T HE immediate crisis in Algiers has been ended, but not. by an agreement that promises to be either satisfactory or enduring. There is to be no unification.of the armed forces....

All the reports from Russia at the end of her second year of war show how the grim determination which marked the earlier phases have been succeeded by a firm confidence in...

For some months-past the Germans have hoped that the U-boats would extricate them from their difficulties, and indeed they came near to admitting that the war at sea offered the...

The process of demobilisation, which caused many heart-burnings in the last war, will present even greater difficulties in this, and must be carefully and thoroughly thought...

That an official report published by the United States Government Printing Office should also be issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office in this country is a fact of no little...

British trade unionism in the main has not neglected the oppor- tunities of service afforded by the war, and has certainly added to its prestige. There is matter for reflection...

We may be sure that General George Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, when he made certain observations on the war last Monday, was not so much giving advice to...

No one could reasonably suppose that Sir Walter Womersley was personally concerned to deprive the pensioner of his due, though the campaign against the system he administers has...

T HE appointment of Field-Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell to be Viceroy and Governor-General of India—perhaps the last Viceroy, though not necessarily the last Governor-General—has...

T HERE are times when the spread of rumours is pernicious, and times when it has its advantages. This is one of the latter. All the world is waiting in impatience and curiosity...

By STRATEGICUS Russia surprised him as she surprised the world, and perhaps herself ; anti it is now clear that, in his petty imitation of 'Napoleon, two years ago, Hitler...

T HIS issue of The Spectator, as may be discovered by anyone who casts an obiervant eye over its front page, is No. 6000. Whether that is a fact of importance, and how the...

By ERNEST BARKER That tradition was not only a tradition of courtesy : it was also a tradition of the love of liberty ; and courtesy and a lave of liberty were united in...

By E. DIXON GRUBB That is the kind of problem which faces the local authorities today. Unless it can be solved without sacrificing local control the form of government which...

A PARAGRAPH of last week's issue had a curious parallel. A Hertford- shire labourer asked a land girl carrying a scythe if she was " going uppards," meaning, as he explained,...

By HAROLD NICOLSON I T is with special regret, now that we arc about to enter upon the a g e of uniformity, that we' mourn the loss of an uncommon man. Sir Stephen Gaselee, who...

RonEsrt COLQUHOUN, a Scotsman who has been holding a one- man show at the Lefevre Galleries, is one of the best of the younger painters who have a rhetorical bias. "...

No film has ever made a better start than The Human Comedy. A solemn, faun-faced little boy is watching a tame gopher burrowing in the soil of a California garden. Then he hears...

THE forty-ninth season of the Promenade Concerts opened with a miscellaneous programme characteristic of the range of interests to be served dunng the next two months. It is...

and sensible play about North Country provincial life in a small town. Two old maids (Louise Hampton and Nellie Bowman) live on a little inherited slum property economically...

Snt,—Dr. Murray is, of course, correct in what he says regarding our rights and obligations under the Covenant of the League. Yet, recalling the feeble and ineffective support...

certainly widespread talk, that agriculture should receive special treatment, and it is refresh,ng to hear a farmer resent it. As this was the chief burden of Mr. Walter...

by The Spectator of June t9th will enable your readers to understand the issues involved in the discussions conducted at Algiers. Meanwhile it is now admitted that the .French...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—In the Sunday Times of May 9th, and again on June t3th, I have strongly urged the Minister and Government to outline some definite plan for the...

Odo Russell tells us " the House of Savoy, who originally benefited by British support, are still there to reassume the lead and to :aye the Italian people at the eleventh...

SIR,—I am sure that you will forgive my digging up the old bones of contention for further knowledge, if I say simply that I am just deeply interested in my fellow-scholars in...

Sta,—Your correspondent E. A. Una in your issue of May 14th writes: "A continuous policy of appeasement towards the demands of a handful of educated natives has resulted in the...

Snt,—.In my opinion the modern tendency to have fewer rather than more children is largely due to: I. The constant " wars and rumours of war " which make intelligent people...

timely, but we general practitioners would like to know much more about what the public thinks of the proposals for a National Medical Service. I refer to the public as distinct...

Sut,—I have been reading with interest the letter on " French in English . Schools " in your June 18th number. It is encouraging to read of the improvement in suds work at the...

Six,—Your article under this heading by Dr. Kitching is timely and interesting. To bring the subject " down to brass tacks," under the present panel system it is agreed that...

it is .the great .hurden of .a majority of aged people :falling on the younger generation which is the most alarming aspect of our declining birth-rate.—Yours faithfully, (Mrs.)...

their .families to two or -three children is the cost of education. It might be said that they are free to send -their children to the State schools. Whether or not the care,...

Forgotten Fires Auberon Herbert : Crusader for Liberty. By S. Hutchinson Harris. (Williams and Norgate. iss.) THE term " Victorian age " has too wide a currency and is too...

Green Fire. By P. W. Rainier. (Murray. I2S. 6d.) Igloo for the Night. By Mrs. Tom Manning. (Hodder and Stoughton. 12S. 6d.) Ar first sight Mr. Rainier, with his Colombian...

Tinsley's Bones. By Percival Wilde. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) The Widening Stain. By Bolingbroke Johnson. (The "Bodley Head. 7s. 6c1.) Fear Comes to Chalfont. By F. W. Crofts. (Hodder...

The Triumphant Spirit. E. Graham Howe. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d . IN a review of an earlier book by Dr. Graham Howe, Mr. L. A. G. Strong describes him as one of the men for...

Cambridge. Lectures. By Sir Arthur.9atiller..Couch. (Dent. FEW volumes.in _Everyman's.Library (or out of it) are more richly stored with both wit and wisdom than this latest...

Daylight •on -Saturday. Ry.j. B., Priestley. (Heinemann. .9s. 6d.) The Serpent. By Neil M. Gunn. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) OWestern Wind. ByiHonor Croome. (Christophers. Ss....

IF Mr. Williams possessed mental calibre to match his opportunities he could have written a first-class book. He has travelled in post- revolutionary Russia a good deal more...

will be awarded to the sender of the first correct 50 iu !WI, of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, l'uly 6th. Envelopes should be received nor...

The winner of Crossword No. 22 Arbroath, Angus. It is regretted that in Crossword omitted. ON JULY 9th 2 is MISS RUSSELL, 9, Hill Terrace, No. 223 the clue for No. 26 down

By CUSTOS In so far as the inactivity in the stock markets is attributable to the counter-attractions of the Wings For Victory weeks, there should be some improvement in...

Winter.—Fashions and Fashion Plates- 1800-1900. By James Laver.—British Shells. By F. Martin Duncan. (Penguin Books Ltd. 2s.) PUBLICATION of the King Penguin Series was...