B ARCELONA is not known to have fallen at the moment these words are being written, but it appears impossible that any prolonged resistance can be maintained. With the capture...

D R. SCHACHT'S removal from Presidency of the Reichsbank has produced a rich crop of rumours within and without Germany; the real question it raises is whether Germany can...

revealed a curious conflict between the political and the economic aims of the Axis. Politically the two Powers co-operate, economically they compete. The political aims of...

been going on at Cairo in the past week between members of the different Arab delegations to the Palestine Conference in London, one conclusion, at any rate emerges—that the...

show tact towards Czecho-Slovakia than towards Poland. The Czechs have recognised and accepted the conditions created by the Munich agreement, and both in their internal and...

the task of re- organising Eastern and Central Europe. The final form of her policy is not yet clear. At the present moment her energies appear to be directed to neutralising...

party on Wednes- day took the drastic and decisive step of expelling Sir Staf- ford Cripps from the party. When Parliament meets the. Party Whip will be withdrawn from him and...

Territorial Army Finance and Organisation appointed last March by the Minister of War and presided over by Lord Strathcona should have found the administration by the County...

in the Lake District in a way that will achieve reasonable through-communication and yet preserve the district as a refuge in a mechanical age is one that concerns alike the...

into on behalf of the Government, the cotton workers' deputation which was received this week by the Prime Minister at the Board of Trade apparently came away convinced .that...

young journalists at the period when the pleasure of appearing in print is keenest and the burden of responsibility is lightest, is celebrating its fiftieth anniver- sary....

The growing resentment in the United States at Japan's commercial and military policies has found both official and unofficial expression during the last week. President Roose-...

IN the past week the situation in Europe, bad enough already, has visibly deteriorated ; nothing is gained by disguising that. The dismissal of Dr. Schacht may be variously...

N his foreword to the National Service handbook, Sir John Anderson has emphasised that the Government's call to the nation " is to peace and not to war." The same emphasis...

T HE National Book Association (President: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) was founded in 1937 to give its mem- bers important new books that have a sound, moderate and...

is as much required of refugee children as of any others is no doubt right and timely, but it is obvious that children of ten or twelve speaking no English can get singularly...

once in the Foreign Office himself, writing (in the Evening Standard) on the shortcomings of British diplomacy. It is a delicate subject, for it is impossible to write...

Secret Police—should be active in this country is distinctly unpleasant, but since its emissaries are, in all the cases I have heard of, doing nothing illegal, our own...

invitation to a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor on the ground that he understood no wine was ' to be served. This is an admirable precedent. I am all in favour of guests being...

meat - dish " in the triple bill that opened at the Westminster Theatre On Monday, the " cocktail " being a valueless trifle by Schnitzler, and the savoury Barrie's " The Will,"...

peoples gives them the noblest justification for fighting with every conceivable weapon. Only recognition of this principle has produced such outstanding historical examples of...

By A LATE RESIDENT IN GERMANY F OR a few days after the Munich Conference the German Press contrived, as in recent years it seldom has, to reflect faithfully the feelings of...

By GENERAL SIR JOHN BURNETT-STUART [This is the fourth of a series of six articles on the problems that face the constituent parts of the British Commonwealth today. In next...

By WILLIAM BROCK* I N an age when it may be necessary to defend democracy, it is not less necessary to define it. This definition must take the form of separating externals...

By W. E. WOOSNAM-JONES I T is now well over two centuries since Swift, in the Bickerstaff Papers, launched his famous attack upon John Partridge, the notorious Almanack Maker,...

By MARQUIS W. CHILDS* I F only because so many intangible values are involved, it is difficult to try to appraise the relations between one country and another, the attitude of...

By JAMES HANLEY I N the broad Square flanked by the tall buildings of the Customs House and the Board of Trade and Union offices, stand groups of men and boys. It is nine...

By OLIVER WARNER C RICKET tours in South Africa are apt to be a success. Next in importance to those in Australia, their atmo- sphere is wholly different. The Tests are not...

