27 MARCH 1936

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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M R. EDEN, as we write, has still to deliver his state- ment in the House of Commons on the negotiations between the Locarno Powers. The document addressed by them to Germany...

The Abyssinian War The prominence necessarily assumed by the relation

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between Germany and the Locarno Powers cannot be allowed to overshadow all other international questions. A war between Italy and Abyssinia is still in progress, and no desire,...

The Remains of a Treaty The Three-Power Naval Treaty—to run

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for six years— was signed on Wednesday by Great Britain, the United States and France. It would be affectation to greet it with enthusiasm. There is little in it, and what there...

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Expedient Mercy The thirty Austrian Socialists facing charges of high

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treason in Vienna seem to have been treated with un- expected clemency. Fourteen were acquitted : the others received sentences varying from six to twenty months, and as the...

Mui -Tsai For over fifty years our Government has studied

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and aimed at abolishing the system of child labour, known as Mui-Tsai, and practised in Hong-Kong and the Federated Malay States, under which girl children of poor parents are...

The Totalitarian State Signor Mussolini's speech on Monday to the

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National Assembly of Corporations was worthy in manner and matter of the Totalitarian State. With resonant refer- ences to " banners flying to victory," and " the enemy armies...

Fascists and Jews Four questions arise in connexion with Sir

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Oswald, Mosley's Fascist meeting at the Albert Hall on Sunday. Are the Albert Hall authorities justified in (a) letting the hall for a Fascist meeting and (b) refusing (as they...

Equal Pay for Equal Work There will be general approval

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of the principle under- lying the resolution carried, by 150 votes to 56, in the House of Commons on Wednesday for the equalisation of the salaries of Cabinet Ministers, apart...

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Aberhart, Douglas and Federal Credit

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Mr. Aberhart, the Social Credit Premier of Alberta, will soon have no credit left with either orthodox or unorthodox financiers. He has quarrelled with the Federal Government...

The House of Commons was at its best in the

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debate on the Legislative Council which it is proposed to establish in Palestine which would be highly detrimental to the position of the Jews. The speeches revealed the depth...

Sir John Simon handled with great dexterity on Wed- nesday

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afternoon the questions that came from all parts of the House on the behaviour of the Police in connexion with the Fascist demonstration at the Albert Hall. Ile argued very...

Side-Tracking Singapore The report that Japan is likely to negotiate

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a treaty with Siam for the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Kra recurs from time to time and is current again now. Kra is on the neck of the long isthmus at the foot of...

The Week in Parliament Out Parliamentary Correspondent writes :—The House

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of Commons is completely bewildered at the Foreign Policy of the Government. Members did not particularly like some of the proposals of the Locarno Powers, but they cannot...

Mothers and Midwives The Midwives Bill introduced by Sir Kingsley

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Wood requires local supervising authorities to maintain a staff of salaried midwives adequate for each area, and instruc- tion courses in midwifery ; it provides for...

M echanism and Man The plea made by Mr. J. E.

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Rattenbury, in his Presi- dential address to the Free Church Council at Bristol, for e proclamation the message of the Reformation " in this over-mechanised age was opportune...

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GERMANY AND FRANCE

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T HE international situation remains indeterminate and almost inextricably complicated. The German policy of Realpolitik has achieved its ends. The demilitarisation of the...

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A PALACE OF HEALTH IN a few days' time the

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Pioneer Health Centre at St. Mary's Road, Peckham, will have completed the first year of its work. An experiment will have been successfully begun which can be used with as much...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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E VEX . allowing for everything the ' Queen Mary ' is and stands for, the public interest and enthusiasm over her passage from the dock to the ocean, after a couple of...

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MOSCOW AFTER TWENTY YEARS : I. CONSTRUCTION

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By SIR BERNARD PARES [Sir Bernard Pares, Professor of Russian in the University of London and Director of the School of Slavonic Studies, Who knew Russia intimately before the...

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THE ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION : XI. THE FRUSTRATION OF A

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WORLD PAX By H. G. WELLS I N comparison with his invasions of, or rather his raids into, historical speculation, Steele's treatment of the problem of World Peace seems...

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SHIPS AND SCHOOLS

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By DAVID CARR D URING the last two years there has been quietly conducted in London a new educational experiment which has sought to supplement the normal method of teaching...

