T HE Prime Minister's statement on foreign affairs will have been made before these lines are read. It is to be hoped it will be of a less consistently negative order than most...

sympathy. Talks with Italy have been entered on, and they are understood to be making progress. If there is really a reasonable prospect of their ending in an agreement which...

air-power that would enable them to meet the German and Italian machines opposing them on something like equal terms, the final victory of General Franco, or of Herr Hitler, or...

unlooked-for rapidity in inviting the General Council of the Trade Union Congress to meet him at Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss the speeding-up of the armament...

continues to fulfil its recognised purpose of carrying on the Republic's government until a stronger Cabinet can be formed. On Tuesday he presented two financial bills, both...

Austria will not proceed in accordance with the hopes of those who imagined that National Socialism would be adopted and diluted to meet Austrian conditions. The number of...

Mexican Govern- ment and the foreign oil companies who have now been expropriated is long and complicated ; the immediate cause of the Government's action was the companies'...

tated no crisis is severely tempered by the reflection that the main reason for that was that the small State which received the ultimatum was in no position to resist the very...

grateful for the declaration of policy made by Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, last week ; and for the confirmation it received in the speech of the new...

the Prime Minister, at the annual dinner of the Parliamentary Press Gallery last week, to the British Press, and especially his declaration of faith in the value of a free...

471,217 since September of last year. With this ominous fact in mind the House addressed itself in Wednesday's debate to the problem of slump-prevention. Mr. Greenwood, who had...

scale was still a matter of Parliamentary controversy. Now all that is changed. The only questions which appear to interest the House are concerning the pace, extent and...

one could have been more surprised than Mr. Lennox-Boyd himself at the reverberations of his speech at Biggleswade in which he observed that a pledge to guarantee the frontiers...

on Corporal Punishment appeared at a most opportune moment ; it should help to decide finally a long controversy which recently has been brought to a head by the sentence passed...

A FTER the storm Europe has relapsed into an uneasy lull. The Stock Exchange is recovering from its not very creditable panic. What effect the speech of the Prime Minister on...

"I REMEMBER," writes Dr. Gilbert Murray in his recent Hibbert Lectures,* " John Morley once telling me how Mr. Gladstone used to ask about people who, as far as votes went, were...

T O half the people who complain that the Prime Minister has no policy I feel inclined to answer " I would rather he had no policy than yours." I am as ready to criticise the...

shoult affect a man's public career, but I am afraid Mr. Eden has now done for himself finally. He has been photographed playing tennis on the Riviera in grey trousers, and un-

sity as its Chancellor has been published in permanent form (by Hodder and Stoughton at 2s.). There are a number 01 passages of historical or personal interest in it. Sir Samue1...

United States to this country is a good deal under discussion in The Spectator and elsewhere. But I wonder whether the predestined instrument is not the radio rather than the...

for almost eighteen years, should have been forced open, but a good thing that it should be open. I suppose I am one 0: comparatively few people who have been across that...

By PHILIP NOEL BAKER, M.P. L AST Monday The Times reported that the Lithuanian Government had accepted the demands contained in Poland's ultimatum. The heading of its message...

By PROFESSOR ERNEST BARKER [This is the fourth and last of a short series of articles on " The English Bible I T HE words of John Richard Green are famous. Writing of the...

By LORD SNELL T HE people of London are mostly unaware of the fact that they have a parliament of their own, and that, judged by the size of its annual budget or by the number...

By DEREK VERSCHOYLE [This is the second of a short series of articles on Ireland in its domestic and external aspects. Next week's article will deal with " Partition"] M ORE...

By E. E. D. TOMLIN (Oxford Crew, 1935) O N Boat Race day this year something will happen which has not taken place since 1924. Probably very few of those who come to watch the...

By PATRICK MONKHOUSE F ROM The Cheviot to the southern outposts of the Peak is about 25o miles if you could fly it ; more like 300 on foot, if you could walk more or less along...

I. From an Englishman in Vienna T HIS letter concerns itself entirely with the events of the last week, which if terribly sad have also been very thrilling. I will try and give...

By ROBERT GRAVES A TRUE story. It begins in the year 1915, when I came home wounded from the Somme - battle and retired for a few months to Sospan Fach in North Wales to get...