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE only thing which I have in common with Napoleon is an almost morbid interest in the part played by chance in human destiny. How dull, in truth, are...

and Hugenberg, but we dismissed Hitler from our minds. In 1928 Hitler was not taken seriously by any German of experience. I remember that for a short time I began to feel...

to sit gazing into the fire and to think back upon the Berlin of only ten years ago. The Locarno spirit cast its beneficent beams over all our actions. Then came the Kellogg...

position which Lord D'Abemon occupied in Berlin between 1920 and 1926. No British Ambassador since Malmesbury has exercised such persistent or creative influence. Superb and...

Those days seem now as distant as January from June. The sunshine of Locarno is contracted into the grim clouds of Munich. The very name of Stresemann has been ex- punged from...

Chance, exploited with amazing discretion, guided Hjalmar Schacht throughout his career. Starting as a journalist upon a notoriously scurrilous newspaper, he transferred himself...

CZECHO-SLOVAKIA SINCE MUNICH By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ir would appear from the recent interview between Herr Hitler and M. Chvalkovsky, the Czecho-Slovak Foreign Minister,...

Quai des Brumes." At the Academy. ONE may guess that this film owes a considerable debt to Cavalcanti's early masterpiece En Rade, for some of the resemblances are very...

THE THEATRE 41 , Design for Living." By Noel Coward. Af the Haymarket. Design for Living is built around three glib, over-articulate and amoral creatures whose lives have a...

6 , Nos Braves Anciens Grecs . . . " YET another attempt is being made to alleviate the unhappy position of the schoolboy who is compelled to study Greek, but can only read the...

[D'un correspondent parisien] Dhs la rentree du Parlement on reparlait de crise de regime. C'est devenu une habitude. A vrai dire, il s'agit surtout de discussions abstraites....

From a garden wall, composed of stone and rubble, was heard one morning last week a clear and plaintive cry on the note D (with apologies for the word). It was thought at first...

In a Hertfordshire parish are two places always referred to by the local population one as the Slade, the other as the Slype. The Slade or Slad is a dip in the field running...

garden in mid-winter? A few flowering shrubs, such as viburnum fragrans, chimonan- thus and witch hazel; a few humble flowers, such as the lungwort, beloved of , cottage...

The plight of farms in the United States has been much worse than in England; but some salient recoveries are recorded, and these may perhaps have sugges- tions for those who...

experience in the winter ways of animals. Several rabbits shot in a small wood were left in a heap while other coverts were drawn. On returning later in the day the keeper found...

A Preserved Forest It is good news that Savernake Forest is not to be dragooned or thrust into an alien uniform. It has escaped the fate of part of the New Forest and the...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a pseudonym, and the latter must...

prestige of legislative institutions depends increas- ingly on the abilities, experience of the composition of_ membership. Can we admit that we secure the best to present...

his recent letter to you has well expressed the point of view of many headmasters. The Report, with all its provisoes and qualifications—which may be forgotten or ignored when...

member of the race whose honour and courage Miss Savage imputes, and one who at the time of the crisis volunteered like many other Jews for service in the British Army, to...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Miss Beryl Savage suggests that I am "carried away by " my pro-refugee enthusiasm into unreasonableness. But she is carried away by her...

Sta,—I am afraid it was only to be expected that the corre- spondence as to whether refugees are a liability or an asset to this country should have produced the usual...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Purely from the point of view of a film critic, I should like to comment on several of the statements made .by Mr. F. P. Bishop in The...

SIR, —While so much has been written in the Press lately about the pros and cons of flogging as a deterrent punishment, it seems to me remarkable how comparatively little...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — In the article on " The Fruits of Rome " in your issue of January loth, the fact that the personal relations between the Prime Minister...