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IS KENYA A NN BITE MAN'S COUNTRY ?

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By Dr. L. S. B. LEAKEY A T a time when Germany and Italy are both demand- ing colonial possessions in those parts of Africa �v Mich are considered to be suitable for...

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YOUTH AND WAR

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By Dr. CHARLES E. RAVEN T HERE is one factor in the present situation which, as it seems to me, should enter into the calculations of our politicians and upon which a recluse...

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FAREWELL TO FRAU BORNSTEIN

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By GEORGE SOLOVEYTCHIK T HE other day I saw in a paper that:the profession of private marriage-broker is henceforward to be prohibited in Germany and that the State will hence-...

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Defeat

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IT was not thus we fought, nor in this city, With the ear-lines and the houses twisted, And the entrails of the factory smouldering : It was not here. These bodies are not...

MARGINAL COMMENTS

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By ROSE MACAULAY attendant beam of spot-light (mauve). Between massed ranks of his frenzied approvers, the Leader proceeded up the hall to the platform, wearing an air of...

Victory

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Two Poems DESOLATE are the fields of standing corn, Lonely the twilit hills, and broken The oaken lintel ; Hushed are the harrying angels. Silent, their vanguard halts :...

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STAGE AND SCREEN The Theatre

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"Bitter Harvest." By Catherine Turney. At the Arts Theatre THE Censor is nearly always unfortunate in his choice of occasions in which to justify his office, but he has never...

The Cinema

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SOBER, worthy, humourless, Rhodes of Africa unrolls its eleven well-bied reels with all the technical advantages of 1986. It is a good film, judged by the ordinary standard,...

"St. Helena." By R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis.

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At Daly's Theatre HAS , anyonce since Shakespeare drawn a wholly satisfactory portrait of a Great Man on the stage ? I doubt it. There is a smell of the fair-ground, of the...

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Art

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Bargains THE modest collector of paintings will find a series of dangerous temptations confronting him if he visits Messrs. Agnew's exhibition of water-colour and pencil...

Eventualites

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correspondant parisien] LES evenements significatifs dont I'Europe est le theatre, depuis le coup de force allemand du 7 mars, ne peuvent que donner ample sujet de reflexions au...

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COUNTRY LIFE

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Spring v. Sport Spring opens, officially, on March 21st. It is of course a date arrived at astronomically ; but our earth is tied to the stars and - sun ; and in England spring...

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THE ILLUSION OF DEFENCE .

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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...

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Siu,—Perhaps the excellent comments of Dr. Jacks on treaties could

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be carried still further. Ever since the War, it seems to me, there has been a conflict (e.g., Keynes on the Versailles reparations clauses) between those who seek to impose...

THE JUSTIFICATION OF WAR

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[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At a time of international tension like the present, when so disquietingly high a percentage even of older people appears to have...

THE ADMIRALTY AND PARLIAMENT . [To the Editor of THE SP E CTATOR.]

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SIR,—It does not appear that we shall have an early oppor- tunity of discussing Sir Thomas Inskip's new appointment and the functions of his office. I shall be grateful,...

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THE TITHE QUESTION

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Surely it is a, misuse of language to speak of the Government proposals, as the Dean of Chichester , does in your issue of March 13th,...

THE FUTURE OF THE B.B.C.

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[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The report of the Ullswater Committee is, no doubt, satisfactory from the points of view of the Governors of the B.B.C. and of London. But...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—If the establishment of

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a Welsh Station will relieve English listeners of a grave injustice, it would be welcome. But the figures of Welsh- and English-speaking people in Wales do not even warrant the...

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THE WEST INDIES [To the Editor of TEE SPECTATOR.]

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you allow me to offer some captious observations on •Professor Coupland's review of Mr. W. M. Macmillan's recent book, Warning from the West Indies; in The Spectator of the 20th...

INSURING AGAINST DEATH DUTIES [To the Editor of THE •

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SeEci.4..ron.] Sin—in your last issue you write " At present if the owner of an estate worth £100,000 took out a policy for £100,000 to cover it, the only effect would be that...

BISHOP GORE'S HOMES [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr.

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Glorney Bolton writes of Bishop Gone " The bachelor and Socialist Bishop went to live in Hartlelairy Castle." Bishop Gore never lived in Hartlebury Castle. He lived in a modest...

