T HE diplomatic aspect of the Spanish situation still' completely overshadows the military. _ AS to the :actual operations, they have left things almost precisely Where they...

in defence of his decree increasing conscript service in Germany from one year to two years that France has already taken a similar step and that- Russia, with a peace-basis...

—and its Repercussions This sudden military expansion, achieved by no other formality than the signatures of Herr Hitler and General von Blomberg, is deplorable in its...

and Egypt was signed. on Wednesday it has not yet been published. But its general tenor is known, and both countries may be satisfied that it. gives them not merely peace but...

public service by his speeches in the Sudetendeutsch region of Czecho- slovakia. Much more important than his wise recognition that the Sudetendeutsch had real grievances was...

the defender of European civilisation against barbarism ; but the appeal which was read in the confessional churches of Germany on Sunday is a remarkable comment on his fitness...

officers to the Indian States to discuss with the Princes on his behalf the practical problems involved in their acceptance of the new federal scheme Lord Linlithgow has brought...

Mr. Alfred M. Landon, are meeting this week in Iowa. Such encounters between presidential candidates in the cam- paign are almost unheard of, but this year the great drought...

Scipio,' in the Mediterranean, in which two lives were lost and the lives of all the passengers and crew were imperilled, inevitably recalls the recently issued report on the...

who finds means of improv- ing Germany's economic position even in the unlikeliest places, began a visit to Paris on Wednesday. Officially, he is merely returning the call paid...

South Wales handed in notices to cease work in fourteen days' time. Their decision was due to the threat of the Bedwas Colliery Company to dismiss 1,000 of its employees who...

that a new acro-engine factory is to be built at Coventry has aroused many doubts whether the Government is being wise or fair in the allotment of rearmament contracts: The new...

on fatal road accidents this year analyses the causes of the 6,477 deaths which occurred in .1935. As our motoring correspondent points out on another page, the surprising and...

T HAT the Spanish Civil War has raised far graver issues outside Spain than inside it is a common- place. Fortunately 'the immediate dangers have been exorcized by the agreement...

T HE trial of the Sixteen in Moscow, ending in their execution within a few hours of the death sentence, has been followed in this country with amazement. The liberal friends of...

O N the face of it there is something to be said for the demand of Sir Stafford Cripps and others that Parlia- ment should be summoned to discuss the Spanish situation. But...

By E. N. B. BENTLEY I WONDER how many people realise that in 1919 (eight years before Col. Lindbergh's flight) several dozen men had already flown across the Atlantic. The first...

By D. W. BROGAN Washington, Augu.si IT was at an interval in an all-in wrestling show that I heard the standard American verdict on the European situation. " When you look at...

By F. S. MARVIN NE problem more than any other about the present O .age -will tax the judgement of the future historian, and it may be interesting to attempt to forecast his...

By G. M. BOUMPHREY D ISSATISFACTION with the congested and generally unhealthy conditions prevailing in most of our towns and cities has led to a scientific examination of the...

By PROFESSOR C. M. YONGE HE oceans are far from being stagnant masses of T These life-bringing currents are not constant : they wax and wane. Like our own life blood, they...

. By H. E. DEGRAS W ITH the Armistice of 1918 my mother acquired a permanent lover. I was only eight at the time, and I thought no harm when one among the many men who visited...

By E. L. WOODWARD A LEARNED anthropologist told me that statistics had been collected about the migration of people from Central Wales. This migration is a comparatively recent...

Commonwealth and Foreign By CULLEN YOUNG THE issue . from Geneva, in a summarised version, of the Report presented to the Government of Nyasaland by the mien Commission set...

The Cinema Mr. Deeds is Capra's finest film (it is on quite a different intellectual level from the spirited and delightful It Happened One Night), and that means it is a...

STAGE AND SCREEN Music TuE outstanding event of this year's Festival at Salzburg has been the production of Die Meistersinger under the musical direction of Toscanini. I have...

On a byestream parting grass and plough Is the small Chaucerian mill ; Lonely then, and lonely now ; Where moss and toadstoolget long lives, And undisturbed the brown vole...

[D'un correspondant parisien] LE Parlement est en vacances. . Le soleil s'efforee de briller. La politique occupe an peu moires de place dans les journaux. On pent esperer...

IN human paths, delightful as they show, With &airy sunny may ablow Or wi al rose scenting, Where the unwary and the joyous go, The day brings forth a fever, hides a foe ....

