S INCE the conquest of Catalonia General Franco has been assured of recognition by the British and French Govern- ments, and it is not likely to be withheld much longer....

across the Atlantic in the past week. Attention has naturally centred chiefly on President Roosevelt's observation to the Press last Saturday that the fortnight's holiday on...

her war with Japan ; no end to the war is in sight, and japan, having bound herself to enter into no negotiations with Chiang Kai- shek, must accept a state of perpetual...

new Pope will be elected will begin on the evening of Wednesday, March 1st, and will be remarkable because the entire college of 62 cardinals will be present. Of the 62, 35 are...

to agitate the Labour Party ; on Monday it was re- ported that the Labour Party was to be " purged " of his followers, but not even the Labour Executive is likely to take so...

Gloucester pointed out at the opening of the British Industries Fair, that peace for our export trade, is, in Lord Burleigh's words, " the sovereign sole medicine of all." It...

the world regard- ing which we have to depend on information that is always inadequate, and not always reliable. One of them is Abyssinia. In view of the inevitable marshalling...

reflected in the intense diplomatic activity centring on Warsaw at the present time ; whatever the issue of the crisis Poland will have a decisive role to play. This week the...

' King George V,' the first battleship built by Great Britain for fourteen years, was launched on the Tyne. She is of 35,000 tons, mounting ten 4-inch guns in three' turrets,...

Lord Halifax's speech and Budget prospects obviously influenced the debate on Monday and Tuesday on the Defence Loan. Attendance was astonishingly poor on Monday, and the debate...

of as retiring from the chairmanship of the Evian Committee on Refugees. Lord Winterton is, of course, chairman of the committee; Mr. Rublee was Director.

advocacy in vain before Mr. Justice Bennett, in the case in which there was claim and counter-claim between her and the Bradford Third Equitable Benefit Building Society. Some...

are falling into the bad habit of reading prepared speeches and ignoring questions that have been put to them, or arguments to which at least courtesy demands some sort of...

like the National Council for Civil Liberties to be so much on the alert for abuses as to seem sometimes to be looking for trouble. But it is entitled to claim that its...

week ago Lord Halifax made his now famous speech to the Conservative Members Foreign Affairs Committee. It seems to have created almost a revolution in back- benchers' minds....

W HEN Mr. Oliver Stanley said at a Mining Associa- tion dinner on Tuesday that " it might be that in the future they would look back on the events they celebrated that night...

T HE Palestine Conference appears to have reached the deadlock which all except the most confirmed optimists foretold when it opened. The Jews and the Arabs have stated their...

much importance to attach to the persistent reports of an alarming deterioration of the German railway system's locomotives, rolling-stock and permanent way. As it happened,...

calls on the President of the Board of Trade to refuse a licence to a company bearing the name Oxford Group (formed for the purpose of holding any moneys given or bequeathed to...

European capitals may mean a good deal for the country and a good deal for himself ; for the country, because the increase of British export trade is a matter of the first...

seat is likely, I gather, to advise against any change in the present arrangement, whereby the Speaker, as one of the 615 members of the House, stands in the ordinary way for an...

I GET from more than one source surprising reports about the hostile attitude adopted by the Quai d'Orsay, and M. Bonnet in particular, towards British journalists in Paris. I...

is the tendency of a new—and necessary—charitable appeal to sidetrack an old one in the public mind. Take the Basque children. Most of those who came to this country have been...

By COL. DAVID DALE LOGAN O satisfactory development in the field of A.R.P. in the last six or seven months is the shifting of attention from the gas bomb danger to the high...

By SIR DANIEL HALL [This is the second of three articles on the prospects of British agriculture] N my article in last week's Spectator the conclusion was I reached that the...

By R. B. D. FRENCH T HE " Irish Republican Army "' may or may not be responsible for the present disturbing series of outrages in England, but there can be little doubt that...

By FRANCIS GOWER I T is extremely important to study the broadcasting system of a country which is today one of the most powerful in the world. Germany has a population of...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Middle East, lying in the centre of the civilised world, at the cross roads of three continents, is of vital importance to the British Empire....

By W. J. BROWN T HE practical application of blood tests to the problems of paternity has long been discussed in medico-legal circles and the second reading of Lord Merthyr's...

By L. A. G. STRONG " 0 00-EE-EEE." With a queer little whining noise, the old man straightened his back. He leaned on the handle of his three-pronged fork, peered into the can,...