MR. BELLOC AND THE HOLY LAND [To the Editor of

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Tint SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Mr. Belloc takes me to task for expressing astonishment, in my review of his book, The Battleground, at his assertion (on pages 55 and 56) that " we of...

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Ali the Magnificent BOOKS OF THE DAY

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By E. H. CARR IN the days when people of any literary pretensions knew at least their first two cantos of Childe Harold by heart, All the despot of Epirus was a household name :...

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Material Humanism in Action

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Soviet Science. By J. G. Crowther. (Kogan Paul. 12s. Gd.) By an odd chance, the most famous scientist both in Germany and Russia found himself in bitter opposition to his...

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The Limitations of Marking

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Nom only schools and universities, but also professional bodies and business men, tend more and more to shirk the responsi- bility of personal judgement and to substitute a...

Italy in the Making : June, 1846-January, 1848. By G.

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F. H. The Tragedy of Pio Nono and J. Berkeley. (Cambridge University Press. 21s.) A FEW years ago Mr. Berkeley, who has devoted a lifetime to the subject, published a learned...

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Red Spectacles

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China's Millions. By Anna Louise Strong. (Gollancz. 15k'.) Miss STRONG, a voluble and adventurous camp-follower of the Soviet regime, has written what should have been an...

St. William

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William Randolph Hearst. By Mrs. Fremont, Older. With• a foreword by Fremont Older. (Appleton. 15s.) MR. HEARST is now over seventy ; he plays tennis ; he plays the lord of the...

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Candide in India

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Letters from India, 1829-1832. By Victor Jaquemont. Selected and Translated, with an Introduction, by Catherine Alison Phillips. (Macmillan. 21s.) THE author of these letters...

The Eloquence of the Islander

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The Last Landfall. By Denis Malone. (Geoffrey Bles. 108. 6d.) The Silver Fleece. By Robert Collis. (Nelson. 158.) EACH of these books is an autobiography of unusual interest....

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Ballyhoo Explorer

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Antarctic Discovery. By Rear _AdmiralRichard E. Byrd. (Putnam. 18s.) As the official account by its leader of the most. compre- hensive expedition that has ever explored that...

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Fiction

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By WILLIAM PLOMER The Head of the Firm. By Hjalmar Bergman. Translated 4y Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. Inticduction by Dr. R. G. Berg. (Allen and Unwin. 7s.6d.) An...

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GEOGRAPHIC DISARMAMENT

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By Major-General J. H. Marshall-Cornwall . . The title of this very opportune addition to the valuable series of monographs issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of...

LAKE TANA AND THE BLUZ NILE Major R. E. C heesma n

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Major Cheesman's 'reputation as a traVelleennd writer on travel has already_ been established by hit book In -Unknown Arabia. In Lake. Tana and the Blue Nile (Macmillan, 188.)...

Current Litefature

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To compress a figure of Wordsworth's magnitude into as small a scope as this must have been very difficult-indeed, and Mr. Burra is to be congratulated on the adroitness with...

CAN WE STAY OUT OF WAR?

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By Philips Bradley This hook (New York W. W._ Norton, $2.75) is another instance of the deep interest the American people is taking in the chances of neutrality in a future War....

HENRY OF NAVARRE

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By Marcelle Vioux • Those 'who, like Lytton Strachey, have helped to make historical biography readable have performed an important service to modern students, but they must...

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Motoring For Moderate Incomes THE two cars I have for

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review this week, the 10-h.p. Lanchester and the 27-h.p. Chevrolet, are, from quite different angles, particularly interesting to that immortal, the man of moderate means. Both...

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Hopefulness in the City

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Finance THERE must have been few occasions when greater con- cern existed, not merely in the City, but throughout the country, with regard to developments in international...

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Financial Notes

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MARKETS MARKING TIME. THE Stock Markets during the past week have still been dominated by political influences, though there has been a strong undercurrent of optimism. At the...

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"The Spectator" Crossword No. 183

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By ZENO [A prize of one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be marked " Crossword...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD NO. 182 SOLUTION NEXT WEEK

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The Winner of Crossword No. 182 is The Rev. Canon Claye, D.D., St. Thomas' Rectory, 25 Heath Road, Stockport.