Sit,—Mr. Harold Nicolson informs us that it is quite under- standable that the Munich agreement should be regarded as a tremendous diplomatic disaster and Mr. Chamberlain as a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —Mr. Kittermaster says that the system now prevailing in public schools whereby senior boys art allowed to cane junior boys " does...

writer of a letter in last week's Spectator, observes that " it is common knowledge that garrotting was stamped out by corporal punishment." " Common know- ledge " is an easy...

the best definition of a gentle- man is " one who is at his ease in any society." Morals have nothing to do with it, manners have.—Yours faithfully, Orchard Cottage, Fetcham,...

which true gentlernanliness consists, Ruskin surely has it in one word—" sensitiveness." A wag- gish and more modern expression of the same idea is " one who can play the...

short description of a gentleman is that which appeared in Truth a generation ago : " A gentleman is one who is never unintentionally offensive."—Yours submissively, CHAS....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Surely no better answer to Mr. Harold Nicolson's ques- tion can be found than Psalm 15: " Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life and...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sia,—Mr. Spencer misquotes me. The words "Egypt would probably be forced to make the Canal free" were not mine, but Zaghlul Pasha's. The...

a " gentleman " I ever heard was given me by the late Comte de Sibour : " A gentleman is one who never gives offence unconsciously."

whether any of your corre- spondents would refer to Cardinal Newman's description of a gentleman in his Dublin lectures. It is too long to quote here, but it occurs in the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Sta,—Mr. P. G. Libby is right about speed in warships. Our Navy is worshipping two false gods—Speed and Range; false because both detract...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—One point of importance emerges from the discussion in your columns - on the contents of Who's Who. It relates to the principle on which...

Social Service in India (Sir Stanley Reed, M.P.) ... ... 135 The Social Function of Science (C. P. Snow) ... ... 136 Denmark's Day of Doom (T. G. Barman) ... ... 136 The Mozart...

THE day after the publication of the recent honours list, the New York Times said something to this effect : " We all know England is dead. But for some extraordinary reason it...

Denmark's Day of Doom. By Joachim Joesten. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) Tins is a singularly mischievous book. Mr. Joesten's exag- gerations are so palpable, and his conclusions so...

The Letters of Mozart and His Family. Translated and .edited by Emily Anderson. Three vols. (Macmillan. 54s.) MR. Polar of Punch has made comment with his pencil upon various...

NEAR the five-hundredth page of this book comes a section called " Random Portraits and Snapshots," and this title might have been used a little earlier, for the first...

The Refugee Problem. Report of a Survey. By Sir John Hope Simpson, K.B.E., C.I.E. (Oxford University Press. 25s.) In any ill-seeing spirit gazing down like the Pities in The...

must be the centre of the Negro American university . . . You are teaching American Negroes in 1933, and they are the subjects of a caste system . . . and their life problem is...

THE buildings of a nation (said Goldwin Smith) are an important part of its history, but a part that has been neglected by all historians because the historians themselves have...

A Heart for the Gods of Mexico. By Conrad Aiken. (Secker. 6s.) TEN years ago the Great American Novel seemed really under way—Mr. Hemingway and Mr. Faulkner appeared set for a...

By FORREST REID THOUGH I have not read many of Mr. McFee's novels, I remember, years ago, reading and reviewing Captain Mace- doine's Daughter, and pointing out how greatly the...

Now that the London County Council is giving generous support, the work of the London Survey Committee proceeds apace. The nineteenth instalment of this remarkable topo- graphy...

Vol. I: The First Five Centuries By Kenneth Scott Latourette This is the first instalment to be published of a work in six volumes by the Professor of Missions in Yale...

Hodson The editor of the Round Table is to be congratulated on producing a little book in which the many grave and complex problems confronting the British Empire are very...

For the ninth year in succession Dr. J. Hutchison Cockburn has produced a substantial pamphlet (published by the editor at Dunblane) containing articles on the cathedral of...

MY LLOYD GEORGE DIARY By Tom Clarke Since Mr. Clarke did not meet Mr. Lloyd George for the first time till 1926, when the latter's days as a primary political force were over,...