[D'un correspondent parisien] Dom Cannes a maintenant son square Neville Chamberlain. Plusieurs autres villes de France ont donne a une de leurs rues le nom du Premier...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T WAS reading the other day the memoirs of a former 1 American diplomatist. It was not an interesting book, since its author possessed little memory for, or...

climate and our curious habit of taking physical exercise, have strong appetites. Few things are so inimical to good cooking as animal hunger. I am confirmed in this theory by...

it is a sorrow to me that I am never recognised by head-waiters. I have moments of envy for those of my friends whose appearance in any restaurant from San Francisco to Omsk...

food. This adaptable citizen of the United States found that he could enjoy his food everywhere, even in Japan: but not in England. He contended that the muffin was the only...

national cooking. Tomato soup started calling itself " Pompadour " or " Portugaise " and pea soup " Demidoff." In place of the fish pies and oyster patties of coaching days we...

SOUTH AFRICA AND THE COMMONWEALTH By G. H. CALPIN, Editor, " The Natal Witness " How far British foreign policy is moulded and fashioned on the will and wish of the British...

March of Time." At the Film Society. JEAN GIONO must undoubtedly be considered among the front ranks of modern French writers, and Marcel Pagnol no doubt approached the...

THE THEATRE Macbeth." By William Shakespeare. At the Arts Theatre, Cambridge. BY long-standing tradition a Marlowe Society production is anonymous ; but sometimes the name of...

my friend's view of humanity. But others did. It was good to have a messenger specially sent from a couple of almost eighty to say, " We will take three children. Who knows how...

Gilbert White com- plained that the " bull-finches make sad havoc among the buds of my cherry and apricot trees; they also destroy the buds of the gooseberries and...

of children is not being well received in country districts. A friend took on the job of a house-to-house census in a village—outside of and three times as large as her...

The Bill has already sailed smoothly through the House of Lords, but has been wrecked in the Commons. It has now been withdrawn in order that a necessary amendment may be made,...

The First Orchard The first of the orchards is in bloom : the orchard of hazel- nuts. The trees are like bush-apples; the straight avenues between them are misty yellow with...

Problem of Decreasing Wildfowl For some years the question of the numerical status of migratory geese and duck has been causing concern to orni- thologists and sportsmen. A...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must...

SPECTATOR] SIR,—It would occupy more space than you could grant adequately to indicate the Christian pacifist's view of and response to the dilemma which the Dean of St. Paul's...

Dr. Jacks asks for a list of examples from history of unselfishness in the dealing of State with State. He imagines (I fear correctly) that " the list would not be very imposing...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—I am sorry if Dr. Bevan thinks that I ignored the point of his article. I answered the points in it which seemed to be relevant to our...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Stu . ,—I am all for stripping the Spanish conffict of the partisan exaggeration (on both sides) in which it has been drenched ; and among those...

SIR,—The articles by the Dean of St. Paul's entitled " War: the Christian Dilemma " raise certain points which seem to me, a humble and unlearned Christian, to require...

obvious reasons I do not wish to open a lengthy discussion on the Near Eastern Question while the matter is still in a critical stage of discussion, but you have raised one...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—May I reply to Mr. Capper-Johnson? My reference to the Society of Friends was not offensive either in tone or intention: my reference to...

Sta,—Mr. C. E. M. Joad's characteristic, though somewhat facile, analysis of University moods gave many of his readers, I rather suspect, a not unpleasant sensation of "...

Who are the Defeatists? " in your issue of 3rd inst., Sir Arnold Wilson attributes to Cowper the phrase " forecasting the future of uncertain evils." Did Cowper ever write...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Some people love dogs and some do not. Mr. Vulliamy goes too far in calling mere dog-lovers " cynomaniacs ": we are all of us free to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—As one of the " leaderless youth " of whom Mr. Joad writes so perceivingly in your issue of February ,7th, I should like to stress the...

SPECTATOR] SIR, — I do not take in The Spectator, but often see it. I was shocked to read the article, " Home Truths from America," and feel it was a very great pity to publish...

article dealing with unemployment appearing in last week's Spectator it is stated that there are 2,000,000 men unemployed. May I point out that the returns published by the...

SIR,—Mr. E. S. P. Haynes' bedside reading is evidently as amazing as his letter or indeed of his sense of charm in building. Houses have been, and will continue to be, saved by...

SIR,—One of the very few objections to the abolition of the dog is that we should be deprived of the pleasure and edifica- tion of hearing women talk to them.—Your obedient...

who would abolish dogs must have lived some time in the East to have acquired his strange views concerning them. There is a legend that our Blessed Lord, once passing a dead...

Wellington in Civil Life (John Hayward)... ... 308 The Greatness of George Stubbs (Geoffrey Grigson) 309 Danubian Destiny (Richard Freund) ... 310 Value and Capital (Honor...

