is showing signs of intensi- fying her propaganda drive against one member of the Little Entente, Czechoslovakia, the firm front presented to both Germany and Italy by another...

T HE latest phase of the fighting in Spain has been marked by Government offensives on several fronts, particu- larly at Madrid itself and at Oviedo in the north. At the same...

taken a wise step from its own point of view in drafting for early publication a five-year programme of policy `! to which effect could be given within the lifetime of a single...

defeated this week from their attempt to wring more favour- able terms out of Dr. Schacht. The contest was necessarily unequal because the German Government identifies itself,...

is releasing his impressions of America with judicious economy. On Wednesday he gave one rationed selection to a National Liberal Club luncheon 'audience and another to the...

Graziani, the Viceroy of Ethiopia, is a reminder that the Italian subjugation of the country, costly as it continues to be, is no more than super- ficial. Attacks on the Italian...

von Neurath, to Vienna on Monday and Tuesday was a very qualified success. The " Heil Hitler" demonstrations on the first day annoyed the Austrian Chancellor and can hardly have...

accept on Tuesday night the Opposition motion deploring the conditions revealed by the Gresford Mine enquiry and demanding immediate and effective measures to protect...

broadcast on Sunday night by Colonel Adam Koc, commander of the Pilsudski Legion, has so far failed to produce that " con- solidation of the national will " which is its object....

on Palestine. The cost of sending troors is to be repaid out of Palestinian resources, but falls in the first place on the British Exchequer. Sir Percy Harris, speaking with...

Labour motion on the Gresford Report. The Government did not attempt to resist its demand for immediate and effective measures to ensure maximum safety. Mr. Grenfell, who opened...

to voters in the L.C.C. Election next Thursday is to choose the individual rather than the party. That will not be easy, for interest in the election is small, few voters have...

Cooper, the Minister for War, will announce considerable improvements in conditions of service with the regular Army, when he presents the Army Estimates to Parliament next...

its adoption of the recommendations of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee regarding the disposal of the substantial surplus shown by the Unemployment Insurance Fund,...

debate provided further evidence of the happy accord which now prevails between the two front benches. Colonel Colville, representing the Treasury, was asking for £152,000 to...

public mind to look on a European War as inevitable. War is not inevitable. If the word probable is to be used of it, it is less probable than it was six months ago, when...

TN recent weeks the nation has had some convincing evidence of its economic recovery. Even the burden of vast expenditure on armaments does not diminish the conviction that for...

in the debate on the Gresford disaster in the House of Commons on Tuesday raises a question of some interest both to Parliament and the Bar. Sir Stafford appeared as counsel for...

By SIR EDWARD BLUNT (r) In all the provincial lower houses taken together, there are 1585 seats. Of these, Indian National Congress candidates had by last Saturday secured...

By SIR PERCY HARRIS, M.P. Thus London has a dual system of Government. On the one hand, the County Council with large-scale services : on the other, 28 Borough Councils, to...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT P UBLIC attention is very naturally centred on the pros and cons of the anti-gas respirator and of the gas- proofed room as means for the protection...

By PETER WINCKWORTH B EFORE considering how the Archbishop's Recall to Religion, or any other recall, may reach and impress the younger generation to which I belong, let me...

By R. C. MOREL IN the past twenty years the public has learned a great deal about diet and nutrition. Research in this field since the War has had such a wide news-interest...

By CLIFFORD BAX O N a day of last week, I was re-reading Every Man in His Humour, nursing upon my knees an unusually tall folio which I bought in Glastonbury during the War :...

By DHARAM YASH DEV D OWN at the bottom of a cul-de-sac stands Bulaki Shah's shop. The star-shaped steel studs, and huge metal bars v. hich decorate the massive door, shine...

By E. E. KELLETT I HAVE recently been reading a fair number of detective novels—being tempted in some measure by the cheapness and clear print of the reissues. As is...

Commonwealth and Foreign By MICHAEL SPENDER IT is easy to run across the lowland frontiers of Germany without noticing them. Of course the boom is generally down on the German...

STAGE AND SCREEN The Decline of Singing NOTHING is more obvious or more disquieting in the present state of music than the dearth of singers. There are plenty of people who...

THE CINEMA FROM the moment when the elderly commissar with a sad and unprofessional face, dressed in a shabby macintosh and a soft hat which has known better days, takes his...

First Nests It was a great delight to record, on February uth, the first nests of the year : one a blackbird's already two-thirds built, the other a song-thrush's which was...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitably length is that of one of 00 " News of the Week "...

have read with much interest the article by your contributor Mr. W. V. Emanuel. First may I take the liberty of pointing out that, in the penultimate paragraph, he gives the...

SIR,—I have read with interest your special correspondent's article on " The Gas Menace." May I suggest that it would be very useful if he would explain how the ventilation is...

are two quite different things involved in this question of defence against air attack. The pacifist holds that there is no defence against war and its moral, social, economic...

