T HE two main objectives of the Japanese at the present stage are Java and Burma. The former is the centre of Allied resistance for the whole ABCD region, and the latter is a...

Those who listen to the voices of the Axis leaders in Germany, Italy, or Japan will search in vain for a message which will stir enthusiasm in any country but the speaker's own....

An agreement, the text of which was published on Wednesday, as ben made between the United States and Great Britain, stretching far beyond the present widening vistas of...

Another voice, with its own characteristics, but equally reassur- ing, is that of Mr. Stalin, whose Order of the Day issued on February 23rd, on the twenty-fourth anniversary of...

The greatest of the needs of the Allies at the moment is Is ships. When we demand reinforcements at this or that distant front it should never be forgotten that the limiting...

In his speech on Tuesday the Prime Minister made certain statements about the position at Singapore which, if they account for the fall of the island, do not account for the...

A case which was heard at Liverpool Assizes last week illus- trates the difficulty of getting any redress for injuries inflicted be Service cars on the road. An Army car driven...

It is a somewhat different note which is struck by the leader of the Chinese, General Chiang Kai-shek ; but the message he wrote last Saturday was addressed not to his own...

HE Prime Minister remodelled his administration in j.. comfortable time to anticipate this week's debate, which in certain circumstances might have been critical in a double...

T HERE was never much doubt that after Dr. Lang's resignation the two Archbishops would be Dr. Temple and Dr. Garbett. The question was which of them would be at Canterbury and...

moved from the India Office may be doing the Secretary of State some injustice. British policy regarding India at this juncture is a major issue, on which the decisive word must...

Stefan Zweig as the author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa, " the last war's best-seller." Actually, of course, that admirable novel was by Arnold Zweig, who was a Prussian, and...

‘Ylial I believe to be a record fine of L40,000 in a case arising out d the finance regulations concerned with the disclosure of holding of American securities. Not infrequently...

of—Lord Reith's dis. appearance from the ranks of Ministers, it will not be inapposite to print a paragraph that was written for this column last week, but held over for want of...

In an ill-starred moment a few weeks ago I ventured to pilkg in this column a few of the more flagrant misuses of the Eng/isb language. The result is that a major problem has...

By STRATEGICUS HE appeal of the Berlin radio to the German garrisons on the Russian front to hold out at all costs appears to be the iult of the successful Russian stroke below...

By SIR EVELYN WRENCH T O understand the Indian problem is no easy task. The mind of the visitor who has the temerity to try to dovetail his conclusions into a complete survey...

By THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWELL (The Right Rev. F. R. Barry) tyl EMPLE "—observed Dr. Randall Davidson—" is indisput- ably the strongest man among the English bishops—the one man...

By LEON KIRIL I N a planned economy without markets and without private enterprise, where all capital belongs to the State and goods are produced for the benefit of the...

By KATE O'BRIEN HE clock chimed four, and an elderly gentleman entered the lounge. He moved an armchair close to the fire, and also a small table with a copper top. The fire was...

who make pets ot Balkan countries. The animosities of South-Eastern Europe are • such that most men cannot love one Balkan country without hating all the others. Even Rebecca...

By HAROLD NICOLSON L AST week I wrote a film and factual threnody upon the sorrows of publishers, and this week I find myself in the illogical position of having to...

it is by it seriousness that it will finally be judged. It is 'a study in rad vigour, and as such is stimulating for us in these ineffective days Yet another reason why I beg my...

into a worshipper of jeans? Miss West does n attribute to them ethical qualities which they do not posse She admits their "eagerness not to be more sinned against th sinning,"...

Jam Today." At the St. Martin's Theatre. !SEX a famous novelist writes an exceptionally daring book and eS for the name of his heroine that of the wife of the Treasurer the...

Three British Artists. Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Suther- land Exhibition, City Literary Institute, -Holborn. THAT enterprising institution, -C.E.M.A., under the auspices...

"Great Guns" and "Invasion At the London Pavilion. " Louisiana Purchase." At the Plaza.—" March of Time." At the Gaumont.—" Land Girl." Generally released. on all true...

Sn1,—" Anglo-Indian" tells us that the Hindu religion "extols nega- tion," and that to the Hindu "all action is evil." While this latter phrase is probably somewhat exaggerated,...

"DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMICS" SIR, —The particular aspect of Foreign Office reform with which the two articles in The Spectator of February 6th were concerned, the need for the...

