T HE interest in South-Eastern Europe has shifted for the moment from Czechoslovakia to Hungary. The visit of the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, and his Prime Minister and...

last Sunday has shaken the position of his Government. His general argu- ment on that occasion was sound enough. He said that France was suffering, not from over-production, but...

account the new agreement is very much to be welcomed. It is no sudden and oppor- tunist move on the international chess-board. Negotiations leading up to it have been in...

new "inter- national division," concerned primarily with the social and in- ternational relations of science, is a new departure of consider- able interest and quite possibly...

try their Austrian ex-opponents, the Nazis foreshadow yet another episode of brutal and repellent trampling upon those who are down. The scope of the court, however, seems to be...

China, recalled for political reasons by Herr Hitler, were declaring in Berlin that Japan could not hope to win the war, the Japanese armies on the Yangtse have been preparing...

against " exag- gerated nationalism " which has brought him into conflict with Signor Mussolini. Last Sunday he paid a special visit to the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide,...

Secret Police of Captain Kendrick, who has been Passport Officer at the British Consulate at Vienna for thirteen years, is, on the face of it, an outrageous action, and no facts...

gearless car by Professor F. C. Lea at Cambridge on Monday will at least serve the purpose of satisfying the average newspaper reader that British Association discussions are...

has been bestowing much attention on the trade cycle. Mr. J. M. Keynes's proposals to make Great Britain (at a per- manent cost of £20 millions a year) the world's main storage...

most noticeable thing is the marked progress of television. The sets are still dear, and reception imperfect ; but it looks as if the corner towards full success had been...

a personal enquiry into the environment of the school- children in that metropolitan borough. They are surprising and terrifying. Four hundred children were selected for...

played, one having been cancelled through rain. Those at Trent Bridge and Lord's were drawn in England's favour ; at Leeds the Australians won by five wickets ; at the Oval...

Dr. Joho D. Kershaw, medical officer of health and school medical officer for Accrington, in his annual report for 1937 observes that though the children of the unemployed are...

changed their date. By universal consent we were to beware the Ides of August, but the fact that that fateful day is now behind us can bring no comfort, for it appears that the...

H OW have air raid precautions progressed since the Home Office constituted its present A.R.P. depart- ment ? They have, at any rate, been brought home to the mass of local...

I is worth while, I think, to draw attention to a message 1 from Bishop Auckland in last Friday's Manchester Guardian describing how three Austrians, who have migrated to this...

By GODFREY LIAS T HANKS to the efforts of totalitarian publicists of the order of Signor Gayda and of totalitarian newspapers like the Viilkische Beobachter, people in this...

By MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. C. FULLER W HEN it became known that Army manoeuvres in Germany were to include civilians as well as soldiers and reservists as well as men in the ranks...

By FRANK SINGLETON " the shade of Joseph Addison—come to inquire 1, about holidays with pay in South Wales." The rugged old .Welsh clerk who thus ushered me into the room of...

By GILBERT MURRAY I AM surprised to find how many people were annoyed and made indignant by Mr. Shaw's " fancied page of history," performed at the Malvern Festival. He was...

By CANON ROGER LLOYD T HE National Council of Social Service report that there are now more than goo occupational centres up and down the country. It is a notable achievement...

By T. K. DERRY I T has been a busy day at Molde. The hotel proprietor has hoisted and lowered his German, French and British flags, each at the appropriate moment ; a brisk...

• By PHILIP HEWITT-MYRING T HE young man in the dirty green golfing suit stood in the middle of the sun-drenched café. His mouth hung vacantly open. His slightly protruding...

Commonwealth and Foreign FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [By a pact initialled at Bled, in Yugoslavia, on Tuesday, Hungary and the three Little Entente States— Czechoslovakia,...

"Fools for Scandal." At the Gaumont ----" Booloo." At di: Carlton--" Five Faces." THEY say you cannot hear a bat squeak . . . and certainly Miss Carole Lombard's high...

