to T is extremely significant that the Wilhelmstrasse should have I declared that Germany " had said farewell to . Hitler's plan for a new order in Europe under German...

It has long been clear, as Ministers have again and again agreed quite frankly, that the end of the war cannot suddenly bring an end to war-time controls. In his statement on...

The inherent resilience of the French nation is demonstrated by the remarkable way in which it is triumphing over the disorganisa- tion left by the Germans and is introducing...

Up, till last Tuesday there were few signs of agreement at the Chicago international aviation conference on the major question of world regulation of civil air traffic. But on...

The changes Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has made in his Cabinet are in the right direction, and will be welcomed by his Allies. The displacement of the War Minister, General...

"The state of the dental health of our population is bad and it effect on their general health is bad." Such is the verdict of Inter-departmental Committtee on Dentistry which...

An S.O.S. has been bent out in the form of a memorandum by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Works urging local authorities to acquire land quickly for the reception of...

The L.C.C. has now replied to the charge which Mr. John Watson, chairman of Tower Bridge Juvenile Court, brought against its Educa- tion Committee in regard to the treatment of...

F any doubt subsisted in any mind as to whether the opera- ]. tions now in progress in the west were the beginning of the great offensive, General Eisenhower's declarations on...

Quiller Couch which the Cambridge University Press is publishing this week, Q mentions that, visiting London as a boy, he and his father " put up at Anderton's Hotel in Fleet...

of my own year, and shy he remained to the end. Never was there a more unassuming man, though, with an O.M. at the unprecedentedly early age of 55, he certainly took rank as one...

elicit acquiescence rather than enthusiasm. With all respect to Sir Edward Grigg, who is to replace Lord Moyne in Cairo, and Captain Harold Balfour, who is to replace Lord...

in the running for the Fathership of the House of Commons your sitting record from the date of first election must be Continuous. That removes Mr. George Lambert (who, though he...

alive Is either a little National Or a little bee from the Sinclair hive." That is what (or perhaps something even better) Sir W. S. Gilbert would have had to write today. But...

Quaker relief work in France in war-time dates back to the Franco- Prussian War ; it was actively carried on in the last war, and nothing could be more fitting than that...

A s to Malta. I consented, it will be remembered, to try to extract £2,000 from the readers of this page for the erection of a Shrine of Remembrance in the damaged Anglican...

papers. By an odd coincidence I was on Tuesday evening reading the typescript of a lengthy interview with M. Caillaux prepared for publication in a London paper in, I think,...

By STRATEGICUS I T is easier to gain an insight into the scope and success of the present battles on the western front if we look back a little to the events from which they...

By H. S. L. POLAK T is doubtful whether the gravity of the possible consequences I of the tension existing between South Africa, an independent sovereign Dominion of the British...

By CAPTAIN, B.L.A. T HE B.L.A. is well served with daily newspapers. Instead of I . reading, too long after to be interested, about the event in which one has...

By MYRTLE WRIGHT * The opposite to a Quisling - taken from the name of jossingfjord, the scene of the Alunark ' affair. W HEN will the war end? No other question comes up with...

By HARRY ROBERTS T was nearly two thousand years ago that Cicero wrote his justly famous essay on Old Age. He was but sixty-three years old, and the essay was dedicated to his...

fortune was anxious and prolonged. They were convinced in January, 1813, that all was over ; it began again. In November again the news of Leipzig set the bells ringing ; but...

Safe and sound at last, she walks out clutching the arm of her beloved Burghersh, and as they reach the Rue de Rivoli they see coming towards them a vast travelling carriage...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I NEVITABLY, as the armies close in upon Germany, one's mind recalls the last stages of the struggle against Napoleon and the six months between Leipzig and...

most beautiful town I .ever saw . . . the buildings are quite. magnificent." Lord Burghersh left her to join Allied Headquarters, but the carriage was got out again, and with...

the letters which Lady Burghersh addressed to her family between 1813 and 1814. During her long and gentle life (she lived to the age of eighty-six and only died in 1879) Lady...

performed last month at the National Gallery, was played again by the Menges String Quartet at Messrs. Boosey and Hawkes's concert at -Wigmore Hall last Saturday. As the work is...

Old Masters at Tooth's and Agnew's Galleries THERE has always been a tendency to include within the same breath the names of Canaletto and Guardi, and to place Canaletto first...