111,--British airmen whose training takes place in the United States ye, by the wisdom Of the Air Ministry, been furnished with some actical guidance about the way they should...

nt,—In a recent review of the second edition of my book :sea Power reviewer remarked that, in commenting on Sir Edward Grey's tivities relating to the Entente Cordiale and the...

Sta,—I read with particular interest the letter from Mr. A. C. Edwards in your issue of February 13th on this subject, as in 1933 I had some correspondence with the late Right...

Sot,—I expect that journalists receive more brickbats than bouquets from correspondents to their papers, so perhaps I may be allowed to say that as long as you can persuade...

snt,—Is seems to me that one vital point has been missed throughout the correspondence on "A Plan for Education." If the Public School education is the best available, as all...

the countryman, and u, almost every war certain herbs take on a new value. A plea for then culture is now reiterated. At the moment there seems to be a speciii need for...

fruit that I kfrow insists 1/ 91 February is the one month when potash should be applied, and that it is particularly effective in the raspberry field-.-certainly his rasp -...

Sta,—After more than two years of war, the Home Guard is still being lectured on "Ceremonial Guards" and exercised in presenting arms. Most of the men are in full-time...

day that the owner of some neighbouring farmland was amazed at the number and variety of gulls that were seen flying overhead, following the plough and even waiting for the...

The natural history of the cornstack (several of which I'have recently seen threshed) is very suggeative of what is often called the balance of nature—a nature, it must be...

SIR, —Thank you for your note supporting my plea that indepena- ence of the governors of the B.B.C. should be maintained as far as possible in war-time, more especially in...

Sin,—It seems a pity that the Minister of Food has disregarded in his scheme the hundreds of small farmers in outlying districts who can supply milk from surplus from time to...

Moscow '41. By Alexander Werth. (Hamish Hamilton. los. 6d Mn. WERTH spent July, August and. September, ix, in Moscow . He had spent his boyhood in St. Petersburg and spoke...

The Birth of Pan-Americanism No doubt history never quite repeats itself, but some historical situations seem to exist in first and second states, and it is impossible in...

ALL honour to that unknown genius of Araby or Cathay who invented chess! But let us not forget another nameless bene- factor—the man who first devised a notation whereby games...

Darkness and the Ltght. By Olaf Stapledon. (Methuen; 78. 6d.) MR. STAPLEDON'S book is concerned with the future of the human race ; but he prefers to present his vision not as a...

Shearwaters. By R. M. Lockley.' (Dent. Iss.) In Search of Northern Birds. By Seton Gordon. (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 15s.) THE topography of Britain provides...

Years of Endeavour, 1886-1907. By Sir George Leveson Gower. (Murray. i5s.) SIR GEORGE LEVESON GOWER has continued in this book the reminiscences which he published in Years of...

Pled Piper. By Nevil Shute. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) Uneasy Freehold. By Dorothy Macardle: (Peter Davies. Ss. 6d.) MEMORY, like a ghost, haunts thc present and the future: the...

THE story of how the Good Soldier Schweik's kindred are deai- . ing with the situation in the present war is told here in 140 Page s ' They cover, however, more than the...

The Admirals Hood is rather a pity. The writer means to show us the eighteenth-century admirals of her family, how 60 rose to eminence and what they did. It is a book that might...

Mackenzie Saltire Pamphlets, No. 2. (Oliver and Boyd. IS.) THIS vigorously written pamphlet was originally given as all address to the Saltire Society, which has done a good...

los. 6d.) Tr-ins book on the success of the Marriage Bureau opened three years ago by two attractive young women makes fascinating reading: whether taken as an omnibus of...

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By CUSTOS MARKETS are see-sawing gently according to whether the war news, which on balance still looks far from good, or the Weight of money seeking investment, exerts...

LAMPORT AND HOLT LINE SIR PHILIP HALDIN ON REPLACEMENT THE annual general meeting of Lamport and Holt Line, Limited, will be held on March 4th, in London. The statement of...

F. W. WOOLWORTH AND CO. MR. W. L. STEPHENSON ON THE OUTLOOK THE thirty-third annual ordinary general meeting of F. W. Wool- worth and Co., Ltd., was held on Friday, February...

'WAY ANY MEETING - - RESERVES STRENGTHENED NI 88th annual meeting of the Temperance Permanent Building s ociety was held on Wednesday, February 2.5th, at the Alliance Hall,...