Railways Into Roads An Interesting suggestion was made the other day by Colonel A. S. Redman, lately chairman of Traffic Commis- sioners for the West Midland area, in an address...

MOROCCO THE development of Morocco during the last few years has been so thorough and so rapid that it is almost incredible. Where, comparatively recently, only a camel cara-...

we did expect it—stock markets have surrendered to another bad attack of political nerves. This has happened not merely in London and the Continental centres but also in Wall...

Just what has induced this attack of the jitters at this particular time it is not easy to define, but there can be no doubt that Dr. Schacht's dismissal from the Reichsbank,...

This week's markets have scarcely presented the bank chairmen with a helpful atmosphere for their annual speeches, but these authoritative reviews have a certain quality of...

It is good to see the bankers offering whole-hearted—and one hopes open-handed—support for Mr. Hudson's pro- posals for reviving the export trade. At the Westminster Bank...

NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED CONTINUED EXPANSION OF BUSINESS IMPORTANCE OF MAINTENANCE OF LIQUIDITY AND STRENGTH MR. COLIN F. CAMPBELL'S REVIEW THE annual general meeting...

COPPER EARNINGS RISE THE interim reports of three big Rhodesian copper mining companies show that the decline in earnings has been arrested and that there was substantial...

find pleat:, to ponder in Mr. McKenna's stimulating address to th,2 shareholders of the Midland Bank. Here is Mr. McKenna', advocacy of a managed currency brought right up to...

carry through a capital reconstruction scheme, as a result of which its Lioo ordinary stock, now quoted around £12, will be written down by two-thirds of its nominal value....

WESTMINSTER BANK LIMITED DIVIDENDS MAINTAINED THE ECONOMIC SITUATION THE HON. RUPERT E. BECKETT'S ADDRESS THE Annual Ordinary General Meeting of Westminster Bank Limited was...

AMALGAMATED COTTON MILLS TRUST Investors will not be surprised to find that the results of the leading cotton spinning and manufacturing companies make a worse showing than...

Ashanti Goldfields, the outstanding company in the West African gold field, have added to their long record of progress another year of record tonnage and profits. Tonnage mined...

Much of the success of Turner and Newall, the big asbestos company, must be attributed to the directors' policy of ignor- ing short-term industrial fluctuations and planning...

MIDLAND BANK LIMITED THE RT. HON. R. McKENNA'S ADDRESS THE Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Midland Bank Limited was held at the Head Office of the Bank,...

A. Bates, developed at Tuesday's meeting an instructive analysis of the essential differences between the trade recession of 1937-38 and its predecessor of nearly to years ago....

rubber position given by Mr. H. Eric Miller at Wednesday's meeting of United Serdang (Sumatra) (Continued on page 156) Rubber Plantations Corresponded almost exactly with the...

MARTINS BANK LIMITED EXPANSION OF BUSINESS THE one hundred and eighth annual general meeting of members of Martins Bank Limited was held at the head office, Liverpool, on...

UNITED SERDANG (SUMATRA) RUBBER PLANTATIONS MR. ERIC MILLER ON THE OUTLOOK THE 31st ordinary general meeting of the United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, Limited, was...

" CHARTERED " COMPANY'S DISTRIBUTION The British South Africa Company's fortunes are intimately bound up with those of the Rhodesian copper mining industry. As a landowner it...

D. NAPIER RESUME DIVIDENDS It is good news, though not unexpected, that D. Napier and Son, the engineering firm, are resuming ordinary dividends with a payment of 5 per cent....

INVESTMENT TRUST UNITS The fall in Stock Exchange values has borne hard upon the shares of investment trust companies. In many of these com- panies the present market value of...

WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK, LIMITED MR. GERARD POWYS DEWHURST'S SPEECH THE annual meeting of the shareholders of Williams Deacon's Bank, Limited, was held on Thursday, January...

Sedenak Rubber Estates have been fortunate in obtaining increased standard assessments for their rubber just at the time when the exportable quota was low. During the past year,...

By ZENO prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first corr., t solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked...

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