at Bias Bay, the Japanese troops entered Canton on Sunday. The fall of the city was preceded by heavy fighting at Tsengshin and Tamshui. The Chinese troops fled in panic, and...

T HE censorship imposed in Prague during the mobilisation has been raised, and much fuller reports on conditions inside Czechoslovakia are now available. It is accepted by...

and poverty-stricken area in the extreme south-east of Czecho- slovakia, has been elevated into one of the danger-points of Europe by the settlement at Munich, which encouraged...

his mind on the policy France must follow in the new and dangerous era in her history which has recently opened. The Right complains that he is not the " strong man " France...

has been restored in Jerusalem shows that it was only the weakening of Govern- mental authority, and not their own strength, which allowed the Arab rebels to win the success...

Munich thrown some extremely interesting light on the new distribution of power in Europe. It is taken for granted that Germany has now secured a dominating position in Central...

London on Tuesday was notable for two striking speeches, one by Lord Rothschild and one by Dr. Chaim Weizmann. If Dr. Weizmann is rightly reported he made a statement—" we can...

in being able to hear on Wednesday both a broadcast talk by Lord Halifax from London and a radio address by President Roosevelt. The two statesmen—unintentionally, since their...

Governor-General of Australia in succession to Lord Gowrie, who relinquishes his post in November next year, should give great satisfaction in the Common- wealth, from which...

Governing Body has been in session in London this week—has prepared a report on unemployment among elderly workers; in which it is stated that age begins to appear as a definite...

which was to have appeared in this issue of The Spectator, is unavoidably held over till next week.

should be allowed to the administrators of the Education Act which raises the statutory school-leaving age from 14 to 15 : the benefits of an extra year at school may in some...

in accordance with our regular tradition, we have in recent weeks published a number of letters from readers who disagree with the views on the crisis expressed in our editorial...

in the summer, it becomes clear that the condition of the refugees, especially the Jewish, in Europe becomes steadily worse. It is difficult by now to decide whether it is...

a good deal of attention from public speakers in the past week. The Speaker of the House of Commons is conscious primarily of its defects, which undeniably exist, but his...

TT does no injustice to other Ministers who have spoken I on the recent crisis on public platforms or in the House of Commons to say that Lord Halifax's address at Edinburgh on...

and HankoW change the outlook in China as it existed a week or ten days ago, when the likelihood of a shortening of hostilities seemed remote ? It was certain then that Hankow...

THE decision of the Bishop of Durham, who is nearly 75, to retire next year casts on the Prime Minister the responsibility for filling two of the most important sees in the...

By SIR ARNOLD WILSON, M.P. [This is the third of a series of articles on British Foreign Policy as it must be framed in the situation created by the Munich Agreement ; every...

By S. C. LESLIE A MONG the forces which consciously exert an influence on the public mind is first and foremost the press : which has been usefully described as the maker of...

By MICHAEL BALFOUR [The writer is a university teacher, aged 3o, engaged primarily in the study of recent and contemporary international politics.] of the world. _ To my mind,...

By MARY RITCHIE I WAS re-reading Kipling's Masque of Plenty this afternoon and when I came to the concluding lines, I was struck by the fitness of the verse as applied to the...

By PRESBYTER IGNOTUS S INGULARLY enough in view of what has been previously said about the Liberal Evangelical school, from its bosom have sprung the two outstanding Modernists...

By FRANK SINGLETON Most towns in the country have by now recognised the need for a health centre. The various clinical services have tended to be scattered in an unco-ordinated...

By BRYAN GUINNESS THE beauties of Japanese and English architecture are distinct, but their ugly characteristics seem sometimes to coincide. It was astonishing, as we drove up...

[" THE SPECTATOR," OCTOBER 27TH, 1838] On Monday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the residence of Mr. Colenzo, Mathematical Master at Harrow School ;...

THE CINEMA THIS is an extraordinary film, for it denies nearly all the accepted canons of the box-office hierarchy. The hero is far from handsome, the heroine, though...

