OT Yugoslavia, not its army and not its people, but the heads of its Government, have, after studied delay and ttempted resistance, concluded with Germany not a bilateral...

I F the passing of the Lease-and-Lend Bill in the United States created a wave of renewed confidence among all countries winch look for a British victory, there was reason to be...

The European tour of Mr. Matsuoka, the Foreign Minister of Japan, naturally the theme of much discussion in Tokyo, has been advertised with flamboyant rhetoric in Berlin as a...

Britain's principal war aim, said Lord Halifax in his wise, reflective speech at the Pilgrims' dinner in New York last Tuesday, is to " win this life-and-death struggle for the...

The pressure upon the enemy in East Africa is being directed from all points of the compass along lines which tend to con- verge on Addis Ababa, the Abyssinian capital. The...

The B.B.C. have withdrawn, though not with the best possible grace, and not without exposing themselves to a merited rebuff from the Prime Minister. To ostracise persons who...

Lord Beaverbrook's broadcast last Sunday was announced (by its author) as being " an account of the state of our nefer planes," but roughly half of it was devoted to a eulogy of...

over the rates of wages, as, for example, between domestic service and munition work. Again there is obviously something wrong with the whole organisation of the nursing...

held a novel debate by the women members of Parliament. Let me say immediately that the standard of speaking and debating ability was high. Miss Megan Lloyd George made some...

on the new National Service Bill. Apparently he proposes to initiate a new national and mobile force of civil defence workers, in order to fill up essential gaps in the...

Though no official announcement has yet been made, there ppears to be substance in the report that the whole of the railway systems of this -country are about to be brought...

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The House of Commons is waking up—perhaps I should say the Government is being awakened—to the need of mobilising man- and woman- power...

The land forces of this country, said Lord Croft in the House of Lords last Tuesday, have been multiplied ten times in less than two years. These figures, of course, include the...

THERE has been no little stir among younger women in all parts of the country since they were compelled to realise that at last their turn has come—that they must line up beside...

it is not surprising that Mr. Ernest Brown and Mr. erw ald Ramsbotham should be concentrating some attention them. The result is a joint circular on what is impressively 'axed "...

came on the admir- able booklet, authorised by the French War Office, describing, and demonstrating the impregnability of, the Maginot Line. It was published in December, 1939,...

Pile brings the reminder that " these officers are in the aggregate at least 1331 per cent. Irish." I cannot guarantee the fraction, but the figure is substantially accurate,...

HERE is less unsettlement at the Ministry of Aircraft Pro- duction than there was. Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond s gone. Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner has gone. The Society of ritish...

ago there was an article by Major Lawrence Athill on " How Civilisation Came to Harrar," in which the writer described that Abyssinian town as he had known it years before. His...

say timorousness, with which she preserves her neutrality. The latest evidence is that Sir Robert Vansittart's Black Record, of which nearly 300,000 copies have been sold in...

in the number of Governors of the B.B.C. is welcome. he reduction from seven members to two, of whom one ppears to predominate considerably3 meant changing the litical...

By STRATEGICUS A LTHOUGH the Balkan theatre of the war may represent merely a diversion, it contrives to hold attention to the exclusion of other aspects which are of more...

By P. LAMARTINE YATES ILK in Britain is indeed a pearl of great price. Nowhere else in the world do doctors and nutrition-experts so rsistently emphasise the value of milk in...

By J. M. SPAIGHT T HE good King George's glorious days through which we are living have witnessed one fine Command Performance ; so it may appropriately be termed, with a...

By RENE ELVIN LL has been said about the injustice, the muddle and the damaging unfairness of the internment " policy." What is more, and better, it has been said by Englishmen,...

By E. L. WOODWARD F OR comfortable reading in a train, I took with me, a day or two ago, the annual Abstract of Accounts of Oxford University. I am not a pillar of finance. I...

POOR bird! No hands, no fingers thine ; Light, feathered, coloured wings Instead. But where are mine? Poor silent fish! No hands, no spindly legs, no toes ; But fins and a...

War Paintings at the National Gallery THE English are a nation of illustrators, a fact to which the last three generations of art-critics never succeeded in reconciling...

My little Charles is afraid of the dark ; Stares at the window, stiff and stark ; Sits up in bed, with tousled head, White as chalk, scarce able to talk : " Listen ! . . ." he...

„spare a Copper." At the New Gallery—" The Ghost Train." At the Gaumont I coal) not, in my most charitable mood (even remembering that they are both war-time productions),...

with the Press, whether as a distributor of news or reviews of books, no one (I will not say "no reasonable person," for to how many of us it is the man who differs from us who...

reviewing. The methods you rightly condemn are deplored by all the more respected publishers. Unfortunately they are regarded as " enterprising" by an increasing number of...

SIR,—It is a pity that those in control of our food supplies and the use of them by the Forces do not regard the psychological aspect of nourishment—at least we never sec any...

was needed and will do good. Ours is the cause of truth and honesty, and must be served by a rigorous separation of news and comment. I rely on the first two pages of The...

STRAIGHT NEWS SIR,—Your article " Straight News " is a fine statement of the case for "honest journalism." May we recall what induced it? It was, in your own words, " a...