DAY after day we kept the dusty road And nearer drew small-towered Jerusalem, Nearer and nearer. Lightened of the goad Our beasts went on as if the air wafted them. We saw the...

By DR. EDWYN BEVAN [The writer of last week's article on this page took as text a passage from an article which Dr. Edwyn Bevan contributed to " The Spectator " a few weeks...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA AFTER THE ANSCHLUSS By S. GRANT DUFF Prague. WHEN, two weeks ago, three German Army corps crossed the Austrian frontier and marched south eastwards with...

"Goldwyn Follies." At the Odeon—" Double Crime sur In Ligne Maginot." At the Academy—' Scarface." At the Carlton THE Academy and the Carlton provide sudden death with all its...

THE THEATRE " The King of Nowhere." By James Bridle. At the Old Vic. MR. BRIDIE'S King of Nowhere is a popular actor named Frank Vivaldi, who suffers simultaneously from acute...

The Relifists Fall In THE title of the exhibition at Messrs. Wildcnstcin's—" A Cross-section of English Painting, 1938 "—is misleading. For only 12 artists are included, and...

1D'un correspandant parisien; M.u.GRE la reputation detestable do; statisticiens les ciiiiire3 conservent leur eloquence. Nous en avons rassembles quelque:i- uns dans l'espoir...

be no lack of volunteers for Air Raids Precaution service, but there is a phlegmatic acceptance of things that is almost indifference. Recently I spent an hour giving an...

romantic seed and plant catalogues from Africa and India, New Zealand, California and Japan. They offer native seeds, freshly gathered, at absurd prices ; alpine rarities at a...

hung up behind the counter : Buy English Cheeses, Cheddar, Cheshire, Stilton, Leicester. Once, in Leicester itself, I had seen golden-orange globes of Leicester (I don't know of...

The village blacksmith, once a supposedly romantic, hearty and prosperous part of any village, now has a tougher time of it. As though selling petrol, bikes, cigarettes,...

the dangers of investing capital in mushroom-growing companies who offered shares in £m units which showed a profit of to per cent. This warning held good for certain...

Lost Land The report of the Land Utilisation Survey, just issued, shows how, gradually but very surely, first-class agricultural land is being lost to the country. " The land of...

[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...

your readers who, like myself, will welcome your article on the average Englishman's ignor- ance of American affairs, and the paucity of good news from the U.S.A. With some...

your article under this heading you refer to the importance of strengthening Anglo-American friendship through understanding and to the remarkable apathy of Fleet Street to...

we claim to be a "Christian nation" we nuY have our tongues in our cheeks, but of the many unchristian things that we do as a nation, surely one of the worst is to refuse refuge...

has long been idle to expect the present Government to lend its support to the principle of Collective Security for moral or idealistic reasons alone. But when we find that, as...

SIR,—Our conscriptionists and compulsionists write and talk as if there were no such thing as Sea Power and no British Navy and as if England can be defended by soldiers. They...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Professor C. H. Dodd's article on the authenticity of the Gospels leaves too many things unsaid to give much guidance to the seeker for...

SPECTATOR.] SIR,—NO line of foreign policy, whether of Mr. Chamberlain or Mr. Eden, has a chance of real success until our Government has removed those defects in the monetary...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I raise a very practical point in relation to the horror which we are all feeling. at the ceaseless bombardment of Barcelona and Other...

events, we the undersigned members of the Medical Profession desire to express our alarm at the possible fate of our colleagues in Austria. There are in that country many...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] have read some silly reviews in my day, but seldo.n one sillier than that by E. B. C. Jones of Runyon ' s Furthermore. Miss Jones does not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—AS Major Athill's most striking article, " Love and Death," and the letters you have printed from correspondents g o to show., there are...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am anxious to introduce some English Red Squirrels into woodlands near here where, I am told, they flourished twenty years ago. I would...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Some years ago I was standing by Hyde Park railings, watching the arrival of a rally at the Albert Hall of the survivors of " the First...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —I too am an Oxford graduate, aged 24, who has absorbed the works of Mr. A. J. Ayer : but I am a professing Christian. Does your...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of March IIth (p. 422) your correspondent S. L. Bensusan writes : " You can't drive Nature out with a pitchfork,' wrote the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Basil Wright in his review of The Buccaneer (which he doesn't like) speaks of " the seceding Yankees." Seceding Yankees, forsooth !...

