W HILE fighting in Albania is largely held up by the weather, and Greek successes are confined in the cir- cumstances to hauls of a few hundred prisoners and the destruction of...

The Prime Minister's declaration to the Japanese Ambassador in. London on Monday, that in a cause of the kind for which we are fighting, where no question of territorial...

As events have turned out, the visit of the Foreign Secretary and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff to the Turkish capital could not have been more timely. Mr. Eden, who...

Mr. Churchill, in his talk with the Japanese Ambassador, is said to have observed that Singapore is as far from Japan as Gibraltar is from New York—that is, far enough away in...

The visit of Mr. Menzies, Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, comes at a time when the splendid achieve- .meats of the Australian forces in Africa are still fresh in...

The Prime Minister's plain statement of Britain's position and British policy to the Japanese Ambassador in London on Monday has had a visibly satisfactory effect. It has not...

The war effort that Australia is making is being powerfully seconded by that of India. It is not sufficiently realised that India has been becoming, especially during the last...

A new Cabinet, still without M. Laval, has been formed at Vichy. There are only five principal Ministers, among them M. Bouthillier, who is a friend of Great Britain, as...

ment is not satisfactory. A building without many people and . any parties is not a Parliament. Yesterday many of those who put down " Questions " on the Order Paper failed to...

his opening speech in the House of Lords. Lord Reith outlined the framework of his Ministry. He is to give general guidance and supervision on planning ; a central planning...

personal and more worried by the constitutional position. I now hear that if Lord Halifax had happened to be in the Commons, it is doubtful whether he could have retained his...

with a bundle of carefully considered concessions. The small group of members who have followed the detailed amendments of this complicated measure deserve all praise....

In view of the magnitude of the measure and its highly tech- nical difficulties the War Damage Bill may be held to have had an extraordinarily quick passage through all stages...

The opening of theatres on Sundays is a controversial question, but the Home Secretary's decision to permit the inno- vation has aroused surprisingly little criticism. The...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: It is now clear that the issues raised by Mr. MacDonald's retaining his seat while acting as High Commissioner are more and more...

Sir Archibald Sinclair gave an inspiriting account of the aims, achievements and growing strength of the air forces in an address to the English Speaking Union last Tuesday. He...

W ITH an uncompromising and unaccustomed veracity Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler have in the past week made to complaisant audiences of their countrymen die assertion which...

I am of sure that it is not sometimes carried unduly far. Here is provincial paper's account of the funeral of four members f the crew of a Heinkel which was shot down by a...

T HE article by Major Oliver Stewart on German Air Strength in last Sunday'i Observer was of very consider- able importance. It contained an estimate of the number of Germany's...

Banting will hold in medical history, but it will be a very high place indeed, for a man whose name is inseparably associated with the cure or alleviation of some particular...

under his former name of Mr. Ormsby-Gore, as High mmissioner for the three South African Protectorates, utoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland, is tlie second example Ir. Malcolm...

news service to display its worst characteristics. It is intolerable that a speech which listeners expect to hear in the form of a fair and competent summary should be...

rages unabated, and there is so much to be said on both sides that there is no reason why it should die down for some time. The quite separate questions whether the views and...

By STRATEGICUS I T is still very difficult to discuss the Balkan theatre in any detail because we do not yet know which armies are likely to be engaged ; but there are certain...

By C. S. Olt ‘N I A PRELIMINARY measure essential to any re-equipment of A the land, and to any reorganisation of the farming system is the reform of the system of land-tenure....

By PROFESSOR L. B. NAMIER W HENEVER the German national character is discussed, someone will invariably remark that he has known such decent, kindly_Germans, and will protest...

By CANON ROGER LLOYD T HE governing factor in the reconstruction of politics after the war will be the victory of Labour doctrine. It has not been brought about nor accompanied...

By DEREK HUDSON T O honour the centenary of Lamb's inimitable George Dyer, who died on March 2nd, 1841, may seem to some like commemorating the death of Pickwick or any other...

I " As has often been argued in these columns, the war cannot be won without the encouragement of revolutionary movements in Europe, and they cannot be encouraged unless the...

OPERA " The Beggar's Opera " Again EXCEPT during the nicer years of the late nineteenth century, The Beggar's Opera has never long been absent from our stage. The perennial...

" The Long Voyage Home." At the Gaumont.--" Seven Sinners." At the Odeon. THE cinema and the theatre have little more in common than their rows of seats, and the consequence is...

cruder a form Miss Buller's argument. It would thus be waste of your valuable space if I restated my point of view. Miss Minehead includes, however, two personal attacks against...

