sport, of the Church, of the Press, of schools and universities, of libraries, of every other department of life —in Germany proceeds apace, and nothing like open opposition...

to modify by an iota the opinions that have consistently been expressed on that in these columns—the victory of Herr. Hitler must be accepted as a fact. How long his...

as he has been careful to insist, as free of commitments as when he went. That is as it should be. The object 9f the visit was to make contacts, to create an atmosphere and to...

in the Far" East be ing made in Japan:* Mr. Tetsuzo . Kornai, the Japanes e eminence grise of the " Manchukuo " Privy Council, announced on Tuesday that the new Manchurian...

Free State politicians some uncomfortable truths about their doctrine of economic self-sufficiency—or, rather, has put* his views in the form of one or two awkward questions....

Mr. Norman Davis, at the Disarmament Conference on Wednesday meant a momentary check in the pro- ceedings, but it is of good omen rather than bad. What Mr. Davis said was that...

declared his conviction that the attitude of the Government in regard to the Moscow trial was entirely justified. It is not surprising that the Foreign Secretary should hold...

in the Anglo-Danish trade agreement to exhilarate either party, the fact being that preferences given to the Dominions at Ottawa leave us with very little to offer to Denmark....

present period of financial strain has not prevented Oxford University from securing so much support for the scheme of extending the Bodleian that it will shortly be able to...

at Belgrade is outward evidence of the growing tension between the different' constituent 'parts of what came into being as the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, but is now known by...

the Monmouthshire miners' proposal to share work between the employed and unemployed fares in practice. A third of the men at the Blaenavon collieries have long been unemployed....

on Tuesday took on the character of a party fight between Moderates and Labour, but it left the impression that the Housing Committee is a little too complacent and by no means...

importance is that it was the results of precisely these elections two years ago which brought the Spanish dictatorship and monarchy toppling down and installed the Republic in...

than one the railway companies are at last waking up to some of the long-neglected possibilities of railway travel. Years have passed since it was first suggested that they were...

N OT for many years has a Budget in this country called for so little comment as that introduced by Mr. Chamberlain on Tuesday. The Chancellor dis- appointed some hopes, but few...

O N Monday evening, while a distinguished company of members of the Royal Society of St. George were sitting at dinner in a London hotel, where a guard of honour in Elizabethan...

latter making admissions incriminating both and the former denying them, so far, at least, as he was concerned. On one point new light is definitely thrown. The verbatim report...

in England listening to the news bulletin on Sunday evening to hear' the announcer speak of the cruise of the President and the Prime Minister on what he most deplorably 'called...

now, and his achievements in the United States are in a sense old news. But as a study in values the New York papers that have reached England simultaneously with Mr. Shaw'...

the name: of Mr. Srinavasa Sastri been omitted from. the list of Indians invited to co-operate with the Select Committee of the two Houses on Indian Reform? Fourteen years ago I...

of the Soviet authorities to have got a verbatim report of the first two days of the Moscow trial translated into excellent . English to the extent of close on 300 pages...

ON DEWALL. BY WOLF v AM just back from Germany. I went there a few days after the German Elections . and came back just before Easter. I, therefore, was on German soil in a...

close down the League. f Nations office in London. It is a small affair, but, it has been the served for years by Mr. Vernon Bartlett, and the existence of a centre where...

article by Mr. Geoffrey Mandel-, M.P., on " The Case for the 40-Hour Week" appeared in last week's SPECTATOR.] T HE advocates of the shorter working week assert that with our...

EUSTACE PERCY. By LORD M R. GARVIN'S second volume* is equal to the first in interest, which means that it is greatly superior in craftsmanship. For, frankly, to the present...

I3v W. S. BARCLAY. [" In a survey of the locust outbreak in Africa and Western Asia from 1925 to 1931, which was published yesterday by the Commi on Locust Control of the...

PALMER. M Y first fishing was a sterile boyish adventure, and my - first angling thrill ended up with a broken line, a lost trout, and a sense of acute discouragement and...

Am 20. des Monats hat ganz Deutschland den Geburts- tag Adolf Hitlers, des Fuehrers des NationalsozialismuS and deutschen Reichskanzlers, gefeiert. Auf Wunsch der Regierung ein...

" The Soldier and the Gentlewoman." Adapted from the novel by Hilda Vaughan by Dorothy Massingham and Laurier Lister. At the Vaudeville Theatre. Fr is an axiom of a not...