SIR,—In a recent issue of The Spectator I noticed the remark about the listeners to the London broadcasting in Czecho-Slovakia: "In Czecho-Slovakia anything broadcast by the...

for a large-scale map of it. What I can get from a pocket atlas is not only less, but is distorted. The honesty of the publisher is not in question: he is not concerned with the...

SIR,—Mr. R. E. Bates asks " Is it true that country people, and especially south country people, are unfriendly?" This subject greatly interests me, but for considerations of...

each succeeding generation. Sometimes the means of dealing with them vary little: in the exhibi- tion of invasion pamphlets and broadsides in the Bodleian Library the arguments...

" in " News of the Week " in the issue of March 21st is both timely and much to be welcomed. It is most true that " the relation of an independent Abys- sinia and Great Britain...

the Executive in defence of Englishmen's liberties. The right of trial before prolonged imprison- ment is one of our most cherished liberties. The guilt or innocence suspected...

on air-raid victims bears very hardly in some cases, and, as far as my enquiries go, no Government legislation is in existence, or contemplated, to relieve sufferers. May I...

been the wild English hellebore: a green-flowered miniature of the Christmas rose. There are two English species, and this, viridis, is the smaller. Sowerby and in fact most...

Bark Harvest Most of us, I suppose, think of hay-time as the first harvest of the year. But a chance advertisement, " flawers wanted for oak-bait harvest," reminds me that there...

points: that agreement about fundamentals is essential to the working of democracy ; that there is a general acceptance of the necessity for Socialism or the omnicompetent State...

a misprint (due no doubt to my handwriting) in the letter from me which you were good enough to print in your issue of 21st inst.? I wrote: " If unsubsidised farming, reasonable...

that I should supply boxes in which households should place thanks- offerings of varying amounts for a peaceful night or for a night with raids but no damage to person or...

paper-shortage referred to scores of publications which serve no useful purpose at all. I would like to draw attention to the thousands of company-reports which are circulated...

in this column during the last few months, as much as an incentive to the use of a little imagination in the kitchen garden as anything else; readers have shown great interest...

for growing six times et perhaps even ten times more tomatoes than in a normal Year brought a surprising number of requests "not to be silly." Thes e ' I noted, came mostly from...

MADAME DE STAEL called Germany the reflexion of Europe," in the sense that political and spiritual tendencies, good and bad, which exist in the rest of Europe are carried to...

A Diplomat in Berlin WHEN President Roosevelt had to choose an American Ambassador to the Third Reich in 1933, he had three alternatives : a rich ambitious contributor to...

This Sceptred Isle. By G. Wilson Knight. (Blackwell. Is.) PROFESSOR WILSON KNIGHT has earned so many laurels for his interpretations of Shakespeare (which are at least always...

In Search of Complications. By Eugene de Savitsch, M.D. (Robert Hale. rzs. 6d.) SEVERAL states of mind may urge a man to write his life story. He may be interested in himself,...

Post D. Some Experiences of an Air Raid Warden. By Jolla Strachey. (Gollancz. 3s. 6d.) FORD, the warden, in whom Mr. Strachey has buried his own personality, comments at one...

The Nine Days Wonder. By John Masefield. (Heinemann. 3 3 , 6d . THE Poet Laureate has written a concise account of the evacuation of the E.E.F. from Dunkerque between May 26th...

What Are We Waiting For ? By Francis Williams ; Freedom la Our Weapon. By Tom Wintringham; Make Fruitful tha Land. By Sir George Stapledon; To Hell With Cultun. By Herbert Read...

From Cabin-boy to Archbishop. The Autobiography of Archbishop Ullathorne. With an Introduction by Shane Leslie. (Burns Oates. 15s.) A CERTAIN strident quality in the title of...

The Father Found. By Charles Madge. (Faber. 6s.) AT first sight, -nothing could be further removed from Mass - Observation, with which Mr. Madge's name is usually associated,...

60 SUGGESTIONS for the policy to adopted by the British Govan meat with regard to the resettlement of international relations after the war are made in the last chapter of Lord...

The Cottage. By Crichton Porteous. (Michael Joseph. 8s.) - THE collection of short stories by Mr. Saroyan achieves a unity which makes of it a complete book, in the sense that...

THE author of this book has died since it was written. In such circumstances it would be an ungrateful task to criticise in detail a volume which it is impossible to praise. The...

By " CUSTOS " Wrrx the Budget looming close markets are behaving remarkably well. Whether this reflects a feeling among investors that Sir Kingsley Wood can still be relied on...

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC CO. REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES THE following is a summary of the statement by Mr. T. A. Eades, vice-chairman and managing director of the Automatic...

PENALSING EFFECTS OF EXCESS PROFITS TAX AT the fourteenth annual general meeting of Bibiani (1927), Limited, held in London on Tuesday, Mr. J. H. Batty (chairman) said that the...

12S. 6d.) THIs is a very agreeable book of reminiscences, almost exclusively concerned with the Army, which General Harington joined 49 years ago. His association with Lord...

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION o t orporated in the Colony of Hongkong. The liability of Members is limited !the extent and in manner prescribed by Ordinance No....

CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA FURTHER EXPANSION OF BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF EXCHANGE AND TRADE CONTROL THE following is the statement by the Chairman (Mr. Vincent A....

LANCASHIRE STEEL CORPORATION DIVIDEND OF 7% ON "A" AND " B" ORDINARY SHARES THE eleventh ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Lanca- shire Steel Corporation, Limited,...

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