The Anatomy of the Horse. By George Stubbs. With a Modern Paraphrase by Professor J. C. McGunn, M.R.C.V.S., M.R.C.P., L.R.C.P., assisted by C. W. Ottaway, M.R.C.V.S. (Heywood...

to pure economics since Mr. Keynes' General Theory of Employ- ment, Interest and Money. Herein lies the reviewer's quandary. It is possible to offer a reasonably enduring first-...

Danubian Destiny. By Graham Hutton. (Harrap. 7s. 6d.) THE map of Europe that was changed last year had been studied by generations of Continental staff officers and tested, in...

The Navy from Within. By Vice-Admiral K. G. B. Dewar. (Gollancz. I 5S .) ADMIRAL DEWAR'S story of his thirty-eight years' service in the Navy is not so -much an autobiography as...

High, Wide and Deep. By C. Madeleine Dixon. (Allen and Unwin. I25. 6d.) THIS book is an account of the play of a group of ten children, aged from two to five, at a school in...

THE strange, rich beauty of Smart's Song to David, written while the author was supposed to be out of his mind and published in 1763, needs to be recalled as the preliminary to...

A Flying Start : A Memory of the Nineteen Twenties. By Rene MacColl. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) The Sheltering Tree : An Autobiography. By Netta Syrett. (Bles. los. 6d.) Indian Ink. By...

The Emigrants. Edited by Hector Bolitho and John Mulgan. (Selwyn and Blount. 12s. 6d.) THIS book, with its artful distribution of white pages and its mere joke of an index,...

Double Death. By Various Hands. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) 7s. 6d.) Murder in the Bud, though it contains no murder and little detection, is the best of these crime novels, for it...

By FORREST REID The Great Squire. By Francis Stuart. (Collins. 8s. 6d.) A DESIRE for continuity ever urges me to begin these articles with an introductory preamble, but a...

Viktor Lowenfeld has spent fifteen years in the Hohe Warte Institute for the Blind in Vienna, teaching blind and weak- sighted children to draw, paint and sculpt. On the...

t Discovery,' now moored at Temple Stairs for all to see, is a historic ship in the tradition of Drake's ' Golden Hind ' and Franklin's Erebus ' and Terror.' Now her saga has...

well versed in the history of our merchant service, wrote, some years ago, the biographies of sixteen pioneer shipowners. He has now produced a second volume containing the...

NELSON'S WIFE By E. M. Keate Many authors have written at large about Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton, but Mr. Keate is apparently the first bio- grapher of Nelson's wife, the...

The Oldest Problem of All Of all the motoring problems that await solution the most obstinate is probably that of the glaring headlights. It must certainly be the oldest, as the...

NEW ZEALAND THE growth of aviation in recent years has been so rapid that it is difficult to keep pace with day to day developments, yet each new record flight to Australia,...

THESE are stirring times in the City when we are told two months in advance (without any leakage) at least the main outlines of the Budget, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

First among the railway chairmen to vouchsafe us his views, Lord Home opens up a moderately hopeful prospect for Great Western stockholders. Last year's sharp fall in net...

the obvious ones— a fairly sharp rise in industrial ordinary shares, with tobacco and brewery shares well in the lead, and an uncertain ten- dency in gilt-edged and other...

The accounts of the leading life insurance companies, both mutual and proprietary, which are now being published, leave no doubt that 1938 was a year of rapid progress, even...

ON the face of it the preliminary statement of Courtaulds could hardly have been worse. A decline of over £2,000,000 in profits to an insignificant figure, a dividend reduced...

and textile shares, but quotations are so low that I feel that a buyer is probably getting in on attractive terms. The case of Cook, Son and Co. (St. Paul's) preference shares...

With the announcement of the London and North- Eastern results the home railway story for 1938 is complete. I did not expect the L.N.E.R. to spring a surprise on the market, and...

Another West End store company to come well out of the past year is Peter Robinson, of Oxford Street and Regent Street. That company's net earnings for the year ended January...

Further results have now been announced by leading depart- ment store companies showing surprisingly favourable earnings in spite of difficult trading conditions. John Barker...

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY LORD HORNE ON THE " SQUARE DEAL" The Annual General Meeting of the Great Western Railway Company was held on Wednesday last at Paddington Station, London,...

BOVRIL LIMITED NEED FOR LOOKING AFTER BRITISH COMPANIES ABROAD PRESIDING at the forty-second annual general meeting of Bovril Limited, on Wednesday, the Lord Luke, K.B.E....

of Bovril, Ltd., urged that a body analogous to the Department of Overseas Trade should be set up to look after the interests of British companies working abroad. He urged that...

BY ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...

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