Post-Cubism IT has long been a subject of lamentation to some and of rejoicing to others that Cubism is dead. During the first years of Surrealiste domination, indeed, it...

The Complaint of Jehudah Abravanel IN spring the sap, by virgin birth reborn, surges from withered roots to winter-numbed limbs ; old wounds now bleed afresh, old pains...

notify THE SPECTATOR Office BEFORE MIDDAY Oft MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. The previous address to which the paper has been sent and receipt reference number should be quoted.

".THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 27TH, 1833. Captain Richbell, well known-for many years as resident Magis- trate of the .Thames Police, died, at the age of seventy-five, on Wednesday...

" have touched Mr. Glover's imagination, as well they might. Of the individual trees that remain most vividly in my mind is a karri in Western Australia. It was being felled...

NORFOLK FARMS. A traveller who has recently completed a farming tour round the world—he had special missions in Canada, North and South America, all provinces of Australia and...

for economic purposes, and quite certainly for aesthetic. Asa home for birds nothing is worse ; and of all the sorts of conifer that have been tried the very worst (not...

Curious coincidences occur between one's reading and one's experiences. Last week I solaced parts of a very slow railway journey by reading Mr. Glover's article in The Spectator...

birds. It is dark and fearsome. Even a small wood of pine, such as that where the wolves live at Whipsnade, is repellent to most birds. You may find there owls and carrion...

One bird banished from some well-known haunts by the felling of timber, especially in Northumberland, is the heron, but the species is increasing in England, nevertheless. I saw...

a great farming district. You can rent, or buy, what land you like for a song. A certain amount of fair land—it would be called good in parts of Australia—is derelict and quite...

sake of emphasizing the woes of the landlord ; but to indicate the chances of the farmer. I went over one large farm, in excellent heart, with promising crops of grain all...

The supreme and peculiar beauty of England dates from the destruction of the woods and the destruction of the plains that succeeded. The phrase that God made the country and man...

[Correspondents are requested to keep their Idlers as brief as is reasonably possible.- The most snitable length is that of one of our .News of the Week paragraphs.- 7 -Ed. THE...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, —It is extraordinary how many critics of the scheme for monetary reform which I support imagine, like Mr. Biddalph, that we are solely...

distrusts all expansionists." The proposals of the Macmillan Committee, presumably, or of Mr. R. G. Hawtrey, equally with those of Major Douglas and the currency cranks; are...

Ernest Lesser, if I understand him rightly, thinks that my appeal to Englishmen to adopt " an impartial attitude " -towards Germany at the present. time is useless as far as "...

Sin,—One can only.feel sorry that Mr. R. G. Wahnsley, who writes a letter to you about conditions in Germany, should not find a better use for his reasoning powers than that of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] ,Sin, = Your , . leading article on this subject fairly presents the whole issue, but omits reference to one , cardinal fact which may have...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.} SIR,—But this is grotesque ! Had I ever conceived it possible that - anyone could ever have taken my " proposal " literally and not...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Surely Mr. Mender is fundamentally in error in the argument upon which he bases his case for the 40-hour week ? He says that, because of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The enterprise of British holiday resorts in their efforts to attract visitors during the season now begun is a graphic commentary upon...

commendable efforts to express a strictly impartial opinion of the Moscow sentences you surely overshot the mark by omitting one point of vital consequence—riz., the absolute...

interesting , article in your last issue gives food for thought to the man in the street about his interests in this matter, and especially as to whether he pays the cost finan-...

SIR,—It may interest your readers to know that the " group " Homecrofting adumbrated in some of my recent letters to The Spectator has been begun in earnest at Cheltenham, in...

SIR,—At this season the Committee of this Corporation, which has for three-quarters of a century been steadily engaged in relieving poor clergy, their widows and orphan...

There were snow-showers in many districts of this county on Easter Monday. —LOCAL PArEa. CHILLIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with snow along its bough, And stands about...

A SUSSEX labourer, oppressed and depressed by the -burden of knowledge around him, dolefully observed : " Wot wi' faith, an' gas, an' balloons, an' airyplanes, an' the world...

(Chapman and Hall. 128. 6d.) - - • THERE are .still many people who refuse to believe that there is such a thing as : n philosophy of Bolshevism. The very col- location of the...