Short Films BEFORE the war the short documentary was an article for which a wide public existed but for which no theatrical market had been organised. Then came the war-time...

Sm,—Mr. J. L. Hodson's article seems to me to be very fair, and you may like to know of the impressions of a Bevin Boy coming fresh to the pit. 1. I am sure that the only way...

Sut,—I read with great interest the article "Education Now? " in The Spectator of November 17th, and think the ideas put forward admirable, but I am . afraid that some time...

proposals in so far as they abolish the present inadequate scale of salaries for teachers in elementary schools, and establish a basic scale for all teachers with similar...

SIR,—Governing factors in the rehabilitation of the Coal Industry are - . (a) Physical output per unit ; (b) Industrial Integration, as I emphasised in 1930 (" The Economics...

orderly layout of signs and advertisements at London Transport stations could well be carried out by the other railways, Mr. Noel Carrington overlooks what had already been...

Stn,—Though quite misled by the title " Education Now? " I was interested to find the writer of the article - cri'tic'ising schoial - books, for I thought nobody wearied about...

was with some surprise, as well as regret, that I read in your issue of November 17th Mr. Blissett's diatribe against the Italians. Although he is so positive about the views of...

SIR,—The letter from the Dean of St. Paul's on the future of Coalition Government voices what has been in the mind of many thoughtful people in recent months. But does the...

Sin,—In an excellent article on " Large or Small Farms? " in The Spectator of November 17th, Mr. Walston says: " It is undeniable that most farm-workers prefer to work on a...

grow rare, some increase. Among these may be reckoned the bittern. A pair, which showed a certain tameness, were flushed the other day in Hertfordshire, where this bird has been...

Ir is, I think, a sign of the times that a woman farmer is to be one of the four farmers who are to visit the United States and Canada to learn and lecture. They go officially...

There seems to be a general conviction abroad—indeed, one paper accepts the prognostic as a faith—that we are approaching a hard and bitter winter. Is there any evidence...

SIR,—We have just had another exposure of the barbarous treatment of our prisoners by the Japanese, and the only comfort the British and United States Government can offer to...

A garden process (approved by cooks) is to defend the parsley patch with the cloche or by other means ; but the wiser cooks will dry all the herbs they can. There seems to be a...

The other day a remote but quite audible explosion in the small hours was followed by a loud and general chattering among birds. It was remarkable that on this occasion the...

Sta,—In turning over the pages of my 1914 diary I found pasted in a cutting from The Spectator which reads, " Guns of Metz ": " Guns of Verdun point to Metz From the plated...

SIR,—Dr. Roth will find information about the National Health Service in the White Paper published last February. He will see that one of the main objects of that Service will...

Not the Full Story Ir was not until a few months ago that even Douhet's twenty-five- year-old work on Air Power was published in this country, such is the unpopularity of this...

IN the Deneke Lecture given at Lady Margaret Hall in 1941,* Sir Herbert Grierson spoke on " Criticism and Creation: Their Inter- actions." It is a brilliant lecture, and reveals...

Money : Its Present and Future. By G. D. H. Cole. (Cassell & Co. 15s. net.) EVER since the last war the proposition has been fairly generally accepted among economists, that...

The Rise of Polish Democracy. By W. J. Rose. (Bell. WS.) THE title of Professor Rose's book does not truly describe its sub- ject. Since the political history of Poland was...

Joseph. 9s. 6d.) • ALL three of these novels are about the present war ; and it is difficult to guess how much the public wants to read about that, at present, in imaginative...

Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, December 5th. _Envelopes...

is F. C. GEARY, Esq., 5 Barby Road, The winner of Crossword No. 296 gby.

MR. Row has written an interesting description of the first raid of the Chindits into Burma, compiled mainly from first-hand reports of men who actually took part in the...

WEBsrEa's books of reference are of the highest quality, and this new Biographical Dict.onary is no exception. It has the great advantage, as an Am efsan production, of being...

By CUSTOS LARGE-SCALE groupings in the heavy industries are now so much the order of the day that there can be no real surprise at the fusion of interests announced by Richard...

MISS STERN does run on, to be sure : an obiter dictum here, a reminiscence there. How Wise, we nod, how witty! What fun to know such people (to hear " the impenitent trill of...