on Castellon and Valencia has been held up by bad weather and by the stubborn resistance he has to face. At the same time he has had to weaken his forces in that sector in order...

T HERE being no agreed interpretation of the events of the past week as they affect Czechoslovakia, the rival versions must be recorded. According to Germany there was never any...

pressed by the British Government—is that the bases of an agreement between the Czechoslovak Government and the Sudeten Germans should be laid with the minimum of delay....

almost inevitable after recent events in Mexico, as all the necessary conditions for a rebellion were present. For 20 years General Ceclillo has been virtually a dictator in his...

for volunteers for Air Raid Precaution training comes the announcement of the appointment of a committee, with Sir John Anderson as chairman, to consider the question of...

riots last year in Trinidad, have once again directed attention to labour conditions in the West Indies. Outbreaks of violence have to be suppressed, even at the cost of...

The first, the fall of Suchow, has given Japan control of the whole length of the Tientsin-Pukow railway ; but the victory is incomplete, as the encirclement of the "70 Chinese...

Wednesday (further discussed by our Parliamentary correspondent on the next page) left no one content. The Opposition, whose case was put effectively and with moderation by Mr....

Ministers, and everyone was pleased to see him restored to health when he moved the Board of Trade vote. His survey of industrial activity, however, could scarcely be very...

the conversion of John Wesley are a tribute to a man who by his intellectual and spiritual powers would have been great in any age ; but it happened that he was born in a time...

with a wider experience of the working of the law of libel than Mr. Valentine Holmes, and when Mr. Holmes states, as he does in a com- munication to the Empire Press Union, that...

as ever. His emphatic assurance as to the fighting quality of the R.A.F. was universally welcomed. He had, however, an exceedingly difficult task and, as far as could be judged,...

local authorities and the teaching profession, which met on Wednesday to discuss the effect of the adoption of the "holidays with pay" system on schools reached one emin- ently...

is not too much to say that Dr. Dalton's speech on Wednesday, when he moved the Labour motion calling for an enquiry into the state of our air defences, was the most formidable...

T HE German Press has been insisting with great volubility and vigour that there was in fact no crisis at the end of last week, since Germany never dreamed of military action...

are some institutions which seem to point to a better and saner future, which make use of knowledge not to destroy but to create, and analyse present evils only to show that...

A WELL-KNOWN Czechoslovak citizen who has spent the last ten years in England says that in that time quite a number of people have discovered that Czechoslovakia is not the name...

in commenting on the result of the Aylesbury by-election. On the whole its gratification is justified, for the idea of a Liberal-Labour electoral alliance has undoubtedly been...

to a large extent from such standing distresses as the relentless and unceasing persecution of the Jews in Germany. On that the last report of the Anglo- Jewish Association...

price of Mein Kampf was now 12 marks. I was evidently wrong, for someone tells me he has just bought a copy at 7 m. 50. jANUS.

in Germany, makes the interesting announcement that the Fiihrer has given io,000 marks to the Methodist Church in the small German city of Schneidemiihl. In recording the fact...

At any rate it is not for me to say otherwise. And they must be treated as such. Respect for a- County Court Judge is evidenced by funereal tints. To appear before a County...

historic part in diplomacy at Berlin. Nothing, I am told, made a greater impression in German official circles last week, as evidence of the British view of the crisis that had...

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT N O reference was made in the official communiqué issued on April 3oth at the end of the London talks between British and French Ministers to the...

By B. L. JACOT A GREAT deal of attention has been attracted towards sensational accounts of convict life in the convict prisons of this country, and though a great deal of the...

By E. L. HASLUCK [This is the third of a series of articles on conditions in the principal careers open to boys and girls from public and secondary schools. Next week's article...

By A. M. CHIRGWIN W HEN the present Prime Minister of Madras, Mr. Rajagopalachari, was in England in 1934, he told the International Congress on Alcoholism that " India is a...

By D. W. BROGAN New York. TT was a luncheon-party at which dangerous thoughts might have been too much for the well-bred decorum of the guests, so when the President of the...

By CHRISTOPHER BRA:CKENBITRY T HEY had a lovely flat. It was on the main street. The street where the old women sold carnations. Outside was a big wrought iron doorway and...

So far as space permits questions from readers on current events, particularly those arising out of articles in THE SPECTATOR, will be answered on this page week by week....

THE USE OF LEISURE By D. D. LINDSAY [The writer, aged 27, is a Master at a Public School] W E hear so much today about the use of leisure. We assume that the not too far...