OPERA How Not to Do It I AM sorry to have to hoist such a heading above an account of Geoffrey Lloyd's new opera, The Serf, which was produced at Covent Garden last week. His...

Guernica IT is difficult not to regard Picasso's huge symbolic picture of Guernica as the waste of a great opportunity. Here was the perfect subject for a tragic masterpiece :...

[Von einem deutschen Korrespondenten] DER Umbau der Czechoslovei erfordert auch eine Umstellun: der Begriffe und eine Umbenennung von iigennamen, vo.. Bergen, Fliissen,...

A Sea-born Harvest A little and delicious harvest provided by aid of the " un- harvested sea " has this October reached to a pitch of profusion that its most eager devourers...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Correspondents are requested to keep their letters as brief as is reasonably possible. Signed letters are given a preference over those bearing a...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] am an ordinary working man, which in my part of Great Britain means an unemployed man. I fought in the Great War, and I suppose I shall fight...

THE SPECTATOR] SIR, —You have expressed the feelings of many who felt that the Agreement at Munich was a shameful necessity. You express their feelings again when' you call for...

the letters of those who have defended the Munich Agreement in your recent issues makes it clear that nearly all the writers rely on two main arguments : (r) That in any case...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — Mr..H. N. Loch, writing from Rome, puts a series of eight qUestions to your readers in his letter appearing in your issue of October...

SIR, — May one who lived for nine years in Berlin and had the experience, unique I believe for an Englishman, of constantly travelling, about in all parts of Germany during the...

[To the Edith,. of THE SPECTATOR] SIR, — Dr. Gerhard Schacher's article, " Can Czechoslovakia Live ? " is typical of an attitude that is now held by many people in this country,...

SPECTATOR] Sta,—In his article " Hitler's Next Move " Mr. R. C. K. Ensor has raised the question if, in the event of Germany and Italy going to attack France via Switzerland,...

SIR,—In 1931 I did a spell of work as an Anglican parson in the former German colony of South West Africa. I venture to put forward some considerations about a return of the...

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—After reading the provocative and bitter attacks on the Government regarding the outcomc of the Munich agreements which have appeared in...

Morley in the Life of Gladstone, dealing with the position created for the Liberal Parry by the Parnell divorce, seem to me to be very relevant both to the recent crisis and to...

SPECTATOR] SIR,—I am the Managing Director of a company manufacturing and distributing among other things Tonic Wines. Now these wines are no better and no worse than a b•Sttle...

SIR,—As a subscriber to The Spectator and a great admirer of its unbiased attitude towards national problems, I should like, as one of the " common herd " in Australia, to...

SIR,—With regard to your queries in last week's "A Spectator's Notebook," billeting for our army, navy and air force rests on the Army Act, the Air Force Act, and the Naval...

late there has been hot controversy as to whether the Russian Army could or would have come to the aid of Czechoslovakia. May I be allowed to comment on this question from the...

The True HnmanIsm. By Jacques Maritain: (Bles: 7s. 6d.) It will be observed that M. Maritain has little sympathy for those who seek anything in the nature of a restoration of...

D. H. Lawrence. By Hugh Kingsmill. (Methuen. los. 6d.) , . . _ A History of Prestige Values in Literature would be a work well worth the brightest scholarship in the land. It...

Six Contemporaneous Revolutions. By RogerBigelow Merriman. (Oxford University Press. rzs. 6d.) PROFESSOR MERRIMAN chose an interesting and complex subject for the David Murray...

THE central theme of this book is that British institutions in the nineteenth and _ twentieth_ centuries have worked har- moniously only because they are operated by, and in the...

Unforgotten Years. By Logan Pearsall Smith. (Constable. los.) IT would be easy to read thiS book from beginning to end without noticing how beautifully it is written. So...

Guns and Butter. By R. H. Bruce Lockhart. (Putnam. nos. 6d. MR. BRUCE LOCKHART spent more than twenty years before, during and after the War in various capacities in Eastern...

