesting season, the passage of migrating birds this autumn is to be a very heavy one. Today I wit- nessed...

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH W E owe much to America besides money. We are indebted to her for a large part of our vocabulary and most of our amusements. The modern notion of...

FRIDAY, 1UGUST 24th tz.00 Organ Recital from Bath Abbey : E. W. Maynard 5-4 0 Here and There : Stephen King-Hall, to children .. 8.00 Promenade Concert—Beethoven Programme :...

[VON EINEM DEUTSCHEN KORRESPONDENTEN] M ANNER in Weiss sind neben den Aerzten auch die Friseure. Im neuen Deutschland, das den Fremdwortern zu Leibe ruekt, werden die Friseure...

a play set up a new West End record for length of run-2,238 performances at His Majesty's Theatre between August, 1916, and July, 1921. One might have expected film producers to...

The Misanthrope." By Moliere. Translation by Elsie Phare. At the High House Barn, Shere THE Otherwise Club, which has fixed on an out-of-the-way corner of a not very...

The Battle.—Naval melodrama about Japan, produced in France with English dialogue. Notable; in spite of far- fetched story, for fine acting by Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon in...

Cleopatra." At the Carlton MOST people know by now what to expect from one of Mr. Cecil B. de Mille's historical spectacles. There is no need to waste words on the historical...

The truth is—and the expert seedsmen should earn our continual gratitude—that almost all our garden or field plants demand yearly renewal. Different words are used. Mr. John...

Natural Degeneration This point was raised with one of the growers of those superlative vegetables, and he justified his art persuasively. Everyone who has grown any annual...

greatly in their tendency to degenera- tion. None falls back more quickly than the edible, or indeed the sweet pea. Bad seed is very bad indeed. Root crops, most of which are by...

Essex, whence came earlier observations, come accounts of wood- peckers turning their attention to telegraph and electric posts. The reason for this curious taste has not been...

for the market, are too conservative in our potagers. The continental bean, eaten with the pod, and the pea of a like nature ; the custard marrow ; Salsify or the vegetable...

of this most lamentably. How wide and lasting was the degeneration in this sort of produce no one can well estimate, but there is one - outstanding example into which I have...

you may sec today the beneficent results of the tours of the travelling experts sent out by the Rural Industries Bureau. These experts have revived both old traditional patterns...

exhibit which won the prize for the best in the show was a collection of vegetables, numbering in all 355 sorts or varieties. They were, of course, quite impossibly perfect, in...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length is that of one of our " News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

a modern School, I should like to make some observations on the interesting letter from Manu. facturer " which appeared in your issue of August 17th. The letter is very...

a very important subject. The boy goes to a Public School at his most impressionable age, tutored by men and women of what is known as the gentlefolk class, spends several years...

Sin,—Your correspondent " Manufacturer " has, on the facts presented, failed to master the technique of staff selection. At the present time the best brains are not entering...

Sta,—We hear that the Cumberland County Council are con- sidering a scheme for road-making over Hardknott Pass into Langdale ; similar schemes may be in the air with regard to...

SPECTATOR] SIR,—Canon Lyttelton's speculations on what might have happened in the Church of England, brit for the stand against defections to Rome made by l'usey and Keble are...

of Tar: SPECTATOR] SIRS I have been very pleased to read in your issue of July 20th, 1934, which arrived only two days ago, Lord Meston's article on " India : The Dangers of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—Mr. Hugh Sykes Davies, in his article on " Hiking and Politics " in your last week's issue, quotes my book, Under the . Fifth Rib in...

SIR,—One cannot but sympathize with Miss Smith in her wish for freedom for walkers in the Highlands, yet I cannot ignore my own experience, and what I have invariably heard in...

and Politics " and the con- troversy on " Walking and Stalking " aptly illustrate the inherently contradictory standpoints of the " Haves " and " Have Nots " as a whole class. I...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I fully expected that my condemnation of the appalling conditions at sea would provoke the hostility of those who would prefer that the...

hope I shall not be thought the least bit bellicose (a sununer in Gallipoli in 1915 cured me of all that) if I venture to suggest that Earl Beatty had really got at " the root...