M. DALADIER'S SEVEN WEEKS FROM A PARIS CORRESPONDENT AFTER nearly seven weeks of office the Daladier Government have two great achievements to their credit. First of all they...

OPERA Macbeth at Glyndetourne IF you go to Glyndebourne to see Verdi's Macbeth — as you certainly should do, if the act of reading this column implies an interest in opera—you...

Break the News gives the impression that everyone concerned was trying to prevent Rene Clair from making a Rene Clair film ; indeed, one is inclined to wonder at times whether...

Augustus John EVERYONE is agreed on the fact that Augustus John was born with a quite exceptional talent for painting—some even use the word genius—and almost everyone is...

[Von einem deutsChen Korrespondenten] Hocx in den Himmel ragt der runde Turm der Jugendburg Ludwigstein an der Werra, schon von weitem em n Signal und em n Ziel fur den miiden...

a really great success has been won by a cheap and simple instrument— the Holt Bracken Breaker—of which I gave some account in this place two years ago. Bracken, a lovely fern...

So great a host of letters has been received lamenting the death of Sir Guy Dawber that a special memorial fund has been started. He was one of the authors and begetters and one...

but it will have to be a very good one indeed to atone for the losses on fruit. I walked about one beautiful plum orchard near Evesham and failed to discover one single set...

The asparagus is, of course, a native wild plant, not altogether uncommon, but research, which has been very active and successful at the County Trial Grounds, has vastly...

unpleasant. When we had a hard May frost four Years ago the Iris buds were reduced to the consistency of paper. This year a succession of May frosts, that have shrivelled every...

the harm done on English farms by the spring drought; and the lamentations are justified; but it remains that some of the crops look as well as any one could wish. Within the...

Vegetable Perfection I spent one day last week in the most fertile district of England, the rich plain or valley that includes Evesham and Pershore. Success and disaster rubbed...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. The most suitable length 4 that of one of our "News of the Week " paragraphs. Signed...

SIR,—Reference to Mr. John Low's letter last week about Mr. Powys Greenwood's article in your issue of May t3th. If Hitler does not intend to rule other races, he certainly...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Among " influenced " books are some of the works of William Blake, Thackeray, Robert Louis Stevenson, Goethe, Kipling, George Eliot and E....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—My attention has been called to the article "Concerning Casuals : Life on the Roads," published in your issue of April 29th last, which...

small error in Dame Edith Lyttefton's interesting article entitled "Influenced Books" (Spectator, May 13th)? The mistake may have occurred through my not having made myself...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—Mr. Christopher Hobhouse, reviewing my book on marriage in your issue of May 13th, talks about "rushing into print" upon "imperfect...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —We all know that in these democratic, money-grubbing days poets are nearly as common as house-flies and just about as important, but when...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] much regret that illness has prevented me from replying sooner to the almost wholly inaccurate note on the educational policy of Dr. Salazar...

Snt,—In your "The Week in Parliament" of May t3th, you remark that "Everyone, except possibly the Justices concerned, agrees in condemning this state of affairs," i.e., the...

- [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] Snt,—From the many interesting questions raised by " Septuagenarian " in your issue of May 2oth, I choose one, in which I should specially...

Science for the Citizen (C. P. Snow) . . The Last Years of Peace (E. L. Woodward) World Finance, 1937-8 (Honor Croome) The Town of Tomorrow (Geoffrey Boumphrey) Lilian Baylis...

ALTHOUGH a volume containing a general index, chronological tables, and a few documents remains to be published, the appearance of the second part of the tenth volume of British...

World Finance, 1937-8. By Paul Einzig. (KeganPauL I2s. 6d.) DR. EINZIG'S summary of the financial events, alarums and excursions of the last year or so possesses all the...

Tim appearance of this book is opportune. We have become conscious at last that the spread and sprawl of our great towns has reached unbearable limits. A Royal Commission is to...

Vic-Wells. The Work of Lilian Baylis. Edited by Harcourt Williams. (Cobden-Sanderson. ins. 6d.) IF character may be judged from achievement, Lilian Baylis must be accounted one...

Shakespeare Discovered. By Clara Longworth de Chambrun. (Scribner. I2S. 6d.) Shakespeare Discovered. By Clara Longworth de Chambrun. (Scribner. I2S. 6d.) WoRTHY as is this book...

Song of Motley : The Reminiscences of a Hungry Tenor. By Leo Slezak. (William Hodge. los. 6d.) Wings of Song : an Autobiography. By Lotte Lehmann. (Kegan Paul. ios. 6d.)...