Clarke MSS., with Supplementary Documents. Edited by A. S. P. Woodhouse. (Dent. 18s.) FROM MORALS TO POLITICS THIS is a work of very great value for the elucidation of...

SINCE every . Victorian is vanished by now, the title of this book is not particularly apt to its subject, which is the life of the fourth Earl' of Clarendon. This Lord...

THIS is an impressive volume, .representing an enormous labour which seems, on the whole, to have been worth while. Mr. Untermeyer is well aware that the essential quiddity of...

" is a very bad man, and I Shoidd like to haVe hini work in the plantations." What Dr. Johnson meant, for he had not- read the Confessions and presumably knew little if anything...

Spoils of Opportunity : An Autobiography. By Janet Mitchell. (Methuen. to& 6d.) Assigned to Adventure : The Autobiography of a Newspaper Woman. By Irene Kuhn. (Harrap. los. 6d.)...

INCLUDED in Sir Walter Langdon-Brown's new book is a brief, sympathetic and extremely understanding sketch of the late Sir William Osler, perhaps the most widely beloved...

Cecil Beaton's New York. Illustrated from drawings by the Author and from photcgraphs by the Author and others. (Batsford. tns. Ed.) THE lively jacket of this bOok, and Mr....

What Hitler Did To Us. By Eva Lips. (Michael Joseph. tbs. 6d.) MRS. LIPS is the wife of the distinguished anthropologist who was once head of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in...

The Crooked Hinge. By John Dickson Carr. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. 6d.) For Murder Will Speak. By J. J. Connington. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6c1.) Death Flies Low. By Neal...

By FORREST REID The Squire. By Enid Bagnold. (Heinemann. 8s. 6(1.) ' - FOR several days I have been reading Miss Enid Bagnold's The Squire, taking it up, never - reading more...

WINTER CRUISES MANY people are choosing winter holidays afloat this year, and for those in search of warmth and sunshine there are few better ways of avoiding the English fogs....

George V, Ghandi, Dollfuss, Mussolini, Haile Selassie, Bernard Shaw, - .Hitler Duke of Windsor, etc., etc."-Lthis is how, on the wrapper, dr. Gollancz advertises this book.'...

who :have .read Sporting Adventure or A tat= on St. Paul's, by Mr. J. Wentworth Day, will enjoy no less The Dog in . Sport - (Harrap; 8s: 6d.): It is"not a purely technical...

(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 8s. 6d.) is no exception to the rule. It is the joint work of fourteen authOrs, none of whom is a negligible contributor : but there is' a world - of...

. Sir Henry J. Wood (Gollancz, 7s. 6d.), has an instructive appendix giving the names of new works -'introduced by the author in different years—Schonberg' s 'Five Orchestral...

Service, here describes his work as a private spy in the Near East and Eastern Europe, unmasking Bolshevik agents. The very nature of espionage makes it almost impossible to...

LIFE OF MUSIC • KNOW ABOUT WAR By Harold Roland _Shapiro IN writing this book-(Allen & Unwin, 3s, 6d) Mi._ Shapiro has set out to discover what war is really like, physically...

M. Dent's memoirs of his life as a bookbinder, printer and publisher appeared ten years ago, two years after his death. His sini;iMr. Hugh R. Dent; haanow re-issued the book,...

Mr. John Betjeman discusses the Bressey Report in the first article, in The Criterion. Mr. Betjeman sees. Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens as dermatologists applying...

European unrest this year has nide itself apparent in the attitude of the travelling public. Most people who in more normal times would have taken their holidays in Europe have...

WrrHotrr daring to be confident, I feel that we may be at the beginning of a gradual improvement in stock markets. Nobody is buying very much just yet—Mr. Chamberlain must put a...

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS RESULTS . THE results now announced by IMperial Airways for the year ended March 31st do not include any part of the period since Sir John Reith assumed the...

BY ZENO - [A prize of a Book Token for one guinea will be given to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword puzzle to be openei. Envelopes should be...

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK The winner of Crossword No. 317 is Miss K. Amo:i, Crossways, Kingston, Taunton, Somerset