Sin,—I agree with your correspondents that there are a number of girls whose fathers could support them in idleness who voluntarily choose to work. Their existence does not...

Sta,—I notice that in my review of The Complete Hazlitt, published last week, the word " egoist " has been rendered " egotist " throughout. I do not know whether this is a slip...

" SIR, —Mr. Austen Albu in his article of August 17th suggested that the victims of the industrial system were being reduced to a " sub-human level of intelligence." He quoted...

readers will agree with " Janus," that Sir Kingsley Wood ought not to teach us to spell in- divisible indivisable ; but ought The Spectator to teach us to spell onomatopoeia...

have a very high regard indeed for the fairness and freedom from rancour which " Janus " usually displays in his weekly column or two, but I am afraid that his remarks about the...

By R. F. HARROD THE works of Major Douglas throw out a challenge which every thinking man must appreciate. We live in a society in which on the one hand many needs, often most...

I CONFESS that I opened Dr. Rao's critical biography of the first Lord Lyttelton with some misgiving. The strange imprint, the forbidding note announcing that it had been...

The Roots of Violence. Men tens Lecture, 1934. By S. K. Ratcliffe. (Rogan!' Press. Is.) Liberty Today. By C. E. M. Joad. (Watts and Co. 2s. 6d.) THE contrast between democracy...

Ma. CUTTLE here records, in 384 carefully written pages, the vagaries and vicissitudes of Poor Law Administration in an area of some 650 square miles, including Chelmsford,...

OPPOSITE the portrait of Mrs. Coleridge which reappears as frontispiece to this volume, a cut of a large bear with a malicious eye and a staff in his paws seizes the...

IT cannot be a matter of great moment to a number of people whether the precise instant of the Reformation in England occurred in the reign of Henry VIII or of Edward VI, just...

By GRAHAM GREENE Deep Streets. By Benedict Thielen. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.) IT is unfair to judge a novelist by standards he does not recognize, but any novelist, even so romantic a...

By RUPERT HART-DAVIS Mystery on Southampton Water. By Freeman Wills Crofts. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d.) The Chinese Orange Mystery. By Ellery Queen. (Gollancz. is. 6d.)...

By Madison Grant As the author, some twenty years ago, of The Passing of the Great Race, Mr. Madison Grant may claim to be the father of the later Nordic school of American...

By William M. Clyde Dr. Clyde chose for his Ph.D. thesis a subject of great interest and wide implications. - But, unfortunately, his book, The Struggle for the Freedom - of...

some 34,000,000 people, the new Unemployment Act is a measure of which every person calling himself well-informed ought to have a good working knowledge. Mr. Ronald Davison, who...

Edited by James P. R. Lyell Although Mrs. Piozzi, or Thrale, considered that " meta- physic is at best a melancholy, and disappointing study," she waded through the...

WHEN one considers the comparatively short space of time during which broadcasting has fulfilled the role of national entertainer, it is rather amazing to see with what acclaim...

"The Coming -- American Boom*" THOSE readers of the financial articles in The Spectator who may wish to obtain a corrective of the sombre views which are sometimes set out in...

HOLIDAY MARKETS. ALTHOUGH the tone of most departments of the Stock E x . change keeps fairly good, markets are now suffering fro m great restriction of business due to the...

A good feature of the Report of the Industrial Finance and Investment Corporation for the past year is the further increase in liquidity. The net profit resulting from sales of...

It is pleasing to note that there is at last a material improve- 6:lent in the financial position of Grosvenor House (Park Lane); Limited. For the year-ending-June 30th last...

The brewery industry is doing well as a whole just now, and fresh evidence of the fact was afforded recently in the announcement of an increase in the interim dividend of...

Several industrial companies have recently published en- couraging Reports, and the profit announced by the Calico Printers' Association Limited for the year ending June 30th...

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