The Carnival. By Frederic Prokosch. (Chatto and Windus. 5s.) No one could call Mr. Prokosch a traditionalist in the bad sense : he is not one of those versifiers who twist the...

Tariff Levels and the Economic Unity of Europe. By H. Liepmann. (Allen and Unwin. 2 Is.) THIS massive work of economic scholarship is designed to give an accurate quantitative...

In a Valley of this Restless Mind. By Malcolm Muggeridge. (Routledge. 75. 6d.) FrFrv years ago, to have said of a book—on a serious subject, by an experienced writer, under the...

7s. 6d.) The Pub on the Pool. By A. D. Divine. (Coffins. 7s. 6d.) THE first novel on my list, though it cannot strictly be said to fall under the detective canon, deserves...

By FORREST REID THE price of fiction seems to be going up. The change is being effected very. quietly, -but i should think today almost as many novels are published at 8s. 6d....

Mr. Ireland, sailor, traveller author of books on colonial administration, had many adventures before he became a member of Joseph Pulitzer's strange household, a year before...

Miss Mayo has devoted all the resources of her talents to exhuming a minor episode in the history of the American Revolution which involved Washington in an awkward, not to say...

• GEOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES By G, H. T. Kimble Our age, which has witnessed a set- back in politics and morals, cannot ridicule the middle ages for being, - as far as...

Things are pretty bad ; just how bad are they ? That is the question• examined by most of the authors of this book (Allen and Unwin 5s.), which is based on the Fabian Lectures...

Defoe wrote : "Whoever has travelled Great Britain before us, and whatever they have written, though they may have had a harvest . . . yet others may come and glean after them...

There are many silly tasks a historian can undertake, and one of the silliest is to write a book of 518 pages (Duckworth, 21s.), proving that the Kaiser Wilhelm H was not the...

CALL it fortitude, stubbornness or stupidity but the British investor is taking these Continental week-end scares amaz- ingly well. On Monday the market adopted its usual...

At last my A.W. Consolidated Trust egg is hatching out. It is just a little behind schedule but the egg is full sized and has a scarcity value in these disappointing days. As I...

companies whose capital has been drastically reconstructed, we may pause this week to glance at the position of G. D. Peters, the Slough engineers. During the depression this...

Lord Pender's survey at the meeting of Cable and Wireless (Holding) tells us a little more about the "New Deal" between the combine and the Government, but does not alter my...

93rd ANNUAL REPORT SATISFACTORY RESU LTS STRONG RESERVE POSITION AT the ninety-third annual general meeting of the Royal Insurance Company Limited, in Liverpool on May 23rd,...

HAMBROS BANK LIMITED SATISFACTORY RESULTS FAVOURABLE POSITION IN SCANDINAVIA THE twenty-sixth annual ordinary general meeting of Hambros Bank Limited was held on May 19th, at...

BONUS ISSUE APPROVED SIR EDMUND DAVIS' ADDRESS AN extraordinary general meeting of Wankie Colliery Co., Ltd., was held on Monday, May 23rd, in London, when resolutions were...

COIVIMODITY PRICE LEVEL FALLS ONCE again the general level of commodity prices has broken badly, and one cannot wholly blame the fears of war for this. Certainly any...

NEW ERA IN RELATIONSHIPS WITH GOVERNMENTS THE ninth ordinary general meeting of Cable and Wireless (Holding) Limited was held on May 24th at Southern House London, E.C. The Rt....

Mr. D. G. M. Bernard's address to the shareholders of the British and Chinese Corporation could not have, been other than depressing. The Corporation is the contractor for- the...

HAMBROS BANK PROGRESS Among the few Continental countries which are still profitable fields for British banking is to be counted the Scandinavian group, Norway, Sweden, Denmark...

THE MID-EUROPEAN CORPORATION Tim fourteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the Mid-European Corporation Limited was held on May 23rd at Winchester House, Old Broad Street,...

ANOTHER SATISFACTORY YEAR THE annual ordinary general meeting of the London County Freehold and Leasehold Properties, Limited, was held on May 25th at 114-116 Park Street,...

BRITISH SHAREHOLDERS TRUST SATISFACTORY RESULTS THE sixteenth ordinary general meeting of the British Shareholders Trust, Ltd., was held on May ath at the registered office of...

Wankie Colliery shareholders approved this week of resolu- tions which have the effect of giving them a capital bonus of 661 per cent. The company, whose colliery interests are...

BY ZENO [A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first corre:t solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be opened. Envelopes should be...

which is a very large owner of flat properties in the London area, has done well to increase its revenue from £392,470 to £39 6 , 10 1 and to maintain a total distribution of ii...

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