A CONTINENT upon my back, Heavy with threats of war, Leaden with tyrannies, I crept away from man. I found a bridle-track At dusk ; heard the night41 - ...r Under monotonous...

Burdened Orchards It is both cheering and depressing to see such superabundant crops of fruit as I have seen this week and last in the West of England. The excess of pleasure...

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...

Balfour, writing in 1927 his introduction, to Bagehot's English Constitution, discusses the dangers to foreign countries of adopting as a form of grovernment a. parliamentary...

allowed to reply to your leading article, "The Spanish Shambles " of August 21st ? 'YOu say that - the Azafia.Government has never ceased to be the constitutional • government...

Senor Raman Muniz . Lavalle, in The Spectator of August 21st, makes a reference to the Spanish peasant continually struggling against abject poverty and begetting eight or ten...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Although, in your issue of August 7th, Mr. S. Tetley asks : " What is the meaning of the term Collective Security' " is not the question...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] hope that the valuable suggestion for a National Survey. of our land characteristics and possibilities as made in the recent article by Mr....

have not seen any refbrence in your columns to one aspect of the International Conference of Social workers lately held in London, an aspect which is particularly inter- esting...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,,, —May . I suggest that the influence of The Spectator might well be employed in removing an anomaly which is both illogical and unwise ?...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Two very important admissions have now been made by Mr. Oliver G. Pike in Country Life for July 4th, 1938. He states in referring to Mr....

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his review of Mr. Bonavia's book contained in your last issue, Mr. J. E. Meade finds fault - with Mr. Bonavia's analysis, but himself...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter on " India preparing for Swaraj," pub- lished in your issue of June 12th, Mr. J. D. Jenkins- writes that, while the Congress...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Si a,—Now that the Government have appointed the Royal Commission on Palestine, English residents are unanimous in hoping that it will soon go...

of Englishmen who are sufficiently conversant with the deplorable situation in Palestine to appreciate the full enormity of injustice responsible for it, your publication of...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Your recent review 'of Novikoff-Priboy's Tsushima recalls to me a book translated some time before 1911 and published under its Russian...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—A kind lady has been forwarding her copies of The Spectator for some years past to me in Nairobi. Unfortunately I have mislaid her name...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The only chance of preserving the pine marten in Britain, if it is not already too late, is to bring strong pressure to bear on...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—At the request of his widow I am preparing a biography of the late Marmaduke Pickthall. If any of your readers possess any letters from...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Sir Norman Angell says that " the place of force in organised society is to enable reason, discussion, third party judgement, to take the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,--When reading Mr. Bonamy Dobree's delightful review of " The Poems of Ben Jonson," I was reminded of a Latin verse, of the first two...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Could you or any of your readers supply RIC with information with regard to Rev. Philip Harwood (1809-1887), a Unitarian Minister,...

By E. F. BENSON Miss VIRGINIA MOORE has added another specialised volume to the Brontë Saga. Her subject is Emily, and there appear in it three new poems by her. These are...

himself) writes that " anyone called upon casually to count our best writers on his fingers' would probably have left out Osage ; because he was so important." The sentence...

No Place Like Home. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) I FOUND myself thinking of Guy Walsingham, the author of Obsessions. Readers of The Death of the Licm will remember how...

than that of Andre Maurois, and abroad he is, perhaps, the most widely read of living French writers. His name recalls the late twenties when, with his New York, he reached...

To make Christian Morality the subject of a course of Gifford lectures is in itself a bold innovation. The terms of Lord Gifford's bequest, which direct lecturers to deal with...

Between the Wars. By Henry Woodd Nevinson. With an Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) " JOURNALISM may rank as high as other forms of literature, if only it...

THE problem of Hamlet, which Dr. Cairncross assails in this fascinating book, is not the old problem of Hamlet's character and alleged madness. He is concerned with the...

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By F. J. Harvey Daiton • Since the trial of Mary Squires in 1752 for the abduction of Elizabeth Canning, the serving-maid of Aldermanbury, the mystery of the gypsies' alibi has...

By R. T. Lang The :motor-ear has varying uses. • For .one-driver it is a -chicle to get there in; and getting there, wherever there,may be, is the sole objective. For another,...

By Vyvyan Richards The impression one gets from reading this latest book (Cape, 8s. 6d.) on T. E. Lawrence is that Mr. Vyvyan Richards is ' rather concerned to defend his...

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