SIR,—In your leading article last week you comment on " the intimidating figure of £40,000,000 for five capital ships." In the old song we all wanted to know where flies go in...

S1R,—Any careful and critical study of the New Testament will prove the three things which Mr. Smith denies and contradict the two he asserts. r. Our Lord chose and trained 12...

Snt,—Under the heading, " Finland, Berlin and Moscow," in your last issue you say : " If a minor border State (Finland) with such a history, to say nothing of the still smaller...

SIR,—After the Kamenev-Zinoviev trial you referred to the shooting of " old Bolsheviks" in Moscow. In a letter which you printed, later confirmed in an excellent article by Sir....

result of persistent criticism of Police Court matri- monial jurisdiction by writers and other members of the public. The actual parties to these proceedings are normally...

[D'un correspondant parisien] IL suffit d'une phrase pour faire une renommee. Ainsi k baron Louis serait oublie aujourd'hui s'il n'avait dit : " Faites- moi de bonne politique...

P. A. La Rue's ciplariatiOn (in your issue of the 12th inst.) Of this term agrees with what 1 was told when a member of the British Military "MitsiOn to the U.S.A. in 1917-18,...

of " Gringo " from " green grow " is presumably cruritractive. We do not know what the word comes from, but we -know what it does not come from. It may be from the Spanish "...

Sia,—The view expressed by "Janus" appears to be strongly supported by Bishop GOre, from whose Jesus of Nazareth J extract what follows : " Probably our grandfathers if not our...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,— Whatever one may think of Dr. Rendel Harris' views on the derivation of the name of Angora, certain it is that its second syllable is...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —" Janus' " depression because of the way in which ecclesiastics build up a doctrine, or an ethical system, on a text is shared by many...

BOOKS OF THE DAY By R. A. SCOTT-JAMES EDWARD GARNETT presents the baffling case of a man who devoted the whole of his working life to literature, yet whose magnum opus is not...

My Story. By the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas. (Hutchinson. ir5s.) I HAVE seldom read an autobiography which was more a revelation of the personality and character of the writer than...

Art and Society. By Herbert Read. (Heinemann. ios. 6d.) No full or historical understanding of the arts is possible without some comprehension of the relation which exists...

FOR the general reader, Arctic joianeys is one Of the moat; enjoyable books by an explorer that has appeared in recent years, for the author manages to make it jolly without...

The Paris Commune of 1871. By Frank jellinek. (Gaga= 8s. 6d.) MR. jELLINEK'S book is the most satisfactory account of the Commune in English. Though he interprets the Commune...

IT would be interesting to examine the psychological and literary bases of our present liking for the eighteenth century. Possibly there are commercial bases also. But whatever...

Sail and Power. By Uffa Fox. (Peter Davies. 35s.) Wind and Tide in Yacht Racing. By H. A. Calahan and J. B. Trevor. (Harrap. 21s.) THESE are probably the two most valuable...

Arthur Burroughs. By H. G. Mulliner. (Nisbet. is.) WHETHER Burroughs, who succeeded Dr. T. B. Strong, next but one after Boyd-Carpenter, should ever have accepted the See of...

Tenant for Death. By Cyril Hare. (Faber. 7s. 6d.) The Door Between. By Ellery Queen. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Bats in the Belfry. By E. C. R. Lorac. (The Crime Club. 75. 6d.) Death...

By WILLIAM PLOMER The Bells of Basel. By : Louis Aragon. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. (Peter Davie and Lovat Dickson. - 8s: 6d.) • - Juan jn China t By Eric Linklater....

invasion of Africa. Only, however, because they judged the question in the light not of history but of childishly naive moral consciences. Mr. Middleton has written a most...

Miss Willa Cather, believing that " the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," expects her new book to interest only those Not Under Forty (Cassell, 5s.). If her misgivings...

The account of M. de Noiiy's work, begun during the War, on the rate of healing of wounds, in which he found that apart from special factors (festering, size and shape of wound,...

the life (Cape, Los. 6d.) of a strong and attractive personality, Charles John Andersson, explorer of South-West Africa. His mother was Swedish, and he came to England at the...

opinion is or seems to be widely divided, it .is on bodily comfort. I do not - mean easy riding, which we have at last achieved, but seating comfort, which includes leg-room,...

THE Stock Exchange is demonstrating once again its well-known characteristic of never doing anything by halves. Having made up its mind that £1,5oo,000,ocX3 for defence means...

CONTINUED DEPRESS ION. A CONTINUED fall in high-class Investment stocks and an excited rise in the prices of metals were the outstanding features of the Stock Markets during...

there are many, if any, financial writers who would be able to congratulate themselves upon having foreseen that the opening months of 1937 were to be charac- terised by an...

BY ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the 'sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword .purqe..t.o _be opened. Envelopes should be marked "...

The winner or Crossword No. 23o is Dr: H. J. Paterion, The Whins, Gravel Path, Berkhamsted.