THE THEATRE How wrong we all were, until quite recently, about the Victorians ! Miss Vaughan's admirable play comes on top of several others to underline the margin of our...

IMMEDIATELY the floodlights that blinded our eyes so that we might not see the scene-setters at work upon the stage went out, and before the overture began, everybody in the...

[D'un correspondant parisienj A VERSAILLES s'elevera bientat un monument a la gloire do la gendarmerie. On vient d'en commencer les fondatiom. Pour le premier coup de pioche it...

The Fen Harvest This year's harvest is a very beautiful spectacle, esRecially in the Fen Country, and indeed the heavy clay-land that .ringes the Eastern Fens on the inland...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—The suggestion made by Mr. Bolton in The Spectator of August 12th that room might be found in India for some of the eminent teachers of...

SIR,—Vellala misreads the main argument of my article. Heinrich is a great man. He was a greater man when he worked in co-operation with his Viennese colleagues. A medi- cal...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [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"...

SIR,—Your issue of August 12th contains a contribution entitled " Where can Heinrich go?" in which the statement is made, " before the Nazi invasion Vienna was Europe's best...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sift,—Few experienced people doubt the truth of Mr. Oakley's two statements that (1) the existing Special Place Examination has on the whole...

SIR, —In February of this year Mr. Chamberlain announced the setting up of a committee to further the wider and more effective presentation of British news, views and culture...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Your articles in July 29th issue and some of the preceding issues present the Jewish Refugee problem clearly to the people's of the world...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—You have found space lately in your columns for two letters about my book, James, Duke of Monmouth. May I comment on them in one ? As...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Your Special Correspondent's article on the " Greek Dictatorship " in The Spectator of August 5th gives such an erroneous impression of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is not I but Dr. Gilbert Murray who makes the cap fit. In speaking of " advocates of the League " in my article of July 8th I was...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is reported that Mr. H. Metcalfe, the Old Street magistrate, on August 19th sentenced two men and one woman (who is expecting a child)...

SPECTATOR] SIR,—It is anything but a pleasure to " cross swords with so good and tried a friend of native races as Sir George Maxwell, but in saying that my statements " are so...

once a Tudor lane, A magic heart held tremulous to desire Now runs a redness, like the brand of Cain, Of crudest brick-work—though through every shire Destruction blots our...

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MR. READ, like Mr. Middleton Murry, is publicly engaged in a difficult and confused pilgrimage. Again like Mr. Murry, he is now completely disillusioned about orthodox com-...

a taxidriver, is known to fame as the author of two successful left-wing plays and as a popular broadcaster. This is his autobiography. The first half of it is commonplace. Mr....

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professors are busy researching, the other half should merely put together the results of their colleagues' labours, culled from dry articles in obscure scientific journals, and...

CURRENT LITERATURE Collected by Horace Walpole The Anecdotes of Painting, as originally published in the eighteenth century, stop at the accession of George III. Walpole never...

for a relatively small sum, you could hardly do better than buy M. Hourticq's Encyclopedia of Art which has just been trans- lated into English (Harrap, 84s.). It contains...

inter- national ill-will, and fresh topical interest attaches to Mr. Hobson's thirty-year-old indictment. This revised edition (Allen and Unwin, 8s. 6d.) carries a new...

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National Motorways There is very little to criticise in the scheme put forward to the Minister of Transport by the County Surveyors' Society for the construction of seven...

By W. R. AYLING I AM often asked to advise on the purchase of a new or second- hand camera, and this presents more difficulty than is generally imagined. There is little to...

To the tenacious investor who has clung to his holdings through 17 months of stormy investment markets Sir William Beveridge's remark that we are now " entering a new depres-...

THE further decline in the level of tramp shipping freig,its disclosed by the Chamber of Shipping's index number for J Lily is serious although it is not itself a steep fall....