" THE SPECTATOR," MARCH 24th, 1838. THE NEW SUNDAY BILL. SUNDAY-BILLS become " small by degrees "—we cannot add " beautifully less ; " for even in miniature the productions of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The Spectator on March IIth thought fit to express the opinion that Herr Hitler was justified in complaining " of the ' irresponsibility '...

PAGE Chiang Kai-shek (Sir Frederick Whyte) 5 2 4 British Democracy (G. M. Young) .. .. 526 The Unknown in Man (Dame Edith Lyttelton) 528 Back to Marx (Honor Croome) . . 530...

Victorian Critics of Democracy. By B. E. Lippincott. (Univer- sity of Minnesota Press : Humphrey Milford. mss.) I AM not quite sure when democracy ceased to be a tainted word...

New Frontiers of the Mind. By J. B." Rhine. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) Man's Latent Powers. By Phoebe Payne. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) I HAVE found this second report by Dr....

The Concept of Morals. By W. T. Stace. (Macmillan. 8s. 6d) FROFESSOR STACE has already written hooks on aesthetics, The Meaning of Beauty, and metaphysics, The Theory of...

What Ara We to Do? By John Strachey. (Goltanc4. ups. 6d.) ECHOING Lenin's question of 1902, ,Mr. Strachey 'sets out to analyse the weakness of the British Labour Movement, to...

• • I Am not sure when the fashion of writing critical studies of living authors began, but I have an idea that it is of compara- tively recent date and that Lionel - Johnson's...

Strafford. By the Earl of Birkenhead. (Hutchinson. 2Is.) Salus populi suprema lex, says Lord Somers, should be written over both the cradle and the grave of government. The...

Confessions of an Economic Heretic. By J. A. Hobson. (Allen and Unwin. 5s.) WHAT makes any man believe as he does in politics or econo- mics ? Reason, no doubt, has something to...

THIS latest volume in the excellent series of Studies in Modern History, edited by Professor Namier, is a model of the way in which diplomatic history should be written. Mr....

In Letters of Red. Edited by E. A. Osborne. (Michael Joseph. 6s.) THE advantage of being a Marxist Communist is that one can give a coherent or " scientific " account of one's...

THOSE who know Mr. Isherwood only as the part-author of The Ascent of F6 will be agreeably surprised by the quality of his autobiography ; those who know him only as the author...

If War Comes. By R. Ernest Dupuy and George Fielding Eliot. (Macmillan. 12S. 6d.) THE authors of this book are two American officers, the ore apparently a Major on the active...

MR. LANDAU is mainly interested in the spiritual state of the world, and his search raises many of the most important questions of today. Is the contemporary decline in religion...

7s. 6d.) 7s. 6d.) The Hush-Hush Murders. By Margaret Tayler Yates. (Lovat Dickson. 75. 6d.) THE first seven books on this sanguifluous list- are by English writers, the second...

By KATE O'BRIEN Murphy. By Samuel Beckett. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) 75. 6d.) - Kanthapura. By Raja Rao. (Allen and Unwire. 7s. 6d.) IRELAND, Russia, England and India attempt our...

THE PORTUGAL OF SALAZAR By Michael Derrick We should study Portugal, says the author, for three reasons. First, because Salazar's Estado Novo presents in a pure form, unmixed...

This slender volume (Basil Blackwood, 5s.) contains some new and very welcome facts about Emily Bronte's poems and finally clears up some confused and doubtful points. Beginning...

For some years the name of Mr. Ronald Adam has been known to intel- ligent London playgoers. In 1932 he took a lease of the Embassy Theatre at Swiss Cottage, where he has since...

As the sister of Lord Melbourne and the wife, by her second marriage, of Lord Palmerston, the nominal subject of Mr. Baily's rambling book (Hutchin- son, as.) was a prominent...

and . Others This impressive study (Macmillar, as.) is designed to fill the gap between the fairly voluminous literature of central banking and such sectional and historical...