Sla,—I feel that your correspondents who write so glibly, in a recent issue of The Spectator, about the evils of compulsory religion in public schools have completely failed to...

Sta,—The New Statesman, Nation, &c., commenting upon (but not printing) a letter I sent to its editor last week, says: "I cannot guess why Mr. Herbert thinks that the readers of...

[In view of the paper shortage it is essential that letters on these pages should be brief. We are anxious not to reduce the number of letters, but unless they are shorter they...

Sta,--There must be many among your readers who took part in the Battle of Piave as I did, but as none have come forward to reply to Captain Dale's letter in The Spectator of...

SIR—Professor Harvey misunderstands and misquotes my letter in which I said that the gulf which divides the supporter of a tyrannical Government—whether German in peace or...

Sta,—In your issue of February 21st you say that I have " not quite convincingly shown that the man who is practised in estimating the response of the masses to a patent...

Sm.—In your issue of January 17th, 1941, Mr. H. E. Bates, in the " Country Life " column asks for enlightenment upon the appearance and subsequent fate of the venison sausage....

SIR,-1 did not accuse Mr. Williams-Ellis of indifference to the claims of Regency and Georgian buildings: nor, having read several of his excellent books on architecture, was I...

luxury food, and the price in the late summer of 1940 rarely fell, in London shops, below six or seven shillings for. small fruit. Yet melons are, in my exPeri' ence, as simply...

for export will recall the days when, during and after the last war, mole-catching was one of the most profitable of country crafts; Pelts fetched high prices ; a man and a boy...

Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday, originally a day of shriving and confession, be aux for many centuries the strangest and most boisterous day i n t h e English calendar. In the...

snow-clouds of indigo. blue come up from the North and thicken beyond the hills in the late afternoon while the sun is still strong in the South-West. Suddenly the stark light...

of February 7th prompts me to enlarge upon the subject of eating small birds from the purely statistical point of view. The breeding land-bird population of Great Britain is,...

Science and Society r is generally agreed that Dr. Julian Huxley (as his grandfather as before him) is one of our greatest scientific writers, in that e can express the...

The Origin of the Jesuits. By James Brodrick, S.J. (Longmans. los. 6d.) THIS book is published for the fourth centenary of the Society of Jesus and is, as Father Brodrick tells...

The Gestapo Defied. Being the last 28 sermons by Martin Niemoller. (William Hodge and Co. 6s.) THAT the author of these sermons should now be n a concentra- tion-camp is the...

Wings of Victory. By Ivor Halstead. (Lindsay Drummond. 65.) THE Royal Air Force is the most phologinique of the fighting services. The Navy is a good second, now that cavalry...

(Nelson. los.) editor of the Economist Mr. Crowther is exceptionally well 'aced for watching recent developments in theory and practice pplied to money, and in this timely...

rn Country, By C. Henry Warren. (Botsford. rag. 6d.) HE subject often - makes the writer : so Mr. Warren's Corn rurY, which discusses a thing of immemorial, eternal and yet 'cal...

The Circus Has No Home. By Rupert Croft-Cooke. (Methuen. I2S. 6d.) MUCH has been written about the circus, and Mr. Rupert Croft- Cooke has given us the latest contribution, a...

The Poetry of Yeats. By Louis MacNeice. (Oxford. 8s. 6d., THE poetry of Yeats, in its continuous development, its concern with the problems of politics, scientific materialism,...

MRS. MILLER is a popular American novelist; her novels hay' such titles as Forsaking AU Others, Five Little Heiresses, Le' Than Kin—a play of hers called The Charm School, I...

With The Foreign Legion At Narvik. By Capitaine Pierre 0 . Lapie. Translated by Anthony Merryn. (John Murray. 55.1 ALTHOUGH the general public lumped them together, there were ,...

THE historical novel is one of the hardest forms, in the under- taking of which the novelist should decide between two courses: me first, to take the reader back to the time of...

THE ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO., LTD. MR. G. H. NELSON'S ADDRESS THE twenty-second ordinary general meeting of the English Electric Co., Ltd., was held on Thursday, February zoth, at...

By CUSTOS MARKETS are back on the defensive but they are putting up I stout resistance. No speculative position has been built up durin g the recent recovery movement, and...

great part of our lives, and to the fortunate people who possess gardens a never-ending topic. This small and extremely well-planned book on unusual vege- tables will be of...

Tins melodramatic account of the first fourteen days of Hitler's blitz on London is written by a film scenarist. It isn't easy to " write up " an aerial bombardment, but Mr....

TEMPERANCE PERMANENT BUILDING SOCIETY SUBSTANTIAL RESERVE FUNDS The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the Temperance Permanent Building Society was held on Wednesday last at...

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