Adventures of Ideas. By Alfred North Whitehead. (Caen. bridge University Press. 12s. 6d.) PROFESSOR WHITEHEAD has chosen a good title for his book : not only that, but he has...

Opium. The Diary of an Addict. By Jean Cocteau. (Allen and Unwin. Ss.) This book is not what one might expect from the title. Little description here of dreams, of tremendous...

A FitzGerald Medley. Edited by Charles Ganz. (Methuen. 15s.) NoTnrwc but a sense of positive personal affection could explain the persistency with which every available scrap...

Aspects of Seventeenth-Century Verse. Selected and Prefaced by Peter Quennell. (Cape. 6s.) FIRST the anthologies, and then the anthologies of anthologies. Mr. Quennell freely...

The Table of Truth. By Hugh Kingsmill. (Jarrolds. 38. 6d.) Tim art of the parodist is the malicious one of bringing 'the time and the place and the wrong loved one all together....

The Place-Names of Northamptonshire. By J._ E. Cover, A. Newer and F. M. Stanton. English Place-Name Society Vol. X. (Cambridge University Press. 18s.) Ton volumes of the...

One - Arm Sutton. By F. A. Sutton. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) "1 LOVED adventure for its own sake," admits "General" Sutton, having transported us rapidly from Eton to Paraguay and...

Public School Religion. Edited by Arnold Lunn. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) IN this book, which consists of nine essays, Mr. Lunn leads off with one so full of dogmatic and...

SnEER, idle curiosity—the kind that watches the neighbours' comings and goings, not the thirst for useful knowledge_ provesits own worth by providing Mr. Harmsworth with a...

The Last Struggle with the Mafia. By Prefect Mori. (Put- nam. 10s. 6c1.) SENATOR CESARE MORI, the exterminator of the famous secret society known as the Mafia, is a philosopher...

The Street of the Sandalmakers. By Nis Petersen. (Lovat -Dickson. 7s. 6d.) The Second Son, By Dominique Dunois. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6c1.) NOVELS that have not been stretched out or...

The nation that has the courage to reorganize its Amy on the lines laid down by Captain Liddell Hart,. in The Pone of Infantry (Faber, 24. 6d.), need fear no.invader and at the...

By Professor Tout The late Professor Tout's pioneer. work, modestly entitled Chapters on the Administrative History of Mediaeval England, revealed-I - or the first time' the...

By E. W. Gilbert- • . Modern American historians emphasize the influence of the frontier life on the American temperament. For generations ' adventurous ' Americans could gel...

The Quarterly opens with some amusing reminiscences of "School and College Sixty Years Since," by Lord End!. At Balliol 'he fell foul of Dr. Jowett- because of a "rag in which...

Mr. Robert Byron will almost Certainly acliie,;:e the primary objeet of his Afipre_litition of Architecture (Wisliart, 13.), namely, to rouse his readers to an interest in...

• 4 - - - - , _ - _ By Irene Cooper Willis :., _ In The Brontës (Duckworth, 2s.) /disk : Willis has writte n a ivery matter-of-fact little book. Her unemotional handlingoi the...

• 4, - A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S SHIPPING , INDUSTRY i • - Ernest Payle - Mr. C. Ernest Fayle, who is known for his elaborate accolint 1 'of our-shipping difficulties-in...

The Budget IT will be easier in the course of the next few days to record the City's carefully considered judgement of Mr. Chamberlain's second Budget, but writing on the...

cannot help thinking, however, that another motive may have prompted the President's action. On the face of it for a country to go off gold with a holding of very little short...

In the case of the United States, however, be the reasons what they may, it was obviously a question of . 11y. At th . 9 first-blush, there was a tendency-in the-City-to regard...

other nations in the course which he pursued, the fact remains that the action taken may con• ceivably give to the United States a strategical advantage in any currency...

THE UNITED STATES FORSAKE GOLD: THE stock markets during the past week have been more or less unsettled by the wholly unexpected action by President Roosevelt in abandoning the...

The report of the Union Bank of Scotland made up almost to date, that is to say to April 1st, shows a very satisfactory position. It must be remeinbered that the year under...

At the Annual Gerie,ral Court of the London Assurance, which will be held on May 10th, the Governor will have a good statement to put before the stockholders. The new assurances...

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its quinquennium, has issued its annual and quinquennial reports. These show a total profit for the quinquennium of £1,294,134 as compared with £1,014,138 for the previous...

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