Mr. Karaka is a young Parsee, who has the distinction of having been the first Indian President of the Oxford Union. Having been brought up in all the affluence and social...

spring fitting-Out is that it is now and not later that you should buy replacements. Tyres nowadays are so enduring and reliable -that they have lost most of their old terror,...

done, of course, like a pains- taking tuning-up of the engine, decarbonising, valve-grinding, oil-filter-clearing, ignition and carburettor-cleaning and adjusting,...

Spring-Running The fact that as I write this the weather looks, if it does not feel, like young summer, possibly should be a warning not to expect the real thing before its...

as unplanned as the escapes of Mowgii and his friends in the Jungle, begins at home, if it is to be a proper success. It is of the essence of the affair that the car should be...

a factor common to all. -It is naturally necessary to go out with your car and meet spring upon the roads ; as obviously desirable that this should take place as far away as...

take you on your spring- running, so long as you start carefree. There are Scotland and Ireland, all those corners of England you have only read of and never seen ; the rivers...

its second year of sale, is an interesting example of what, for want of a better term, might be called composite design. Its makers have, in the old tradition so very seldom...

the special gear. This consists of a dual back-axle ratio, by means of which six forward gears are available, and it is certainly one of the most practical of all the "...

SCANDINAVIAN HOLIDAYS ONE of the results of the present crisis in Central Europe is a change amongst holiday plans in favour of countries- well removed from the scenes of...

WHY PICTURES ARE NOT SHARP By W. R. AYLING IN most cameras of the folding type and in some of the others provision is made for altering the focus. This in effect means moving...

MERCIFULLY the City is calm again, but there is inevitably an " after the storm " atmosphere in Throgmorton Street. Last week's ddtdde has wrought havoc not merely with prices...

If inflation is in the air, however skilfully it may be con- trolled, is it not right to buy ordinary shares ? From a broad academic standpoint, yes, but there are necessary...

The Imperial Chemicals figures are at once a relief to share- holders and a sore disappointment to the " bears." A rise of £307,378, in a net profit total of over L7,5oo,000, is...

To any investor seeking light on the financial position in China I commend Mr. G. Miskin's balanced survey at the annual meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor-...

LANCASHIRE STEEL CORPORATION SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED RESULTS MR. JOHN E. JAMES'S ADDRESS THE eighth ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Lan- cashire Steel...

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION Incorporated in the Colony of Hongkong. The Liability of Members is limited to the extent and in manner prescribed by Ordinance...

IF there were any doubts that the profit-earning capacity of the British iron and steel industries increased enormously during 1937, they have been dispelled by the impressive...

Yields of 9 per cent. on the equities of small industrial companies are common enough nowadays, but I think there are instances in which the market has registered its scepticism...

Interest in the annual meeting of Olympia Limited centres round the increased competition which has sprung up among exhibition undertakings since Earls Court came into that...

Alfred Dunhill, Ltd., the pipe manufacturers, remain sceptical as to the reality of trade recession. Mr. Dunhill stated at the meeting this week that except for the temporary...

Mr. Mark Ostrer, the chairman of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, which is an important member of the Gaumont- British group, had a pleasing picture for his shareholders. The...

The chairman of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Society, Sir Dennis Herbert, M.P., takes an optimistic view of the probable trend of security values. His speech on Tuesday was...

PROVINCIAL CINEMATOGRAPH THEATRES GAU MONT-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY'S SUCCESSFUL YEAR RECORD DIVIDEND THE twenty-eighth annual general meeting of Provincial Cinema- tograph...

Despite the disillusionments of 1937 Mr. J. S. Haskell, the chairman of the Eastern Bank, took quite a hopeful view of the outlook when he addressed the shareholders last week....

EQUITY AND LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY ANOTHER RECORD ESTABLISHED Tan annual general meeting of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Society was held on March 22nd at 20 Lincoln's...

PIPES. ARE FASHIONABLE THE fifteenth ordinant - general meeting of Alfred Dunhill, Ltd., was held on March 22nd, at Dorland House, 14,16 Regent Street, London, S.W. Mr....

THE EASTERN BANK DIFFICULT CONDITIONS THE twenty-eighth annual general meeting of the Eastern Bank, Ltd., was held on March 18th at 2 Crosby Square, E.C. - Mr. J. S. Haskell...

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